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Glad they continue to investigate this serious issue: makes sense: I guess I prefer the vaccine using mRNA!
I was surprised to learn that CDC and NIH employees have been vaccinated at the same rate as the general population. I expected a larger percentage of those employees to be vaccinated.IMO
Fact Check-Fauci, Marks did not say 40% to 50% of CDC and FDA employees are ‘refusing the COVID-19 vaccine’
Around 1 hour and 40 minutes into the hearing, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina asked Fauci, Marks and Walensky what percentage of employees in their organizations had been already vaccinated ( youtu.be/qW8MF98wCgs?t=8421 ).
Regarding NIAID employees, Fauci responded: “You know I’m not 100% sure, Senator. But I think it’s probably a little bit more than half, probably around 60 percent”. Then Marks said that the number for FDA employees was “probably in the same range,” although he couldn’t “tell an exact number.”
The percentage mentioned by Fauci and Marks coincides with the nationwide trend in the United States, where around 60% of adults have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 37.8% of the entire population have been fully vaccinated, based on the CDC tracker here .
I spoke to a friend last week, who lives in Perth, Australia, where we have been very fortunate to not really have experienced the pandemic-only from afar. However, he has been planning to move to Scotland to retire and has begun the process of winding up his decades old business, and as of tax time(June) the business will cease to exist. Those plans have all been put on hold indefinitely. He said to me the other day that things are going to get worse...and I’m starting to think he’s right.
Understand the concern..... are we in US going up? Screenshot below of yesterday....
Variants, or expected increases due to the US opening up?
Dunno...
It’s not only reporters with ‘egg on their face’ but also entities like Facebook among others. They tried to shut down an entire conversation and those with a different opinion. Their critical thinking skills are lacking. IMO
ABC's chief White House reporter: A lot of reporters have 'egg on their face' over Wuhan lab-leak theory
ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl admitted that many reporters were wrong to dismiss former President Trump’s assertion that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory.
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New York Times writer David Leonhardt said it was a "mistake" for liberals and reporters to dismiss claims just because they came from Trump and Republicans like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.
Five-year-old Pratham and his 10-month-old brother Ayush lost their father to Covid in April. Days later, at a different Delhi hospital, they lost their mother.
Their world had changed and they didn't even know it.
Sonia, 12, and her brother Amit, 7, lost their father in the first wave of the pandemic in June last year and their mother in April this year.
Covid has devastated families across India, orphaning many children.
Smirti Irani, minister for women and child welfare, recently tweeted that both parents of at least 577 children had died with coronavirus between 1 April and 25 May. Experts say this number is likely a significant underestimate.
Coronavirus: The Indian children orphaned by Covid-19
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Australia’s Victoria COVID-19 cluster swells to 51, next few days ‘critical’
We are all watching the covid cluster in Melbourne. It is the Indian variant.
There are now three aged care people (one partially vaccinated resident, and 2 workers) who have covid. Over 280 potential contact places, which means thousands may have been exposed.
Their 7 day lockdown will likely be extended ... and despite closing our borders to them, all other states are watching their own populations closely in case any virus sneaked over the borders early.
Geez, I wish our vaccination programs were rolling along quickly!!!!
I hope this is the eye opener everyone here needs.
It’s not only reporters with ‘egg on their face’ but also entities like Facebook among others. They tried to shut down an entire conversation and those with a different opinion. Their critical thinking skills are lacking. IMO
ABC's chief White House reporter: A lot of reporters have 'egg on their face' over Wuhan lab-leak theory
ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl admitted that many reporters were wrong to dismiss former President Trump’s assertion that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory.
(Snip)
New York Times writer David Leonhardt said it was a "mistake" for liberals and reporters to dismiss claims just because they came from Trump and Republicans like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.
Here is how I see it: Trump did not merely suggest it was possible the lab was the origin of the virus: he said clearly IT WAS THE LAB, while he was calling Covid-19 " The China virus" in a very derogatory manner. He could have stated something like "we aren't sure at this point, it could be the lab, it could be the wet market but we are continuing to investigate"- his tone and attitude resulted in the Democrats and Liberals pushing back on what he was saying. At this point we don't know the origin of the virus and Trump didn't know either, but he spoke like it was a given, that the origin of the virus was the lab.
OMGBay County hair stylist made it hard to track P.1 variant in Michigan
Very interesting story about a person who refused to cooperate with officials to give contact information----remember this: they walk among us and they can be carrying the virus- and they don't care about anybody but themselves