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Florida Breaks Its All-Time Record For New Cases

Bloomberg reports: Florida reported 21,683 new cases on Friday, breaking a daily record for the entire pandemic, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The state’s previous one-day record was more than 19,100 in early January, according to CDC data. As the highly infectious delta variant has spread around the U.S., new infections in Florida …

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CDC: Delta Variant Is As Contagious As Chickenpox

The Washington Post reports: The delta variant of the coronavirus appears to cause more severe illness than earlier variants and spreads as easily as chickenpox, according to an internal federal health document that argues officials must “acknowledge the war has changed.” It captures the struggle of the nation’s top public health agency to persuade the public to embrace vaccination and …

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MS Man Regrets Refusing Vax After Leg Amputation

New Orleans’s Fox News affiliate reports: Bryan Thompson, 43, is married to Audrey. He has a 6-year-old son named Endymion. He works for an IT company from home. He says he’s otherwise a healthy man, but he is unvaccinated against COVID-19. “I was unvaccinated, yeah, I myself was a little skeptical and I felt it got rushed, I wanted to …

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US Economy Grew Robustly In Second Quarter

The New York Times reports: Vaccinations and federal aid helped lift the U.S. economy out of its pandemic-induced hole this spring. The next test will be whether that momentum can continue as coronavirus cases rise, masks return and government help wanes. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic output, grew 1.6 percent in the second quarter of the year, …

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REVERSAL: CDC To Again Recommend Masks Indoors

The New York Times reports: Reversing a decision made just two months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to recommend on Tuesday that people vaccinated for the coronavirus resume wearing masks indoors under certain circumstances. The change follows reports of rising breakthrough infections with the Delta variant of the virus in people who were fully immunized. …

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Man Who Believed Vax Contains Tracker Has Regrets

Los Angeles’s Fox News affiliate reports: One man who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine ended up in the hospital after contracting the virus. Before July, Gumerocindo Vergara had no fears of the virus but that has all changed now. The 37-year-old construction worker from Pacoima was convinced he wouldn’t get the novel coronavirus. He believed friends who said – …

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AZ Family Changes Mind About Vax After Mother Dies

Phoenix’s Fox News affiliate reports: Ysmael Vega is mourning his wife who died of virus complications on July 13. He’s currently recovering from the virus and pneumonia. Fernanda Vega, 47, was loved by her four children, 10 grandchildren and all her friends. She worked in the healthcare industry for years. On July 13, Fernanda went to the emergency room. Ysmael …

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Bangkok Enters Hard Lockdown With Hospitals Full

The Associated Press reports: Thailand’s already locked down capital shut parks and the few remaining public places available to residents Friday, as the country registered a new high of coronavirus infections. The near-total restriction on movements in the capital came as the prime minister demanded officials find ways to get the sick into hospitals after people with COVID-19 were found …

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Florida Patients Sorry They Rejected Vaccine [VIDEO]

Jacksonville’s NBC News affiliate reports: Amanda Beinborn said she and her family members kept wanting to do more research before getting a vaccine. They never did. When Beinborn tested positive, her family followed. “My mom at first was not doing very well,” she said. “We did have some scares where we would think that she was on her final days. …

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US COVID Cases Have Nearly Tripled In Two Weeks

The Associated Press reports: COVID-19 cases nearly tripled in the U.S. over two weeks amid an onslaught of vaccine misinformation that is straining hospitals, exhausting doctors and pushing clergy into the fray. Across the U.S., the seven-day rolling average for daily new cases rose over the past two weeks to more than 37,000 on Tuesday, up from less than 13,700 …

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Hospitalized Man: “I Thought The Vaccine Was A Hoax”

Little Rock’s CBS News affiliate reports: Lamonte Boyd, a 42-year-old father of three, said he didn’t listen to doctors or even his wife when she got vaccinated and told him he should too. “I thought the vaccine was a hoax,” Boyd told CBS News. Before he got sick, Boyd initially brushed it off and “thought it was a joke.” He …

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Alabama Doctor: Dying Patients Beg For The Vaccine

The Birmingham News reports: “I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,” wrote Dr. Brytney Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m …

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CDC: US Life Expectancy Fell By 1.5 Years In 2020

The Associated Press reports: U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, public health officials said Wednesday. The decrease for both Black Americans and Hispanic Americans was even worse: three years. The drop spelled out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is due mainly to the …

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CDC: Delta Variant Now 83% Of New US COVID Cases

CNN reports: The more contagious Delta variant of coronavirus now makes up 83% of sequenced samples in the United States, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday. “This is a dramatic increase, up from 50% for the week of July 3,” Walensky said in a Senate committee hearing. Health experts have said the …

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Pediatrics Group Calls For Universal Masking In Schools

From the American Academy of Pediatrics: In updated guidance for the 2021-22 school year, the American Academy of Pediatrics strongly recommends in-person learning and urges all who are eligible to be vaccinated to protect against COVID-19. In addition to vaccinations, the AAP recommends a layered approach to make school safe for all students, teachers and staff in the guidance here. …

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US Again Leads World In New Coronavirus Cases

The Daily Beast reports: The United States recorded 79,310 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number is the highest in the world, exceeding recorded totals from Indonesia (54,000), the United Kingdom (51,949), and Brazil (45,591), and doubling that of India (38,079). The spiking case number matches the level hit in October 2020, a record …

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Arkansas ICU Units Near Capacity, Cases Near 10,000

USA Today reports: Cases of COVID-19 have doubled in the U.S. in the past two weeks, and Arkansas is becoming a case study in how low vaccination rates can fuel the spread of the virus. Arkansas continues to be the nation’s top state for new cases per capita, and only 35% of the state’s population is fully vaccinated, according to …

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COVID Still Killing More Than Guns Plus Car Crashes

Bloomberg News reports: Even with half the U.S. vaccinated, Covid-19 continues to kill people faster than guns, car crashes and influenza combined, according to a review of mortality data. The situation has improved dramatically since January, when Covid deaths outpaced heart disease and cancer as the country’s top killer, according to a Bloomberg analysis. Still, for the month of June, …

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Texas Man Dies At 54 After Refusing “Poison” Vaccine

San Antonio’s CBS News affiliate reports: Lisa Adler and her four brothers grew up in Kenner. Just over a month ago, they had to say goodbye to one of those brothers, Alan Scott Lanoix. Lanoix tested positive and spent 17 days in the hospital with several on a ventilator. His wife and sons all tested positive too. They survived, but …

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Fourth Christian Summer Camp Sees COVID Outbreak

Dayton’s NBC News affiliate reports: Public Health Dayton & Montgomery County is now reporting at least 70 cases of COVID-19 associated with a retreat at Camp Chautauqua. Thirteen of the reported cases are local to the Miami Valley. The Ohio Department of Health has issued a statewide alert after the exposure was discovered and alerted surrounding states. Public health officials …

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