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Police Fired Shots at Feminist Protests in Cancun Last Night
Feminist protestors were met with bullets yesterday (Nov. 9) in Cancun, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Two reporters were struck by gunfire and more than 15 others were injured.
Quintana Roo Governor Carlos Joaquin blamed police on Twitter, saying he condemns the “acts of violence” and “intimidation and aggression against protestors.”
Source: Police Fired Shots at Feminist Protests in Cancun Last Night
Four more regions introduce stricter Covid recommendations – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio
The new regions are Kalmar, Västerbotten and Norrbotten, while Blekinge region has chosen to go ahead without the green light from the Public Health Agency. “We need to act now, we cannot wait for the process” said Bengt Wittesjö, who is the regional infectious disease officer in Blekinge. Nothing stops a region from going ahead with their own local advice, said Sara Byfors, department head of the Public Health Agency, as long as the advice is clear.
Source: Four more regions introduce stricter Covid recommendations – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio
Asymptomatic COVID-19 nurses allowed to stay on job in North Dakota amid staff shortage | TheHill
North Dakota, as of Monday, is now facing “high-risk” levels of COVID-19 infections, prompting recommendations that restaurants, bars and venues limit their capacity to 25 percent. The state has been reporting record levels of coronavirus cases recently, much like other parts of the country. North Dakota has more than 10,800 active COVID-19 cases. Despite those numbers, Burgum has resisted calls from health experts to enact a statewide mask-mandate, instead choosing to encourage mask use and relying on “personal responsibility.”
Source: Asymptomatic COVID-19 nurses allowed to stay on job in North Dakota amid staff shortage | TheHill
Covid Superspreader Risk Is Linked to Restaurants, Gyms, Hotels – Bloomberg
The reopening of restaurants, gyms and hotels carries the highest danger of spreading Covid-19, according to a study that used mobile phone data from 98 million people to model the risks of infection at different locations.
Researchers at Stanford University and Northwestern University used data collected between March and May in cities across the U.S. to map the movement of people. They looked at where they went, how long they stayed, how many others were there and what neighborhoods they were visiting from. They then combined that information with data on the number of cases and how the virus spreads to create infection models.
Source: Covid Superspreader Risk Is Linked to Restaurants, Gyms, Hotels – Bloomberg
These Towns Trusted a Doctor to Set Up Covid Testing. Sample Patient Fee: $1,944. – The New York Times
Ms. Sussman, 51, took her whole family to get tested, and the results came back negative.
Then the paperwork came: $6,816 had been charged to insurance for four coronavirus tests. Ms. Sussman’s fees alone were $1,944.
She started looking through the itemized costs. One insurance claim showed that she had been tested for a dozen respiratory diseases. She found that odd; the town emails advertised only a coronavirus test. There was also a surprise $480 charge for a short phone call relaying her results.
“That’s when I realized something was wrong,” Ms. Sussman said. “When in the history of medical appointments does it ever cost to get a phone call giving you your test results?”
Cities and towns gave Dr. Murphy free access to public property and rented tents on his behalf. One city provided internet hot spots. Bedford, where Ms. Sussman lives, recruited volunteers to assist Dr. Murphy with his work and arranged for residents to donate lunches.
Dr. Murphy committed to not billing patients directly but retained control over how he would examine patients and what he would charge health insurers.
Billing documents show that Dr. Murphy did not test patients just for coronavirus. He routinely billed insurers for a large panel test for at least 20 respiratory pathogens, including rhinovirus and enterovirus.
Medical experts said Dr. Murphy’s testing and billing practices were out of line with current standards.
Offering one large panel when looking for the virus “is unusual and, in my opinion, inappropriate,” said Dr. Alexander McAdam, director of the infectious disease laboratories at Boston Children’s Hospital. “That panel should only be used for the critically ill or immuno-compromised, so we don’t over-test and generate too large of a bill for our patients.”
Denmark drops plans for mass mink cull after Covid mutation fears | Denmark | The Guardian – (could kill tens of thousands of humans to save profits)
Andersson believes a cull is the safest option, however, for public health and animal welfare. “This is a tiny sector, we could easily live without it, given the risk of compromising a vaccine. We should be shutting down mink farms and culling all the animals. Sick animals are not being treated which is another mink welfare issue,” he said.
Poland and Finland are reported to be free of Covid-19 on mink farms, while in the Netherlands fur farming will effectively end this year. In Ireland, a tiny player in the mink sector, testing at the country’s three farms is reported to have begun already.
In the US, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation last week said 11 mink farms had Covid-19 outbreaks. The most recent list on the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service website shows outbreaks on mink farms in Utah, Wisconsin and Michigan.
The American Veterinary Medical Association said at least 8,000 minks have died of infection with Sars-CoV-2 on farms in Utah. And nearly 3,400 mink are reported to have died from the coronavirus at a mink farm in Wisconsin. It added that the infection seems to be deadlier among older minks.
A statement from US veterinary NGO the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association said the apparent rapid mutation of the virus in mink, and the lack of a cull, was both a public health and a welfare risk.
Source: Denmark drops plans for mass mink cull after Covid mutation fears | Denmark | The Guardian
The Covid-carrying Danish mink are a warning sign – but is anyone heeding it? | Coronavirus | The Guardian
- Danish researchers report that one of the variants of the virus found in mink isn’t as easily defeated by the antibodies that humans produce against Covid-19. One risk is that people who have recovered from Covid-19 may have antibodies that are less able to fight off the mink strain of the virus, leaving them open to reinfection. And most of the vaccines under development, on which we are pinning so much hope, are intended to induce antibodies that target the spike protein in the virus that causes Covid-19 in humans. While it’s too early to say for certain, one possibility is that these vaccines could be less effective against the mink virus, because it has a different spike protein.
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In this age of zoonotic epidemics, with Sars, Mers and now Covid-19 all emerging in the past 20 years, we must think carefully about how we intensively farm mammals that are known hosts of human coronaviruses. Before the pandemic, the Netherlands was already in the process of stopping intensive mink farming. But many dangerous types of animal farming still continue. Consider the palm civet. This animal was implicated in the emergence of Sars in 2003, acting as a probable intermediary between the bats in which the Sars virus originated, and the people whom it later infected.
As an animal that might have helped to trigger a pandemic, are we now keeping the palm civet at a safe distance? Quite the opposite. In parts of Asia the palm civet is farmed intensively, fed coffee cherries, and the beans collected from its faeces are used to make the world’s most expensive coffee, kopi luwak.
Given the huge human, social and economic costs of pandemics, there’s a compelling argument that in order to prevent future catastrophes, we can no longer afford to take such risks.
- Source: The Covid-carrying Danish mink are a warning sign – but is anyone heeding it? | Coronavirus | The Guardian
US records seventh consecutive day of more than 100,000 new Covid cases | World news | The Guardian
Monday also saw the US surpass 10m total cases and reach an overall death toll of 238,256.
There were 111,433 new cases on Monday and 590 new deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Hospitalizations were also rising, with more than 59,000 hospitalized nationwide, reported the Covid Tracking Project, which saw the biggest single-day increase since 10 July. It found South Dakota had the highest hospitalization rates in the country and that Illinois had reported more than 10,000 cases for four days straight.
Source: US records seventh consecutive day of more than 100,000 new Covid cases | World news | The Guardian

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