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All But One Florida Counties Report High Levels of COVID

FOX 13 News, TAMPA, Fla. - Mask mandates are coming back in a few Florida cities and some hospitals are starting to re-enact restrictions as coronavirus cases soar across the Sunshine State. According to the CDC, Florida currently leads the country in new infections, accounting for about one-in-five new cases in the U.S. Over the last month, Florida went from one of the lowest sites of community transmission to the highest in the country. Florida is...

Want Fries With That Vaccine?

KAISER HEALTH NEWS, SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A few months ago, the boxy, teal truck parked outside a McDonald’s in this Inland Empire city might have drawn hundreds of people willing to stand in line for hours under the scorching sun. The truck is San Bernardino County’s mobile vaccine unit, which brings covid-19 vaccines directly to people. But on July 15, only 22 people got a covid shot during the four hours it sat there. Barry...

ERs Use Body Bags to Save Lives

Kaiser Health News – As a deadly heat wave scorched the Pacific Northwest last month, overwhelming hospital emergency rooms in a region unaccustomed to triple-digit temperatures, doctors resorted to a grim but practical tool to save lives: human body bags filled with ice and water. Officials at hospitals in Seattle and Renton, Washington, said that as more people arrived experiencing potentially fatal heatstroke, and with cooling catheters and even ice packs in short supply, they...

Latest Villains In Covid Blame Game: Country Music Fans

NEW YORK POST – St. Louis will reinstate its mask mandate on Monday, as one local health official tries to blame country music fans in Branson, 250 miles away, for rising cases across the state. “Branson has a lot of country-western shows,” Dr. Marc Johnson of the University of Missouri School of Medicine told the Daily Beast. “No Vaccines. No masks. A bunch of people indoors and air conditioning, tightly packed, listening to music, possibly...

Large Ivermectin Study Retracted

MEDPAGE TODAY – A large Egyptian study of ivermectin for COVID-19 patients has been retracted over concerns of plagiarism and serious problems with their raw data, the publisher confirmed to MedPage Today. Michele Avissar-Whiting, PhD, editor-in-chief of the preprint server Research Square, said in an emailed statement that the study was withdrawn on July 14 because: "we were presented with evidence of both plagiarism and anomalies in the dataset associated with the study, neither of which...

Doctor Pleads Guilty In Hydroxychloroquine ‘Miracle Cure’ Scheme

FORBES – San Diego-based physician Dr. Jennings Ryan Staley pleaded guilty on last week to a charge of importation contrary to law, which comes with a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. During March 2020 and April 2020, Staley sold treatment kits he falsely marketed as being a “one hundred percent” cure and a “magic bullet” against Covid-19, while the U.S. was in the midst of its first Covid surge. The kits contained hydroxychloroquine, a...

Tokyo Olympics: Superspreader Event?

A Superspreader Olympics Could 'Ruin' Athletes' Careers NEWSWEEK – The Tokyo 2020 Olympics could cause a COVID superspreading event that risks ruining the careers of athletes if they experience long-lasting symptoms, experts have told Newsweek. On Saturday, July 17, an official became the first COVID case confirmed in the Olympic village, where 11,000 people are due to live for the games. This was followed on Sunday by the first competitors testing positive in the village, after two...

99.5% Of Texas Covid Dead Had One Thing In Common

TEXAS TRIBUNE – Of the 8,787 people who have died in Texas due to COVID-19 since early February, at least 43 were fully vaccinated, the Texas Department of State Health Services said. That means 99.5% of people who died due to COVID-19 in Texas from Feb. 8 to July 14 were unvaccinated, while 0.5% were the result of “breakthrough infections,” which DSHS defines as people who contracted the virus two weeks after being fully vaccinated. The...

Dying Patients Regret Vaccine Choice

AL.COM – Dr. Brytney Cobia said Monday that all but one of her COVID patients in Alabama did not receive the vaccine. The vaccinated patient, she said, just needed a little oxygen and is expected to fully recover. Some of the others are dying. Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, wrote in an emotional Facebook post Sunday: “I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections. One of the...

Why Aren’t The Vaccines Approved?

The F.D.A. is encouraging people to get a Covid-19 shot — but hasn’t formally approved those vaccines. New York Times – It is the most discordant part of the U.S. government’s response to Covid-19. Even as President Biden, the C.D.C. and virtually the entire scientific community are urging — pleading with, even — Americans to get vaccinated, the government has not formally approved any vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration has instead given only “emergency use authorization”...

Japan’s People, Doctors Want No Part Of Olympics

TOKYO (AP) — Over and over, year after year, the stewards of the Olympics say it: The Games aren't supposed to be political. But how do you avoid politics when you're trying to pull off an event of this complexity during a lethal and protracted pandemic? Consider: The Japanese medical community largely opposes these Olympics; the government’s main medical adviser, Dr. Shigeru Omi, has said it’s “abnormal” to hold them during a pandemic. Medical journals...

Man With Covid Dresses As Muslim Woman, Fools Airport Security

Coronavirus cases are rising rapidly across Indonesia. The fourth most populous country in the world is currently Asia's hotspot for the disease, and many of the newest cases are confirmed to be the deadly Delta variant.

Covid: Biggest Killer Since World War II?

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 COVID-19 pandemic, which health officials said is responsible for close to 74% of the overall life...

Reassuring Data on the Delta Variant

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | OPINION – You read the same alarming headlines every few months, now with Greek letters. As the virus that causes Covid-19 evolves and mutates, the same concerns pop up about whether the variant evades vaccines, makes people sicker than the old versions, and increases transmissibility. What we know about the Delta variant is reassuring. One of the most important questions is whether vaccines are still working well. The best way...

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