Dr. Drew Pinsky, who apologized for downplaying coronavirus, says he has Covid-19
(CNN) — Dr. Drew Pinsky has Covid-19.
He shared the news on his Instagram but says he’s on the mend.
“Thanks for checking in on me, I appreciate all the kind shout-outs,” he said in a video. “Covid is no fun. I don’t recommend it.”
Previously, the doctor had called the pandemic “press-induced” but later apologized.
He went on to say that he has been sick for six days and that after a false negative result, he eventually tested positive.
The former CNN host of “Dr. Drew” also posted several videos in which he discussed taking bamlanivimab and dexamethasone. Bamlanivimab received an emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration in early November.
According to the FDA, monoclonal antibodies should be given as soon as possible after symptoms emerge and a person tests positive for infection.
via: https://www.kmov.com/dr-drew-pinsky-who-apologized-for-downplaying-coronavirus-says-he-has-covid-19/article_ad4a662a-1dbf-5edb-8a6d-1c4e6f7ea35d.html
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Fake teen doctor arrested for fraud again in Palm Beach County
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — It’s a case that made national headlines. A teenager posing as a doctor, none other than “Dr. Love.”
Malachi Love-Robinson is now 23 years old, but it appears he may have been up to some of his old tricks.
Love-Robinson was arrested for fraud and grand theft on Thursday morning. He was released on Thursday night.
Police said Love-Robinson worked for a shipping broker, and he’s accused of having clients send money to his personal account instead of the company.
Authorities say Love-Robinson took over $10,000 that belonged to the company.
According to police, in text messages to the owner of the company Love-Robinson wrote he “f***ed himelf,” “can’t say how truly sorry he is,” is “doing everything [he] can to make it right” and “I don’t want to go to jail.”
In 2018, Love-Robinson pleaded guilty to several fraud charges, grand theft and practicing medicine without a license.
His patients say he claimed he held several degrees, including a Ph.D. and a M.D. What his patients didn’t realize was that he was just 18 years old.
Love-Robinson was charged with stealing more than $20,000 from an elderly Palm Beach County patient he was allegedly treating in 2015.
He was later charged and arrested on grand theft charges in February 2016.
Love-Robinson insisted he never posed as a medical doctor, but was a naturopathic physician.
He was released from prison after serving nearly 21 months at a maximum security lockup outside Fort Myers.
via: https://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-palm-beach-county/fake-teen-doctor-arrested-for-fraud-again-in-palm-beach-county
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Ore. health care worker has severe allergic reaction to COVID vaccine
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon health care worker has been hospitalized after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
The Oregon Health Authority says the employee at Wallowa Memorial Hospital experienced anaphylaxis after receiving a first dose of the vaccine this week.
The health authority said vaccines for COVID-19 can cause mild to moderate side effects in some people. This can include pain and swelling on the arm and sometimes fever, chills, tiredness and headache.
In rare cases, some people have experienced severe allergic reactions. Health officials will continue to track adverse reactions. So far, 38,698 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Oregon since the week of Dec. 13.
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They are keeping me hostage.’ Homeless, Tacoma advocacy group occupy Fife motel
Original article written December 28, 2020
Homeless advocacy group is occupying a Fife motel without pay, and city police are looking to cooperate with them to find shelter.
Tacoma Housing Now booked 16 rooms at the Fife Travelodge Motel at 3518 Pacific Hwy. E on Thursday, motel manager Shawn Randhawa said. After paying for the initial night, the occupants have refused to pay or leave for four days.
I’m just devastated,” he told The News Tribune. “Because of the protest, I have nothing else. I was barely getting through this pandemic, and now this. This Christmas, the Grinch came.”
Fife Police Chief Pete Fisher said the group is trespassing. Rather than use force to remove the people, he wants to work with the organization.
We’re trying to see if we can work out a resolution without having to take law enforcement action,” Fisher said. “We’re talking about people with medical issues, cold weather that are homeless. So we are trying to work with our neighboring agencies to see what we can do in the form of relief, relief or temporary shelter.”
Rebecca Parson, the spokesperson for Tacoma Housing Now, said at least five people have died this year from exposure while living outside in Tacoma. She said there are positive COVID-19 cases at homeless shelters, and the group wanted a safe option for those with medical conditions.
“We wanted somewhere for people to stay warm and dry and get showers and stay as safe as possible,” Parson told The News Tribune.
There are people staying in the motel rooms and about 60 protesters standing outside the motel. Parson said two more motel rooms of unhoused people have joined in the protest, making the total 18 rooms occupied.
The Tacoma Housing Now group said they have housed 43 people at the motel. The advocacy group wants Tacoma and Pierce County to pay for the rooms.
