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alifornia Executive Order N-64-20 requires that each county’s elections official send vote-by-mail ballots for the November 3, 2020 General Election to all registered voters. Californians who may need access to in-person voting opportunities - including individuals with disabilities, individuals who speak languages other than English, individuals experiencing homelessness, and others will still be able to access in-person voting opportunities. For information on how to vote by mail please go to the following link to view a YouTube video created by the Riverside County Registrar of Voters : Vote-by-mail Voting Instructional Video (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=6bKBwLk8C1Y).

CITY OF HEMET MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: The City of Hemet holds a General Election in November of every

even-numbered year for the purpose of electing Members of City Council and a City Treasurer. Additionally, ballot measures affecting the City of Hemet may appear on the ballot. The City consolidates its election activities with those of the Riverside County Registrar of Voter’s Office, which provides for voter registration, ballot materials, polling places and other critical election functions. Other Special Elections may be held when necessary.

ELECTION TIMES: General Elections are held the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even-numbered years, concurrent with the statewide elections. Timing of Special Elections will vary. The next Hemet General Municipal Election will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

CITY OFFICIAL ELECTIONS: Council Members shall be elected in council districts 1, 3 and 4

beginning at the general municipal election in November 2016, and every four years thereafter. Council members shall be elected from council districts 2 and 5 beginning at the general municipal election in November 2018, and every four years thereafter. The City Treasurer is elected at-large for a term of 4 years. No elected official for the City of Hemet shall serve more three terms of office.

A consolidated municipal election will be held in the City of Hemet on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 for the following offices: Three (3) Council Member seats for District 1, District 3, and District 2 currently held by: District 1 Karlee Meyer District 3 Michael Perciful District 4 Bonnie Wright and one (1) Treasurer seat, elected at large, currently held by:

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he first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday -- as the shots are poised to begin key final testing.

“No matter how you slice this, this is good news,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, told The Associated Press.

The experimental vaccine, developed by Fauci’s colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., will start its most important step around July 27: A 30,000-person study to prove if the shots really are strong enough to protect against the coronavirus.

But Tuesday, researchers reported anxiously awaited findings from the first 45 volunteers who rolled up their sleeves back in March.

Sure enough, the vaccine provided a hoped-for immune boost.

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oped what are called neutralizing antibodies in their bloodstream -- molecules key to blocking infection -- at levels comparable to those found in people who survived COVID-19, the research team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“This is an essential building block that is needed to move forward with the trials that could actually determine whether the vaccine does protect against infection,” said Dr. Lisa Jackson of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle, who led the study.

There’s no guarantee but the government hopes to have results around the end of the year -- record-setting speed for developing a vaccine.

The vaccine requires two doses, a month apart.

There were no serious side effects. But more than half the study participants reported flu-like reac-

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VACCINE: In this March 16, 2020, file photo, a subject receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine by Moderna for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. According to results released on Tuesday, July 14, 2020, early-stage testing showed the first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems the way scientists had hoped. The vaccine is made by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc. | AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File

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West Point welcomes Soboba Tribal Member MIKE HILES | CONTRIBUTED

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fter her junior year at Great Oak High School in Temecula, Yawaywish Laupsa-Briones got noticed by a West Point softball recruiter who had viewed a couple of her tournament games. She did some research on the school and its athletic program and decided she wanted to commit

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to the school. On July 11, she left California to start her academic career there.

“West Point is an opportunity of a lifetime and I did not want to miss it,” said the 18-year-old member of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians. “The reason I chose West Point was the great student body, the staff and their willingness to always help, its softball program and

On July 16, 1995

Amazon officially opens for business as an online bookseller, eventually selling everything from groceries to furniture. Founder Jeff Bozos initially dubbed the business Cadabra (as in abracadabra), but after someone misheard the name as "cadaver," he switched to Amazon.

On July 17, 1920

Nils Bohlin, the Swedish engineer and inventor responsible for the three-point lap and shoulder seatbelt, is born. Before 1959, only two-point lap belts were available in automobiles.

On July 18, 1969

After leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts drives

the ability to serve our country as an Army officer after I graduate.”

