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The Center for Public Integrity published what it says is a “White House Crown Task Force ready document that has not yet been made public” that “suggests that more than a dozen states retake stricter protective measures, restricting social gatherings to 10 other people or less , closes bars and gyms and asks citizens to wear a mask at all times.”
The document, for example, states that each and every metropolitan domain in Florida deserves to pressure others to reduce their homes away from home to 25%, close bars and gyms, and tell everyone to wear a mask in public. The White House has not approached this strong position, leaving the highest calls difficult, instead, to state and local governments.
The report was not published or made public through the White House Coronavirus Working Group. The document lists 18 states, which it calls “red zones” for new cases, which the report says require much more restrictive prevention measures than those in force.
You can read the document, knowledge and maps here. The document provides express recommendations at the county and city level.
The 18 states indexed in the document as “red zone” for new instances are Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennesse. Texas and Utah Matrix.
The document also lists 11 states as a “red zone” for the percentage of tests that test positive: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington.
Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said it makes no sense for the White House to publish this knowledge and update it daily. Maps and charts are much more detailed than states offer about trends, new instances, and status-by-state recommendations.
The graphics directory of the “red states” looks like this:
The recommendations are very specific. This is for the red metro areas of Florida, as an example:
Use this document to ask local officials which of the recommendations that were made in the White House and were never transmitted.
The Center for Public Integrity states that the document “… it includes county-level knowledge and reflects the Trump administration’s insistence that states and counties take the lead in the coronavirus response. The document was shared within the federal government, but does not appear to be publicly published. »
Governors in 31 states and territories have requested federal budget to keep National Guard troops at COVID-19 at least until last fall. Michigan needs Guard troops to be at COVID-19 until the end of the year.
States and territories include: Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Iowa, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virgin Islands, Vermont, Washington State, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
The Trump administration has advised governors who employ guard members to help improve pandemic knowledge gathering. Since March, around 30,000 infantrymen have participated in COVID tests, worked in hospitals and distributed supplies. In Massachusetts and Washington, guard members attended the overdue unemployment claims procedure.
Cash goes through anything called name 32 orders, which expire on August 21.
Stars and Stripes reported:
In mid-July, some 29,700 Guard infantrymen are deployed across the country for coronavirus relief, which began in early March in peak states, according to the Department of Defense. In early June, Guard deployments for coronavirus missions and racial justice protests increased the number of infantrymen on the floor to a maximum of 75,000 infantrymen and airmen. It marked the Guard’s increased domestic use in non-combat operations.
Governors can keep Guard troops deployed after the federal government withdraws their monetary support, but states will have to pay for it. For infantrymen, this can simply mean relief in payment and end the eligibility of infantry soldiers or aviators for benefits such as physical care and access to the GI Bill. Troops also cannot claim a disability from the Department of Veterans Affairs if they are injured by state order.
Military Times reported:
Troops who worked on the reaction to COVID-19 are eligible for the Humanitarian Service Medal or the Armed Forces Service Medal, according to a Department of Defense memorandum on Tuesday. The requirement is 30 days activation to gain it, it falls to a day if a member has contracted a coronavirus while serving.
Toby Howell’s piercing eyes from Morning Brew picked up two quotes that seem elaborate to send a sign that the season is in jeopardy:
Michigan: In a press yesterday, power Big Ten wrote, “If U-M is capable of having a 2020 football season, it would be played with a crowd of reduced capacity or without enthusiasts.”
Notre Dame: Irish athletic combat director Jack Swarbrick told WSJ that if the country did not make the pandemic, “the only two features are the exploration of the season or the spring.”
It seems that we expect our schools to accomplish, in a few weeks, what the nation has not achieved in five months: to be both open and safe with no huge new expenses and equal productive output.
The Kaiser Family Foundation has produced new insights that show why teachers have an explanation for why they participate beyond how they will teach. Kaiser said:
Our previous research shows that one in 4 teachers is in danger of being seriously adapted if they contract COVID19. So far, the effects of opening schools in other countries have been mixed.
We who one in 4 teachers (24%, or about 1.47 million people) have a disease that puts them at high risk for severe coronavirus disease.
