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Just days into the new academic year, tens of thousands of students are under quarantine in school districts across the U.S.—with many states where mask mandates are banned reporting some of the most severe outbreaks—as the delta variant continues to drive skyrocketing infections among children. Thousands of the students in quarantine or isolation are in school districts across Florida, a state sanctioning schools that impose mask mandates even as it leads the country in coronavirus-linked child hospitalizations (admitting an average of 56 children a day). One school district alone has more than 8,000 students and 300 staff quarantining or isolating: Hillsborough County Public Schools, which includes Tampa, has scheduled an emergency meeting Wednesday to consider defying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state-wide ban on mask mandates.

• Dr. Anthony Fauci said he’s in support of COVID-19 vaccination mandates for kids going to school.
• Fauci said vaccine mandates for students aren’t new.
• Currently, only those above the age of 12 are eligible to be vaccinated.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he thinks it’s a “good idea” to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for kids attending school. “We have mandates in many places in schools, particularly public schools, that if in fact you want a child to come in — we’ve done this for decades and decades requiring (vaccines for) polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis … So this would not be something new, requiring vaccinations for children to come to school,” Fauci said. COVID-19 cases and infections have been rising, including among children, as the more transmissible Delta variant spreads. The Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve any COVID-19 vaccine for use in those under the age of 12. Pfizer’s vaccine recently received full FDA approval for use on those older than 16. Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told NPR that Pfizer is expected to present clinical trial findings for those aged 5 to 11 years old to the FDA next month. However, he says it could take months after that to approve emergency use of the vaccine for kids. “I’ve got to be honest, I don’t see the approval for kids – 5 to 11 – coming much before the end of 2021,” Collins said. Some parents have been so concerned about the spread of Delta that they are asking pediatricians to vaccinate their kids under 12 prior to FDA approval. A Los Angeles pediatrician previously told Insider that until there is FDA approval, they won’t be vaccinating anyone under 12. The Centers for Disease Control has recommended that those over 12 get vaccinated to help stop the spread of the virus. Nick Note: this is some sick shit. The hospitals are filling up with little kids infected by the highly infections Delta mutation. Are we really going to send the kiddies to scroll with masks that do not work even when they are fitted correctly. Talk about child abuse!! call family services….. And we are going to get kids 5 to 11 to wear said do nothing masks as the ONLY line of defense… We are being ruled by a bunch of fucking idiots. The solution is simple, the kids stay home until their is a vaccine. In the olden days kids stayed home until they had their polo, measles and small pocks vaccines…….. And the mothers are just going to have to suck it up and be mothers……. Pretend like your a women in Kabul……… lets pretend like is a deadly plague killing millions of people!!!

JERUSALEM, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Israel on Sunday began offering a COVID-19 booster to children as young as 12, and its prime minister said a campaign that began a month ago among seniors has slowed a rise in severe illness caused by the Delta variant. Announcing the decision, top Israeli health officials said the effectiveness of the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech (PFE.N), (22UAy.DE) vaccine waned six months after administration, making a booster necessary. “The third dose brings us to the level of protection achieved by the second dose, when it was fresh,” said Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health at Israel’s Health Ministry.

“That means, people are 10 times more protected after the third vaccine dose,” she told a news conference, where the expanded booster drive was announced.

Those eligible for the third shot can receive it provided at least five months have passed since their second jab – a timeframe shorter than an eight-month interval in effect in the United States, which is considering cutting the waiting time. Hoping to curb the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, Israel began administering the booster to its older population a month ago and has been gradually lowering the age of eligibility. It stood at 30 before Sunday’s announcement. So far 2 million people out of a population of 9.3 million have received three doses. “There are already results: the increase in severe morbidity has begun to slow,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement. “But we have to complete third doses for all of our citizens. I call on those aged 12 and up to go out and immediately take the third shot.” Israel and other countries have pressed ahead with booster plans despite opposition from the World Health Organization, which said more of the world should be vaccinated with a first dose before people receive a third. The United States has said it will offer booster doses to all Americans, citing data showing diminishing protection. Canada, France and Germany have also planned booster campaigns. Nick Note: To me its settled business you need to get your third vaccine. With 125,000 new infections a day their is really no choice.

