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New Zealand's COVID Outbreak Hits Triple Digits

Nationwide lockdown extended until at least Friday

(Newser) - New Zealand's government on Monday said it will extend a strict nationwide lockdown until at least Friday as it tries to extinguish a growing coronavirus outbreak, the AP reports. The news came as health authorities reported 35 new local infections of the fast-spreading delta variant, the highest number of...

Donald Trump Booed in Alabama
Donald Trump 
Booed in Alabama
Aug 23, 2021 1:15 AM CDT

Donald Trump Booed in Alabama

Supporters at Save America rally didn't like vaccine comments

(Newser) - Amid many cheers from a large crowd of supporters packed shoulder to shoulder in Cullman, Ala., on Saturday night, former President Trump also got a few boos when he brought up the coronavirus vaccine. "I believe totally in your freedoms, I do, you gotta do what you gotta do,...

Biden Gives Update On Afghanistan, COVID, Henri

President says he hasn't ruled out extending the Aug. 31 troop withdrawal deadline

(Newser) - President Joe Biden held a press conference Sunday afternoon to address the ongoing evacuation in Afghanistan. He repeated his promise to bring home all Americans who want to leave, and said that the US “will welcome these Afghans who have helped us in the war effort over the last...

Rescue Dogs Shot Dead Due to COVID Restrictions

Animal welfare group says it had a safety plan ready and was planning to take the animals

(Newser) - Volunteers were ready to pick up some dogs that had been impounded in New South Wales, Australia. Instead, the dogs were shot dead. A reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald learned from a local government watchdog group that an animal shelter in the middle of the state—the same state...

Woman in Tonga for Weekend Ends Up Trapped For 18 Months

She's not that upset about it

(Newser) - A British woman is telling her story of a weekend trip to the South Pacific that has now stretched on for some 18 months. It'll come as no surprise that COVID is to blame for what Zoe Stephens dubs "the longest weekend of my life," but the...

Phil Valentine Regretted Vaccine Skepticism Prior to Death

Conservative talk radio host died of COVID

(Newser) - An outspoken nationally syndicated conservative radio show host who openly expressed skepticism about the coronavirus vaccine has died following a battle with COVID-19. Per WKRN , Phil Valentine's death was announced Saturday afternoon by his station in Tennessee, SuperTalk 99.7 WTN—the same platform the 61-year-old once used to...

Horse Drug Taken for COVID Leads to Poisonings

Mississippi health officials warn people not to buy their medicine at a feed store

(Newser) - Mississippi officials have become alarmed enough at calls coming in to its poison control center to issue a statewide health alert. Don't take a drug intended for horses to self-treat COVID-19, officials said. "At least 70% of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or...

Melissa Joan Hart, Vaccinated But Sick With COVID: 'Do Better'

Sabrina star worried that her kid is infected, mad that he didn't have to wear a mask

(Newser) - Melissa Joan Hart has COVID, and she’s “really mad,” she said. The Sabrina the Teenage Witch star posted an Instagram video from bed looking sad but composed, revealing her diagnosis. She said she thinks she may have caught it from one of the three sons she shares...

Virginia School Drops 238 Students Over Vax Status

University of Virginia has an A average for vaccinations so far, though

(Newser) - The University of Virginia has disenrolled students who haven’t proved they’ve gotten vaccinated and haven’t responded to repeated messages reminding them to get the shot. There were 238 students on the roll for fall, but only 49 had actually registered for classes, the Virginian-Pilot reports. Some of...

Health Officials Slam 'Irresponsible' Workarounds on Mask Rules

Doctors, religious and community leaders, school officials, others helping parents circumvent masking

(Newser) - An Oregon school superintendent is telling parents they can get their children out of wearing masks by citing federal disability law. A pastor at a California megachurch is offering religious exemptions for anyone morally conflicted over vaccine requirements. And Louisiana's attorney general has posted sample letters on his office'...

