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Civil Rights Office At HHS Fights Discrimination Of Disabled People In Pandemic : NPR - 0 views

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Discrimination Disabilities

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  • Civil rights officials at the Department of Health and Human Services issued a series of actions to protect people with disabilities from health care discrimination by medical providers during the pandemic.
  • start of a process to write regulations that explicitly prohibit medical workers from denying care to people with disabilities
  • to assure that people with disabilities and older people are not passed over for scarce care, like drug treatments and ventilator
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  • "People will not be subject to age or disability discrimination when the going gets tough."
  • The new OCR action makes clear that doctors cannot issue a blanket DNR and cannot substitute their subjective beliefs about the quality of a disabled person's life over the person's own wishes.
  • "that discrimination against persons with disabilities will be absolutely forbidden and stereotypes about their usefulness should never be part of a discussion when we allocate care."
  • it would become a significant expansion of disability civil rights law.
  • But a final rule exists in draft form, according to a source at HHS, with hopes that new Biden Administration officials will pick it up.
  • include language to guarantee doctors will not pressure patients to sign Do Not Resuscitate orders and not exclude people from treatment based on their disability alone.
  • The steps taken by OCR to stop medical discrimination reflect the findings of a series of papers on bioethics and disability, issued by the National Council on Disability,
  • "Disability discrimination in health care is among the most insidious — with life and death consequences — and it's hard to root out,"
  • "sends an unequivocally clear message that we will not accept health care that relegates people with disabilities to last in line or 'lost cause.'"
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Poll On Capitol Riot: Majority Of Americans Blame Trump : NPR - 0 views

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US Capitol Democrats Republicans

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  • Almost 6 in 10 Americans said they blame President Trump for the violent insurrection that took place Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol
  • and half believe social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter — which have banned him from their platforms — should not continue to restrict Trump after Wednesday.
  • Eight in 10 Republicans disagree that Trump is to blame for the violence, don't believe social media companies should continue restrictions on him and don't trust that results of the 2020 election were accurate.
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  • To date, Trump has still not conceded, even after the House impeached him for a second time Wednesday.
  • Overall, 58% said Trump is to blame either a "great deal" or a "good amount" for the violence at the Capitol, while 40% said "not much" or "not at all."
  • When it comes to trusting that the results of the election are accurate, 60% said they do, while 38% said they don't.
  • As with most things in the Trump presidency, there's a big split between whites with college degrees and those without — 67% of whites with degrees trust the results, while 50% of whites without do not.
  • By a 50%-43% margin, Americans do not think social media companies should continue to restrict Trump's use of their platforms beyond his term as president.
  • There are 1,012 registered voters in the survey. Where they are mentioned, the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
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Republicans Wonder How, And If, They Can Pull The Party Back Together : NPR - 0 views

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  • In a matter of hours on Jan. 6, the Republican Party went from shrugging off its loss of the White House to a party in crisis.
  • making President Trump the first president since Herbert Hoover whose party lost the White House, the House and the Senate in one term.
  • Now, Trump leaves office as the only president to be impeached twice, and the House vote against Trump over the Capitol insurrection marked the most bipartisan impeachment in U.S. history.
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  • I don't know how you bring these people together.
  • "This isn't their Republican Party anymore," the president's son said. "This is Donald Trump's Republican Party."
  • He thinks the big divide is between authoritarians and those who believe in democracy.
  • It's a fundamental belief in whether or not you want to continue the American experiment.
  • You have a segment of American society that does not accept the election outcome and is going to continue to speak up, is going to continue to agitate. And that's going to make this a very unstable period for months and perhaps even years."
  • That means a long, unstable period not just for the Republican Party, but for the American political system as a whole.
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Green New Deal Gets Fresh Push As Democrats Take Control : NPR - 0 views

