Coronavirus

STUDY: Pfizer Vax Is Highly Effective In Children 5-11

The New York Times reports: The Pfizer-BioNtech coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be safe and highly effective in young children aged 5 to 11 years, the companies announced early Monday morning. The news should help ease months of anxiety among parents and teachers about when children, and their close contacts, might be shielded from the coronavirus. The need is …

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Did TX Gov Have Critical Lincoln Project Ad Yanked?

Florida Politics reports: The Lincoln Project is demanding answers after an ad critical of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID-19 response was pulled off the air moments before the kickoff of a nationally televised football game. The ad, scheduled to air Saturday during a University of Texas match, ranks Texas among the leading states in the nation for COVID-19 deaths. The …

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Fox Poll: Majorities Back Biden On COVID Mandates

Fox News reports: Majorities support mask and vaccine mandates advocated by the Biden administration, as the coronavirus pandemic remains a top concern, according to the latest Fox News poll. Three-quarters of registered voters are “extremely” or “very” concerned about the pandemic (74 percent), a 5-point increase from August when 69 percent were worried. The shift comes mainly from Republicans (+14) …

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Cultist Pastor Condemns Religious Vaccine Exemptions: “Christians Would Also Have To Abstain From Tylenol”

The Associated Press reports: As significant numbers of Americans seek religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccine mandates, many faith leaders are saying: Not with our endorsement. The Rev. Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas, a Southern Baptist megachurch, said he and his staff “are neither offering nor encouraging members to seek religious exemptions from the vaccine mandates.” “There is no credible …

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Anti-Vax Extremists Force BC Schools Into Lockdown

Reuters reports: A school district in the Canadian province of British Columbia will be locking down schools starting Monday due to ongoing anti-vaccine protests, the district said late on Friday. The “hold and secure” protocol was enacted on Friday after people protesting vaccines and masks, who the district said had been targeting schools all week, entered two school buildings in …

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Outbreak After Christie Family Party, NJ School Closes

The New York Post reports: A New Jersey middle school was forced to hold virtual classes on Friday after several students contracted COVID-19 while celebrating the bar mitzvah of former Gov. Chris Christie‘s nephew, The Post has learned. The event involving the 13-year-old son of Todd and Andrea Christie took place last weekend and school officials learned late Thursday night …

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Anti-Vax AL Republican Hospitalized For Something

The Daily Beast reports: A teenage city council member in Morgan County, Alabama, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday after railing against mask mandates said he’s now battling coronavirus-related pneumonia in the hospital. “I am still shallow in breathing but my oxygen remains okay for now,” Decatur City Councilman Hunter Pepper, 19, wrote on Facebook Thursday. He received a …

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FDA Advisory Panel Votes Against Boosters For All

The Washington Post reports: In an all-day FDA advisory meeting, experts resoundingly voted down Pfizer’s application for boosters for everyone 16 and older and is now debating whether to authorize an additional dose for older adults. The panelists may choose to green-light boosters for adults in older age brackets and with serious medical conditions that heighten their vulnerability to severe …

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Alaska’s Largest Hospital Begins Rationing Care [VIDEO]

NPR reports: The stark situation of COVID’s impact on Alaska has affected the ability of the state’s largest hospital to provide care for some patients. The Providence Alaska Medical Center’s Medical Executive Committee said Wednesday that it must implement a “crisis standard of care” amid the worsening coronavirus situation. “While we are doing our utmost, we are no longer able …

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Italy Mandates Digital Vaccine Passport For All Workers

Euronews reports: Italy has become the first European country to make COVID-19 health passes mandatory for all workers. The Italian government approved a new measure on Thursday that makes digital vaccine certificates compulsory for both public and private sectors. The obligation is set to begin from October 15 and remain in force until the end of the year. All employees …

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AZ Health System Reports Horse Paste Hospitalizations

The Arizona Republic reports: Arizona’s largest health system is warning the public against using the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19. Misuse of ivermectin has led to 30 calls managed by Banner Health’s Poison and Drug Information Center this year, including 10 cases in August, according to data from the Phoenix-based nonprofit health system. At least seven cases …

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Judge Won’t Force KY Hospital To Use Horse Paste

Louisville’s NBC News affiliate reports: A woman’s emergency order request for a Louisville hospital to treat her husband, who is suffering from COVID, with ivermectin, has been denied by a judge. Angela Underwood said in a lawsuit that Norton Brownsboro refused to give the treatment to her husband, Lonnie, without a court order and supervision by a doctor who has …

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De Blasio Readies 1900 Vax Sites For Booster Rollout

The New York Daily News reports: Federal regulators haven’t authorized booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine yet — but Mayor de Blasio is already laying the groundwork for administering them. “We need to be ready to move immediately,” he said at his daily morning briefing. “We are ready.” De Blasio’s plan taps all 1,900 vaccination sites in the five boroughs …

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Pope Francis: Humanity Has A Friendship With Vaccines

The Associated Press reports: Pope Francis said Wednesday he didn’t understand why people refuse to take COVID-19 vaccines, saying “humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines,” and that serene discussion about the shots was necessary to help them. Francis noted that children for decades have been vaccinated against measles, mumps and polio “and no one said anything.” “Even in …

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AZ AG Files “Long Shot” Suit Against Biden’s Mandate

Bloomberg News reports: Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich acknowledged that his suit challenging the Biden Administration’s announced Covid-19 vaccine requirements for many U.S. workers is unlikely to succeed because the actual rules haven’t been finalized. “Is it a long shot? Yeah, I recognize that,” Brnovich, a Republican former federal prosecutor who is running for U.S. Senate in 2022, said in …

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Idaho Expands Healthcare Rationing Statewide [VIDEO]

The Associated Press reports: Idaho public health leaders on Thursday expanded health care rationing statewide amid a massive increase in the number of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare made the announcement after St. Luke’s Health System, Idaho’s largest hospital network, on Wednesday asked state health leaders to allow “crisis standards of care” because the …

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Anti-Vax Florida Republican Staffer Dies Of Something

Forbes reports: On Tuesday, a Florida county Republican committee that had opposed measures to prevent Covid-19 informed the Federal Election Commission that the group may not be able to submit a filing because its bookkeeper died from the virus. “For several years we have been submitting the reports electronically, and for over a year we have done this with software …

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Southwest Gives Two-Day Pay Bonus To Vaxxed Staffers

The Hill reports: Southwest Airlines will provide vaccinated workers with extra pay, according to a company memo sent to employees Wednesday, joining other airlines in pushing employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The Dallas-based company will provide two days of bonus pay, or 13 trip segments of extra pay for flight attendants and pilots, to employees who show proof of …

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Putin: “Several Dozen” In My Entourage Have COVID

The Moscow Times reports: Dozens of people in Vladimir Putin’s entourage have tested positive for the coronavirus, the Russian leader said Thursday, as his country struggles with high infection rates and a vaccine-skeptic population. Earlier this week, 68-year-old Putin canceled all in-person events and said he was self-isolating after announcing an outbreak in the Kremlin. “Cases of the coronavirus were …

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LA County Mandates Vax Proof For Bars, Nightclubs

The Los Angeles County Public Health Department: With the urgent need to reduce transmission risk and increase vaccination coverage in L.A. County, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) will begin requiring verification of vaccination in select high-risk settings by October 7, 2021. Public Health will issue a modified Health Officer Order later this week that would …

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