MADISON, Wis. - The number of fully vaccinated people in Wisconsin who were hospitalized with COVID-19 more than doubled from February to July, but the more contagious delta variant was still an exponentially greater threat to the unvaccinated, state Department of Health Services data released Thursday shows.
The unvaccinated were three-times as likely to test positive for COVID-19 as the unvaccinated in July, the health department data showed. The unvaccinated were hospitalized at a rate 3.7-times higher than the vaccinated and the risk of dying was 10-times higher for the unvaccinated.
"The COVID-19 vaccines are still doing their job by stopping the spread of many new infections, and by preventing severe illness, hospitalization, and death," said department Secretary Karen Timberlake in a statement. However, because no vaccine is perfect, some breakthrough cases are expected, the health department said.
In February, among those who were vaccinated there were nearly 57 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people in the state. In July, that increased to just over 125 cases per 100,000 vaccinated people, health department data shows.
In February, there were nearly 386 cases per 100,000 people and in July that stood at 369.
“My first thought was, I don’t want to get shot. I’m trying to not get shot."
MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee Police are conducting an internal investigation after home surveillance video shows an officer turn the camera away from activity, after police entered the wrong home.
A police report obtained by the I-Team shows MPD received a 911 call about three men arguing near 12th Street and W. Finn Place after 1:30 a.m. last Friday morning. The caller told police two of the men had guns.
According to the report, when police arrived, one of the men took off southbound and an officer believed he saw the man enter a home.
“I heard a loud bang, like someone broke something,” Twan Versey said.
That loud bang wasn’t the suspect, but police. The situation turned chaotic: As Versey came downstairs to see what was going on, he says he saw more than a half dozen lights and guns pointed at him. His girlfriend followed shortly thereafter, equally as confused and scared.
“That’s when I started to panic,” Jackie Washington said. “My nephew, I see the bathroom is closed and I know he’s in there.”
Washington’s nephew, Keyon Davis-Washington, had been staying with them for a while now to try and get his severe diabetic condition under control. Davis-Washington says his condition makes it difficult for him to control his bowels.
Last Friday morning, he was in the bathroom, cleaning himself up after an accident. Completely naked, he heard the chaos going on outside of the bathroom.
“When I heard the door get kicked, I froze up,” Davis-Washington said. “I started shaking, really, really, really bad. I thought I was going to die. I literally feared for my life.”
Versey’s home has a surveillance camera positioned on the kitchen stove. It captures most of the living room and kitchen. It records in 20 second increments after something triggers it, like motion or sound. The video shows officers clearing the home, looking for the suspect; a closet in the living room, another room attached to the kitchen. However, when officers were working on getting Davis-Washington out of the bathroom, one officer notices the camera on the stove.
“He stepped to the side and as another officer was coming into the kitchen from the living room, you could hear him snap to him and let him know there was a camera in there,” Versey said.
In the video, you see the officer holster his weapon, and walk out of frame. Three distinct snaps are heard as two officers turn to see what’s going on. The officer coming from the living room walks up to the camera and turns it away from the actions of the officers.
“Why would you touch the camera?” Versey said. “If you came to do your job, why would you touch the camera? Why would you adjust the camera in the first place? You knew you were doing something wrong. You knew you were caught. That doesn't do anything but make the situation worse.”
What happened with Davis-Washington was not caught on the surveillance camera. He says officers ordered him to put his hands up, despite wearing only a towel.
“With half a towel wrapped on me and feces still on me, I come out of the restroom,” Davis-Washington said. “Instead of putting my hands up, I kind of put my hands to my hips. I’m like, sir, I can’t put my hands up. If I put my hands up, I’m going to be exposed and you’ll see everything.”
Davis-Washington says during all of the commotion, he left his phone in the bathroom purposefully. He says the actions of police killing unarmed Black men was all he was thinking about.
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Keyon Davis-Washington feared police would shoot him if he brought his phone out of the bathroom, believing it could be a weapon.
“I knew if I grabbed anything or had nothing in my hands, they’d probably think I had a gun in my hands and probably fire,” Davis-Washington said. “My first thought was, I don’t want to get shot. I’m trying to not get shot. Trying not to make the wrong move or anything because I know, if I did make the wrong move, I was going to be shot.”
“What really messed me up was when you turned that camera around and y’all had all the guns on my nephew,” Washington said. “Y’all were hoping this imaginary person y’all were chasing was in that bathroom and, all praise to the most high, my nephew did not walk out with that phone because he would have been dead. 20 years old. Dead.”
GREEN BAY, Wis. - It was a beautiful day at the office with the Packers and New York Jets practicing on Wednesday.
They'll do it again on Thursday and they'll play at Lambeau Field on Saturday afternoon in preseason game number two.
