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Thousands overdue for 2nd COVID-19 shot as Florida reports 16,500 new infections

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ORLANDO, Fla. – Now that COVID-19 vaccines have been offered in Orange County for a few weeks, health officials believe they’ll soon be ready to begin expanding their efforts.As many as 300 more appointments will be issued each day at the Orange County Convention Center. Local churches and a closed pod for school board employees will also be included, according to Dr.

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Tesco store hit with Covid-19 outbreak with 'number' of staff off work

direct to your inboxA Tesco superstore in Old Trafford has been hit with an outbreak of Covid-19.The supermarket giant said a number of staff employed at the Chester Road store in Stretford were currently self-isolating.It has been claimed that up to fifty members of staff working at the Tesco Extra store are currently off due to coronavirus.The supermarket chain would not confirm the exact number of staff at the store currently off sick, but said that a 'number of colleagues' are unable to work because of 'self-isolation, test and trace or Covid-19.'Speaking to the M.E.N.

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COVID-19 quarantines causing staff shortage at Dr. Phillips High School

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – More than 100 people from Dr. Phillips High School have recently been asked to quarantine due to possible exposure to the coronavirus, including teachers and staff members, leading to some classroom staffing shortages.According to the Orange County Public Schools COVID-19 Dashboard, 101 people are in active quarantine as of Friday -- 82 students and 19 staff members.

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Anger in states over pace of COVID-19 vaccine allotments

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Uncertainty over the pace of federal COVID-19 vaccine allotments triggered anger and confusion Friday in some states, with officials worried that the shipments they expected won't be coming through.The developments threatened to escalate tensions between the Trump administration and some states over who is responsible for the relatively slow start to the vaccination campaign against the scourge that has killed over 390,000 Americans.Among the most outspoken state officials was Oregon Gov. Kate Brown.

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Meyer believes Jacksonville 'is the place' he can win in NFL

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Urban Meyer first started thinking about the NFL about a decade ago. He was getting phone calls from team owners.

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COVID may cut US life expectancy, especially in blacks, Latinos

COVID-19 may shorten Americans' life expectancy at birth of by a median of 1.13 years, to 77.48 years—the largest single-year dip in at least 40 years and the lowest estimated lifespan since 2003, according to projections from a study published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Firefighters use basket to rescue injured worker from Philadelphia high-rise

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PHILADELPHIA - A worker who was injured while renovating a Philadelphia high-rise needed to be lowered several floors by a basket after firefighters were not able to access the elevator, officials said.Crews responded to a 50 story building near Broad and Spruce Streets after 10 a.m. for reports of an injured 61-year-old man on the 41st floor.

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Alarming figures reveal how Covid hospital admissions have soared in all regions

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Latest NHS figures paint a bleak picture of the pressures facing hospitals across England - as the number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 has soared in two weeks.

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83 new coronavirus cases, 4 additional deaths confirmed in Simcoe Muskoka

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coronavirus cases and four additional COVID-19-related deaths in the region on Friday.That brings the local total number of cases up to 4,592, including 86 deaths.On Thursday, there were 1,437 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the region. There have been 11,189 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administered in total.

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15.01 / 22:59

Norway reports 23 elderly deaths after Covid jabs with some 'suffering side effects'

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxNorway has reported that 23 elderly people have died within days of taking the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, with 13 of those deaths said to be related to "side effects".Common reactions to the jab, including fever and nausea, “may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients,” Sigurd Hortemo, chief physician at the Norwegian Medicines Agency, said.All 13 who suffered supposed side effects were nursing home patients and at least 80 years old. Health officials are not expressing concern but they are adjusting their guidance on who should receive the vaccine.

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Restaurant manager recounts how she wrote secret message to boy being abused

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In a video released by the Orlando Police Department, Flavaine Carvalho recounted how she was working at Mrs. Potato Restaurant on New Year’s Day in Orlando, Florida when she intervened in a child abuse case using a hidden message.

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Florida server uses secret note to save boy from family ‘torture’

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A diner server who spotted bruises on an 11-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero after she communicated with him in secret and called the police on his mom and stepdad.“She stepped up to help rescue a child she had never met,” Orlando, Fla., police wrote on Facebook.The couple faces multiple charges in connection with their treatment of the boy, which police described as “torture.”The rescue played out on New Year’s Day in Orlando after the couple walked into a Mrs. Potato restaurant with the boy and a four-year-old girl.

