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Here’s the full list of Country Music Association (CMA) Awards nominations. …read more

https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/cma-awards-nominations-2022-lainey-wilson-leads-pack/

New boosters to protect against the latest Omicron variants of the coronavirus are arriving in Southern California this week. Here’s how to get one.

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-07/how-to-get-omicron-boosters-at-cvs-walgreens-rite-aid-and-other-california-locations

France has rejected an asylum request by a prominent Syrian journalist who contributed to numerous international publications and helped document the crimes committed by foreign jhadists in Syria. He now risks being deported back to his homeland from his current location in Turkey. …read more

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20220907-france-rejects-asylum-claim-of-syrian-journalist-who-documented-is-group-crimes

She’s lined up her next star client: actress Q’orianka Kilcher, who — ironically — plays attorney Angela Blue Thunder on the hit streaming series. …read more

https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/depp-lawyer-camille-vasquez-to-defend-yellowstone-star/

French judges dropped a case against French peacekeepers deployed during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide who were accused of being complicit in massacres, legal sources said on Wednesday. …read more

https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20220907-paris-prosecutors-close-investigation-of-french-peacekeepers-in-rwanda-genocide

Dozens of health care practitioners from across the country signed onto a recent Zoom call to talk about pain. Specifically, how much pain their patients with long Covid were in, what kind, and what — if anything — they could do about it.

Members of the group, an ad-hoc collaboration of providers at more than 40 long Covid clinics, have met for more than a year but are still grappling with the same kinds of questions they did at the beginning: how to treat a new, complex and debilitating condition affecting millions of Americans.

While the network is helping patients and doctors navigate the disease’s uncharted waters, long Covid doctors say there’s only so much they can do on their own. The federal government should be doing more, they say, to provide resources, coordinate information sharing and put out best practices. Without that, the doctors involved fear the condition, which has kept many of those afflicted out of the workforce, threatens to spiral.

“We’re one organization that is trying to bring in 41 centers,” said Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, a physiatrist from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio who runs two long Covid clinics and is part of the collaborative run by the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. “It’s wonderful the administration said long Covid is a public health issue … It’s like, ‘Okay, what’s really going to happen now?’”

In the absence of detailed federal guidance, various ideas and theories about how to treat long Covid have proliferated — from honest mistakes by providers to scammers preying on desperate patients — delaying care or putting people at additional risk.

And the disease is taking a toll. A new report from the Brookings Institution estimates 16 million“,”link”:{“target”:”NEW”,”attributes”:[],”url”:”https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid-is-keeping-as-many-as-4-million-people-out-of-work/”,”_id”:”00000183-1ab8-d10c-a1b7-fefdd7ce0007″,”_type”:”33ac701a-72c1-316a-a3a5-13918cf384df”},”_id”:”00000183-1ab8-d10c-a1b7-fefdd7ce0008″,”_type”:”02ec1f82-5e56-3b8c-af6e-6fc7c8772266″}’>estimates 16 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 65 have long Covid, with 2 to 4 million of those out of work because of the condition. A May study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 1 in 5“,”link”:{“target”:”NEW”,”attributes”:[],”url”:”https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7121e1.htm?s_cid=mm7121e1_e&ACSTrackingID=USCDC_921-DM82414&ACSTrackingLabel=MMWR%20Early%20Release%20-%20Vol.%2071%2C%20May%2024%2C%202022&deliveryName=USCDC_921-DM82414#contribAff”,”_id”:”00000183-1ab8-d10c-a1b7-fefdd7ce0009″,”_type”:”33ac701a-72c1-316a-a3a5-13918cf384df”},”_id”:”00000183-1ab8-d10c-a1b7-fefdd7ce000a”,”_type”:”02ec1f82-5e56-3b8c-af6e-6fc7c8772266″}’>found that 1 in 5 adults had a lingering health condition that might be related to a previous Covid-19 infection.

