MOH said it would still encourage members of the public, especially the elderly and immunocompromised, to wear masks in crowded places or when meeting vulnerable people.
09 Feb 2023 11:56AM (Updated: 09 Feb 2023 02:24PM)
The DORSCON level will also be lowered to Green and the pandemic multi-ministry task force stood down.
SINGAPORE: The wearing of masks on public transport as well as some healthcare and residential care settings will no longer be mandatory from Monday (Feb 13), when Singapore also steps down its disease alert to the lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic started.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Thursday that it will however retain the practice of mask-wearing for visitors, staff and patients in settings where there is interaction with patients as well as in indoor patient-facing areas.
These include hospital wards, emergency departments, consultation rooms and waiting areas, pharmacies, clinics and nursing homes.
This will be an MOH requirement rather than mandated under COVID-19 regulations, to better protect patients and healthcare workers from infectious diseases in general, the ministry said in a press release.
Should someone be in a hospital area not related to the “delivery of care” – such as a cafeteria or car park – mask-wearing is not mandatory, MOH’s director of medical services Kenneth Mak clarified at a COVID-19 multi-ministry task force (MTF) press conference on Thursday.
“Hospitals will look at their operational requirements, the setting and see whether or not there are opportunities to lighten up and minimise that burden of mask wearing in those settings,” he added.
“So it is a more refined policy position, but the base principle of requiring mask-wearing in care areas still remains.”
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MORE: Singapore will also stand down its Covid-19 border measures. Starting Monday, unvaccinated travellers entering the city state will no longer be required to present a negative pre-departure test.
Wow. Is this true? Whatever it is, pls do not let the education dept do the investigation. You need an impartial investigation. I have heard of similar stories about such incidents in rural schools in Sarawak. Same sort of stories in rural Sabah schools.#PoliticalIslam#Malaysiapic.twitter.com/PMQhSqyq34
The boy’s mother claimed that the class teacher also told her 15-year-old son that “only Muslims are allowed to enter stadiums in Malaysia”. pic.twitter.com/7ht2Wvlh5Z
Malaysian social media users falsely claim ‘Bill Gates has prepared billions of monkeypox vaccines’
AFP Malaysia Published on Wednesday 15 June 2022 at 15:21
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A video has been viewed thousands of times on Facebook and TikTok alongside a claim that billionaire Bill Gates has “billions of doses of monkeypox vaccine on standby” as more than a thousand infections have emerged worldwide. However the video has been shared in a false context. The footage was taken during Gates’ visit to a Covid-19 vaccine storage facility in Abu Dhabi in May 2022. His charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has told AFP that the claim is untrue.
The 40-second video was shared here on Facebook on May 28, 2022. .
Gates is a frequent target of misinformation — AFP Fact Check has debunked false and misleading claims about him and the Covid-19 vaccines here, here, here and here.
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Well, that certainly didn’t take long. Once the current monkeypox outbreak spread to the U.S., it was only a matter of time before conspiracy theories about this outbreak began spreading as well. And it was only a matter of time before such conspiracy theories began mentioning Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist.
All of this should be about as surprising as a cat fight or a “here’s why you suck” speech on a reality TV show. After all, consider how many different Bill Gates-related conspiracy theories have emerged ever since the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic began in early 2020, some of which I covered for Forbes back in April 2020. For example, there was that Gates-placing-microchips-in-Covid-19-vaccines-to-track-everyone-for-who-knows-why conspiracy theory that people shared on Facebook and smartphones, two things that ironically do actually track people. Some politicians have further fueled such theories by either not denouncing them or even propagating them. .
So why are these conspiracy theories targeting Gates? Well, Gates has been supporting vaccination and the development of new vaccines to better prevent and respond combat infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. So perhaps anti-vaccination campaigns, which may in turn be trying to sell their own unproven therapies, view him as a big target. Also, could this be related to Gates’s efforts to encourage other billionaires and corporations to use their accumulated wealth more to help improve global health? Not all of them may be on board and happy with such encouragement from Gates. Then there’s the possibility that some of these messages are from those trying to destabilize society and governments such as anti-vaccination messages that have come from Russian sources, as I described previously for Forbes.
Without more evidence, it’s not completely clear what the motivations and sources of many anonymous social media accounts may be. One thing’s for sure. By monkeypoxing around in this manner, they are not helping and seem to be hurting efforts to protect people against such outbreaks now and in the future.
Elizabeth Jean Carroll is an American journalist, author, and advice columnist. Her “Ask E. Jean” column appeared in Elle magazine from 1993 through 2019, becoming one of the longest-running advice columns in American publishing. She was the first female contributing editor for Playboy. Wikipedia
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She claims that the incidents occurred in 1995-1996.
