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Washington Update February 24, 2022
Congress is on recess this week for the President’s Day work period. The Senate will return on February 28th and the House will return on March 1st. Although they did not finalize a budget before the recess, they did pass a temporary continuing resolution until March...
Washington Update February 9, 2022
“Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” – Rebecca Johnson The Budget: Let’s hope that Congress is doing a lot of talking about the weather AND budget! As the February 18th deadline for the temporary...
Washington Update January 26, 2022
No Go on Voting Rights and Election Reforms While the legislation did not pass last week, there is a small group of Senators turning last week's discussions into momentum for a narrower bipartisan effort to reexamine the 1887 law that governs how Congress counts...
How fast the omicron variant is spreading around the world (Washington Post)
1.25.2022 - This chart made in collaboration with GISAID represents countries where genomic sequences are publicly released, so some large countries are not included. It takes about a week for laboratories to identify virus variants, so this data is always...
What to know about the coronavirus vaccine for children younger than 5 (Washington Post)
Nearly 23 million eligible children have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine since the most recent group of 5-to-11-year-olds got the green light late last year and started rolling up their sleeves. Read more.
Washington Update January 19, 2022
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”- Martin Luther King Jr. This King quote is something that we live by as families in the care of our loved ones and as family leaders in efforts to bring about systems change. While 2022 has...
Washington Update January 13, 2022
Happy New Year! Both houses of Congress are back in session this week after a Holiday break. Build Back Better is… no one is sure what it is or where it stands. Is it alive? Is it dead? It appears that Build Back Better (BBB) is on “pause” now as committees turn to...
CDC advisers recommend Pfizer-BioNTech booster for 12- to 17-year-olds (Washington Post)
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that children 12- to 17-years-old should get a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine booster, voting to expand protection to millions of adolescents and teens as surging infections threaten to...
What you need to know about the coronavirus vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11 (Washington Post)
Children ages 5 to 11 are now eligible for the coronavirus vaccine in the United States since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech series for about 28 million additional children. Read More...
What to know about the omicron variant of the coronavirus (Washington Post)
Omicron has sparked alarm among health experts worried about the new variant’s ability to spread rapidly and evade the body’s immune defenses. Scientists are racing to learn more as cases rise. Read more...