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Florida Burger King employee Shateasha Hicks shoots customer who threw mayo at her
A Burger King employee in Florida allegedly shot a customer after he threw mayonnaise at her face, police and local reports said.
Shateasha Hicks, 30, was arrested Thursday and charged with discharging a firearm in public after the incident at the Miami Gardens fast-food joint.
Police said Hicks opened fire on a man after an argument at the drive-thru window.
A relative of Hicks told NBC 6 that the customer she shot had squirted or thrown mayonnaise in her face.
The customer drove off and parked in the Burger King lot, according to a witness.
Hicks then allegedly went to her car, grabbed a gun and squeezed off five shots at the person’s vehicle as they drove away, according to an arrest report obtained by the outlet.
She got into her car and fled the scene, but was arrested after cops spotted her vehicle about a mile from her home, the report said.
A gun was found on the floorboard of Hicks’ car, and investigators recovered five bullet casings in the Burger King parking lot, according to the report.
Hicks walked out of Miami-Dade County jail on Friday evening after making her $1,000 bond.
It’s not clear if the customer, who hasn’t been tracked down by authorities, was injured in the shooting.
Hicks’ aunt claimed her niece was defending herself.
“She was protecting herself. I don’t blame her. Everybody else might, but I don’t,” she told Local10.
A witness who identified himself as Kevin told the outlet that he was purchasing a burger at the time of the shooting — and saw the victim “making faces” at Hicks.
“He was making faces at her through the car window, out here in the road, and that’s when he pulled in here and that just set her off,” he said.
A Burger King spokesperson called the incident “unacceptable.”
“We are horrified to learn of the events that unfolded at this location. This unacceptable behavior does not align with our brand values of safety and security,” the spokesperson said. “Our franchisee is cooperating with local authorities. As this remains an ongoing investigation, we aren’t able to share additional details at this time.”
Mayo Clinic: COVID-19 heading toward endemic
Two years after COVID-19 swept the globe and was declared a pandemic, outbreaks are waning again.
While COVID-19 is still a pandemic, Americans may start becoming familiar with a new word: endemic.
Hubbard Broadcasting sister station KAAL-TV spoke with Mayo Clinic officials, who said COVID-19 is on its way to becoming endemic.
“There is going to be a need for some sort of periodic vaccination. It’s something where we’re likely to see new variants,” Dr. Jack O’Horo, an infectious disease expert at Mayo Clinic, told KAAL.
Experts say there will likely be some variation in mitigation strategies, which could also fluctuate based on different surges.
“Just because it’s safe to take off a mask three counties over in one setting, doesn’t mean it’s safe to do the same in this county,” O’Horo said.
Mayo Clinic did tell KAAL that COVID-19 could reach the endemic phase and then move back into a pandemic again.
Mayo Clinic Expert predicts COVID-19 will be around until NEXT CENTURY
Dr Gregory Poland (pictured), a top epidemiologist at the Mayo Clinic, warned Covid could be with humans for so long that ‘your great-great-great-grandchildren will still be getting immunized’ against the virus
While many Americans are beginning to look towards a life after Covid, and some experts are making optimistic predictions about the future of the pandemic, the entire scientific community is not in agreement.
Dr Gregory Poland, epidemiologist for the Mayo Clinic and is editor-in-chief of the scientific journals ‘Vaccine’ and one of the nation’s top experts on vaccination and immunology, said this week that the virus could be affecting humans for the next century.
In a conversation with MarketWatch on Tuesday he gave a grave prediction that counters what some worldwide global health experts are saying.
Due to the rapid transmission of the Omicron Covid variant combined with its more mild nature, experts are hopeful that it be the strain that transitions the virus from a pandemic to an endemic, meaning the pattern of the virus is stable and predictable. Poland does not share the same optimistic point of view.
‘We are not yet at any stage where we could predict endemicity. We’re not going to eradicate it,’ Poland said.
He noted that the virus has shown the ability to infect animals, meaning it can potentially circulate indefinitely as it transmits across species and continues to mutate.
Poland believes the virus will circulate for so long that people will still be receiving Covid shots for generations down the line.
Transmission of COVID-19 has been so rampant among the vaccinated, unvaccinated and even among animals that Poland, and other experts, fear it will be impossible to control and circulate for dozens of years down the line. Pictured: A woman in Thornton, Colorado, receives a shot of a COVID-19 vaccine on March 6, 2021
‘So let me make a prediction, which will be hard for any of you to hold me to because we will all be dead by then, but your great-great-great-grandchildren will still be getting immunized against coronavirus,’
‘How can I even say such a thing? If you got your flu vaccine this fall you were immunized against a strain of influenza that showed up in 1918 and caused a pandemic.’
This is not the first grim prediction Poland has made, and he has been correct before.
Last month, he told DailyMail.com that he believed 32,000 people would die from Covid between early December to the end of the year.
‘32,000 Americans who think they’re going to be alive to celebrate Christmas and New Years are, no pun intended, dead wrong,’ he said on December 9.
‘Not one of them believes [they will die].’
During that period, 31,000 U.S. Covid deaths were recorded, nearly a spot on prediction, per Our World in Data.
Poland is not the only expert whose forecasts for the future of the pandemic are not as rosy as the forming consensus.
Dr Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert and director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, warned last week that a new Covid strain could form that would dramatically alter the state of the pandemic – like the Omicron variant did after Delta.
