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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 Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine.

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 worse. It could have been scheduled for 15.” When he stepped into the ring for his next fight, Tys...

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 around our cognitive machinery. But that doesn’t mean we’re powerless. On the contrary, when local m...