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Retired nurses stepping up to help the coronavirus vaccine efforts in London, Ont.

coronavirus, she did not hesitate to come back to work.“I honestly felt the need to help in some small way,” Shields said.Within a few days, she was on the job helping front-line workers get the vaccine.“The health-care workers coming in are wanting to be there, they want their vaccinations,” she said.“It’s injecting some hope into everyone that there is going to be an end to this at some point.” LHSC board of directors chair resigns after ex-CEO launches lawsuit Shields is one of at least 20 retired nurses who are now helping to vaccinate people in London.Carol Young-Ritchie, the executive vice-president, chief nursing officer and vice-president of professional practice, medicine, critical care and family medicine at London Health

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Coronavirus: McNeil reports two new cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia

Speaking to the media, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil reported two new cases of COVID-19 Friday. “It’s been two weeks since New Years and it looks like, so far, that we’ve made it through OK,” McNeil said at a briefing on Friday.

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Head of UBC school of public health resigns after travelling amid COVID-19 restrictions

UBC‘s School of Population and Public Health has now resigned after travelling for a vacation over the holiday break.Dr. Peter Berman travelled to Hawaii amid COVID-19 restrictions and public health advice not to travel internationally.Berman originally apologized for taking the vacation, saying he truly regretted the decision.However, nearly two dozen faculty members of UBC’s School of Population and Public Health signed a letter expressing dismay over their director’s decision.“This decision to travel harms our school’s ability to contribute leadership in calling for our communities to sustain daily sacrifices to prevent the spread of COVID-19 for the public good,” the letter stated.

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COVID-19 cases are soaring in Indonesia. Can a new health minister turn things around?

Dyna Rochmyaningsih Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.A new face at the helm of Indonesia’s Ministry of Health has raised scientists’ hopes that the country may take a more scientific approach to its increasingly desperate struggle with COVID-19. In a 22 December 2020 cabinet reshuffle, Indonesian President Joko Widodo named Budi Gunadi Sadikin, who has a degree in nuclear physics, as health minister.

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Hamilton police say they’re not stopping people arbitrarily amid confusion over stay-at-home orders

Bill Kelly Show on Friday, says they’ll be responding to complaints and focusing on large parties and other things that are “very obviously” violations of COVID-19 rules. Police can’t randomly stop people under coronavirus stay-at-home order, Ontario government says Mason stresses officers are not going to be arbitrarily stopping individuals, inquiring where they are going.Mason also confirms that there is a lot of confusion within the community about the stay-at-home orders.

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Florida governor reiterates importance of receiving COVID-19 vaccine booster shot

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis is reminding Floridians that the state is committed to the two-dose regimen when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine so they should know if they get the first shot, they need to plan for the second shot as well.DeSantis issued a statement Thursday after a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to no longer hold back doses in each vaccine shipment to be used for the second shot.

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FBI arrests man accused of threatening protesters in Tallahassee

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla – A Tallahassee man is facing charges after federal investigators say he tried to rally people to violently confront protesters who plan to rally at the Florida Capitol on Sunday.Federal agents arrested Daniel Baker on Friday.[TRENDING: Can Trump run for president again? | New $1,400 stimulus checks? | Fla. begins COVID vaccine appointment system]Baker wanted others to join him with guns in surrounding the protesters and keeping them confined at the Capitol, according to investigators.Federal agents said Baker has a history of expressing beliefs in violent tactics on social media.

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Marianne Faithfull Opens Up About Near-Fatal Battle With COVID-19: ‘I Was In A Very Dark Place’

British rock icon Marianne Faithfull was among the first celebrities to test positive for COVID-19, released from hospital in April after being under doctors’ care for more than 20 days.

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Inside Covid ICU ward full of young victims - as doctor warns "no one is immune"

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Young men either side of us lie unconscious, their mouths gaping wide, as an army of medics in blue overalls say quick hellos to each other as they dash by.

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IRS delays start of 2021 tax filing season to Feb. 12

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A view of an IRS 1040 Tax Form on a Laptop computer screen being prepared for an electronic filing. WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service will delay the start of tax filing season until Feb.

