Even Your Pets Can Get Covid Checks From LA Well being Division

Fox News: Los Angeles County Health Department Offering Free COVID-19 Testing For Pets
The Los Angeles County Division of Public Well being is providing free COVID-19 testing for pets who might have been uncovered to the virus. Los Angeles well being officers introduced the initiative on Aug. 20, stating that it has not too long ago obtained funding to conduct the free COVIS-19 testing on pets. (Sabes, 8/21)

How precisely do you check a canine for covid? In case you missed it, this story explains how —

Texas Monthly: Your Pets Have Been Getting COVID-19 Too. Here’s Why That Matters.
Brushing a canine’s enamel is difficult sufficient. The canine appears at you plaintively, eyes large with betrayal, as you insert the toothbrush and carry out a fast pantomime of a tooth cleansing within the seconds earlier than it closes its jaws—and coronary heart—to you. Researchers on the lab of Texas A&M veterinary epidemiologist Sarah A. Hamer have a tougher process: they have to get pets to undergo a nasal swab, one thing which even many people need to be cajoled into doing. (Larson, 3/21)

Extra on the unfold of covid —

Fortune: The CDC Has Guided The U.S. COVID Epidemic To A Soft Landing—A Manufactured Conclusion That Flies In The Face Of Science, Some Experts Say
Earlier this month the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention launched new COVID pointers that introduced the nation’s COVID epidemic in for a mushy touchdown, of types—or tried to, anyway. It dropped the steerage that Individuals quarantine in the event that they’ve been in shut contact with somebody who has the virus, in addition to the advice to social-distance. … The foundations belie the state of issues. COVID ranges in a minimum of some components of the U.S. have been not too long ago at or round highs seen through the Omicron surge late final yr into early this yr. We’re speaking all-time highs. (Prater, 8/21)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Researchers Release COVID Plan For Schools Based On Equity
A gaggle that features researchers, a public well being division director and a Georgia legislator has launched a plan for faculties nationwide to reply to COVID-19 with an eye fixed towards minimizing hurt to Black and Latino college students and different populations most affected by the pandemic. (Pratt, 8/22)

Fox News: Public School Districts Implementing COVID Restrictions Meet Ferocious Community Pushback 
Faculty districts have re-implemented mandates for youngsters for the 2022-2023 educational yr, towards the needs of many mother and father throughout the U.S., who’ve been combating it tooth and nail at board of training conferences. Most not too long ago, a 4-year-old boy in San Francisco, California was kicked out of faculty for not sporting a masks, Fox Information Digital reported Friday. (Grossman, 8/22)

The New York Times: Jill Biden Tests Negative For The Coronavirus
Jill Biden, the primary woman, left isolation after testing destructive for the coronavirus on Sunday, practically per week after she examined optimistic whereas on trip in South Carolina. Dr. Biden had been isolating in a non-public residence there, however joined President Biden in Rehoboth, Del., on Sunday, based on an announcement from Elizabeth Alexander, her communications director. (Montague, 8/21)

In associated information concerning the pandemic —

NPR: Released During COVID, Some People Are Sent Back To Prison With Little Or No Warning
Greater than 11,000 folks have been launched from federal jail within the final couple of years, to journey out the pandemic at dwelling, typically with their households and family members. However that scenario could be precarious. … The Bureau of Prisons informed NPR that 442 individuals who have been launched through the pandemic have now returned to jail. Solely 17 folks out of greater than 11,000 who have been launched dedicated new crimes, largely drug associated ones, whereas they have been out. Greater than half, some 230 folks together with Eva Cardoza, bought despatched again for alleged alcohol or drug use. Different instances concerned technical violations. (Johnson, 8/22)

Fox News: Dr. Birx: CDC At ‘Inflection Point,’ Expects Real Change Following Watershed Admission
Former White Home coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx praised the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) for its uncommon admission of missteps in how the company responded to COVID-19. “Loads of administrators would have simply tried to tweak [it], and tweaking the company at this level was not going to achieve success,” Birx stated throughout an look on “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “That is an inflection level.” (Aitken, 8/21)