50 retired nuns, including a 100-year-old sister, get coronavirus vaccines – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Monterey Park Hospital nurse Liliana Ocampo gives Sister Virginia Stehly her second COVID-19 vaccine at the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet independent living center in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 during a pop-up vaccination clinic. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The Boys & Girls Clubs of the West San Gabriel Valley, in partnership with Monterey Park Hospital AHMC, coordinated coronavirus vaccinations for more than 50 retired nuns at the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet independent living center.

The club’s RV rolled up in front of the center to administer the second Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to residents at the center, not far from Los Angeles’ Historic Koreatown. The sisters range in age from 65 to 100 years old.

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the club recently turned its RV into a mobile pop-up vaccination clinic on wheels, perfect for such missions of pandemic mercy.

Source: 50 retired nuns, including a 100-year-old sister, get coronavirus vaccines – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Ruling Party Official Suffers Grisly Torture Death in Myanmar’s Yangon Amid Violent Raids — Radio Free Asia

The bloodied body of a National League for Democracy local chairman was returned to his family Sunday, a day after he was taken away in a series of violent house-to-house raids on residences in Yangon, Myanmar’s second-largest city and tortured, witnesses and local media reports said.

As protests rejecting the Feb. 1 military coup that deposed Aung San Suu Kyi and her NLD government raged on in major cities despite shootings and beatings, video shared on social media showed police raiding homes of politicians late Saturday with guns blazing, while witnesses said police were beating and arresting those on the scene.

Khin Maung Latt, 58, the NLD chairman in Yangon’s outlying Pabedan township, was taken away by the army and police Saturday night and the next day local police told his family he was dead.

The Irrawaddy online news outlet quoted Tun Kyi of the Former Political Prisoners Society, as saying that Khin Maung Latt was tortured to death. Tun Yi helped the family arrange his funeral Sunday evening, the report said.

The Irrawaddy also reported that two people, including the local chair of the ousted NLD in the central region of Magway were hacked to death Friday by members of the military-aligned Union Solidarity and Development Party. The army-proxy USDP is at the center of the unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in last November’s polls that the military cited as the reason for the coup last month.

According to RFA’s tally of verified protest deaths, at least 54 people had died in the protest crackdown and related police brutality.

Source: Ruling Party Official Suffers Grisly Torture Death in Myanmar’s Yangon Amid Violent Raids — Radio Free Asia

Myanmar: Thousands rally after overnight raids | News | DW | 07.03.2021

Thousands of Myanmar anti-coup demonstrators defied a military crackdown on Sunday, following overnight raids in Yangon which saw soldiers detain an official from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party along with several others.

Meanwhile, police in Myanmar’s ancient former capital, Bagan, opened fire on demonstrators, wounding several people. At least five people were reported injured as police sought to break up the Bagan protest, while photos showed one person with bloody wounds on his chin and neck, believed to have been caused by a rubber bullet. 

Bullet casings collected at the scene indicated that live rounds were also fired.

Source: Myanmar: Thousands rally after overnight raids | News | DW | 07.03.2021

Premature Reopening Could Bring Another COVID Catastrophe, Fauci Warns – Mother Jones

  On Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, echoed a warning that rolling back public health restrictions on mask-wearing and mass gatherings too quickly could lead to a spike in COVID cases as the nation races to vaccinate millions of people each day and a more contagious and potentially dangerous COVID variant spreads throughout the United States.

As of Sunday, the United States reported, on average, 60,000 new COVID cases and 2,000 deaths per day. Although the numbers have declined in recent weeks, the decline seems to be leveling off too early. “Historically if you look at the different surges, plateauing at a level of 60,000 to 70,000 cases per day is not an acceptable level,” Fauci said. He pointed to a disturbing trend in Europe, where cases have increased 9 percent in the last week after a plateau.

Source: Premature Reopening Could Bring Another COVID Catastrophe, Fauci Warns – Mother Jones

Clyburn: Allowing filibuster to be used to deny voting rights would be ‘catastrophic’ | TheHill

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said in a new interview that allowing the filibuster to be used to deny voting rights would be “catastrophic” as a sweeping elections bill awaits consideration in the Senate.

“There’s no way under the sun that in 2021 that we are going to allow the filibuster to be used to deny voting rights. That just ain’t gonna happen. That would be catastrophic,” Clyburn told The Guardian in an interview published Sunday, just days after the House voted largely along party lines to pass H.R. 1, also known as the For The People Act.

Clyburn clarified that he was not “going to say that you must get rid of the filibuster” but said the party “would do well to develop a Manchin-Sinema rule on getting around the filibuster as it relates to race and civil rights.”

Source: Clyburn: Allowing filibuster to be used to deny voting rights would be ‘catastrophic’ | TheHill

Andrew Marr show: ‘We have to prepare for hard winter says Dr Hopkins – BBC News

(Ned – Seems she has not been reading the news – flu seasons in US and Australia, as well as England this past winter have been nil due to many people masking up, washing hands, and physically distancing. Kids, the biggest transmitters of flu, not in school, as well. Want fewer missed work days and people dying from flu? Mask up, wash hands, distance physically and think about having a lengthy winter school holiday instead of a summer holiday…)

Dr Susan Hopkins of Public Health England said that this winter could see a surge in other respiratory viruses.

Speaking to the BBC’s Andrew Marr, she said that there was a possibility the population’s immunity to other viruses had fallen, after a year with no flu.

While she was optimistic that summer holidays could take place if the data allowed, she said it was her job to plan for “the worst case scenario.”

Source: Andrew Marr show: ‘We have to prepare for hard winter says Dr Hopkins – BBC News