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22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman chosen to read at Biden-Harris inauguration

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Amanda Gorman speaks onstage during the Prada "Shaping a Sustainable Future Society" conference in New York on November 08, 2019 in New York City. NEW YORK - At age 22, poet Amanda Gorman, chosen to read at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, already has a history of writing for official occasions."I have kind of stumbled upon this genre.

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PSG’s Mauricio Pochettino tests positive for Covid-19 48 hours after winning first trophy

Mauricio Pochettino has Covid-19 and the PSG manager will now have to self-isolate.The Argentinian has tested positive for the virus less than 48 hours after winning the first trophy of his managerial career.The French giants beat Marseille 2-1 to lift the Trophee des Champions on Wednesday night.But it has been a swift setback for Pochettino, who only succeeded Thomas Tuchel at the Parc des Princes two weeks ago.PSG have confirmed his assistants Jesus Perez and Miguel D'Agostino will take charge for Saturday's Ligue 1 game away to Angers.Ex-Tottenham and Southampton boss Pochettino has had a rollercoaster start to life in Paris.His first game in charge ended in disappointment as PSG were held to a 1-1 draw away to Saint-Etienne.A

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Indian military personnel posted in Ladakh among the first to get Covid vaccine: Report

NEW DELHI: Indian military personnel including soldiers and medical staff posted in Ladakh — the scene of a tense military stand off with China — will be among the first group of armed forces personnel to get vaccinated against covid-19 when India starts the process over the weekend, two people familiar with the development said on Friday.More than 12,000 doses of the vaccine have been despatched to Ladakh where Indian soldiers are standing eye ball to eye ball with Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control border.

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Paddy Doherty begs people to take Covid seriously in breathless video from hospital bed

Paddy Doherty struggled to breathe between words as he sent out a stark message from his hospital bed - warning everyone to take coronavirus seriously.

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10,000 COVID-19 vaccinations completed in Waterloo Region

COVID-19 vaccine have been administered since Dec. 23, 2020.It also announced it will close the vaccination clinic temporarily to focus its efforts on vaccinating long-term care and retirement home residents.

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Biden's aid plan could revamp economy, prompt GOP resistance

BALTIMORE – The $1.9 trillion rescue plan unveiled by President-elect Joe Biden offers the chance to sculpt the U.S. economy toward the Democrats’ liking: a $15 minimum wage, aid to poor families and federal dollars going to public schools.It’s an ambitious effort that would arrive after roughly $4 trillion has already been devoted to fighting the pandemic.

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One-city March Madness leads to more straightforward bracket

INDIANAPOLIS – There will be a bit less mystery to the March Madness bracket now that the NCAA selection committee no longer has to adjust matchups for travel concerns. With the entire tournament taking place in the Indianapolis area this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee announced Friday that teams will be bracketed more closely to their true seeding, 1-68.In the past, adjustments were made to keep teams as close as possible to their campuses for the early rounds.

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Appeals court OKs convictions in college basketball scandal

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NEW YORK – A federal appeals court in New York on Friday upheld convictions against a sports marketer, an aspiring agent and a financial adviser in a college basketball scandal that spoiled the careers of several coaches.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said in its written decision that it was not adequate for the defendants to argue that their actions mirrored what was commonly done in college basketball programs and that their aim was to help universities, rather than harm.“The ends, however, do not justify the means, and that others are engaging in improper behavior does not make it lawful,” the 2nd Circuit wrote.

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Guelph reports 22 new COVID-19 cases, another 37 people have recovered

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COVID-19 on Friday as the city’s total case count reached 1,801.Active cases fell by 15 from the previous day to 229 but that still includes four people being treated in the hospital for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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Optimistic banks start moving 'bad' loans back to 'good'

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The pandemic and recession aren’t over by a long shot, but banks are feeling optimistic enough to start taking potentially “bad” loans off their books and move them back into the “good” pile.The financial performance of the big U.S. banks has improved from earlier in 2020, when the virus pandemic walloped the global economy.

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Coronavirus: 10 new cases in Northumberland County; 6 active outbreaks for HKPR District Health Unit

COVID-19 were reported in Northumberland County on Friday, according to the region’s health unit.The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit reports 691 cases overall for its jurisdiction, which includes 328 in the City of Kawartha Lakes, 324 in Northumberland County and 39 in Haliburton County.

