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Ontario residents who are six months and older will be able to receive their free flu shot and the new COVID-19 vaccine starting on Monday.
Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced the immunization program rollout on Sunday, saying people should make sure they are up to date on their vaccinations to stay safe and healthy during the season when respiratory illnesses typically surge.
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Note: This is in effect as of October 30th
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the appeal of a Minnesota woman who said she was wrongly denied unemployment benefits after being fired for refusing to be vaccinated for COVID-19 because of her religious beliefs.
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development determined she wasn’t eligible for benefits because her reasons for refusing the vaccine were based less on religion and more on a lack of trust that the vaccine was effective.
The case shows that the vaccine debate continues to smolder after the pandemic and after the Supreme Court in 2022 halted enforcement of a Biden administration vaccine-or-testing mandate for large employers but declined to hear a challenge to the administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care facilities that receive federal funding.
Still pending is an appeal from military chaplains who challenged the military’s vaccination requirement. Although that requirement was later rescinded at the direction of Congress, the chaplains argue they lost out on training opportunities and promotions because they requested religious exemptions.
Minnesota said the unemployment benefit appeal denied Monday wasn’t worth the Supreme Court’s time because benefits have been given to others who were found to have a sincerely held religious objection to the vaccine, so there’s no overarching question to address.
Lawyers for the Upper Midwest Law Center, which represented Tina Goede, had argued she was treated differently by the Minnesota courts than others who successfully appealed their denial of benefits.
REFUSING TO GET VACCINATED, FIRED FROM A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY
After refusing to get vaccinated, Goede was fired in 2022 from her job as an account sales manager for the pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca. Her position had required her to meet with customers in hospitals and clinics, some of which required proof of vaccination.
She told the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development her religious beliefs prohibit injecting foreign substances into her body, which is a “temple of the Holy Spirit.”
A Catholic opposed to abortion, Goede also objected to the COVID-19 vaccine because she believed it was manufactured using or tested on an aborted fetal-cell line. (A cell line from an abortion decades ago was used to create Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine. Fetal cells were used in the early testing, though not in the production, of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.)
But Goede told the unemployment law judge she wouldn’t receive the vaccine no matter how it was made “because it doesn’t work.”
The judge said Goede was declining to take some vaccines, but not others, “because she does not trust them, not because of a religious belief.”
Goede’s attorneys said the judge had interrogated her religious beliefs with “unfair `gotcha’ questioning."
“He couched his denial of benefits in Ms. Goede’s credibility and then discounted her religious beliefs by determining that her secular beliefs outweighed them,” the lawyers told the Supreme Court.
At the same time the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld that decision last year, it reached the opposite conclusion for two others who had been denied benefits after asserting religious objections.
Goede’s lawyers said her case presented a question that will reoccur: how to analyze a religious objection to an employer policy when those objections coincide with secular beliefs.
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"It has been more than four months since Health Canada approved the first COVID-19 vaccine for children under five, but national uptake has been low.
The latest numbers from the Public Health Agency of Canada show, as of Oct. 9, 6.5 per cent of kids under five have received one dose of vaccine, while one per cent have received two doses.
By comparison, 86.9 per cent of Canadians five and older have received one dose, while 84.2 per cent have received two doses.
"Coverage for COVID vaccination for kids under five is quite strikingly low," said Shannon MacDonald, a nursing professor at the University of Alberta who leads the university's applied immunization research team."
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This is me after 1 dose of Pfizer on 5/15/07. I was a very healthy 30 year old who joined a Black Parade. 15 years later I am still having major issues
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Eleven years after heroic middle school students in Milton, Washington, took control of a school bus, brought it safely to a stop, and attempted to perform CPR on their driver after he suffered a heart attack, surveillance video of the incident was repurposed on social media to promote an anti-vaccine agenda.
The video, originally recorded on April 9, 2012, resurfaced online on March 22, 2023, in a tweet captioned, "School bus driver suffers heart attack and 13-year-old gets behind the wheel and saves all children's lives." The tweet gave no indication of when the incident occurred.
