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3 killed, 2 hospitalized after argument at Jefferson Gun Outlet leads to shots fired

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The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate a shooting in Metairie at the Jefferson Gun Outlet.According to Sheriff Joseph Lopinto, three people died.The Jefferson Parish coroner released the identities of those killed: 47-year-old Herbert “Noah” Fischbach, of Jefferson, 59-year-old Veronica Billiot, of Belle Chasse, and 27-year-old Joshua Williams, of New Orleans. The JPSO said Sunday that an update on the case will be given Monday.A GoFundMe has been setup for Fischbach by the gun shop’s owners.Two other people were injured in Saturday’s shooting and were taken to area hospitals. They were listed as stable.At around 2:50 pm, Lopinto said deputies responded to the shooting at the Jefferson Gun Outlet in the 6700 block of Airline Drive. Deputies found several victims suffering from gunshot wounds, according to Lopinto. JPSO sources say that a man entered the gun outlet with a loaded gun unholstered. Sources say that the man got into an argument with a clerk who told him he should not have a loaded gun until he got inside the range. According to JPSO sources, shots were fired during the argument when at least two customers on the range engaged the man. The man was shot, but also fired back at the two customers who were also injured, according to JPSO sources. At this time, Lopinto said it appears a suspect shot two victims inside the location, then was engaged by the two customers and shot outside the location by multiple other individuals. The suspect is one of the deceased on scene, according to Lopinto.There is no additional information available at this time.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate a shooting in Metairie at the Jefferson Gun Outlet.

According to Sheriff Joseph Lopinto, three people died.

The Jefferson Parish coroner released the identities of those killed: 47-year-old Herbert “Noah” Fischbach, of Jefferson, 59-year-old Veronica Billiot, of Belle Chasse, and 27-year-old Joshua Williams, of New Orleans.

The JPSO said Sunday that an update on the case will be given Monday.

A GoFundMe has been setup for Fischbach by the gun shop’s owners.

Two other people were injured in Saturday’s shooting and were taken to area hospitals. They were listed as stable.

At around 2:50 pm, Lopinto said deputies responded to the shooting at the Jefferson Gun Outlet in the 6700 block of Airline Drive.

Deputies found several victims suffering from gunshot wounds, according to Lopinto.

JPSO sources say that a man entered the gun outlet with a loaded gun unholstered.

Sources say that the man got into an argument with a clerk who told him he should not have a loaded gun until he got inside the range.

According to JPSO sources, shots were fired during the argument when at least two customers on the range engaged the man.

The man was shot, but also fired back at the two customers who were also injured, according to JPSO sources.

At this time, Lopinto said it appears a suspect shot two victims inside the location, then was engaged by the two customers and shot outside the location by multiple other individuals.

The suspect is one of the deceased on scene, according to Lopinto.

There is no additional information available at this time.

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615 COVID-19 patients hospitalized; SAWS says boil notice lifted for parts of San Antonio

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SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff updated the community about the local response to COVID-19 and the winter weather in their briefing Saturday night.

For the first time all week, Mayor Nirenberg reported some data received on coronavirus cases in Bexar County. On Saturday, Nirenberg reported 107 coronavirus cases and seven deaths.

The mayor also reported that 615 patients are hospitalized, down 81 from Friday, 232 are in the intensive care unit and 141 are on ventilators.

There were 62 hospital admissions in the last 24 hours, Nirenberg said.

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Nirenberg said CPS Energy has almost finished restoring power to the San Antonio region. All but 40 customers have had power restored, as of Saturday night.

Although, CPS Energy officials said a vehicle crashed into a utility pole overnight Friday, leaving 1,630 customers who live near Cupples Road and Menefee Boulevard without power, However, those customers have since had their power restored, Nirenberg reiterated.

The energy company is now working to slow the billing process for customers to remove the impact from this week’s winter weather conditions.

Customers are urged not to worry about their bills right now and service will not be disconnected if they are unable to pay at this time. For more on this, click here.

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San Antonio Water System CEO Robert Puente announced Saturday during the briefing that parts of San Antonio are now released from the boil water notice. This means they no longer have to boil water prior to consuming it. For more on which areas are no longer under the boil notice, click here.

