He thinks the elements of the Republican Party that are endorsing anti-vaccine ideas need to take a big step back. To be sure, these include anger and the temptation to gloat. Belief in multiple false statements highly correlates with vaccination status, Hamel says. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images How did his heart get enlarged? she asked. "I'm not trying to change Republican thinking or far-right thinking," he says. It robs us of empathy for those with whom we disagree. Neither brother was vaccinated, and neither one was particularly worried about Phil's positive result. Phase IIItrial volunteers, it appeared the volunteer's demisewas not vaccine related. Most end with loved ones sharing R.I.P. That is the sweetest justice, and thats partly why its so satisfying to the other side.. Some counties that have reported no COVID-19 deaths since May 1 may have stopped reporting. They graduated in 1977 and traveled around the world together for a year and a half. We have learned that not only had he recently been diagnosed with COVID-19, he also had underlying health issues, and had been exhibiting symptoms of illness at the time the vaccine was administered. When the elder Mr. Hiatt became dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, the family moved to Brookline, Mass., where Fred grew up. So have their three adult sons, Aaron, Jared and Kyle. He started his newspaper career at The Atlanta Journal, then moved to The Washington Star. While we slashed bureaucratic red tape in the Trump administration, President Biden is doubling down on it. Its not surprising then that when a prominent person who has refused to perform this act of love particularly when that person has railed publicly against these health-saving measures dies from Covid, some people are eager to say, I told you so. A few go further, mocking those who have died or even trolling their survivors. Thats what you get, Og!, Colin Wayne Leach, a psychology professor at Barnard College who has studied schadenfreude and gloating, told The New York Times recently that the schadenfreude many feel in response to the death of anti-vaccine activists is an outgrowth of the countrys polarization: In many ways, its seeing your enemies suffer because of what they believe. Ms. Scott said she feels like her husband sacrificed himself so the rest of their family could stay safe, noting that their 19-year-old daughter got her first shot not long after he died. He also headed to his local Walmart to get vaccinated. The analysis only looked at the geographic location of COVID-19 deaths. He was hospitalized after experiencing abdominal pain and difficulty breathing hours later, subsequently placed in a medically induced coma on Jan. 7 and died on Jan. 9. Thirty-six other similar cases of ITP have been reported to VAERS, the Times reportedin early February, but it is unknown whether these events are causally related to the vaccine. Mr. Hiatt orchestrated numerous editorials and essays by outside contributors demanding justice on Mr. Khashoggis behalf, established a fellowship in his name and gave a global platform to other dissident writers from the Arab world who had been banned from their domestic media. "What's your thoughts? We've received your submission. Its immoral. The Placer County Sheriff-Coroner Division ruled out the vaccine as a cause of death in an updated statement released Jan. 30 on its Facebook page. "West Virginia could have ended up like Maine or Vermont, but ended up being more like Wyoming or Idaho not for lack of effort, potentially, but for lack of resources.". The study researched the safety of COVID-19 vaccines based on messenger RNA, or mRNA, in pregnant women between Dec. 14, 2020, and Feb. 28. Let us stand together with renewed confidence in our cause united in our heritage of the past and our hopes for the future and determined that this land we love shall lead all mankind into new frontiers of peace and abundance.. Recent polling shows that partisanship is now this single strongest identifying predictor of whether someone is vaccinated. Nebraska is excluded from the analysis because it does not report county-level COVID-19 statistics. Funding for free COVID-19 vaccination, testing and treatment for people without health insurance has already run out. "An unvaccinated person is three times as likely to lean Republican as they are to lean Democrat," says Liz Hamel, vice president of public opinion and survey research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health policy think tank that tracks attitudes toward vaccination. officials limit treatments that dont work on Omicron, but doctors say alternatives are scarce (Coronavirus updates, nytimes.com, Jan. 24): The Food and Drug Administration demonstrated both its distrust of doctors and zeal for harmful federal regulations by unauthorizing two Covid-19 monoclonal antibody treatments safely used in the United States for over a year, saving countless lives, because of their reduced efficacy against Omicron. Cynthia Cox, director of the Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker and a co-author of that analysis, tells NPR that differences in methodology may explain the discrepancy. Simply letting your emotions take you wherever they please is what a baby does, not an adult. Dont find another persons misery the subject of mirth, glee or satisfaction. Then the Online Attacks Started. But she remains convinced that, somehow, Zooks death is tied back to that last shot. He wanted us to care for the sick, not laugh at them. He was generous not only to his staff, but also to me, she said in an email. Sometimes there are selfies taken while hooked