#covid 19 tag for ts

[startenthousand]

Despite the last 32 months of precautions, I have finally been Rona'd.

Do not recommend.

Trying to quarantine from @savitrioflight but the closed doors are making the cats very unhappy.

[tastydregs]

The era of fast, cheap genome sequencing is here

Enlarge / Illumina says its NovaSeq X machine will get the price of sequencing down to $200 per human genome.

Illumina

The human genome is made of more than 6 billion letters, and each person has a unique configuration of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts—the molecular building blocks that make up DNA. Determining the sequence of all those letters used to take vast amounts of money, time, and effort. The Human Genome Project took 13 years and thousands of researchers. The final cost: $2.7 billion.

That 1990 project kicked off the age of genomics, helping scientists unravel genetic drivers of cancer and many inherited diseases while spurring the development of at-home DNA tests, among other advances. Next, researchers started sequencing more genomes: from animals, plants, bacteria, and viruses. Ten years ago, it cost about $10,000 for researchers to sequence a human genome. A few years ago, that fell to $1,000. Today, it’s about $600.

Now, sequencing is about to get even cheaper. At an industry event in San Diego today, genomics behemoth Illumina unveiled what it calls its fastest, most cost-efficient sequencing machines yet, the NovaSeq X series. The company, which controls around 80 percent of the DNA sequencing market globally, believes its new technology will slash the cost to just $200 per human genome while providing a readout at twice the speed. Francis deSouza, Illumina’s CEO, says the more powerful model will be able to sequence 20,000 genomes per year; its current machines can do about 7,500. Illumina will start selling the new machines today and ship them next year.

“As we look to the next decade, we believe we’re entering the era of genomic medicine going mainstream. To do that requires the next generation of sequencers,” deSouza says. “We need price points to keep coming down to make genomic medicine and genomic tests available much more broadly.”

Enlarge / Reagents and buffer cartridges.

Illumina

Sequencing has led to genetically targeted drugs, blood tests that can detect cancer early, and diagnoses for people with rare diseases who have long sought answers. We can also thank sequencing for the COVID-19 vaccines, which scientists started developing in January 2020 as soon as the first blueprint of the virus's genome was produced. In research labs, the technology has become essential for better understanding pathogens and human evolution. But it still isn’t ubiquitous in medicine. That’s in part because of the price tag. While it costs around $600 for scientists to perform sequencing, clinical interpretation and genetic counseling can drive the price to a few thousand dollars for patients—and insurance doesn’t always cover it.

Another reason is that for healthy people, there’s not yet enough evidence of benefits to prove that genome sequencing will be worth the cost. Currently, the test is mostly limited to people with certain cancers or undiagnosed illnesses—although in two recent studies, around 12 to 15 percent of healthy people whose genomes were sequenced ended up having a genetic variation that showed they had an elevated risk of a treatable or preventable disease, indicating that sequencing may provide an early warning.

For now, researchers—not patients—will likely benefit most from cheap sequencing. “We’ve been waiting for this for a long time,” says Stacey Gabriel, chief genomics officer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, of the new improvements. “With greatly reduced costs and greatly increased speed of sequencing, we can sequence way more samples.” Gabriel is not affiliated with Illumina, but the Broad Institute is something of an Illumina power user. The institute has 32 of the company’s existing machines and has sequenced more than 486,000 genomes since it was established in 2004.

Gabriel says there are a number of ways that researchers will be able to apply added sequencing power. One is to increase the diversity of genomic datasets, given that the vast majority of DNA data has come from people of European descent. That’s a problem for medicine, because different populations might have different disease-causing genetic variations that are more or less prevalent. “There’s really an incomplete picture and a hampered ability to translate and apply those learnings to the full population diversity in the world,” Gabriel says.

[jacensolodjo]

I’m curious why ‘you’ll get covid eventually’ crowd has pivoted to ‘you’ve probably had COVID already and didn’t realize it”. 

What exactly are you trying to prove here? Are you trying to make it completely endemic? 

[lets-steal-an-archive]

[graysongraysoff]

okay. wow. so for like. my own sanity. i think i need to just. very methodically. and calmly. and slowly. just kind of walk through where i’m at right now. because i feel like if i don’t i will be stuck in this overthinking feedback loop forever.

please don’t feel obligated to do anything at all about this post. i mean that 100% sincerely. genuinely, i am telling you to scroll past this if you don’t have the bandwidth or just plain don’t feel like reading it. i know we are all, in our own various ways, Going Through It right now, and this is just What’s Going On Inside My Own Head. this has nothing to do with anyone but me and my own neuroses, so please do feel free to skip it.