In an order, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said the trial will begin in Manhattan on April 25 as planned.
A federal judge on Monday denied a bid by Donald Trump to delay a civil trial involving a rape allegation by author E. Jean Carroll against the former president, rejecting a contention that a “cooling off” period is needed after Trump’s arraignment. https://t.co/6AAe0dZKm9
In an order, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said the trial will begin in Manhattan on April 25 as planned.
In a letter last week to Kaplan, lawyers for Trump argued that the postponement was needed because of the “deluge” of publicity and “prejudicial media coverage concerning [Trump’s] unprecedented indictment and arraignment.”
“Holding the trial of this case a mere three weeks after these historic events will guarantee that many, if not most, prospective jurors will have the criminal allegations top of mind when judging” Trump’s defense against Carroll, said the letter from lawyers Joe Tacopina and Alina Habba.
Trump, who has denied the accusations in both cases, has frequently employed delay tactics in litigation, including earlier in the Carroll case.
Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge overseeing the case, filed a letter to the judge last week saying that Trump’s push for a delay was without merit because of the amount of publicity the ex-president receives regularly and the possibility that developments in other pending criminal investigations could occur soon even if the Carroll trial date is reset.
Roberta Kaplan also noted that the jury screening process in a major metropolitan area like New York is enough to ensure a fair jury is selected. She also said the attention Trump has pointed to as a problem for him in the Carroll case is largely self-generated, including when he began offering merchandise with a fake mug shot in conjunction with his New York indictment.
“If anything, it is somewhat perverse for Trump to seek a continuance in these proceedings based on the recent indictment when so much of the publicity he complains about has been driven by his own incendiary statements,” Kaplan wrote.
In their letter, Trump’s lawyers conceded that he is “a persistent subject of media coverage” but argued that the current situation is “unique.”
“Jurors selected to hear Ms. Carroll’s allegations against President Trump will have the breathless coverage of President Trump’s alleged extra-marital affair with Stormy Daniels still ringing in their ears if the trial goes forward as scheduled,” they wrote.
NBC News: The federal judge set to hear E. Jean Carroll's defamation trial against Trump will use an anonymous jury — noting Trump's history of "attack[ing] courts, judges, various law enforcement officials and other public officials, and even individual jurors in other matters."
Donald Trump is headed to trial in NYC this spring in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit alleging he raped her and then defamed her by saying she was lying about the sexual assault, a judge rules.https://t.co/T3kKqji3zH
Donald Trump is headed to trial in New York City this spring in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit alleging he raped her and then defamed her by saying she was lying about the sexual assault, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Manhattan Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan set an April 25 trial date hours after Trump’s lawyers asked him to push the case back to June.
Kaplan said he is yet to resolve whether the trial will consolidate the two suits Carroll has against Trump.
Carroll filed the first lawsuit against Trump, which includes defamation claims, in Manhattan Supreme Court in 2019 when he called her a liar after she accused him of rape.
The libel suit was bogged down after it was kicked over to federal court when Trump argued he couldn’t be sued because he was the president. The Justice Department continued to defend that argument after President Biden took office, claiming it wasn’t Trump it was trying to shield but federal employees from lawsuits. The matter is currently before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Habba unsuccessfully requested Kaplan put the Manhattan federal case on ice until the D.C. court issues a decision.
Carroll filed her second lawsuit — the one headed to trial in 11 weeks — in November after New York’s Adult Survivors Act went into effect. It includes sexual battery claims and accuses him of defaming her a second time when he doubled down on his comments, calling her a liar when he was no longer president.
Central to both lawsuits is Carroll’s claims that Trump raped her inside Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Ave. between the fall of 1995 and the spring of 1996. Carroll says she still has the dress she wore during the encounter, which she never washed. She believes it has traces of Trump’s DNA.
Trump has vehemently denied all of Carroll’s allegations.
Medina Culver is not a D.O. A doctor of osteopathic medicine is also known as a D.O.
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Medina Culver graduated from the Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2015. She works in Henderson, NV and 2 other locations and specializes in Family Medicine.
Osteopathy is a type of alternative medicine that emphasizes physical manipulation of the body’s muscle tissue and bones. Practitioners of osteopathy are referred to as osteopaths. Osteopathic manipulation is the core set of techniques in osteopathy. Wikipedia
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A doctor of osteopathic medicine, also known as a D.O., is a fully trained and licensed doctor. A doctor of osteopathic medicine graduates from a U.S. osteopathic medical school. A doctor of medicine, also known as an M.D., graduates from a traditional medical school.
