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Facebook developments: labeling Covid-19 vaccination posts, launcing sign-up website, analyizing anti-vax posters

Mar

15

Facebook to label all Covid-19 vaccination posts, launch sign-up website Facebook said on Monday it has started adding labels to posts that discuss the safety of the shots and will soon label all posts about the vaccines. NBC News

Facebook, which has been criticized by lawmakers and researchers for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread on its platforms, said on Monday it has started adding labels to posts that discuss the safety of the shots and will soon label all posts about the vaccines.

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Puerto Rico enacted strict Covid measures, lessons for the Mainland

Mar

15

Puerto Rico enacted strict Covid measures. It paid off, and it's a lesson for the mainland. Puerto Rico used curfews and rigorous sanitary measures, "and the pandemic was never politicized," a health expert said. It saved lives — and its health care system. NBC News

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Although US Covid-19 cases are flatttening, experts are concerned about another surge

Mar

15

US Covid-19 cases have flattened. Here's why that may predict another surge, expert says There's good reason to be optimistic about where the US could be by summer as Covid-19 vaccinations accelerate. Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN

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Timeline of major U.S. developments in the year of the Covid-19 pandemic --The Washington Post

Mar

14

A year of the pandemic: Sorrow, stamina, defiance, despair For most Americans, March 11 was the day the coronavirus crisis first became real. Fifty-two weeks later, millions have fallen ill and millions more have been vaccinated. More than 525,000 are dead. This timeline tells the story of a singular period in history. Reis Thebault, Tim Meko, Junne Alcantara Washington Post

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Fauci warns of another COVID-19 surge, urges Trump to tell supporters to be vaccinated

Mar

14

Fauci warns of another COVID-19 surge, urges Trump to tell supporters The nation's top infectious disease expert warned Sunday that a new wave of COVID-19 infections could be on the way while urging former President Trump to tell his supporters to be vaccinated. John Bowden TheHill

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Granny shouldn’t be out here’: Maskless spring breakers flout South Beach COVID rules, governor forgives past fines

Mar

13

‘Granny shouldn’t be out here’: Maskless spring breakers flout South Beach COVID rules With a black mask pulled under his chin, 22-year-old Ace Beck weaved through spring breakers on busy Ocean Drive without any concern for catching COVID-19 — or unwittingly passing it on to somebody else. YahooNews

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NIH Director urges people to keep masks on despite Texas and other states relaxing requirementsrelaxing

Mar

13

Keep masks on, NIH director pleads as Texas enters 1st weekend without statewide Covid-19 restrictions As spring break travel picks up and states increasingly drop Covid-19 restrictions, Dr. Francis Collins, the National Institutes of Health director, is pleading with people to keep using masks regardless of prevailing rules. Jason Hanna and Madeline Holcombe, CNN CNN

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Differing American and EU attitudes towards identifying unvaccinated persons --poll and draft document

Mar

13

Americans support restricting unvaccinated people from offices, travel: Reuters poll A growing number of Americans want to get the coronavirus vaccine, and a majority also support workplace, lifestyle and travel restrictions for those not inoculated against COVID-19, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday. Chris Kahn U.S.

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Florida, Texas political developments on COVID-19 restrictions

Mar

12

DeSantis to Biden: Thought of reinstating COVID-19 restrictions Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday blasted President Biden's warning that the U.S. could need to reinstate certain coronavirus restrictions Cameron Jenkins TheHill

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New poll shows Little Difference In Vaccine Hesitancy Among White And Black Americans, but still strong partisan splits

Mar

12

Little Difference In Vaccine Hesitancy Among White And Black Americans, Poll Finds An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows 1 in 4 Black people do not plan to get vaccinated. Despite the attention on concern among Blacks, nearly 30% of whites feel the same way. NPR.org

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