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The Coronavirus Mostly Spares Younger Children. Teens Aren't So Lucky. - The New York T... - 1 views

  • Teenagers are about twice as likely to become infected with the coronavirus as younger children,
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      sucks for me
  • The report is based on a review of 277,285 cases among children aged 5 to 17 whose illness was diagnosed from March to September.
  • that older teenagers, in high school and college, are more likely to be infected and more likely to transmit the coronavirus than are children under age 10
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  • Less emphasis had been put forward on high schools or universities, compared to younger classes, but I think that may be much more of a problem
  • If adolescents are more likely to have symptomatic disease, then they will be more likely to get tested,”
  • half of children infected with the coronavirus have no symptoms.
  • “young persons might be playing an increasingly important role in community transmission,”
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      yea teenagers hang out in punlic places while kids have playdates at home
  • Children who had pre-existing medical problems were more likely to become severely ill,
  • By comparison, about half of children who die after getting the flu have an underlying condition.
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      seems like the virus and the flu are extremely similar
  • Of 161,387 infected children whose race and ethnicity were known, 42 percent were Hispanic, 32 percent were white and 17 percent were Black, the C.D.C. researchers reported. Deaths among children were rare over all, but Hispanic and Black children were more likely to be hospitalized or admitted to an I.C.U.
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      difference between priveleged and non priveleged
  • but older teenagers — those aged 15 and older — are roughly at the same risk as adults
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Trump Deflects Questions About Taxes, but First Debate Has a New Issue - The New York T... - 0 views

  • The disclosure that President Trump paid little or no federal income taxes for years, including while in the White House
  • While Mr. Trump tried to deflect the news about his taxes, and his Republican allies generally kept their silence, Democrats pounced and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the party’s presidential candidate, posted a video noting that the president paid less in income taxes than everyday Americans like teachers, firefighters and nurses.
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      Wow that is horrible. I dont understand why they let him get away with everything. As rich as he is he should not be paying less taxes than teachers thats ridiculous
  • so the tax revelations are not likely to shift the election in any fundamental way,”
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  • Mr. Trump paid no federal income taxes for 11 of the 18 years examined and just $750 in 2016, the year he won the presidency, and $750 in 2017, his first year in office. Mr. Trump wrote off more than $70,000 paid to style his hair during “The Apprentice” and collected $72.9 million in refunds challenged by I.R.S. auditors. He owes hundreds of millions of dollars due in the next four years.
  • Mr. Trump, who unlike other presidents since Watergate has adamantly refused to release his tax returns and fought efforts to obtain them all the way to the Supreme Court, attacked the Times report on Monday on Twitter without actually denying any of its particulars.
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      clearly its not in his favor if hes going that far to hide it
  • The Fake News
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      HE ALWAYS SAYS FAKE NEWS WHEN HES DEFLECTING
  • taking advantage of the tax code is simply “smart” for a business person, while also painting himself as a jobs creator.
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      we talked about how he was a bad business man in class
  • Tim Murtaugh, the campaign spokesman, called the report inaccurate because the president has paid “tens of millions in taxes,” without specifying whether they were federal income taxes or directly denying that there were years he paid none.
  • Fox News.
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      bias towards trump
  • hairstyling expenses
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      IM CRYING HIS TOUPEE LMAO
  • Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York tweeted that she paid thousands of dollars in federal taxes in 2016 and 2017 — when she was still working as a bartender in New York City. “He contributed less to funding our communities than waitresses & undocumented immigrants,” she wrote.
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      This example rly puts it into perspective
  • Mr. Limbaugh said on his show on Monday that Mr. Trump’s penchant for minimizing his taxes was something to be proud of, not scorned. “He’s a master at this,” Mr. Limbaugh said. “These tax returns show that he is a master at using the tax code legally. If Trump had done all of this illegal stuff after all of these years, it would have caught up with him by now.”
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      its the ignorance for me. How is that something to be proud of?
  • “These folks are scraping to make a living and they’re going to wake up to find out this incredible mogul paid $750? I don’t care what his excuses are,” Mr. Kasich told CNN. “It doesn’t pass the smell test. It’s not going to disrupt those people who were for him totally. They’ll still be for him. But it’s those people on the fence.”
  • In his tweets, the president seemed to be as upset about the perception that he is not as wealthy and successful as he claims to be.
  • Fake News
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      he says fake new a lot
  • n fact, as the article noted, Mr. Trump is heavily in debt, and much of what he owes to lenders will have to be paid back in just a few years.
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What We Know About Coronavirus Cases in K-12 Schools So Far - The New York Times - 0 views

  • There is no federal effort to monitor coronavirus cases in schools, and reporting by school districts is uneven. One independent effort has counted more than 21,000 cases this school year.
  • Without knowing what local health authorities have found through contact tracing, we cannot know if students or school employees who have tested positive were actually infected in school or outside of it.
  • Nationally, thousands of districts — including nearly all of the largest ones, and some of the districts The Times surveyed — started the academic year with fully remote instruction.
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      not us lol
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  • Texas has reported more than 4,500 cases since July 27
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      dang
  • “Our teachers are doing an amazing job, but they’re drowning,” she said.
  • But, under pressure from the state, the district fully reopened last week, a transition that Mrs. Stone said two weeks ago worried her because of the difficulty of keeping schools staffed if teachers were to get sick or have to quarantine themselves. Alcoa City is in Blount County, which in the last week had a daily average of nearly 13 new cases per 100,000 people.
  • “The clusters are more so indicating there are kids who are spreading it amongst themselves at school versus bringing it in from other places,
  • A small percentage of districts outright refused to provide data, while others directed inquiries to county or state agencies. Some said they did not track coronavirus cases in their schools at all.
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      why do they want to hide it
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Why the United States is having a coronavirus data crisis - 0 views

  • he Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website with near-real-time information on local outbreaks. The site also reports several COVID-19 statistics for every region of the country.
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      They are very thorough in their data for the coronavirus and letting their citizens know how bad it actually is while our president is trying to downplay it
  • United States offers vanishingly few details on how the disease is spreading, even as people increasingly socialize and travel, and authorities reopen schools and businesses. This state of affairs is frustrating data researchers, who want to help authorities make decisions that can save lives.
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      The US is not social distancing appropriately and we are opening school and I cant even blame teacher for not showing up because we are supposed to be quarantining. If the US gave us more details on how bad the pandemic actually was, I don't think our school would have made the decision to come back.
  • Experts told Nature that political meddling, privacy concerns and years of neglect of public-health surveillance systems are among the reasons for the dearth of information in the United States.
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  • South Korea’s attention to data correlates with its overall success at controlling the outbreak: the country has had about 3.5 cases per 10,000 people overall, and there have been around 2 COVID-19 deaths per week over the past month.
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      This is showing that when people actually get the information, they make the right decisions
  • United States has had 175 cases per 10,000 people overall, and about 7,000 people have died of the disease every week for the past month.
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      that is ridiculous
  • The United States isn’t pursuing contact tracing for COVID-19 to nearly the same extent as South Korea
  • Some speculate that because the pandemic is politically charged, data describing the situation are guarded closely by officials in the administration of President Donald Trump
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      At this point I wouldnt be surprised
  • US$10 million spent on the HHS’s system might have been put to better use improving public-health data management at the CDC
  • “We’ve begged for money over the years to build a solid information highway so that we can collect data rapidly and share it with the people that need it in a timely way,” says Benjamin. “But we’ve never gotten what we needed.”
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      The US was not as prepared as we thought
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