okay. so. thing 1. as you may have seen in a previous kind of word-vomity post that i’ll probably delete once i write this, my family hasn’t been doing great. my mom was in the hospital with covid all last week that was given to her by her emotionally abusive boyfriend, who has been making her life hell since she got out. (he’s in the hospital himself now, and even from there he’s managing to make everything a fucking problem.) he also got my older brother sick. the older of my two younger sisters, who works in a hospital, has been back and forth between her own home and my mom’s home, which is an hour away, to take care of them. my youngest sister just broke up with her boyfriend, and today was her second “covid birthday.” everyone is tired and suffering and at the end of their fucking rope.

and i’m 600 miles away, so i can’t really do anything about any of it.

now, because i can’t do anything about any of it, and also (i suspect) because my wellbutrin is doing its job and giving me the capacity to do things other than sleep, stare at my computer, and feel trapped in my own life, i have turned to escapism to try to keep my mind off things. i have turned to escapism, in fact, to a level that i haven’t been able to muster in what feels like a fucking decade. and honestly it has felt really, really good to be so fanatical about something again. this is thing 2.

thing 3, however, is that, for whatever reason—maybe because of the family stress i’m trying so hard to bury or maybe as the dark side of all this Wellbutrin Energy or maybe a little bit of both—with all of this escapism, all of this baggage and internalized shit is coming up for me in a way that it hasn’t, again, in what feels like a fucking decade. i have a lot of baggage associated with being perceived as “obsessive” and “annoying,” to the point that even just typing those two words has me tearing up. i have always been someone who “obsesses,” that’s just literally who i am as a person, and the adults in my family used to “tease” me about it. (these are all their words, by the way.) i’m sure they weren’t doing it maliciously, and honestly a little bit of that is a good thing; having some level of self-awareness about how we might come off to other people is an important part of, like, navigating society. but i internalized way more than a little bit of that teasing. i internalized way more than a little bit of shame about the kinds of things i was interested in and the level to which i was interested in them.

so what those three things have combined to create behind the scenes is the aforementioned overthinking feedback loop:

“i’m stressed and sad about what’s going on at home” -> “oh i know, i’ll shitpost about arthuriana some more, that’ll cheer me up” -> “oh no, i am certain, based on literally no evidence—again, i cannot emphasize enough how little this has to do with anyone but myself and my own dumb brain—that i am being Obsessive and Annoying and that everyone wishes i would rein it the fuck in, because i am Obsessive and Annoying, so why wouldn’t they think that?”

and then that spirals. i start making self-deprecating little comments in my tags as a way of “apologizing” for my Obsessive and Annoying behavior, that, again, i have no reason to believe is even bothering anybody, and then i start to worry that people will find that annoying, too, or they’ll think i’m trying to guilt them or something, and on and on and on until i’m completely frozen with absolutely no point of reference for whether it would be better to say something, to keep apologizing—for info-dumping, for trauma-dumping, for guilt-tripping, for everything—or to just stop dumping on people for once and delete all my posts and just keep it the fuck to myself.

and the thing is, i realize that this is deranged, lol. that could even qualify as the fourth part of the feedback loop: the “oh my god, you’re completely overreacting. no one is even paying remotely that much attention to you, just put whatever you want on your stupid blog” part. i know this is just my brain and my baggage that are doing me like this. but that’s the ultimate shitty thing about brain stuff: just knowing about it doesn’t necessarily stop it from happening.

the good news, though, is that i do genuinely feel much better after putting all of that down. like i said, i think i just needed to walk through it. and honestly, i think i needed to post it, too—to tell you guys, or at least feel like i was telling you guys. that’s something i’ve been working on in therapy for a while, just. telling people where i’m at. not with any expectations or anything, but just so that they’ll know.

so if you’ve read this far, thank you. i mean it. and yeah, lol. now you know. 😅

[altschmerzes]

yom hashoah starts at sundown tonight. for those of you unfamiliar with that name, it’s holocaust remembrance day in the jewish calendar. there’s a lot of things i could say about that, a lot of ways i could be a little more loudly jewish today, could try in some fumbling way to honor and grieve the way my community has suffered - a community i owe everything to. 

all i can think about are people on the news and on twitter comparing shelter in place orders to the holocaust. likening desperate lifesaving measures of community care to the shoah. i can’t think of anything useful to say about that except ‘if you have a human bone in your body, stop and dont’. so i’ll turn to the auschwitz memorial’s twitter, which said it better than i ever could.

stay home. respect the shelter in place. check on your friends and if you can help, please do. think ‘what can i do to make our world a better & safer place’, and start doing it. now.

[bwayfan25]

Chapters: 1/3

Fandom: ER (TV 1994)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Kerry Weaver, Susan Lewis (ER TV 1994), Original Characters Additional Tags: Annie Levin, Suzie Lewis - Freeform, Charlie Lewis - Freeform, Set in the matriarchs au, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Motherhood, Childbirth, references to COVID-19, minor spoilers for the mandalorian, technically, Jewish Character, Hanukkah, Family, Family Feels, Kerry and Susan become grandparents

Summary: 
Even in darkness, there are moments of light. In a year as dark as 2020, brightness can be hard to come by. Many are left feeling as if there may never be brightness again, and none more so than those who have been working day in and day out in the County General Emergency Department. But on the last night of Hanukkah, things shine bright in the form of not one but two little miracles welcomed into the Weaver-Lewis family. 

