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2021-09-07 at 5:57 PM UTCBecause infants are fluent in their native languages at birth.
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2021-09-07 at 6 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 ABC News
Statistics show the stark risks of not getting vaccinated against COVID-19
As top health officials warn that COVID-19 has become a "pandemic of the unvaccinated," recent figures from states and cities throughout the United States reveal the extent to which the virus is impacting people who are not fully inoculated.
A stark case in point: During June, every person who died of COVID-19 in Maryland was unvaccinated, according to a spokesperson for the governor's office. There were 130 people who died of COVID-19 in Maryland in June, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
New COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations were also predominantly among unvaccinated people, the state said, at 95% and 93% respectively.
Other states have reported similar findings while urging people to get vaccinated as the more transmissible delta variant is driving up COVID-19 cases.
In Louisiana, 97% of the state's COVID-19 cases and deaths since February have been in unvaccinated people, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Friday. Between February and July, unvaccinated people in Louisiana were 20 times more likely to become infected with COVID-19, according to the state health department.
Those figures were reported as state health officials warned Louisiana is now in a "fourth surge" of the virus; as of Friday, the statewide average daily number of cases per 100,000 residents were up 177% over the past 14 days. The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations also doubled during that time, health officials said.
With the delta variant now the most dominant strain in Louisiana, about 46% of adults in the state are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
"We only have two choices, we are either going to get vaccinated and end the pandemic or we are going to accept death, a lot of it, this surge and another surge and possibly another variant,” infectious disease specialist Dr. Catherine O’Neal said during a state COVID-19 press briefing Friday.
In Alabama, over 96% of COVID-19 deaths since April 1 were in unvaccinated people, the state health department said on July 13, for 509 deaths out of 529 total. Over 42% of adults in the state are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
In Los Angeles County, nearly every COVID-19 case, hospitalization and death is in unvaccinated people, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported on July 12. Of the 1,059 new cases reported that day, nearly 87% were in people under the age of 50.
"The COVID-19 vaccines are the most effective and important tool to reduce COVID-19 transmission and the spread of variants like the highly transmissible delta variant," Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement.
Due to a "rapid rise" in COVID-19 cases in the county, from 210 reported on June 15 to 1,537 two months later – local officials reinstated a mandatory indoor mask mandate, regardless of vaccination status, over the weekend. Over 60% of county residents ages 16 and up are fully vaccinated.
New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi said the vaccines are "astonishingly effective" while sharing that over 98% of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in the city between Jan. 1 and June 15 were in people who were not fully vaccinated. That included 8,069 deaths in people who were not fully vaccinated. Over 64% of NYC adults are fully vaccinated.
The national picture is unclear, through in mid-June, former White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt said in an interview with The Washington Post that "98, 99-plus percent of people that are being hospitalized and dying with COVID have not been vaccinated."
As parts of the country with low vaccination rates are seeing outbreaks of COVID-19, "there is a clear message that is coming through," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a press briefing Friday. "This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated."
"Communities that are fully vaccinated are generally faring well," she added.
Over 56% of those ages 12 and up in the U.S. are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
Clinical trials showed that the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing serious disease and death. Breakthrough cases – when a fully vaccinated person becomes infected with COVID-19 – are rare after full vaccination; a recent CDC report found that they may occur in just 0.01% of all fully vaccinated people.
"The message, loud and clear, that we need to reiterate is that these vaccines continue to [provide] strong protection against SARS-CoV-2, including the delta variant," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said during Friday's White House briefing, calling the delta variant "formidable." "It's so important for yourself, your family and your community to get vaccinated."
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2021-09-08 at 2:14 PM UTCMurdoch
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Advancement
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Gene Therapy: Fox News is getting people killed, but you knew that
By Gene Collier / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Among this week’s harvest of factoids I unearthed looking for other factoids is that next month — Oct. 7, to be precise — marks the 25th anniversary of the birth of Fox News.