Besides garnering more than 30 million views and 350,000 likes within 24 hours, the tweet attracted replies and retweets from accounts that either implied or stated outright that the bus driver's heart attack was caused by a COVID-19 vaccine. That was impossible. The vaccine was not developed until late 2020, more than eight years after the incident took place.
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We all know how you feel about Trump and I think most of us feel the same way. But I'm seriously curious if there is ANYthing that he did as president or that his administration did that you can praise or at least see some positive part of from your view point as a historian?
Believe it or not, I was totally supportive of President Trump's meetings with Kim Jong Un. I don't think it is a mistake for our leaders to meet directly with our rivals or potential adversaries. I understand the geopolitical strategy that suggests that by unconditionally meeting face-to-face with North Korea's leaders we are somehow validating their actions or normalizing them on the international stage. However, I disagree with that argument. The Kim dynasty has been in complete control of North Korea for 70 years and the American policy of diplomatic isolation has not changed that fact. If what we've been doing for generations has not been working, why not attempt something radically different?
The United States didn't lift the sanctions against North Korea or really do anything different other than having our President sit down with their leader. I have always believed that the U.S. should be open to dialogue with countries or systems that we disagree with. President Obama's meetings with Raúl Castro and visit to Cuba was another example of dialogue that should have happened decades ago. I had hoped President Clinton might meet with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami when it seemed like there was a possibility for an opening in the late-1990s. It's impossible for any sort of diplomacy to blossom without some form of dialogue, and Presidents are in a unique position to shape those conversations if they are willing to start them. So, there you go, I thought Trump's meetings with Kim Jong Un were a positive.
(Now, with that said, I think it's disconcerting that Trump was so anxious to share the letters that Kim sent to him with reporters while seeming to work very hard at keeping his own end of the correspondence from becoming public.)
I also think the Trump Administration deserves some credit for the Abraham Accords, which aren't perfect but still a meaningful start for normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab nations, especially since it established a formal connection between the Israelis and Emiratis, which is a potential game-changer economically and for security issues in the Middle East.
Some people might also give the Trump Administration some credit for kickstarting the process of developing and approving COVID vaccines in record time, but it's difficult to give the Administration credit for anything related to a pandemic that they bungled in historic fashion. It's worth noting that they also had basically no plan for the logistics of actually vaccinating anybody in this country. I mean, if I discovered a house full of starving children (I don't know how or why that would happen) and cooked a bunch of food for them in record time, I wouldn't get credit for it if I didn't actually feed them, right?
Please excuse that ridiculous analogy -- I'm dizzy and nauseous from having to give Trump's Administration credit for anything. Please don't ask me to try to do that again. We will now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
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Long COVID was an avoidable tragedy. Some of us saw it coming
Long COVID was an avoidable tragedy. Some of us saw it coming
September 15, 2022 – It should have been the start of a new understanding of a debilitating disease. In May 2017, I was patient No. 4 in a group of 20 who participated in an in-depth and intensive study at the National Institutes of Health to uncover the root causes of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, a disease that causes extreme exhaustion, difficulty sleeping and pain. ,…
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Appointments are now available in Nova Scotia for a new monovalent Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, which the provincial government says provides the best protection against the latest strain of the virus.
The updated vaccine is available to anyone six months of age or older who have already completed the primary series of COVID-19 vaccines. It must also have been at least six months since their last known COVID-19 vaccine or infection.
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Annnd the FDA and CDC have approved the COVID vaccines for under-5s. Spouse will call the pediatrician Monday to start the sequence as soon as possible (probably Pfizer, 3 shots, not sure about spacing). The vaccine will significantly reduce the chances of Spawn ending up in the hospital or dying from COVID, just like the vaccines for RSV, MMR, polio, and other childhood diseases. I know we will likely contract the disease at some point -- selfishness and arrogance has guaranteed that fate globally -- but at least the worst outcomes are reduced to near 0 with the vaccine.
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