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Orlando sentinel facebook7/8/2023 ![]() Italy eases its national restrictions by allowing the reopening of bars, restaurants and museums in 16 "Yellow-zone" regions.The Isle of Man lifts its second "circuit-breaker" lockdown after 20 days without a community case.Austria announces the easing of its lockdown from February 8, allowing non-essential shops and schools to reopen while toughening border restrictions and implementing a curfew from 8:00 p.m.Armenia approves the use of the Sputnik V vaccine developed by Russia.Dubai closes all bars and pubs for the entire month of February and limit other activities due to rise of COVID-19 cases across the United Arab Emirates.COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates.Vietnam closes schools in 22 provinces ahead of the Tết holiday and ends a Communist Party congress early following the detection of a new cluster of COVID-19 cases in northern areas.Pakistan receives 500,000 doses of Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine.Tokyo surpasses 100,000 cases of COVID-19.The United States surpasses 26 million cases of COVID-19.Ontario reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant in a person from the Peel Region with no known travel history.COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, 501.V2 variant.British Columbia confirms 18 cases of the new variants of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom and South Africa.Twelve people are killed when two vessels sink close to a port on Colombia's Pacific coast, in Tumaco.The military hands over power to Min Aung Hlaing and announces a state of emergency for a year, after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders of the National League for Democracy party.Langford, Miffordens Registre, Susan Webb and Lynn Unruh. The letter was co-signed by other members of the PNHP Florida Chapter Board: James G. This bill is contrary to this and will guarantee institutional, wanton, legally protected discrimination and bias. Our goal is to help the citizens of Florida live a healthy fruitful life. The wording of this law is so vague and open to interpretation that many scenarios can be envisioned in which any patient could be denied care based solely on race, religion, physical characteristics, marital status, attire, language, accent or anything that a provider finds a “conscience-based objection.” This terminology opens the door to a plethora of situations in which the patients are totally at the whim of whatever the provider happens to have established in his or her mind as a framework of “religious, moral or ethical beliefs.” This is contrary to all the norms that physicians are taught to decrease human suffering regardless of a patient’s beliefs. We are the board members of the Florida Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Plan (), a national advocacy organization of primarily doctors and other health care workers that advocates for a Medicare for All health plan.įlorida Senate Bill 1580 is a law that will allow any health care provider to discriminate on whether or not to provide care based on “conscience-based objection based on sincerely held religious, moral or ethical beliefs.” It also protects these providers from any legal repercussions based on these beliefs. ![]() Physicians’ group fights health-care discrimination ![]() ![]() Our governor is flying who knows where as he runs for president, and he is spending $10 million of our tax money to fly migrants from other states to other states to puff his image that he is tough on illegal immigrants. Susan Speicher Winter Park Governor’s flight cost hurts Floridians Instead of censoring content he doesn’t like, he and our governor should be thrilled to death that, despite distractions, some teenagers are actually focusing on learning something. The 18-year-olds can vote, drink, and get killed in foreign wars. They are freely exposed to pornography and violence on their phones, in songs, and on video, and have vocabularies that would make a sailor blush. They can drive, hold jobs (in some places dangerous ones), have sex, have babies, do drugs. High school juniors and seniors, ages 16 to 18, the ones who actually take AP courses. Commissioner, but that ship sailed long ago. Our valiant Education Commissioner wants to control the College Board’s content, “preserving the right of kids to be kids” (“College Board won’t alter courses to appease Florida,” June 16). Censoring College Board content is useless ![]()
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