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Analysis: Following COVID-19 precautions was closely linked to traditional values except in the U.S.--study

Apr
12

A new study from researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles shows the US population's response to COVID-19 precautions stood in sharp contrast to other countries.

Worldwide, people who professed to have more traditional or socially conservative values were more likely to adhere to COVID-19 recommendations, but in the United States people with those values were more likely to dismiss such recommendations.

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Southern pastors wary of promoting vaccines because of congegations' negative attitudes

Jul
05

Biden administration and state officials hoped that pastors would play an outsized role in promoting Covid-19 vaccines, but many are wary of alienating their congregants and are declining requests to be more outspoken.

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Shut out from mainstream medicine, some immigrants are buying expensive, unproven Covid therapies

Jun
22

FRESNO, Calif. — On a Tuesday afternoon in April, among tables of vegetables, clothes and telephone chargers at Fresno’s biggest outdoor flea market were prescription drugs being sold as treatments for Covid.

Vendors sold $25 injections of the steroid dexamethasone, several kinds of antibiotics and the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine — the malaria drugs pushed by President Donald J. Trump last year — make regular appearances at the market as well, as do sham herbal supplements.

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Main Beach, East Hampton

May
22

Main Beach is considered one of the most beautiful beaches in the Hamptons.  It requires a beach pass to park at this beach.  Beach passes are only available to East Hampton Town residents. 

To see the conditions of the beach, see the following beach camera to assess the number of people on the beach and in the water, as well as the weather and water conditions. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbIATHfqP4g

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