With 60.4 COVID-19 cases reported in the last seven days per 100,000 population, Florida is reporting the lowest rate in the continental United States and second in the US following only Hawaii (51.4). On December 7, officials reported less than 13,000 cases over the past week. Concerning COVID-19 fatalities, theContinue Reading
On November 24, 2021, South Africa reported the identification of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant, B.1.1.529, to the World Health Organization (WHO). B.1.1.529 was first detected in specimens collected on November 11, 2021 in Botswana and on November 14, 2021 in South Africa. South Africa has since detected B.1.1.529 in specimensContinue Reading
The Philippines has seen continuous improvement in global ranking with the steady decline in the number of local coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, the health chief said Tuesday. Reporting to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said the Philippines now ranks 53rd in the world in termsContinue Reading
The City of Tampa announced due to continuing trends of low new COVID-19 cases within the Hillsborough County, combined with the low demand for COVID-19 testing, the City of Tampa, in partnership with Nomi Health, will be closing operations of the Al Lopez Park COVID-19 Testing Site on November 9, 2021. Testing will be available atContinue Reading
During the week ending September 3, Florida health officials reported 129,240 new COVID-19 over the course of the week. Fast forward one month, the Florida Department of Health saw 37,772 COVID-19 cases this past week, nearly 5400 cases a day, a drop of some 70 percent compared to one monthContinue Reading
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an urgent health advisory to increase COVID-19 vaccination among people who are pregnant, recently pregnant (including those who are lactating), who are trying to become pregnant now, or who might become pregnant in the future to prevent serious illness, deaths, and adverse pregnancyContinue Reading
The Eighth Judicial Circuit Court has granted a temporary injunction that prevents the city of Gainesville from forcing government employees to get the COVID shots. A lawsuit was filed by Jeff Childers Law, LLC, on behalf of many employees and contractors against Gainesville on August 26 after city officials imposed a shot mandate. TheContinue Reading
In the era of COVID misinformation, a group called DEFEND THE SCIENCE is circulating a press release attacking Governor Ron DeSantis and his appointment General Surgeon appointment Joseph Ladapo, for pushing “dangerous misinformation in the media, supported people taking poison to treat COVID-19, and called masks a ‘distraction’ to the position.”Continue Reading
American senator Elizabeth Warren has accused Amazon of “peddling misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines and treatments” through its search algorithms, promoting a book called “the most influential spreader of coronavirus misinformation online” by media outlets. “I write regarding concerns that Amazon is peddling misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments through its searchContinue Reading
As the COVID lockdown continues in Australia, South Australia is using a new cell app with facial recognition and geolocation to enforce home quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic. Officials claim they are using a government-developed app to enforce home quarantine compliance for a small cohort of returning interstate travelers. UsersContinue Reading
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.67 million to researchers at five institutions to study potential links between coronavirus vaccinations and menstruation, the agency announced Aug. 30. The five NIH-funded studies, conducted by researchers at Boston University, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University and Oregon HealthContinue Reading
Cornell University aggressively pushed its students to get vaccinated, announcing a vaccine mandate for the 2021-22 academic year in April, resulting in 95 percent of the campus population, both students and faculty, being vaccinated. Now Cornell University has more than five times the amount of confirmed positive cases during itsContinue Reading
A new Mary Sue article, “Will Teachers Ever Forgive Us for What We’ve Put Them Through?,” recounts the COVID crisis, jabs as Republicans, deifying those poor teachers. “A lot of those governors are still treating children as a great COVID experiment. So much is still unknown about how the virusContinue Reading
Former President Barack Obama celebrated his 60th birthday on Saturday night, a party sparking a heightened divide between political parties and the wealthy elites and regular American citizens. Maskless guests, clearly not social distanced was excused away during a CNN as a “sophisticated vaccinated crowd” and the media ignored theContinue Reading
Liberty Counsel recently intervened on behalf of 11 students at Loyola University, and they were finally given religious exemptions from the COVID-19 injection just hours before the school was going to be hit with a federal lawsuit. Shamefully, the university originally denied the religious exemption requests of these students. Loyola only grantedContinue Reading
More than 1800 adolescents between 12 and 17 years old have already been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Madeira, according to the regional health authority. “We want to prioritize and want to speed up the vaccination process in this age group and vaccinate adolescents and young people as quickly as possible,”Continue Reading
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was joined by Florida parents, students, elected officials and community leaders as he called for a stop to school mask mandates, reinforcing that every parent should have the right to choose what is best for their child. “The federal government has no right to tell parents thatContinue Reading
On Friday, Director of the Department of Health in Hillsborough County (DOH-Hillsborough), Dr. Douglas Holt said concerning the rise of COVID-19 cases–“By now we should have more people vaccinated and it’s very concerning that so many people have chosen to not get vaccinated. The vaccine is safe, effective and widelyContinue Reading
Last week, the Australian Government Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly, has extended the City of Sydney, Waverley, Woollahra, Bayside, Canada Bay, Inner West and Randwick as a COVID-19 Hotspot for the purposes of Commonwealth support until 2 July 2021. There have been a further 26 cases across Sydney sinceContinue Reading
Philippines populist President, Rodrigo Duterte is making headlines again with his iron fist statements and declarations. With increasing vaccine hesitancy on the archipelago, Duterte outrageously said yesterday, “To protect the people, I have to sequester you in jail. Now choose — get vaccinated, or I’ll lock you up in aContinue Reading
Health officials in Alameda County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, are now reporting out approximately 25 percent less COVID-19 deaths to reflect using the State’s death reporting definition. Aligning with the State’s definition will require Alameda County to report as COVID-19 deaths only those people who died asContinue Reading
