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Biden's vaccinate-or-test mandate faces problems with understaffed enforcement agency

Tue, 2021-10-12 10:18 — mike kraft

Name, shame and fine: How the Biden administration could enforce its vaccine mandate The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was already a strained agency before the president announced the new requirement. NBC News

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UK report says country's slow COVID lockdown cost thousands of lives

Tue, 2021-10-12 10:01 — mike kraft

Report says UK’s slow virus lockdown cost 1000s of lives

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s failure to impose a lockdown in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic cost thousands of unnecessary deaths and ranks among the country’s worst public health blunders, lawmakers concluded Tuesday in the nation’s first comprehensive report on the pandemic.

The deadly delay derived from the failure of British government ministers to question the recommendations of scientific advisers, resulting in a dangerous level of “groupthink” that caused them to dismiss the more aggressive strategies adopted in East and Southeast Asia to limit infections, the report said. ...

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Booster Shots Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Their Shots

Tue, 2021-10-12 09:43 — mike kraft

Vaccinated people have been burning up the phone lines at the community health center in rural Franklin, La., clamoring for the newly authorized Covid booster shot.

But only a trickle of people have been coming in for their initial doses, even though the rate of full vaccination in the area is still scarcely 39 percent.

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Vaccines cut the risk of severe COVID-19 by at least 90% in a huge real-world French study of 23 million people

Tue, 2021-10-12 09:30 — mike kraft

Vaccines cut the risk of severe COVID-19 by at least 90% in a huge real-world study of 23 million people Real-world data from France shows COVID-19 vaccines give strong protection that lasts at least five months in people over 50. Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce YahooNews

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Rates of depression and anxiety climbed 25% across the globe in 2020, analysis finds

Mon, 2021-10-11 20:13 — mike kraft

Rates of depression and anxiety climbed across the globe in 2020 Researchers analyzed data from dozens of studies and found that rates of depression and anxiety climbed by more than 25% worldwide in 2020. Theresa Gaffney STAT

Rates of depression and anxiety climbed globally by more than 25% in 2020, a devastating ripple effect of the Covid-19 pandemic that has particularly affected women and young people, according to a new study.

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California coronavirus accumilative death count tops 70,000 as new cases fall to lowest national rate

Mon, 2021-10-11 19:59 — mike kraft

California coronavirus death count tops 70,000 as cases fall SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's coronavirus death toll reached another once-unfathomable milestone — 70,000 people — on Monday as the state emerges from the latest infection surge with the lowest rate of new cases among all states. AP NEWS

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Texas governor Abbott bars all vaccine mandates in state

Mon, 2021-10-11 19:51 — mike kraft

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans any COVID-19 vaccine mandates — including… Abbott also called on the Legislature to pass a law banning the expanded vaccine mandates. Rebekah Allen The Texas Tribune

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday issued another executive order cracking down on COVID-19 vaccine mandates — this time banning any entity in Texas, including private businesses, from requiring vaccinations for employees or customers.

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