District of Columbia | October 21, 2021
Federal employees can submit claims for ‘adverse reactions’ to vaccine
District of Columbia | October 21, 2021
Government workers can file compensation claims should they have an “adverse reaction” to the COVID-19 vaccine or are hurt while getting vaccinated, according to the Department of Labor. A Federal Employees’ Compensation Act bulletin clarifies that, while preventive measures such as inoculations don’t typically fall within the scope of claims because the Biden administration has mandated the vaccine as a requisite for most government employees, those who receive the shot after the mandate was announced “may be afforded coverage under the FECA for any adverse reactions to the vaccine itself, and for any injuries sustained while obtaining the vaccination.”Examples of injuries sustained while getting the vaccine include accidents while traveling to and from the vaccination site or if the employee slips and falls in the process of getting the shot at the vaccination site…. (Excerpts from the Washington Examiner)
District of Columbia, Minnesota | September 3, 2021
More cities adding mental health experts to 911 calls
District of Columbia, Minnesota | September 3, 2021
Police departments across the country looking to dial down the potentially deadly stakes of encounters between officers and the public are adding unarmed mental health experts to 911 calls.
Minneapolis; Los Angeles; Denver; Portland, Oregon; and the District of Columbia are among the cities experimenting with “crisis intervention” programs that trace their roots to a long-standing initiative in Eugene, Oregon. Since 1989, Eugene’s CAHOOTS program, short for Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets, has been sending unarmed teams that include a crisis intervention worker and a medic to handle 911 calls for mental health, addiction or homelessness issues. (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
District of Columbia | August 22, 2021
Landlords Ask 5th Circuit Court to Stay CDC Eviction Moratorium
District of Columbia | August 22, 2021
Landlords in Louisiana are asking a federal appeals court to block the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s legally dubious nationwide eviction moratorium while that court considers an appeal from the landlords.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended the moratorium earlier this month after President Joe Biden acknowledged doing so would be illegal and after Congress opted not to extend it.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed an order on Aug. 3 determining that allowing tenants to be evicted for failing to make rent or housing payments could harm public health control measures aimed at slowing the spread of the CCP virus, also known as SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19. The order will expire on Oct. 3.
“The emergence of the delta variant has led to a rapid acceleration of community transmission in the United States, putting more Americans at increased risk, especially if they are unvaccinated,” Walensky said in a statement at the time…. (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
District of Columbia | August 10, 2021
Dr. Ben Carson to Newsmax: Biden CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Extension Illegal
District of Columbia | August 10, 2021
Former President Donald Trump HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson told Newsmax Monday that the recent eviction moratorium extension by President Joe Biden’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through Oct. 3 is not legal.
“Obviously, it’s not legal,” Carson said during “Cortes & Pellegrino” Monday night. “We need to recognize that the environment is very different than when the moratorium on evictions was first enacted during the Trump administration. We had a raging viral epidemic going on at that point. We did not have a vaccine, and we didn’t have other treatments that were judged acceptable.”
Carson said the country now has vaccines in place, jobs available, and federally designated money to go to the landlords to pay the back rents caused by the lockdowns…. (Excerpts from the Newsmax)
District of Columbia | June 11, 2021
Nearly 800 Reports of Heart Inflammation After COVID-19 Vaccination in US
District of Columbia | June 11, 2021
Federal authorities have received over 800 reports of heart inflammation in people who received a COVID-19 vaccine, a health official said Thursday.
The reports of myocarditis or pericarditis were submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, a passive reporting system run jointly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration, through May 31.
Most of the reports, 475, described myocarditis or pericarditis appearing in people ages 30 or younger.
The bulk of the reports described heart inflammation appearing after the second of two doses of either the Pfizer of Moderna vaccines, both of which utilize messenger RNA technology…
(Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
District of Columbia | May 20, 2021
The Standing Arguments of the Obamacare Challengers Just Got Stronger
District of Columbia | May 20, 2021
It is a risky business reading tea leaves from the Supreme Court, because even when the Court does something in one case, it may not do the same in another, more politically charged case. That said, yesterday’s decision in CIC Services, LLC v. Internal Revenue Service would seem to be good news for the argument that the state plaintiffs in Texas v. California, who are challenging the Obamacare mandate, have standing to sue.
Recall what the states argued in Texas about why the Obamacare individual mandate injures them, even though the penalty on individuals has been repealed:
The lawsuit was brought against the federal government by two individuals and a group of states, led by Texas . . . The states argue that the individual mandate imposes costs on them, mainly in two ways. One, it causes more people to sign up for Medicaid, thus increasing state spending (an argument backed up by CBO reports in 2008 and 2017 finding that more people will buy insurance if the law tells them to, even without a tax penalty). Two, the individual mandate forces the states to spend money on IRS reporting requirements aimed at enforcing compliance. Those reporting requirements were not eliminated when the penalty was set to $0 in 2017; employers are still required to file Form 1095-C, and the IRS has thus far only temporarily suspended the use of Form 1095-B. A South Dakota human-resources official submitted testimony that the state spends $100,000 a year just on Forms 1095-C…
(Excerpts from the National Review)