The Food and Drug Administration approved updated booster shots for COVID-19 on Monday, a major step toward launching a fall immunization campaign against the virus that is now viewed as a perennial but manageable threat.
Americans who earn well may have to pay as much as 37% of income in taxes each year. But not so the pharmaceuticals. For 2022, eight Big Pharma companies scooped a combined $110 billion in profits, but they only paid a combined $2 billion in U.S. taxes. That's about 2%. They exploit the free market.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has staunchly opposed pandemic-related mandates and lockdowns, is seeking a grand jury investigation of potential wrongdoing by the major manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine.
A heavily vaccinated-slash-boosted President Biden emerged from his COVID-19 test-positive isolation to advise Americans to wear face masks, get the COVID shot and boosters in other words, to do all the things he did but that failed to keep him from catching COVID.