December 2, 2023
by Calculated Risk on 12/01/2023 07:23:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Due to changes at the CDC, weekly cases are no longer updated. For deaths, I’m currently using 3 weeks ago for “now”, since the most recent two weeks will be revised significantly. Hospitalizations have more almost
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Dr Norman Swan has been told to “just please stop” with the “scaremongering”, after the ABC’s health expert advised Aussies to mask up at Christmas and get the latest booster amid a new Covid wave. “Can someone please tell my mate Dr Norman Swan, just to beat it,” 2GB host Chris O’Keefe said on Thursday.
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The new vaccine COMIRNATY® (Covid-19 vaccine, mRNA) by Pfizer, available at CVS Pharmacy in Eagle Rock, California. Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Three years into the Covid-19 pandemic, few Americans are rolling up their sleeves to get a Covid vaccine. Only 15.7% of U.S. adults had received the newest Covid shots
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Hardline pandemic control measures saw Slovenians sanctioned for breaches as minor as eating a sandwich alone outdoors. ADVERTISEMENT The Slovenian government is repaying thousands of fines issued to citizens who broke masking and social distancing orders during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The total amount issued in COVID fines between March 2020 and May
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Cases of the COVID-19 variant Omicron BA.2.86, also known as Pirola, have tripled in two weeks, comprising between 5% and 15% of all infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The COVID-19 variant Omicron BA.2.86 — as well as its offshoots, including JN.1 — has been reclassified as a “variant of
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Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions has told a court the justice system is no longer in crisis and Covid-era sentencing discounts should end. Appearing in the Victorian Supreme Court on Wednesday, Kerri Judd KC argued the “backlog” of cases caused by the pandemic had ended and guilty pleas should no longer attract higher sentence mitigation.
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Experts are warning there could be thousands of Covid-19 deaths in aged care homes where vaccination rates have fallen dangerously low as Australia enters its eighth Covid-19 wave. While Covid cases are surging across the nation in the lead-up to Christmas, vaccination rates for aged care residents are currently tracking just below 40 per cent
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A team of researchers wanted to review whether COVID-19 vaccine adverse events were linked to an increase in morbidity. The team looked at published necropsy and autopsy reports related to the COVID vaccine, and identified 678 studies including 44 papers containing 325 autopsy and necropsy cases. Three physicians peer-reviewed these deaths to determine if the
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When California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis take the stage Thursday for their much-hyped televised debate, it will be perhaps the starkest visual representation of the divide between the two states. While many social, political and economic factors contribute to that gulf, perhaps no topic better encapsulates the bicoastal conflict than the
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NSW Premier Chris Minns has confirmed he has tested positive to Covid and will miss the start of the state parliament’s final sitting week. In a social media post, Mr Minns said he took a rapid antigen test, which confirmed the diagnosis, after “feeling unwell” in the morning. “I’m now at home, and while there
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