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Green New Deal climate

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  • A coalition of progressive groups say they are organizing a sweeping network to mobilize around climate change, racial and environmental justice
  • introduce Green New Deal-related legislation at the state and local level, spearhead federal legislation that would implement parts of the Green New Deal agenda, and to pressure the incoming Biden administration to enact a series of executive actions related to climate, jobs and justice.
  • Every day [SEIU members] confront the crisis of climate, as well as environmental racism and economic inequality, so the Green New Deal is not something that is abstract to them,"
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  • What we see, especially now more than ever, is that we cannot think about these issues in siloes.
  • The plan drew significant attention from President Trump and Republican lawmakers, who have panned the plan as costly and unrealistic and used the policy to cast Democratic supporters of the framework as socialists.
  • Supporters say the plan will pay for itself through economic growth, and that the urgency of the climate crisis requires a bold and immediate response.
  • "Change doesn't happen from the top down. You can't just hire a bunch of experts and lobbyists if you want something to be lasting. We're not just lobbying D.C., we're actually lobbying on the ground in all 50 states."
  • Sometimes, the best way to influence a president is indirectly by doing the work on the ground and shoring up members of Congress to inspire in the administration the belief that there actually is a legislative path."
  • but creating a way where people can come together cooperatively, build their own local coalitions and then we can support that."
  • "We don't have another shot at this.
  • "To me and to us, this is a moral imperative,"
  • if all of this isn't enough for you, you don't deserve to be in office."
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fall During Pandemic : NPR - 0 views

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climate change greenhouse gas pandemic

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  • As commuters stayed home in 2020 and airplanes remained on the ground, the nationwide slowdown led to a sizable drop in heat-trapping emissions. U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell by 10 percent, the largest annual drop since World War II
  • Still, the climate diet isn't likely to stick.
  • By the end of the year, Americans were already back to driving and flying more.
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  • the U.S. will need to make more lasting changes, like switching the nation's electric grid to solar, wind and other low-carbon energy sources.
  • "The emission reductions of 2020 have come with an enormous toll of significant economic damage and human suffering,"
  • "Without meaningful structural changes in the carbon intensity of the US economy, emissions will likely rise again as well."
  • The dip in 2020 also isn't likely to dramatically slow the rate of climate change.
  • Essentially, it's like a bathtub being filled with water. The U.S. turned down the faucet, but it was still filling the tub.
  • Transportation, the largest source of U.S. emissions, fell by almost 15 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year.
  • Once the dominant source of electricity in the country, coal-fired power plants have been shuttering in recent years, driven out of business by the low cost of natural gas and renewable energy.
  • The emissions drop in 2020 is also a sobering reminder of how far the U.S. has to go to achieve international climate targets.
  • The Biden Administration has vowed to make climate a priority, including rejoining the international agreement.
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'Drug Use For Grown-Ups' Serves As An Argument For Personal Choice : NPR - 0 views

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drugs crime

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  • In his new book Drug Use for Grown-Ups, the Columbia University professor of psychology and psychiatry zealously argues that drug use should be a matter of personal choice
  • personal choice can lead to positive outcomes.
  • "The practice spread widely...Many women and young girls, as also young men of respectable family, were being induced to visit the dens, where they were ruined morally and otherwise."
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  • Soon enough, however, articles appeared widely that tried to make a connection between African American cocaine use and criminality.
  • one of the book's most eye-opening aspects is its challenge of the long-running association between drugs and addiction.
  • It must also interfere with a person's job, parenting or personal relationships. Other indications of addiction may be high tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, or persistence in repeated failed efforts to quit.
  • "What about the notion that drugs led to poverty and crime in my neighborhood?" he asks. "Well, that is simply an ugly fantasy, an incredibly effective one to be sure.
  • that it's a pre-existing kind of personal vulnerability — psychological and/or circumstantial — that precedes the drugs themselves that can lead to addiction.
  • "such issues affect only 10 percent to 30 percent of those who use even the most stigmatized drugs, such as heroin or methamphetamine."
  • There are no cures in psychiatric medicine. We don't have a cure for depression, nor do we have a cure for schizophrenia or anxiety.
  • We merely have medications and therapies that treat symptoms, and this allows patients to function better, despite their illnesses."
  • And when addiction does occur, there should be safe spaces for people to get help,
  • but also because it seemingly provides a simple solution to complicated problems faced by poor and desperate people.
  • But he also so importantly emphasizes that anti-drug laws have disproportionately ruined the lives of people of color;
  • Drug Use for Grown-Ups makes the case for people having the right to use drugs if they want to.
  • What we have now, instead, is racist mass incarceration and social shame prevailing (and drugs hardly scarce anyway).
  • He persuasively argues for us, as Americans, to chart a more humane course for how we see drugs in our society — a course rooted in personal freedom without social stigma.
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Federal Government Executes Corey Johnson For 1992 Murders In Virginia : NPR - 0 views

