Free Republic

resident Biden said Friday he plans to request additional funding from Congress for the development of a new COVID-19 vaccine, adding he may require everyone to take it whether they previously received a vaccine or not. Biden, who is vacationing in the Lake Tahoe area, was asked by a reporter on Friday if he could say anything about the uptick of COVID cases and a new variant. "Yes, I can," the president said. "I signed off this morning on a proposal we have to present to Congress a request for additional funding for a new vaccine that is necessary, that...

A new strain of Covid nicknamed 'The Kraken' is 'the most transmissible subvariant that has been detected yet', according to the World Health Organisation. The latest subvariant - another spinoff of Omicron officially named XBB.1.5 - has already taken hold in the US where it is thought to be behind roughly 70 per cent of new infections in the worst affected areas and 4 in 10 overall. Now it has started to sweep across the UK, indicating it has a major growth advantage over rival strains. But XBB.1.5 appears to be just as mild as its ancestor Omicron and its...