A fic set in the “matriarchs” universe in which a new cycle of matriarchs begins in the dark of winter. Kerry supports Annie through her delivery and in the aftermath as they struggle to maintain their excitement in the face of COVID-19.

Hey guys I wrote another thing!!!

[justfrozenthings]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28392267

Notes: I know it’s past Christmas but I wanted to write a fic for it so here y’all go. I decided to go with a much more fluffy story this time to make up for the sad one I wrote last time

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: Frozen (Disney Movies)

Relationship: Anna/Kristoff (Disney)

Characters: Kristoff (Disney), Anna (Disney)

Additional Tags:

mentions of Elsa, mentions of Kristoff and Anna's kids, mentions of Bulda, takes place in 2020 and the COVID 19 pandemic that has yet to end

Language: English

Words: 522

Summary:

At first Kristoff was worried that this virus would ruin the Bjorgman family Christmas traditions. Luckily, he was married to Anna who always had a trick up her sleeve.

[finnglas]

heads up: I have no impulse control when it comes to reblogging things sometimes, BUT I did realize this morning that I haven’t been tagging very well. So for anyone avoiding coronavirus talk for your sanity (I don’t blame you, I just have no impulse control as I mentioned earlier), my tag is ‘covid 19 for ts’ -- no dashes or anything to try to keep it as simple as possible for blacklists.

[tastydregs]

The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here

The human genome is made of more than 6 billion letters, and each person has a unique configuration of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts—the molecular building blocks that make up DNA. Determining the sequence of all those letters used to take vast amounts of money, time, and effort. The Human Genome Project took 13 years and thousands of researchers. The final cost: $2.7 billion.

That 1990 project kicked off the age of genomics, helping scientists unravel genetic drivers of cancer and many inherited diseases while spurring the development of at-home DNA tests, among many other advances. Next, researchers started sequencing more genomes: from animals, plants, bacteria, and viruses. Ten years ago, it cost about $10,000 for researchers to sequence a human genome. A few years ago, that fell to $1,000. Today, it’s about $600.

Now, sequencing is about to get even cheaper. At an industry event in San Diego today, genomics behemoth Illumina unveiled what it calls its fastest, most cost-efficient sequencing machines yet, the NovaSeq X series. The company, which controls around 80 percent of the DNA sequencing market globally, believes its new technology will slash the cost to just $200 per human genome while providing a readout at twice the speed. Francis deSouza, Illumina’s CEO, says the more powerful model will be able to sequence 20,000 genomes per year; its current machines can do about 7,500. Illumina will start selling the new machines today and ship them next year.

“As we look to the next decade, we believe we’re entering the era of genomic medicine going mainstream. To do that requires the next generation of sequencers,” deSouza says. “We need price points to keep coming down to make genomic medicine and genomic tests available much more broadly.”

Reagents and buffer cartridges.

Courtesy of Illumina

Sequencing has led to genetically targeted drugs, blood tests that can detect cancer early, and diagnoses for people with rare diseases who have long sought answers. We can also thank sequencing for the Covid-19 vaccines, which scientists started developing in January 2020 as soon as the first blueprint of the virus's genome was produced. In research labs, the technology has become essential for better understanding pathogens and human evolution. But it still isn’t ubiquitous in medicine. That’s in part because of the price tag. While it costs around $600 for scientists to perform sequencing, clinical interpretation and genetic counseling can drive the price to a few thousand dollars for patients—and insurance doesn’t always cover it.

[jacensolodjo]

Weird. the walgreens closest to me apparently doesn’t stock the pfizer vaccine or booster. ughhhhhhhhhhhh i don’t want to go to a different pharmacyyyy

[garbage-alien]

I posted 2,230 times in 2021

6 posts created (0%)

2224 posts reblogged (100%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 370.7 posts.

I added 1,326 tags in 2021

#art - 539 posts

#sailor moon - 260 posts

#lis - 153 posts

#ts - 81 posts

#at - 61 posts

#food - 53 posts

#pmmm - 52 posts

#cats - 50 posts

#ac - 43 posts

#fashion - 34 posts

Longest Tag: 132 characters

#srdsgfhf the first time i heard money machine i was like ‘wow this sucks’ then i listened to it on repeat nonstop for several hours…

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

0 notes • Posted 2021-04-01 21:26:50 GMT

#4

I bleached two blond streaks in my hair today 💕🌈🎀

1 notes • Posted 2021-12-13 01:33:55 GMT

#3

Barenaked Ladies really said this on their 1999 hit song One Week and we all just let them huh

1 notes • Posted 2021-07-17 01:54:55 GMT

#2

*to the tune of Jolene by Dolly Parton*

vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiine

i'm begging you to prevent covid 19

1 notes • Posted 2021-04-10 19:50:04 GMT

#1

no thoughts, all brain cells replaced with yearning

10 notes • Posted 2021-07-17 01:57:36 GMT

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[graysongraysoff]

i am like fairly sure one of my coworkers has covid and is just too proud to admit it bc he doesn’t want to own the fact that maybe he and his wife shouldn’t have been taking little weekend trips across state lines all throughout the month of june

[thatscrazyrandom]

I posted 2,436 times in 2021

128 posts created (5%)

2308 posts reblogged (95%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 18.0 posts.