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government death penalty

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  • The federal government Thursday night executed a drug trafficker responsible for seven murders in 1992.
  • He is the 12th person to be executed by the government since July after the Trump administration restarted federal executions following a 17-year hiatus.
  • Dustin Higgins is the last person scheduled to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden, is sworn in.
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  • Biden has indicated he may seek to abolish federal executions.
  • He told the victims' families, "I would have said I was sorry before, but I didn't know how. I hope you will find peace."
  • Donald Salzman, an attorney for Johnson, had argued that executing Johnson would be cruel and unusual punishment due to his COVID-19 infection.
  • His attorneys also said Johnson had an IQ of 69. In a statement following Johnson's death, they said the government executed a person "with an intellectual disability, in stark violation of the Constitution and federal law."
  • "Courts have repeatedly and correctly concluded that Johnson's seven murders were planned to advance his drug trafficking and were not impulsive acts by someone incapable of making calculated judgments, and are therefore eligible for the death penalty."
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With Child Hunger Rising, A Federal Aid Program Has Stalled : NPR - 0 views

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food stamps US Department of Agriculture

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  • When schools shut down in the spring, that raised immediate worries about the nearly 30 million children who depend on school food.
  • According to a report from Feeding America, 1 in 4 households with children experienced food insecurity in 2020.
  • when families are having trouble stretching their food budget, the adults will go without food before allowing the children to go hungry. But in April, with shutdowns at their most acute, nearly 20 percent of mothers said their children themselves didn't have enough to eat.
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  • School food programs have been working hard: offering groceries, pre-prepared meals and everything in between. But as we've reported, it often isn't enough.
  • Congress passed a law giving families the cash value of the meals they missed when schools were closed.
  • Families were eligible for $117 per child per month.
  • The potential value, estimates Bauer: $12 billion.
  • The U.S. Department of Agriculture didn't issue guidance to states on plans for how to do this for six weeks
  • So far, they have approved only the plans from Massachusetts, Indiana and Rhode Island. And they haven't yet touched the issue of how to give out the money to children under 6.
  • "The long and short of it is for the past three-plus months, states should have been able to distribute more than $100 of food benefits per child [per month]," she says. "And USDA is not making it easy for any state to roll out this program."
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President Trump Impeached: 4 Ways Washington Has Changed : NPR - 0 views

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US Capitol Trump Impeachment

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  • The House of Representatives approved one article of impeachment Wednesday against President Trump for "incitement of insurrection," with 10 Republicans joining all Democrats in a 232-197 vote.
  • But Washington and the country are still reeling from the images of the attack.
  • Now he has a distinction in the history books that no president wants — the first to be impeached twice.
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  • He also is the president who has had the most members of his own party vote for impeachment.
  • but the split among congressional Republicans about the future of the party is accelerating after the events of last week, and it's happening in real time.
  • "I think every day that goes by, there's going to be people regretting their 'no' vote as more information comes out."
  • She never spoke on the House floor and made it known she thought it was a vote of conscience, but her vote could potentially cost her spot at the leadership table.
  • Biden's allies openly worried about what starting the impeachment train moving would mean for the incoming president's ability to secure Senate confirmation for his Cabinet nominees and press for top priorities like coronavirus relief.
  • "Impeachment now is like a primal scream,"
  • The symbol for democracy used to be a frequent tourist attraction pre-pandemic for school groups learning about the country's founders and history. Now, it has a new image of what can happen when political rhetoric ignites supporters to turn on their opponents.
  • Although members praised law enforcement, and there are amazing stories of those who fought off the mob, the serious security failures have many lawmakers questioning the leadership of the force
  • Members rarely socialized with members of another party. The level of trust has really changed in the past week.
  • Some Democrats are already pledging not to work with Republicans who voted in favor of challenging the election results.
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Review: 'MLK/FBI' Adds Dimension To The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. : NPR - 0 views

