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THIS IS A TEST

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UK tells foreign nationals to leave Ukraine

The British foreign office said all UK nationals "should leave now while commercial means are still available".

Nato leaders have held a meeting, after which Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the bloc stood "united & prepared for any scenario".

Russia has repeatedly denied any plans to invade Ukraine despite massing more than 100,000 troops near the border.

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CNN reporting that Russia invasion of Ukraine imminent

The US and its allies have new intelligence that suggests Russia could launch an attack on Ukraine even before the end of the Olympics, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

Previous assessments had suggested that Russia was unlikely to move into Ukraine until after the Olympics end on Feb. 20, US officials had told CNN in the past. The revelation of the new intelligence comes as administration officials have dramatically ramped up the urgency of their public warnings related to Ukraine in the past 24 hours.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that a Russian invasion of Ukraine "could begin at any time," including during the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the United States continues "to see very troubling signs of Russian escalation, including new forces arriving at the Ukrainian border."

Kyiv is among the targets identified in the Russian planning, three sources familiar with the new intelligence tell CNN.

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Human DNA has remnants of ancient viral infections called Human Endogenous Retroviruses(HERV)

 New study: COVID activates HERV-W in immune T-Cells & microglial brain cells, and is found in blood serum and plasma. HERV-W expression is correlated to MS. 1/

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Certified nurse assistant teaches folks how to be aerialists

A passion that got her through the pandemic transformed a certified nursing assistant into a business owner.

Kate Dolechek's safe place is 15 feet in the air, dangling on a piece of fabric.

As a certified nursing assistant, the woman from Factoryville took care of patients at a retirement home and took care of herself through aerial arts.

"For me, it's more I come here to decompress and destress from my everyday life and my work life," Kate said.

While WNEP celebrates this new adventure, it surely shows another CNA has left the field amid the COVID pandemic.. 

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Heather McDonald faints on stage and cracks her head.. she just got done making jokes about getting vaccines and boosters..

https://youtu.be/ctPViK3LK-o

The fainting is being blamed on dehydration from the night before ..

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Lander held on to vaccine maker stock months into tenure

He ultimately sold the holdings within the allotted 90-day window. But ethics officials say it raises questions about his advocacy.

Serving as Biden’s top science adviser, Eric Lander, the head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, publicly promoted Covid-19 vaccination efforts while having a significant financial investment in one of the vaccine makers, according to financial disclosures.

Under the White House’s ethics agreement Lander signed, he had 90 days to divest his stocks after he was confirmed by the Senate on May 28. While Lander shed the bulk of that stock in June — including shares of BioNTech SE, the German biotechnology company and Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine partner — he waited until Aug. 5 to sell the remaining $500,000 to $1 million worth of stock he held in that company. When Lander ultimately sold the stock 69 days after his confirmation, it was the company’s second-highest stock price ever at $404.92 a share, having shot up more than $50 a share from two days prior.

Follow the science!

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SEALS ARE DYING ALONG SOUTH AFRICA COAST

Marine species on the coasts around Cape Town are facing multiple crises. A bird flu outbreak last year took out nearly a fifth of an endangered cormorant population in South Africa. Local penguin numbers are declining precipitously, in part because overfishing is depleting their sources of food. Further north, in Angola, fish stocks are plummeting as climate change rapidly warms the ocean.

Seals are dying in droves along South Africa's coast. What's killing them remains a mystery.

WESTERN CAPE, South Africa - The tourist, in her sandals, flower-print shirt and floppy...

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The consumer price index for all items rose 0.6% in January, driving up annual inflation by 7.5%.

That marked the biggest gain since February 1982 and was even higher than the Wall Street estimate.

Core inflation rose 6%, which also was a notch above expectations.

Real earnings for workers increased just 0.1% on the month when accounting for inflation.

Weekly jobless claims declined to 223,000, below the 230,000 estimate.

History repeats.

Economic cycles are cycles

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While this may not too high on the list on the “high crimes and misdemeanors“ of the church, it was enough to force a priest into resignation.

Priest resigns after two decades of performing "invalid" baptisms

Although Father Andres Arango performed the sacrament on numerous people through the years, officials are now saying none of them were authe

Father Andres Arango, who most recently served in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, Arizona, was found to have used the wrong phrasing.

When performing the sacrament, Arango would say, "We baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."



