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Anti-Vax Cartoonist Treating COVID With Ivermectin, Beet Root Juice

Ben Garrison is not vaccinated, won't go to hospital, he vows

(Newser) - A right-wing cartoonist who's made his anti-vaccine opinions clear now has COVID-19. "We’re taking Ivermectin and various vitamins including a lot of Zinc" and drinking beet root juice, Ben Garrison tells Gizmodo . Asked whether he'd been vaccinated, Garrison said no and falsely claimed the COVID vaccines...

Judge: Sheriff Can't Force Teen to Remove COVID Post

Deputy threatened arrests over Instagram post early in the pandemic

(Newser) - Amyiah Cohoon didn't intend to scare anyone or end up in the middle of a First Amendment court case. But after she posted three updates about her bout with COVID on social media, a sheriff's deputy showed up at her family home and told the 16-year-old to take...

DWTS Star Out for 10 Days With COVID

Cheryl Burke tearful about leaving partner Cody Rigsby in the lurch

(Newser) - Cheryl Burke, one of the pros on Dancing With The Stars, has tested positive for COVID. Burke is fully vaccinated. She announced the news in an emotional Instagram video occasionally punctuated with tears, USA Today reports. In the beginning she can be seen driving to take a test at 7am...

Biden Will Get His Booster Shot Monday
Biden Gets His
COVID Booster Shot
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Sep 27, 2021 2:10 PM CDT

Biden Gets His COVID Booster Shot

'It’s hard to acknowledge I’m over 65,' he jokes

(Newser) - President Biden received his COVID-19 booster shot on Monday, days after federal regulators recommended a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine for Americans age 65 or older and approved them for others with preexisting medical conditions and high-risk work environments. "The most important thing we need to do is...

2 Die in New Mexico After Taking Ivermectin for COVID

Poison control centers say calls about misuse of horse deworming drug have soared

(Newser) - Authorities have said it before and they'll say it again: Ivermectin is not an approved treatment for COVID-19, and people definitely shouldn't be taking medicine designed for horses. Officials in New Mexico say calls to poison control centers about the drug have soared over the last year and...

COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Worth Billions for Drugmakers

Drugstore chains could reap huge profits, too

(Newser) - Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the U.S. moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster shots to shore up Americans' protection against the virus. How much the manufacturers stand to gain depends on how big the rollout proves to be. US health officials late on...

A 'Cruel' Reddit Forum Puts Dark Twist on COVID Deaths

HermanCainAward goes to anti-vaxxers who die from the disease

(Newser) - Public obituaries amid the pandemic have turned into a "war of words," notes WebMD . Families of loved ones who died of COVID frequently vent their rage at the unvaccinated or make pleas for others to get their shots. On Reddit, however, a related phenomenon has reached a whole...

Only One Thing Will Prevent Another Trump Run

Ex-president sat for a TV interview

(Newser) - Donald Trump sat for an interview on the Real America's Voice network on Friday, where he told "The Water Cooler" host David Brody what he thinks would prevent another run for the White House. "I guess a bad call from a doctor or something, right," The...

Vaccine Mandate Could Mean Mass Firings At NY Hospitals

Workers still refuse jabs as Monday deadline looms

(Newser) - A Monday deadline is looming for New York hospital workers to be vaccinated for COVID-19, causing some hospitals in the state to worry mass firings are on the horizon as some continue to refuse to get the shots. Per the New York Times , a serious example of these fears can...

One COVID Model Suggests Relief Could Be Coming
One COVID Model Suggests
Things Are About to Get Better
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Sep 25, 2021 12:08 PM CDT

One COVID Model Suggests Things Are About to Get Better

If kids get vaccinated and no awful new variant emerges, that is

(Newser) - We're back at gloomy levels, with Johns Hopkins University data showing more than 2,000 Americans are now dying of COVID-19 daily, reports CNN —and in its telling, health experts are fearful of what the combination of our current COVID situation and the start of flu season will...

