ABC News reports, “Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all.

The move is a reaction to the severe hospital staffing shortages and crushing caseloads that the omicron variant is causing.

So you can still work in a hospital if you have active COVID but doctors and nurses who don’t have COVID and are unvaccinated are fired. Am I the only one who perceives the absurdity of this scenario?https://t.co/8vHumvcYoo

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 11, 2022

California health authorities announced over the weekend that hospital staff members who test positive but are symptom-free can continue working. Some hospitals in Rhode Island and Arizona have likewise told employees they can stay on the job if they have no symptoms or just mild ones.

The highly contagious omicron variant has sent new cases of COVID-19 exploding to over 700,000 a day in the U.S. on average, obliterating the record set a year ago. The number of Americans in the hospital with the virus is running at about 110,000, just short of the peak of 124,000 last January.

Many hospitals are not only swamped with cases but severely shorthanded because of so many employees out with COVID-19.

At the same time, omicron appears to be causing milder illness than the delta variant.”

Read the entire story.

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Yahoo News reported on Thursday (emphasis added), “A top NIH official admitted in a Wednesday letter that U.S. taxpayers funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan and revealed that EcoHealth Alliance, the U.S. non-profit that funneled NIH money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was not transparent about the work it was doing…

The revelation vindicates Republican senator Rand Paul, who got into heated exchanges with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease director Anthony Fauci during his May and July testimonials before Congress over the gain-of-function question. At the second hearing, Paul accused Fauci of misleading Congress by denying that the U.S. had funded gain-of-function projects at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

We now know about this funding because an NIH official admitted it.

But when the Paul and Fauci exchange originally happened, how many reporters thought it wise to investigate and see if there was any validity to Paul’s claims?

When @randpaul asked Fauci if the NIH had funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, reporters spent their time mocking Paul instead of investigating if it was true.

Now we know it’s true. Why does a US senator have to do reporters job for them? #ArrestFauci #FauciLied pic.twitter.com/a4EQ9SjH4O

— Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) October 25, 2021

How many “journalists” instead reflexively mocked Paul and defended Fauci?

The media today see its job as promoting and protecting the Biden administration, not challenging it.

Americans should know if their tax dollars went toward funding gain-of-function research in a Chinese lab and the potential implications of that research regarding the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Americans do know thanks to the efforts of Rand Paul, who, as a U.S. senator, did the investigating and reporting that no journalist thought important to do.

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