Many have mild symptoms for which they don’t seek treatment. But for those who do, many are “completely disabled,” said Luis Ostrosky, infectious disease director for the COVID-19 Center of Excellence at UTHealth Houston. “They cannot work.”

The collaborative aims to help fill some of the vacuum, sharing what its members have learned with primary care doctors and other specialists on the frontlines of diagnosing and treating the disease. But those practitioners are stretched thin, typically squeezing their work on long Covid in between their day jobs, and they fear the public, and the Biden administration, is losing focus.

“People are now basically living life, saying, ‘Oh, Covid’s just a cold.’ But it’s not. We still don’t know enough about it, and we are still getting just as many referrals for patients who have gotten Covid during Omicron as …read more

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/07/doctors-are-taking-it-on-themselves-to-figure-out-long-covid-00054748

Ricky Martin has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the nephew who accused him of sexual assault, a rep for the singer and actor confirmed to TheWrap on Wednesday. The lawsuit, which was filed in San … https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ricky-martin-sues-nephew-20-000203920.html

The Pentagon has temporarily halted delivery of F-35 fighter jets to the military branches and international customers after Lockheed Martin discovered a metal component used in the jet’s engine had come from China, according to the Pentagon.

The Defense Contract Management Agency notified the F-35 Joint Program Office at the Pentagon on Aug. 19 that an alloy used in magnets contained in the F-35’s turbomachine pumps came from China. Lockheed Martin builds the overall aircraft, but the turbomachine is produced by Honeywell.

The discovery does not affect flight operations of F-35s already in service, the Joint Program Office said.

“We have confirmed that the magnet does not transmit information or harm the integrity of the aircraft and there are no performance, quality, safety or security risks associated with this issue and flight operations for the F-35 in-service fleet will continue as normal,” F-35 Joint Program Office spokesperson Russell Goemaere said in a statement to POLITICO.

“Defense contractors voluntarily shared information with DCMA and the JPO once the issue was discovered and they have found an alternative source for the alloy that will be used in future turbomachines,” Goemaere said.

The turbomachine integrates an auxiliary power unit and an air cycle machine into a single piece of equipment. It provides electrical power for ground maintenance, main engine start and emergency power, and also provides compressed air for the thermal management system during ground maintenance.

“Honeywell remains committed to supplying high-quality products that meet or exceed all customer contract requirements,” company spokesperson Adam Kress said in a statement. “We are working closely with DOD and Lockheed Martin to ensure that we continue to achieve those commitments on products Honeywell supplies for use on the F-35.”

The F-35 is flown by the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, along with 10 other countries.

Now that the jet deliveries have been paused, DCMA is investigating the “causal factors” of what led to a Chinese alloy embedded within the F-35 program. If the government determines Lockheed Martin violated the Buy American statute, the company would need a national security waiver for deliveries to resume.

“We are working with our partners and DoD to ensure contractual compliance within the supply chain. The magnet has no visibility or access to any sensitive program information. The F-35 remains safe for flight, and we are working with the DoD to resolve the issue as quickly as possible to resume deliveries,” Lockheed Martin spokesperson Laura Siebert said in a statement.

The F-35 Joint Program Office, Defense Contract Management Agency and Lockheed Martin are meeting daily and conducting a broader analysis of the supply chain, a person familiar with the issue said.

William LaPlante, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, will decide whether the program qualifies for the national security waiver.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/07/pentagon-suspends-f-35-deliveries-china-00055202

As the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan continues and the floodwaters refuse to drain away, there is nowhere to give the dead a dignified burial. CNN’s Anna Coren takes a look at how people are coping as the death toll climbs. …read more

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/09/07/pakistan-flooding-death-toll-funerals-burials-coren-pkg-ctw-vpx.cnn

Target chief Brian Cornell — who led a major comeback at the retail chain — will stay on the job for three more years, the company announced Wednesday. …read more

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/business/target-brian-cornell-ceo/index.html