Age of COVID Fatalities in California Is Dropping

Younger people there are less likely to be vaccinated

(Newser) - The average age of Californians who have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic began is 73. But it's dropping quickly—down to 67 since April, the Los Angeles Times reports. It has to do with vaccinations, health experts say. More than 80% of adults over 50 and seniors have...

Harris' Visit to The View Has Unpleasant COVID Hiccup

2 hosts test positive for COVID, leave set just before VP was supposed to appear

(Newser) - The View had plugged VP Kamala Harris' visit on Friday as her first in-studio talk-show appearance since taking office. It didn't quite work out that way. Minutes before Harris was to appear, two of the four co-hosts were asked to leave the set during the live broadcast because they...

'Highly Unusual' Twist in CDC's Booster Shot Decision

CDC director overruled panel on key recommendation

(Newser) - The path has been cleared for COVID vaccine booster shots for millions of Americans. A CDC panel endorsed Pfizer booster shots for older people Thursday but split with the FDA's approval on a key issue: It didn't recommend booster shots for workers, including teachers and healthcare workers, whose...

Boy Vaxxed for 12th Birthday Had a Most Compelling Reason

Gavin Roberts' wish to get vaccinated as soon as he was eligible was spurred by dad's COVID death

(Newser) - On Sunday, Gavin Roberts turned 12, and instead of requesting video games or a smartphone, he had just one big item on his birthday wish list. "I kept asking him what he wanted," mom Alice Roberts tells NBC New York . "He was always saying it's the...

Florida's New Surgeon General: 'We're Done With Fear'

Joseph Ladapo makes quarantining optional for asymptomatic students who've been exposed

(Newser) - If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis needed an ally in his approach to public health in the age of COVID, he just got one in his new surgeon general, who announced a new emergency order this week on student quarantines. "Florida will completely reject fear as a way of making...

As Delta Rages, Alaska Starts Critical Care Standards

With hospitals already overwhelmed, state begins prioritizing patients who will benefit the most

(Newser) - Alaska, now recording the highest COVID-19 case rate per capita of any US state, is activating crisis standards of care with short-staffed hospitals overwhelmed. The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services on Wednesday announced an addendum to the state's existing COVID-19 public health order that grants limited liability...

FDA Adds Its Approval to Booster Shots for Seniors

The third Pfizer dose ideally would be given six months after the second one

(Newser) - Update: Coronavirus booster shots for people 65 and older and adults otherwise vulnerable to severe illness received the Food and Drug Administration's approval on Wednesday. The agency decided that anyone in a high-risk situation, possibly because of their job, also should be able to get a Pfizer booster, the...

Jesse Jackson Released, Saying Vaccine Saved His Life

Case of COVID still affected his ability to walk and talk

(Newser) - Update: The Rev. Jesse Jackson was sent home Wednesday after being hospitalized for a breakthrough COVID-19 infection and intensive physical therapy for Parkinson's disease. He and his wife, Jacqueline, were first hospitalized in August; she has not been vaccinated for COVID-19 and required oxygen before she was released. Before...

Cops: Man Punched Nurse for Vaccinating Wife Without His Consent

Woman was attacked in Quebec pharmacy

(Newser) - Police in Quebec are looking for a man who apparently believed he had the authority to impose an anti-vaccine mandate in his marriage. The suspect allegedly assaulted a nurse in a Sherbrooke pharmacy Monday morning, the CBC reports. Police spokesman Martin Carrier tells Reuters that the "angry and aggressive"...

About to Go on Ventilator, Bride-to-Be Asked for Vaccine

Samantha Wendell, who'd delayed vaccination over fertility concerns, died Sept. 10

(Newser) - Another US woman afraid to get vaccinated against COVID-19 for fear that it would affect her fertility has died of the disease. Samantha Wendell, a 29-year-old surgical technician from Grand Rivers, Ky., was laid to rest earlier this month in a ceremony at an Illinois church where she'd...

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