Articles tagged The Defender

Nebraska collecting all health data on all residents – critics call it a step toward national digital ID

Nebraska lawmakers created a state Health Information Technology Board to oversee collection of patient health records and histories, physicals, discharge summaries, immunization records, radiology, lab and pathology results and ordering, medication history, allergies, family history, and advance directives. Critics urged Nebraskans to reject the move.
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Study data showed vaxed kids shed COVID up to 3x longer than unvaxed – but authors concluded they were ‘equally contagious’

The authors of a study published October 23 in JAMA Pediatrics concluded that vaccinated and unvaccinated children who got COVID-19 were equally contagious. That’s how the media reported on the study, but the data showed that vaccinated kids shed the virus for up to 3 times longer than unvaccinated children.
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Landmark censorship case likely headed to Supreme Court as Justice Alito pauses order blocking White House from contact with social media

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday paused an order that would have restricted the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies after two lower courts found key government officials likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring the companies to censor information about COVID-19.
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