up to breathing machines and fearful updates about imminent intubation. Had the Biden administration prioritized therapeutics, the way the original Warp Speed team would have, there would not be such a shortage of authorized treatments. He sat on one side, and I sat on the other. Don't play yourself.". Polling, vaccination and mortality data all suggest that Republicans lag far behind in vaccination and are suffering the worst consequences as a result. Obviously the unvaccinated are the ones dying, she said. Lists of athletes who have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine have been circulating on social media, and the issue has been brought up recently by a US senator and a former basketball star, but there's absolutely nothing to the purported link, according to sports cardiologists interviewed by TCTMD. Shame on those companies that see this as an opportunity to make money rather than the time to take a stand of conscience. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. During the summer, he posted a petition against school mask requirements, cursed President Biden and his vaccine, and in his final post, shared a video casting doubt on the safety of vaccination against the coronavirus. Mr. Graham said he had also picked Mr. Hiatt for his careful and measured news judgment. These figures come from an analysis released Friday by researchers at Brown University and Microsoft AI Health shared exclusively with NPR that estimates the portion of vaccine-preventable deaths in each state since COVID-19 vaccines became available at the start of 2021. Human. On Jan. 4, the British Daily Mail reported 41-year-old Portuguese health worker Sonia Acevedo had died on Jan. 1, "two days after getting the Pfizer covid vaccine." Using this data, we have added Florida back into our analysis. "Preliminary findings indicate that the cause of death was not anaphylaxis, but it will take several weeks for additional information to become available," he said in a statement on Feb. 5. I have zero empathy for anyone who willfully puts me or my family at risk. NPR looked at deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which vaccinations widely became available. But the video embedded in the article shows a Canadian internet personality, not Tejada,. Much less was invested in encouraging vaccine demand, she says. Dr. Gregory Poland, an immunologist and director of the Mayo Clinics Vaccine Research Group, told Yahoo Life that if the COVID vaccine had even a 1% chance of causing death, wed have hundreds of thousands of deaths it would be noticed immediately.. When The Star folded in 1981, Mr. Hiatt joined The Post, where Ms. Shapiro was already working as a reporter. He shared memes urging calm on Election Day, quoting Lincoln saying, We are not enemies, but friends, and shared the speech President John F. Kennedy never got to deliver: Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our Nations future is at stake. A. Toni Young runs a public health outreach organization in West Virginia called Community Education Group, that has worked to vaccinate people against COVID-19 across the state. The elderly man, who was in his 70s, collapsed about 25 minutes after being administered the COVID vaccine as he left the Jacob Javits Convention Center vaccination site in Manhattan, Dr. Howard Zucker, the New York state health commissioner, said in a statement obtained by the Post. The Instagram user told USA TODAY he shared the image. You find his misfortune the subject of mirth? Charless father retorts. More:Fact check: CDC is not inflating the COVID-19 death count. Given the level of resistance to vaccines even at this late hour in the battle against Covid, perhaps thats the best response I have to offer to my good colleagues probing question. had other options. Send tips to watchdog@ocregister.com. Watchdogs need help: Point us to documents that can help tell stories that need to be told, and we'll do the rest. He and Ms. Shapiro were married in 1984. They also started to see people, particularly in a younger age cohort, get COVID and survive," Young says. Having been given the opportunity to do that and to continue to do it was hugely important to him. These are my friends, how can you not engage? Mr. Green said in a phone interview. By contrast, only 14% of Democrats believe four or more false statements about the disease. "The basis for this dashboard is what actually happened, and it can show us in spite of all the narratives how many people didn't have to die.". tracking partisanship trends during the pandemic, Inside the growing alliance between anti-vaccine activists and pro-Trump Republicans, The U.S. Tim Zook, 60, worked at South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana and proudly displayed the Band-Aid after his last Pfizer jab on Jan. 5. The F.D.A. Then, even more incredibly, some who were eligible for these medical miracles resisted. Conservative talk radio host Phil Valentine (right), pictured with his brother, Mark (second from left). Polling also shows that mistrust in official sources of information and exposure to misinformation, about both COVID-19 and the vaccines, run high among Republicans. The article was among many otherssuggesting a correlation between the timing of her death and the vaccine. Thanks for contacting us. China is torturing and imprisoning countless Uyghurs who dared to seek freedom and independence while it presents a warm, welcoming, cuddly lie to the television viewers, so ignorant and uncaring that they buy into it. The national number of vaccine-preventable COVID deaths calculated by Brown and Microsoft exceeds an earlier analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which put that number at 234,000. In Placer County, an unnamed health worker died on Jan. 21 several hours after being vaccinated, NBC News Wisconsin affiliate reported. Then, incredibly, it came. