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April 22, 2021 at 10:45 am
The Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital will be launching a pilot program for same-day, walk-up COVID-19 vaccinations starting Thursday, April 22. No appointment will be needed.
A limited number of 200 Pfizer vaccines will be available for each day on a walk-up basis between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. Monday through Saturday for anyone ages 16 and older.
The walk-up slots will be available for Baltimore City residents.
“Walk-up vaccinations offer an option for Baltimoreans who have difficulty accessing registration via a computer or phone, or who may prefer it instead of direct scheduling or pre-registration,” a UMMS press release stated.
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April 22, 2021 at 5:20 am
As reported by Chaim V’Chessed, for the past several weeks, it has been possible for relatives of Israeli citizens to obtain permission to enter Israel. However, a challenging component of the application process has been the requirement of an apostille stamp on various documents, such as birth or marriage certificates.
Thanks to the efforts of our colleagues at Amudim, this requirement has now been largely dropped. Effective immediately, an apostille is no longer required to accompany most proof of relationship documents. The only exceptions are foreign spouses of Israeli citizens and minor children of an Israeli citizen parent.
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April 21, 2021 at 10:28 pm
The United States Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it would extend universal free lunch through the 2021-2022 school year, in an effort to reach more of the estimated 12 million youths experiencing food insecurity.
In March, the USDA said these waivers, which made school meals more flexible to administer, would be extended only to Sept. 30, leaving schools and families uncertain about what next school year might look like.
Child nutrition program waivers, which aimed to cut through red tape to allow kids to eat free even outside normal meal times, were implemented at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when millions of families faced financial strain, hunger and hardship. The waivers allowed schools and commun...
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April 21, 2021 at 9:59 pm
Baltimore, MD - Apr. 21, 2021 - Trader Joe’s Restaurant Style White Corn Tortilla Chips in a 9 oz. bag - OU Pareve, mistakenly contains Kosher dairy cheese puffs in some bags with Sell By dates of 08/09/21, 08/10/21, and 08/11/21. These bags have been recalled.
Details are available here or by calling 626-363-7711.
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April 21, 2021 at 9:54 pm
Middle-age adults who sleep six or fewer hours a night may be at higher risk of developing dementia in later life, a new study suggests.
People age 50 or 60 who regularly slept six hours or less each night were more likely than those who slept seven hours to be diagnosed with dementia, according to the study published Tuesday in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
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Even after controlling for cardiac, metabolic and mental-health issues, the study researchers found that 50-year-olds who were sleeping six hours or less a night had a 22% high...
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April 21, 2021 at 9:53 pm
A missing teenager who vanished from Germany has been found in France with no memory of who she is, according to reports.
The 16-year-old girl, known only as Isabella O, had vanished from Celle before ending up 500 miles away from home wandering the streets of France.
German police had been looking for the teenager and she was found suffering with a memory black out, reports say.
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Her dad blamed the stress caused by the Covid lockdown and its impact on her schoolwork as the reason for the memory black out, saying that she simply could not cope any l...
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April 21, 2021 at 9:53 pm
Contradicting assertions by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the previous day that Israelis would undergo another round of coronavirus vaccinations in six months’ time, national virus czar Nachman Ash said Wednesday that he doesn’t know when the expected campaign will happen.
“I can’t say when we will get another vaccine [shot], perhaps in six months, perhaps in a year, perhaps even longer,” Ash told Army Radio.
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He explained that the assumption is that the vaccine shots issued so far will eventually lose effectiveness and that c...
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April 21, 2021 at 9:50 pm
The allies of the Jailed Russian Kremlin critic and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny are calling for mass protests to be held on Wednesday.
The demonstrations have been in the making for weeks, with the organizers hoping to reach 500,000 people registering for participation.
However, the recent concerns for the politician’s health, with Navalny moved into a prison hospital as he holds a hunger strike, have prompted them to move the date to Wednesday. According to their website, the number of people registering currently stands at 466,000.
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April 21, 2021 at 9:46 pm
TikTok, a massively popular social network app focused on short videos and owned by Chinese company ByteDance, could face a class-action lawsuit on behalf of millions of children over its data collection practices.
Spearheading the charge is Anne Longfield, the ex-Children’s Commissioner for England, with the lawsuit representing the UK and EU children who had used the app since May 25, 2018.
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Longfield accuses the company of illegally collecting troves of data on the children since that date and using their personal information to the benefit of th...
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April 21, 2021 at 9:39 pm
Amazon opened its first hair salon Tuesday. Located in London’s Spitalfields shopping district, Amazon Salon offers hairdressing services dressed up with technology, including augmented-reality hair consultations.
The two-story, 1,500-square-foot store also includes entertainment streaming on Amazon Fire tablets and a test of a new “point and learn” experience for brick-and-mortar retail. The technology lets customers point at an item on a shelf to display product information on a screen mounted behind.
Consumers looking to purchase items for sale, such as hair conditioner, must scan the QR codes displayed on the shelf to order them for home delivery on Amazon’s U.K. website.
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April 21, 2021 at 9:39 pm
Democrats are renewing a push for criminal justice reform following former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction in the murder of George Floyd.
President Biden, congressional Democrats and members of Floyd’s family in Minneapolis lauded the jury’s decision Tuesday finding Chauvin guilty on all three charges stemming from Floyd’s death in May, but said it was no substitute for broader action on police reform.
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Democrats have raised pressure on Senate Republicans to pass the bil...
