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Utah hospitals warn that they will likely soon ration medical care. Hospital directors are so involved with increasing COVID-19 cases across the state that they have drafted a list of protocols that ask the governor to approve when they want to start. make decisions about who is being treated. The Salt Lake Tribune says:
In cases where the situations of two patients are the same, the other young people take precedence over the elderly, as older patients are more likely to die.
Hospitalizations accumulate after the number of new cases that accumulate, and Utah continually set new records for daily case totals last week. At least two Utah hospitals have opened extended care sets overflowing this month.
But one of the defining characteristics of extensive care is access to specialized doctors and nurses, and opening new beds does not mean that physical care staff can do so.
Hospitals say many nurses can’t show up for paintings because nurses live in a circle of family members who have tested positive or, in some cases, because they are parents who have young children at home and can’t send them to school.
In El Paso, Texas, the spread of coronavirus is so immediate and wide that city officials are asking others to stay at home for the next two weeks, it’s already 10 p. m. , five hours from the curfew there.
The Texas Tribune reports:
COVID-19-related hospitalizations in the region increased from 259 to 786 in less than 3 weeks, an increase of 300%, according to Angela Mora, director of El Paso’s public fitness department. And in the following 14 days, El Paso County has recorded approximately 10,000 cases, according to physical fitness data from the Texas State Department.
Over the weekend in El Paso County, another 199 people were in the intensive care unit, and nearly part of them used fans. The governor is sending emergency aid, beds, enthusiasts and other supplies.
CBS News reports:
A UT-Austin report released Thursday indicated that “the El Paso region has the maximum threat projections, with an estimated 85% that COVID-19 instances will exceed the capacity of the local hospital by November 8, 2020. “
According to the same report, five other regions have more than a 25% chance that hospitals will be hit in 3 weeks: Yellow (28%), Lubbock (29%), Wichita Falls (30%), San Angelo (29%). ) Galveston (33%).
This is a family history in Montana, where the strong accumulation of COVID-19 cases is exacerbating the shortage of fitness care workers.
NBC News, in a tweet, summed up the situation:
States with the highest percentage accumulated in instances in the last 14 days:
(Data as of October 26)
– NBC News (@NBCNews) October 26, 2020
We also know from this year’s delight that as instances of COVID-19 increase, other people begin to turn away from medical practices for fitness but preventive care.
The World Health Organization has warned that the entire northern hemisphere is facing “a harmful moment. “This is a little statement.
A newly published through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focuses on what we can be informed about by examining coronavirus-inflamed fitness personnel.
A third of the physical care staff were nurses. Health personnel accounted for about 6% of all cases studied at thirteen sites, so they are not whole numbers, but they would possibly be giant enough to ask questions or even provide definitive answers.
One of the most striking findings is that 89% of fitness care staff who have fallen ill with COVID-19 had an underlying fitness problem. The non-unusual highs were obesity, high blood pressure and/or diabetes, and the age of inflamed hospitalized fitness. Health care staff were younger than the average patient hospitalized by COVID-19. The test indicates that, namely this pandemic, physical care providers deserve to pay close attention and avoid obesity and other situations that increase the threat of already dangerous occupation.
Bloomberg says he will give painters $75 a day to help offset the transportation charge and other materials they may want to safely arrive and return from the paintings during the pandemic. The company says it understands that other people who can also use public transport would normally do so. You may need to drive or Uber, and those features may be more expensive.
“We are excited to offer this additional benefit, which will help those who return to decide which option they feel most comfortable with,” Ken Cooper, Bloomberg’s Director of Human Resources, said in an email to staff.
I’m sure your newsroom is writing you a note even as you read this.
The Department of Health and Human Services came up with the concept that if Santa’s artists and Ms. Claus helped announce a coronavirus vaccine once it became available, the government would push the Santas and auxiliary elves to the forefront of the vaccination line.
But once the Wall Street Journal reported the story, the government withdrew the plan and now the Santas are happy.
Ric Erwin, president of the Fraternal Order of the Royal Saints, the news is “extremely disappointing. “
“It’s our biggest hope for Christmas 2020, and now it turns out it won’t happen,” he told the Journal, who first reported the story.
All of this, of course, raises the question of how Santas will do his homework in the event of a pandemic. It won’t be happy to see the little ones talking to Santa through Plexiglass or on a Zoom call.
The Financial Times reports:
Mattel recorded its largest accumulation of quarterly sales in a decade, and parents bought Barbie dolls for home-confineed children, Hot Wheels cars and other toys to remain entertained during the pandemic. Mattel’s shares, whose other brands come with Fisher-Price and American Girl, rose 7% in off-hours operations, and executive leader Ynon Kreiz said the California-based company “was experiencing a sharp and significant increase. “”When children stay home, parents must entertain and keep them engaged,” he says.
FT reports that doll sales paved the way for Mattel and that Barbie led all doll sales. CNBC reports:
Barbie is a toy logo that has taken off from the shelves. Mattel, who manufactures the iconic line of dolls, said it increased by almost 30% in each segment. With gross sales of $532. 2 million, this is the most productive functionality of the logo since 2003, as the company sees a positive reception for a more inclusive line of dolls.