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MLK documentary FBI

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  • and the responses to the ostensible hypocrisy of it all were no less colorful than they had been in previous years: expletive-filled kiss-offs, angry memes, and links or screenshots from articles detailing the agency's notoriously relentless surveillance of King in the final years of his life.
  • This is neither new nor little-known information, but that doesn't render Sam Pollard's documentary MLK/FBI
  • the film aims to restore dimensions to the now-flattened image of King, who today is often reduced to iconography and erroneously viewed by many as having been a noncontroversial figure during his lifetime.
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  • On a federal judge's order, the surveillance tapes of King are sealed in the National Archives until at least 2027, and ethical questions are posed about whether dissecting these details are yet another invasion of King's privacy.
  • And of course, there's the concern over King's legacy and how it might crack under revelations that seemingly contradict his near-deified memory.
  • "Does [the truth of his romantic dalliances] make him in my mind less of an historic civil rights leader?
  • King's legacy is complicated, but certainly not undone, by MLK/FBI. That's a good thing; the more we see him as an extraordinary but flawed human being, the easier it is to envision a path forward.
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New Charges In Flint Water Crisis, Including Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder : NPR - 1 views

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Michigan Environment water crisis

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  • Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was charged Wednesday for his role in the Flint water crisis
  • Snyder is facing two counts of willful neglect of duty and if convicted he could face up to a year in prison and as much as a $1,000 fine.
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  • Last year Nessel announced a $600 million-dollar settlement for Flint families impacted by the water crisis last year.
  • Young people were especially vulnerable, at risk of suffering long-term cognitive challenges and other health issues from being exposed to lead contamination in the water.
  • At least 12 died, more than 80 became sick
  • The "wait-and-see approach was a really bad idea,"
  • "I want to remind the people of Flint that justice delayed is not always justice denied
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How COVID-19 Attacks The Brain And May, In Severe Cases, Cause Lasting Damage : Shots -... - 2 views

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Covid-19 brain

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  • Early in the pandemic, people with COVID-19 began reporting an odd symptom: the loss of smell and taste.
  • Their fears proved well-founded — though the damage may come from the body and brain's response to the virus rather than the virus itself.
  • Many patients who are hospitalized for COVID-19 are discharged with symptoms such as those associated with a brain injury. These include "forgetfulness that impairs their ability to function,"
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  • For many affected patients, brain function improves as they recover. But some are likely to face long-term disability,
  • The injuries resembled those from a series of tiny strokes occurring in many different areas of the brain,
  • Some patients also suffer brain damage when their lungs can no longer provide enough oxygen.
  • "What we found was that the very small blood vessels in the brain were leaking,"
  • To understand other, less obvious mechanisms, though, scientists needed brain tissue from patients with COVID-19 who died.
  • What's more, the inflammation and leaky blood vessels associated with all these symptoms may make a person's brain more vulnerable to another type of damage."We know that those are important in Alzheimer's disease and we're seeing them play a key role here in COVID-19,"
  • Researchers will assess patients' "behavior, their memory, their overall function" at six-month intervals, she says.
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Best COVID-19 Vaccination Strategies, According To Mathematicians : Shots - Health News... - 1 views

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Covid-19 Math

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  • Only a vaccine will save America from the COVID -19 pandemic. At least that's the opinion of nearly all public health officials.
  • But there's another group that plays a less obvious but still crucial role in making sure vaccines do what they're intended: mathematicians.
  • How best to use that limited supply is a question mathematicians can help answer.
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  • They can help with decisions about who gets the vaccine first when supplies are limited.
  • "One of those is how much is the virus spreading as the vaccine is being rolled out? And another factor is. How fast is the vaccine being rolled out?"
  • It's also important to know how effective a vaccine is at preventing disease, how long protection lasts, and whether it not only prevents someone from getting sick but also from transmitting COVID-19.
  • Larremore says to end a pandemic, it generally makes sense to vaccinate those most capable of spreading disease.
  • But even if a mathematical model suggests the most effective path, it doesn't provide all the answers public health officials need.
  • Right now, modelers are trying to help public health officials decide if it makes sense to use a single dose of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine to extend the limited supply, even though the vaccine has only really been tested using a two-dose regimen
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India Prepares For Massive Vaccine Drive, But Some Fear It's Moving Too Quickly : Coron... - 0 views