I added 199 tags in 2021

#thatscrazyrandom - 130 posts

#bridgerton - 19 posts

#dream smp - 10 posts

#ts spoilers - 9 posts

#dream smp spoilers - 8 posts

#the extraordinaries - 6 posts

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#long post - 4 posts

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#covid tw - 4 posts

Longest Tag: 105 characters

#and all the cute stuff nick thinks about seth but somehow doesnt realise its because hes in love with him

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Found out earlier today that Quackity originally wanted to be part of LManburg and Wilbur wouldn't let him in because he wasn't from the UK.

And now thinking about how Quackity wouldn't let Wilbur into Las Nevadas.

But I'm too tired to articulate this line of thought rn so like: something about the night changing

48 notes • Posted 2021-09-23 13:22:12 GMT

#4

I did a thing! Bench Trio my beloved <3

Sadly, I've had the base saved for ages and I don't know where I found it, so if you know who made it, please let me know so I can add credit!

48 notes • Posted 2021-08-09 02:45:01 GMT

#3

That scene in Crazy Rich Asians when Nick sees Rachel sitting with the Princess right at the front, and she's laughing and enjoying herself, deep in conversation with the woman who didn't want to be bothered, and the opening bars of the really pretty version of Can't Help Falling In Love starts playing as he realises she's not going to back down so easily because of his family and it feels like he's falling in love with her all over again, and even as the wedding starts and the bride starts coming down the aisle, he can't take his eyes off her...

I want that.

89 notes • Posted 2021-06-08 13:45:50 GMT

#2

One of those 'you hear whatever song your soulmate is singing' AUs except one of them is a famous singer.

122 notes • Posted 2021-01-01 14:14:04 GMT

#1

Can I just say that Arthur absolutely ranted to Zoe about how amazing he thought Linus was?

183 notes • Posted 2021-03-12 06:46:13 GMT

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[orbemnews]