In the offices overlooking Lambeau is where General Manager Brian Gutekunst works and where Aaron Rodgers would like to be a little more involved.
The QB has pointed out during the off season as well as training camp that he'd like to be included in conversations with good actions regarding personnel in those offices.
"I pride myself on being reasonable and rational," said Rodgers. "Sometimes what I think is best might not be best based on gathering all the evidence and all the opinions and hearing thoughts from different people. Just to be in the conversation would be a great start."
For now, Rodgers understands he is a football player and he is a quarterback for a team that is a Super Bowl contender.
In practice on Wednesday, Rodgers looked pretty sharp and he needs to because this is his week to get some work in since he is not planning to play at all in the preseason.
He said earlier this week in an interview he considered 2020 being his last year in Green Bay.
"I don't want a farewell tour," Rodgers said. "I don't know what's going to happen after the season, but I'm going to enjoy it with the right perspective for sure and not look at as I'm getting through this, I'm just going to enjoy the hell out of the perspective through some of the work I've done in the off season and just try to just be more joyful and happier is going to allow this season to be really special and memorable, I think."
MILWAUKEE - From the White House to Wisconsin, there is a national push for COVID-19 vaccinations as the delta variant drives metrics in the wrong direction.
It comes as health experts report breakthrough cases among fully vaccinated people, leading to the need for additional vaccine shots.
Providers like Hayat Pharmacy in Milwaukee are already offering booster shots to people with compromised immune systems. That eligibility will open to the general public in September.
Doctors say the announcement does not mean the vaccines are ineffective; instead, it is a direct response to the delta variant.
"The delta variant has decided to kind of rewrite the story on COVID," said Dr. William Hartman with UW Health.
Dr. William Hartman, UW Health
Carrying a viral load that is 1,000 times more than the original COVID-19 strain, Hartman said the delta variant is providing a challenge to the mRNA vaccines – Pfizer and Modera. Breakthrough cases suggest their provided immunity decreases over time.
"The booster will allow them to get that antibody up even higher so that they can feel more confident that they can fight off COVID-19 infection if it was to come their way," Hartman said.
Milwaukee County data suggests COVID-19 cases are plateauing this week, but it is too early to tell. Hospitalizations and deaths have been rising in previous weeks. Health experts say the solution is still vaccinations and, now, boosters.
Dr. Ben Weston, Milwaukee County's chief health policy advisor, said the focus is on people with compromised immune systems before providing an additional shot to the general public.
"While that additional dose is to further improve the immune response in those that didn't initially have a robust response, the booster response...is for those whose immune response to the virus has weakened over time," said Weston.
Hartman said it is important to note the vaccines are still effective despite breakthrough cases. He points to the fact that most hospitalized COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated.
"We have a body of evidence on these that the immunity is still very good at preventing severe disease, immunization and death," said Hartman.
As for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, it is too early to know if people will need booster shots, since the vaccine was not authorized for emergency use until the end of February.
Anyone concerned about immunity is encouraged to contact their primary care doctor.
For allied nations of the US and the shills that enable them, the fall of Afghanistan is similar tothe fall of Christopher Cantwellfor fed-backed neo-Nazis and other shills.
When Cantwell went down, I told all of the neo-Nazis and Oath Keepers: “this is the fate that awaits you – the feds don’t care about you, they will not honor deals, and they will not protect you.”
Beijing’s state-run Global Times newspaper has warned Taiwan that the US “abandonment” of Afghan allies should be a lesson, as the disputed island would be left to fend for itself and “collapse in hours” in a war with China.
Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leaders must keep a “sober head” and advocates for secession from China should “wake up from their dreams,” the English-language newspaper said on Monday.
“From what happened in Afghanistan, they should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island’s defense will collapse in hours, and the US military won’t come to help,” Global Times said in an editorial. “As a result, the DPP authorities will quickly surrender, while some high-level officials may flee by plane.”
Just such a scenario has played out in Afghanistan since President Joe Biden announced in April that the US military would withdraw from the country by September 11. Biden later moved the deadline up to the end of August, but even before the process could be completed, the country’s US-backed government collapsed. Taliban fighters overran Afghan security forces in an overwhelming blitzkrieg, capped by their capture of Kabul on Sunday, after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country with bags of cash in tow.
“The best choice for the DPP authorities is to avoid pushing the situation to that position,” Global Times said.
“They need to change their course of bonding themselves to the anti-Chinese mainland chariot of the US. They should keep cross-Straits peace with political means, rather than acting as strategic pawns of the US and bear the bitter fruits of a war.”