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India vaccination Covid-19

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  • some scientists have raised questions about one of the two vaccines the country of 1.4 billion people has authorized for emergency use against COVID-19.
  • More than 5 million vaccine vials arrived early Wednesday at hundreds of hospitals and clinics across India.
  • The shipments consist of two formulas: One developed by Oxford University and the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, and another vaccine developed by an Indian company called Bharat Biotech
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  • patients will not be able to choose which of the two vaccines they get.
  • the one produced by Bharat Biotech is being deployed prematurely. It still has yet to clear phase three clinical trials, and efficacy data isn't expected until March
  • Bharat Biotech's founder & chairman, Krishna Ella, told a Jan. 4 news conference his company's vaccine is "200% safe."
  • But there's a difference between giving an experimental drug to someone who is already sick, and giving a vaccine to someone who is healthy, says public health activist Dinesh Thakur.
  • Making vaccines — or least, mass-producing them — is something India is actually famous for. It's the world's largest vaccine producer, nicknamed 'the pharmacy to the world.'
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What Gen Z Latino Voters Want America To Know : Code Switch : NPR - 1 views

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Latino election politics

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  • Latinx voters have seldom been taken seriously by electoral politics.
  • In August, two thirds of Latino voters polled by Latino Decisions said they had not been contacted by either Republicans or Democrats ahead of the 2020 election.
  • For the first time, they are projected to be the second-largest voting demographic, trailing only behind non-Hispanic white people.
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  • I'm faced with reading the news about another Black person being killed, just because of their skin color, or another trans woman being killed because of their identity. So, I'm taking this fear, and I'm taking these emotions and I'm stepping up."
  • How did the system become so messed up that the people haven't been represented?
  • And according to historian Geraldo Cadava, there are a million more eligible Latino voters this election cycle than there were in 2016.
  • "I think people are doing a terrible job of getting young people to vote, because they are trying to fit us in their system that is inherently against a radical teenager's thought.
  • people are like, 'Why aren't young people voting?' It's because politics is terrible in the U.S.!
  • Not being a very politically active person isn't really an excuse to turn a blind eye to what's happening now."
  • "Sometimes I just feel like they are aware that we are important, but at the end of the day we are not going to get the respect that we deserve.
  • After the elections, they are just going to portray us with stereotypes, and they are just going to forget about writing stories that actually reflect who we are.
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How Soon Will The U.K. Variant Be Widespread In The U.S.? : Shots - Health News : NPR - 0 views

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B.1.1.7 Covid-19 UK

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  • Scientists are sending the U.S. a warning: What's happening right now in the United Kingdom with the new coronavirus variant could likely happen in the U.S., and the country has a short window to prepare.
  • "I think a lot of countries are looking at the U.K. right now and saying, 'Oh, isn't that too bad that it's happening there, just like we did with Italy in February.
  • "But we've seen in this pandemic a few times that, if the virus can happen somewhere else, it can probably happen in your country, too."
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  • The new variant, called B.1.1.7
  • Last week, the U.K. reported a record-breaking 419,000 cases.
  • Studies suggest the new variant increases the transmissibility by about 50%.
  • Now scientists say the virus is already here in the U.S., and circulating widely-- albeit at very low levels
  • "A rough estimate, for across the U.S., would be a frequency of about 1 in 1000,"
  • What's going to happen if a more contagious form starts to circulate widely, even dominate the outbreak?
  • having this new variant dominant outbreak could be very problematic, researchers say. It could fuel another surge on top of the already staggering surge the country is struggling to stop.
  • In England, B.1.1.7 took about three month to take over and become the dominant strain in the outbreak.
  • Right now scientists don't believe the new variant is more deadly. But its increased transmissibility could, in the end, be even more dangerous
  • "Perhaps counterintuitively, I think that increased transmissibility is probably the worst of these two scenarios, because if something is more transmissible, then you just get it into a larger population,"
  • that each sick person could infect 1.8 people, on average.
  • the U.S. still has about two months to prepare for — and slow down — the variant.
  • Each week, more than 1.5 million people test positive for the virus across the country.
  • The U.S. needs to be thinking about how to minimize damage from this new variant, right now, Hodcroft says. "This is our early warning. Because by the time you have something spreading exponentially in your country, it is much harder to get it under control."
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Biden's Intended Commerce Secretary Nominee Is Gina Raimondo : Biden Transition Updates... - 1 views

