Yearly Archives: 2022

Mick Lynch met Transport Secretary Mark Harper today but refused to call off the rail strikes set to cripple Britain over Christmas and the start of 2023. The RMT chief said his member are ‘once bitten twice shy’ after calling off industrial action a fortnight ago – but added that talks with Mr Harper this afternoon […]

BA.2, one of three main omicron sublineages, is sweeping the world. (BlackJack3D/iStock via Getty Images Plus) Seven-day COVID-19 case averages in Virginia have been climbing over the spring, from about 700 cases a day in early April to nearly 3,000 daily last week. Hospitalizations, currently with a seven-day average of 573, have seen a comparatively modest […]

Birds pecking at the buffet table, undercooked food, flies buzzing everywhere and the nausea-inducing smell of sewage aren’t what you would expect from a 5-star luxury hotel in Cape Verde. But this is what Anthony Hoban and his wife Lesley endured for ten days at the Riu Funana hotel on Sal Island during what was […]

By Catalina JaramilloPosted on October 28, 2022A rigorous vaccine safety monitoring system has shown that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and only rarely have serious side effects. But an article shared on social media falsely says that CDC data show more than 18 million people “were injured so badly” by a Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 […]

University of Minnesota. Driven to Discover.After a 5-week drop, global COVID-19 cases stabilized last week, though deaths continued to decline, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its weekly update on the pandemic.Cases were down in all but one of the six world regions, with the biggest drop in African countries (-35%). Cases were […]

Inside the man-caves of bikies: From Santa decorations to an Easter Island statue and LOTS of guns – a rare insight into how the bad boys of the road REALLY live WA Police issued several high-profile bikies with firearm preventions orders Police footage has revealed rare insight to contents of gangsters’ ‘man caves’ One was […]

« Nov. 16Press release from the Humboldt County Public Health Division: Humboldt County Public Health reported today two new hospitalizations, a resident in their 60s and one in their 70s. No new deaths were reported. An additional 90 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 were announced as well as 47 new probable cases for the period between […]

Covid fines doled out by cops were filled with ‘terrible grammar and terrible drafting’ as officers accused of trying to ‘amend’ the charges for protesters  Cops blasted for ‘mangled’ wording on fines for Black Lives Matter protesters Meriki Onus and Crystal McKinnon accused of breaching Covid rules in Victoria   Judge said fines were riddled with […]

November 22, 2022, 8:44 a.m. Michael Devitt — A new report published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report drives home the importance of COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant patients to protect themselves and their newborn children.An analysis of data from more than 1,100 infants younger than 6 months found that while hospitalizations associated with […]

A mum who struggled to keep her business alive during Melbourne‘s brutal Covid lockdowns is on the edge of collapsing again after Instagram decided to delete her account just two days out from Black Friday.  Natalie Jarvis and her husband’s company Electric Confetti – which designs custom LED light displays and ‘shimmer walls’ – has […]