The article was accompanied by an illustration of a bald eagle, representing the US, leading Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen toward a hole in the ground. The newspaper likened the chaos in Kabul to the 1975 fall of Saigon, when US embassy staffers were evacuated by helicopter, just as happened again in Afghanistan on Sunday.
Global Times said the US has a long history of abandoning its allies, from betraying imperial France after the Revolutionary War and abandoning Kurdish allies in Syria in 2019, to fleeing Kabul as Afghan defenses collapsed. “Is this some kind of omen of Taiwan’s future fate?” the newspaper asked, adding that while Tsai and other DPP leaders downplayed the Afghan crisis, “they must have known better in secret, that the US is not reliable.”
Jewish power is always an illusion. It only exists because people believe in it.
Joe Biden said you should surrender your guns because you would need F-15s and nukes to beat the US government, but the Taliban beat the US government with Kalashnikovs and Toyota pickup trucks.
Honestly, China should have just taken Taiwan on Sunday. No one would shoot at them, after they realized what was happening. Leaders would just immediately flee with huge amounts of cash, and the masses of normal Chinamen would just nod and continue about their business. There would be a rush of homosexuals to the airport, but the Chinese military isn’t sexualized like the Taliban, so you wouldn’t have any sluts crying for salvation.
Of course now, it’s only a matter of time. The Empire is officially in decline, and the clock is ticking on every globalist-Jew project.
With the scene in Kabul over the weekend, we witnessed the beginning of the end of the Evil Empire.
If we stay still, we can hear the words: “fallen, is fallen…”
All of those who served it will end up no different than those morons climbing onto the wings of planes at the Kabul airport.
I just want to say to all of those people leading the Oath Keepers, TRS, Proud Boys, Atomwaffen, TWP, and the rest – you’re not getting on the planes with the American elite when they flee for Israel. You’re going to be left at the airport, and your pitiful bags of cash will be torn open. And I promise each and every one of you: we are not going to be as forgiving as the Taliban.
When these chickens finally come home to roost, you fat motherfuckers are at the top of my list.
There will be no white flags and no peace talks.
You’d be better off taking your chances holding onto the wings of that flight to Tel Aviv than dealing with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that King Nick is going to appoint me as the head of. I can tell you that much.
(CNN) — A licensed pharmacist was arrested in Chicago on Tuesday for allegedly selling dozens of authentic Covid-19 vaccination cards on eBay, the Justice Department said in a news release.
Tangtang Zhao, 34, allegedly sold 125 Covid-19 vaccination cards from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to 11 different buyers for about $10 a card in March and April, the department said.
Zhao, who worked as a pharmacist during that time, was indicted on 12 counts of theft of government property, the release added.
“Knowingly selling COVID vaccination cards to unvaccinated individuals puts millions of Americans at risk of serious injury or death,” Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie Jr., with the FBI’s Chicago Field Office, said in a statement. “To put such a small price on the safety of our nation is not only an insult to those who are doing their part in the fight to stop COVID-19, but a federal crime with serious consequences.”
Zhao’s defense attorney, Gal Pissetzky, entered a not guilty plea on his client’s behalf during a Tuesday arraignment.
Zhao’s biggest sale was $176.70 on April 2 to a buyer who paid for 17 cards, according to the indictment. In total, Zhao made more than $1,200 between March and April, the indictment shows.
During the arraignment, Zhao was ordered by US Magistrate Judge Sheila M. Finnegan to inform his employer that he was indicted on a charge of selling certified vaccination cards that he received from his job.
Pissetzky, Zhao’s attorney, said he “will certainly be fired if he discloses the charges to his employer.”
“Certainly, unfortunately, Mr. Zhao will lose his employment and I’m not sure if he’ll be able to gain new employment because he is a pharmacist,” Pissetzky said.
“He might be able to do some other kind of work,” the judge replied.
Finnegan agreed to release Zhao on a $4,500 unsecured bond and gave him seven days to inform his employer.
If convicted, Zhao faces up to 10 years in prison for each count, according to the Justice Department.
The Justice Department filed another criminal fraud case last month related to Covid-19 vaccination record cards.
In July, a licensed naturopathic doctor in California was charged with selling immunization pellets to patients under the guise that they would create Covid-19 antibodies and instructing customers how to fill out the CDC vaccine card to make it look like they had received the Moderna vaccine.
One of the Wisconsin Legislature's most conservative lawmakers and a vocal opponent of mask and vaccine mandates has tested positive for COVID-19
An official state photo of Republican State Sen. Andre Jacques
SOURCE: Wisconsin Legislature
MADISON, Wis. (AP) —
Republican State Sen. Andre Jacques, one of the Wisconsin Legislature's most conservative lawmakers and a vocal opponent of mask and vaccine mandates, tested positive for COVID-19.
