Ep. 78: News Roundup Week of 4/19/21

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted their recommendation to pause use of the Johnson & Johnson shots, saying the benefits outweigh the risks. J&J has agreed with the FDA to add language to the vaccine’s label warning about the clot risk. Infections are out of control in India as that country is dealing with a Double-Mutant Variant Japan declared its third Covid-19 state of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures. The global death toll from Covid-19 surpassed three million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More than a quarter of the U.S. population have now been vaccinated against Covid-19, and nearly 40% of people have received at least one shot, but the average number of newly reported cases each day remains high. Meanwhile, the demand for vaccines is waning. The first confirmed instances of counterfeit versions of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer were identified by the drugmaker in Mexico and Poland. U.S. President Joe Biden made good on a campaign pledge a year ago to formally recognize that atrocities committed against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire — now modern day Turkey — more than a century ago were genocide. Turkey rejected the acknowledgement. Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was jailed after being found guilty on all charges in the death of George Floyd. This week, we lost former Vice President Walter Mondale, celebrated Earth Day and marked the 40th anniversary of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. Link to Tana Amen’s Loving Kindness Meditation: https://tanaamen.com/resources/meditation/ Queen Elizabeth II’s marked her 95th birthday and we lost the oldest living American, Hester Ford, who was either 115 or 116 years old. Former President George W. Bush, 74, released a book this week entitled “Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants.”