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Breonna Taylor’s mom lashed out at Black Lives Matter (BLM) this week
amid reports the co-founder, Patrisse Cullors is living high on the hog
in million dollar homes.
Last year Breonna Taylor was killed during a knock-and-announce drug
raid, during which her boyfriend shot at police and they returned fire.
LMPD Sgt. Jon Mattingly was shot during the exchange and has now
recovered.
Last September Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced
that there will be no charges filed against two of the Louisville police
officers involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor, while the third
was charged with “wanton endangerment.”
Wanton endangerment is a Class D felony, punishable by one to five years in prison.
Breonna Taylor’s mom went off on BLM and said the organization has not helped her family at all.
“I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville and personally
have found them to be fraud, Attica Scott another fraud,” Breonna’s mom
Tamika Palmer said in a Facebook post.
“I could walk in a room full of people who claim to be here for
Breonna’s family who don’t even know who I am, I’ve watched y’all raise
money on behalf of Breonna’s family who has never done a damn thing for
us nor have we needed it or asked so Talk about fraud.”
She concluded with: “I’m a say this before I go I’m so sick of some
of y’all and I was last anybody who needs it I’m with this shit enough
is enough!!”
Covid-19 booster shot likely needed within 12 months, Pfizer's CEO says
Denise Chow
·2 min read
People
are likely to need a third dose of a Covid-19 vaccine within a year of
getting fully vaccinated and may subsequently need annual shots to
protect against the coronavirus, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Thursday.
Pfizer
and its German partner, BioNTech, are studying how long the vaccines'
protective immunity will last. Their findings will guide whether
additional booster shots will be necessary.
Bourla said it's "likely" that a booster will be needed within 12 months of the initial two-shot regimen.
"It is extremely important to suppress the pool of people that can be susceptible to the virus," Bourla told CNBC on Thursday during an event with CVS Health.
Pfizer and BioNTech said this month that data from clinical trials suggest that their vaccine offers high levels of protection
six months after the second dose, with no serious safety concerns. The
vaccine was also found to be effective against several known coronavirus
variants, including one that was first reported in the U.K. and another
that was thought to have emerged in South Africa.
In
an interview Wednesday with CNBC, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the
company is working on a shot that would combine protection against
Covid-19 and the seasonal flu. It will be especially important over the
next year, he said, as new variants of the coronavirus emerge and
circulate around the world.
"What we're trying to do at Moderna,
actually, is to get a flu vaccine in the clinic this year and then
combine a flu vaccine to a Covid vaccine so that you only have to get
one boost at your local CVS store, at your GP every year, that will
protect you to a variant of concern against Covid and a seasonal flu
strain," Bancel said.
Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter proudly admitted in June 2020 she is a radical, anti-white Marxist.
“We actually do have an ideological frame,” Cullors said. “Myself and
Alicia are particularly trained organizers — we are trained Marxists.
We are super versed on ideological theories…”
Black Lives Matter is seeking to transform America by defunding the
police, dismantling capitalism, ‘destroying the patriarchy,’ breaking
down the nuclear family unit, emptying prisons, redistributing wealth in
the form of reparations among other far-left objectives.
Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters have destroyed small businesses, targeted churches and razed buildings to the ground.
Their goal is to bring chaos where there is order, fan the flames of class warfare and demonize Christians and conservatives.
Black Lives Matter-Antifa mobs caused over one billion dollars in damages in cities across America since May. In Minneapolis alone Black Lives Matter mobs damaged or destroyed over 1,500 businesses or buildings.
A secluded mini-compound tucked into L.A.’s rustic and semi-remote
Topanga Canyon was recently sold for a tad more than $1.4 million to a
corporate entity that public records show is controlled by Patrisse
Khan-Cullors, 37-year-old social justice visionary and co-founder of the
galvanizing and, for some, controversial Black Lives Matter movement.
Kahn-Cullors, a UCLA and USC graduate married about five
years ago to social activist (and amateur boxer) Janaya Khan, co-founder
of Black Lives Matter Toronto, created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in
2013 in response to George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the 2012 shooting
of Trayvon Martin. Since then, the largely decentralized movement has
been at the influential forefront on issues of police brutality and
racially motivated violence against Black people, particularly in
the wake of George Floyd’s killing last summer that sparked massive
protests across the United States and around the globe. Kahn-Cullors’ published “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” in 2018.
A 70-year-old woman was left with a concussion, severely battered
face and other injuries after being assaulted by a fellow passenger on a
Metro bus in Eagle Rock last week, her son told The Eastsider.
The Mexican American victim was profiled as Asian by her
attacker, who hurled a racial epithet used against people of Chinese
descent before attacking the grandmother as she got off the bus to go
grocery shopping, according to the son, who gave his name only as Pete.
Los Angeles police say they are still gathering information on the
incident. But a department spokesperson confirmed 23-year-old Yasmine
Beasley was arrested following the incident at about 1:30 p.m. Friday at
the corner of Figueroa Street and La Loma Road.
The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found about 5,800 cases
of COVID-19 infections among people who have been fully vaccinated in
the U.S., according to a new report.
CDC officials tell Yahoo
Life that as of April 13, about 5,800 breakthrough COVID-19 infections —
meaning someone who was fully vaccinated against the virus still
contracts COVID-19 — have been reported to the CDC among the more than
66 million Americans who have been fully vaccinated. Of those, 396 (or 7
percent) required hospitalization and 74 people (0.0001 percent) died.
Overall,
it amounts to a rate of 0.008 percent of Americans who have been fully
vaccinated against COVID-19 that have gotten the infection.