Ida is in the southern Gulf of Mexico and is expected to rapidly intensify Saturday and into Sunday. The National Hurricane Center forecasts the storm making landfall in southeast Louisiana Sunday evening as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph. There is always advised to plan for a category higher as there is always uncertainty with a tropical system intensity. Regardless of that uncertainty, we need to be prepared for a potentially rapidly intensifying storm in the Gulf of Mexico. The waters are deep and warm and wind shear will relax over the Gulf. That, combined with a decent outflow will allow for the storm to grow in the atmosphere. All of this could lead to a major hurricane by landfall. Wind, rain, and storm surge will all be threats. We are expecting conditions to worsen late Saturday and throughout Sunday into Monday morning. Prepare now. Nick Note: This is a killer category 4 storm. And what makes it really ugly is it will go to the west of New Orleans. Hurricanes spin counter clockwise. It will hit to the west of New Orleans. Which means the powerful side of this storm is the North East quadrant.  And will hit the city with its full force, Katrina hit exactly 16 years ago as a category 3 storm to the east of the city. The week side.  Ida is a bad girl  a category 4 with a storm surge of up to 15 feet. Now if the same people who have managed the covid19 plague and the Kabul airlift New Orleans is in big trouble. This storm could breach the levies and swamp the pumps protecting the city. Billion were spent building the cities defences and i am told the contractors did what contractors always do in Louisianan…… GOD has sent a test….. Nothing like a live demonstration. If you are within 100 miles of the path of this monster…RUN! The mayor of New Orleans said their was not enough time to order a evacuation….. Really. We have been tracking this storm for over a week……..

US conducts drone strike against ISIS in Afghanistan

On Thursday, US President Joe Biden issued a strong statement over the Kabul blasts vowing to avenge the deaths of the 13 servicemen and make those responsible for the incident pay. Addressing the nation from the White House, President Biden also asserted that the US would continue to evacuate its citizens and the mission will go on. The United States military on Friday struck back against the ISIS-K in the aftermath of the devastating twin blasts at the Kabul Airport. As per agency sources, the US launched a drone strike against an Islamic State member in Nangarhar. The ISIS-K member was reportedly involved in planning the attacks against the US in Kabul. The strikes come in response to the death of 13 US servicemen who were involved in the evacuation operations at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. At least 169 Afghans including several children, who were lodged at the gates of the airport to escape the Taliban regime, also lost their lives in the attack. Sharing details of the drone strikes that targeted the ISIS-K planner, Pentagon in a statement said that as per initial indications, the target had been eliminated.

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President Joe Biden said U.S. regulators plan to give booster shots of Covid-19 five months after their primary vaccinations have ended, increasing the schedule for a third injection by about three months.

Biden, who spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday, said health officials plan to follow that country’s lead on boosters.

“We are reviewing the advice you gave that we should start earlier,” Biden said, adding that officials were debating whether the deadline should be shorter. “Should it be as little as five months and that’s under discussion.” Approval for the booster shots is expected to come around Labor Day after federal health officials had time to review data from other countries and vaccine makers that indicated the effectiveness of the drug. a booster dose six months after a previous dose.

In adults 60 years and older, a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine provided 4 times more protection against delta variant infection than the previous two-dose regimen, according to the Department of Health. ‘Israel.

Distribution of the booster injections following clearance from the Food and Drug Administration and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to begin on September 20. The Biden administration and the vaccine makers have indicated that there should be enough doses for any fully vaccinated adult seeking a third dose.  Nick Note: They must have hired the bureaucrats running the Kabul airport evacuations to fuck up the booster shot. I guess they though evacuations was close to vaccination. Best to start boosters shots after 5 months 6  months tops that the original science dictated…. So they decided to wait 8th months. Now that all 50 states are seeing a surge in infections and hospitalizations.. a record.  They decided maybe they should roll out the vaccines earlier. Do not buy the bullshit “fully vaccinated” 2 shot people are safe. 25% of the people hospitalized and dying were vaccinated twice. So far no one in the US or Israel vaccinated three times has gotten infected/\/

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The Delta variant of the coronavirus almost doubles the risk of hospitalization compared with the Alpha variant, according to a study published in British academic journal The Lancet that focused on people who had not been vaccinated.

