Thursday, March 28, 2024

Health

Florida Governor Reopening State’s Economy Despite Spread

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted all restrictions on restaurants and other businesses in Florida on Friday in a move to reopen the state's economy despite the spre...

NYC Department Of Health Threatens To Close Schools If COVID Numbers Don’t Improve

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — The NYC Health Department has issued a stern warning to the Brooklyn and Queens areas in its ongoing campaign to draw attention to the uptick in COVID cases in...

Doctor In Corona Unit: ‘Yom Kippur Is Approaching And I’m Very Worried’

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TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Dr. Or Goren, a member of the anasthesia staff at the ICU in Ichilov hospital, Tel Aviv, shared a shocking Facebook post in which he describes his feelings of ...

COVID Is Spreading Again In Orthodox Communities. Why Are People Still Not Wearing Masks?

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BROOKLYN (JTA) - A sign on a shoe store said customers would be required to wear masks. Inside, however, two women shopped with their faces uncovered. At an electronics store ne...

Trump Administration Drafts Hasidic Singer Shulem Lemmer To Bring Awareness To COVID Crisis In Orthodox Communities

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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Cases of COVID-19 are on the rise in a number of Orthodox communities in New York City and surrounding areas. Now a federal government agency is hoping a popu...

How Can I Tell The Difference Between The Flu And COVID-19?

WASHINGTON (AP) - How can I tell the difference between the flu and COVID-19? It’s impossible to tell without a test. Influenza and COVID-19 have such similar symptoms, you may ...

Ner Yisroel Baltimore Campus On Lockdown After COVID Positive Cases

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BALTIMORE (VINnews) — The Ner Yisroel Yeshiva campus in Baltimore has been placed on lockdown after several students tested positive for COVID-19. Nobody is being permitted to leav...

Portland Denies Permit For Right-Wing Rally, Cites COVID-19

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Oregon, has denied a permit for a Saturday rally planned by the right-wing group Proud Boys. The city found the group’s estimated crowd size of 1...

Rise In Israel’s Mortality Can Be Traced Directly To Coronavirus

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the first months of coronavirus, Israel's mortality rate from the virus was extremely low compared with world figures and people could claim that there...

Fauci: Wear Masks, Keep Distant After Vaccine

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WASHINGTON -- Dr. Anthony Fauci says Americans likely will need to wear masks and stay socially distance to protect themselves from the coronavirus after a vaccine becomes availabl...

Rabbi David Yosef, Son of Rabbi Ovadia:’Close All Shuls Immediately, Even On Yom Kippur’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi David Yosef, the son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and a member of the Higher Rabbinical Council, declared Wednesday that all shuls should be closed immediately...

Bnei Brak: 19-Year-Old Newly Married Woman Loses Leg After Tree Falls On Her

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — A 19-year-old young lady, married just three months, was seriously injured Tuesday after a tree fell on her in a Bnei Brak courtyard. Hatzalah medics were cal...

Finland Deploys Coronavirus-Sniffing Dogs At Main Airport

HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country’s main international airport in a four-month trial of an alternative testing method that could ...

Late-Stage Study Of First Single-Shot Vaccine Begins In US

NEW YORK (AP) - Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus. The study starting Wednesd...

‘If You Close Synagogues, How Can You Allow Demonstrations?’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Faced with a burgeoning infection rate and a steep increase in hospitalizations from coronavirus, Israel has initially tried to make a weak lockdown. At prese...

NYC Mayor Pledges Communal Effort as City Fights COVID Flare Ups in Six Jewish Neighborhoods

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NEW YORK CITY (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - Citing previous successful efforts by the city to curtail the spread of the pandemic by focusing on hot spots, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that ...

Confirmed US Death Toll From Coronavirus Tops 200,000, The Highest In World, By Johns Hopkins University’s Count

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, a figure unimaginable eight months ago when the scourge first reached the world’s richest nation ...

Three-Week Old Baby Travels 12 Hours To Celebrate Rosh Hashana In Rwanda

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KIGALI, RWANDA (VINnews) — Three-week-old Mendy Bar-Sela could not have imagined that within a month of his birth in Israel he would be flying for over 12 hours with two stops on t...

What Is Sweden’s Secret For Combating Second Stage Of COVID-19?

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the first stage of coronavirus in March and April, Sweden took a different approach to most of the world and did not initiate a total lockdown. Instead...

UK Leader: Britain At “Perilous Turning Point,” Scraps Back-to-work Drive, Tightens Restrictions Amid Virus Resurgence

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has slammed the brakes on the country’s return to offices, saying people should work from home if possible, to help slow the spre...