(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: 13 things you need to know this Monday – January 10, 2022

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The Supreme Court Seems Inclined To Block OSHA’s Vaccine Mandate – The Supreme Court today considered whether it should block enforcement of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccination rule for private employers until the many legal challenges to that policy are resolved. Most of the justices seemed inclined to think that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had overstepped its statutory authority by demanding that companies with 100 or more employees require them to be vaccinated or wear face masks and submit to weekly virus testing.

Chief Justice John Roberts noted that the Biden administration has imposed a series of vaccine mandates, covering federal employees, federal contractors, and health care workers as well the companies subject to OSHA’s rule. “It seems to me…that the government is trying to work across the waterfront,” Roberts said. “It sounds like the sort of thing that states will be responding to, or should be, or that Congress should be.” – READ MORE

Sotomayor repeats lies as Supreme Court argues over Biden’s COVID shot mandate – Sonia Sotomayor, whose U.S. Supreme Court career inauspiciously launched with a number of claims about her lies, on Friday ran up the flagpole a series of claims about COVID that, while repeated regularly to bolster the vaccine idolization of the Biden administration, were just wrong.

“We have over 100,000 children,” she claimed, “…in serious condition and many on ventilators.”  – READ MORE

Walensky says Sotomayor’s pediatric COVID hospitalization number was off dramatically –CDC Director Rochelle Walensky clarified that the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 is nowhere close to the statistic put forth by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Friday, while noting that Americans can still work to reduce hospitalization by getting vaccinated.

Speaking with “Fox News Sunday,” Walensky provided an update on the current numbers, confirming to host Bret Baier that there are fewer than 3,500 children in hospitals with COVID-19. – READ MORE

MEDIA BLACKOUT: 5,000 Show Up Strong to NY Capital to Protest Vaccine Mandates – On Wednesday, January 5th, approximately 5,000 passionate and peaceful protestors marched to the New York Capital in Albany, protesting the overreaching vaccination and masking mandates. The rally was conducted in response to the New York governor’s decision to extend the mask and vaccine requirements to February 1st. – READ MORE

It Worked: Over 100,000 French Protest Vax Pass After Macron Vowed to ‘Piss Off’ Unvaxed – Over 100,000 took to the streets on Saturday to protest France’s impending vaccine pass regime days after President Macron said he wanted to “piss off” the unjabbed.

Macron seems to have succeeded in his desire to “piss off” a segment of the French population, with over 100,000 turning up to demonstrations across France in protest of the President’s incoming regime of vaccine passes. – READ MORE

Arizona hospital’s ‘staffing crisis’ means COVID-positive, symptomatic employees permitted to work – A health system operating in Arizona announced a “critical staff crisis” and updated its guidance to allow COVID-postive health employees to continue working.

“COVID positive staff who are improving, mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic do not require isolation but are required to wear N95 masks for up to 10 days of positive symptoms or testing. These measures are supported by the CDC,” Dignity Health – a California-based health system that also operates in Arizona – wrote an email to St. Joseph Hospital staff in Phoenix, ABC15 reported. – READ MORE

California went from mandating vaccines to forcing COVID-positive health care employees to work – The California Department of Public Health issued new guidance allowing hospitals and health networks to force COVID-postive healthcare workers to continue working if they are asymptomatic.

“The department is providing temporary flexibility to help hospitals and emergency services providers respond to an unprecedented surge and staffing shortages. Hospitals have to exhaust all other options before resorting to this temporary tool. Facilities and providers using this tool, should have asymptomatic COVID-19 positive workers interact only with COVID-19 positive patients to the extent possible,” the health department said in a statement. – READ MORE

COVID-19 ‘outbreak’ reported at Rhode Island hospital after officials allowed COVID-positive staffers to work – An outbreak of COVID-19 infections reportedly broke out inside a Rhode Island hospital after officials began allowing health care staff members who test positive for COVID to continue working.

After health care workers were fired last year for not being vaccinated against COVID-19, the Rhode Island Department of Health updated work restrictions for health care personnel who test positive for COVID. – READ MORE

Austin sees hundreds of sex offender cases removed from police officer supervision due to defunding – Hundreds of convicted sex offenders are no longer being monitored by sworn police officers in Austin, Texas due to the city’s move to defund the police and cut police academy classes.

As of 2019, there were about 1,600 registered sex offenders in Austin according to the state’s sex offender database. There is no law preventing any of them from living near schools or other places where children tend to congregate, according to a local news report. About 650 of those cases were handled by officers who checked in on the registered sex offenders weekly to ensure they were where they reported themselves to be. But three of those officers were sent back to patrol as a result of the decision to defund the police, including slashing three cadet classes at the police academy, in August 2020. Defunding the police forced the department to cut the Sex Offender Apprehension and Registration Unit (SOAR). – READ MORE

Mother charged with endangering a child after COVID-positive son found in trunk of car at testing site because she wanted to ‘prevent herself from getting exposed’: Court docs – A Texas mother has been charged with endangering a child after her 13-year-old son was reportedly found in the trunk of her car while she was in line to get a COVID-19 test. A warrant has been issued for Sarah Beam — a 42-year-old teacher at Cypress Falls High School in the Houston area, according to KTRK-TV.

Beam took her 13-year-old son to a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at Pridgeon Stadium on Jan. 3, according to court documents. – READ MORE

Moderna CEO: ‘We’re Going To Need Boosters In The Fall Of ’22 And Forward’ – Stephane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, claimed that people may need to be injected with a second COVID-19 booster shot in several months to keep up protection to COVID-19.

Bancel’s comments, made Thursday at a healthcare conference organized by Goldman Sachs, echo similar statements made by Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla last month. Both heads of major pharmaceutical companies cited the spread of the Omicron variant in justifying their predictions.- READ MORE

After FDA says it can release COVID-19 vaccine data by 2097, federal judge orders all info to be shared this year – The Food and Drug Administration was told that it can’t take 75 years to release COVID-19 vaccine data. On Thursday, a federal judge in Texas ordered the FDA to greatly increase the number of documents it releases each month that pertain to the agency’s approval process for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency launched a Freedom of Information Act suit against the FDA in August. The international group consists of “public health professionals, medical professionals, scientists, and journalists,” including academics and medical experts from Yale, Harvard Medical School, and UCLA. – READ MORE

Dr. Marty Makary: NIH Funded 257 Grants on Social Disparities with COVID, Only 4 on How It Spreads – Dr. Marty Makary, a medical doctor and researcher at Johns Hopkins, said the NIH funded “257 grants on social disparities” related to COVID-19 “but only four” on the coronavirus’s spread.

Makary joined Drs. Peter Attia and Zubin Damania on the former’s podcast, The Drive, published on Monday – READ MORE