The study, released late Friday, “confirms previous findings that people infected with Delta are significantly more likely” to require hospitalization than those with Alpha, “although most (NOT ALL) cases included in the analysis were unvaccinated.

Researchers analyzed 43,338 COVID-19 cases in England between March 29 and May 23. Only 1.8 percent of the studied cases had received two vaccine doses, 24 percent had received one shot and 74 percent were unvaccinated. The Delta variant is now dominant in the majority of EU countries, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said in July; it also accounts for 98 percent of all COVID cases in the U.K., Dabrera said. Nick Note: see it takes time for the data to come in. It makes sense, if it is more infectious it would make people sicker. And that is what we are discovering. Each variant that takes hold will be more deadlier then the last….. You know what to do so do it. You really do not want to go to the incubation death ward screaming for a vaccine or relying upon your guardian angels to save you. They are very very busy at this time

Most symptoms of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients are resolved within 12 months, however, around one half still experience at least one persistent symptom, a study of 1,276 patients from Wuhan, China, published in The Lancet, has found. Around one in three people still experienced shortness of breath and lung impairments persisted in some patients, especially those who had experienced the most severe illness with COVID-19 (at 12 months, 35.7% patients who underwent additional lung health tests had diffusion impairments—reduced flow of oxygen from the lungs to the bloodstream [87/244]). Overall, COVID-19 survivors were less healthy than people from the wider community who had not been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (matched for age, sex and pre-existing conditions). Professor Bin Cao, from the National Center for Respiratory Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, China, said: “Our study is the largest to date to assess the health outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 survivors after 12 months of becoming ill. While most had made a good recovery, health problems persisted in some patients, especially those who had been critically ill during their hospital stay. Our findings suggest that recovery for some patients will take longer than one year, and this should be taken into account when planning delivery of healthcare services post-pandemic.”

Long-term effects of COVID-19 have been widely reported and are an increasing concern. A previous study (by the same researchers) reporting outcomes from 1,733 hospitalized COVID-19 survivors after six months found that around three-quarters of patients had persistent health problems. The new study includes 1,276 patients from the same cohort to assess their health status after 12 months. Patients had been discharged from Jin Yin-tan Hospital in Wuhan, China, between 7 January and 29 May 2020. They underwent detailed health checks at six and 12 months (taken from the date they first experienced symptoms of COVID-19) to assess any ongoing symptoms and their health-related quality of life. These included face-to-face questionnaires, physical examinations, lab tests, and a six-minute walking test to gauge patients’ endurance levels. The average (median) age of patients included in the study was 57 years. Patient outcomes were tracked for an average (median) of 185 days (six-month check) and 349 days (12-month check). Many symptoms resolved over time, regardless of the severity of initial COVID-19 disease. The proportion of patients still experiencing at least one symptom after one year fell from 68% at six months (831/1,227) to 49% at 12 months (620/1,272). This decrease was observed regardless of the severity of COVID-19 the patients had experienced when hospitalized. Fatigue or muscle weakness was the most commonly reported symptom with around half of patients experiencing this at six months (52%, 636/1,230), falling to one in five patients at one year (20%, 255/1,272). Almost one third of patients reported experiencing shortness of breath at 12 months, which was slightly higher than at six months (30% at 12 months [380/1,271] vs 26% at 6 months [313/1,185]). This was more prevalent in patients who had been the most severely ill and had been on a ventilator during their time in hospital (39%, 37/94), compared to those who had not required oxygen treatment (25%, 79/317). At the six-month check, 349 study participants underwent a lung function test and 244 of those patients completed the same test at 12 months. The proportion of patients experiencing diffusion impairment did not improve from six months to 12 months and this was seen across all groups regardless of how ill they had been when hospitalized (Scale 3, no supplemental oxygen required during hospitalization: 21% at 6 months [12/57], 23% at 12 months [13/56]; Scale 4, required supplemental oxygen: 26% at 6 months [32/124], 31% at 12 months [36/117]; Scale 5-6, required ventilation during hospitalization: 57% at 6 months [39/69], 54% at 12 months [38/70]). Also at the six-month check, 353 study participants given a chest CT scan. Around one half of them showed lung abnormalities on their scan and were offered a repeat scan at 12 months (52.7%, 186/353). Of the 118 patients who completed the scan at 12 months, the proportion of patients with abnormalities decreased substantially across all groups but was still high, particularly in the most critically ill group.