‘I would hope that [Covid becoming endemic is] the case. But that would only be the case if we don’t get another variant that eludes the immune response of the prior variant,’ Fauci said during a Davos Agenda virtual event.
Fauci has also made contrarian statements about the future of the pandemic that proved to be true in the past, predicting in August that a vaccine-resistant Covid strain was likely on the horizon due to the rampant spread of the virus among the unvaccinated.
A few months later, South African officials would discover the Omicron variant during the week of Thanksgiving.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, also warned this week that it would be dangerous to assume that Omicron is the ‘endgame’ Covid variant.
The Omicron variant caused Covid cases to explode across Europe, Africa and the U.S. after its discovery in late-November.
The mutant strain did not prove to be a long lived, one, as it has already largely receded in the UK and South Africa – the countries that were hit the hardest and fastest by the variant.
Even in the U.S., places like New York and New Jersey that were struck first by the variant are now recording sharp declines in cases.
The variant is also more mild than other forms of the virus, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealing data Tuesday showing that Covid cases peaked 400 percent higher during the Omicron wave than they did during the summer Delta surge – though deaths were actually down four percent.
Omicron’s lack of longevity and generally more mild nature has many hopeful that it will be the variant that burns the pandemic out, as so many will have natural antibodies from infection it will run of people to infect.
Jerod Mayo to interview with Broncos this week, could field more requests
Patriots inside linebackers coach Jerod Mayo has one head coaching interview lined up this week and he could wind up with others on his schedule soon.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Mayo is set to interview with the Broncos in the middle of the week. Mayo had an interview with the Eagles last year, but this is the first time he’ll meet with a team in this hiring cycle.
It is not expected to be his only chance to interview, however. Rapoport reports one or two other requests are expected for Mayo. Given Texans General Manager Nick Caserio’s ties to the Patriots, Houston would be one place to keep an eye on and the Giants have yet to start coaching interviews as they’ve opted to hire a G.M. first.
Mayo finished his third season as a Patriots coach with Saturday’s 47-17 loss to the Bills. It was not a good night for the defense he’s had a hand in running the last couple of years, but that hasn’t dimmed Mayo’s appeal as a head coaching candidate.
Long COVID: New review of Mayo Clinic patients may provide new clues
A new review of patients at the Mayo’s Post-COVID-19 Care Clinic offers some potentially valuable clues for future treatment of “long COVID.”
In the cohort study, published in Mayo Proceedings, researchers looked at the charts of 108 patients suffering from long-haul COVID who came to the care clinic from Jan. 19 to April 29, 2021. The average age of the patients was 46.
They summarized three “major novel findings” from this data:
- That women made up 75% (81 out of 108) of all the long COVID patients that sought treatment at the clinic.
- These female patients were more likely to have elevated levels of IL-6 — a cytokine related to inflammation — than the male patients.
- Ongoing fatigue was the most common major symptom among female long COVID patients, with nearly 60% experiencing this tiredness; difficulty breathing was more common among male patients.
All of this was happening months after the patient first contracted COVID-19, with patients, on average, first evaluated at the clinic 148 days after initial onset of symptoms.
“At the time of evaluation,” the study says, “the most common symptoms were fatigue (89%), shortness of breath (69%), brain fog (69%), anxiety (62%), and unrefreshing sleep (58%) ”
Related [May 12, 2021]: Mayo Clinic study details ‘severe negative impacts’ of long COVID
The exact number of people who survive COVID, yet deal with sometimes-debilitating long COVID symptoms long into the future, is not totally clear yet. But recent studies suggest the number isn’t small.
One Penn State study from October estimated about half of all COVID survivors will deal with some long-haul COVID symptoms in the six months after recovering from their initial infection.
According to the study, one in five COVID survivors had trouble moving around afterward; one in four had trouble concentrating, often called “brain fog”; and nearly 60% had a “chest imaging abnormality” afterward.
Related: COVID vaccines are more protective than natural immunity, study finds
COVID skeptics and anti-vaxxers often cite the low mortality rate among healthy, younger adults as a key reason to eschew vaccines or other public health measures. Yet the risk of suffering from long COVID symptoms many months after infection, coupled with the uncertainty of COVID’s long-term impact on the body (such as breathing problems and organ damage), makes clear mortality rate is not the only factor to consider.
The Mayo Clinic researchers said they hope insights from the study may help us better understand the causes of, and treatment for, long COVID.
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Mayo Clinic expert warns delta variant will infect everyone who is not immune
A top expert on vaccinations is urging Americans to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as the number of new infections fueled by the highly contagious delta variant continues to rise in the U.S.
“I think there is no question that we are going to see a surge,” Gregory Poland of the Mayo Clinic told CBS 4 Minnesota Tuesday.
The doctor said he still wears a mask when out in public when he’s “in a crowded scenario,” whether it be indoors or outdoors.
He noted that Minnesota, like many other parts of the country, are experiencing a rise in cases as delta continues to circulate, and he’s seeing cases of severe disease and hospitalization among younger people.
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“Don’t be deceived that ‘I got this far and I am OK.’ This is a very different variant. It will find you,” he told CBS 4.
“This virus will find everybody who is not immune,” he added.
Public health officials are becoming increasingly concerned as the number of new infections, hospitalizations and deaths increase while vaccination in the U.S. lag.
The variant has become the dominant strain in the U.S as cases are on the rise in swaths of the country with low vaccination rates.
The current seven day average for new cases is 26,306, a nearly 70 percent increase from the week prior, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Hospitalizations are also up about 36 percent from last week after weeks of decline.
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