August 12, 2021

Fastest growing US metro area : The Villages,FL

https://twitter.com/allymutnick/status/1425883293854191620?s=20


Some fun Census stats on 2010-2020:

>> McKenzie County, North Dakota (!) was the fastest growing US county, up 131%

>> The Villages, FL was the fastest growing US metro area, up 39%

>> US population growth this decade was slower than any other this past century, save the 1930s

August 12, 2021

Watch for extreme gerrymandering in FL. GA, NC and TX

https://twitter.com/kellycward/status/1425833508061077509?s=21


Watch for extreme gerrymandering in FL, GA, NC, and TX, where Republicans will use their control of the process to gerrymander as many as 11-16 seats in these states alone. This is how they plan to take back the House for a decade.



This just makes me sick. I think it was 2 years after the pukes took over the NC state legislature, Duke did a research paper showing that Democrats could have retaken it without the extreme gerrymandering. Ugh.

August 11, 2021

'Where are you?' Miss. governor blasted as hospital clears out parking garage to house patients

With Mississippi nearly out of ICU beds — and officials in Jackson clearing out a parking garage to house COVID-19 patients — one hospital CEO has a simple question for Republican Gov. Tate Reeves.

"Hospitals and healthcare workers need you to help us. Where are you?" Neshoba County General Hospital CEO Lee McCall wrote on Twitter in a message to Reeves on Tuesday. "We are overwhelmed with the surge of Covid and understaffed to safely care for our patients. Our incredible staff are holding it together but we are all at our breaking point."

The answer to McCall's question, according Mississippi Today journalist Adam Ganucheau, is that Reeves is out of state attending a Republican Governors Association candidate conference.

"Nearly everyone in the state — medical, government and education leaders and voters on the political right and left — is asking: Where is our governor?" Ganucheau wrote Tuesday. "Gov. Tate Reeves is holed up most days at the Governor's Mansion, according to people close to the governor. Reeves, who has defiantly rejected issuing any new statewide orders, has isolated himself from many of his closest advisers in recent weeks. He's holding no press conferences, decidedly not making himself available to the public as he did earlier in the pandemic. Right now, as the crisis reaches its biggest inflection point, he's out of state at a Republican Governors Association candidate conference."

https://www.rawstory.com/where-are-you-miss-governor-blasted-as-icu-bed-shortage-prompts-parking-garage-field-hospital/


It's gotta be hot as hell in Mississippi.

August 11, 2021

Booster shot being approved by FDA Thursday for immunocompromised

The Food and Drug Administration is poised to amend the emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer and the Moderna Covid-19 vaccines Thursday to allow people with compromised immune systems to get a third dose, according to two sources familiar with the plans.

The move would come after a panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met in Julyand urged action on extra doses for immunocompromised adults.

Doctors say it is increasingly clear that many such patients are still vulnerable to Covid following vaccination because they may not mount an effective immune response to the shots.

An estimated 2.7 percent of adults in the United States are immunocompromised, according to the CDC. It is unclear which groups would be covered under the expected FDA action. Immunocompromised patients include organ transplant recipients, people undergoing cancer treatment and people with HIV, among others.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-poised-ok-third-vaccine-dose-immune-compromised-people-n1276602

The article goes on to state the CDC Advisory Panel will meet Friday and they have to issue an approval before doctors can start prescribing extra doses.

August 11, 2021

The Federal government is rushing into Mississippi to save the hospital system

https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1425559223405092868?s=21



NEWS: The federal government is rushing into Mississippi to help as COVID-19 threatens the state's entire medical system.

Without drastic change, "I think we’re going to see failure of the hospital system in Mississippi" in 5-10 days, says Dr. Alan Jones.

August 11, 2021

Holy shit, this Lincoln Project ad on masking in schools is brutal

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1425532474772180998?s=20

August 11, 2021

Jeopardy' Set to Announce Mike Richards and Mayim Bialik Splitting Host Duties

Sony Pictures Television is set to announce that Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards will host the long-running daily syndicated program and actress Mayim Bialik will host primetime and spin-off specials of the famed quiz show, The Daily Beast has learned.

The current version of the show, which was hosted by the late Alex Trebek for 36 years, has featured a series of guest-hosts following Trebek’s death last year as executives grappled with who was best to fill the iconic role.

Richards, who had been the frontrunner for a hosting gig, will start Season 38 as host of the daily syndication while Bialik, best known for her starring role in CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, will host new spin-off series—the first of which will be the Jeopardy! National College Championship on ABC.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeopardy-set-to-announce-mayim-bialik-and-mike-richards-splitting-host-duties?utm_source=web_push



Don't care for Richards. He's smarmy. Love Bialik, though

August 11, 2021

"Don't Florida my Fauci" ex-Skid Row Singer Sebastian Bach

He's currently on CNN's New Day encouraging people to get vaccinated. He got a breakthrough infection , it's mild and he said thank god for the vaccine.


https://twitter.com/sebastianbach/status/1425331408952721412?s=20

August 11, 2021

Mississippi Dept. of Health advised doctors to start giving out booster shots

Mississippi, with one of the highest new Covid-19 case rates and lowest rates of vaccinated people in the U.S., is encouraging booster doses for some high-risk groups.

The Mississippi State Department of Health is now advising that doctors consider a booster or third dose of a Covid-19 vaccine for people with weakened immune systems, including organ transplant patients and people taking immunosuppressive medications.

“We have provided guidance to providers and physicians throughout the state to assess their patients who may be immunocompromised to administer a third dose,” Dr. Paul Byers, a physician with the State Department of Health said during a news briefing Wednesday. “If individuals are concerned they fall into those categories, we recommend they speak to their primary care physician to determine the need for a booster vaccine.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/mississippi-offer-covid-vaccine-booster-doses-immunocompromised-people-n1276076

A doctor was on MSNBC before Morning Joe and said there's no proof we need boosters and we don't know if they're safe etc. but Israel is currently boostering their seniors with encouraging results and the UK and Germany have approved boosters for their countries.

August 11, 2021

Hello, it's 5:34 am and Ted Cruz is currently blocking confirmation on all 30 ambassadors

Menendez is putting forward for Biden.



https://twitter.com/lex_samuels/status/1425384628651761664?s=20



Menendez particularly unhappy Cruz blocked an admin nominee for international narcotics. Says post would work on blocking fentanyl imports.


https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1425377526482968583?s=20


https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1425389894839332864?s=20