Mattel also says card games one is being promoted in the pandemic.
Hasbro told Wall Street that sales of board games, in addition to Monopoly and Scrabble, went well with the pandemic.
With Election Day a week away, U. S. corporations are pushing the motion to “get out of the way” by granting paid permits to workers, some even final retail stores for a few hours next Tuesday.
Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase
The New York Times says what was a wave of corporations that financially encouraged voting two years ago has a real wave:
Two years ago, when payPal, Patagonia and Levi Strauss leaders founded Time to Vote, a nonpartisan mission that asks corporations to inspire staff to participate in the election, there were about 400 members. In recent weeks, the number of members has a similar initiative, called A Day for Democracy, has attracted more than 350 corporations since it was introduced with seven Boston-area corporations in July. ElectionDay. org, sponsored through the nonprofit Vote. org, has combined the promises of more than 800 corporations that promise time to vote for staff.
One day for democracy says:
Make Time to Vote has more than 1,600 supporters in all 50 states:
The explanation for why this story did not spread more widely last week is not a mystery, with everything that accumulated in the news and covers, but it is significant. It may soon be much less difficult to fire 100,000 federal employees, adding other people like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Last week, President Donald Trump discreetly signed an executive order creating a new classification of federal workers called “Annex F” for workers in “confidential positions, decision makers, legislators, or policy advocates” that sometimes do not replace a presidential transition. Independent explains the new rule:
The diversity of staff who can be stripped of their protections and categorized into this new category is enormous, experts say, and can come with the maximum of nonpartisan experts (scientists, doctors, lawyers, economists) whose boards advise and inform decisions. Trump has continually clashed with such career staff in a variety of contexts, ranging from his preference to provide the Covid-19 pandemic as largely finished, to his attempts to allow his allies to escape punishment for federal crimes, at his ironic insistence that National Weather Service scientists back their erroneous claim that the state of Alabama threatens a hurricane that is not heading in his direction.
The Trump administration says adjustments allow government agencies to fire long-time workers who can’t or might not do the job yet, through public service rules.
“Career workers in confidential positions, policy-making, policy progression, and policy advocacy have a significant effect on government operations and effectiveness,” the order states. “Agencies want flexibility to temporarily eliminate under-performance workers from those positions without facing significant delays or litigation. “
The Washington Post describes the new rule in an opinion article:
However, its implications are profound and alarming. It gives the current the strength to lay off more or less at will to the tens of thousands of employees lately in competitive public service, from executives to lawyers, economists and, yes, scientists. This week’s order is a primary save in the president’s attack on a group of committed officials he calls “the deep state,” and which is in fact the largest force of the U. S. government.
The White House admitted last winter that it had tried to purge other people deemed underreliable, the “other bad people,” in Trump. Protections for existing public career servers have at least put obstacles in the way, hence this legally dubious plan to erase one’s protections with a touch of organizational prestidigitation. Not only will politically based layoffs become less difficult, but it will also be less difficult to rent to those who know Trump: servileness and, more than anything, lack of qualifications. In the absence of a competitive process, leaders can designate those who need, or rather, those they like.
Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said in a statement, “Through this ordinance, President Trump has declared war on public service by giving himself the strength to fill the government with his political acolytes who will engage in unwavering loyalty to him — to America.
Federal News Netpaintings, which monitors the paintings of federal employees, notes:
Agencies may not promptly reclassify federal career workers in policy-making functions.
According to the executive order, heads of business have 90 days to review all existing positions and whether they deserve to move to Annex F. The initial deadline for an initial exam falls on January 19, 2021, a day before Inauguration Day.
Agencies then have 4 more months to finalize those determinations. For positions that are not excluded from competitive status service, agencies will have to ask the Director of the Office of Personnel Administration to come with those posts in Annex F.
FCW. com, which covers the federal government’s technological problems, says that if Trump wins re-election, Democrats will probably try to do something with the executive order, and if Biden wins, then he would in all likelihood oppose order. as gently as he was signed.
I just looked for you to see this New York Times article. Part of my need for you to see the final results of immigration policies, whether you agree with them or not. And I need you to model Caitlin Dickerson’s rich handwriting. first paragraphs:
A buttery yellow sun rose over the crowded tent camp across the Texas River and thick heat cooked the rotten debris underneath, an addition of damaged toys, human waste and bad food. eaten swarm of flies.
Clothes and sheets hung from trees and dried after being soaked and muddy last week.
When citizens came out of the zippers of their canvas houses this August morning, some crawled with buckets in their hand into water tanks to bathe and wash dishes, others piled up in front of the sinks with their arms full of underwear and children’s pajamas. the first hot meal of the day, even though it made them sick.
Members of this network of displaced people sought refuge in the United States, but were sent back to Mexico and asked to wait, arrived after exclusive tragedies: violent assaults, oppressive extortion, murder of enjoyment, are bound by what they have. in common: having nowhere to go.
Published through NBC manufacturer Carol Gable:
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