Covid-19

Some allies of President Joe Biden are urging the White House to be more aggressive in combatting misinformation about vaccines being aired on Fox News -- including potentially sending administration officials onto Tucker Carlson's show.

Politico reports that Biden allies want the White House to be more proactive in getting accurate information about the vaccines out to Fox viewers, although they don't believe they'll be able to accomplish that by publicly shaming the network.

Fresh off his smackdown of Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul, Dr. Anthony Fauci took on Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall during a Senate Health Committee meeting on Tuesday.

Like Paul, Marshall attempted to argue that Fauci and his colleagues were involved in "gain of function" research that led to the creation of the COVID-19 in a Chinese lab.

Dr. Anthony Fauci angrily suggested on Tuesday that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was lying about the origins of COVID-19.

The confrontation occurred during a Senate Health Committee after Paul said that Fauci could be punished with jail time for allegedly false testimony to Congress about the funding of a lab in Wuhan, China.

While a few Fox News hosts on Monday sprinkled bits of begrudging encouragement or support for Americans to get vaccinated, one Fox News host Tuesday morning was fully on board with attacking the COVID-19 vaccine.

"What is this to also say the vaccine is not nearly as effective against this delta variant, as they say if you look at what's happening in Britain, they say 70% of the new cases are fully vaccinated people with the Pfizer vaccine, nobody talks about that," host Brian Kilmeade said angrily on "Fox & Friends."

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday politely explained to a reporter insisting anti-vaxx Trump voters are refusing to get inoculated because the former president allegedly did not get enough "credit" for the vaccine.

The reporter wanted to know if the White House would "consider highlighting or acknowledging, in a greater way," Trump's "role in creating the vaccines," as a means "to assure the rural voters who still support President Trump and are hesitant to get the vaccine."

India's coronavirus death toll is up to 10 times higher than the nearly 415,000 fatalities reported by authorities, likely making it the country's worst humanitarian disaster since independence, a US research group said Tuesday.

The Center for Global Development study's estimate is the highest yet for the carnage in the South Asian nation of 1.3 billion people, which is emerging from a devastating surge partly fuelled by the Delta variant in April and May.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went on Newsmax on Monday night to spread the same lies about Coronavirus that resulted in her receiving a twelve-hour ban from Twitter.

Explaining what had caused her suspension, Greene said, "and I also talked about the majority of deaths were over age 65 and that our healthy working population and kids in school are not of risk of dying of COVID-19. These are the facts because these are the statistics."

On Monday, The New York Times reported that Twitter is temporarily banning QAnon-sympathizing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) over a series of posts spreading false claims about vaccines.

"Ms. Greene, a Republican of Georgia, has been an outspoken opponent of vaccines and masks as tools to curb the pandemic," the Times notes. "In tweets on Sunday and Monday, she argued that Covid-19 was not dangerous for people under the age of 65 who are not obese, and said vaccines should not be required... Twitter said Ms. Greene's tweets were misinformation, and it barred her from the service until Tuesday."