Got my booster last Friday (moderna). Had one day of fatigue. Doing fine 
People be very careful this virus is not done yet
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This is like going on Twitter or Instagram and telling us celebrity you've never met that you are unfollowing them
Just open the door and say, we hiring y'all
I am still very surprised by this
Khloé Kardashian Has Tested Positive for COVID-19 Again
By Jennifer Zhan
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Khloé Kardashian has tested positive for COVID-19, along with her 3-year-old daughter, True Thompson. Khloé shared the news on Twitter, writing, “Hi guys I wanted to let you know True and I tested positive for Covid. I’ve had to cancel several commitments and I’m sorry I won’t be able to make those happen. Luckily I have been vaccinated so all will be ok.” (According to the CDC, fully vaccinated people who test positive are less likely to develop severe illness than those who test positive and are not vaccinated.) The reality star assured her followers that she and True will be quarantining and following current guidelines, adding in a a follow-up tweet, “Be safe everyone!”
This is not Khloé’s first run-in with the virus. She previously tested positive for COVID-19 in March 2020, and detailed her experience in a later episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. In the episode, she noted that she had experienced vomiting, shaking, and a severe headache, among other symptoms. “This shit is real,” she told viewers. She did end up recovering in time to attend her sister Kim’s widely criticized island birthday party that October. But by the winter, the Kardashians had decided that social gatherings — even private, humbling ones — were no longer the best idea. In December 2020, citing “out of control” cases in California, Khloé announced on Twitter that the reality royalty family would be skipping its annual Christmas Eve party for the first time since 1978. “Taking this pandemic seriously is a must,” she wrote.
By Jennifer Zhan
Photo: SHEIN X 100K Challenge 2021/Getty Images for SHEIN
Khloé Kardashian has tested positive for COVID-19, along with her 3-year-old daughter, True Thompson. Khloé shared the news on Twitter, writing, “Hi guys I wanted to let you know True and I tested positive for Covid. I’ve had to cancel several commitments and I’m sorry I won’t be able to make those happen. Luckily I have been vaccinated so all will be ok.” (According to the CDC, fully vaccinated people who test positive are less likely to develop severe illness than those who test positive and are not vaccinated.) The reality star assured her followers that she and True will be quarantining and following current guidelines, adding in a a follow-up tweet, “Be safe everyone!”
This is not Khloé’s first run-in with the virus. She previously tested positive for COVID-19 in March 2020, and detailed her experience in a later episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. In the episode, she noted that she had experienced vomiting, shaking, and a severe headache, among other symptoms. “This shit is real,” she told viewers. She did end up recovering in time to attend her sister Kim’s widely criticized island birthday party that October. But by the winter, the Kardashians had decided that social gatherings — even private, humbling ones — were no longer the best idea. In December 2020, citing “out of control” cases in California, Khloé announced on Twitter that the reality royalty family would be skipping its annual Christmas Eve party for the first time since 1978. “Taking this pandemic seriously is a must,” she wrote.
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COVID-19's global death toll tops 5 million in under 2 years
The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 5 million, nearly two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.
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‘Defining moment’: COVID global death toll tops 5 million
The staggering figure is an understatement because not all deaths are recorded in developing countries.
The official global virus death toll has passed five million. The full count is undoubtedly higher.
Relatives attended a funeral for a man who died from the coronavirus in Valle de Chalco, Mexico, last month.Credit...Luis Cortes/Reuters
By Daniel E. Slotnik
- Nov. 1, 2021Updated 12:07 p.m. ET
The coronavirus is responsible for more than five million confirmed deaths around the world as of Monday, according to data from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Such a loss would wipe out almost the entire population of Melbourne, Australia, or most of the nation of Singapore.
Experts say that five million is an undercount. Many countries are unable to accurately record the number of people who have died from Covid-19, like India and African nations; experts have questioned the veracity of data from other countries, like Russia.
“All of these estimates still rely on data being available, or someone going and collecting it before antibodies and local memories wane,” said Adam Kucharski, an associate professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who mathematically analyzes infectious disease outbreaks. “Globally, there will have been numerous local tragedies going unreported.”
The real number of people lost to Covid-19 could be underestimated by “a multiple of two to 10” in some nations, said Denis Nash, an epidemiologist at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Overall, he said, the true global toll could be as high as twice the reported figure (not up to 10 times, as an earlier version of this item incorrectly implied).
The pace of confirmed deaths seems to have slowed slightly since the world reached four million in early July, despite the rapid spread of the Delta variant since then — a sign that the spread of vaccines could be having an impact, at least in some parts of the world. It took nine months for the virus to kill one million people, three and a half more to reach two million, another three to claim three million and about two and a half to exceed four million.
The United States leads all other countries, with more than 745,000 deaths confirmed in total. The nations with the highest reported death tolls after the United States are, in order, Brazil, India, Mexico and Russia.