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April 21, 2021 at 9:36 pm
Scientists at Texas A&M University have identified a variant of the novel coronavirus that is potentially resistant to antibodies, the university announced in a statement.
The strain, BV-1, was found in one individual who had reported mild symptoms of COVID-19.
During lab tests, research showed that “several neutralizing antibodies are ineffective in controlling other variants with the same genetic markers as BV-1,” the university said.
“We do not at present know the full significance of this variant, but it has a combination of mutations similar to other internationally notifiable variants of concern,” said Global Health Research Complex (GHRC) Chief Virologist Ben Neuman. “This variant combines genetic markers separately associated with rapid spr...
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April 21, 2021 at 7:22 pm
According to unconfirmed reports, the explosions may have been the result of a patriot battery responding to a missile launched toward Israel.
Alarms sounded in Abu Qrenat near Dimona in southern Israel early Thursday morning, the IDF's Spokesperson's Unit reported.Residents from nearby villages reported hearing "loud explosions" that "shook the houses."
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Residents in central Israel and in Jerusalem reported hearing a loud explosions as well. According to unconfirmed reports, the explosion was the result of a patriot battery responding...
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April 21, 2021 at 7:19 pm
Rocket sirens have gone off in Southern Israel and the Patriot missile defense system has reportedly been activated near the site of Israel’s nuclear facility in Dimona.
According to initial reports, a large explosion was heard by nearby residents, who said their homes shook from the force of the blast. Initial reports claim that a missile was intercepted by a Patriot system near the nuclear facility.
While details are still sparse, some believe the ongoing incident could be a retaliatory attack by Iran on Israel’s sensitive facilities after their own nuclear facility in Natanz was sabotaged.
If it is indeed a missile attack, it is most likely that it was fired by Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy situated closest to Israel, rather than from Gazan terror factions, who seldom tar...
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April 21, 2021 at 5:36 pm
New initiative includes outreach to older adults, college campuses, major employers
Gov. Larry Hogan announced a new "No arm left behind" initiative to get more Marylanders vaccinated against COVID-19.
The governor highlighted a small, yet crucial component of the Maryland's vaccine campaign Wednesday as the state launches new initiatives to get vaccines to every Marylander who wants one.
"Those of you who have not yet been vaccinated, please go get a vaccine as quickly as you can. Do it for yourself, do it for your family, do it for your friends, and do it so that all of us can finally put this global pandemic behind us," Hogan said. "We truly are close to that light at the end of the tunnel. Those of you who have not yet been vaccinated, please go get a vaccine as quickly as ...
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April 21, 2021 at 5:32 pm
SunPower project set to help County exceed current renewable energy goals, Olszewski sets bold vision for future of Baltimore County
TOWSON, MD— In celebration of Earth Week 2021, Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski today announced a new project with SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ:SPWR) to install solar panel arrays at two closed County landfills, which are expected to generate the equivalent of 35 percent of the electricity demand of the County’s buildings and facilities—putting the County on track to exceed current renewable energy goals. As a result, Olszewski today signed a new Executive Order setting an aggressive new goal to generate or displace the equivalent of 100 percent of Baltimore County’s electric demand with renewable energy sources by 2...
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April 21, 2021 at 5:31 pm
The Senate on Wednesday narrowly voted to confirm Vanita Gupta, President Biden's nominee for the No. 3 position at the Department of Justice (DOJ), despite stiff opposition from Republicans who had criticized her civil rights advocacy during the Trump administration.
Just one Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), voted in favor of Gupta.
As associate attorney general, Gupta will oversee the DOJ's efforts on civil litigation and law enforcement issues.
That portfolio will likely include the federal civil rights investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, which Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday, one day after a jury convicted former officer Derek Chauvin on murder charges in the death of Ge...
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April 21, 2021 at 5:25 pm
Baltimore City is looking into buying hotels to provide non-congregate housing for people experiencing homelessness.
The city on Wednesday posted a request for information and is seeking to use federal money to convert property to permanent and transient housing in accordance with the mission of the Mayor's Office of Homelessness Services.
“I remain committed to implementing an anti-homelessness strategy that addresses the acute needs that exist now, while simultaneously fostering long-term solutions in partnership with service providers and other stakeholders," Mayor Brandon Scott said in a statement.
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April 21, 2021 at 5:21 pm
The Baltimore factory contracted to make Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine was dirty, didn’t follow proper manufacturing procedures and had poorly trained staff, resulting in contamination of material that was going to be put in the shots, U.S. regulators said Wednesday.
The Food and Drug Administration released a statement and a 13-page report detailing findings from its recent inspection of the now-idle Emergent Biosciences factory.
Read the FDA report.
Agency inspectors said a batch of the bulk drug substance for J&J’s single-shot vaccine was contaminated with material used to make COVID-19 vaccines for another Emergent client, AstraZeneca. That batch, reportedly enough to make about 15 million J&J vaccine doses, had to be thrown out.
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April 21, 2021 at 5:14 pm
In a 79-36 vote, the Florida House overwhelmingly passed House Bill 7045 this morning. The legislation aims to consolidate Florida's scholarship programs for special needs students and expand the state’s means-tested scholarship program to middle income families.
“Florida continues to lead the nation in putting families and children first,” said Rabbi Moshe Matz, executive director of Agudath Israel of Florida. “This bill, once it passes the Senate and is signed by Governor DeSantis, will transform the lives of Florida students and give more families the educational opportunities currently only available to some.”
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