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One of the few sweets that come with the position of prime minister of Israel is meeting alone with the president of the United States. But for Naftali Bennett,  at the head of a party with only 6 of 20 Knesset seats and an unprecedented coalition made up of eight parties, it is a real political and media vitamin to be seen by his own as head of government. Bennett has savored 50 minutes of intimacy in the White House with Joe Biden this Friday even if he has his head in the Kabul airport. In fact, the attack forced the postponement of the meeting scheduled for Thursday with the Israeli who dedicated his first words to the jihadist attack: “On behalf of the people of Israel, I want to extend our condolences.The Americans lost their lives in the mission to save the life of others. It is the definition of will and sacrifice. Israel always unequivocally supports the US. ” Although he is aware that the current and highest priority of his great ally is Afghanistan, Bennett recalled Israel’s number 1 priority in the last decade: Iran. Due to its armed presence in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza and Lebanon and especially its nuclear plan, Tehran is at the center of the concerns of the Government, Army and Mosad. “Iran is the No. 1 exporter of terror and human rights violations in the world. As we sit here, the Iranians are enriching uranium and we must stop them,” Bennett warned, adding: “We live in the toughest neighborhood in the world. We have to around us ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iranian militias, all of them want to kill Israelis. Therefore, Israel must be stronger and more firm than all its enemies combined. ” After reiterating “the commitment to Israel’s security” and announcing aid for the rearmament of its Iron Dome defensive batteries, Biden said that at the meeting they will discuss “the threat from Iran and our commitment to guarantee that Iran never develops a weapon. nuclear”.  He clarified that for this his first option is diplomatic but added: “If it fails, we will be prepared to consider other ways.” Bennett shares the opposition of his former boss, Benjamin Netanyahu , to the Iranian nuclear agreement of 2015 and the return to it as Biden wishes after the withdrawal of Donald Trump, but it differs from his strategy against former President Barack Obama. “We bring a new spirit of cooperation from people who may think differently but work together and with good will,” says the conservative leader. Regarding the practically absent Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The two leaders seem to agree in their disagreement, confirming that given the heterogeneous composition of the new government in Jerusalem, an annexation in parts of the West Bank is not expected, but neither is the two-state solution. Hence, Bennett insists before Biden to focus only on measures to improve the economic situation of the Palestinians. The United States understands the margins of action of the new Government and in order not to make it falter, it will refrain from massive pressure, as for example Obama did on Netanyahu with the colonies. A strange couple, a similar fate For Bennett meeting with the US president is an enormous achievement considering that a few months ago he was just another deputy in the Knesset. For Biden it is also important because of the timing that marks the agitated withdrawal from Afghanistan since, under the rain of criticism and accusations that he is abandoning his allies, he staged with the guest of Israel who remains committed to his old and close friends in the area. “It is an unbreakable relationship,” he described. “We have become close friends. He heads the most diverse government in Israel’s history,” said the American who has dealt with every Israeli prime minister since Golda Meir in 1973. Bennett (49) and Biden (78), who had good chemistry, form a “strange couple.” One of the youngest heads of government in Israel’s history and the oldest tenant in the White House. But the Conservative premier and the “Democratic” president share a curious fate: They came to office unexpectedly in their political careers (one earlier than expected and the other later) thanks especially to deep internal divisions around his predecessors (Trump and Netanyahu). The Biden Administration embraces the rotating Israeli Government -especially with which Yair Lapid will be Prime Minister from 2023- given that it has a decisive representation of the center-left and has achieved the departure of Netanyahu, who they identify with the Republican party and the closely with Trump. For this reason, the meeting will also be remembered as the first since 2009 between an American president and an Israeli prime minister who is not named Netanyahu. Nick Note: Iran must be stopped. I can not help but wonder if this is real or another sound bite. At this poimt their is only one way to stop Iran’s nuclear program… That is to bomb their nuclear sights. I wonder if Biden will grow a hairy set of balls…..