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Michigan Police Chase Emu

Police in Michigan said they ended up in an unusual chase when a call initially thought to be a joke led to finding a loose emu wandering around town.

The Shepherd Police Department said in a Facebook post that officers initially suspected they were being pranked when the call came in from Isabella County Central Dispatch about an “escaped feathered animal” on the loose in the village.

Officers who arrived on the scene were surprised to see the wandering emu, a large, flightless bird native to Australia.

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https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/09/01/Sheperd-Police-Department-Michigan-loose-emu/7301630511995/

Quebec’s Vaccine Passport Implemented, Unvaccinated in Prison State

Starting today, proof of vaccination will be as much of a daily necessity in Quebec when leaving the house as a wallet or house keys.

Dubbed the COVID-19 vaccination passport, digital or paper documentation will be required to take part in much of public life, from having a beer to playing badminton.

Other provinces — including British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario — are poised to implement their own systems in the days and weeks to come.

In Quebec, the list of non-essential activities prohibited to those without a vaccine is wide-ranging: restaurants, movie theatres, gyms, team sports and indoor pools are all now off limits to those who aren’t adequately vaccinated, or granted a rare exemption for medical reasons. (A full list of places and activities where the passport applies is available here.)

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-vaccine-passport-starts-1.6159926

12 Indiana Children TOTAL Have Died From COVID-19

To date, in Indiana, there have been a total of TWELVE reported COVID-19 deaths in people 19 and under (explore the dataset for yourself). The dataset does not reveal how many, if any, of those deaths were in people 18 or 19 years old. This equates to 0.1% of COVID-19 deaths in Indiana.

Due to Indiana State Department of Health reporting with this dataset, we do not know what co-morbidities, if any, that they had. Nor do we know their vaccination status.

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https://indianachronicle.com/12-indiana-children-total-have-died-from-covid-19-august-2021/

Stainless Steel Found in Moderna COVID-19 Doses

Moderna Inc and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd on Wednesday said they are working with Japanese authorities to recall three batches of COVID-19 vaccine after an investigation found stainless steel contaminants in some vials.

Japanese authorities had suspended use of these batches of Moderna shots containing 1.63 million doses last week after being notified of the contamination issue.

Japan’s health ministry said on Wednesday, based on information from the companies’ investigation, that it did not believe the particles of stainless steel pose any additional health risk.

Moderna said the stainless steel contamination probably occurred during production.

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https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/japan-finds-stainless-steel-particles-suspended-doses-moderna-vaccine-2021-09-01/

Taliban Show Off United States Military Plunder

The Taliban on Wednesday paraded some of the military hardware they captured during their takeover of Afghanistan, as a team from Qatar landed at the trashed airport in Kabul — a first step towards getting the facility back up and running as a lifeline for aid.

The Qatar Airways flight, the first to land at Hamid Karzai International Airport since the US withdrew all troops from Afghanistan late Monday, brought a team of technical experts to work on the airport, a source close to the matter told AFP.

Talks are ongoing on who will now run the airport, just one of the many daunting challenges facing the Taliban as they transition from insurgent group to governing power.

In footage posted on a pro-Taliban account of the build-up to the parade, a helicopter flew overhead trailing the Taliban’s standard as fighters wrapped in headscarves waved beneath.

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https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/taliban-parade-as-biden-defends-us-pullout/news-story/9a7e3dce6ae640064f6193a466f4bd61