Month: August 2021

Israels COVID-19 vaccine boosters show signs of taming Delta – Reuters
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Israels COVID-19 vaccine boosters show signs of taming Delta – Reuters

JERUSALEM, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Less than a month into a COVID-19 vaccine booster drive, Israel is seeing signs of an impact on the country's high infection and severe illness rates fuelled by the fast-spreading Delta variant, officials and scientists say. Delta hit Israel in June, just as the country began to reap the benefits of one of the world's fastest vaccine roll-outs. With an open economy and most curbs scrapped, Israel went from single-digit daily infections and zero deaths to around 7,500 daily cases last week, 600 people hospitalized in serious condition and more than 150 people dying in that week alone. On July 30, it began administering a third dose of the Pfizer (PFE.N)/BioNtech (22UAy.DE) vaccine to people over 60, the first country to do so. On Thursday it expanded eligibili...
Many Older Americans Still Arent Vaccinated, Making the Delta Wave Deadlier – The New York Times
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Many Older Americans Still Arent Vaccinated, Making the Delta Wave Deadlier – The New York Times

The United States has a far higher share of seniors without full vaccine protection than many other wealthy countries, a key risk factor driving serious Covid-19 illness and death, a Times analysis shows. As the Delta variant has torn across the country, America’s pace of vaccinations has sped up after months of relative stagnation, and full federal approval of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday could extend that momentum. Just over half of Americans are now fully vaccinated. But national averages mask the high rate of older Americans who remain deeply vulnerable. Older people still account for most Covid-19 deaths, and in many counties, especially in the South and Mountain West, seniors without full vaccination make up more than 10 percent of the total population. ...
Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer – fans react to Willem Dafoe return as Green Goblin – The Independent
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Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer – fans react to Willem Dafoe return as Green Goblin – The Independent

Spider-Man fans are losing their mind after spotting a Green Goblin Easter egg in the No Way Home trailer. The first official look at Tom Holland’s third standalone Spider-Man film was released on Tuesday (24 August), teasing a showdown between Peter Parker and several non-MCU villains from previous Spider-Man films. As expected, Alfred Molina shows up as Doctor Octopus (confirming Tobey Maguire’s MCU arrival?), with Jamie Foxx’s appearance as Electro also teased. However, it was the appearance of a pumpkin bomb, the weapon owned by Green Goblin, that has comic book fans most excited. Until now, it was not known whether Willem Dafoe, who played the villain in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man (2002) opposite Tobey Maguire, would be in the film. However, thanks to the inclusion of Norman Osborn...
Sean Penn urges only those who have been vaccinated to see his new drama film Flag Day in theaters – Daily Mail
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Sean Penn urges only those who have been vaccinated to see his new drama film Flag Day in theaters – Daily Mail

Sean Penn urges only those who have been vaccinated to see his new drama film Flag Day in theaters By Paul Chavez For Dailymail.com Published: 08:12 BST, 24 August 2021 | Updated: 12:31 BST, 24 August 2021 <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- (function (src, d, tag){ var s = d.createElement(tag), prev = d.getElementsByTagName(tag)[0]; s.src = src; prev.parentNode.insertBefore(s, prev); }("https://www.dailymail.co.uk/static/gunther/1.17.0/async_bundle--.js", document, "script")); <!-- DM.loadCSS("https://www.dailymail.co.uk/static/gunther/gunther-2159/video_bundle--.css"); <!-- Sean Penn during a talk show visit Monday asked that only moviegoers who have been vaccinated from coronavirus see hi...
Delta variant: Fully vaccinated people might not be very contagious – Deseret News
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Delta variant: Fully vaccinated people might not be very contagious – Deseret News

A new study suggests that fully vaccinated people might not be as contagious as unvaccinated people infected with the coronavirus. Do fully vaccinated people spread COVID as much as unvaccinated? The preprint study — which has not been peer-reviewed but has been published on medrxiv — suggested that fully vaccinated people might not spread the coronavirus as much as unvaccinated people. Specifically, the study said that “rare vaccine breakthrough infections occur, but infectious virus shedding is reduced in these cases.” The study found that the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at stopping death and severe illness, but breakthrough cases do happen (although they remain rare). The researchers studied 161 breakthrough cases out of 24,706 vaccinated people, who were h...
Alyssa Milano says her uncle is on life support and has got a long road ahead of him – Daily Mail
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Alyssa Milano says her uncle is on life support and has got a long road ahead of him – Daily Mail

Alyssa Milano says her uncle is 'on life support' and has 'got a long road ahead of him,' less than a week he after suffered a heart attack while driving with her. The actress-activist, 48, took to TikTok on Monday, after she and her uncle Mitchell J. Carp were involved in an August 17 car accident on a freeway in Los Angeles that came after he had the heart attack at the wheel of a 2020 Ford Edge SUV. 'Uncle Mitch is still in and out of consciousness; he's on life support,' Milano said in a clip on the social media site. 'My brother went there yesterday and played him some oldies, and his whole body started moving. So, he really loved that.' The latest: Alyssa Milano, 48, says her uncle is 'on life support' and has 'got a long road ahead of him,' less than a week he ...
Dog the Bounty Hunters Daughter Claims Her BLM Support Created Rift – TMZ
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Dog the Bounty Hunters Daughter Claims Her BLM Support Created Rift – TMZ

Dog the Bounty Hunter let his daughter's passion for racial equality and BLM sink their relationship ... at least that's what she's claiming -- but Dog's pushing back, calling her brainwashed. Bonnie Chapman, biological daughter of Dog and the late Beth Chapman, tells TMZ ... she believes her continued work with UnleashedTV -- a network that canned her dad this year -- is the true impetus behind her and her step-sis, Cecily, not getting an invite to his wedding. The whole thing boiled over this past weekend when Dog's new fiancee, Francie Frane, allegedly sent Bonnie a scathing text, which seems to allude to Bonnie's continued partnership w...
The East Fork Effect
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The East Fork Effect

I followed East Fork pottery on social media for years before ever buying a vessel for my own kitchen. I watched their Instagram Live videos on how to make napa kimchi, liked their purposely imperfect photos of precariously stacked breakfast bowls that reminded me of how I organize my own cupboard, and signed up for their newsletter (they promised they write a good one, which is, in fact, true). When I finally purchased a mug (more like #TheMug), with its oversize handle and terra cotta “Amaro” glaze, it felt like I was officially part of a community of like-minded individuals who love to get creative in the kitchen, sure, but who sometimes just really want to eat take-out fried chicken off a nice plate—and that’s okay, too. East Fork embraces hum...
Sony Surprises At CinemaCon With ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Screening – Deadline
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Sony Surprises At CinemaCon With ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Screening – Deadline

Here’s something no one saw coming at CinemaCon, unless you could decipher the three-hour block Sony reserved for its presentation: The studio surprised those who braved the mid-pandemic Las Vegas confab tonight with a screening of Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife.  The pic hits theaters on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. In the follow-up to the classic 1984 Bill Murray-Harold Ramis-Dan Aykroyd action comedy, a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town. They begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind. Sony, which has sent a number of its movies to streamers during the pandemic, held onto this franchise jewel for a theatrical release. Related Story 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' First T...