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Masks: Republican Texas governor orders state agencies not to mandate them

Tue, 2021-05-18 23:25 — mike kraft

Texas governor bans state government agencies from mandating masks

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order today prohibiting state governmental entities such as counties, school districts, and public health authorities from requiring mask-wearing, according to a news release from the governor’s office.

The executive order allows public schools to continue current mask-wearing guidelines through June 4. However, after June 4, no student, teacher, parent, or staff member can be required to wear a mask on school grounds, according to the order.

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False side effects among concerns of vaccine hesitant Americans; state vax rates reflect political divide

Tue, 2021-05-18 15:03 — mike kraft

Vaccine-hesitant Americans list false side effects among concerns: Coronavirus vaccine-hesitant Americans list multiple false or undocumented side effects — such as DNA alteration — among their reasons for not getting the shot, according to a recent Harris poll Olafimihan Oshin TheHill

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Misinformation surges in India amid the country's COVID-19 calamity

Fri, 2021-05-14 14:59 — mike kraft

Misinformation surges amid India's COVID-19 calamity NEW DELHI (AP) — The man in the WhatsApp video says he has seen it work himself: A few drops of lemon juice in the nose will cure COVID-19. “If you practice what I am about to say with faith, you will be free of corona in five seconds,” says the man, dressed in traditional religious clothing. AP NEWS

NEW DELHI (AP) — The man in the WhatsApp video says he has seen it work himself: A few drops of lemon juice in the nose will cure COVID-19.

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International public health panel sharply criticizes political leaders for slow response to coronavirus pandemic

Wed, 2021-05-12 14:44 — mike kraft

Panel blasts COVID-19 response: 'Global political leadership was absent' A prominent panel of political and public health leaders has blasted the international and national response to the coronavirus pandemic, labeling slow and tepid reactions around the world as a Reid Wilson TheHill

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The Coronavirus spread threatens Southeast Asia and elsewhere

Wed, 2021-05-12 00:20 — mike kraft

As the virus threatens Southeast Asia, the spread of new variants continues to be a danger everywhere

After a devastating year with wave after wave of coronavirus infections around the world, new cases and deaths are falling in many of the Western nations that were once among the hardest hit. But while the virus recedes in wealthy nations with robust vaccination campaigns, it is pummeling India and threatening to swamp Southeast Asian countries that until now had largely kept the virus at bay.

Taken together, the opposing regional trends add up to a leveling of global daily new cases at “an unacceptably high plateau” that leaves the world in continuing danger, the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Monday.

In Southeast Asia, Dr. Tedros noted that “cases and deaths are still increasing rapidly.”

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