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Half of Australia Back in Lockdown as Delta Tests Covid-Zero
Bloomberg
Half of Australia’s population is back in lockdown after South Australia state joined Victoria and New South Wales in ordering residents to stay at home as the delta variant leaks across the country.
South Australia later Tuesday will impose Australia’s strictest lockdown since the start of the pandemic after recording two new cases in the community. Residents must stay within 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) of their homes and comply with a 6p.m. curfew as part of the draconian measures introduced to halt an outbreak seeded from a returned traveler.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-19/australia-s-victoria-virus-cases-steady-ahead-of-extended-curbs
Facebook will let users become ‘experts’ to cut down on misinformation – It’s another attempt to avoid responsibility for harmful content
Insider
- Facebook will let people in groups become experts, whose posts will be amplified.
- The idea is to designate “knowledgeable experts” who can serve as authoritative voices.
- But the move is another way Facebook is skirting responsibility for what is posted on its site.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-groups-experts-tools-content-moderation-misinformation-responsibility-2021-7
Dr. Scott Gottlieb urges social media platforms to curb Covid vaccine misinformation
CNBC
Key Points
- Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Monday that social media giants are falling short of their responsibility to regulate the spread of coronavirus vaccine misinformation on their platforms.
- “I do think that they have an affirmative responsibility here, and in some cases they’re not doing it,” the former FDA chief, who serves on the board of Covid-19 vaccine maker Pfizer, said.
- Gottlieb’s comments came hours before President Joe Biden walked back some of his prior statement criticizing social platforms like Facebook for hosting deadly Covid vaccine misinformation on their services.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/scott-gottlieb-social-media-must-act-to-curb-covid-vaccine-misinformation.html
DeSantis vows to take cruise ship battle with CDC to Supreme Court
Axios
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) vowed Monday to appeal a court ruling in favor of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention restrictions on cruise ships.
Why it matters: The cruise industry is worth billions of dollars for Florida’s economy and DeSantis filed a lawsuit against the CDC last April in an effort to see normal operations resume.
Of note: DeSantis succeeded in winning an injunction, but a federal appeals court ruled Saturday that the CDC regulations should remain in place.
What he’s saying: “We are absolutely going to pursue to get the stay removed, either at the full 11th Circuit or at the U.S. Supreme Court,” DeSantis said at a news conference Monday.
- “I’m confident that we’d win on the merits, at the full 11th Circuit and, honestly, I’m confident we’d win at the US Supreme Court.”
READ ARTICLE HERE > https://www.axios.com/desantis-ruise-ships-cdc-fight-florida-36ec297d-5c30-43e9-9b03-afac4db6b329.html
Illinois college boards suggest schools require vaccination
AP
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Two state agencies that oversee higher education in Illinois on Monday encouraged colleges and universities to require COVID-19 vaccinations of students heading to campuses this fall.
The Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board made the recommendation, which they say follows recently released guidance from the Centers for Disease Control. The state agencies contend the guidance will help facilitate the safe transition back to campus, as more students return to in-person learning.
The oversight agencies’ recommendation came on the same day a federal judge ruled Indiana University can require its students and employees to get vaccinated before returning to campus for fall classes. Students who don’t comply will have their registration canceled and workers who don’t will lose their jobs.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://apnews.com/article/health-education-coronavirus-pandemic-illinois-9d77b287cf44e5fb601ce0d37f203cd1
College student denied admission to dream school despite vaccine exemption for medical history
FOX News
Incoming college freshman Olivia Sandor was denied admission into her dream institution, BYU Hawaii, after requesting to be exempt from taking the COVID-19 vaccine due to her high-risk medical history.
Sandor, whose doctor reportedly wrote an exemption letter — made public by Turning Point USA — on her behalf, shared her story on “Hannity” Monday. She explained how, after being given a vaccine back in 2019, she was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome – which left her paralyzed from the waist down for more than a month.
After receiving word that BYU would be requiring all students to be vaccinated, Sandor’s team of medical providers advised her against being injected with the non-FDA-approved coronavirus vaccine and wrote her a letter of exemption.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.foxnews.com/media/college-student-denied-admission-to-dream-school-despite-vaccine-exemption-for-medical-history
De Blasio rejects calls for reinstating NYC indoor mask mandate despite COVID infection rate ticking up [Instead, he called for more vaccination efforts throughout the five boroughs]
Daily News
Mayor de Blasio balked at the idea of reinstating an indoor face mask mandate in the city on Monday even though COVID-19 infections are ticking back up. Instead, he called for more vaccination efforts throughout the five boroughs.