New Zealand Outbreak Spreads to the Capital

Nationwide lockdown will now last until at least Tuesday

(Newser) - New Zealand’s first virus outbreak in six months has spread from the largest city of Auckland to the capital, Wellington, the AP reports. Health authorities said Friday that three people in Wellington who recently visited Auckland had tested positive. They said the outbreak had grown to 31 cases. The...

One Response to Plan for Booster Shots: &#39;Bafflement&#39;
One Response to Plan
for Booster Shots: 'Bafflement'
the rundown
Aug 19, 2021 12:49 PM CDT

One Response to Plan for Booster Shots: 'Bafflement'

Critics say science doesn't back up the need

(Newser) - The US plans to roll out booster shots for people in September, and two high-profile seniors plan to get theirs as soon as possible. President Biden told ABC News that he and first lady Jill Biden won't hesitate on their third COVID shot. "We got our shots, all...

Doctor to Unvaccinated: Find Another Physican

Alabama's Jason Valentine works in the state with lowest vaccination rate

(Newser) - An Alabama doctor sick of seeing unvaccinated people die of COVID-19 says he will soon turn them away. Dr. Jason Valentine, a physician at Diagnostic and Medical Clinic Infirmary Health in Mobile, this week shared a photo of himself posing next to a sign in his office that explains, as...

Tens of Thousands of Students Are in Quarantine
As School Gets Underway,
Sobering Numbers
THE RUNDOWN
Aug 19, 2021 10:05 AM CDT

As School Gets Underway, Sobering Numbers

Tens of thousands of students already quarantined across the US, including 20K in Mississippi

(Newser) - More than 20,000 students in Mississippi—about 4.5% of the state's public-school population—were quarantined over the last two weeks due to coronavirus exposures, per USA Today . Almost 6,000 students in the state have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past two weeks, and two have...

Fox Orders Employees to Disclose Vax Status

It was a voluntary self-report until now, but new directive from CEO has changed things up

(Newser) - On Fox News, the topic of vaccine passports has been a hot one, with show hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity claiming the concept of asking someone for proof of vaccination is an invasion of privacy and an un-American infringement on one's rights. It's not yet...

After a Week, 8K Students in Florida District Are Quarantined
Florida's School Mask
Drama Heats Up
UPDATED
Aug 19, 2021 7:07 AM CDT

Florida's School Mask Drama Heats Up

Miami-Dade and Hillsborough school districts defy governor's ban

(Newser) - Two of Florida's biggest school districts have decided to join others that have defied Gov. Ron DeSantis and brought in mask mandates. In the Tampa-area Hillsborough County district, which has around 213,000 students, some 8,400 students and more than 300 teachers are in isolation after testing positive...

New Zealand Figures Out Likely Source of COVID Outbreak

As cases balloon to 21

(Newser) - The single COVID-19 infection that caused New Zealand to lockdown has now ballooned to an outbreak of at least 21 cases so far. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the new number on Thursday, and officials warned that it will continue to rise. The director general of health says modeling indicates...

Administration Decides Strategy Against States on School Masks

Education secretary says Biden has told him to use every power

(Newser) - Days after demonstrating it had little ability to stop state prohibitions of mask mandates in schools, the Biden administration said it will use its civil rights enforcement authority in the battle. In support of the school districts implementing mandates in spite of the state orders, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona...

3 Alaska Airlines Employees Die of COVID

Airline is considering making vaccination mandatory

(Newser) - Alaska Airlines is considering making vaccination mandatory after the deaths of three employees from COVID-19 in the space of a month. Anchorage-based Capt. Eric Moss, 53, died Sunday, reports the Seattle Times . Sources tell the Times that Moss, a mechanic who died in late July in California, and a customer...

'Meet the Teacher' Event Gets Ugly Over Masks

Parent rips mask off teacher in Texas, superintendent pleads for all to 'be kind'

(Newser) - Simmering tensions over mask rules in a Texas school district culminated Tuesday in a parent ripping off a teacher's face covering, an echo of a similar incident in California . "A parent physically assaulted a teacher by ripping a mask off her face," Tom Leonard, superintendent of the...

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