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Texas Poll Worker Dead; Got Covid During Early Voting

Nexstar Media Wire | Dec 7, 2020 | KXAN – Patricia Perez spent more than a month in an Austin ICU fighting COVID-19, but early last week her family was notified that the end was near. Her five adult children gathered at St. David’s Medical Center to receive the devastating news from doctors: she was not expected to make it through the night. The update did not come as a surprise. The previous weekend, on Patricia’s 70th...

Pastor Reacts To Fire At Historic NY Church

"God is God, yesterday, today, and tomorrow." Predawn fire guts old church housing New York's Liberty Bell NEW YORK (AP) — A historic church in lower Manhattan that houses New York's Liberty Bell and whose congregation dates to the city's earliest days was gutted by a massive fire early Saturday that sent flames shooting through the roof. The Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village burned before dawn after a fire spread from a five-story vacant building...

Truck Drivers Want To Be First In Line For Covid Vaccine

Truck drivers could be among first to get COVID vaccine Nov 30, 2020 TTNews – Truck drivers and other workers in critical and essential jobs could be among the earliest people to receive COVID-19 vaccinations as several major pharmaceutical companies begin working with large transportation firms to deliver the vaccines. Distribution efforts, dubbed Operation Warp Speed, could start as early as mid-December, according to a committee within the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As...

Longtime Confidante Says Clinton Visited Epstein’s Island, Likens Bill’s World To A ‘Cult’

Dec 2, 2020 Fox News – Doug Band, who served as Clinton's right-hand man for years after he left the White House, told Vanity Fair the 42nd president visited Little St. James, the Caribbean island where Epstein allegedly trafficked underage victims. Clinton has denied visiting Epstein's island, and a spokesperson provided the outlet with "detailed travelogue entries of the period in question that did not contain a visit." Epstein's death last year sent shockwaves through the media...

This Body Part May Show First Signs Of Domestic Abuse

PLUS: He “poured lighter fuel on her genital area and lit her on fire” This injury a possible sign of domestic violence | Nov. 30, 2020 | HealthDay News – As many as one-third of adult women who have a particular fracture to their forearms may be victims of intimate partner violence, according to a new study. The findings underscore the need to screen women who receive fractures to their ulna for possible intimate partner violence, researchers said. That...

When Alzheimer’s Patients Get Lost

Understand wandering and how to address it Nov 30, 2020 Mayo Clinic – Wandering and becoming lost is common among people with Alzheimer's disease or other disorders causing dementia. This behavior can happen in the early stages of dementia — even if the person has never wandered in the past. If a person with dementia is returning from regular walks or drives later than usual or is forgetting how to get to familiar places, he or she...

Biden Breaks Foot Playing With Dog

Nov 29, 2020 Wilmington, Del. (AP) – Joe Biden fractured his right foot while playing with one of his dogs, an injury discovered in a scan Sunday and that will likely require him to wear a boot for several weeks, his doctor said. Biden suffered the injury on Saturday and visited an orthopedist in Newark, Delaware, on Sunday afternoon, his office said. "Initial x-rays did not show any obvious fracture," but medical staff ordered a more detailed...

Tragic COVID-19 Complications No One Expected

They had coronavirus. Now they’re showing up at memory clinics with serious cognitive loss | Nov 24, 2020 | NJ.com – There’s the man who used to be so handy around the house, he could repair just about anything. “But he had a problem with the fence, and he had to call his brother over to help fix it,” says Dr. Jacqueline Rondeau, director of the Montclair Memory Clinic. And there’s the registered nurse whose memory is suddenly failing...

Female Genital Amputation Ban Advances

"In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control published a report estimating that 513,000 girls and women in the U.S. were at risk or may have been victimized by FGM/C." Washington, September 21, 2020 U.S. Representative Scott Perry (PA-10) applauded the passage of legislation in the House that changed our criminal code to ensure the successful future prosecution of those who perpetrate Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C). Congressman Scott Perry said: “FGM/C is an especially heinous practice that...

True COVID-19 Infection Rate Is 6.2 Times Higher Than Official Tallies: Report

"Despite an overall improvement in detection rates as the pandemic has progressed, our estimates showed that the true number of people to have been infected across our sample of 15 countries was 6.2 times greater than the reported number." Australian study suggests true COVID-19 rate is far higher than official tallies If the pool of infected people is indeed that much larger, this would reduce the fatality rate to one death per 263 cases, or 0.38...

Wife-Beating Surges, Feminists Stage Topless Protest

"Too often women are offended, mistreated, raped and forced to prostitute themselves ... If we want a better world, a home of peace and not a courtyard of war, we all must do much more for the dignity of each woman." – Pope Francis Nov 25, 2020 PARIS (AP) — With domestic violence on the rise amid the coronavirus pandemic, activists are holding protests Wednesday from France to Turkey and world dignitaries are trying to find ways...

Bear Invites Himself To Dinner [VIDEO]

Roving Bear Helps Himself to a Late Night Snack TV.RING.COM – When Evan woke up to half-eaten decorations on his doorstep, he checked his Ring App to see what happened. Did This Bear Really Just Do That? When Dennis saw his truck door was open, he quickly checked the Ring App to see what happened. Bear Steals Chocolate from Porch Keep a beary close eye on packages this season with Ring. RECENTLY ON HEADLINE HEALTH: Moose Lick Your Car? Bad Idea Bears...

Expect Huge Influenza Rebound When COVID-19 Ends

Watch for large, delayed outbreaks of endemic diseases following COVID-19 controls | Nov. 9, 2020 High Meadows Environmental Institute – Social distancing and mask wearing to reduce the spread of COVID-19 have also protected against many other diseases, including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). But susceptibility to those other diseases could be increasing, resulting in large outbreaks when masking and distancing stop, say a team of Princeton University researchers. Measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 through...

“Chronic Fatigue” Diagnosis Exposed As Hoax

Have you been told you have 'chronic fatigue syndrome'? You may be the target of those seeking to profit from hoax treatments ... Proposed guidelines reject useless chronic fatigue syndrome treatments Nov 17, 2020 STAT News – For years, the prevailing “wisdom” about people diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome was they were just terribly out of shape and harbored irrational fears they had an organic illness. The favored treatments were graded exercise therapy, designed to counter the...

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