- Two prominent anti-maskers died over the weekend due to Covid-19, the latest casualties among a number of anti-mask and anti-vaccine crusaders who have died or been hospitalized due to the virus. Florida Conservative radio show Marc Bernier died Saturday night. Earlier in the day, prominent masked opponent Caleb Wallace also died after taking Covid-19. He was 30 years old while Bernier was 65 years old.
- As Western countries prepare to launch a booster against the Covid-19 vaccine, a worrying new variant, C.1.2, has appeared across South Africa and seven other countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, researchers say. . While they aren’t sure if their constellation of mutations will make it more dangerous, it entails changes that have given other variants greater transmissibility and the ability to evade the immune system’s response to some extent. This comes weeks after the World Health Organization warned that if manufacturers prioritize the supply of booster shots in richer nations, this will lead to greater vaccine inequity and provide opportunities for the virus to mutate to the rest. Of the world.
- Two people have died in Japan days after receiving doses of a batch of Modern Covid-19 vaccines whose use was suspended last week after concerns about the risk of contamination, the Ministry of Health, Labor said on Saturday and Welfare of the country. According to the ministry and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, which distributes the Modern vaccine in Japan, no causal link has yet been established between the vaccine and the deaths.
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Q: What is the risk of eating inside if you are completely vaccinated?
Also, who do you eat with? If it is known that everyone in your party is completely vaccinated and these are the only people who will be close to you, this is a safer scenario than if members of your own party are not vaccinated. Wen said he would also analyze the rate of virus transmission in your community. The lower the rate, the more potentially secure it will be.
READINGS OF THE WEEK
The U.S. intelligence community review does not determine the origin of Covid-19
The intelligence community is still divided on which of the two theories, that the virus came from a lab leak or that jumped from animals to humans naturally, is likely to be correct. But there is consensus among intelligence agencies that the two dominant theories are plausible. In a statement, Biden criticized China for its lack of transparency to aid the investigation, and the intelligence community said China’s cooperation would probably be needed to reach a more definitive conclusion.
Delta outbreak tests New Zealand’s Covid zero strategy, but lockout has broad support at home
This split was shown last week when New Zealand was shut down by a single Delta case, prompting British critics to mock the country’s risk-averse approach. Despite what critics said, many in New Zealand continue to support the government’s approach to Covid-19.
The absurd and wrong theories about ivermectin
His claim adds to a growing misinformation around the drug, also given to horses and cows that have worms, which has led to an increase in people trying to get their hands on it. Last week, the CDC sent out health advice warning against the use of the antiparasitic drug for Covid-19 amid an increase in calls to the poison center.
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The Covid pandemic highlights mental health problems among men
The pandemic has increased the sense of isolation that many men around the world already felt. According to the 2019 analysis in the American Journal of Men’s Health, men are much less likely than women to seek help when they feel low. And the stark data from the CDC shows that American men die by suicide at a rate three and a half times faster than women. (Although women were more likely to attempt suicide, according to these data).