As for gifts, what should we get for the network to mark such a significant milepost?
Dunno. What has it gotten us, other than killed, I mean.
Look, this won’t exactly be the first essay suggesting that Fox News is getting people killed with its disinformation on the vaccine, on masks, on science, on the virus, all pumped 24/7 through the distorted prism of what Fox founding father Rupert Murdoch thinks the media ought to be doing.
At the journalism school I went to, I don’t remember any of the professors saying explicitly, “Look, try not to get anybody killed,” but I left there feeling confident that it had at least been implied.
And Fox News knows it’s getting people killed, which is why its audience is suddenly watching a crisp about-face from some of its more prominent personalities.
“Please take COVID seriously; I can’t say it enough,” said Sean Hannity, the prime time blatherer who has been described as Donald Trump’s Svengali. “Enough people have died. We don’t need any more death. ... Take it seriously. It absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated.”
Morning show co-host Steve Doocy, suddenly self-aware that his network’s interminable anti-vax messaging was effectively killing off its own audience, said: “Look, the pandemic right now is really just with the people who have not been vaccinated. Ninety-nine percent of the people who died have not been vaccinated. ... If you have the chance, get the shot — it will save your life.”
Monday afternoon, with many of their regular stars on holiday, the cable news channels were running out the jayvee teams. I decided to flip on Fox to see whether they were still stuck on the critical race theory outrage, the open borders scandal or the Afghanistan dereliction, but COVID had the stage for the moment. My main rule for Fox watching was in play: Watch until somebody says something that is just flat wrong, inordinately stupid or borderline incendiary (typical stay: 30-45 seconds).
Over another chyron setting up Dr. Anthony Fauci as a national punching bag, the anchor was introducing a reporter for a story about confusion over COVID booster shots by saying that when it comes to the vaccine, the White House messaging is still unclear.
I guess when the president of the United States goes on television and says, “Please, please, please get the vaccine,” that’s somehow unclear. I was gone in 16 seconds.
For COVID advice that’s perfectly clear, one would suppose you’d have to tune into Tucker Carlson, Fox’s highest-rated host. No one sews more distrust in the vaccine or eviscerates public health policy on masks than the man whom Variety awarded the media label “frozen food heir turned paleo-conservative firebrand pundit.” If there’s an origin story as to why nearly half of Republicans are unlikely to get the vaccine, Tucker Carlson directed it.
The irony there is that it was Carlson who in March 2020 left his Gulf Coast mansion to drive across Florida, owing to a deep sense of “moral obligation,” to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago for the express purpose of convincing him to take the emerging coronavirus more seriously. Without that two-hour meeting, there might never have been Operation Warp Speed, the Trump-accelerated vaccine ramp-up that gains reliably over-the-top praise on Fox as it just as reliably instructs its viewers not to take it. Carlson is a person who essentially can’t even believe himself, working for a network that most of the time does not believe what it’s saying.
Trump, Murdoch, Hannity, all vaccinated. Carlson, asked if he was vaccinated by Time’s Gillian Laub, called that question “super vulgar,” then asked Laub, “What’s your favorite sexual position, and when did you last engage in it?”
It wouldn’t do to call that retort sophomoric. Why insult the sophomores?
Fox’s blatantly irresponsible COVID coverage has long since attracted the attention of people who like to count things. Media Matters, for example, issued a report in August that said between June 28 and July 11, less than two weeks, “Fox personalities made 216 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization drives. Out of those, 151 claims came from pundits on the network, which represented 70 % of the total. Fox pundits described vaccine efforts as coercive or dangerous 75 times.”
Broadcast executive Preston Padden, who worked seven years at Fox, said recently that Murdoch “owes himself a better legacy than a news channel that no reasonable person would believe.”
