Greetings from Tyler, The news/talk station played an interesting ad this morning. A friendly guy was talking about how he was always doing his best to “be safe” and keep everybody around him safe. And how nice it was to have others remind him if he was not fulfilling some protocol or other. Have a…
With eight percent of the globe’s population and 30 percent of its Covid-19 deaths, Latin America is facing the pandemic’s next phase – mass vaccination – with alarm. HEALTHCARE WORKERS OF THE SAN JOSÉ HOSPITAL MOBILE UNIT TREAT VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS AT A CLOSED SCHOOL IN MAICAO, LA GUAJIRA, COLOMBIA. | BLOOMBERG/NICOLO FILIPPO ROSSO One afternoon a couple months…
A new report by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators revealed that four volunteers for the COVID-19 experimental vaccine by Pfizer developed Bell’s Palsy after receiving vaccine shots, as per media reports. Bell’s palsy is a condition that causes a temporary paralysis of the muscles in the face. It can occur when…
Pope calls for greater cooperation to ensure the right of return of Middle Eastern refugees Pope Francis has launched an appeal to the international community to make “every possible effort” to facilitate the return of refugees from Syria and Iraq to their homes. In a video meeting with various Catholic aid organizations, Pope Francis on…
Takeout and outdoor dining will still be permitted. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday announced that indoor dining would be suspended again in New York City — marking the latest devastating blow for struggling businesses in the Big Apple. “Indoor dining will close in New York City starting Monday,” Cuomo announced, citing an increase…
Image: Reuters Encouraging as this economic pickup is for the period immediately ahead, Beijing’s demographics casts a long and ominous shadow. Some people say that China’s leadership is all but magical. It has beaten the coronavirus pandemic before the United States or the rest of the world and has its economy roaring back much faster than others….
Germany’s health minister and the country’s Leopoldina sciences academy said harder measures were necessary to reduce infections. Saxony became the first state to impose a hard lockdown starting next week. With German coronavirus caseloads plateauing, but not sinking, calls for tougher restrictions are mounting Germany may need to introduce more restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus,…
INGRAHAM: Got it. All right. I’m Laura Ingraham, this is The Ingraham Angle from a busy Washington tonight. Can you believe it, one week to go and the president is still out on the trail as we speak? Omaha, Nebraska his third stop of the day after hitting Michigan and Wisconsin earlier today. We’ll have…
But masks are still likely to prevent infected people from transmitting the virus. (Salvatore Laporta/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) The urgency of trying to control the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred public health researchers to search for evidence-based measures that might work to protect the public from becoming infected. Non-pharmaceutical interventions have ranged from hard lockdowns to recommendations on social…
Everyone has a right to dissent from the epidemiologists’ contentment with the way things are now. (Esther19775 | Dreamstime.com) The New York Times asked 700 epidemiologists to describe their COVID-19 habits, how their thinking has changed since the pandemic began, and when they think it will be safe for normal life to resume. Dismayingly, several answered that…