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Inside a dangerous TikTok trend that keeps sending kids to the hospital

FORT WORTH, Texas — When a 14-year-old girl took 14 Benadryl pills in the middle of the night, her older sister called their grandmother for help, wanting to avoid getting

Kids these days......

On Jan. 28, five students at Haltom City’s Shannon High School overdosed on medication, and two were hospitalized. The day before, four students at Fort Worth’s Polytechnic High School were hospitalized for similar overdose symptoms after ingesting medication. Both school districts have declined to comment on the medication used or the cause of the overdoses.

What is the Benadryl challenge?

Benadryl, or diphenhydramine, is a common over-the-counter allergy medicine. It treats symptoms like rash, itching, watery eyes, cough, runny nose and sneezing. The Benadryl challenge, which started trending on TikTok in 2020, encourages teens to take an excessive amount as a deliriant.

“Each of these patients said they got the idea from videos on TikTok that claimed users could get high and hallucinate if they took a dozen or more of the allergy pills,” Cook Children’s said in 2020.

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GRAMPS TAKING OFF HIS MASK

A sampling of headlines seals the deal: COVID, it seems, is over!?

Abrupt end to mask mandates reflects shifting political landscape… No vax proof for Oscars… Restrictions ‘will soon be thing of past’… Hawaii will NOT require tourists to be boosted… UK to drops isolations…

But is it!?

So there are some voices in the wilderness of “science” who ponder the question: What should we follow now!?

The harsh lockdowns and mask requirements are quickly waning. Those who wanted jail time for the maskless a month ago are now urging to fasten your seatbelt and watch the restrictions go away like magic.

Eric Fiegl-Ding.. I know you’re stunned.

Science magic, after all?

The science, we are now told, “changed.”

What in the world does that mean!?

There are a chosen few still on social media that are shocked at the rapid turn of events. People are are questioning how this can be happening when there are ambulances shortages in rural America, hosoitals still overrun, a 900,000+ death toll, children still spreading like wildfire, and a large cauldron of long haulers that don’t seem able to shake the symptoms that never go away.

But follow the science we must!!! Just one week ago cloth masks were ruled ineffective. Science said. N95s were a must!This week tear them off and go hog-wild!! Endemic-ity is here to stay!  

Into the wild blue yonder! Into the abyss!?

We will see.. And just think of the possibilities! If we stop counting cases, COVID goes away..

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The medal count for TEAM USA: awful!

Total United States Medal Count: 8

Gold medals: 2

Silver medals: 5

Bronze medals: 1

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Which mask? What test? Covid's latest surge spreads an epidemic of confusion.

Tiffany Li wants to trust the government's guidance on the coronavirus, but the messages...

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Mystery Surrounds FAA Order To Halt All West Coast Air Traffic After North Korean Missile Launch (Updated)

Aircraft across the western U.S. were simultaneously ordered by the FAA to land or stop on the ground without explanation.

Intrigue

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SHOWDOWN: SUPREME COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS ON BIDEN VACCINE MANDATE!

The Supreme Court is taking up two major Biden administration efforts to bump up the nation’s vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking coronavirus cases because of the omicron variant.

The justices on the conservative-oriented court are hearing arguments Friday about whether to allow the administration to enforce a vaccine-or-testing requirement that applies to large employers and a separate vaccine mandate for most health care workers. 

The arguments were expected to last at least two hours. Legal challenges to the policies from Republican-led states and business groups are in their early stages, but the outcome at the high court probably will determine the fate of vaccine requirements affecting more than 80 million people.

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Doctors Grow ‘More Concerned About ‘Flurona’ Trend’

CUE THE SONG MY SHARONA..

In a statement to CBS2, the New York City Department of Health said:

Co-infection with influenza and COVID-19 is not a new phenomenon, and is not its own distinct disease. NYC has seen some cases of co-infection, and this is expected. We encourage everyone to get both the flu and COVID-19 vaccines to prevent this as much as possible. COVID-19 and flu are both respiratory illnesses and spread in similar ways. Precautions against both are similar, and familiar to New Yorkers: masking, improving ventilation, physical distancing, and staying home when you are sick.

Adding to the concerns, the city’s hospitals are already dealing with a surge of COVID cases.

“Our biggest fear is a ‘twindemic.’ A ‘twindemic’ means that there will be a lot of COVID cases, a lot of flu cases and those overlap cases, too, are possible,” said Dr. Purvi Parikh, an immunologist.

“About 75-80% of all hospital beds across New York City are occupied right now and that number, we do expect to increase,” said New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi.