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EEUU se prepara para un invierno con tres virus: COVID-19, influenza y RSV

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:52 GMT

Incluso cuando Estados Unidos se enfrenta a una intensa ola de calor este verano, la doctora Mandy Cohen, directora de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés), ya está pensando en la temporada de resfriados e influenza del invierno.“Vamos a tener tres virus: COVID-19, por supuesto, influenza y RSV”, dijo Cohen en una entrevista. “Necesitamos asegurarnos de que el pueblo estadounidense comprenda los tres y qué puede hacer para protegerse”.La propagación de los tres virus respiratorios es actualmente baja, pero los CDC han comenzado a detectar ligeros aumentos en las pruebas positivas de COVID-19 y las visitas a emergencias relacionadas con coronavirus. Asimismo, la disminución de las hospitalizaciones por COVID-19 se ha estancado.Las subvariantes de Omicron XBB siguen siendo las formas más prevalentes del coronavirus, aunque esta semana la Organización Mundial de la Salud identificó una nueva variante de XBB, la EG.5, cuya prevalenc...

Fitzpatrick brothers giving their parents some tough choices at British Open

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:52 GMT

HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Two brothers teed off within an hour and a half of each other in the third round of the British Open.For the parents of Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick, it might have been a case of split loyalties as they weighed up which of their sons to follow at Royal Liverpool on Saturday.“I told them to go focus on him,” said Matt, the U.S. Open champion last year and the older of the siblings by four years. “That’s more important. This is my, what, ninth? So they’ve seen all nine of those.”They were treated to quite the show by Alex, whose first Open is going better than he can ever have imagined.He birdied three of his last four holes to shoot 6-under 65 and possibly move into contention for the claret jug, a highly improbable scenario for a player ranked No. 561 and who has golfed in his brother’s shadow.Alex’s score would have tied the record for the low score in 13 Opens to have been held at Hoylake had Jon Rahm not shot 63 a half hour earlier.“I’m not familiar with this...

Hollywood man arrested for fleeing officers in Florida Keys

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:52 GMT

LOWER KEYS, Fla. (WSVN) – A 43-year-old Hollywood, Florida driver was arrested Friday after failing to stop on U.S. 1.Jose Miguel Falcon was charged with a felony and misdemeanor for fleeing, eluding, and resisting arrest around 12:05 a.m. on Saturday.The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office attempted to stop a Volkswagen sedan near Mile Marker 29 for multiple traffic violations. According to officials, Falcon turned off the car’s lights, slowed down, came to a stop, and then took off again multiple times. The car also swerved outside its lane, passed vehicles via the bike path, and forced others to get off U.S. 1.The driver eventually stopped at Mile Marker 27, got out of the car, and walked away from the Deputy, while ignoring commands to stop. Falcon was then shocked with a Taser after being warned several times and placed into custody.Falcon was posted a bond of $3,000.

17-year-old found dead after boat crash in Sesuit Harbor

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:52 GMT

A 17-year-old girl has been found dead after a boat crashed into a jetty in Sesuit Harbor in Dennis, officials said.Massachusetts State Police said the victim was recovered from the water around 11:30 p.m. late Friday night after a search and rescue operation around Cold Storage Beach. Police responded to the scene around 9 p.m., when the boat crashed into the jetty by the channel leading to the Northside Marina, the DA announced. Six other occupants of the boat were also injured in the crash, including another teenager transported to the hospital with a head laceration, officials said.The Dennis Fire Department, the US Coast Guard, the Barnstable County Dive Team, the Sandwich Fire Department and the Massachusetts State Police were all assisting in the search Friday night.The death is under investigation by state police detectives.

Missing swimmer found dead in Lake Maspenock in Hopkinton

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:52 GMT

A 21-year-old man was found dead in Lake Maspenock in Hopkinton Saturday morning following a multi-organizational search effort when he did not return to the Sandy Beach shore Friday night, officials said.Officers said a friend swimming with the missing man called 911 around 8 p.m. when he returned to shore alone from a swim in Lake Maspenock. Police said the swimmers went beyond the safe-swimming zone buoys and ventured further into the lake. Using sonar-equipped rescue boats, Hopkinton fire and other departments searched the lake until midnight Friday and then suspended the efforts due to storms and limited visibility.Around 8 a.m. Saturday, crews discovered the missing swimmer in 12 feet of water and about 90 feet from the shoreline.The identity of the swimmer was not released, and the cause of death is under investigation.