So if you think of it, take a moment Oct. 7 to reflect on the 25-year-old Fox News, in its childhood just the favorite channel of Dick Cheney, then a lascivious post-pubescent entity always getting sued for sexual harassment. Who knew it would turn into a serial killer? -
2021-09-08 at 2:19 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ One of st|1's favorite "credible sources". He also has a certain fondness for Lester Holt and Wolf Blitzer.
Pulling more "facts" out of your ass, Speculum?
If I posted Lester Holt and Wolf Blitzen, I would have to post videos, wouldn't I? My forte is the printed word 99% of the time.
You need to dig around in your ass to pull out your next lie because this one is just plain stupid and easily disproved. -
2021-09-08 at 2:20 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Murdoch
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Garbage
Advancement
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Gene Therapy: Fox News is getting people killed, but you knew that
By Gene Collier / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Among this week’s harvest of factoids I unearthed looking for other factoids is that next month — Oct. 7, to be precise — marks the 25th anniversary of the birth of Fox News.
As for gifts, what should we get for the network to mark such a significant milepost?
Dunno. What has it gotten us, other than killed, I mean.
Look, this won’t exactly be the first essay suggesting that Fox News is getting people killed with its disinformation on the vaccine, on masks, on science, on the virus, all pumped 24/7 through the distorted prism of what Fox founding father Rupert Murdoch thinks the media ought to be doing.
At the journalism school I went to, I don’t remember any of the professors saying explicitly, “Look, try not to get anybody killed,” but I left there feeling confident that it had at least been implied.
And Fox News knows it’s getting people killed, which is why its audience is suddenly watching a crisp about-face from some of its more prominent personalities.
“Please take COVID seriously; I can’t say it enough,” said Sean Hannity, the prime time blatherer who has been described as Donald Trump’s Svengali. “Enough people have died. We don’t need any more death. … Take it seriously. It absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated.”
Morning show co-host Steve Doocy, suddenly self-aware that his network’s interminable anti-vax messaging was effectively killing off its own audience, said: “Look, the pandemic right now is really just with the people who have not been vaccinated. Ninety-nine percent of the people who died have not been vaccinated. … If you have the chance, get the shot — it will save your life.”
Monday afternoon, with many of their regular stars on holiday, the cable news channels were running out the jayvee teams. I decided to flip on Fox to see whether they were still stuck on the critical race theory outrage, the open borders scandal or the Afghanistan dereliction, but COVID had the stage for the moment. My main rule for Fox watching was in play: Watch until somebody says something that is just flat wrong, inordinately stupid or borderline incendiary (typical stay: 30-45 seconds).
Over another chyron setting up Dr. Anthony Fauci as a national punching bag, the anchor was introducing a reporter for a story about confusion over COVID booster shots by saying that when it comes to the vaccine, the White House messaging is still unclear.
I guess when the president of the United States goes on television and says, “Please, please, please get the vaccine,” that’s somehow unclear. I was gone in 16 seconds.
For COVID advice that’s perfectly clear, one would suppose you’d have to tune into Tucker Carlson, Fox’s highest-rated host. No one sews more distrust in the vaccine or eviscerates public health policy on masks than the man whom Variety awarded the media label “frozen food heir turned paleo-conservative firebrand pundit.” If there’s an origin story as to why nearly half of Republicans are unlikely to get the vaccine, Tucker Carlson directed it.
The irony there is that it was Carlson who in March 2020 left his Gulf Coast mansion to drive across Florida, owing to a deep sense of “moral obligation,” to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago for the express purpose of convincing him to take the emerging coronavirus more seriously. Without that two-hour meeting, there might never have been Operation Warp Speed, the Trump-accelerated vaccine ramp-up that gains reliably over-the-top praise on Fox as it just as reliably instructs its viewers not to take it. Carlson is a person who essentially can’t even believe himself, working for a network that most of the time does not believe what it’s saying.
Trump, Murdoch, Hannity, all vaccinated. Carlson, asked if he was vaccinated by Time’s Gillian Laub, called that question “super vulgar,” then asked Laub, “What’s your favorite sexual position, and when did you last engage in it?”
