Month: December 2021

Debra Messing announces positive COVID test: The perfect end to 2021 – Fox News
31Dec By No Comments
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Debra Messing announces positive COVID test: The perfect end to 2021 – Fox News

Debra Messing is wrapping up the year in bed. On Thursday, the "Will & Grace" alum took to Instagram to announce that she's tested positive for coronavirus. Alongside her revelation, the 53-year-old actress shared a photo of herself lying in bed, wearing a black, bubbling face mask and pink shower cap. "I’m COVID POSITIVE," she captioned the pic. "Yup. Happy New Year! Actually, it is the perfect end to 2021. The juicy cherry on the proverbial cake." WAUKESHA PARADE ATTACK: DEBRA MESSING BLASTS MEDIA FOR DOWNPLAYING MASSACRE AS AN 'ACCIDENT' Debra Messing announced that she has tested positive for coronavirus. (REUTERS/Danny Moloshok) Messing gave no indication of whether she is feeling any symptoms, but said that she plans to quarantine "for the next 10 days." ...
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Jean-Marc Vallée Family Make Statement Following Filmmaker’s Untimely Death – Deadline
31Dec By No Comments
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Jean-Marc Vallée Family Make Statement Following Filmmaker’s Untimely Death – Deadline

The sons of Jean-Marc Vallée have issued a statement on his shocking death at age 58 on Christmas Day. Deadline, which broke the tragic story, followed with sourced information that the death likely came from heart attack while the filmmaker was alone in his lakeside cabin. The statement seems to indicate it is headed that way. Here is the family’s missive: The coroner’s preliminary report received by the family could not establish an exact cause for the sudden death of director Jean-Marc Vallée on December 25 in Quebec, Canada. However, the report states that Mr. Vallée’s death was not caused by the intervention of another party, a voluntary act, or a known disease. Further in-depth analyses are underway. “Our father was a generous man, deeply human and who lived life to ...
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Omicron is highly transmissible. Scientists are looking for clues as to why : Goats and Soda – NPR
31Dec By No Comments
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Omicron is highly transmissible. Scientists are looking for clues as to why : Goats and Soda – NPR

A colorized electron micrograph image of a cell (red) infected with with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample. Science Source hide caption toggle caption Science Source A colorized electron micrograph image of a cell (red) infected with with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample. Science Source In late Novembe...
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Omicron Doesnt Infect the Lungs Very Well, Animal Studies Find – The New York Times
31Dec By No Comments
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Omicron Doesnt Infect the Lungs Very Well, Animal Studies Find – The New York Times

A spate of new studies on lab animals and human tissues are providing the first indication of why the Omicron variant causes milder disease than previous versions of the coronavirus. In studies on mice and hamsters, Omicron produced less damaging infections, often limited largely to the upper airway: the nose, throat and windpipe. The variant did much less harm to the lungs, where previous variants would often cause scarring and serious breathing difficulty. “It’s fair to say that the idea of a disease that manifests itself primarily in the upper respiratory system is emerging,” said Roland Eils, a computational biologist at the Berlin Institute of Health, who has studied how coronaviruses infect the airway. In November, when the first report on the Omicron variant came out of South Afri...
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California’s New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC’s – Deadline
31Dec By No Comments
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California’s New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC’s – Deadline

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control on Monday shortened the recommended isolation and quarantine guidelines for Americans who contract or are exposed to Covid-19 from 10 to five days. The move drew swift criticism from many experts, who questioned the logic behind the decision. “I don’t think there’s any big change in science that justifies a change in guidance,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. In his view, the guidance “has much more to do with societal function than to do with science.” One of the biggest criticisms was that shortening the isolation and quarantine requirement should be augmented with a negative test requirement. Today, California did exactly that with its updated guidel...
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California’s New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC’s – Deadline
31Dec By No Comments
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California’s New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC’s – Deadline

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control on Monday shortened the recommended isolation and quarantine guidelines for Americans who contract or are exposed to Covid-19 from 10 to five days. The move drew swift criticism from many experts, who questioned the logic behind the decision. “I don’t think there’s any big change in science that justifies a change in guidance,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. In his view, the guidance “has much more to do with societal function than to do with science.” One of the biggest criticisms was that shortening the isolation and quarantine requirement should be augmented with a negative test requirement. Today, California did exactly that with its updated guidel...
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California’s New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC’s – Deadline
31Dec By No Comments
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California’s New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC’s – Deadline

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control on Monday shortened the recommended isolation and quarantine guidelines for Americans who contract or are exposed to Covid-19 from 10 to five days. The move drew swift criticism from many experts, who questioned the logic behind the decision. “I don’t think there’s any big change in science that justifies a change in guidance,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. In his view, the guidance “has much more to do with societal function than to do with science.” One of the biggest criticisms was that shortening the isolation and quarantine requirement should be augmented with a negative test requirement. Today, California did exactly that with its updated guidel...
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California’s New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC’s – Deadline
31Dec By No Comments
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California’s New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC’s – Deadline

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control on Monday shortened the recommended isolation and quarantine guidelines for Americans who contract or are exposed to Covid-19 from 10 to five days. The move drew swift criticism from many experts, who questioned the logic behind the decision. “I don’t think there’s any big change in science that justifies a change in guidance,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. In his view, the guidance “has much more to do with societal function than to do with science.” One of the biggest criticisms was that shortening the isolation and quarantine requirement should be augmented with a negative test requirement. Today, California did exactly that with its updated guidel...
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California’s New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC’s – Deadline
31Dec By No Comments
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California’s New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC’s – Deadline

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control on Monday shortened the recommended isolation and quarantine guidelines for Americans who contract or are exposed to Covid-19 from 10 to five days. The move drew swift criticism from many experts, who questioned the logic behind the decision. “I don’t think there’s any big change in science that justifies a change in guidance,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. In his view, the guidance “has much more to do with societal function than to do with science.” One of the biggest criticisms was that shortening the isolation and quarantine requirement should be augmented with a negative test requirement. Today, California did exactly that with its updated guidel...
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Why People Cant Stop Talking About Dont Look Up – Gizmodo
31Dec By No Comments
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Why People Cant Stop Talking About Dont Look Up – Gizmodo

Photo: Netflix If you’ve spent even a minute on the internet this week, you have surely seen something about Don’t Look Up. The Adam McKay-directed flick is Netflix’s top movie. It’s also perhaps the top reason for people shitting their pants online recently. The film has a critics’ score of 55% on Rotten Tomatoes, reflecting the deep divisions in how people have perceived the movie. The negative reviews have been nothing short of scathing. Defector called it a “movie made by people who spend too much time online.” Gawker said Don’t Look Up “transforms the underlying conflict [of how to address the climate crisis] from one of action into another of simple belief: do you listen to scientists, or don’t you?” McKay along with co-creator and journalist David Sirota have, for their part, ...
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