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Hospital Workers Protest Vaccine Requirement

CHARLOTTE OBSERVER – Hundreds of Charlotte-area healthcare workers and supporters protested Sunday against Atrium Health’s new coronavirus vaccination policy. The protest from Freedom Park to Atrium Health - Main was organized to stand against the mandated vaccinations issued for Atrium Health employees. Atrium Health, one of the biggest healthcare systems in Charlotte, recently announced its employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The hospital system said there’s an urgent need for its employees to be fully vaccinated...

“The Damn Vaccine” – Dying Dad’s Last Words

LAS VEGAS (KVVU) - A family is mourning the loss of a husband and father after he died from COVID-19. “He was only 39; our babies now don’t have a dad,” Jessica DuPreez said through tears. “You can’t say, ‘I’m young, and it won’t affect me.’ Because it will.” Just two weeks ago, DuPreez said life was great. She was on vacation in San Diego with her fiancé Michael Freedy, known as “Big Mike” at the...

Tech Billionaire Plans Brain-Implanted Computer Chips

Neuralink has been seen to work in primates. In April, the company released a video of a macaque playing a videogame after having the chips implanted in its brain.

People Get This Wrong About HIPAA Privacy Rules

THE CONVERSATION – The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule is a federal law prohibiting health care providers, businesses and the people working with them – including administrative staff, laboratories, pharmacies, health insurers and so on – from disclosing your health information without your permission. When people talk about HIPAA, they typically refer to the Privacy Rule provision established in 2003, which is just one part of a broader law initially passed by...

Former Trump Health Official Urges Americans To Get Vaccinated

If you aren't vaccinated and haven't had COVID, you will get Delta variant: Brett Giroir

People Of Faith Are Finally Embracing Vaccines

CHRISTIANITY TODAY – Americans with a faith are becoming increasingly accepting of the Covid-19 vaccine, research has found. The study by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) found that acceptance was up and hesitation down across nearly all religous and demographic subgroups in the US since March. Researchers attribute the shift to faith-based approaches encouraging people in the faith community to get vaccinated. The study looked at the views of 5,123 adults...

Woman “Mis-Hears” Bungee Instructor, Plunges To Her Death

NEW YORK POST – A Colombian bungee-jumper plummeted to her death after a communications mishap. “She got confused,” Gustavo Guzmán, the mayor of Fredonia, told El Tiempo of the freak accident, which occurred in northern Colombia. First-time jumper Yecenia Morales, 25, and her unnamed boyfriend had traveled to the Amagá viaduct — a popular bungee spot — on an excursion organized by local company Sky Bungee Jumping. The two lovebirds were reportedly the 90th jumpers of...

Mask Sales Rise 24% As Delta Variant Spreads

NEW YORK — A spot check of U.S. stores and other data sources shows mask sales are rising again amid concerns about surging coronavirus cases from the delta variant. Retail analysts expect mask sales will increase further after The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week recommended vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the cases are surging. Sales of masks rose 24% for the week ending Tuesday,...

Ex-Cardinal Charged With Sexually Assaulting Boy

BOSTON (AP) — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in the 1970s, court records show. Court documents obtained by The Boston Globe show that McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14. McCarrick is the first cardinal in the U.S....

People Are Wearing Disguises To Vaccine Appointments

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS – As Missouri’s public officials feud over mask mandates, and COVID cases and deaths surge, anti-vaxxers – of which there are many in the state, given its 50% full-vaccination rate – are resorting to sneaking around in disguises to get shots, according to one doctor. Dr. Priscilla Frase is a hospitalist and chief medical information officer at Ozarks Healthcare. She said in a video the health care facility posted to Facebook: “I...

Covid Cases Skyrocket In Kansas

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Kansas has managed to travel backward in pandemic time. Suddenly, it’s February again. Except this time, the state faces a version of COVID-19 that’s twice as contagious. The delta variant is plowing through a lightly vaccinated population, and multiplying fast. In mid-June, Kansas saw hundreds of new cases a week. Now, there are thousands of new cases per week. That’s why time really matters. Say you get a shot of Pfizer tomorrow,...

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...

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