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Alabama Requests FEMA Aid For Swamped Hospitals

The Montgomery Advertiser reports: A federal team of health care workers is deploying to a south Alabama hospital amid an ongoing “crush” of COVID-19 patients threatening to overwhelm the state’s health system. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will send a 13-person team to South Baldwin Regional Medical Center in Foley, Alabama. The director of the team is …

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Appeals Court Rejects Bid To Lift Evictions Moratorium

Reuters reports: A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected a bid by groups representing landlords to halt the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s eviction moratorium. In a written order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said it would allow the residential eviction ban to remain in place while litigation over its legality unfolds. …

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NYC Surpasses One Million All-Time COVID Cases

Gothamist reports: New York City marked a grim milestone on Saturday, reporting its millionth COVID case since the start of the pandemic. Confirmation came after the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s daily update of pandemic data. It shows 1,000,469 confirmed and probable cases through August 14th. The city health department has also recorded more than 117,000 …

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New US Vaccinations Rose Today To Over 900,000

The Hill reports: The United States on Friday reported almost a million new COVID-19 vaccinations from the previous day’s total, the biggest one-day tally for vaccinations since early July. About 918,000 were administered on Friday, according to Cyrus Shapar, the White House’s COVID-19 data director. The number includes 576,000 people getting their first dose of the vaccine. The increase signals …

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Delta Variant Spurs Surge In Online Sales Of Masks

CNN Business reports: Sales of reusable face masks, which had started to cool down earlier in the summer, have reversed course as the Delta variant spreads across the United States. Weekly mask sales in dollars had been declining in June and into July, according to Adobe Analytics’ Digital Economy Index, which tracks sales data directly from a majority of the …

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Anti-Vax Florida Woman Now Sorry About Something

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 …

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FL Hospitals Break COVID Record For 11th Straight Day

The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports: For the 11th straight day, Florida hospitals set records for the number of COVID patients they are treating, and on Wednesday the state set a new high for daily cases. On Wednesday, Florida hospitals had 15,449 patients a significant jump from just two days earlier when admissions surpassed 14,000 to set a record. The …

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Mississippi Asks Feds To Send Military Hospital Ship

CBS News reports: Hard-hit Mississippi has requested the federal government send a military hospital ship such as the USNS Comfort, state health official Jim Craig said Wednesday. The University of Mississippi Medical Center has 127 COVID-19 patients, including 26 children, Dean LouAnn Woodward said Wednesday. About 90% of them are unvaccinated, she said. The dean warned, “The Mississippi hospital system …

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Hospitalized Texas Man Wanted Vaccine For Something

Houston’s ABC News affiliate reports: A former athlete recovering from COVID-19 says he is lucky to have survived and was brainwashed by misinformation. “I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t even walk 10 steps,” said Andres Perekalsk, who is now home, tethered to an oxygen tank. The father of two told ABC13 he was asking for a vaccine from that bed, certain …

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Texas Gov Appeals For Out-Of-State Help On COVID, Asks TX Hospitals To Suspend All Elective Procedures

The Associated Press reports: Gov. Greg Abbott appealed for out-of-state help to fight the third wave of COVID-19 in Texas while two more of the state’s largest school districts announced mask mandates in defiance of the governor. Abbott’s request Monday came as a county-owned hospital in Houston raised tents to accommodate their COVID-19 overflow. The Republican governor has directed the …

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35+ COVID Cases At Florida Megachurch, Six Deaths

Jacksonville’s NBC News affiliate reports: A Jacksonville church pastor said in the last 10 days, six of his church members have died from COVID-19, and more of their members are currently in the hospital. Now the church is pushing to get as many people vaccinated as possible. Senior Pastor George Davis at Impact Church in Arlington told News4Jax on Friday …

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US Now Averaging 100,000 New COVID Cases Daily

The Associated Press reports: The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States crossed 100,000 new confirmed daily infections Saturday, a milestone last exceeded during the winter surge and driven by the highly transmissible delta variant and low vaccination rates in the South. It took the U.S. about nine months to cross 100,000 average daily cases in November before peaking at about …

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New Advisory: Federal Workers Who Lie About Their Vax Status Could Face Fines, Termination, Or Prosecution

The Hill reports: Federal employees who lie on a form attesting to their coronavirus vaccination status could be fined, removed from their position or even prosecuted, according to a copy of the form published Friday. President Biden announced last week that his administration would require federal employees and onsite contractors to attest that they are vaccinated or, if they are …

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New US COVID Cases Hit Six-Month High Yesterday

Reuters reports: The United States hit a six-month high for new COVID cases with over 100,000 infections reported on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the Delta variant ravages areas where people did not get vaccinated. The country is reporting over 94,819 cases on a seven-day average, a five-fold increase in less than a month, Reuters data through Wednesday …

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Landlords Sue To Block CDC’s Eviction Moratorium

The Washington Post reports: Only one day after the Biden administration issued a new policy protecting renters from eviction, a series of real estate and landlord groups is trying to invalidate it — setting up another legal showdown over a moratorium that Democrats say is essential to keeping Americans in their homes. The petition arrived Wednesday from groups including the …

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Pastor Dies Of COVID After Summer Camp Speech

Tulsa’s ABC News affiliate reports: The Rev. Wade Morris, 51, an evangelist who spoke across the country, died Tuesday morning after contracting COVID-19. He was a guest speaker at Falls Creek Youth Camp last month. Morris spoke at the Christian summer camp near Davis, Oklahoma during the week of July 5, according to Brian Hobbs, Communications Director of Oklahoma Baptists, …

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CDC Order Extends Ban On Evictions Until October 3rd

Via press release from the CDC: CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky today signed an order determining the evictions of tenants for failure to make rent or housing payments could be detrimental to public health control measures to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This order will expire on October 3, 2021 and applies in United States …

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Ron DeSantis Lashes Out At Reporter: “I’m Sick Of The Judgmental Stuff,” Nobody Is Trying To Get Sick Here

“We obviously have some people that are not vaccinated that have been admitted to hospitals. Are you going to sit there, are you going to sit there, and are you going to sit there and criticize, or we going to try to treat and try to help the folks? “You know, I’m just sick of the judgment, the judgmental stuff …

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Gallup: Delta Crashes Optimism About Pandemic

Gallup reports: In a dramatic shift from last month, more Americans now say the coronavirus situation in the U.S. is getting worse (45%) rather than better (40%). In June, a record 89% said the situation was getting better, while only 3% said it was getting worse. The current survey marks the first time since January that more U.S. adults have …

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Florida Breaks Its Record For COVID Hospitalizations

The Associated Press reports: A day after the state recorded the most new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, Florida on Sunday broke a previous record for current hospitalizations set more than a year ago before vaccines were available. The Sunshine State had 10,207 people hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to data reported to the U.S. Department …

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