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Kaiser Health News reports: The nation’s roiling tensions over vaccination against COVID-19 have spilled into an unexpected arena: lifesaving blood transfusions. With nearly 60% of the eligible U.S. population fully vaccinated, most of the nation’s blood supply is now coming from donors who have been inoculated, experts said. That’s led some patients who are skeptical of the shots to demand …

The Wisconsin Examiner reports: The proposal would create an exemption to Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance law that would allow someone who is fired or voluntarily quits because an employer requires a COVID-19 vaccine, or proof of vaccination, to collect unemployment compensation. The lead sponsors of the legislation are Reps. Robert Brooks [photo], Dan Knodl, and Rick Gundrum  and Sen. Duey Stroebel. …

FITS News reports: Pressley Stutts – leader of the Greenville Tea Party and a recently elected South Carolina Republican Party (SCGOP) executive committeeman – was hospitalized late last month with Covid-19 and attendant illnesses and has been battling them ever since. Stutts has taken a turn for the worse over the last few days – news which took many of …

Religion News Service reports: A message from the Twitter account of Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, a conservative prelate and outspoken skeptic of the COVID-19 vaccine, confirmed Saturday (Aug. 14) via Twitter that he had been placed on a ventilator after testing positive for the virus. Speaking at the Rome Life Forum, Burke said that “vaccination itself cannot be imposed, in …

Via press release: Everyone at All Access is terribly saddened to report the untimely passing of veteran radio programmer Tod Tucker yesterday following the onset of viral pneumonia as the result of COVID-19. Tod was 60 years old. His sister, Tamara Tucker, told All Access, “He was on the phone with his son and grandsons. We want to thank everyone …

Oklahoma City’s ABC News affiliate reports: Hundreds of people gathered at the state Capitol on Saturday for what they called the Oklahoma Freedom Rally, with many protesting against mandates on the COVID-19 vaccine and masks. While hundreds of people made it inside the Capitol rotunda for the rally, hundreds more were still outside as of 5 p.m., waiting to get …

The Associated Press reports: A man was stabbed and a reporter was attacked Saturday at a protest against vaccine mandates on the south lawn of Los Angeles’ City Hall after a fight broke out between the protesters and counter protesters, the Los Angeles Police Department and local media said. About 2 p.m., a group of several hundred people holding American …

Mediaite reports: OAN host Dan Ball reacted credulously to a jaw-droppingly inept live demonstration that his guest said shows that the COVID-19 vaccine made her magnetic. On Thursday night’s edition of Real America, Ball hosted a segment with Amelia Miller, one of many cranks posting videos that they say show Coronavirus vaccines conferring magnetism into their bodies. Ball subjected Miller …

St. Louis’s Fox News affiliate reports: A grandfather’s fight with COVID featured on a hospital’s Facebook page is going viral. Mercy Hospital says Mike Prinzi was reluctant to get the vaccine because of what he now calls, “misinformation.” He ended up fighting for his life at the hospital’s intensive care unit. “We had doubts in the beginning, with all the …

The New York Times reports: A vaccination center in southeastern France inundated with a fire hose, its walls vandalized with words equating vaccines with “genocide.” A piece of paper found in a vaccination center in Toulouse, France, with a message: “One day all this will blow up.” These episodes were highlighted in the French news media this week as France’s …

Fort Myers’ NBC News affiliate reports: It started off as a basic cold but within 72 hours, Shannon Ruvelas’s fever had spiked to 102.8 degrees and her blood oxygen level was down to 84 percent. “My lungs just took a dive,” Ruvelas said from her room in Cape Coral Hospital. “I was against the vaccine, I didn’t want it, but …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Ivermectin, the latest supposed treatment for COVID-19 being touted by anti-vaccination groups, had “no effect whatsoever” on the disease, according to a large patient study. That’s the conclusion of the Together Trial, which has subjected several purported nonvaccine treatments for COVID-19 to carefully designed clinical testing. The trial is supervised by McMaster University in Hamilton, …

Radio Insight reports: Cumulus Media has become the first large radio group operator to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees. In a memo to all employees sent out this afternoon, the company states that all staffers must have had their shots by September 27 in order to return to the offices two weeks later on October 11. In explaining why …

CNN reports: A nurse is being investigated by police in Germany for allegedly replacing Covid-19 vaccines with saline solution. The nurse replaced the vaccines between March and April this year at Roffhausen immunization center in Friesland, northwest Germany, the Friesland district administrator, Sven Ambrosy, said on Facebook Tuesday. “Today I had the sad duty to inform around 8,600 people who …

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports: State Rep. Sara Walsh and her husband have contracted COVID-19, with Steve Walsh hospitalized on a ventilator. Sara Walsh, a Republican running for U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s seat in Congress, has been recovering at home. Steve Walsh is Hartzler’s spokesman. The couple was not vaccinated against COVID-19. Sara Walsh said she did not get the …

The Springfield News-Leader reports: Despite a packed and rowdy crowd opposed to the measure, the Springfield city council Monday night passed a nonbinding resolution encouraging vaccination against COVID-19. The proposal was purely symbolic, but opposition to the measure was fierce over the five-hour council meeting — and included misinformation, jeers, and allusions to the Holocaust. But Councilwoman Angela Romine does …

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports: Longtime radio talk-show host Marc Bernier has been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a top official at WNDB (1150 AM, 93.5 FM). “I don’t have an update on him at this point, other than he has been hospitalized,” said Mark McKinney, the station’s operations director. While he did not have specific knowledge of Bernier’s vaccination …

Vice News reports: A website purportedly offering money to people willing to snitch on their unvaccinated family, friends, and neighbors for breaching vaccine mandates has gone viral in anti-vaxxer circles. But just like so many other things shared in these groups, the “anonymous unvaccinated reporting system” is completely fake. Not only that, the website was designed and built by David …

Michigan Live reports: A sign at a Jackson Burger King restaurant encouraging people to honk if they’re against wearing masks and getting a COVID-19 vaccination is being investigated by the corporation. The sign in front displayed a message Thursday, Aug. 5, that read, “Honk if you are against forced mask & forced jab.” “We’ve been in communication with the franchisee …

West Palm Beach’s NBC News affiliate reports: South Florida talk show host Dick Farrel, known and beloved by fans for his over-the-top right-wing opinions, has died from complications from COVID-19. On Facebook, Farrel advocated against getting the coronavirus vaccine and was skeptical of Dr. Anthony Fauci and his recommendations concerning the coronavirus. Friends said after contracting the virus he changed …