Customers that are still under the boil notice may not have a lack of water, but have a lack of pressure. Puente estimates most of these issues will be resolved by Monday.

Still 10%, or 9% of the San Antonio region doesn’t have water, according to SAWS, but crews are still working on restoration efforts.

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2 dead, 1 hospitalized in Orange County house fire

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Crews were working to contain a deadly fire that broke out early Friday in Orange County.

According to Orange County Fire Rescue officials, two people died in the house fire in the 6000 block of Pompeii Road, which broke out shortly after 4 a.m.

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At least one other person was taken to the hospital for their injuries, officials said. An update on their condition was not immediately available.

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Crews battled smoke and heavy flames until they were finally able to contain the blaze.

The victims’ names have not yet been released and officials are still working to determine the cause of the fire. Deputies said the deaths are considered suspicious.

Michael Schadow, who lives in the neighborhood where the fire took place, said it’s tragic to see what happened at his neighbor’s home.

“We always are out walking the neighborhood at night or early in the morning time, so it’s really shocking to find out if people have gone through and lost their lives,” Schadow said.

Schadow has lived there for decades and said the blaze was unlike anything he’d ever seen.

“I’ve been here 23 three years and never seen a fire like this,” Schadow said.

No other details were immediately available.

This is a developing story. Stay with News 6 and ClickOrlando.com for updates.

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More younger Israelis now being hospitalized for COVID than those 60-plus

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More young Israelis are being hospitalized for COVID-19 than older ones, according to new data suggesting that Israel’s vaccination campaign may be having an effect.

As of Wednesday, the number of Israelis under the age of 60 who were newly hospitalized for COVID-19 has surpassed the number of new hospitalizations among those 60 and up.

There were 708 new hospitalizations among the younger group and 575 for the older group. The change first occurred on February 4 and the gap appears to be widening since.

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The figure represents the total of new hospitalizations for the preceding week. There are 1,598 Israelis in hospitals — more than the sum of new hospitalizations, because many patients remain in the hospital for over a week.

Figures collated by Oxford-based Our World in Data show hospitalization rates in Israel. (Courtesy)

Israel mainly uses the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, which requires two doses several weeks apart for its full effect, but appears to start to provide some protection days after receiving the first dose.

As of February 6, the most recent day the data was available by age group, 90% of Israelis over 60 had received their first vaccine dose, and 80% had received their second dose.

For 16- to 59-year-olds, 37% had received their first dose and 20% the second. The vaccine is available to all Israelis age 16 and older.

Forty-two percent of the general population has received one dose of the vaccine and 27% both doses. Israel has vaccinated a total of 3.7 million people with the first shot, and 2.3 million with both shots.

Our World in Data, a science website based at Oxford University, collated the data from Israel with the help of Israeli researchers. It has focused on Israel to assess the impact of its world-leading vaccination campaign.

It noted that recent changes in infection rates, hospitalizations and deaths cannot be solely attributed to the impact of vaccination. For example, new virus variants and the national lockdown came into play around the same time as the vaccination campaign and also influence the data.

Eran Segal, a researcher at Israel’s Weizmann Institute, said Thursday that for those 60 and over, since the peak of the pandemic in mid-January there were 58% fewer cases, 44% fewer new hospitalizations and 40% fewer deaths.

Confirmed new cases for all Israelis are trending downward since mid-January, but for those under 60 the weekly average is still over 37,000 per week. The pandemic peaked in Israel on January 17 with an average of over 8,000 new cases per day.

An Israeli receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, February 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Alarmingly, the number of hospitalizations for younger Israelis appears to be trending upward since mid-December, despite the vaccination campaign, which began December 19, and the nationwide lockdown, which started on January 8.

Also, the share of new cases among children and teenagers has been growing since late January, despite schools being closed.

Officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have blamed more contagious variants for the third-wave outbreak’s seeming imperviousness to the lockdown and vaccination campaign.

Total hospitalizations for those 60 and up, and for the population as a whole, has been on the decline since peaking in mid-January at close to 2,000 hospitalizations.

The number of new deaths has also been declining since late January, when it hit its highest rate since the start of the pandemic at 65 deaths per week.