The challenge for school systems and teachers in particular is the abundant volume of traffic and limited spaces in many school settings, which can make social estrangement a major challenge in many contexts. For high-risk teachers, failing to achieve career situations can have very serious consequences.
And, Kaiser said, approximately 3.3 million school-age children in the United States live in families with others over 65. Other older people of color are most likely to live with a school-age child than their white counterparts.
Kaiser reported:
California, Texas, and Florida have a giant number of older people living with a school-age child (590, 321 and 279,000 respectively) (Table 1). The highest proportion is in Hawaii, where 15% of older people live with a school-age child and 20% of school-age youth live with an adult age 65 and older.
Click on the map to view the interactive table, which provides you with a prestige report of the percentages of older people living in the same families with school-age children.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported that nearly a third of Florida’s youth, 31 percent of those tested for COVID-19, had positive results. While young people tend not to show symptoms when infected, fitness officials are involved in the effects possibly being delayed. There are also many things we don’t know about how young people infect adults.
Axios reported this:
An examination in Germany found that infections in schools had caused outbreaks in the community. But an investigation of a wave of cases in Israel revealed that almost part of the cases reported in June were due to diseases in schools.
“As teachers, we prepare for active fires, tornadoes, fires, and I am perfectly prepared to receive a bullet or protect a child from falling debris during a tornado. But if I perceive and am asymptomatic and in poor health and whatever comes to it to him or one of the members of his circle of relatives, that’s a fault he would bring forever.”
– Michelle Albright, sophomore from northwest Indiana.
Poynter released an excellent column this week to track the coronavirus record in other people of color and others who are deficient in the United States. Tim Nickens highlighted five places where he can locate deep knowledge and express local stories. An example:
The COVID racial knowledge tracker. It’s the closest thing to a single window. Launched in April through a partnership between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Anti-Racism Research Center, the site is updated twice a week and includes state and county data from virtually every state. It is useful to show through the state where there are significant disparities between the minority population and the proportion of cases of viruses and deaths that represent these citizens.
For example, in Alabama, black citizens account for 27% of the population, account for 45% of the virus cases shown and 46% of deaths. In Michigan, black citizens account for 14% of the population and account for 34% of the instances and 41% of deaths. In Iowa, Hispanic citizens make up 6% of the population and account for 26% of the instances.
Thursday full of the strangest stories, like the Russians hacking the vaccine data, Ft. Lauderdale cops who capture a runaway kangaroo and Major League Baseball plan to make fake crowd noises for the games.
Listen to me:
A slight murmur, then a ovation when Fargas connects, then a stronger ovation when Nimmo makes a big catch. pic.twitter.com/otLZbFTXBk
– Tim Healey (@timbhealey) July 15, 2020
Several play with the idea. The Tampa Bay Times reported:
The Rays will also play with the mix of music (to check the energy of the players) and the effects of the dashboard (such as the house horn) on Too under Michael Weinman, the game’s presentation and production manager.
“We will have music and noise from the crowd that will give our boys … an opportunity to play, make adjustments, thumbs up/thumbs down, other thoughts,” said manager Kevin Cash.
For journalists, this poses a small challenge as we add sound effects to our reports. But what if someone else adds them and we only record what happened at the event?
Will the groups also provide “screams,” “the referee wants glasses” and mock “good batsman, swing hitter”? Stay tuned.
Under the name “Some Things Never Change” is this story through J. Alexander Navarro, deputy director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, writing for Fast Company:
In mid-October 1918, in the midst of an epidemic in the northeast and the development of epidemics across the country, the U.S. Public Health Service circulated leaflets advising all citizens to wear a mask. The Red Cross has published advertisements in newspapers that encourage its use and has submitted commands on how to make a mask on a gauze and cotton rope. Some state fitness facilities have introduced their own initiatives, adding California, Utah and Washington.
You’ll love this Red Cross sign that says, “The man, woman, or child who won’t wear a mask is now a damaging sloth.”
One hundred and two years later, the recommendation of that extraordinarily familiar era.
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