A major difference between D.O.s and M.D.s is that some doctors of osteopathic medicine use manual medicine as part of treatment. Manual medicine can include hands-on work on joints and tissues and massage.
After medical school, both kinds of doctors must complete training as residents in the specialty they choose. They also must pass the same licensing exam before they can treat people and prescribe medicines.
Nevada physician sued for negligence, wrongful death
Hayley DeSilva – 12 hours ago
Medina Culver, DO, has been sued by a former patient’s family for alleged wrongful death, This is Reno reported Feb. 6.
America’s Frontline Doctors, an advocacy group that was formed to oppose public health measures intended to stop the spread of COVID-19, is also named in the suit.
The lawsuit alleges that Dr. Culver prescribed the patient hydroxychloroquine as treatment and preventive care for COVID-19 during a telehealth visit, resulting in the patient’s death. The suit also alleges Dr. Culver did not perform a physical examination of the patient, according to the publication.
The suit also alleges that America’s Frontline Doctors convinced the patient that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment and preventive for COVID-19.
The family of the deceased is seeking $30,000 in damages.
Is this the Dr Medina who is being sued? *Nevada physician Dr Medina Culver, America’s Frontline Doctors sued for negligence, wrongful death *She prescribed hydroxychloroquine as treatment and preventive care for COVID-19 during a telehealth visithttps://t.co/QvCEgZCC0qhttps://t.co/s4OJqQQsm4
This is an incredible story: Jeremy Parker believed hydroxychoroquine could treat his covid, so sought a prescription from America's Frontline Doctors. He passed away nearly a year ago with HCQ in his system. Now the family is suing AFLDS & Dr. Medina Culver for $30k in damages. https://t.co/rh444Bz39Fpic.twitter.com/gGaKHm52gc
Medina Culver graduated from the Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2015. She works in Henderson, NV and 2 other locations and specializes in Family Medicine.
America’s Frontline Doctors, the pro-hydroxychloroquine, pro-Trump physician organization, is named in a lawsuit out of Nevada concerning the death of a patient given hydroxychloroquine for Covid prevention. Jeremy Parker sought out treatment with the drug – which has no use against Covid but carries a known risk of cardiac rhythm disturbances in certain individuals – after seeing online disinformation from AFLDS.
Medina Culver, DO, has been sued by a former patient’s family for alleged wrongful death, This is Reno reported Feb. 6.
America’s Frontline Doctors, an advocacy group that was formed to oppose public health measures intended to stop the spread of COVID-19, is also named in the suit.
The lawsuit alleges that Dr. Culver prescribed the patient hydroxychloroquine as treatment and preventive care for COVID-19 during a telehealth visit, resulting in the patient’s death. The suit also alleges Dr. Culver did not perform a physical examination of the patient, according to the publication.
The suit also alleges that America’s Frontline Doctors convinced the patient that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment and preventive for COVID-19.
The family of the deceased is seeking $30,000 in damages.
Ryan Cole admits this picture is not his and is unrelated to the vaccines. Then claims he has clots that look like this. YOU DO NOT. This is from bleeding into the lung bronchi and NOT intravascular clotting. Why is the Expose lying with this image? Does Ryan denounce it? https://t.co/Fj8mfFu9Oupic.twitter.com/8pLRabxPcO
Hey Ryan, not sure if you’re aware, but the Expose article quoting you is using an image dating back to a 2018 NEJM case report and claiming it was due to the vaccine. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Did you approve this? If not would you like to condemn them? https://t.co/FcIcb7cWa7
Just remember that the Expose and Ryan Cole have no shame in lying to you. This is a case of an ICU patient in 2018 coughing up clots from his lung (due to bleeding into the bronchi). There was not COVID-19 vaccine in 2018… https://t.co/8So1Vm2t2rpic.twitter.com/Ehwb8vf5qU
Experienced pathologist @drcole12 confirms COVID vaccines cause blood clots! I mean look at that ginormous blood clot with the Pfizer logo superimposed on it, this must prove it! Except one tiny detail…https://t.co/oVkyeaadtf
This was from a 36 year old man with advanced heart failure. He was on an impella and on systemic anticoagulation. He had bleeding into his right lung and coughed up a complete cast of his right bronchial tree composed of coagulated blood.
Surely @drcole12 will condemn Expose News for misleading people with this image. Especially because they quote him so heavily in the article. If he already has condemned the site and requested they retract the article then I’d love to see his response.
Also it’s the first image that comes up if you type “scary blood clot picture” in google. So def some in-depth scientific rigor went into this piece. pic.twitter.com/KjgAw42f7A
