U.S. Supreme Court Won't Hear Michigan Gym's Case Over COVID-19 Losses; mRNA, Once Lauded as a Scientific Marvel, is Now a Government Target, and other C-Virus related stories

U.S. Supreme Court won't hear Michigan gym's case over COVID-19 losses

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 2 declined to take up the case of an Alma gymnasium that sued the state of Michigan, arguing that it should be compensated for the months it was forced to be closed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Supreme Court denied a request to take up the case without comment.

Randy Clark and his wife, Yvette Franco-Clark, who own and operate The Gym 24/7 Fitness in Alma sued the state in 2020 over an order by Whitmer that closed gyms and certain other businesses to protect the public from the health emergency caused by COVID-19 in March of that year that remained in place for six months.

The gym owners didn't question the governor's right to issue the order but sought compensation because of what they argued was the "economic devastation" it caused their business, saying it amounted to an "unconstitutional taking" of their property. --->READ MORE HERE

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mRNA, once lauded as a scientific marvel, is now a government target:

mRNA, a Nobel-winning technology harnessed by Trump officials to create COVID shots in record time, is becoming a political reject as the nation’s leaders openly embrace vaccine skepticism.

Republican lawmakers and federal health officials alike are shunning messenger RNA, a basic building block of biology that proved its value during COVID, and that holds promise for combating the next pandemic and unlocking new cancer treatments. Public health experts and biotech companies are watching in horror as the government cuts its investments in the technology, and as officials like health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. foment deep distrust of mRNA vaccines.

On Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed it was canceling more than $700 million worth of contracts with Moderna to develop, test, and license mRNA vaccines for flu strains that could cause future pandemics, including the H5N1 bird flu virus.

“The reality is that mRNA technology remains under-tested, and we are not going to spend taxpayer dollars repeating the mistakes of the last administration, which concealed legitimate safety concerns from the public,” HHS communications director Andrew Nixon said of the Moderna contracts. The White House did not respond to STAT’s request for comment.

Moderna, which built its business on mRNA and became a household name thanks to its COVID shots, has perhaps more at stake in the technology’s future than any other company. --->READ MORE HERE

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