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/opinion/letters/anti-vaxxer-covid-gloating.html, Why I Wont Watch Chinas Olympic Charade. "We can confirm that the death occurred within hours of having received the vaccine, but that is not evidence of it being related. A year later, many states are still barely north of 50% of people fully vaccinated. Anyone can read what you share. A man who developed an unusual blood clot after the Moderna coronavirus vaccine has died. Three ofthe nine headlines in the Instagram post refer to deaths inOrange and Placercountiesin California. When it comes to schadenfreude, a line from Evelyn Waughs Brideshead Revisited is apposite. Rochelle Zooks theory is that the vaccines are so new that much remains unknown. We shared a desk, Ms. Shapiro said in an interview. In 2016, before the general election was underway and long before Mr. Trump was twice impeached, Mr. Hiatt wrote that Mr. Trumps contempt for constitutional norms might reveal the nations two-century-old experiment in checks and balances to be more fragile than we knew. He was a Pulitzer finalist for his editorials about Mr. Trump. The losses we have sustained as a nation are tragic. It is not yet known if the. Zook's death has been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, a national monitoring system co-managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Vaccines protect many people from dangerous illnesses, but vaccines, like drugs, can cause side effects, a small percentage of which may be serious, says the CDC in its primer for the national Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, where Zooks death was logged and where anyone can report reactions. Zook had high blood pressure that was well-controlled with medication, and was slightly overweight but otherwise healthy, she said. I say live free, the man wrote. Earlier this year, he contracted the virus and died. Misinformation appears to be a major factor in the lagging vaccination rates. Updated: 11:38 EDT, 10 February 2021. Karen Hudson-Samuels, 68, who also worked as a producer and news director at WGPR-TV, was found dead in her home by her husband, Cliff Samuels, CBS Detroit reported. So relief may be felt when a source of that fear is removed. Indulged in regularly, schadenfreude ends up warping the soul. They were making comments that he should have died, that he deserved to die, said his father, Hal Bledsoe. While not explicit in its messaging, the juxtaposition of the headlines around the central meme, often usedto convey resignation to death, suggests the vaccine may be the culprit. NBC news reported Keyes,. NPR's Huo Jingnan contributed to this story. Mr. Hiatt went to Harvard, majoring in history and working for the campus newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, where he met Ms. Shapiro. To date, the CDC has administered over 41.2 million doses of the COVID vaccine to over 31.5 million people. An intelligence report released by the Biden administration in February said that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia had approved the Khashoggi assassination. "I think that we could have had more trusted leaders doing the messaging in West Virginia," Young adds. Our fact check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook. Rochelle Zook, his widow, has faith in science. Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images. 22 Nov 2018. Phil had been skeptical about COVID and the COVID vaccines, sometimes mocking them on his talk show. from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, and enjoys making documentaries, including the OCR's first: "The Boy Monk," a story that was also told as a series in print. We rate this claim MISSING CONTEXT because without additional context it might be misleading. Additionally, Florida's counties were removed from the analysis after publication because we learned that Florida has not updated county-level death numbers since June 3. But the strength of the association, combined with polling information about vaccination, strongly suggests that Republicans are being disproportionately affected. Nationally it's nearly 319,000, according a new estimate. Do You Empathize? An autopsy on Dr. Gregory Michael, 56, has. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County . The official cause of death was hypertensive and atherosclerotic heart disease with severe cardiomegaly and heart failure, the report says. He used his powerful platform to champion human rights, caution against a Trump presidency and condemn the killing of a Saudi columnist for the paper. It hurt., These and many other losses fill a host of websites that claim to be educational, but are fueled by schadenfreude at the deaths of the unvaccinated whose social media posts included Trump memes and conservative conspiracy theories. To the Editor: The Rev. The social media profiles of anti-vaccine victims of the pandemic have made them and their families targets of trolling, even after their deaths. Hawaii is excluded because it does not report county-level vaccine data. A bystander immediately called 911, she said, but Mr. Hiatt never regained consciousness. Thanks to Emily Gurley, Professor of the Practice and Emily Pond, Research Data Analyst, both of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for discussions about our methodology. Donald E. Graham, the publisher of The Post who named Mr. Hiatt as editorial page editor in 1999, said in an interview