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COVID-positive Sarah Palin dines out two nights in a row in New York
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Publishing date:Jan 27, 2022 • 11 hours ago • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) attends Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown on November 8, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Sarah Palin ate out at two restaurants in back-to-back nights – the same week she tested positive for COVID-19.

The former Alaska governor is in New York for her defamation trial where she is suing The New York Times after an editorial linked her to the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona that killed six people and wounded U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords.

Palin tested positive for the coronavirus on three rapid tests, including one given by the courthouse on Monday, the day before she likely would have testified.

A quick perusal of New York State’s approach to isolation and quarantine shows that Palin should be in isolation for at least five days and can only re-emerge in public after testing negative under CDC guidelines.

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But rather than observe the recommended quarantine period, Palin was spotted eating on the patio of a restaurant on Tuesday night, then at a different Italian eatery on Wednesday night.

Restaurants in New York City are required to check for proof of vaccination before allowing patrons to dine indoors.

However, Palin, who also tested positive for COVID-19 March 2021, is unvaccinated.

“It will be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot,” she said during the AmericaFest conference earlier this month. “I won’t do it, and they better not touch my kids either.”

The trial has been delayed until Feb. 3 , as the judge wants to ensure everyone in the courtroom is safe when Palin removes her mask to testify.

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“She is, of course, unvaccinated,” U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff told the Manhattan courthouse Monday morning, as he announced her first positive test. “Since she has tested positive three times, I’m going to assume she’s positive.”

Rakoff said he would allow Palin to return to court next week, even if she still tests positive but shows no symptoms.
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COVID-positive Sarah Palin dines out two nights in a row in New York

Sarah Palin ate out at two restaurants in back-to-back nights – the same week she tested positive for COVID-19.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is isolating after learning of COVID exposure
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Publishing date:Jan 27, 2022 • 13 hours ago • 2 minute read • 763 Comments
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reacts during a news conference about Canada's military support for Ukraine, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 26, 2022.
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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is isolating at home after learning that he was exposed to someone who had tested positive for COVID-19.

The prime minister said in a tweet Thursday morning that he learned about the exposure the night before, after he had been at a news conference on Parliament Hill with three top ministers.

Trudeau’s office says the exposure happened after the event and that no staffer or minister in range of the prime minister are isolating.

Trudeau said the result of a rapid antigen test he took was negative, but he is following local public health rules and isolating for five days.

He said he will be working from home during that stretch.

“I feel fine and will be working from home,” he wrote in the tweet. “Stay safe, everyone — and please get vaccinated.”

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Staying home for five days will mean the prime minister will not be able to appear in person when the House of Commons returns Monday from its winter break.

Ottawa Public Health guidelines say anyone who does not have symptoms of COVID-19 and tests negative on a rapid antigen test does not need to self-isolate unless they are doing so because of a close contact, like a symptomatic household member.

Trudeau is fully vaccinated and received his booster shot at a local Ottawa pharmacy three weeks ago.

Several of Trudeau’s cabinet ministers have had to isolate in recent weeks after positive tests, or because they were potentially exposed to the virus.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was forced in mid-December to deliver her economic update remotely after two members of her team tested positive on rapid tests.

A few days later, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly announced she had tested positive on a rapid test and was isolating.

Joly and Freeland were at the news conference with Trudeau on Wednesday, along with Defence Minister Anita Anand. She too had to cancel a trip to Washington, D.C. and isolate after a member of her staff tested positive in mid-December.

The news conference came at the end of a cabinet retreat, where ministers joined remotely.

Trudeau was not scheduled for any in-person events Thursday. He was to call foreign leaders and address the Liberal caucus remotely.
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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is isolating at home after learning that he was exposed to someone who had tested positive for COVID-19.
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I seem to recall early in the pandemic Trudeau catching the Covid , if that is the case he should have super immunity what with shots and nature .
 
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turdOWE has a great fear of being confronted by working people on saturday. Current weather report suggests poor surfing in Tofino, also airport is still fogged in,so this is his only other option to not do his job.
 
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turdOWE has a great fear of being confronted by working people on saturday. Current weather report suggests poor surfing in Tofino, also airport is still fogged in,so this is his only other option to not do his job.
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Best wait until March for the surfing , a little frisky now .
 
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PM Trudeau says isolation due to child testing positive for COVID-19
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Publishing date:Jan 28, 2022 • 23 hours ago • 1 minute read • 222 Comments
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and children Ella-Grace, Hadrien and Xavier arrive at Rideau Hall to ask Governor General Mary Simon to dissolve Parliament Aug. 15, 2021 in Ottawa.
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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s isolating because one of his kids tested positive for COVID-19.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, he says he feels fine and has no symptoms.

He says he took another test this morning and it was negative, as was a previous rapid test.