The global rate of reported deaths climbed over the past two weeks after trending downward for much of September and the first half of October, but at an average of over 7,000 deaths per day remains about 3,000 less than its August peak. The World Health Organization said last week in a report on pandemic conditions that confirmed deaths had increased in Europe and Southeast Asia, and declined in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Dr. Nash said that the death rate appeared to be slowing “in places around the world where we are doing a good job at counting deaths, which also happen to be places in the world that have the best access to vaccines.”
But, he continued, “I think there are places where there are increases in the death rates, but we’re just not measuring them.”
The 20 countries that have recorded the most reported deaths per capita in recent weeks are mostly in Eastern Europe and the Caribbean, and most of them have vaccinated far less than half of their populations.
Coronavirus cases are rising in Europe, even though three-quarters of the European Union’s adult population has been fully vaccinated. Those inoculation rates plummet in countries like Bulgaria and Romania, and are even lower in nations that are outside of the bloc, like Armenia.
That vaccination gap persisted even when shots became more widely available. A September report on perceptions of the pandemic by the European Council on Foreign Relations said that the disparity seemed to be driven largely by misinformation, distrust and skepticism.
Vaccine hesitancy is also a major problem for Caribbean nations, and many of them also face unequal distribution of doses and logistical hurdles, the W.H.O. said in October.
W.H.O. officials have pressed wealthy nations to provide more vaccines to poorer ones. They and others have decried vaccine hoarding and most booster shot programs when much of the world has yet to be inoculated. Worldwide, about 76 percent of shots that have been administered have been so in high- and upper-middle-income countries, according to the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford. Only 0.6 percent of doses have been administered in low-income countries.
Dr. Nash said he was hopeful that expanded access to vaccines and new pharmaceutical treatments, including an antiviral pill by Merck, would eventually rein in the virus.
Dr. Kucharski said that the actual number of dead would not be known for a long time.
“People need to be aware that it may take years to truly understand the toll of Covid-19,” he said.
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More than 10 GOP states sue Biden administration over vaccine mandates
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Ten states with GOP leaderships filed a joint lawsuit Friday to challenge the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a separate challenge. The lawsuits are part of a broader opposition by Republican-led states to requirements for immunizations that curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Attorneys general in Missouri, Nebraska, Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming sued Biden and other federal officials Friday, arguing a mandate encompassing one-fifth of U.S. workers infringes on states’ powers and is unconstitutional.
On Friday regulators authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old, a watershed moment celebrated by parents yearning for a return to normal life but viewed with ambivalence and outright skepticism by others worried about the potential risk of unknown side effects.
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- The Supreme Court Friday turned down a request from a group of Maine health-care workers to block a state coronavirus vaccination mandate that does not contain an exception for religious objectors.
- Immunity acquired through vaccination protects people better from coronavirus infections than natural immunity spurred by a previous infection, according to a report Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Britain offers a warning of what happens when a country ignores Covid.
Needless suffering
There are downsides to most Covid-19 precautions. Keeping children home from school can cause them to fall behind. Working from home can impede creativity. Staying away from friends and relatives can damage mental health. Wearing masks can muffle speech, hide smiles and fog eyeglasses.
For all of these reasons, the ideal Covid policy for any society balances the benefits and costs of precautions. It acknowledges that excessive caution can do more harm than good. By now, regular readers will recognize the search for Covid balance as a theme of this newsletter. Today, we want to focus on a place that seems to be erring on the side of too little caution: Britain.
Over the past year, Britain’s Covid response has included some major victories. The country rushed to vaccinate people (as we’ve explained) and was also willing to reimpose behavior restrictions last winter. These measures helped cause a sharp drop in caseloads.
In response, Britain reopened over the summer, allowing people to live largely without restrictions. Schools and workplaces have returned to normal, without masks. Restaurants are booked. Finding a taxi on a Saturday night in Central London is again a challenge.
“There’s a feeling that finally we can breathe,” Devi Sridhar, the head of the global public health program at the University of Edinburgh, wrote in August. “We can start trying to get back what we’ve lost.”
The problem is that Britain now seems to have lost a sense of balance, as Sridhar has also suggested. Cases have surged this fall, more so than in the rest of Europe, the U.S. or many other countries. Yet Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government continues to oppose measures that could reduce cases.
We want to focus on Britain partly because it can offer lessons for the U.S. and other countries. The Delta variant arrived in Britain earlier than in many other places, making it something of a leading indicator. Cases in Britain rose for about two months starting in May and then started falling. But the decline didn’t last:
Data as of Oct. 31. Chart shows a seven-day daily average. The New York Times
Over the past week in the U.S., cases have also stopped falling. The reasons are not clear, as is often the case with Covid, and the recent increase is minuscule. But it’s a reminder that the pandemic will probably keep having ups and downs.
