The new vaccine mandates and enforcement actions President Biden announced Thursday in an address from the White House should help in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, but even more likely is needed, according to a prominent vaccinologist.

Those who have been anti-vaccine are now increasingly looking to point the finger of unvaccination elsewhere, in the face of mounting new cases of the illness and its Delta variant. And they are often pointing towards Black Americans. Now an ER doctor is calling out one such individual, her state's Republican lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, of Texas.

As cases of COVID-19 are once again on the rise, several new questions and issues have begun to emerge about vaccinations -- including the need for a third, booster shot for most Americans.

As the new school year fast approaches, school districts can either adhere to pandemic guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and open with some confidence of safety -- or ignore guidance for masks and such, and run the risk that in-school instruction will be interrupted as it was last year when the pandemic first emerged.

Acknowledging that his state is struggling with the ability to vaccinate residents -- and against a rising tide of COVID-19 cases -- Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) has reinstated a mask mandate across the Pelican State.

In the face of House Democrats having failed to pass their own national moratorium on housing evictions, President Biden should muscle past concerns about the Supreme Court and move ahead with his own executive moratorium, according to a top House Democrat.

Given that lives are at stake, Dr Anthony Fauci favors extending vaccine mandates at the local level.

The Republican governor of Arkansas is speaking up about misinformation contributing to a lower rate of vaccination against COVID-19. It's Gov Asa Hutchinson's fellow Republicans who are typically spreading that misinformation, however.

Dr Anthony Fauci, the federal immunologist who's become a household name during the coronavirus pandemic, has sharpened his rhetoric against those who continue to denigrate available vaccines against the virus.

The state of the global coronavirus pandemic should be easing up such that things should be much better by this fall, according to a physician who's a noted expert in vaccinology.