Tired of losing, woman buys her 'last' $3 lottery ticket in Beaufort, then wins $100,000 Tired of losing, woman buys her ‘last’ $3 lottery ticket in Beaufort, then wins $100,000 Lottery officials say the woman, who purchased the ticket on Boundary Street in Beaufort, plans to buy a house with the winnings. Updated: 11:46 AM EDT Apr 27, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript RIGHT NOW ON WJCL 22 MORNING NEWS .. A CHANGE IN POLICY OV ER MASK- WEARING OUTDOORS. THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN OVER NEW GUIDANCE FROM THE CDC. PLUS— DROP IN DEMAND. A LOCAL MASS VACCINATION SITE WILL STOP DEALING DOSES. WHEN YOU CAN EXPECT THAT TO HAPPEN. AND—- HELPING CONTINUE TO FEED KIDS OVER THE SUMMER THE NEW ASSISTANCE JUST APPROVED BY THE FEDERAL VEGORNMENT. – ***2-SHOT***} THANKS FOR STARTING YOUR DAY WITH WJCL 22! GOOD MORNING, I’M ASHLEY GARRET T. AND I’M CHRIS TATUM… WJCL’S METEROLOGT IS MELISSA HALL IS ALSO HERE… WITH YOUR CERTIFIED MOST ACCURATE FORECA. NOW, HERE’S YOUR STORM TRACKER RADAR… TUESDAY PATCHY FOG BEFORE 8AM. OTHERWISE, SUNNY, WITH A HIGH NEAR 79. LIGHT AND VARIABLE WIND BECOMING SOUTHEAST 6 TO 11 MPH IN THE MORNING. TUESDAY NIGHT PATCHY FOG AFTER 4AM. OTHERWISE, MOSTLY CLEAR, WITH A LOW AROUND 62. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 7 MPH BECOMING CALM AFTER MIDNIGHT. WEDNESDAY PATCHY FOG BEFORE 8AM. OTHERWISE, MOSTLY SUNN Y, WITH A HIGH NEAR 81. LIGHT SOUTHEAST WIND BECOMING SOUTH 6 TO 11 MPH IN THE MORNING. WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOSTLY CLEAR, WITH A LOW AROUND 64. SOUTH WIND 6 TO 10 MPH. THURSDAY MOSTLY SUNNY, WITH A HIGH NEAR 85. THURSDAY NIGHT PARTLY CLOUDY, WITH A LOW AROUND 68. FRIDAY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS, THEN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AFTER 2P M. PARTLY SUNNY, WITH A HH IG NEAR 85. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IS 40%. FRIDAY NIGHT A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. MOSTLY CLOUDY, WITH A LOW AROUND 61. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IS 30%. SATURD AY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS, WITH THUNDERSTORMS ALSO POSSIBLE AFTER 2PM. MOSTLY SUNNY, WITH HIA GH NEAR 75. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IS 20 %. SATURDAY NIGHT A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. PARTLY CLOUDY, WITH A LOW AROUND 58. SUNDAY MOSTLY SUNNY, WITH A HIGH NEAR 78. SUNDAY NHTIG PARTLY CLOUDY, WH ITA LOW AROUND 62. MONDAY A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS. MOSTLY SUNNY, WITH A HIGH NEAR1. 8 A DEADLY CRASH ON TYBEE– ON HIGH-WAY 80 AT LAZ-A-RETTO– CREEK– BRIDGE. AUTHORITIES SAY-T I CAUSED THAT STRETCH TO BE SHUT DOWN FOR SEVERAL HOUR S. TYBEE POLICE SAY- THE CRASH HAPPENED AROUND– 11-30 LAST NIG. HT THE NAME OF THE VICTIM– AND– THE CAUSE OF THE CRASH–IS NOT YET KNOWN. RIGHT NOW– WEE ‘R TRACKING SIGNS OF VACCINE SLOW DOWN– IN GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA. WJCL’S DANIEL ROBINSO- N REPORTS– THE BIGGEST CONCNSER– FROM LOWCOUNTRY DOCTO. ASHLEY – AS FACEMASK MANDATES IN SOME LOWCOUNTRY AREAS BEGINO T BE LIFTED – DOCTORS AT BEAUFORT MEMORIAL WORRY – WITH LESS GETTING VACCINATED – TT HA COULD LEAD TO A SPIKE IN CASES IN THE FUTURE… RIGHT NOW – THE HOSPITAL SAYS FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS…. THEY ARE SEEING AROUND00 3 PEOPLE A WEEK – FOR A COVID-19 VACCINE. WHICH THROUGH BEAUFORT MEMORIAL IS THE PFIZER VACCINE. THAT NUMBER IS COMPARED TO THE MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE A WEEK – THAT THEY HAD BEEN SEEING – EARLIER TS HIYEAR. “I THINK THAT SOME OF THIS IS HESITANCY, I THINK THAT THE FOLKS THAT WERE GOING TO G ET VACCINATED DID AND A FEW THAT WAS ON THE FENCE BUT NOW THE PERCENTAGE THAT WE ARE SEEING IS THE FOLKS THAT DECIDED FOR WHATEVER REASON THEY ARE GOING TO WAIT AND SEE OR JUST NOT GET VACCINATED…AT ALL… WHICH IS UNFORTUNATE BECAUSE WE ARE SITTING AROUND IN THE HIGH0 2 PERCENT IN THE STATE AND 30 