A Baton Rouge infectious disease specialist gave a stark account Friday of the dangers of the coronavirus delta variant circulating through Louisiana, saying that it’s causing children to lose their parents, pregnant women to lose their babies and that choosing vaccination is the only option to avoid more deaths. Source: A Louisiana doctor’s COVID plea: ‘If you don’t choose the vaccine, you’re choosing death’ | Coronavirus | theadvocate.com
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Pingdemic: England’s covid app sent half a million exposure notifications in a week – The Washington Post (Me: Next move by Brits? Ignore or get smart – again – about killer pandemic???!!!)
Already, factories, pubs, restaurants and schools are reporting staff shortages resulting from quarantine guidance, which in England and Wales, for at least another month, still applies to people who are fully vaccinated.
New figures published this week show the National Health Service covid-19 app sent more than 520,000 exposure notifications between July 1 and 7 — up 46 percent from the previous week and a record high. The app, which has been downloaded more than 26 million times, was not in as widespread use during previous waves of the virus in Britain. But the numbers still reflect a high level of community spread. On Friday, the United Kingdom reported 51,870 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily figure in six months.
Monkeypox virus reported in a person who flew from Nigeria to Dallas through Atlanta – The Washington Post
Travelers were required to wear masks on the flights as well as in the U.S. airports because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic
“Therefore, it’s believed the risk of spread of monkeypox via respiratory droplets to others on the planes and in the airports is low,” the Dallas County statement said.
Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that typically begins with flu-like symptoms and swelling of the lymph nodes and progresses to a widespread rash on the face and body. Most infections last two to four weeks. Monkeypox is in the same family of viruses as smallpox but causes a milder infection.
In this case, CDC laboratory testing showed the patient is infected with a strain of monkeypox most commonly seen in parts of West Africa, including Nigeria. Infections with this strain of monkeypox are fatal in about 1 in 100 people, according to a CDC statement. However, rates can be higher in people who have weakened immune systems. Currently, there is no proven, safe treatment for monkeypox virus infection.
Does L.A. County’s new COVID-19 mask mandate make any sense? – Los Angeles Times
“Hopefully, this will be the wakeup call for those who are still vaccine hesitant to roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated,” said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, medical epidemiologist and infectious diseases expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
While he’s not concerned about the pandemic surging to the same kind of devastation seen half a year ago, he is “concerned about the trajectory and the speed of the doubling of new cases.”
“Once we can turn the corner again on this increase, I am confident the county will remove that mandate,” Kim-Farley said. “It’s just a matter of everyone playing their part.”
Gandhi, of UC San Francisco, agreed that vaccinated people masking indoors can be a reasonable policy decision if there are more than 5 people hospitalized for COVID-19 for every 100,000 residents.
Source: Does L.A. County’s new COVID-19 mask mandate make any sense? – Los Angeles Times
Interrogantes
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Mis preguntas se orientan, particularmente, a los gobernantes de las naciones más fuertes, a la élite global que controla el poder y la riqueza material y a la comunidad científica: una vez que exploren Marte y conozcan su esencia y sus formas, sus peculiaridades y sus rasgos, ¿diseñarán y construirán bases espaciales y militares, laboratorios y comunidades humanas? ¿Saquearán el planeta rojo, como lo han hecho con la Tierra, hasta transformarla de un paraíso a un muladar hostil, o tendrán capacidad de coexistir en armonía, con respeto y en equilibrio quienes dispongan de fortunas para dejar el mundo actual? ¿Cómo se repartirán Marte? ¿Quién se sentirá invicto y dueño de ese planeta? ¿Nuevamente repetimos la historia?¿Abandonarán a los millones de seres humanos que coexistimos en la Tierra o la destruirán y contaminarán en su afán egoísta y ambicioso de…
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Hearty tomato and white bean stew
yum – goin to try.
Honestly I don’t like the flavor of raw tomatoes and rarely eat a slice of tomato. But, I love them cooked. I love the taste of tomato-based gravies and used to mix tomato sauce in everything I ate when I was younger.
So today I am sharing with you the recipe of a hearty, flexible stew which has tomato as its main ingredient along with white beans.
This stew comes together with pantry ingredients and delivers layers of flavors. Cherry tomatoes, roasted in olive oil to bring out their sweetness, add a pleasant freshness to this otherwise rich dish.
The backbone of this meal is onion, garlic, and red pepper flakes, to which white beans and stock are added and cooked until thick.
You may top it with some grated cheese, just before serving.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, when supermarket shelves can be lacking, it is only wise to make…
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Masks back on in L.A. County – ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE
Dr. Muntu Davis, public health officer for Los Angeles County, called the return to masks “an all-hands-on-deck moment.” Since California reopened on June 15, the Delta variant of COVID-10 has sparked a marked increase, mostly among unvaccinated people. The county has been recording over 1,000 new cases each day for a week. People will still be able to go maskless while eating or drinking in restaurants. The change does not affect Orange County, but local rates of confirmed new infections in the OC have risen in recent weeks, from around 50 a day to triple that. Additionally, the University of California announced on Thursday that students, staff and faculty must get vaccinated before returning in the fall. According to the Los Angeles Times, new cases of coronavirus in California are up 175 percent over the past 14 days, and deaths by 32 percent.
Source: Masks back on in L.A. County – ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE
My Worst Nightmare
Many things bother me at the moment: Those who are actively rejecting the COVID vaccine; the determined obstruction by the Republican Party in Congress; climate change and those who refuse to so much as lift a finger to help reverse decades of man-made damage; wealthy people not paying their fair share in taxes; the ignorance of those who still believe in the former guy’s Big Lie, and the list goes on … and on. However, the one thing that is keeping me awake nights, is bothering me more than any other single issue in this nation, that has made me contemplate seeking a new country to call home, is the current push for voter suppression and the fact that Congress and the Courts are doing NOTHING to stop states from attempting to move this nation back to the days of Jim Crow.
If you share my concerns, I hope you’ll…
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Hunter’s Moon
A great and wonderful tale…
Chandrabhanu lay motionless as a rock on the wet and cold forest floor, camouflaged in the colours of the jungle like a predator patiently waiting for his score. Neither the seldom trickling of the night dew nor the occasional insects crawling across his seasoned skin made him blink or move. The creature he was after was nothing like any other predator he had ever hunted before. After twenty-one days of chasing this ghost in the darkness, his chances to succeed was best on this illuminated night of the hunter’s moon.
More than three hours had passed since he had moved. The unflinching wait had slowly sunk his weight a few inches into the mossy forest floor. He had finally managed to track down the beast to this ancient cave in the darkest heart of the woods but wondered how to bring down this mighty foe. The animal was stealthier than…
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