Trudeau is not saying which of his three children has tested positive or how they’re doing.

The PM revealed in a tweet Thursday that he was going into isolation for five days after finding out Wednesday evening he’d been in contact with someone, whom he didn’t identify, who had tested positive.

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Trudeau says he’s working from home, attending a virtual Liberal caucus retreat today; he’ll also have to participate virtually Monday when the House of Commons resumes business after a six-week break.
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Alzheimer's-like changes found in COVID patients' brains: Studies

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The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review.
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Alzheimer’s-like changes seen in COVID-19 patients’ brains

People who die of severe COVID-19 have brain abnormalities that resemble changes seen in Alzheimer’s disease – accumulation of a protein called tau inside brain cells, and abnormal amounts of the protein beta-amyloid that accumulates into amyloid plaques – small studies have found.

At Columbia University, Dr. Andrew Marks and colleagues studied the brains of 10 COVID-19 patients and found defects in proteins called ryanodine receptors that control the passage of calcium into cells. In Alzheimer’s disease, defective ryanodine receptors are linked to accumulation of tau into so-called neurofibrillary tangles. These tangles were present in high levels in the COVID-19 patients’ brains, the Columbia team reported on Thursday in Alzheimer’s & Dementia . Other research teams have looked for – and found – abnormal amyloid levels in brains of COVID-19 patients, according to reports posted online ahead of peer review on bioRxiv and on The Lancet’s preprint server .
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In all the studies, patients had experienced the most severe forms of COVID-19. If similar changes are occurring in the brains of patients with milder illness, that might help explain the “brain fog” associated with long COVID, Marks said. Patients with severe COVID-19 might be at higher risk for dementia later in life, but it is too soon to know, he added. His advice: Get a booster vaccine and avoid the virus. “If you get COVID-19, you probably won’t die, but we still don’t know a lot about the long-term effects.”

Seniors can get flu shot, mRNA COVID-19 booster together

Seniors can safely get the high-dose flu vaccine and an mRNA COVID-19 booster dose at the same time, a new study confirms.

The study’s 306 participants, all older than 65, were randomly assigned either to receive Sanofi’s Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent influenza vaccine and a third shot of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine at the same time, or either of the vaccines alone. Blood samples obtained before and 21 days after vaccination showed that giving the two vaccines together did not affect the resulting immune response, with similar antibody levels generated in participants in each of the three groups, according to a report published on Tuesday in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine .
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A spokesperson for Sanofi said combined administration of the COVID-19 and influenza vaccines “did not raise any safety concerns and the study team is continuing to follow study participants through 6 months after vaccination.”

Fluid in some rapid COVID tests could be deadly for kids

In some COVID-19 rapid test kits, the small bottle of “reagent” fluid contains sodium azide, a powerful poison that is particularly dangerous for small children, experts warn.

In adults, small amounts can quickly cause dangerously low blood pressure, dizziness, fainting, or even heart attacks or strokes, said Dr. Kelly Johnson-Arbor, Co-Medical Director of the National Capital Poison Center in Washington, D.C. Higher doses can be fatal, she and her colleagues wrote in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine . Sodium azide levels in COVID-19 rapid test kits are not always high enough to cause low blood pressure in adults, and the iHealth kits being sent out by the U.S. government do not contain any sodium azide at all, Johnson-Arbor said. “However… since children are typically much smaller than adults, they are at a higher risk of experiencing poisonous effects after swallowing any amount,” she said.

Poison control hotlines have been getting reports of accidental exposures to the reagent fluid. “Some people have swallowed the solution, some have spilled it onto their skin, and others have put it in their eyes,” mistaking the bottle for eye drops, Johnson-Arbor said. “If you or a loved one swallows the reagent fluid or gets the fluid in their eyes or on the skin, contact Poison Control right away.”
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Safety and immunogenicity of a high-dose quadrivalent influenza vaccine administered concomitantly with a third dose of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in adults aged ≥65 years: a phase 2, randomised, open-label study

Concomitant seasonal influenza vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine booster could help to minimise potential disruption to the seasonal influenza vacci…
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Β-Amyloid Deposits in Young COVID Patients

A 58-year-old woman who died of COVID infection was included as a control subject in an ongoing autopsy study of the neuropathology of military traumatic brain
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SARS-CoV-2 invades cognitive centers of the brain and induces Alzheimer’s-like neuropathology

Major cell entry factors of SARS-CoV-2 are present in neurons; however, the neurotropism of SARS-CoV-2 and the phenotypes of infected neurons are still unclear. Acute neurological disorders occur in many patients, and one-third of COVID-19 survivors suffer from “brain diseases”. Here, we show...
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Alzheimer's-like changes found in COVID patients' brains: Studies

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet…
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