Jennifer Bridges says she isn’t anti-vax, but she's now a cause célèbre among skeptics for threatening to sue her employer for requiring employees get the jab.

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What Types Of Exemptions Are There?
Although they vary among states, vaccination exemptions are provided for medical, religious, and philosophical reasons.

Medical exemption: An MD or doctor of osteopathy (DO) typically is required to write a medical exemption, but, in some states, other types of health care workers are able to certify that one is needed.

Religious exemption: This exemption is based on First Amendment rights for religious freedom, but can be withdrawn if the state can provide a compelling reason for requiring vaccination.

Philosophical, conscientious, or personal belief exemption: This is a blanket exemption, and must include all vaccines. In some states, collaboration with a healthcare professional is required—as well as the completion of a vaccine education program.

All 50 states have legislation requiring specified vaccines for students. Although exemptions vary from state to state, all school immunization laws grant exemptions to children for medical reasons.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been making up the rules as they go, with no regard for the scientific data they claim to respect.

“I didn’t want to look like I was giving mixed signals,” Fauci said when asked why he has still been wearing masks in public settings despite being fully inoculated against COVID-19. “But being a fully vaccinated person, the chances of my getting infected in an indoor setting is extremely low.”

Fauci’s desire to wait for the CDC’s new guidance and roll it out at the right time might have been understandable if he hadn’t spent the past year lecturing people who don’t “follow the science.” But clearly, the science hasn’t been driving Fauci’s messaging.

Otherwise, he would have started encouraging vaccinated adults to live their lives again restriction-free as soon as their two-week inoculation period was up. Instead, he did the opposite, spreading doubt about the vaccines’ effectiveness along the way.

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie criticized Tuesday Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi#039;s mask requirement on the House floor, saying that it lacks scientific backing.

Texas has a lot to celebrate this week after reaching zero COVID deaths for the first time since the pandemic began.

Dr. Anthony Fauci estimated that Americans will need a coronavirus booster shot within a year, he said at a media event.