that he had chosen him for his independence, which is a somewhat rare quality in Washington.. No matter how much I disagree with anti-vaxxers, I know that schadenfreude over their deaths is a dead end. Despite the death, Zucker said, he encourages, All eligible New Yorkers to get vaccinated., He added: Public health experts agree, the vaccine is safe, and together with continued vigilance including wearing a mask and social distancing, it will bring an end to this pandemic.. "I'm trying to say: 'The anti-science doesn't belong; it doesn't fit. It concerns vaccine safety. What has saved me from myself is the simple prayer that such misguided souls loved ones and friends be moved to be vaccinated themselves. But likes and sharing expressions of moral outrage bolster more extreme views and can lead to harassment, the spread of misinformation and increased polarization, some studies have found. A New York resident died on Sunday morning shortly after receiving the COVID vaccine, but state health officials maintain that "the vaccine is safe," the New York Post . "All of this comes down to trust whether the political leadership creates the climate of trust in the public health agencies' efforts, in the science, in the ability of the health care system to deliver," Tsai says. In more than two decades as editorial page editor for The Washington Post, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize three times. A Miami Beach doctor who died 16 days after getting a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in January appears to have expired from natural causes, officials say. Anyone can read what you share. The saddest part is that it simply didnt have to be that way. She also contributed to the OCR's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of fertility fraud at UC Irvine, covered what was then the largest municipal bankruptcy in Americas history, and is the author of "The Strangest Song," the first book to tell the story of a genetic condition called Williams syndrome and the extraordinary musicality of many of the people who have it. A radio presenter died due to complications from the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, a coroner has found. One can be sorry for any needless death while having no sympathy for bad personal choices. The design of social media platforms amplifies moral outrage and triggers the brains reward centers through punishment and shaming, particularly shaming that is motivated by schadenfreude, according to Molly Crockett, a psychologist at Yale University. Pfizer and health authorities are investigating the case of a Florida doctor who died from an unusually severe blood disorder 16 days after receiving the first dose of Pfizer (NYSE: PFE). I am not the problem, he WAS, she wrote. "These vaccines have had incredible safety profiles in the trials and post-authorization. But years later, when she defended a genocidal military campaign against the countrys Rohingya minority, he condemned her in an editorial. Nicole mailed him gloves and masks. The Kaiser Family Foundation's polling shows Republicans are far more likely to believe false statements about COVID-19 and vaccines. A winter surge in COVID-19 cases is brewing, and the newly discovered omicron variant has the potential to make things far worse. Unkind, uncharitable, selfish? One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn't have to. But of the more than 641,000 people who died after vaccines were available, half of those deaths could have been averted - 318,981 - had every eligible adult gotten vaccinated. Share to stop others from making the same mistake.. "There was a very, very early push to get vaccinations out, but a lack of resources to see it through the course of the year," Tsai says. Fred Hiatt in 2019. "The Orange County Coroner has an open death investigation into Zooks deathand will be conducting additional tests within its autopsy protocol it will use those findings, along with autopsy findings, to make a final determination into the cause and manner of death which will not likely occur for 3-4 months," saidthe Orange County Coroner's office in an email to USA TODAY. And heres our email: letters@nytimes.com. As his situation deteriorated, Mark says the talk show host realized he needed to encourage his listeners to get vaccinated. The COVID vaccine was also analyzed for safety by the Food and Drug Administration. X-ray tech who died after second COVID-19, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), X-ray tech who died after second COVID-19 vaccine killed by heart disease, coroner says, California fire chief: Prepare now for height of fire season delayed by record precipitation, Gov. The total for the country is stark: Many of the nearly 1 million COVID deaths took place in 2020 before the vaccines were available. "We're at a point where we have 1 million deaths, but also very little investment and interest in continuing vaccination campaigns and continuing the support for vaccination," she says. Aaron's death is not believed associated with the vaccine. Thank you for supporting our journalism. He had been seeing a doctor and getting checkups and tests no one mentioned an enlarged heart.. The unnamed New York City man died on Feb. 7 after collapsing outside of Manhattan's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, where he received his vaccine 25 minutes earlier, the New York Post reported. "If you believe that the vaccines can damage your fertility, that they contain a microchip and that the government is inflating the number of COVID-19 deaths, you're going to think really differently about whether to get vaccinated. ''. NBC news reported Keyes, 