The group insists they want the manager, Randhawa, to be paid.
“We paid for first night — Christmas Eve — and then we are sending the bill to county and city,” Parson said.
Asked about the crime of trespassing, Parson said: “The biggest crime of all is anybody dying of cold in the streets.”
Pierce County said they are looking into this but they have not been in discussions with Tacoma Housing Now.
Randhawa said he feels the group isn’t giving him a choice and he doesn’t feel supported by the police or the city. He said there was destruction of property when one of the doors was broken after he locked a motel room.
They are keeping me hostage. No one is out to help me,” he said. “It’s complete lawlessness in the city of Fife.”
If the situation does not change in a few days, Randhawa said he will abandon the property and his 15 employees will stop showing up.
“I’ll have to lock the doors. and if the city won’t kick them out, they can have it,” he said. “I’ll shut off the water and I’m not fighting with these people. I believe there should be a law.”
The organization took over Gault Middle School in November to house those experiencing homelessness, but left after Tacoma police threatened to make arrests.
Fife’s city manager Hyun Kim told The News Tribune he wants an open dialogue between all parties. He wants to help those who are experiencing homelessness, but also worries about the small business.
“I would like to bring together partners to provide wrap-around services to these people. I understand that some are sick and just a hotel room is not an end-all-be-all,” he said. “Occupying a private motel and potentially put them out of business is untenable. I fear for those who might lose their job.”
He does not have a time table of when or if law enforcement would be used.
Pierce County council member Pam Roach, who represents Fife, said that this situation is a result of the need for housing for the homeless and a disregard for people’s businesses.
“It goes right back to the fact that we need to find space for people especially when it’s cold,” she told The News Tribune. “If the government isn’t doing its job, citizens pay for it — just like this business owner.”
Read more here: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article248131550.html#storylink=cpy
Florida mom whose 1-year-old son died when a friend left the tot in a hot car wants the state’s governor to intervene, saying she doesn’t understand why prosecutors dropped charges in the case
Makia Wallace, a 34-year-old corrections officer in Orange County, first met 35-year-old Dougkindra Wallace while in high school. Makia later started paying her friend $80 monthly to take her son, Jace Lucas Leslie, to and from day care in Pine Hills due to her 12-hour shifts, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
The arrangement worked for almost a year for the women – who are not related – until Sept. 11, when Dougkindra found the boy dead in her back seat after leaving him in her car before going to her job as a third-grade teacher at Rolling Hills Elementary School.
After dropping her own son with a babysitter, Dougkindra got on a call and drove to her job instead of dropping off Jace at day care – the result of her being “likely distracted,” according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
More than seven hours later, after the heat index surged as high as 105 degrees, Dougkindra left work and drove to a student’s house before heading to Jace’s daycare, where she discovered the boy dead — still buckled in his rear-facing car seat, the newspaper reported.
Dougkindra later surrendered to cops, but prosecutors ended up dropping the felony charges she faced — aggravated manslaughter and child neglect – in October, saying they didn’t have enough evidence of negligence, the Sentinel reported.
“All I’m asking for is justice,” an emotional Makia Wallace told the newspaper. “I’m refusing to be silent for my baby.”
The grieving mom said she has reached out to Gov. Ron DeSantis to get involved in the case. She also tried to reach an incoming prosecutor in the hopes that lesser charges can be filed against her former friend, according to the report.
State Attorney Aramis Ayala, whose terms ends next week, told the newspaper her office could not proceed with prosecuting Dougkindra despite the “horrific” facts of Jace’s death.
“This is an extremely sad and tragic case,” Ayala said. “… Although the Defendant clearly owed the victim a duty of care, breached that duty, and caused the victim’s death — this is the definition of simple negligence, a tort — not a crime.”
Staffers for DeSantis did respond to a request for comment, according to the report, although Makia Wallace said she had been told by his office he would not get involved unless a conflict of interest was found.
Makia, meanwhile, said she celebrated what would have been her son’s second birthday earlier this month and vowed to not stop fighting on his behalf.
“I just reflect back on every time Jace has brought me the jot and the love that I feel,” she told the Sentinel. “Every day, I wake up and I have to fight – fight for justice for my baby.”
Jace was one of 24 children who died in hot cars this year, according to Jannette Fennell, president and founder of KidsAndCars.org, who noted inconsistent prosecution of the tragic deaths nationwide.
“You’ll see cases that have an almost identical type of situation, and they’re treated extremely differently,” Fennell told the newspaper.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/12/31/florida-mom-vows-to-fight-for-charges-in-sons-hot-car-death/
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Sex offender, 38, ‘spent hours glued to child porn on AT&T store iPad’ until horrified workers called police
A convicted sex offender has been slapped with charges that he looked at child porn on an iPad in a cell phone store in Boulder, Colorado, Crime Online reports.