PERCENT NATIONAL. LY DR. GAMBLA SAYS IF THE GOAL IS HERD IMMUNITY AGAINST COVID-19 – WE WOULD NEED TO BE AT 80 PERCENT…. FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE EITHER RECEIVED THE VACCINE OR FULLY RECOVERED FROM THE VIRUS. SO FAR IN BEAUFORT COUNTY — THE CDC SAYS MORE THAN 74 – THOUSAND PEOPLE HA VE GOTTEN AT LEAST ONCE DOSE OF THE VACCINE – COMPARED TO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE ABOVE 15+ IN THE COUNTY…. WHICH ISOR ME THAN 154 – THOUSAND. WHILE DOCTORS SAY – THE CURRENT RATE OF COVID-19 CASES – IN THE COUNTY– HAS SEEN A DECREASE – THEY WOR RY ASHLEY – THAT IT MIGHT NOT STAY LIKE THAT FOR LONG,S A WE HEAD INTO A BUSY TOURIST SEASON – IF SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AREN’T FOLLOWED. ASHLEY… ASHLEY: DANIEL — NEW DATA SHOWS SOME PEOPLE– ACROSS THE U-S– ARE NOT BE GOING BACK– FOR THEIR SECOND DOSE… WHAT– HAS BEAUFORT MEMORIAL BEEN SEEING? DAELNI: ASHLEY – THAT HAS BEEN A PROBLEM WITH ABOUT 8 PERCENT OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNY TRNOT GOING BACK FOR A SECOND DOSE – IF IT IS REQUIRED – BUT – BEAUFORT MEMORIAL SAYS THEIR COMPLETION RA TE – IS OVER 90 PERCENT – A ND THAT HASN’T BEEN A BIG CONCERN FOR THEM. AS OF YESTERDAY—- ONLY 23 PERCENT OF GEORGIANS ARE FULLY VACCINATED AGAINST COVID-19. ONLY 34 PERCENT HAVE D HA AT LEAST ONE DOSE. TSEHE NUMBERS COME– A – *MONTH*– AFTER VACCINATIONS WE EROPENED TO– EVERYONE 16 AND OLDER. 70 TO 80 PERCENT OF THE– POPULATION– NEEDS TO BE– VACCINATED– TO– A-CHIEVE– HERD IMMUNI. TY AS GEORGIA CONTINUES TO SEE LOW DEMAND FOR VACCINATIONS- — THE FIRST MASS VACCINATN IOSITE IN COASTAL GEORGIA— T HE GULF-STREAM SITE– – IS CLOSING. EVEN THOUGH THE STATE’S VACCINATION NUMBS ER REMAIN LOW— ONE OF THE LOWEST IN THE NATION, IN FACT– — THE GEORGIA EMERGEN CY MANAGEMENT AGENCY SAYS IT DOES NOT PLAN TO RENEW ITS CONTCTRA WITH GULFSTREAM. IN ADDITION— ALL STATE MASS VAINCCATION SITES WILL STOP OFFERING THE FIRST DOSE OF PFIZER VACCINES ON APRIL . 30 GEMA SAYS E TH AVAILABILITY OF VACCINES AT MOST PHARMACIES— COMBINED WITH A DECREASE IN DEMAND— IS LEADING THE AGENCY TO FOCUS ON FULLY VACCINATING PEOPLE. ANOTHER BIG TALKER– IN JUST HOURS WE’RE EXCTINPEG- NEW GUIDANCE ON– – WHEN– U YOSHOULD– BE WEARING A MAS K. ABC’S IKE– E- JOCHI –BREAKS DOWN–WHAT CHANGES– WE COULD SEE–AND THE RACE–TO VACCINAT E. THIS MORNING A NEW MILESTONE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CORONAVIRUS. NEARLY 96 MILLION AMERICANS ARE NOW FULLY VACCINATED. THE CDC IS EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE NEW GUIDELINES FOR OUTDOOR MASK WEARING FOR THOSE FULLY VACCINAT. ED SOT DR RIBEIRA: “WE’VE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THE VIRUS IN THE LAST YEAR AND RECENT RESEARCH REAL LY SHOWS A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE OF INFECTIONS – LESS THAN 10% – HAPPEN OUTDOORS.” MO S: “I THINK EVERYBODY’S READY FOR THIS. WE’RE GETTING BACK TO NORMALCY.” A GROWING NUMBER OF STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE LIFTING THEIR OUTDOOR MASK MANDATES. THISS A VACCINATION SITES BEGIN TO ONCE AGAIN OFFER JOHNSON AND JOHNSON’S ONE SHOT VACCINE. THE CDC CLAIMS T HE VACCINE’S BENEFITS OUTWEIGH THE RIS. KS GFX: OUT OF THE 8 MILLION J&J DOSES GIVEN, 15 WOMEN SUFFERED RARE BLOOD CLOTS AND THIS MORNING- DOCTORS IN CALIFORNIA REPOING RT THE CASE OF A MAN IN HIS 3S 0’ NOW RECOVERING FROM A CLOT IN HIS LEG GFX THE MAN RECEIVED A J &J SHOT-THE CDC HAS NOT CONFIRMED ANY CONNECTION A NEW ABC NEWS POLL TAKEN REVEALS THE VACCINE PAUSE MAY CAUSEDOW LER TRUST IN THE VACCINE. LESS THAN HALF OF AMERICANS SEE THE J&J VACCINE AS SAFE. AND 73 PERCENT OF THOSE NOT YET VACCINATED SAY THEY WOULDN’T TAKE THE SH OT SOT MORRIS: “AND THEM ALSO PU TTING THE JOHNSON AND JOHNSON ON PAUSE, IT REALLY MADE ME THINK MORE TN HA TWICE ABOUT GOING BACK A ND GETTING THE SECOND ONE. ” DAILY VACCINATIONS DROPPING TO AN AVERAGE OF 2.75 MILLION DOSES. 