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Knowsley now England's worst Covid hotspot as rates finally start falling across country

Knowsley in Merseyside now has the highest rate of Covid infections in the country after an alarming rise in cases in the North West.

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8 staff members test COVID-19-positive at OPP headquarters

coronavirus since Jan. 1, a spokesperson confirmed Friday.Four members have recovered and are back at work, while four are still in isolation, OPP Staff Sgt.

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New Brunswick reports 25 new cases of COVID-19 Friday

COVID-19 on Friday and said 256 active cases remain in the province.According to Public Health, four of the new cases are in Zone 1, five cases in Zone 2 (Saint John region), five cases in Zone 3 (Fredericton region), six cases in Zone 4 (Edmundston region), four cases in Zone 5 (Campbellton region), and one case in Zone 6 (Bathurst region).All cases are self-isolating and under investigation, said public health officials.The number of confirmed cases in New Brunswick is 884 and 615 have recovered.

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‘This is not a game’: Global virus death toll hits 2 million

MEXICO CITY – The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less-developed parts of the world, it seems a far-off dream.The numbing figure was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The number of dead, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Brussels, Mecca, Minsk or Vienna.

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News Scan for Jan 15, 2021

Pregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely to experience complications such as heart attacks or blood clots, though the absolute increased risk is small, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine research letter today.These findings highlight the need for risk mitigations, the authors

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UK COVID-19 variant detected in southeast Pennsylvania

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PHILADELPHIA - Health officials say a southeast Pennsylvania woman has tested positive for the UK variant of coronavirus, becoming the state's second known case of the unique strain of COVID-19.The patient, identified as a woman in her 50s from Bucks and Philadelphia counties, was briefly hospitalized after she became symptomatic during the last week of December. Health officials say she is currently recovering."While it is still not proven that the B.1.1.7 variant is more transmissible than other variants of the COVID-19 coronavirus, we are concerned that it is present in Philadelphia," Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr.

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COVID-19 vaccinations in New Jersey: What you need to know

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Scotland to close all travel corridors after discovery of new Covid strain

lockdown restrictions on arrivals into the country next week. Ministers say that following identification of a new variant of c oronavirus in Brazil, all country exemptions from self-isolation after international travel will be suspended from Monday morning at 4am.

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UK to close all travel corridors but arrivals from Ireland remain exempt

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered the closure of all travel corridors from Monday to protect the UK against new coronavirus strains, ending the quarantine exemption for arrivals from selected nations.

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More than 2 million people dead globally from COVID-19

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The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat. The milestone was reached just over a year after the coronavirus It took eight months to hit 1 million dead.

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Trafford’s infection rate is now higher than it has been at any point since the start of the pandemic

direct to your inboxTrafford’s infection rate is currently higher than it has been at any other point since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.As of the week ending January 8, the borough’s infection rate stood at 493.8 per 100,000 people – the highest of any of Greater Manchester’s 10 boroughs.The borough is also the only one of the city-region’s boroughs that is seeing a higher infection rate now than it did during November’s peak before lockdown two was brought in.Over the New Year period there was a surge in cases, with January 4 seeing the highest number of positive tests seen in the borough in one single day since the pandemic began – 217 people tested positive in 24 hours.January 4 also marked the first and only day so far since

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UK to shut all travel corridors as fears grow over new coronavirus variant

direct to your inboxThe government has suspended all travel corridors between the UK and foreign countries.From 4am on Monday, this means that anyone who wishes to travel to Britain must have proof of a negative Covid-19 test in the previous 72 hours.The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson announced the change during a Downing Street press conference on Friday.It comes as fears mount over a new variant of coronavirus discovered in South America that prompted the government to introduce strict travel bans on 16 countries including Brazil and Portugal.Travel corridors were set up during the summer of 2020, to help passengers fly between countries that were deemed to have a 'safe' Covid-19 infection rate.It meant that travellers arriving from

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Brazil arrivals must self-isolate, Covid variant not detected here yet

All passengers who returned to Ireland from Brazil in the past 14 days are being told to self-isolate for two weeks since their arrival date as well as undergo a Covid-19 test, following the emergence of a new variant of the virus.

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