Lobbyists, Washington meetings reflect Orioles chairman John Angelos’ push for ‘second Baltimore renaissance’

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:52 GMT

Orioles Chairman and CEO John Angelos has reached out to Maryland’s congressional delegation and retained Washington lobbyists to try to help the city redevelop the Inner Harbor and the area immediately surrounding the city’s stadium complex.It’s part of a push, in concert with the city and state, for what Angelos has called a “second Baltimore renaissance.”Angelos met with U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin earlier this year, and a second meeting is expected with the Maryland Democrat later this summer about redevelopment, according to Cardin’s office.Maryland’s other senator, Democrat Chris Van Hollen, “has heard from the Orioles’ representatives broadly on revitalizing the Inner Harbor, but no specific proposals have been discussed,” said a statement from Van Hollen’s office in response to Baltimore Sun inquiries.“That being said, the senator has previously been committed to bringing greater investment to downtown Baltimor...

Kardashian co-founded SKIMS shop opens inside Nordstrom at Westfield UTC 

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:52 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- SKIMS, an American shapewear and clothing brand co-founded by Kim Kardashian, has opened a new shop in San Diego. Brand representatives told FOX 5 a new SKIMS "shop-in-shop" location is now welcoming customers inside the Nordstrom department store at Westfield UTC.The pop-up kicked-off services at the store earlier this month and is now available for in-person shopping from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Where to eat and drink near Del Mar Racetrack this season "The new SKIMS shop features signature collections from shapewear to t-shirts in a conceptual space designed in partnership with Willo Perron from Perron-Rottinger," said Manuela Uscher, a representative for Nordstrom.According to SKIMS, the brand is "solutions oriented" with an intent to create "the next generation of underwear, loungewear and shapewear."The shop is stocked with an assortment of shapewear and undergarments for summertime and Uscher says the merchandise is available in SKIMS signature fabrics and hu...

Jamie Foxx tells fans in an Instagram message that he is recovering from an illness

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:52 GMT

Academy Award winning actor, singer and comedian Jamie Foxx said in an Instagram video that he is recovering from an undisclosed medical condition. “I went to hell and back, and my road to recovery has some potholes as well, but I’m coming back,” Foxx, appearing thin and wearing a dark pullover shirt, said in the three minute, 15 second video. “I’m able to work.”Foxx, 55, was hospitalized in April with what his daughter, Corinne Fox, described at the time as a “medical complication” and Foxx did not disclose the nature of his condition in his first public comments since being hospitalized.“I just didn’t want you to see me like that … I didn’t want you to see me with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through,” Foxx said, thanking his daughter, sister, God and medical professionals for saving his life.“I went through something that I thought I would never, ever go through,” Foxx said.“Every once in a while I just b...

Russian special forces kill gunman who broke into private house near Moscow

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:52 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian security forces on Saturday killed a heavily-armed gunman who broke into a private house in the suburbs of Moscow and fired at them, reportedly threatening to march on the Kremlin.The assailant was spotted by guards after he had broken into an unoccupied house located in an elite cottage village in the Istra region, about 45 kilometers (less than 30 miles) west of Moscow. He held them at gunpoint, but they managed to escape, according to the Russian media.For several hours, the authorities negotiated with the attacker who was in combat fatigues and toted a Kalashnikov rifle. The man claimed he came from the front lines in Ukraine and was driven by God to march on the Kremlin, the seat of the government in Moscow. He refused to surrender, fired at the special forces and was killed when they stormed the house, Russia’s National Guard said. It said that the attacker had several automatic weapons and hand grenades.Russian lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein identif...

Mississippi lawmaker says tutu photo is misused in campaign. He’s raising money for cancer research

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:15:52 GMT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican state Sen. Jeremy England says he intentionally wore what he considers a “very embarrassing” Halloween costume to raise money for breast cancer research — a shiny pink bodysuit with a short pink skirt.Now, England says a photo of him in the outfit has been misused, with a slur directed at him, in an increasingly divisive GOP primary as he supports Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann for reelection.A person backing one of Hosemann’s opponents posted an image of the tutu-clad England on Twitter along with a comment: “Hosemann and his groomer weirdos.”“I consider that to be some of the worst, dirty form of politics — which is, of course, where we are now in this race,” England told The Associated Press.“Groomer” is commonly used to describe how sex offenders initiate contact with their victims. The word has become ubiquitous in American politics as certain conservatives try to equate certain educational materials with pornography or ...