24 PERCENT OF AMERICANS ARE NOT INCLINED TO GET A COVID-19 VACCINE. YET EFFORTS CONTINUE AROUND THE COUNTRY TFIO GHT VACCINE HESITENCY. IN WEST VIRGIN- IAGOVERNOR JIM JUSTICE OFFERING A 100 DOLLAR SAVINGS BOND FOR ANY 16 TO 35 YEAR OLD WILLING TO GET A SHOT. SOT GOV. JUSTICE: “I ‘M TELLING YOU, IT’S TIME, WEST VIRGINIA, TO SHUT THIS THING DOWN.” TAG: THBIDEE N ADMINISTRATI ON ANNOUNCING A PLAN TO SEND PPE AND MILLIONS OF DOSES OF ASTRAZENECA VACCINE DOSES TO IIAND, WHERE THEY’VE SEEN NEARLY ONE MILLION W NE COVID CASES IN JUST 3 DAYS. IKE EJIOCHI, ABC NEWS WASHINGTON SPEAKING OF TRUSTING THE VACCINE–HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE JOHNSON AND JOHNSON VACCIN E? WILL YOU GET IT– NOW THAT’S ITS BEEN– DEEMED– SAFE ENOUGH TO ADMINISTER? TAKE PART IN OUR POLL ON THE WJCL TWITTER PAGE RIGHT W NO SO FAR IT’S PRA ETTY EVEN SPLIT OF THOSE WILLING TO GET THSIE NGLE SHOT AND OTHERS WHO DON’T THINK ITS SAFE. A DEADLY CRASH ON TYBEE– ON HIGH-WAY 80 AT LAZ-A-RETTO– CREEK– BRIDGE. AUTHORITIES SAY- IT CAUSED THAT STRETCH TO BE SHUT DOWN FOR SEVERAL HOURS. TYBEE POLICE SAY- THE CRASH HAPPENED AROUND– 11-30 LAST NIGHT. THE NAME OF THE VICTIM– AND– THE CAUSE OF THE CRASH–IS NOT YET KNOWN. BRAND NEW THIS MORNING. .. A STORY OF SURVIVAL AFTER A CAR EXPLODES INTO A MASSIVE BALL OF FIRE… YEAH ASHLEY… LETS PLAY THAT HEART-STOPPING VIDEO RIGHT NOW… NATS OF PEOPLE IN VEHICLE THOSE ARE PEOPLE IN A PASSING CAR REACTING TO THAT EXPLOSION… IT HAPPENED SUNDAY…N I A DALLAS, TEXAS SUBURB… THE VIDEO SHOWS THAT CAR WAS ALREADY ON FIRE WHEN THE DRIVER PULLED OVER.. NO WORD – YET – ON WHAT CAUSE THAT FIRE – – AND EXPLOSION. .. AMAZINGLY THAT DRIVER IS OKAY. “I HEARD A BIG CRASH KABM OO AND LOOKED OVER ON THE BRIDGE HERE AT BLACK RIVER AND COME TO FIND OUT WE HAVE AN 18-WHEELER HANGING OFF THE BRIDGE WHAT A STORY THAT SOUTH CA ROLINA MAN HAS TO TELL THIS MORNING… HE WAS FISHING FROM HIS BOAT WHEN HE HEARD THAT COMMOTION ABOVE HIM… AND TURNED TO LOOK… THERE IT WAS… AN EIGHTEEN WHEER EL TEETERING OFF THE EDGE OF A BRIDGE ALONG HIGHWAY 17… IN GEORGETOWN COUNTY. .. THE CRASH SHUT DOWN THAT STRETCH OF7 1FOR HOURS… THAT TRUCK DRIVER IS OKAY THIS MORNING. .. NO WORD ON THE CONDITION OF THE OTHER DRIR VE INVOLVED IN THAT CRASH AFTER SEEING BO DY CAMERA FOOTAGE OF THE POLICE SHOOTING OF ANDREW BROWN, JUNIOR- — HIS FAMILY AND THEIR LAWYERS ARE CALLING HIS DEATH *AN EXECUTION.* THE FAMILY WAS ONLY ALLOWED TO SEE 20 SECONDS OF FOOTAGE—- WHICH ANGERED NOT ONLY THE FAMILY— BUALSOT THE PROTESTERS WHO HAVE BEEN CALLING FOR THE FU LL RELEASE OF THE BODY CAME RA FOOTAGE SINCE BROWN DIED LAST WEDNEAY. SD ONE THE BROWN FAMY’S IL ATTORNEYS SAYS THE PART OF THE VIDEO THEY WERE ABLE TO SEE SHOWED THAT BROWN WAS NOT A THREAT TO PASQUOTANK DEPUES ATIS THEY TRIED TO SERVE HIM AN ARREST WARRANT. CHANTEL LASSITER, BROWN FAMILY ATTORNEY: “HEAS W NOT REACHING FOR ANYTHING, HE WASN’T TOUCHING ANYTHING, HE WASN’T THROWING ANYTHING AROU, ND HE HAD HIS HANDS FIRMLY ON THE STEERING WHEEL. THEY RUN UP TO HIS VEHICLE AND SHOOT HIM.” (GAS) PS THE PASQUOTANK SHERIFF SAYS THE SHAKINESS OF BODY CAMERAS CAN MAKE IT HARD TO DETERMINE EXACTLY WHAT’S HAPPENING— AND THE INVESTIGATION INTO BROWN’S DEATH IS ONGOI. NG IN THE MEANTIME— THE COUNTY ATTORNEY HAS FILED A MOTION TO HAVE THE BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC. AS FORMER MINNEAPOLIS OFFICER DEREK CHAUVIN AWAITS HIS SENTENCING TRIAINL JUNE— — HE MAY TRY TO APPEAL HIS CONVICTIONS IN THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD. HOWEVER— THE MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS THAT’S SOMETHING HE’S NOT WORRIED ABOUT. KEITH ELLIN SO MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL ELLISON – “WELL LOOK, Y AN CASE IS GOING TO BE APPEALED. YOASU K THE CRITICAL QUESTION AM I WORRIED ABOUT IT? I’M SUFFICIENTLY CONCERN ED BECAUSE I NEED TO BE, YOU KNOW, WE’RE NOT GOING TO GET CARELESS… BUT I FEEL THAT THE TRIAWAL S SOLID AND IT WAS FAIR AND THAT DEREK CHAUVIN HAD AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A FULL AND FAIR TRIAL.” ATTORNEYS FOR FORMER DALLAS