Experts say Britain seems to be making three main mistakes that are aggravating the pandemic.
1. Not enough vaccinations
Despite being ahead of most of Europe on vaccinating adults, Britain waited to approve vaccines for adolescents. It did not recommend vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds until September, weeks after many students had returned to school, as our colleague Josh Holder has noted. Today, only 21 percent of 12- to 15-year-olds in England are vaccinated, compared with 80 percent of adults.
The U.S. faces a related challenge. About 57 percent of Americans age 12 to 15 have been vaccinated, and children 5 to 11 are on the verge of becoming eligible. A significant number of parents remain wary, partly because Covid is rarely severe in children. But vaccinating children — in addition to the individual benefits — is likely to hold down cases for everyone else.
The biggest problem in the U.S. is a vaccination rate lower than in most other high-income countries.
2. Waning immunity
The pace at which vaccines lose their effectiveness remains a subject of intense debate. Most experts believe that the vaccines remain excellent at preventing severe illness, even months after shots are given. But the bulk of the evidence suggests that the vaccines do lose some of their ability to prevent at least mild infections. That’s especially true of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has been widely used in England.
Britain’s initial speed at vaccinating people brought down caseloads early this year. Yet it also meant that waning immunity became a problem sooner than in countries that were slower to give shots. Britain is now offering boosters to people 50 and above, as well as health care workers and the medically vulnerable.
Over the next few months, waning immunity could become a growing problem in the U.S., especially for more vulnerable people. All Americans 65 and above are eligible for boosters, along with anybody who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and some other people.
3. Live and let live
Behavior restrictions — like mask wearing — are not as effective as their proponents sometimes suggest. Britain offers a case study: Scotland, where masks are often mandated, has a similar level of Covid spread as England, where masks are less common, as John Burn-Murdoch of The Financial Times has written. If masks determined Covid spread, Scotland’s rate would be lower than England’s.
But there is a difference between a precaution having a modest effect and no effect. Masks do help, according to a wide variety of evidence, even if their impact is sometimes overwhelmed by other factors. Britain seems to be suffering from a lack of almost any restrictions, including mask mandates. Among the biggest problem, Burn-Murdoch notes, is the number of crowded indoor gatherings across Britain, including Scotland.
When cases are falling, it often makes sense to let people live more freely. When cases are surging, the reverse is true. Britain is ignoring that lesson — and pleas from many experts.
The bottom line
Britain’s recent Covid policy has led to deaths and overwhelmed hospitals. “When a health care system fails, increasing numbers of people suffer and die needlessly,” Dr. Kenneth Baillie wrote on Twitter. “This is happening, now, all over the U.K.”
Still, it is worth putting Britain’s troubles in perspective. The country’s high vaccination rate means that only a tiny share of recent cases have led to severe illness, and the death rate this fall has been a fraction of what it was last winter. “This virus is going to be with us for years, if not the rest of our lives,” Willem van Schaik, a microbiologist at the University of Birmingham in England, told us. “We’ve definitely left the worst behind us.”
Despite the Covid surge in Britain, the U.S. — where the overall vaccination rate is lower — arguably remains in worse shape, with a considerably higher death rate per capita. Why? Vaccination rates still matter more than anything else.
Needless suffering
There are downsides to most Covid-19 precautions. Keeping children home from school can cause them to fall behind. Working from home can impede creativity. Staying away from friends and relatives can damage mental health. Wearing masks can muffle speech, hide smiles and fog eyeglasses.
For all of these reasons, the ideal Covid policy for any society balances the benefits and costs of precautions. It acknowledges that excessive caution can do more harm than good. By now, regular readers will recognize the search for Covid balance as a theme of this newsletter. Today, we want to focus on a place that seems to be erring on the side of too little caution: Britain.
Over the past year, Britain’s Covid response has included some major victories. The country rushed to vaccinate people (as we’ve explained) and was also willing to reimpose behavior restrictions last winter. These measures helped cause a sharp drop in caseloads.
In response, Britain reopened over the summer, allowing people to live largely without restrictions. Schools and workplaces have returned to normal, without masks. Restaurants are booked. Finding a taxi on a Saturday night in Central London is again a challenge.
“There’s a feeling that finally we can breathe,” Devi Sridhar, the head of the global public health program at the University of Edinburgh, wrote in August. “We can start trying to get back what we’ve lost.”
The problem is that Britain now seems to have lost a sense of balance, as Sridhar has also suggested. Cases have surged this fall, more so than in the rest of Europe, the U.S. or many other countries. Yet Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government continues to oppose measures that could reduce cases.
