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Funeral/Memoriams
FAMILY NOTICE
GEORGE WILLIAM JACKSON
George was born in Tampa on February 9th, 1968, being the seventh child of Hattie Wiley. He was a brother to seven, fa- ther to three, grandfather to three, uncle to eighteen, great uncle, cousin and friend to many.
He left us here on July 30th, 2021 to join his mother in Heaven.
George is LOVED by many, and will be truly missed by all.
Please join us in a CELE- BRATION OF HIS LIFE, on Fri- day, August 13th, 2021, 6 p. m., at 3102 E. 9th Ave., Tampa, FL 33605.
All are welcome.
FREDDIE DENNARD 8-15-1959- - 05-05-2021
IRENE DENNARD HARRIS 03-06-1934 – 08-18-2019
IN MEMORIAM
We are home in Heaven, dear ones; oh so happy and so bright. There is perfect joy and beauty in this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over, every restless tossing passed; we are now at peace forever, safely home in Heaven at last.
Love, Michael Dennard, Cookie Mingo, and Michelle “Shakey” Peterson, grands, great-grands; and sister, Louise Dennard.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HEAVENLY ANGEL
MARGIE BUCKINE LUCAS
On this day of August 14th, 1936, our loving angel was born, Margie Buckine Lucas, who’s truly missed by her kids, Aridene, Caretha, and Andrew, Jr., grandkids, great grandkids, and great great-grandchild,
We all love and miss you so much. Rest in peace, Mama.
COVID-19 News
Data Shows Chance Of Hospitalization, Death Less Than 0.01% For Fully Vaccinated
Cases of vaccinated people contracting COVID-19 are not happening as often as it may seem, scientists believe, as 163 million Americans – and about 50% of Floridians – are vacci- nated.
Scientists like Dr. Michael Teng, a USF Health virologist, said symptomatic breakthrough infections in people who are al- ready vaccinated are rare even as the delta variant spreads.
“That’s a lot of people, so you expect to see some break- through infections. The vaccine is not 100%, but it’s really close,” Teng said. “The other part of it that you have to real- ize is that when you have when you look at symptomatic infec- tions in the unvaccinated, you’re going to see a lot more on a percentage basis. So it’s like something like eight times as many.”
He explained the chances of a vaccinated person getting sick, compared to an unvaccinated person.
“So if you think about that, you and eight of your friends walk into a room that’s just full
of SARS-Coronavirus-2. Eight of you are walking out with nothing. One of you might get sick.
“If you do that with unvacci- nated people, you’re going to have all of them infected.”
On May 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped tracking all sympto- matic breakthrough infections, instead, shifting focus to only vaccinated people who end up in hospitals or die.
Fried Calls For State Of Emergency, DeSantis Encourages Vaccines
Gov. Ron DeSantis re- fused to back down from his stance against mask mandates as Florida broke its record again for COVID-19 hospitalizations, insisting that the spike is sea- sonal. But he did encourage Floridians to get vaccinated.
As of July 26, that number is less than 0.01% out of 163 mil- lion fully vaccinated people na- tionwide who are hospitalized.
“We do still see some break-
through infections in the hospi- tal, so that is a possibility as well. But not much less than in the unvaccinated population,” Teng said.
As for any potential long- term health effects, Dr. Teng said that’s an area that has more unknowns.
“Long COVID tends to be an array of symptoms and not everybody has all the same symptoms. So some people have lung problems for a long time. Some people have fatigue for months on end. Some peo- ple are on oxygen and some people have neurologic weak- ness.
“I think we need to do a much better job of tracking long COVID regardless of vaccina- tion status, and NIH just put in a billion dollars into that.”
Scientists said they want to stress that breakthrough infec- tions are rare but expected when the vaccine isn’t 100%. But they said it’s a better way to protect yourself because a breakthrough infection will very likely be milder than if you did- n’t have the shot.
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