COVID-19

Utah GOP Leader Claimed He Tested Negative For COVID After Reportedly Testing Positive Twice
Where Things Stand: Hundreds Of Schools Defy Virginia’s New GOP Guv
This is your TPM evening briefing.

School district officials who oversee hundreds of schools in Virginia are actively defying their new Republican governor’s efforts to tamp down COVID-19 mitigation measures in the state.

The backlash is similar to what we saw play out in Texas and Florida when Republican Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis enacted similar executive orders late last year, attempting to block individual schools and municipalities from creating their own policies for combatting the pandemic.

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Inmates Sue Jail Doc, Alleging He Gave Them Ivermectin For COVID Without Consent
GOP Senator Who Fauci Called A ‘Moron’ Tries To Fundraise Off The Incident
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Justice Neil M. Gorsuch arrives at the U.S. Capitol ahead of the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post/POOL) Gorsuch, Sotomayor And Roberts Respond To Reporting That Gorsuch Refuses To Don Mask
GOP Senator Who Fauci Called A Moron Now Has Something Called The ‘FAUCI Act’
on December 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. DeSantis Quietly Hits At Trump Administration For Trying To Stop COVID Too Hard
Where Things Stand: Biden Deploys The Military To Fight COVID As SCOTUS Helps Pandemic Linger
This is your TPM evening briefing.

The White House’s latest COVID-19 mitigation efforts are a contrast to the Supreme Court’s ruling today.

President Biden announced Thursday that his administration would double its previous promise to hand out free at-home COVID-19 tests, with plans to send out one billion to Americans’ homes. Along with that, the Biden administration will distribute N95 masks to the public as the country faces an unprecedented spike in COVID infections.

Biden is also deploying more military personnel to hospitals. Speaking from the White House the President said that next week he will send 1,000 military medics to hospitals across the country that have become overrun with patients dangerously sick with the coronavirus. The spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant has left the nation’s hospitals overburdened and short-staffed in recent weeks.

Biden didn’t mince his words in his address announcing the drastic moves.

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SCOTUS Shoots Down Employer Vaccine Requirement; Lets Health-Care Worker Mandate Proceed
Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh were in the majority on both rulings.
Listen To This: Looking to the Court

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, with the Senate all but paralyzed, Josh and Kate discuss the Supreme Court’s posture on the Biden administration’s use of agency power.

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

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