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May 12th, 2022, 07:49 AM #971
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September 5th, 2022, 01:12 PM #972
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Colleges in D.C. Continue COVID-19 Protocols
By Theodore Bunker - 05 September 2022
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/wa...05/id/1086046/
While many schools across the country are lowering their COVID-19 safety restrictions, several colleges in Washington, D.C., are keeping theirs in place as students return.
According to the Washington Post, the schools where vaccinations are required for students, with exceptions for medical or religious reasons, include American University, the University of the District of Columbia, Gallaudet University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Howard University, and Trinity Washington University.
Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, told the Post that the school's community has supported their vaccination and mask mandates.
"Our philosophy here is to be wary and to take what we believe are very prudent actions," McGuire said. "Everybody here is preoccupied with, 'Are we being safe enough?' Nobody here, I can tell you, nobody resisted masks."
The Catholic University of America, which sits alongside Trinity, has the most relaxed protocols among college campuses in D.C. It recommends that students, staff, and faculty get vaccinated against COVID-19 and wear masks while on campus, but those are not requirements.
"Throughout the pandemic Catholic University has implemented COVID protocols that have both aligned with D.C. and CDC guidelines, and that have worked best for our community," a spokesperson for the school told the Washington Post.
"We have successfully navigated this pandemic for two years, and we will continue to actively monitor COVID as well as other health threats as they emerge," the spokesperson added.
This simply proves that REALITY is still under assault to be created according to the preferences of the Liberal Left.
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September 7th, 2022, 03:27 PM #973
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Masks still required for certain theater venues throughout the U.S.
By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times - September 7, 2022
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ter-venues-th/
You'll want to keep that mask handy if you're a fan of the fine arts. Theater venues in many major metropolitan areas still require their patrons to wear masks, including in cities such as Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D.C.
"I'm sure there are some outliers who won't come to the Met because they don't want to wear a mask," Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, told The New York Times. "[But our] older audiences feel safer wearing masks. And our younger audiences are respectful of that."
Other places in the Big Apple that are keeping their mask mandate in place include the New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the New York City Ballet, according to the newspaper.
Meanwhile, the San Francisco Opera is keeping both its mask and vaccination requirements in place.
"Our recent audience survey also indicated a very strong desire for continued safety protocols in the auditorium," San Francisco Opera General Director Matthew Shilvock told The Times.
Masks are also still required to attend shows at D.C.'s Kennedy Center, the LA Opera in downtown Los Angeles and the Portland Opera.
The Chicago Opera Theater company, like the San Francisco Opera, still requires both masking and proof of vaccination to attend their performances.
New York State Ending Mask Mandates on Transit
Wednesday, 07 September 2022 11:55 AM EDT
https://www.newsmax.com/us/mask-tran...07/id/1086386/
New York is ending a 28-month-old COVID-19 mandate requiring masks on trains and in public transit, Governor Kathy Hochul said at a press conference Wednesday.
"Starting today masks will be optional," Hochul said at a press conference, citing recent revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In April, the Biden administration decided to no longer enforce a U.S. mask mandate on public transportation after a federal judge in Florida ruled the directive was unlawful. New York declined to adopt the Biden policy in April.
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September 7th, 2022, 03:41 PM #974
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September 7th, 2022, 05:39 PM #975
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I went to physical therapy today and as I was about to enter, I saw a horrible sight through the glass door.
Nobody was wearing a mask!
Something happened over the weekend and they finally made masks optional.
The sad thing is that this was my last day after two months of PT and wearing a mask.
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October 22nd, 2022, 10:52 PM #976
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U.S. health system ignored urgent surgeries during COVID-19 pandemic
By Sean Salai - The Washington Times - Friday, October 21, 2022
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...vid-19-pandem/
A new study finds that surgical procedures in the United States fell sharply during early pandemic quarantines as health officials treated cancer and other urgent conditions as nonessential.
Published this week in JAMA Surgery, the research letter analyzed anonymous surgery data from insurance claims provided by Change Healthcare. It found the volume of all procedures fell from 560,366 in April 2019 before the pandemic to 258,619 in April 2020 during lockdowns and quarantines.
That includes surgeries for 10 urgent conditions including various cancers, infections and ischemia that declined from 90,656 to 40,093 procedures over the same period.
Lead researcher Sherry M. Wren, director of global surgery at Stanford University's Center for Global Health and Innovation, said the study sought to better define "essential surgery" for future pandemics.
"There are numerous articles now showing the negative impact the COVID response had on cancer care since there was no schema to guide decision making and some health centers deferred this care," said Dr. Wren, the director of clinical surgery at Palo Alto Veterans Hospital. "This report can serve as foundational data for planning purposes for high-resourced countries."
According to the research letter, the World Bank Disease Control Priorities defined 44 essential surgical procedures as a starting point for health systems in low- and middle-income countries early in the pandemic.
Those procedures included soft-tissue surgeries, cesarean deliveries, fracture treatments and appendectomies.
Because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services restricted elective surgery during the pandemic, many conditions not on this list went untreated as nonessential.
The research letter found that these nonessential surgeries included treatments for several cancers: intestinal, urological, cardiothoracic, gynecological, ear, nose, throat and breast.
They also included organ transplants, heart bypasses and aneurysms.
Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said the study shows the costs of restricting surgical procedures in the early days of COVID.
"The lesson is that it's not good policy to fall prey to short-range thinking and privilege one health condition such as COVID over others whose impact will also be significant," said Dr. Adalja, an infectious disease specialist.
With no other list of essential surgeries available during pandemic quarantines, hospitals made judgment calls about allocating staff, beds, supplies and resources for non-COVID patients.
Medical experts say the U.S. can do better next time.
