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UF Health: Vaccines protect against easily spread delta variant Updated:  Tags:  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The new coronavirus delta variant is highly contagious. So much so that health experts say one in every five new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. is due to the delta variant. ”This is the most transmissible of all the variants that we’ve seen and we saw what happened in the UK where it overtook the entire nation, so I’m worried that’s going to happen in the U.S.,” said Dr. Peter Hote...

Police said shooting suspect who phoned 911 ‘wanted to surrender himself’

By: Sean Crose The Mike Tyson of the late 1980’s was such a dominant force that it was considered a disappointment if he didn’t get the knockout against an opponent. Tyson was therefore looking to impress after he had won what was actually a boring heavyweight title bout in March of 1987. His opponent, James “Bonecrusher” Smith chose to hold rather than fight, making for a tedious affair. “The misery ended with the bell after Round 12,” wrote the Sun Sentinal. “It could have been ...

Local collaboration is key to slowing misinformation “Again and again, we found that the most damaging misinformation narratives started as local rumors, memes, and misleading photos — repackaged and reshared across the country.” There are no miraculous buttons you can press that will stop the spread of dangerous misinformation online. No sophisticated tech tools or algorithms transparent enough on their face to save humanity. No fact-checks that are so perfectly constructed they get arou...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images In Florida, candidates in several state senate races with no party affiliation (NPA) garnered thousands of votes with little to no campaigning or fundraising. The playbook appears the same across races: A candidate with no political experience registers to run just days before the deadline. Then, political action committees pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into mailers supporting these candidates, often using language that appe...

Backed by dark money, candidates with no party affiliation appear to have changed the outcome of several Florida races insider@insider.com (Jonah Goldman Kay) © Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Poll workers help a voter put their mail-in ballot in an official Miami-Dade County ballot drop box. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images In Florida, candidates in several state senate races with no party affiliation (NPA) garnered thousands of votes with little to no campaigning or fundra...