Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths are increasing, and the vast majority were not vaccinated
Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths are increasing, and the vast majority were not vaccinated
Posted: Jul 19, 2021 1:20 PM
Updated: Jul 19, 2021 1:20 PM
Posted By: By Madeline Holcombe and Holly Yan, CNN
The surge in Covid-19 cases fueled by the Delta variant and vaccine hesitancy has now led to increasing rates of hospitalizations and deaths.
Data from Johns Hopkins University shows: The average number of new Covid-19 cases each day the past week was 32,278. That s a 66% jump from the average daily rate the previous week, and 145% higher than the rate from two weeks ago.
Domestic shooting inside east Birmingham home leaves 1 man dead
Updated 10:48 PM;
A shooting in east Birmingham Sunday evening left one man dead in what is believed to be a domestic dispute.
The shooting happened shortly before 6 p.m. at Autumn Chase on Chase Lane, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald. Officers dispatched to the scene on a report of a person shot found the male victim unresponsive in the living room. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead on the scene.
Fitzgerald said the preliminary investigation suggests that a verbal argument took place prior to the victim being shot. A suspect remained on the scene and was taken into custody. The suspect was taken to Birmingham Police Headquarters for questioning, but no charges have yet been announced.
Princeton, New Jersey (Scheerpost) The Rev. Will Campbell was forced out of his position as director of religious life at the University of Mississippi in 1956 because of his calls for integration. He escorted Black children through a hostile mob in 1957 to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School. He was the only white person that was invited to be part of the group that founded Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He helped integrate Nashville’s lunch counters and organize the Freedom Rides.
But Campbell was also, despite a slew of death threats he received from white segregationists, an unofficial chaplain to the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. He denounced and publicly fought the Klan’s racism, acts of terror and violence and marched with Black civil rights protestors in his native Mississippi, but he steadfastly refused to “cancel” white racists out of his life. He refused to demonize them as less than human. He
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