The positive test result was returned last week.
Jacques, 40, was at a hospital on Monday with pneumonia.
The positive test and hospital care came after Jacque testified on Wednesday in a packed Capitol hearing room without wearing a mask.
A spokesman for the lawmaker from De Pere provided a statement from Jacque dated Monday night.
Jacque said in the email that some of his family members also tested positive for the virus.
He has six children, including an infant.
Jacque said in the email that he was at the hospital with pneumonia, but did not say if he had been admitted.
He said he has had pneumonia before but did not immediately say whether it was diagnosed as COVID-19 pneumonia.
Jacque said he was "largely asymptomatic with the exception of fatigue, which I had been feeling more of since the baby arrived. Fatigue has been a long-standing health concern of mine but otherwise I had good health readings when I tested positive."
His office did not immediately respond to questions about whether Jacque was vaccinated.
Wisconsin, like much of the country, has seen cases of COVID-19 and hospitalizations skyrocket in recent weeks due to the more contagious delta variant.
On Monday, the seven-day average of positive cases reached its highest level since February.
There were 660 people hospitalized statewide as of Monday due to the virus, the highest level since late January.
Over the past seven days, 179 people were admitted to the hospital due to the virus.
Jacque has been outspoken against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, including sponsoring bills that would prevent government officials or business owners from requiring proof of vaccination.
He, like other Republicans, opposed the statewide mask mandate that the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down in March.
Jacque said that since his positive test, his legislative office "has been following all protocols and I personally reached out to the limited number of close contacts from last week in case I was positive at the time."
"I do not believe any of my staff or close contacts are experiencing symptoms," he said.
Democratic State Sen. Chris Larson was at Wednesday's hearing where Jacque, who was not masked, testified for his bill banning the teaching of critical race theory.
The hearing lasted for roughly seven hours.
Larson, who wore a mask throughout the hearing, wished Jacque and his family a full recovery.
"I also hope others are spared from his irresponsible, selfish behavior and that any people he exposed to COVID or directly infected are taking precautions to stop the spread of this virus," Larson said.
He called on the chairs of the two committees that held Wednesday's hearing to contact everyone who was in the room.
Those lawmakers, Sen. Alberta Darling and Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, did not immediately return messages.
Kyle Rittenhouse appears for an extradition hearing in Lake County court Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, in Waukegan, Ill. Rittenhouse is accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wis. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, Pool)
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Court TV will be airing the trial of Wisconsin v. Kyle Rittenhouse in its entirety in the months ahead.
The trial is scheduled to begin on November 1. You can watch on over-the-air channel 4.3, on cable, live-streamed on CourtTV.com, YouTube TV, Pluto TV, SiriusXM, as well as the Court TV app for Roku®, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Android and Apple devices.
Court TV also plans to cover the case of Georgia v. Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael, William Bryan, in which three white men are accused of murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man who was shot while jogging through a south-Georgia neighborhood.
“It has never been more important for the court system to have full transparency with the American public. These unfolding stories are documenting important pieces of our country’s history, and the impact will be felt for generations,” said Scott Tufts, head of Court TV. “Building on our success working with Hennepin County in Minnesota for the Chauvin trial, we are honored to collaborate with officials in Georgia and Wisconsin to provide our experience in broadcasting these important cases. We value this partnership with the court while providing our viewers with unobstructed and unbiased views of the proceedings.”
Court TV also announced today that Ashley Willcott, a former judge, lawyer, mediator, and consultant, has been tapped as the network’s fifth anchor and will host the network’s live coverage weekdays 3 to 6 p.m. ET starting this week. Willcott is a well-known legal analyst, having appeared as a guest on HLN, CNN, Fox Nation, and others, and has been part of Court TV’s on-air team, filling in at the anchor desk since last year. As a judge, she specialized primarily in child welfare law, earning a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and English from Newcomb College at Tulane University and her Juris Doctor degree from the Emory University School of Law.
Court TV’s new weekday anchor schedule is as follows (all times in Eastern):
9 a.m. to Noon Ted Rowlands
Noon to 3 p.m. Julie Grant
3 to 6 p.m. Ashley Willcott
6 to 8 p.m. Michael Ayalya
8 to 11 p.m. Closing Arguments with Vinnie Politan
After airing the Derek Chauvin trial in April, Court TV saw a 17% increase in ratings during the remainder of the second quarter. At its highest during the proceedings, the network saw more than 400,000 viewers tune in, the most since the network relaunched in May 2019. In total, Court TV’s trial coverage was up more than 330% vs. the pre-trial average. In terms of streaming viewing, the network was up more than 20 times for the trial and more than 40 times for the verdict versus the pre-trial average.
Court TV is part of The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP).
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