Fauci Says Mask ‘Recommendations’ Could Return if There is a ‘Significant Uptick’ in COVID-19 Cases This Fall and Winter

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former White House chief medical advisor, has said that mask “recommendations” could return if there is a “significant uptick” in COVID-19 cases this fall and winter.

The former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head appeared on ABC’s “This Week” to discuss the recent rise in COVID cases.

While Fauci said he does not predict a federal mandate, he thinks there may be “recommendations.”

“You’ve also said we’re not going to go back to the time of the federal mask mandates. That’s the thing of the past,” host Jonathan Karl noted.

“I can see that if we get a significant uptick in cases that you may see the recommendation that masks be used under certain circumstances in indoor crowded settings,” Fauci said.

“I would be extremely surprised if we would see that,” he said of mask mandates. “There may be local organizations that may require masks, but I think what we’re going to see mostly are, if the cases go up, that there might be recommendations, not mandates. There’s a big difference there.”

Fauci said that he expects to see a rise in cases during the colder months.

“I think none of us in the public health field are predicting that this is going to be a tsunami of hospitalizations and deaths the way we saw a year or more ago,” Fauci said.

Fauci added that a new booster is expected for September.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/fauci-says-mask-recommendations-could-return-if-there/

Biden admin pledges $520 million to make Ukraine's energy infrastructure 'cleaner, more resilient'

The secretary also said the U.S. is investing $665.5 million in security assistance and $206 million in humanitarian assistance.

"At the Ukraine Recovery Conference held in London a few months ago, I pledged that the United States would invest more than $520 million in making Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, more than half of which has been destroyed by Russia, cleaner, more resilient, and more integrated with Europe," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week during a visit to Kyiv.

Blinken said the U.S. is upholding that promise.

Additionally, the secretary said the U.S. is investing $665.5 million for Ukraine's military and civilian security assistance and $206 million in humanitarian assistance, mostly for refugees who have been displaced by the war.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Blinken said the U.S. has committed more than $43 billion in security assistance to Kyiv.

https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/biden-admin-pledges-520-million-make-ukraines-energy-infrastructure-cleaner

"Who Is Biden Working For?" Admin Under Fire For 'Illegal, Reckless' Cancellation Of Alaska Oil Leases

Did someone pay Bidens to weaken the United States?

After canceling the Keystone XL pipeline project, draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to dangerously low levels (some of which was sold to a Hunter Biden-linked Chinese energy giant), and vowing "no more oil drilling" on US soil while America's geopolitical adversaries - two of whom paid his family handsomely - beef up their own energy independence, the Biden administration has done it again.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/who-biden-working-admin-under-fire-illegal-reckless-cancelation-anwr-oil-leases

Teachers Who Refused COVID Shots Must Be Reinstated with Back Pay, Rules State Supreme Court Judge

Ten New York City teachers who were fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine must be reinstated with back pay, a New York state judge ruled last week.

State Supreme Court Judge Ralph J. Porzio held that the city’s denials of religious accommodation to certain employees were unlawful, arbitrary and capricious, according to Fox News.

The case of DiCapua v. City of New York concerned a variety of educators who sued after their requests for a religious exemption were denied.

“This Court sees no rational basis for not allowing unvaccinated classroom teachers in amongst an admitted population of primarily unvaccinated students,” Porzio wrote in his ruling.

“As such, the decision to summarily deny the classroom teachers amongst the Panel Petitioners based on an undue hardship, without any further evidence of individualized analysis, is arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable,” he wrote.

Following that logic, Porzio ruled, “As such, each classroom teacher amongst the Panel Petitioners is entitled to a religious exemption from the Vaccine Mandate.”

Last year, Porzio ruled that 16 Sanitation Department workers fired by the city should get their jobs back because the vaccine mandate was put in place illegally, according to the New York Post.

Sujata Gibson, who represented the teachers, said the ruling was a major step forward.

“We’ve been fighting for this since August of 2021 for these 10 people specifically. And we won and we won big for them. They were reinstated with back pay, with no break in service, and attorneys’ fees. That’s huge,” she said in a statement to Children’s Health Defense, a not-for-profit group founded by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“The judge’s ruling yesterday, while not everything we wanted, is a precedent-setting victory, and a watershed moment in the teachers’ fight,” Gibson said.

“The Court’s decision not only grants relief to these ten teachers, but it also sets important precedent for all other teachers denied religious accommodation,” Gibson said, according to Fox News.

The victory had its boundaries.

Individuals who did not seek a religious accommodation from the city’s vaccine mandate were not awarded their jobs back. A request to file a class action lawsuit was denied.

Gibson said that using speed bumps in the decision were not the end of the fight.

“The court’s ruling in the class certification still leaves the door open to future relief for thousands of teachers negatively affected by the vaccine requirement. We intend to file a motion of reconsideration on a narrower basis,” she said.

Michael Kane, a teacher who lost his job for refusing the vaccine, called the ruling “bittersweet.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/teachers-refused-covid-shots-must-reinstated-backpay-rules/

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