Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in Rand Paul Senate hearing : NPR

A spokesperson for Fauci sent a document fact-checking Paul's claims and a letter written by Fauci's legal team to Paul last month. In that letter, Fauci's lawyers wrote Paul was waging a "years-long public crusade" against Fauci. 

"You are single-mindedly fixating on seeing Dr. Fauci prosecuted for imaginary crimes, and you are so invested in that outcome that you have created a personal brand around it," says the letter, which NPR reviewed…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/29/nx-s1-5910542/fauci-rand-paul-diary-coronavirus-origin-lab-leak-hearing

 

CDC test can’t differentiate between COVID and the flu? That’s wrong. - PolitiFact |

…Mike Huckabee, a former Fox News host who was also a Republican presidential candidate and governor of Arkansas, similarly claimed on Facebook that the CDC test cannot tell the difference between coronaviruses and flu viruses.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/30/facebook-posts/cdc-test-cant-differentiate-between-covid-and-flu-/

Under Trump, Republicans touted the coronavirus vaccines. Now, under Biden, they’re questioning them. - The Washington Post

… The false and misleading claims about the vaccines from these Republicans are directly refuted by data showing the vaccines approved for use in the United States are overwhelmingly safe and effective. But those false and misleading claims track with a Republican voter base that is skeptical of getting vaccinated, in part because of said false and misleading claims...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/14/under-trump-republicans-touted-coronavirus-vaccines-now-under-biden-theyre-questioning-them/

US coronavirus: 'Surprising amount of deaths' will soon occur in these US regions from increased Covid-19 cases, expert says - CNN

…What is particularly frustrating for many experts, Reiner said, is that the deaths are "completely avoidable" now that vaccines are available…

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html

White House launches ‘surge response’ teams to delta variant hot spots - The Washington Post

Highly transmissible variant remains 'greatest threat' to U.S. response, officials warn…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/01/surge-response-teams-delta-variant-covid/

When should vaccinated people wear masks now? An expert weighs in - CNN

To clear up confusion about masking, we turned to CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen for her thoughts…
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/08/health/indoor-mask-wearing-coronavirus-vaccine-wen-wellness/index.html

Post-vaccine rebound accelerates as US economy adds 850,000 jobs

The figures were better than expected. ..

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/02/us-jobs-rebound-accelerates-june

Video of a microchip reader finding a chip in a vaccinated woman’s arm was posted as a joke - PolitiFact

"You guys believe anything on the internet," she said in a second comment...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/01/instagram-posts/video-microchip-reader-finding-chip-vaccinated-wom/

Trump contempt for White House Covid taskforce revealed in new book

Amid chaos at the White House as the coronavirus pandemic worsened, Donald Trump took to referring derisively to the Covid taskforce chaired by his vice-president as "that fucking council that Mike has"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/29/trump-white-house-covid-taskforce-fauci

Millions of renters may soon be evicted. Here's one family's story

… Roughly 10% of renters over age 65 are behind on their rent, according to a recent analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. That means some 800,000 older people may be at risk of having to leave their homes when the national eviction moratorium expires on June 30...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/22/millions-of-renters-may-soon-be-evicted-heres-one-familys-story-.html

'We'll all be dead by June!' Jared Kushner screamed about mask shortage, according to new book | TheHill

"Nightmare Scenario" is said to detail other chaotic incidents, such as then-chief of staff Mark Meadows also yelling at Kadlec over the rollout of the antiviral treatment remdesivir and Trump reportedly asking if COVID-19 patients could be sent to Guantánamo Bay to contain the virus...

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/559431-well-all-be-dead-by-june-jared-kushner-screamed

The government’s hunt for a pandemic ‘lab leak’ went down many paths and came up with no smoking gun - The Washington Post

… "An expert trying to design an even more effective coronavirus would never have come up with this design," Collins said, noting that the virus's features were so unusual that a human could not have possibly imagined them...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-wuhan-lab-coronavirus-origin/2021/06/15/2fc2425e-ca24-11eb-afd0-9726f7ec0ba6_story.html

Though it is newly respectable, the Wuhan lab theory remains fanciful

…Lab-leak narratives risk emboldening conspiracy theorists. While hypothetically possible, they are not likely, nor corroborated by evidence, and obsessing on them is profoundly misguided…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/13/newly-respectable-wuhan-lab-theory-remains-fanciful

Leading biologist dampens his ‘smoking gun’ Covid lab leak theory | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Nobel laureate David Baltimore says he overstated case, and the origins of the virus are still unknown…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/09/leading-biologist-dampens-his-smoking-gun-covid-lab-leak-theory

Fauci fights back as right-wing attacks enter new, more dangerous phase: “It’s all nonsense” | Salon.com

"The [lab leak] question is extremely legitimate — But what's happened in the middle of all that is I've become the object of extraordinary, I believe completely inappropriate, distorted, misleading and misrepresented attacks," Fauci said. "It's really very much an attack on science."

https://www.salon.com/2021/06/05/fauci-fights-back-as-right-wing-attacks-enter-new-more-dangerous-phase-its-all-nonsense-3/

Debunking COVID-19 Conspiracies (Coronavirus Update #2)

So my last COVID-19 video didn't age too well. When I posted it in mid-February it seemed like containment was possible, and then a month later we found ourselves in the situation we are in now, quarantined and wondering when this will all be over. As one should come to expect by in this day and age, misinformation and conspiracies are rampant regarding the coronavirus, and each one is dumber than the last. Let's go through just a few of them now, and see if we can put a dent in this madness.

https://youtu.be/yh2cjveut1M

Covid case, death and hospitalization rates adjusted for unvaccinated people - Washington Post

Declining rates across the country hide rising cases and deaths among the unvaccinated…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/covid-rates-unvaccinated-people/

Stimulus Checks Substantially Reduced Hardship, Study Shows - The New York Times

Researchers found that sharp declines in food shortages, financial instability and anxiety coincided with the two most recent rounds of payments...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/politics/stimulus-checks-economic-hardship.html

PolitiFact | Claim from Giuliani on Covid-19 spread ‘wrong on every level’

…Public health authorities have encouraged people who have had Covid-19 to be vaccinated, because the vaccine provides a more robust immunity than antibodies from the infection…
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/01/andrew-giuliani/giuliani-claim-about-covid-19-transmission-not-bac/

PolitiFact | Texas has recorded COVID deaths since removing its mask mandate — thousands of them

… "Texas removed their mask mandate two months ago, and sleepy Joe called it Neanderthal thinking," she said. "No sir. Republicans are just following the science. And since removing the mask mandate two months ago, Texas has not reported a single COVID death. Not one."…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/may/25/lauren-boebert/texas-has-recorded-covid-deaths-removing-mask-mand/