It wouldn’t do to call that retort sophomoric. Why insult the sophomores?
Fox’s blatantly irresponsible COVID coverage has long since attracted the attention of people who like to count things. Media Matters, for example, issued a report in August that said between June 28 and July 11, less than two weeks, “Fox personalities made 216 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines or immunization drives. Out of those, 151 claims came from pundits on the network, which represented 70 % of the total. Fox pundits described vaccine efforts as coercive or dangerous 75 times.”
Broadcast executive Preston Padden, who worked seven years at Fox, said recently that Murdoch “owes himself a better legacy than a news channel that no reasonable person would believe.”
So if you think of it, take a moment Oct. 7 to reflect on the 25-year-old Fox News, in its childhood just the favorite channel of Dick Cheney, then a lascivious post-pubescent entity always getting sued for sexual harassment. Who knew it would turn into a serial killer?
August 6, 2021
CNN's credibility collapse pushes viewership below one million for an entire week
By Thomas Lifson
Not a single show on CNN could reach one million viewers in the past week, a decline that is both highly symbolic of its collapsing credibility and financially meaningful to advertising rates. Its behavior this week suggests that the situation will only get worse.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn of rival Fox News gleefully reports:
According to Nielsen data, the scandal-plagued network has gone an entire week without reaching 1 million viewers from July 28 to August 3, further solidifying the liberal outlet's struggle to carry on without Donald Trump in the White House.
Chris Cuomo, CNN's star anchor who was swept up in the explosive report from New York Attorney General Letitia James that outlined damning sexual harassment allegations against his brother Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, received a minimal ratings bump on Tuesday night as viewers were curious as to whether or not he would address the controversy, receiving roughly 100,000 viewers more than he did Monday. Cuomo ultimately avoided the scandal altogether on his program, which garnered only 930,000 viewers.
Keep in mind that Cuomo's show is CNN's highest-rated program, and at 872,000 average for the week could only draw 38% of the audience of Hannity, 2.3 million for the week, and 44% of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's 1.6 million. That's what is called "distant third."
Even President Biden himself failed to hand CNN a ratings victory when the network hosted a town hall moderated by Don Lemon last month.
The town hall, which averaged only 1.5 million viewers, was beaten by almost every Fox News and MSNBC primetime program. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" earned 2.87 million viewers in the same timeslot.
There are lots of reasons beyond CNN's singular focus on attacking Donald Trump why viewers are deserting it. Jeffrey Toobin returned to its programming after being unmasked for masturbating during a zoom call with colleagues. Who wants to watch someone that icky pontificate on serious legal issues? It's a joke.
Also a joke: Lt. Col. (ret.) Alexander Vindman, whose testimony led to acquittal in President Trump's absurd second impeachment trial, pontificated for CNN viewers on COVID fatalities:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/cnns_credibility_collapse_pushes_viewership_below_one_million_for_an_entire_week.html -
2021-09-08 at 2:29 PM UTCMaybe
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The Independent
QAnon-backing pastor who denied coronavirus was real is hospitalised with Covid
Josh Marcus
A local politician in Florida who once claimed there was no pandemic in a sermon is now in hospital with Covid.
Volusia County councilman Fred Lowry, who once preached a sermon calling the pandemic a lie, has been hospitalised with Covid.
- Fred Lowry / Volusia County
Fred Lowry, 66, a councilman for Volusia County, Florida, once claimed in a controversial, conspiracy-filled sermon that, “We did not have a pandemic ... We were lied to.” Now, his colleagues say he has been in hospital for weeks with the virus.
"He is in the hospital wrestling with COVID-19," county chair Jeff Brower told The Daytona Beach News-Journal on Tuesday. "It’s been about three weeks now."
“I am praying for Volusia County Councilman Fred Lowry who is ‘in the hospital wrestling with COVID-19’” Daytona Beach mayor Derrick Henry wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.