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  • Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, the first woman to lead the country's smallest state, has been named President-elect Joe Biden's intended nominee for commerce secretary.
  • would oversee the U.S. Commerce Department's eclectic portfolio of federal agencies, including some that have been thrown into political hot waters during the Trump administration — most notably the Census Bureau.
  • been scrambling to prepare the release of the first set of 2020 census results, which was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic and last-minute schedule changes by Trump administration officials.
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  • The state population counts that determine each state's share of congressional seats and Electoral College votes for the next decade are not expected to be out until February at the earliest,
  • Raimondo would take over the position from Wilbur Ross, a Trump appointee who has been found in contempt of Congress by the House for defying a subpoena to turn over documents about the Trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to census forms.
  • "The mission of the Commerce Department is a very simple one — to help spur good-paying jobs, to empower entrepreneurs to innovate and grow, to come together with working families and American businesses to create new opportunities for all of us,"
  • "Commerce Department employees are getting a terrific new boss who will listen to them, support them, lead from the trenches, and get the very best out of them by holding them to the same high standards she holds herself,"
  • "And Congress will be getting a partner who is an honest broker of unquestioned integrity."
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Indonesian Boeing 737-500 With 62 On Board Goes Missing Minutes After Takeoff : NPR - 1 views

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Indonesia

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  • An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 62 people lost contact with air traffic controllers shortly after takeoff from the nation's capital of Jakarta on Saturday, according to state transportation officials.
  • About four minutes after takeoff, the plane lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than a minute,
  • Sriwijaya Air is the third-largest airline in Indonesia, and since its launch in 2003 the carrier has never had a fatal crash involving a passenger.
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  • In October 2018, Indonesia witnessed one of the worst air tragedies in its history when Lion Air Flight 610 plunged into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.
  • The accident was the first of two crashes involving Boeing's 737 Max jetliner — a different model Boeing than was in use for Sriwijaya Air Flight 182.
  • On Thursday, Boeing agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle criminal charges that it repeatedly concealed and lied engineering problems that contributed to the 737 Max crashes.
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Should The Government Pay People To Get Vaccinated? Some Economists Think So : NPR - 0 views

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vaccination Covid-19 immunity

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  • the country will likely need a vaccination level of between 70% and 90% to reach herd immunity
  • The idea of a cash-for-shots program is being promoted by some economists and politicians in case the country struggles to get to herd immunity this year.
  • Here's how his idea works: Everyone who gets vaccinated would be eligible for a $1,000 payment from the federal government. You'd get $200 for taking both vaccine shots. And then an additional $800 once the country reaches herd immunity.
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  • The idea is textbook economics. People respond to incentives.
  • incentives can be used not just for the sake of individuals, but for the benefit of society as a whole.
  • it would be a drop in the bucket compared to the economic harm if the pandemic persists.
  • His plan would cost the country between $250 billion and $300 billion.
  • "Payments may indeed encourage some people to get the vaccine," says Cynthia Cryder, an associate professor of marketing at Washington University's Olin Business School. "But it may also deter people from getting the vaccine. Because payments signal that the vaccine is risky."
  • Another method of getting to herd immunity may exist, though it has not been discussed widely. Mandates — requiring people to get vaccinated either by orders of state governments or employers.
  • To economist Robert Litan, if we ultimately must choose between the carrot of cash payouts and the stick of mandated vaccines, the answer is clear: the carrot.
  • "I think the level of anger in the country will go up extraordinarily high if we had mandates," he says.
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Trump Impeachment House of Representatives

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  • The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach President Trump for "high crimes and misdemeanors" — specifically, for inciting an insurrection against the federal government at the U.S. Capitol.
  • Trump has now become the first U.S. president to be impeached twice.
  • Ten Republicans broke party ranks to vote in favor of impeachment
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  • The House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump
  • "Today in a bipartisan way, the House demonstrated that no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States,"
  • If the Senate votes to convict Trump — an outcome that is far from certain — he likely would be barred from holding any federal office again.
  • "President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of government, threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of government
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