The disappearance of Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, while walking home in London one evening has sparked an outpouring on social media from women sharing their own experiences of sexual assault and harassment. Many have also exchanged notes on the habitual precautions they take to try to stay safe when they walk alone and voiced their anger and frustration that this feels necessary. The fact that a serving Metropolitan Police officer has been arrested on suspicion of Everard s kidnap and murder has only added to the sense of threat. The officer sustained a head injury and was hospitalized while in custody on Wednesday police told CNN. The suspect has since been discharged from hospital and returned to police custody.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/499394.html (Natural News) Health authorities in the United Kingdom found no influenza cases two months into 2021. Laboratory analysis confirmed only one case in the last week of December, leading to allegations that possible flu cases may have been lumped into COVID-19 case counts. But health officials in the U.K. denied this was a cause for concern, as it only proved that measures to curb COVID-19 also drove down influenza transmission.
The Independent reported on Feb. 25 that influenza infection rates are at historic lows, with public health officials finding not a single flu case in the U.K. for the past seven weeks. Out of the more than 685,000 swab samples analyzed by
Lessons from the UK about a more-contagious covid-19 variant
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Strain first detected in Britain last year has been found in more than 70 countries, including the U.S.
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The U.K. has become a testing ground for how a more-contagious and possibly deadlier coronavirus variant spreads through communities, displacing its less-transmissible ancestors and complicating vaccine rollouts and the lifting of lockdowns.
The variant has now been identified in more than 70 countries and 40 U.S. states, and its advance in Britain could help scientists understand its likely trajectory in the U.S. These charts show the spread of the variant around the U.K. and what British scientists are learning about it including its higher transmissibility and lethality.
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The Abshire family contracted the coronavirus earlier this month. Sarah Abshire, right, says it was the B.1.1.7. variant, a strain first detected in the United Kingdom. Credit: Photo courtesy of Sarah Abshire
âIt hits you like a truck.â One Seattle familyâs experience with UK variant of the coronavirus By
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Sarah Abshire, 35, of Seattle was recovering at home on Saturday, Feb. 6, resting and loading up on Zinc and vitamins. Abshire, her husband, and their daughter contracted the coronavirus a week before, and she hoped her body could continue fending off Covid-19 without hospitalization.
âWe re doing okay,â Abshire said by phone that day, her breathing labored.