The Ynet news site said Thursday that no hospital staff had achieved an inoculation rate of over 90%, including those who had recovered from the virus, according to Health Ministry figures. In some hospitals, under 60% of staff have received the first dose of the vaccine.

Nationwide, there have been 712,078 total infections and there are 67,796 active cases. The death toll is 5,266.

The vaccination rate has been leveling off in recent days, prompting officials to push for more younger Israelis to get the shots and to crack down on anti-vaccine commentary on social media.

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Roche arthritis drug reduces death in hospitalized patients with severe Covid, Oxford researchers say

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A pharmacist displays a box of tocilizumab, which is used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, at the pharmacy of Cambrai hospital, France, April 28, 2020.

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A drug used to treat people with rheumatoid arthritis appears to reduce the risk of death in hospitalized patients with severe Covid-19, especially when it was combined with the steroid dexamethasone, researchers at the University of Oxford said Thursday.

Oxford researchers also found tocilizumab, an intravenous drug manufactured by a division of Swiss drugmaker Roche, also shortened patients’ length of stay at hospitals and reduced the need for a ventilator. The study was part of the RECOVERY trial, which has been testing a range of potential treatments for Covid-19 since March.

“Previous trials of tocilizumab had shown mixed results, and it was unclear which patients might benefit from the treatment,” Peter Horby, a professor at the University of Oxford and joint chief investigator for RECOVERY, said in a statement. “We now know that the benefits of tocilizumab extend to all COVID patients with low oxygen levels and significant inflammation.”

A total of 2,022 patients were randomly selected to receive tocilizumab, which is marketed under the brand name Actemra, by intravenous infusion and were compared with 2,094 patients randomly selected to receive standard care alone. The researchers said 82% of the patients were also taking a steroid such as dexamethasone, another drug that has been found to reduce deaths in the sickest Covid-19 patients.

Researchers said 596 patients in the tocilizumab group died within 28 days compared with 694 patients in the standard care group. That means for every 25 patients treated with tocilizumab, “one additional life would be saved,” Oxford researchers said.

The drug increased the probability of discharge within 28 days from 47% to 54%, according to the researchers. The benefits were seen in all patients, including those requiring mechanical ventilators in an intensive care unit, they added. Among patients not on a ventilator before entering the trial, tocilizumab reduced the chance of progressing to invasive mechanical ventilation or death from 38% to 33%, the researchers said.

The researchers said using tocilizumab in combination with dexamethasone appears to reduce mortality by about one third for patients requiring oxygen and nearly one half for those requiring a ventilator.

Results from the Oxford study have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Public health officials and infectious disease experts say world leaders will need an array of drugs and vaccines to end the pandemic, which has infected more than 107.4 million people and killed at least 2.3 million in a little over a year, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration has approved Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir as a treatment for for Covid-19 patients at least 12 years old and requiring hospitalization.

The FDA has authorized the use of two monoclonal antibody treatments as well as two vaccines – from Pfizer and Moderna. A third vaccine, from Johnson & Johnson, is expected to be authorized by the FDA as early as this month.

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Captain Tom hospitalized for virus he raised money to fight

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LONDON (AP) — Tom Moore, the 100-year-old World War II veteran who captivated the British public in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic with his fundraising efforts, has been hospitalized with COVID-19, his daughter said Sunday.

Hannah Ingram-Moore revealed in a statement posted on Twitter that her father, widely known as Captain Tom, has been admitted to Bedford Hospital because he needed “additional help” with his breathing.

She said that over the past few weeks her father had been treated for pneumonia and that he had tested positive for the coronavirus last week.

She said he is being treated in a ward, not in an intensive care unit.

“The medical care he has received in the last few weeks has been remarkable and we know that the wonderful staff at Bedford Hospital will do all they can to make him comfortable and hopefully return home as soon as possible,” she said.

Moore became an emblem of hope in the early weeks of the pandemic in April when he walked 100 laps around his garden in England for the National Health Service to coincide with his 100th birthday. Instead of the 1,000 pounds ($1,370) aspiration, he raised around 33 million pounds ($45 million).

Moore, who rose to the rank of captain while serving in India and Burma during the war, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July for his fundraising efforts.

Best wishes came in from far and wide, including from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who said in a tweet that Moore had “inspired the whole nation, and I know we are all wishing you a full recovery.”

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