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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday to prohibit any entity — including private businesses — from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers, and he called on state lawmakers to pass a similar ban into law.
Cal Dunham and his wife Linda, from Michigan, tragically succumbed to the virus on Sunday while holding hands.
The couple, who had undisclosed underlying health conditions, fell ill at the beginning of the month while on a family camping trip.
Sarah recalled her parents being very cautious toward Covid-19 and before the camping trip, they made sure to be fully vaccinated.
Days later, both Cal, 59, and Linda, 66, were hospitalized and put on ventilators.
But by Sunday, doctors in the told Sarah that there wasn’t much more that they could do and that her parents would need to come off of life support on Monday.
1. Vaccination does not necessarily prevent infection. (It may reduce symptoms.)
2. You can be “vaccinated” and still spread the disease. So there is no such thing as a “vaccine refuser being dangerous to others.”
3. There is no social benefit to the government mandating the shot other than fewer individuals getting sick (medical costs).
By Dr. Dannielle (Dossy) Blumenthal. All opinions are the author’s own. Public domain.
Microsoft is pushing off its return to offices in the US indefinitely amid rising cases of COVID-19 across the country.
“Given the uncertainty of COVID-19, we’ve decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening of our US work sites in favor of opening US work sites as soon as we’re able to do so safely based on public health guidance,” Microsoft’s corporate vice president for modern work, Jared Spataro, wrote in a blog post. He added that the company would communicate a 30-day transition period to allow employees time to prepare to return to work sites.
Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin will miss the opener against Louisville with a breakthrough case of COVID-19.
Kiffin announced the positive test on Saturday, two days ahead of the Rebels’ opener in Atlanta.
Kiffin, his staff and his players are all fully vaccinated. He said no other members of the team are expected to miss the game because of COVID-19.
“I am grateful to be vaccinated and experiencing only mild symptoms,” Kiffin said in a statement released on Twitter. “So much so, I debated over being tested, but I’m relieved that I did.”
Israel has become the COVID capital of the world despite leading the charge on vaccines, in a clear warning sign that Britain, the US and other highly-immunised nations are still vulnerable to another wave.
Stats compiled by Oxford University-backed research team Our World in Data shows there were a record 1,892 Covid cases per million people in Israel on Wednesday — nearly 0.2 per cent of the entire population in a single day.
That was significantly higher than second worst-hit Mongolia, where the rate was 1,119 per million, and double the figures for Kosovo (980), Georgia (976) and Montenegro (909), which rounded out the top five.
EO 21-24 was a bully move on the governor’s part as Eric Holcomb most certainly realized that the number of kids out of school WITHOUT COVID-19 due to contact tracing was far higher than the number of kids out of school who actually had/have COIVD-19.
Any educator in their right mind would do anything possible to ensure that school was disrupted as little as possible. Thus you get the mask requirement in place again. And that’s all on Eric Holcomb and Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box.