The conservative councilman, who is a pastor at Deltona Lakes Baptist Church, faced calls to resign in May following the sermon, where he called Dr Anthony Fauci “Dr Falsey,” and spread a number of other conspiracies, including that global warming was a hoax and that, according to the QAnon movement, Hollywood elites were running paedophile rings.
"This is supposed to be rampant I hear in Hollywood and among the elite," Mr Lowry said during the address. "I don’t know if it’s true, but where there’s smoke."
His comments inspired outrage locally.
"We are calling into serous question Mr. Lowry’s ability and judgement when it comes to making significant decisions that will affect the lives of those living here in Volusia County. Decisions made by the Volusia County Council should be rooted in fact," Rev Dr L. Ronald Durham, president of the Volusia County Democratic Black Caucus, said at the time. "Mr Lowry cannot be trusted to make sound fact-based decisions when he is preaching about cabals of Satanists using the blood of kidnapped children to get high and live longer.”
Mr Lowry is one of numerous Floridians to catch the virus in recent days, as lagging vaccination rates, the highly contagious Delta variant, and lax public health measures have combined to send new cases to their highest level at any point during the pandemic.
In mid-August, the state was averaging nearly 30,000 new cases a day and had the highest hospitalisation rate for Covid in the country. Since then, new cases have declined, though coronavirus deaths are still up 11 per cent over the last two weeks.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has pushed to punish local officials who impose mask and vaccine requirements. -
2021-09-08 at 2:29 PM UTChe was poisoned.
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2021-09-08 at 2:43 PM UTCst|1 loves Don lemon.
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2021-09-08 at 2:44 PM UTCi bet he sits on the edge of his couch when don lemon is on,
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2021-09-08 at 2:53 PM UTCstik it mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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2021-09-08 at 2:58 PM UTCDeseret News
New report reveals the real chances of a breakthrough COVID-19 infection
Herb Scribner
What are the chances you’ll get COVID-19 if you’re fully vaccinated? Well, we might have an answer.
The chances of fully vaccinated people getting infected by the novel coronavirus are about 1 in 5,000, according to The New York Times.
The data comes after new data showed how few times the average vaccinated American contracted COVID-19.
In most cases, about one in 5,000 fully vaccinated people contract COVID-19 per day. That number might be even lower for those who take precautions or live in a community where vaccination rates are high, The New York Times reports.
That number is based on data from Utah and Virginia, as well as King County in Washington state, which includes Seattle.
Can you get COVID-19 if people around you are vaccinated?
But chances might be lower in places where there are fewer cases, like the Northeast, Chicago and Los Angeles. In those cities, chances might be less than 1 in 10,000.
“Here’s one way to think about a one-in-10,000 daily chance: It would take more than three months for the combined risk to reach just 1%,” according to The New York Times.
What are the chances you’ll be hospitalized from COVID if you’re fully vaccinated?
And the report suggests 1 in every 1 million vaccinated people get hospitalized because of COVID-19.
Dr. Ashish Jha, of Brown University, responded to the report on Twitter, saying he thinks the chances are, in fact, lower in certain areas.
“I think it's closer to 1 in 10,000,” he said on Twitter. “And if you live in a lower infection state like MA or RI, its probably closer to 1 in 20,000.”
These numbers come as COVID-19 daily cases exceeded 40 million total cases, with 4 million coming within the last week, according to CNN. The recent surge has happened because of the delta variant, which has been spreading to mostly unvaccinated people. -
2021-09-08 at 3:13 PM UTC
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2021-09-08 at 3:16 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Deseret News
New report reveals the real chances of a breakthrough COVID-19 infection
Herb Scribner
What are the chances you’ll get COVID-19 if you’re fully vaccinated? Well, we might have an answer.
The chances of fully vaccinated people getting infected by the novel coronavirus are about 1 in 5,000, according to The New York Times.
stl thinks the new york times is a vector virus research lab or something.
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