“Masks have value, unquestionably, but masks are not going at the root of the problem. Vaccination is,” the mayor said during a live-streamed press briefing. “So we do not intend a mask mandate. We do intend to double down on vaccination.”
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-covid-de-blasio-mask-mandate-20210719-ww6oomlk2ffgpj4pwkfsmlgl6q-story.html
Anthony Fauci Tells Anti-Vaxxers to Sit Down and STFU as COVID Cases Surge
Vanity Fair
One of the most frustrating aspects of many conservatives’ refusal to follow the advice of health experts when it comes to COVID-19 is that they don’t want to wear masks or social distance, they’re demanding that life go back to normal, and yet they won’t do the most important thing when it comes to putting the pandemic behind us, i.e. get the damn vaccine. So, you’ll have to excuse Anthony Fauci (and the rest of the Joe Biden administration) if they’re at-the-end-their-ropes piqued with what we would never dare call, but someone slightly less decorous might, these selfish mother-f–king idiots.
Appearing on CNN on Saturday—one day after Biden said social media companies like Facebook are “killing” people by allowing vaccine misinformation to spread, a critique he later clarified by saying he meant that about a dozen of Facebook’s users are killing people with misinformation—Fauci said if the world had had to deal with these anti-science pundits in years past, it never would’ve made it out alive. Asked by Jim Acosta if he thought “we could have defeated the measles or eradicated polio if you had Fox News, night after night, warning people about these vaccine issues that are just bunk,” Fauci responded, “We probably would still have smallpox, and we probably would still have polio in this country if we had the kind of false information that’s being spread now.”
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/anthony-fauci-coronavirus-vaccine-polio-measles
The 4 retail stores you probably shop at that use facial-recognition technology
Insider
Retail stores across the country are using facial recognition systems in their stores, leading to pushback by groups who say the technology is an invasion of privacy, Axios reported on Monday.
Last week, Fight for the Future launched an advocacy campaign against companies using facial recognition, which is often used for security purposes. The software can scan and store the faces of employees and customers — usually with the goal of preventing shoplifting and fraud.
“Your face should not be scanned, stored, or sold just because you walk into or work at a store,” Fight for the Future wrote. “Retailers across the country that are exploring this invasive technology should know that prioritizing profit over privacy is wrong.”
Proponents of the technology said facial images are not linked to personal data and that the systems can lead to improved shopping experiences, such as contactless payments. The pandemic increased its adoption by retailers as a way to help manage stores with fewer employees, Axios reported.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.businessinsider.com/retail-stores-that-use-facial-recognition-technology-macys-2021-7?fbclid=IwAR2Qeiu_3QCvuAGl3vldXMw591C1MKQeQhW4ae30KEwjnm4-9fwJ7D1LfNA
American Academy of Pediatrics recommends masks in schools for everyone over 2, regardless of vaccinations
CNN News
The American Academy of Pediatrics released new Covid-19 guidance for schools on Monday that supports in-person learning and recommends universal masking in school of everyone over the age of 2, regardless of vaccination status — a stricter position than that taken this month by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The AAP believes that, at this point in the pandemic, given what we know about low rates of in-school transmission when proper prevention measures are used, together with the availability of effective vaccines for those age 12 years and up, that the benefits of in-person school outweigh the risks in all circumstances,” the guidance says.
One of the main interventions put forward by the AAP is that all students over the age of 2 and all school staff should wear masks at school unless they have a medical or developmental condition that prohibits this.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/19/us/aap-open-schools-covid/index.html
Vaccine mandates more likely once FDA grants full approvals, health experts say
NBC News
The regulatory signoff would remove a significant legal and public relations barrier to requirements, former government officials said.
By Shannon Pettypiece
WASHINGTON — The United States could see a wave of Covid-19 vaccine mandates as soon as the Food and Drug Administration grants full approval to one or more of the shots, public health experts predicted.
The three vaccines authorized by the FDA for emergency use against the coronavirus have proven safe and effective under that expedited review process and in the real world, and doctors and the nation’s top public health officials have said there’s no need for anyone to wait to get inoculated.
