Around the state today
“Some Floridians who don’t entirely meet the state’s requirements for the COVID-19 vaccine are scouring the internet to get inoculated. One Facebook group calls itself ‘Florida Vaccine Hunters.’ It’s a group in which people share where there are extra doses of the vaccine available.”
“Just hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office released the draft report Thursday by Chief Inspector General Melinda Miguel, attorneys for the plaintiffs filed a copy of the report in their lawsuit against the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity and Deloitte Consulting, a contractor that helped put in place the state’s CONNECT online unemployment system in 2013.”
2 slides Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty
A 300-Year-Old Tale Of One Woman s Quest To Stop A Deadly Virus By
Three hundred years ago, in 1721, England was in the grips of a smallpox epidemic. There were people dying all over the place, says Isobel Grundy, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Alberta in Canada. Social life came to a standstill â and all the things we ve suddenly become familiar with again.
But as Londoners cowered inside their homes, there was a woman who knew how to end the outbreak. Her name was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and she had learned a technique from women in the distant Ottoman Empire that could stop the pox in its tracks.