Month: July 2021

The Australian Department of Health aired a controversial ad encouraging residents to get vaccinated. Critics slammed the ad for apparently depicting a young woman while vaccine eligibility in the country is restricted to people over 40. "Scaring young people that can't get vaccines is not helpful," one Twitter user wrote. See more stories on Insider's business page. On Sunday night, the Australian government ran a graphic health advertisement encouraging residents to get vaccinated. It has since sparked backlash for depicting a patient who appears to be too young to be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in Australia. Following...

EXCLUSIVE: Following the Food and Drug Administration warning of a possible link between the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and a rare neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré Syndrome, conservatives and liberals alike are sounding the alarm that the disease has been linked to vaccines in the past. GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME REPORTED IN FEW JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINE RECIPIENTS: WHAT IS THE RARE NERVE DISORDER? The FDA warned in a bulletin Monday that Guillain-Barré is a possible side effect of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen vaccine, noting that "in most of these people, symptoms began within 42 days following receipt" of receiving the single shot, but "the chance of having this occur is very low."  Of the 12.5 million Johnson & Johnson vaccines administered so far, th...

"We can't have it both ways; we can't be both unmasked and non-socially distant and unvaccinated. That won't work," Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst and professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University, said Monday. About a third of the nation's cases came out of five states, Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and Nevada, Reiner said. All of which have fewer than 48% of their total population vaccinated, according to CDC data Of all the deaths from the virus in June, more than 99% were among unvaccinated people, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said. "We have to pick sides and the side is we need to be vaccinated," Reiner said. "We have the tools to put this down -- we can put it down this summer -- but th...

Some abatement crews describe 2021 as the worst mosquito season ever in Utah as they struggled to push back the pests this summer. (Mike Anderson, KSL TV) BOUNTIFUL — Some abatement crews describe 2021 as the worst mosquito season ever in Utah as they struggled to push back the pests this summer. Crews said the high temperatures are causing mosquitoes to multiply. The mosquitoes that breed in floodwaters are actually way down, as you would expect, but the kind that breeds in existing wetlands are thriving. And to make matters worse, they're the kind that are known to carry West Nile virus. On the southwest end of Davis County, abatement tech Trevor Larsen searched the wetlands for water, but had little success. "It's all dry," h...

Masks back on indoors in Israel Delta variant has driven up infections Israel following "soft suppression" strategy Aims for minimum disruption to daily life JERUSALEM, July 13 (Reuters) - Four weeks ago, Israel was celebrating a return to normal life in its battle with COVID-19. After a rapid vaccination drive that had driven down coronavirus infections and deaths, Israelis had stopped wearing face masks and abandoned all social-distancing rules. Then came the more infectious Delta variant, and a surge in cases that has forced Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to reimpose some COVID-19 restrictions and rethink strategy. Under what he calls a policy of "soft suppression", the government wants Israelis to learn to live with the virus - involving the fewest possible restrictions and avoid...