Sex offender, Nathan Wood, 38, pleaded not guilty to charges of perusing child porn in the AT&T store.
He was charged with offenses that include sexual exploitation of a child and attempted sexual exploitation of a child for the April 18 incident in the store.
Wood was allegedly glued to the iPad for hours.
Authorities alleged Wood used an iPad at the store for four hours before leaving.
Finally, after the store closed, employees of the store searched the browser history of the iPad that the sex offender had commandeered and found shocking evidence of his porn browsing.
Wood had allegedly been visiting dark-web child porn sites.
According to Newsbreak, both of the charges against the sex offender for allegedly looking at child porn in the store are felonies.
Wood is being tried in Boulder District Court.
Nathan Wood, 38, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Boulder District Court to sexual exploitation of a child and attempted sexual exploitation of a child, both felonies.
When police officers got their hands on the iPad that the sex offender had used at the store, allegedly to look at child porn, they found German phrases that allegedly amounted to search terms for images of nude children.
Wood also apparently visited sites that showed underage victims being sexually assaulted.
Prior to the offending alleged incident with the alleged child porn in the store, Wood was convicted in 2012 in Boulder County for sexual assault and burglary.
He had stolen women’s clothing from bathrooms in female dormitories at the University of Colorado and also assaulted a woman acquaintance as she slept in such a dorm. This led to charges of trespassing for starters, according to a CBS affiliate KCNC Denver report directly following the 2011 incident.
Authorities arrested 29-year-old Nathan Wood on charges of sexual assault, four counts of trespass, three counts of burglary and three counts of theft.
Wood was sentenced to six years in prison plus two years of work release and supervised probation for that offense.
After the incident with the alleged child porn in the store, Boulder cops relied on surveillance footage to track down the sex offender.
The sex offender promptly confessed to looking at porn in the store, but denied that any of it featured children, investigators alleged. He also attempted to deny ever looking up German search terms for child porn, claiming that he must have gotten his German mixed up.
According to Denver Post sister newspaper The Boulder Daily Camera, Wood’s trial is slated for May.
via: https://knewz.com/sex-offender-porn-store/?utm_source=nypost
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Miya Ponsetto, 22, identified as accuser in Keyon Harrold Jr. case
A white woman from California is the suspect wanted by cops in the latest headline-grabbing case of bogus accusations allegedly leveled against an innocent black person, The Post has learned.
Miya Ponsetto, 22, was identified by NYPD sources as the woman caught on camera falsely accusing the 14-year-old son of jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold of stealing her iPhone.
Photos posted online with Ponsetto’s name also appear to match the young woman who melted down in the lobby of the Arlo Hotel in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood and tackled Keyon Harrold Jr. in a vestibule.
“No, I’m not letting him walk away with my phone!” she shrieked at one point, according to a video clip posted online by the elder Harrold.
On Wednesday night, NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison tweeted a montage of surveillance video clips that also included a shot of the woman’s face with the word “WANTED” under it in red letters.
Harrison said the NYPD “is requesting the public’s assistance locating the suspect in this video,” who he said “falsely accused an innocent 14-year-old teenager of stealing her cellphone,,,then proceeded to physically attack him and fled the location.”
Public records show there’s only one person with the name Miya Ponsetto in the US.
That person is 22 and has a last known address in Sun Valley, Calif.
She’s also associated with an address in Simi Valley, Calif., that appears to be her former family home.
CNN has reported that it interviewed the woman involved in Saturday’s incident and said that she’s 22 years old.
The cable network didn’t identify her further, saying that “she said she has concerns for her safety unrelated to this incident.”
The photos of Miya Ponsetto posted online include two professional shots of a varsity cheerleader at Simi Valley High School in California from the 2015-2016 school year.
Those pictures were available for purchase until The Post inquired about them, after which they were first listed as “not for sale,” then blocked from being viewed without a password.
Ponsetto doesn’t appear to have a phone number listed in her name and didn’t immediately respond to messages sent to email addresses linked to her through public records.
Messages left at two phone numbers listed in her father’s name weren’t immediately returned.
Other numbers listed in the names of other family members either weren’t answered or were answered by people who said they weren’t her relatives.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/12/31/miya-ponsetto-22-identified-as-accuser-in-keyon-harrold-jr-case/
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Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
During this time. We need to think about what we eat and how much we eat of it. Because there are thousands and thousands of people right now who have never experienced in their life going to a food bank or food pantry.
I will say that COVID-19 is the great equalizer of them all there is no more rich poor or in the middle well I take that back….