Adrienne Alease Jones is an American politician who has served as the 107th Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,she is the first African-American and first woman to serve in that position in Maryland. She has represented District 10 in the Maryland House of Delegates since 1997.
Lora H. Reinbold is an American politician who is a member of the Alaska Senate. She was a member of the Alaska House from 2013 to 2019,representing District 26. In 2018,Reinbold was elected to the Alaska State Senate representing the G district. She served in the State Senate from 2019 until retiring in 2023. From 2015 to the end of her tenure,Reinbold was the only member of the Alaska State Legislature unaffiliated with a caucus organization,as she was ejected from the Republican-led majority caucus in March 2015.
Nathan Libby is an American Democratic former politician from Maine. He represented Senate District 21,which serves Lewiston,Maine's second-largest city. Libby grew up in central Maine and attended Bates College where he majored in history and economics. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern Maine and works as an economic development consultant,currently as the president of Community Concepts Finance Corporation. Libby served one term in the Maine House of Representatives from 2012 to 2014 and was first elected to the Maine Senate in 2014. He served as the Senate majority leader from 2018-2020.
Sherri J. Tenpenny is an American physician activist who promotes unbiased fully informed consent for vaccinations,clinical drug trials,and emergency use authorized drugs and devices. She is a proponent for full public disclosure of all government agency collected public health statistics and medical research findings that are funded by taxpayers including government agency grants. She promulgates hypotheses that vaccines cause autism. An osteopathic physician by training,she has practiced as an Emergency Room physician,Family Physician,and Allergist. She is the author of four books taking non-traditional positions on vaccination.
2020 Maine Question 1 was a people's veto referendum that sought to reject a new law which eliminated religious and philosophical exemptions from school vaccination requirements and for employees of nursery schools and health care facilities. The question appeared on the statewide ballot on March 3,2020,coinciding with the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
In the United States,the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in 103,436,829 confirmed cases with 1,183,372 all-time deaths,the most of any country,and the 20th highest per capita worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic is the deadliest disaster in the country's history.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Latvia was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have reached Latvia on 2 March 2020,having been brought along with people returning from abroad.
The COVID-19 pandemic in California began earlier than in some other parts of the United States. Ten of the first 20 confirmed COVID-19 infections in the United States were detected in California,and the first infection was confirmed on January 26,2020. All of the early confirmed cases were persons who had recently travelled to China,as testing was restricted to this group,but there were some other people infected by that point. A state of emergency was declared in the state on March 4,2020. A mandatory statewide stay-at-home order was issued on March 19,2020;it was ended on January 25,2021. On April 6,2021,the state announced plans to fully reopen the economy by June 15,2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic was reported to have reached the U.S. state of Delaware on March 11,2020,in New Castle County. The following day,March 12,Governor John Carney declared a State of Emergency for the State of Delaware due to a Public Health Threat. As of February 8,2021,the Delaware Division of Public Health reported 80,594 cumulative COVID-19 cases and 1,208 deaths. As of May 25,2021,Delaware has administered 904,722 COVID-19 vaccine doses,equivalent to 52.9% of the population. 41.3% of the population is fully vaccinated.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Tennessee on March 5,2020. As of June 5,2022,there are 2,023,815 confirmed cases,26,103 deaths,and 12,825,885 reported tests.
Anne Dauphinais is an American politician. She is a Republican currently serving Connecticut House of Representatives District 44,comprising the towns of Killingly,Plainfield,and Sterling. Dauphinais grew up in Killingly and graduated from the Northern Maine Vocational Technical Institute and from Eastern Connecticut State University. She worked in nursing,sales,and for the Connecticut Department of Correction before being elected to the House in 2016,2018 and 2020. Beginning in 2019,Dauphinais was a prominent leader opposing vaccine legislation in Connecticut and later protesting public safety measures put in place to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jennifer Gross is an American politician and former nurse serving as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 45th district. Elected in 2020,she took office in 2021. During her tenure in the state House,she has been a leading supporter of anti-vaccine legislation. Her voting record has shown a general tendency towards big government.
Christiane Northrup is a former obstetrics and gynaecology physician and author who promotes pseudoscientific alternative medicine and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. She has a history of opposing vaccination and has embraced QAnon ideology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Northrup reaches a significant audience through popular books and multiple social media platforms and spreads misinformation,notably about COVID-19.
Chris A. Johansen is an American politician from Maine. He served as a Republican in the Maine House of Representatives for Maine's 145th House of Representatives district,which comprises 20 towns in Aroostook County. An outspoken opponent of state-mandated public health measures put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic,his wife later died from the disease. He resigned from office on November 19,2021.
Heidi Hilgartner Sampson is an American politician and anti-vaccine activist. A member of the Republican Party,she has served as a member of the Maine House of Representatives since 2016,representing the 136th district since 2022.
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States is the sociocultural phenomenon of individuals refusing or displaying hesitance towards receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States can be considered as part of the broader history of vaccine hesitancy.
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic,COVID-19 vaccine mandates have been enacted by numerous states and municipalities in the United States,and also by private entities. In September 2021,President Joe Biden announced that the federal government would take steps to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for certain entities under the authority of the federal government or federal agencies. Most federal mandates thus imposed were either overturned through litigation,or withdrawn by the administration,although a mandate on health care workers in institutions receiving Medicare and Medicaid funds was upheld. All federal mandates were lifted when the national emergency was declared to have ended in May 2023. A small number of states have gone in the opposite direction,through executive orders or legislation designed to limit vaccination mandates.
A vaccine passport or proof of vaccination is an immunity passport employed as a credential in countries and jurisdictions as part of efforts to control the COVID-19 pandemic via vaccination. A vaccine passport is typically issued by a government or health authority,and usually consists of a digital or printed record. Some credentials may include a scannable QR code,which can also be provisioned via mobile app. It may or may not use a COVID-19 vaccine card as a basis of authentication.
Health Freedom Idaho is an anti-vaccine group that also opposes health regulations,such as mask requirements and restrictions on the operation of businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Founded sometime shortly before October 2016,the organization describes its mission as including "preserv[ing] our freedoms in regard to the health care of our choice." While the group's activities have mainly taken place in the Boise area,the organization has a northern chapter.
Tracy Quint is an American politician from Hodgdon,Maine. She is currently serving in the Maine House of Representatives from the 8th district,having first been elected in 2020 from the Republican Party.
