President Biden will announce new steps on Tuesday to confront a staggering surge in coronavirus cases, including readying 1,000 military medical professionals to help at overburdened hospitals, setting up new federal testing sites, deploying hundreds of federal vaccinators and buying 500 million rapid tests to distribute free to the public.

The measures, outlined to reporters Monday night by two senior administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, come as coronavirus caseloads are rapidly rising around the country, particularly in the Northeast, fueled by the highly infectious new Omicron variant — just as Americans prepare to gather for Christmas.

The 500 million tests that the administration intends to purchase will not be available until January, the senior officials said, adding that the government intends to create a website where people can request that tests be sent to their homes, free of charge. It was not immediately clear where the tests would come from.

Ovaj grad u Libanu, između planina Libana i Antilibana, na 1.280 metara nadmorske visine, svoje današnje ime, Baalbek (prisutno od 400. godine nove ere na ovamo) duguje kultu boga Baala, vrhovnog božanstva istočnjačkog panteona, često poistovjećivanog s Jupiterom. U helenističko i rimsko doba grad je bio poznat kao Heliopolis, po imenu koje je takođe povezano […]

Baalbek, Liban – Baalbek, Lebanon — Myrela

illustration tirée de « La Magie de l’Amazonie Les aventures de Meromi, une fille Yanomami » « Le deuxième volume de la série Amazon Rainforest Magic raconte le voyage surprenant de Meromi, une fille Yanomami qui est entraînée dans une aventure inattendue dans les rivières et les jungles de l’Amazonie. C’est un voyage vraiment magique pour Meromi alors […]

Un voyage vraiment magique – « La Magie de l’Amazonie Les aventures de Meromi, une fille Yanomami »  — Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro: Yanomami boy with pet monkey, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela. photo – Barbara Crane Navar «?When a human being dies, his ghost does not carry any of his goods onto the sky’s back, even if he is very greedy. The things he made or acquired are left on earth and only… […]

« The Value of the Gold they covet so much – Our real goods are the things of the forest: its waters, fish, game, trees and fruit. Not merchandise! » — Cerulean Seasons — Barbara Crane Navarro

O Brasil já registrou, em 2021, um número recorde de mortes em consequência de conflitos no campo, de acordo com a CPT (Comissão Pastoral da Terra), braço da Igreja Católica que atua junto a minorias em zonais rurais e publica cadernos sobre o tema anualmente desde 1985. 1,025 more words FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO: Crise yanomami […]

FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO: Crise Yanomami impulsiona recorde de mortes motivadas por conflitos no campo! — OBIND — Barbara Crane Navarro

West Africa Broadcast & Media Academy in collaboration with Enugu Literary Society and the United States consulate have organised a three-day training on fact-checking to curtail the menace of misinformation and fake news in the society. Media trainer and consultant, Mr Ken Okere said Young Nigerians need to equip themselves with fact-checking skills to curb… […]

Young Nigerians undergo fact-checking training to curtail online misinformation — Joevic Africa

Protecting executives, not the public Corporate executives understand that to stay safe, the people around them need to be vaccinated. At Taco Bell, for example, all corporate employees will be required to be vaccinated by January 3, 2022. Taco Bell is instituting a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health and safety reasons. Effective January 3, 2022, Taco Bell requires that corporate employees are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. There is no such requirement at Taco Bell restaurants, including company-owned locations. This is the case even though those who work at restaurants are at higher risk and interact much more frequently with the public.  McDonald’s has had a vaccine requirement in place at its corporate offices since September 27 —  but not its restaurants. According to the Shift survey, 56% of McDonald’s frontline employees are vaccinated.

Source: Why more than half of Taco Bell workers are unvaccinated

Should we decide where to apply perseverance in our lives, a good choice would be in changing, growing, loving, helping, caring.
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Source: New Zealand delays border reopening over Omicron concerns, holding back Australian travellers – ABC News