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DENVER (KDVR) — As the delta variant continues to spread throughout the country, the World Health Organization is asking vaccinated people to still wear masks to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations, however have not changed, allowing fully vaccinated people to go without a mask.
In Denver-area hospitals, doctors tell FOX31 at least half of the unvaccinated COVID-19 patients are sick with the delta variant. The variant is significantly more contagious, and the symptoms patients feel are worse than from the original COVID-19 virus. Doctors continue to stress the message, that it’s the vaccines that will ultimately stop the spread.
“Not getting vaccinated if you have the opportunity to do so, is going to be one of the most selfish acts that history will view,” said Dr. Richard Zane with UCHealth. “History will view you poorly because you did not participate in finishing this pandemic.”
As of Sunday, less than three million Coloradans are fully vaccinated.
“What’s problematic and unexpected, is the degree to which the population that’s still unvaccinated, which means that we have fertile ground for more variants to happen,” Zane continued.
Doctors are thankful that the delta variant can still be detected in current COVID-19 testing methods and even more relieved our vaccines protect against it.
Research however, shows the vaccines are most effective against the original virus. Every variant can act differently, and more variants can form that the current vaccines don’t protect against. The key to preventing this from happening, is stopping the COVID-19 virus from spreading by getting the shot.
“What’s tragic is, it seems to be purposeful. We have more vaccines than we know what to do with. If you are over the age of 12 there’s no excuse for not getting the vaccine. If you are not getting a vaccine, you are not participating in the solution to this pandemic,” Zane stressed. “You are not doing your societal duty. You are not doing your act of patriotism. You are behaving in the most unamerican way ever imaginable after a pandemic. You are the problem if you are not vaccinated.”
Despite WHO recommendations for continued mask wearing, Colorado still is not requiring them for those that are vaccinated. The WHO argues the reason vaccinated people should wear a mask is to play it safe.
FOX31 reached out to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for their take on the matter but didn’t get a response yet.
It seemed fitting that the departing president of Berklee College of Music would release a song as his send-off.
Roger H. Brown, who is concluding his 17-year tenure at the helm of Berklee on June 30, released the music video for the bluegrass tune “Self-Unemployed” on June 24. The song, which Brown co-wrote, features the musical stylings of four Berklee alums with singer-songwriter Trey Hensley on acoustic guitar and vocals, and a one-time vice presidential candidate, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, on harmonica.
“Part of what I decided to do during the pandemic year is spend a little time writing songs just for my mental health,” Brown said in an interview. “We’ve been working on it most of the year, and my departure [was] a way to create a deadline.”
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Brown and Kaine, who have been friends for nearly four decades, came up with the idea for the song while on a bike trip up the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia in August 2020.
“When we were on the ride, having a lot of fun one night with a couple of beers, I said, ‘I thought of a great title for a song,’” Kaine said in a behind-the-scenes video for the song. “Lo and behold, six months later, February, I get a note from Roger saying ‘Hey, you know that ‘Self-Unemployed’ song?’”
Brown and Kaine worked with Berklee songwriting professor Mark Simos to pen the song. Berklee alumni Sierra Hull, Matt Rollings, Jordan Perlson, and Garry West joined the others to lay down the full track with Hensley.
The song is available for download through Apple Music and Spotify, under the band name “Wahoo Springs Band,” an homage to Brown’s Georgian roots.
Brown said that he — much like the song’s protagonist — is looking forward to giving up some of the pressures that come with his full-time job, but was glad he got a chance to “be in the mix” one last time.
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“It just feels like the right thing to do, to be part of the creative process that our students are all involved in,” he said. “If we expect our students to be out there figuring this out and hustling, it’s good for us to be doing the same thing.”
Dana Gerber can be reached at dana.gerber@globe.com
Raleigh, N.C. — Prominent North Carolina Republicans are calling out the NCAA, citing inconsistencies in the organization's handling of NC State baseball's COVID outbreak.
Due to at least one positive COVID test, NC State had only 13 players available in its 3-1 loss to Vanderbilt on Friday afternoon. The teams were slated to do battle for a winner-take-all contest Saturday afternoon, and as of Friday night, the Wolfpack were even optimistic that they may even get some guys back and eligible. But the NCAA's ruling sent the Wolfpack back to Raleigh without any shot to play.
U.S. Sen Thom Tillis posted on his Facebook page Sunday, saying the NCAA "embarrassed itself," adding that the Wolfpack players deserved a shot to play for the National Championship.
Pat McCrory, the former N.C. Governor who is running for U.S. Senate, also slammed the NCAA on Facebook, even calling for people to sign a petition in an effort to fire the NCAA President.
