Month: January 2022

‘Star Trek: Picard’ Production Paused After More Than 50 Test Positive for COVID-19 (Exclusive) – Hollywood Reporter
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‘Star Trek: Picard’ Production Paused After More Than 50 Test Positive for COVID-19 (Exclusive) – Hollywood Reporter

Filming on Paramount+ drama Star Trek: Picard has been shut down since Monday following a sizable COVID-19 outbreak. Sources say more than 50 members of the large production tested positive on Monday, which was the first day of work after the Christmas break. The Patrick Stewart-led series has one of television’s biggest crews, numbering more than 450 staffers. The infections impacted multiple zones, including cast in zone A. Production on the series was immediately shut down Monday and has remained dark since. Sources say filming is expected to resume early next week, if not sooner, though details remain in limbo. The highly contagious omicron variant of the virus has prompted a number of shows to pause filming this week, with fellow CBS Studios-produced...
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Jessica Chastain suffered head injury while filming action flick – New York Post
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Jessica Chastain suffered head injury while filming action flick – New York Post

Jessica Chastain claims she suffered a nasty head injury while shooting a scene for her upcoming action thriller “The 355.” The 44-year-old Golden Globe winner dropped the bombshell on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” Wednesday. “I was doing a fight scene and it was on a marble floor,” Chastain told Corden of the freak accident, Yahoo Entertainment reported. “I misjudged. I had fallen and hit my head. I misjudged the distance.” She continued, “I heard a crack. That might be why I am the way I am today.” While she laughed about the mishap in retrospect, the “Zero Dark Thirty” star revealed that others on set “stopped and looked scared.” Chastain in a scene from “The 355.”©Universal/Courtesy Everett Col“My stunt double comes up to me, she is Fr...
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With Omicron Dominant, COVID-19 Is Now Less Than ‘Just The Flu’ – Daily Caller
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With Omicron Dominant, COVID-19 Is Now Less Than ‘Just The Flu’ – Daily Caller

Thanks to the arrival of the Omicron variant, it’s now accurate to say that COVID-19 is “just the flu” for the vast majority of the population. Before the Omicron variant, an average vaccinated 75-year-old had about a 0.5% chance of dying from COVID-19 if contracted, according to The New York Times. The typical death rate from influenza for the same age cohort, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reviewed by the NYT, falls in a similar range between 0.6% and 1.3%. About 48 million of the roughly 54 million American residents aged 65 and older are fully vaccinated, the CDC reports. So, for those Americans, risk of dying from COVID-19 was not significantly different from dying of the flu before Omicron came around. Now, evidence continues to pile ...
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Got COVID and live in California? A guide to the confusing isolation guidelines – SFGate
6Jan By No Comments
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Got COVID and live in California? A guide to the confusing isolation guidelines – SFGate

If you tested positive for COVID-19 or were exposed to the virus, you may be confused by the guidelines asking you to stay home. How many days do you need to stay home — is it five or 10? Do you need a negative test to leave your house? Things are changing fast and it's confusing, especially in California where guidelines don't line up exactly with those from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We sorted through the regulations to make sense of it all for Californians, breaking it down by isolation guidelines for those who test positive and quarantine guidelines for when you have been exposed to the coronavirus and may or may not have COVID.  California isolation guidelines for people who test positive for COVID-19 ...
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Utah hospital staff are afraid, monoclonal antibodies are running out and COVID-19 test sites are flooded – Salt Lake Tribune
6Jan By No Comments
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Utah hospital staff are afraid, monoclonal antibodies are running out and COVID-19 test sites are flooded – Salt Lake Tribune

Utah’s supply of monoclonal antibodies and antiviral medications for COVID-19 is running out as the number of new cases broke a state record again Thursday. And Utah’s hospital leaders are warning that more bed shortages are imminent amid record coronavirus infections. “Our staff are afraid to come to work,” said Tracey Nixon, chief nursing officer for University of Utah Health. “They know we do not have the staff to care for the patients the way we need.” In a single hospital department on Tuesday, Nixon said, “I had three nurses leave because they can’t do this again. They feel like we’re going backward.” More than 8,900 cases were reported Thursday, breaking Wednesday’s record high 7,200 new cases. Thirteen new deaths were recorded Thursday, including a child, said Dr. Michelle Hofmann...
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FKA Twigs Announces New Mixtape CAPRISONGS, Out Next Week – Stereogum
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FKA Twigs Announces New Mixtape CAPRISONGS, Out Next Week – Stereogum

FKA Twigs has announced a new mixtape called CAPRISONGS, which will be out next week on January 14. It’s her first full-length project since 2019’s excellent MAGDALENE, and she previewed it last month with the Weeknd-featuring single “Tears In The Club.” CAPRISONGS was executive produced by Twigs and El Guincho; featured guests include Pa Salieu, Daniel Caesar, Shygirl, Jorja Smith and Unknown T, and Dystopia. There are production credits from Koreless, P2J, Mike Dean, Marius de Vries, Jasper Harris, Teo Halm, Arca, FRED, Sega Bodega, Warren Ellis, and more. Here’s Twigs’ statement on the mixtape: (more…)
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US had 5 rabies deaths last year, highest total in a decade – ABC News
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US had 5 rabies deaths last year, highest total in a decade – ABC News

Health officials say five Americans died of rabies last year — the largest number in a decade By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer January 6, 2022, 9:18 PM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article NEW YORK -- Five Americans died of rabies last year — the largest number in a decade — and health officials said Thursday that some of the people didn't realize they had been infected or refused life-saving shots. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report on three of the deaths, all stemming from contact with bats. CDC officials said the deaths were tragic and could have been prevented. One, an 80-year-old Illinois man, refused to take life-saving shots because of a longstanding fear of vaccines. An Idaho man and a Texas boy did not ...
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Self-Spreading Vaccine Research Could Spin Out of Control, Experts Warn – Gizmodo
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Self-Spreading Vaccine Research Could Spin Out of Control, Experts Warn – Gizmodo

A biologist searches for new variants and mutations of the coronavirus at Greifswald University Medical Center.Photo: Jens B’ttner/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (AP) Imagine a future scenario in which a dangerous new virus is detected in chimpanzees. To prevent this virus from spreading to humans, biologists decide to deliberately infect scores of wild chimps with a transmissible vaccine—an infectious, lab-grown virus that immunizes, rather than harms, its host. The chimps, now vaccinated, no longer pose a threat to humans. That solution sounds too good to be true, which is exactly the problem, as scientists warn in a new Policy Forum published today in Science. Self-spreading vaccines are potentially dangerous and difficult to manage, and are “genetically too unstable to be used sa...
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