We want to focus on Britain partly because it can offer lessons for the U.S. and other countries. The Delta variant arrived in Britain earlier than in many other places, making it something of a leading indicator. Cases in Britain rose for about two months starting in May and then started falling. But the decline didn’t last:
Data as of Oct. 31. Chart shows a seven-day daily average. The New York Times
Over the past week in the U.S., cases have also stopped falling. The reasons are not clear, as is often the case with Covid, and the recent increase is minuscule. But it’s a reminder that the pandemic will probably keep having ups and downs.
Experts say Britain seems to be making three main mistakes that are aggravating the pandemic.
1. Not enough vaccinations
Despite being ahead of most of Europe on vaccinating adults, Britain waited to approve vaccines for adolescents. It did not recommend vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds until September, weeks after many students had returned to school, as our colleague Josh Holder has noted. Today, only 21 percent of 12- to 15-year-olds in England are vaccinated, compared with 80 percent of adults.
The U.S. faces a related challenge. About 57 percent of Americans age 12 to 15 have been vaccinated, and children 5 to 11 are on the verge of becoming eligible. A significant number of parents remain wary, partly because Covid is rarely severe in children. But vaccinating children — in addition to the individual benefits — is likely to hold down cases for everyone else.
The biggest problem in the U.S. is a vaccination rate lower than in most other high-income countries.
2. Waning immunity
The pace at which vaccines lose their effectiveness remains a subject of intense debate. Most experts believe that the vaccines remain excellent at preventing severe illness, even months after shots are given. But the bulk of the evidence suggests that the vaccines do lose some of their ability to prevent at least mild infections. That’s especially true of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has been widely used in England.
Britain’s initial speed at vaccinating people brought down caseloads early this year. Yet it also meant that waning immunity became a problem sooner than in countries that were slower to give shots. Britain is now offering boosters to people 50 and above, as well as health care workers and the medically vulnerable.
Over the next few months, waning immunity could become a growing problem in the U.S., especially for more vulnerable people. All Americans 65 and above are eligible for boosters, along with anybody who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and some other people.
3. Live and let live
Behavior restrictions — like mask wearing — are not as effective as their proponents sometimes suggest. Britain offers a case study: Scotland, where masks are often mandated, has a similar level of Covid spread as England, where masks are less common, as John Burn-Murdoch of The Financial Times has written. If masks determined Covid spread, Scotland’s rate would be lower than England’s.
But there is a difference between a precaution having a modest effect and no effect. Masks do help, according to a wide variety of evidence, even if their impact is sometimes overwhelmed by other factors. Britain seems to be suffering from a lack of almost any restrictions, including mask mandates. Among the biggest problem, Burn-Murdoch notes, is the number of crowded indoor gatherings across Britain, including Scotland.
When cases are falling, it often makes sense to let people live more freely. When cases are surging, the reverse is true. Britain is ignoring that lesson — and pleas from many experts.
The bottom line
Britain’s recent Covid policy has led to deaths and overwhelmed hospitals. “When a health care system fails, increasing numbers of people suffer and die needlessly,” Dr. Kenneth Baillie wrote on Twitter. “This is happening, now, all over the U.K.”
Still, it is worth putting Britain’s troubles in perspective. The country’s high vaccination rate means that only a tiny share of recent cases have led to severe illness, and the death rate this fall has been a fraction of what it was last winter. “This virus is going to be with us for years, if not the rest of our lives,” Willem van Schaik, a microbiologist at the University of Birmingham in England, told us. “We’ve definitely left the worst behind us.”
Despite the Covid surge in Britain, the U.S. — where the overall vaccination rate is lower — arguably remains in worse shape, with a considerably higher death rate per capita. Why? Vaccination rates still matter more than anything else.
The way the Supreme Court has been acting with vaccinations cases this is a lost cause for them
China imposes curbs as COVID-19 rears its head again
Coronavirus is rearing its head again in China, from where the deadly disease is believed to have emerged. Officials are resorting to strict measures to control the spread. Here are more details on this.
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The numbers are going up in America and you see some football teams are now getting affected by this virus again yeah we ain’t done with this by a long shot. I said this a few weeks ago we got a few months to get this right or all hell is going to break loose.
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"The CDC approves the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged five to 11" https://twitter.com/i/events/1455647844715536388?t=xJfsraNT897jeX0jt-zgNA&s=09
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Hey playahatian last night number 354 aka 345 lol didn’t I say patterns..niggadamaus
And with that little maneuver/manure he has slipped their noose. Its not like they really wanted to hang him out anyway.
We will soon see...
I predict zero repercussions for him., but hope I'm wrong.
Bullsh*t
There a few VERY OBVIOUS DIFFERENCES between these two men
And Kyrie is lot of things
But he at least has the courage of his convictions
He's squirming, and worming his way away from why he lied, by dropping all those anti-vax, anti-science, right wing buzz words and phrases. He basically insist that the rules don't apply to him.
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