But as the pace of vaccinations lags and concerns about the highly-contagious delta variant grow, the official regulatory signoff would remove a significant legal and public relations barrier for businesses and government agencies that want to require vaccinations for their employees and customers, former health officials from the Biden and the Obama administrations said.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/vaccine-mandates-more-likely-once-fda-grants-full-approvals-health-n1274288
[MSM] A COVID vaccine for kids: Clinical trial leader explains efforts, importance
Medical Xpress
More than half a year has passed since the first vaccine for COVID-19 was given emergency authorization, and almost half the United States has protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus as a result. Yet children under the age of 12, for whom the vaccines haven’t yet been authorized, have been unable to take advantage. https://a350d8a0fe97183d64a6b54c8eaacf11.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html#xpc=sf-gdn-exp-1&p=https%3A//medicalxpress.com
Vaccine makers have been working to make their products available to younger patients, launching clinical trials to evaluate whether the vaccines can safely and effectively protect children as young as six months.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-07-covid-vaccine-kids-clinical-trial.html
Children WON’T routinely be given Covid vaccines: Only 370,000 over-12s with severe disabilities or who live with vulnerable adults will get jabs, health chiefs say
Daily Mail
- Over-12s who are vulnerable, or live with at-risk adults, will be offered a vaccine
- But the JCVI said the evidence does not yet support jabbing all children
- Scientists expect more than 90 per cent of the new group to get the injection
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9803013/Only-vulnerable-children-12-live-vulnerable-adults-Covid-vaccines-now.html
CDC vaccine committee to discuss COVID-19 booster doses for immunocompromised people this week
Market Watch
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s influential vaccine advisory committee plans to meet Thursday to discuss the new safety warning for Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ, +0.94% COVID-19 vaccine and whether immunocompromised people will need a booster dose of a COVID-19 shot. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has met several times during the pandemic to discuss COVID-19 vaccines. The meeting will be webcast.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cdc-vaccine-committee-to-discuss-covid-19-booster-doses-for-immunocompromised-people-2021-07-15
Drugmakers Testing New mRNA Vaccines, Despite Evidence of ‘Serious Danger’
Story at-a-glance:
- Despite evidence of serious danger, a number of mRNA “vaccines” are in the pipeline. Among them is a COVID-flu RNA vaccine combo, which is currently being tested on ferrets, and several different mRNA seasonal influenza vaccines, which have already entered human trials.
- Companies currently testing mRNA flu “vaccines” on human subjects include Moderna, Sanofi and Translate Bio. Pfizer/BioNTech is also pursuing plans for an mRNA flu shot.
- Influenza vaccination confers narrow immunity against a specific viral strain or strains, leaving your body open to other viruses. The mRNA shots confer even more specific immunity, as your body is responding to the antigen alone rather than the whole virus.
- Pfizer plans to ask for EUA authorization for a third COVID booster shot in August, citing evidence of waning immunity.
- Researchers are working on transmissible vaccines to control viral reservoirs and diminish possibility of spillover. Are human transmissible vaccines next?
Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff to Mexican immigrant: Vaccine is the only thing that will prevent you ‘from dying’
Natural News
The Second Gentleman of the United States is terrifying immigrants to make them get the COVID vaccine. Douglas Emhoff pressured a native-Spanish speaker into a publicity stunt to help his wife’s administration achieve its vaccination goals. A Mexican immigrant was given a vaccine after the heavy-handed arm twisting by Emhoff.
(Article by Emily Miller republished from EmilyPostNews.com)
On Wednesday, Emhoff was at a mobile vaccination site at the Broadmoor Community Church in New Orleans. Emhoff has been touring the country this summer to help promote the political vaccinae goals of his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Pres. Joe Biden.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-20-second-gentleman-douglas-emhoff-to-mexican-immigrant-vaccine-is-the-only-thing-that-will-prevent-you-from-dying.html
[MSM] California X-ray tech who died shortly after COVID-19 shot was killed by heart disease, coroner’s report says
FOX News
An X-ray technician in California whose January death was under investigation as his family suggested a possible link to his second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine died due to heart disease, a coroner’s report concluded. Tim Zook, 60, died of hypertensive and atherosclerotic heart disease with severe cardiomegaly and heart failure, according to his autopsy report.
The report did not mention a COVID-19 vaccine and said he died at UC Irvine Medical Center.
At the time of his death, Zook’s widow, Rochelle, told local news outlets that her husband “believed in vaccines” and was “sure he would take that vaccine again, and he’d want the public to take it,” but that she noticed his health went into a sharp decline after he received his second dose of the Pfizer shot.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.foxnews.com/health/california-x-ray-tech-died-heart-disease-covid-19-vaccine-coroners-report
Stay fresh in the wilderness with natural alternatives to personal hygiene products
Natural News
You may find yourself without a home and in the wilderness following a disaster or after SHTF.
Personal hygiene items are often taken for granted and overlooked by survivalists and preppers. But history tells us that more people have been killed by their own waste and the tiny microbes they harbor than all the wars put together.
Diseases and illnesses run rampant when a community’s infrastructure is destroyed. That’s why you should learn how to unlock and use the hygienic properties of plants when you get stranded in the wilderness. (Related: Wilderness survival skills that also work in an urban environment.)
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-20-natural-alternatives-to-personal-hygiene-products.html