A doctor collects a sample with a nasal swab to test a woman for COVID-19. (Getty Images)
“COVID-19
vaccines are effective and are a critical tool to bring the pandemic
under control. All of the available vaccines have been proven effective
at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations and deaths,” CDC
spokesperson Kristen Nordlund tells Yahoo Life in a statement. “However,
like is seen with other vaccines, we expect thousands of vaccine
breakthrough cases will occur even though the vaccine is working as
expected.”
Nordlund adds, “To date, no unexpected patterns have been identified in case demographics or vaccine characteristics.”
Breakthrough
infections were reported in people of all ages eligible for
vaccination, but a little over 40 percent of the infections were in
people age 60 and up. Other important information to note:
29 percent of the vaccine breakthrough infections were reported as asymptomatic.
65 percent of the people experiencing a breakthrough infection were female.
“The
male-female differences that we’re observing ... no one has a good idea
as to why it’s occurring,” Dr. Stanley H. Weiss, professor at Rutgers
New Jersey Medical School and the Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology at Rutgers School of Public Health, tells Yahoo Life. “We
do know that men and women’s immune systems do tend to react
differently.” Weiss says it could simply be “by chance” or may be that
women are more likely to seek medical care when they have a breakthrough
infection. “Were fewer men detected because of that or something
biological? We don’t know the answer to that,” he says.
The CDC is
monitoring the breakthrough infections and collecting data on them. The
agency has also developed a national COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough
database where state health department investigators can enter, store
and manage data for cases in their jurisdiction.
News of any
COVID-19 infections after a person has been fully vaccinated against the
coronavirus can be frustrating and even scary, but doctors say it’s to
be expected.
“No one expected the vaccine to be 100 percent
efficacious,” infectious disease expert Dr. Amesh Adalja, senior scholar
at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, tells Yahoo Life.
“Breakthrough cases are still extremely rare and often without any major
consequence.”
The efficacy rate of each COVID-19 vaccine authorized for use in the U.S. varies. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 95 percent effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infections, the Moderna vaccine is 94.1 percent effective,
and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine — the administration of which is
currently on “pause” due to blood clotting concerns — is 66.3 percent effective.
“These
vaccines are 95 percent effective at best,” Dr. William Schaffner, an
infectious disease specialist and professor at Vanderbilt University
School of Medicine, tells Yahoo Life. “These are wonderfully effective
vaccines, but nothing in life is perfect — except maybe my wife.”
Dr.
Thomas Russo, professor and chief of infectious disease at the
University at Buffalo in New York, tells Yahoo Life that the findings
are “not surprising” and points out that there is a difference between
clinical trials and the real-world use of the vaccine. “Clinical trials
excluded people who are immunocompromised, and those patients have
immune systems that don’t function as well as people in the general
population,” he says. As a result, the vaccine is often not as effective
in them, Russo says.
Schaffner agrees. “We’re now vaccinating
very, very frail people and people who are immunocompromised — you’re
more likely to have breakthrough cases because their protection won’t be
as complete as a normal healthy person’s protection is,” he says.
Worth noting: The CDC did not disclose details about the health of the people who had breakthrough infections.
But
Russo says the news underscores the importance of continuing to follow
COVID-19 prevention recommendations, regardless of your vaccination
status. He stresses, though, that it doesn’t mean these protocols will
be in place forever. “Masks and social distancing are still important in
the community until more people are vaccinated,” he says. “Once we can
get these cases down, we’re going to be able to step away from public
health measures.”
Adalja says it’s smart for public health
officials to track these breakthrough infections to try to get more
answers. “It’s important to study the breakthrough cases to understand
if the vaccine took in those individuals to better characterize this
very low risk,” he says.
Ultimately, doctors urge people to stay
calm and focus on the bigger picture. That is, the vaccine is highly
effective at preventing COVID-19 infections in those who have been fully
vaccinated. Breakthrough infections “didn’t happen in 99.93 percent of
cases,” Adalja says.
“Don’t panic,” Schaffner says. “Everybody,
please take a deep breath. Vaccines profoundly reduce your risk of
getting an infection, but it’s not zero.”
12 Fully-Vaccinated Los Angeles Residents Infected With Covid-19, Says County Health Official
Tom Tapp
·2 min read
On Wednesday, in response to a query from Deadline, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer confirmed that at least a dozen local residents had been infected with Covid-19 after being fully vaccinated.
“Yes,
it is possible to test positive for the virus after being fully
vaccinated,” Ferrer reported. She estimated that the number of
post-vaccination infections is likely “very small.”
Ferrer
said all of the so-called “breakthrough cases” of infection detected in
the county occurred in long-term care facilities. In all, there were 12
fully-vaccinated people who were infected. Four of them were residents
of those facilities, and eight were staff.
“I’m sure there are
other places [in L.A. County] because I know across the country that
there have been more [breakthrough] cases,” Ferrer said before noting
the detected cases in long-term care facilities weren’t likely because
of any lack of precaution but rather because the data from those
environments is better.
“This is one place where we have really good data in part because of our strong partnership with long-term care facilities.”
Ferrer
also added, “The vast majority of people who have tested positive after
being fully vaccinated are asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms.
“Here in L.A. County we don’t know of anybody who has been hospitalized or — unfortunately — passed away.”
But,
as for other local breakthrough cases of Covid-19 infection, the data
is very incomplete, she said making an overall assessment “a hard
question to answer.”
Earlier on Wednesday, 39 breakthrough cases were reported in Sonoma County over the course of the past 2 1/2 months, according to county officials.
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