58, was vaccinated with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 5. Pfizer-BioNtech said initial evidence showed no link between the COVID vaccine and the mans death. Tim Zook, an X-ray technologist at South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, received his second coronavirus vaccine dose on Jan. 5, according toboth local FOX and CBS News affiliates. This story has been shared 395,964 times. Tim Zook, 60, died at UC Irvine . companies that pay for the TV commercials, China is torturing and imprisoning countless Uyghurs, U.S. officials limit treatments that dont work on Omicron, but doctors say alternatives are scarce. When its a serious rivalry, which is what politics is these days, its not just taking a little pleasure in somebodys misfortune, he said. The data underlying this tool is real, she notes the people who actually got vaccinated and the people who actually died. After your fellow subway rider coughs in your face, you dont need to express your anger by punching him. But the video embedded in the article shows a Canadian internet personality, not Tejada,. This is not the first report of a person dying after a receiving the COVID vaccine as the wife of a Miami doctor claims her husbands death from a brain hemorrhage was the result of the drug. Nov. 27, 2021 Before he died of Covid-19 in September, Nick Bledsoe was not shy about publicly sharing his opposition to masks and vaccines on Facebook. When this museum got into the national registry, she was very, very proud, her husband said. His brother said he was trying several alternative therapies commonly promoted in conservative circles. Doctors and patients should be making health care decisions not Washington bureaucrats. With the removal of these 67 counties, heavily Trump counties go from a 2.73 times higher death rate than heavily Biden counties to 2.78 times more. In Tennessee, 11,047 of the people who died could have survived if everyone in the state had gotten vaccinated. " Mark Valentine recalls. These changes mean that heavily Trump counties have a 2.73 times higher death rate than heavily Biden counties (a shift from 2.78 times higher with Florida excluded). This story has been shared 166,559 times. Alaska does not report election results by county-equivalent area, so it is excluded from the analysis. Shore News Network @ShoreNewsNJ The arrival of coronavirus just ahead of the presidential election of 2020 seemed like "the most fortuitous pandemic in the history of the world" for the Democratic Party, recalls Mark. Mr. Hiatt was perhaps best known in recent years for leading the newspapers outraged response to the 2018 abduction and murder of one of its Saudi contributors, Jamal Khashoggi, a legal permanent resident of Virginia. He brought in really talented people both to explain the world and write columns from all different perspectives, she said. The family put out a statement in support of vaccination, and Mark went on to his brother's talk show to encourage listeners to take the shot. We are currently investigating and do not yet know the cause of death.". # COMMENT Carlos Tejada, New York Times Foreign editor, died one day after receiving Moderna booster shot. Its difficult for me to put into words just how patronizing I found James Martins article. This story has been shared 155,657 times. Newsom touts states transition to renewable energy in LA facility tour, Last lifts mark end of historic snow season, Southern California resorts ready for summer, Janitors say theyre understaffed, overworked at Irvine Co.-owned properties, Health care worker dies after second dose of COVID vaccine, investigations underway, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. In another instance, an investigation into the death of a Placer County, California, resident, who died just hours after being inoculated with the vaccine, is also being conducted. The Rev. Come on! some might say. She earned her M.F.A. African Americans, younger Americans and rural Americans all had significant portions of their demographic that resisted vaccination. The cause of death has not yet been determined. A former Detroit news anchor who worked at the countrys first black-owned television station died last Tuesday a day after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, a report said. Fred Hiatt, the longtime editorial page editor of The Washington Post, who used his position atop one of the nations most visible and influential opinion platforms to support justice and human rights, died on Monday at a hospital in Manhattan. She has decided to preserve samples of her husbands tissue for future testing, hoping to unlock a mystery as more data about the vaccines emerge in years to come. There are several possible theories of how humans evolved a tendency to feel schadenfreude, the German term for the joy one takes in anothers misfortune. No cause of death was provided, the ministry citing the "secrecy of justice" as the reason why. When the irresponsible and reckless behavior of another person affects the health and welfare of another, there is no excuse, no apology, no rationale for not holding someone accountable for their choice. Especially, when that choice flies in the face of simply doing whats right to prevent the spread of a devastating disease. In addition to her, he is survived by his father; his three children, Alexandra, Joseph and Nathaniel Hiatt; his brother, Jonathan; his sister, Deborah Hiatt; and a granddaughter. At this point I could run through a list of philosophers, theologians and wise voices from religions and traditions around the world to prove my point.
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