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Contradicting federal guidance, Florida will recommend against Covid vaccines for healthy children.
Contradicting steerage from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, Florida will quickly advocate that wholesome kids not get vaccinated in opposition to Covid-19, the state’s surgeon normal, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, introduced on Monday.
“The Florida Division of Well being goes to be the primary state to formally advocate in opposition to the Covid-19 vaccines for wholesome kids,” stated Dr. Ladapo, who has expressed skepticism in regards to the vaccines’ effectiveness.
He made the announcement on the finish of a 90-minute dialogue convened by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, titled “The Curtain Shut on Covid Theater.” (“Watch it earlier than YouTube takes it down,” learn the put up on the governor’s Fb web page linking to video of the occasion, an obvious reference to the removing of coronavirus misinformation from social media platforms.)
In the course of the dialogue, Dr. Ladapo, a DeSantis appointee, and different panelists cited research suggesting restricted or quickly waning safety in opposition to an infection from the coronavirus vaccine in kids, who already had decrease an infection charges than adults.
“We’re type of scraping on the backside of the barrel, notably with wholesome children,” Dr. Ladapo stated.
A number of research have proven that though vaccine efficacy in opposition to an infection wanes over time, the immune response stays extremely protecting in opposition to hospitalization and loss of life, even in opposition to the extremely contagious Omicron variant.
The C.D.C. has urged dad and mom to get their kids vaccinated. “Covid-19 could make kids very sick and trigger kids to be hospitalized,” the company’s web site says. “In some conditions, the problems from an infection can result in loss of life.”
The federal government notes that vaccinating kids may also defend members of the family who aren’t eligible for vaccination — together with kids youthful than 5 — or who’re at elevated threat for critical sickness if contaminated. Extra kids have been hospitalized throughout the Omicron surge than at some other level within the pandemic.
Requested about Florida’s transfer at a White Home information convention on Monday afternoon, the press secretary Jen Psaki stated federal suggestions on vaccines have been vetted so that folks may believe in them.
“It’s deeply disturbing that there are politicians peddling conspiracy theories on the market and casting doubt on vaccination when it’s our greatest software in opposition to the virus and the perfect software to stop even youngsters from being hospitalized,” she stated.
Most public well being specialists disagree with how shortly Florida dropped virus mitigation measures; greater than 70,000 folks have died in complete. However Mr. DeSantis has solely develop into extra strident in his method over time. The governor and Dr. Ladapo have appeared to step up their campaign in opposition to what they’ve characterised as pointless and dangerous pandemic insurance policies ever for the reason that Florida Senate confirmed the surgeon normal to his job final month.
The day after the affirmation vote, the 2 males issued new virus pointers that they stated would “buck” the C.D.C. These pointers included urging companies to not require workers to put on masks.
Final week, Mr. DeSantis angrily confronted a bunch of highschool college students at an occasion organized by the governor’s workplace over the masks the scholars have been carrying whereas standing behind his lectern.
“You should not have to put on these masks,” he scolded them. “I imply, please take them off. Truthfully, it’s not doing something, and we’ve obtained to cease with this Covid theater. So if you wish to put on it, wonderful, however that is ridiculous.”
Video capturing the second went viral. Mr. DeSantis’s marketing campaign seized on the chance to boost funds for his re-election.
Adeel Hassan contributed reporting.
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Israel’s military has recovered the body of a Thai man who was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz and killed in captivity by terror group Kataeb al-Mujahideen shortly after the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7, 2023.
Natthapong Pinta’s body was brought back to Israel after an operation by the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli Security Agency, the military said on Saturday.
“Yesterday (Friday), in a joint IDF and ISA operation, the body of Nattapong Pinta, a Thai national, was recovered from the Rafah area in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF and ISA said in a joint statement.
His family in Thailand was notified by the Thai Embassy and by Brig. Gen. (Res.) Gal Hirsch, who serves as the coordinator for Captives and Missing Persons in the Israeli prime minister’s office.
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The body of Natthapong Pinta, a Thai national who was killed in captivity in Gaza, has been recovered by Israeli forces. (IDF)
Natthapong had come to Israel to work in agriculture, according to Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz.
“I send my deepest condolences to his wife, young son, and family, and I thank our heroic soldiers who, time and again, operate under fire to bring back all the hostages, out of a profound moral commitment,” Katz said in a statement.
“We will not rest until all the hostages — both the living and the fallen — are returned to Israel,” he continued.
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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz offered his condolences to the family of Natthapong Pinta. (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a news release that “the recovery of Nattapong Pinta represents the fulfillment of a basic moral and human obligation, allowing his family the closure they desperately need.”
In a statement, the Hostage Families Forum said: “We stand with Nattapong’s family today and share in their grief.”
“While the pain is immense, his family will finally have certainty after 20 terrible and agonizing months of devastating uncertainty,” the statement continued. “Every family deserves such certainty to begin their personal healing journey.”
Natthapong Pinta’s body was returned to Israel after an operation by the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli Security Agency. (FNC IDF)
Fifty-five hostages remain in Gaza – 33 of whom are confirmed dead, but at least 20 are alive. There is grave concern for the lives of two hostages.
Fox News’ Yael Rotem-Kuriel contributed to this report.
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A large Russian attack with drones and missiles has hit Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring 21, local officials said. The barrage — the latest in near daily widescale attacks — included aerial glide bombs that have become part of a fierce Russian onslaught in the three-year-war .
The intensity of the Russian attacks on Ukraine over the past weeks has further dampened hopes that the warring sides could reach a peace deal anytime soon — especially after Kyiv recently embarrassed the Kremlin with a surprise drone attack on military air bases deep inside Russia.
According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Russia struck with 215 missiles and drones overnight, and Ukrainian air defenses shot down and neutralised 87 drones and seven missiles.
Several other areas in Ukraine were also hit, including the regions of Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and the city of Ternopil, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in a post on X.
“To put an end to Russia’s killing and destruction, more pressure on Moscow is required, as are more steps to strengthen Ukraine,” he said.
Kharkiv’s mayor Ihor Terekhov said the attack also damaged 18 apartment buildings and 13 private homes. Terekhov said it was “the most powerful attack” on the city since the full-scale invasion in 2022.
Kharkiv’s regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said two districts in the city were struck with three missiles, five aerial glide bombs and 48 drones. Among the injured were two children, a month and a half year old baby boy and a 14-year old girl, he added.
The attack on Kharkiv comes one day after Russia launched one of the fiercest missile and drone barrages on Ukraine, striking six Ukrainian territories and killing at least killing at least six people and injuring about 80. Among the dead were three emergency responders in Kyiv, one person in Lutsk and two people in Chernihiv.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet on the Kursk front inside Russia, the Ukrainian daily Ukrainskaia Pravda reported. No more details were given immediately.
U.S. President Donald Trump said this week that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, told him Moscow would respond to Ukraine’s attack on Russian military airfields last Sunday with “Operation Spiderweb”
In a new statement bound to cause offense in Kyiv and amongst its allies, Trump told journalists on board Air Force One on Friday evening local time when asked about “Operation Spiderweb”:
“They gave Putin a reason to go in and bomb the hell out of them last night. That’s the thing I didn’t like about it. When I saw it I said ‘Here we go, now it’s going to be a strike’.”
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