POLICE OFCEFIR AMBER GUYGER WILL APPEAL HER MURDER CONVICTION TODA Y. GUYGER SHOT AND KILD LE HER NEIGHBOR– BOTHAM JEAN— IN 20-18. SHE SAID SHE ENTERED HIS APARTMENT BY MISTAKE — AND THOUGHT HE WAS AN INTRUD. ER SHE WAS CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS IN PRIS. ON HER ATTORNE AYSRGUE SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE— INSTEAD. THAT USUALLY CARRIES A MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF TWO YEAR S. THE JUSTICE DEPAMERTNT IS LOOKING INTO THE LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY POLICE DEPARTMENT … AFTER THE BOTCHED RAID TT HA KILLED BREONNA TAYLOR. THE 26-YEAR- OLD WAS SHOT DURING A NO- KNOCK RAID WHILE SHE AND HER BOYFRIEND WERE SLEEPING LAST YEA R. HER BOYFRIEND FIREDT A POLICE, SAYING HE THOUGHT THEY WERE INTRUDERS. POLICE FIRED BACK, KILLING TAYLOR. THE JUSTICE DEPARTM Tired of losing, woman buys her ‘last’ $3 lottery ticket in Beaufort, then wins $100,000 Lottery officials say the woman, who purchased the ticket on Boundary Street in Beaufort, plans to buy a house with the winnings. Updated: 11:46 AM EDT Apr 27, 2021 Above video: Your latest headlinesLottery officials say two friends played the lottery in Beaufort. And while one lost, the other won $100,000.But there are no hard feelings between the two.”My friend was happy for me,” the winner, who chose not to be identified, told South Carolina Education Lottery officials. “I was excited and conflicted, because she deserved to win too.”Her friend talked her into buying a ticket at the Amoco Food Shop on Boundary Street in Beaufort. She says they like to scratch tickets together, but she was tired of not winning and said the $3 Lady Jumbo Bucks Crossword ticket would be her last.Since the win, she’s had a change of heart.”Every once in a while I might buy a ticket with her,” she laughed.In the meantime, she’s buying a new house.For selling the claimed ticket, Amoco Food Shop in Beaufort received a commission of $1,000. Above video: Your latest headlines Lottery officials say two friends played the lottery in Beaufort. And while one lost, the other won $100,000. But there are no hard feelings between the two. “My friend was happy for me,” the winner, who chose not to be identified, told South Carolina Education Lottery officials. “I was excited and conflicted, because she deserved to win too.” Her friend talked her into buying a ticket at the Amoco Food Shop on Boundary Street in Beaufort. She says they like to scratch tickets together, but she was tired of not winning and said the $3 Lady Jumbo Bucks Crossword ticket would be her last. Since the win, she’s had a change of heart. “Every once in a while I might buy a ticket with her,” she laughed. In the meantime, she’s buying a new house. For selling the claimed ticket, Amoco Food Shop in Beaufort received a commission of $1,000. Source link Orbem News #AmocoFoodShop #Beaufort #BoundaryStreet #buys #Losing #Lottery #lotterywin #SouthCarolina #SouthCarolinalottery #ticket #tired #wins #Woman

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World Says No to War on Yemen - Global Online Rally

Yemen is currently going through the world’s largest humanitarian crisis according to Human Rights Watch, the World Food Program, and UNICEF, with estimates of over 20 million to 24 million people requiring food aid. This has been only worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Canada has been backing the Saudi-led coalition that has commited atrocities in Yemen and lead to this humanitarian crisis, and is currently in an arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Canadian-made LAVs (light armoured vehicles) have even been found at the Saudi-Yemeni border.

On January 25th, there will be an online rally to stop the war on Yemen. Please sign up! And please tag Justin Trudeau, Minister of Foreign Affairs Marc Garneau, and your MP and use the tags #StopArmingSaudi and #WorldSaysNo!

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