"The NCAA may have tried to CANCEL the NC State Wolfpack, but we won't let their nonsense continue. Sign our petition to DEMAND the NCAA President be FIRED and that NC State be able to compete for a championship!," McCrory wrote.
WRAL spoke exclusively with former NC State star and current White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon Saturday. Rodon spoke candidly about the NCAA's decision, saying that it made no sense and that he was "mad for the players."
נחתתי הבוקר במיאמי,יחד עם משלחת פיקוד העורף שהגיעו לסייע לכוחות החילוץ האמריקאים בזירת האסון בסורפסייד.גאה לעמוד כאן כנציג ממשלת ישראל, לצד משלחת מובחרת זו ולעזרת ידידינו בארה"ב בימים קשים אלה.נפעל יחד להושיט עזרה בשטח,אל מול הקהילה וגורמי הממשל בפלורידה.#SurfsideBuildingCollapse pic.twitter.com/uHelrsjp1x— נחמן שי- Nachman Shai (@DrNachmanShai) June 27, 2021
Shane McClanahan pitched six effective innings, Brett Phillips drove in three runs and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Los Angeles Angels 13-3 Saturday for their fourth straight win.
Manuel Margot and Mike Zunino homered for Tampa Bay. Ji-Man Choi had four hits and drove in two runs as the Rays improved to 6-0 against the Angels this season
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"I'm going to tell you what it's like, it's like waking up on Christmas morning as a kid and seeing all the presents," Phillips said. "All the exciting things that you can imagine when you score a lot of runs like that. Everyone is excited and happy."
Seven Tampa Bay players scored and eight had a hit.
The Angels have lost five in a row overall.
"We just got beat," Los Angeles manager Joe Maddon said. "We've just to throw this one away and come back tomorrow and play it right."
McClanahan (3-2) allowed three runs and four hits, all coming in the third inning.
"That's just baseball," McClanahan said. "Reset my mind and kept attacking."
Phillips, hitless in his previous 15 at-bats, connected on a two-run triple to deep center off Alex Cobb (5-3). He scored on a wild pitch during a four-run fourth as Tampa Bay went up 6-3.
Phillips added an RBI single in a five-run seventh that made it 13-3.
Cobb dropped to 0-6 in eight starts against his former team after giving up six runs and six hits in four innings. He went 48-35 with Tampa Bay from 2011-17.
Shohei Ohtani bounced an RBI double over Choi at first base and Anthony Rendon flared a two-run double down the right-field line off an 100-mph fastball from McClanahan as the Angels took a 3-2 lead in the third.
Ohtani's hit left the bat at 29 mph, the lowest to result in an extra-base hit since StatCast data is available starting in 2015.
"When you've got a lead, you've got to hold onto it," Maddon said. "You've got to finish games off, all the different things that a winning team does. That is winning baseball, and that's what we have to do."
Los Angeles scored twice in the first inning of Friday's 4-3 loss to the Rays.
The Angels loaded the bases later in the third when rookie shortstop Wander Franco was charged with his first big league error after misplaying Taylor Ward’s two-out grounder. McClanahan avoided further damage by getting a fly ball from José Iglesias.
Margot hit a two-run drive off Cobb during the second. It was just the third homer allowed by the right-hander in 11 starts this season.
Zunino hit his 16th homer in the sixth.
Franco went 0 for 4 and had his average drop to .105. He is hitless in 16 at-bats since having a homer and double Tuesday in his major league debut. He walked with the bases loaded in the seventh.
"Nothing that we're concerned about," Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said. "Yesterday he just misses a ball. He smoked a ball that the right fielder made a nice play on. If he keeps hitting balls like that, they're going to find holes."
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OHTANI!
Ohtani’s homer off a catwalk about 65 feet above the right-field stands Friday continued to be a topic of discussion.
Maddon believes it went farther than the estimated 453 feet.
"If it didn’t hit the ring I’m not sure it would have gone out" a laughing Cash said. "Nobody else can do what he does, both sides of the ball."
Cash is also amazed at Ohtani’s foot speed.
"He gets down the line as fast as anybody I’ve seen," Cash said.
BONUS BULLPEN
The Rays have the best AL bullpen ERA and a key contributor from the 2020 AL championship team, RHP Nick Anderson, is throwing off a mound and expected back in August.
Anderson (right elbow sprain) had an 0.55 ERA in 19 games last year.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rays: LHP Josh Fleming (right calf strain) went on the 10-day IL.
UP NEXT
Angels LHP Patrick Sandoval (2-2) will start Sunday. Rays LHP Ryan Yarbrough (4-3) will either start or follow an opener.
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