Month: July 2021

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - As the state reports an ongoing surge in COVID cases, officials have mapped the communities that are seeing the highest case counts over the past 14 days. According to data from the state Health Department, the zip codes with the highest infections were found on Oahu and Hawaii Island. On Oahu, high case counts were reported in west, central and windward communities on the island. Over the past 14 days, the following areas saw over 100 COVID cases: Waianae - 172 cases Ewa Beach - 151 cases Hilo - 130 cases Kailua-Kona - 130 cases Kapolei - 128 cases Kaneohe - 114 cases Wahiawa - 105 cases As the state sees a rise in infections, state and health officials urged residents to get vaccinated, especially as most of the new COVID cases are linked to those who are u...

by: David Charns, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Jul 30, 2021 / 08:09 PM CDT / Updated: Jul 30, 2021 / 08:09 PM CDT LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A Las Vegas father who contracted COVID-19 while on vacation texted his fiancee from the hospital, “I should have gotten the damn vaccine,” she later told Nexstar’s KLAS. Michael Freedy, 39, a father of five, and his fiancee, Jessica du Preez, traveled with their family to San Diego in mid-July. Mike Freedy vacationing for a few days in San Diego in July. (Photo credit: Jessica du Preez)When Freedy returned home, he developed a painful skin rash, du Preez said. “He was getting chills, couldn’t eat, couldn’t get comfortable, couldn’t sleep,” du Preez said. “All symptoms of sun poisoning.” ...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! So you got the vaccine because they told you to get it — or they forced you to get it — because as Joe Biden himself explained, it was your patriotic duty to get it to protect yourself and others. Good people do that.   The only way we can stop the spread of this virus and return to normal life is by taking the vaccines. If you get the shot, you can have hotdogs on the Fourth of July. Remember when he told you that? So you’d got the shot.   Now — surprise, surprise — they’re demanding that even after you got the shot, you wear a mask again, even when you’re outside.  What’s going on here? Why are they doing this? There must be some reason for it. We’ve been wondering about it all week. Yesterday we asked the CDC to explain the reasoning b...

Media top headlines July 30 In media news today, The Tampa Bay Times runs a 'hit piece' on DeSantis' press secretary, NPR gets mocked for a new policy allowing journalists to advocate for the 'freedom and dignity of human beings,' and NBCUniversal's CEO insists Tokyo Olympics will still be profitable despite massive viewership drop The Biden administration offered rare condemnation of The Washington Post as well as The New York Times over tweets that hype the spread of the coronavirus among vaccinated Americans.  Ben Wakana, the White House Deputy Director of Strategic Communications & Engagement who also serves on the COVID-19 Rapid Response Team, was highly active on Twitter responded to viral tweets put out by two of the country's biggest newspapers.  The Washington P...