"We as a health care system were not greatly prepared to deal with resource allocation during a public health crisis," said Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a physician at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "Every health system needs to prepare for such issues, from staffing to therapies, and be ready to improve the threshold that would prevent such a pause in health care services."
By the leftist liberal government, pharmaceutical companies and medical personal & facilities choosing and promoting a total PANIC response, many people were unnecessarily hurt - physically, mentally and financially.
PAN Dem IC ==== A Democrat Fomented PANIC!
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October 25th, 2022, 07:13 PM #977
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New York Supreme Court reinstates workers fired over COVID-19 vaccine, orders back pay
by Julia Johnson - October 25, 2022 02:09 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...-covid-vaccine
The Supreme Court of New York ordered that workers who were fired for not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine be reinstated to their positions and receive back pay.
According to the court, the vaccine is "not absolute" and the mandate "violated the petitioners' equal protection rights as the mandate is arbitrary and capricious."
While the court recognized the authority of the former health commissioner of the city of New York, David Chokshi, to issue public health mandates, it ruled that the commissioner can't create new conditions of employment for city workers. Furthermore, the commissioner does not have the authority to prevent workers from reporting for duty, nor can he terminate employees.
"Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19," the court continued, citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As a result, the court ordered that "terminated petitioners are hereby reinstated to their full employment status," which went into effect on Tuesday.
Further, the court said that "petitioners are entitled to back pay in salary from the day of termination."
Chokshi issued the initial vaccination mandate on Oct. 20, 2021, which required workers to supply proof of at least one dose by Oct. 29. In December 2021, the mandate was extended to the private sector. In spring 2022, however, Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order allowing for various exemptions for private sector workers. The petitioners successfully argued that this order rendered the public sector mandate both arbitrary and capricious.
In February, New York City confirmed that it had fired more than 1,400 workers for refusing to be vaccinated.
FDNY-Firefighters Association President Andrew Ansbro and FDNY-Fire Officers Association President Lt. James McCarthy pleaded with the mayor to discuss the matter with the unions following his executive order for private sector employees.
"We're here to say that we support the revocation of the vaccine mandate that the mayor announced on Thursday," McCarthy said in a March press conference. "We think that it should be extended, as well. We support the revocation of the mandate for the athletes and performers that work in New York City. We think that the people that work for New York City should also have the mandate relocated for them."
Unexpected Sense!
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October 29th, 2022, 08:47 PM #978
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First responders, food service workers were most likely to die of COVID in 2020, CDC confirms
By Sean Salai - The Washington Times - Friday, October 28, 2022
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...-were-most-li/
First responders and food service workers were the Americans most likely to die from COVID-19 in 2020, according to final government figures released Friday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 60.3 of every 100,000 workers aged 15 to 64 in protective services occupations died of the virus, the highest of any industry. That includes police officers, firefighters, correctional officers and security guards.
Accommodation and food service workers in hotels, restaurants and bars had the second-highest rate at 55 deaths for every 100,000 employees, according to a National Vital Statistics report.
CDC research epidemiologist Andrea Steege, author of the report, said the numbers confirm preliminary data.
*This is the first report to describe U.S. COVID-19 mortality by both occupation and industry over the entirety of 2020,* Ms. Steege said in an email.
Among the 46 states plus New York City for which the CDC has complete data, COVID caused 1,750 out of 15,121 protective service worker deaths in 2020.
In the food preparation and serving industry, COVID caused 2,859 out of 37,954 deaths.
The CDC calculated age-adjusted death rates for COVID based on the age distribution of the U.S. population.
Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said the study confirms that not having personal protective equipment (PPE) put frontline workers at higher risk before vaccines became available.
*This underscores the need for appropriate PPE to be available to those in high-risk occupations,* said Dr. Adalja, an infectious disease specialist.
The CDC report also estimated the proportionate mortality ratios of various industries. In descending order, it found that the highest proportions of COVID deaths occurred in community and social services occupations, transportation and warehousing, healthc are and social assistance, and administrative, support and waste services.
Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a physician at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, said the report shows how public-health policies overlooked those who had to work outside the home during the pandemic.
*We must create policies in the future not solely for those who can stay home, but also for those who must continue to be in the public realm,* Dr. Galiatsatos said.
60.3 of every 100,000 = .060%
55 of every 100,000 == .055%
If 94% had comorbidities (see below) then *.06 = .00036% of deaths with coronavirus only
So - General population of 18-55yo = 120M / Deaths = 13309 / *.06=799 w/o Comorbidities
Calculated in September of 2020, that's .0006% with Coronavirus ONLY
Hmmmmmmm ... old news is new again...
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November 1st, 2022, 03:10 PM #979
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Supreme Court leaves ruling in place that allows transportation mask mandates
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Tuesday, November 1, 2022
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ows-transport/
The Supreme Court has left in place a ruling that allowed the Transportation Security Administration to require masks on airplanes during the pandemic.
The high court*s move on Monday won*t bring masks back to public transportation, but it leaves in place a precedent set by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which said the TSA had the authority to mandate face coverings on public transport in national emergencies.
The TSA removed its mandate last spring after a lower-court judge, ruling in a separate case, said the administration overstepped its authority with the transportation mask mandate that President Biden issued at the start of his term.
Many entities were dropping mask mandates around the time of that April ruling, making public transportation an outlier. Yet the Department of Justice said it would appeal the ruling to preserve agencies* powers in the future.
The Supreme Court swatted aside an appeal from Jonathan Corbett, a California lawyer who attempted to erase the D.C. Circuit*s precedent.
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November 1st, 2022, 03:23 PM #980
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Am I still a "hero" for working at Walmart all this time?
Nobody has thanked me for working in quite some time.I called to check my ZIP CODE!....DY-NO-MITE!!!
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