President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation in 1802 establishing the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York to ensure those attending the school would be representative of a democratic society. Initially de-

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an Oldsmobile off a bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car accident for 10 hours.

MEMBER: Yawaywish Laupsa-Briones is all set to take her softball and academic skills to the United States Military Academy at West Point. | Courtesy Photo

a factory. He sold the rights to the patent in 1868 and moved back to France.

On July 21, 1973

On July 19, 1879

"Soul Makossa" is the first disco record to make the Top 40. It is now best remembered as the source of the rhythmic chant that appears in Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" in 1982.

On July 20, 1865

Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, notorious criminal John Dillinger -- America's "Public Enemy No. 1" -- is killed by federal agents. In a year-long bank-robbing spree, Dillinger and his associates robbed 11 banks for more than $300,000, broke jail and narrowly escaped capture multiple times, and killed seven police officers and three federal agents.

Doc Holliday commits his first murder, killing a man for shooting up his saloon. Despite his reputation as a deadly gunslinger, Doc Holliday engaged in just eight shootouts during his life, and killed only two men.

Pierre Lallement, a Frenchman, arrives in the United States carrying the plans and components for the first modern bicycle. Although he built and patented the first bicycle, Lallement received no recognition and failed to acquire enough funds to open

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LOCAL NEWS

Thursday | July 16 - 22, 2020

NEWS BRIEFS RIVERSIDE

More businesses required to move activities outdoors or close Effective as of July 13, 2020, more businesses in Riverside County are now required to move their activities outdoors as part of statewide actions to slow the spread of coronavirus.

The governor’s announcement today impacts 30 counties, including Riverside County, that are on the state’s monitoring list. Newsom said the order to move activities outdoors was necessary to reduce the spread of coronavirus and curb the recent increase in hospitalizations. Riverside County has experienced a steady rise in confirmed cases, hospitalizations and patients requiring intensive care dating back to Memorial Day. Those businesses that cannot move activities outside must close.

The new restrictions include: -- Fitness centers and gyms -- Worship services -- Offices for non-critical sectors -- Personal care services -- Hair salons and barbershops -- Malls These businesses may still do curb-side retail, so long as there are no indoor operations. “As we struggle with national laboratory issues artificially depressing new case counts, people need to realize we’re far from being out of the woods,� said Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County public health officer. “Summer heat isn’t stopping COVID-19, but for some of these sectors, the heat means there may be no good way to do them outdoors. We need to reduce the impact on our hospitals by reducing transmission, and as long as the numbers keep rising, the state’s need to reimpose restrictions will keep rising too.�

Riverside County health officials remind all residents that in addition to these new restrictions, there is still a statewide stay at home order in effect and residents should not gather with family and friends who live in different households, attend parties or join social gatherings. These are known places where the disease is spread.

Riverside County officials also remind residents to get screened at one of the many coronavirus testing sites located throughout the region. More than 270,000 tests have been conducted in Riverside County so far. For more information on testing, click www.rivcoph.org/ coronavirus/testing.

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VA offers debt relief to Veterans through year’s end The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced its commitment to extend debt relief to Veterans adversely impacted by COVID-19 to the end of 2020 by suspending certain debt collection actions.

The department recognizes Veterans and beneficiaries are still being greatly impacted by the coronavirus prompting the extension of financial relief. “Veterans and their families should be focused on their health and safety during the pandemic,� said VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. “VA is taking action to give those with pending debts greater flexibility during these challenging times.�

VA is suspending all actions on Veteran debts under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Treasury Department. This includes the suspension of collection action or extending repayment terms on preexisting VA debts, whichever the Veteran prefers.

For benefit debts, Veterans should contact the VA Debt Management Center at 1-800827-0648.

For health care debts, Veterans should contact the Health Resource Center at 1-866-4001238 or https://www.pay.gov for payments.

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Longtime Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District Employee Michael Paul Dies

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alley-Wide Recreation and Park District is devastated to report that longtime employee Michael Paul died Thursday morning, July 9, after a long battle with cancer.

Michael was with the district for more than 30 years before retiring in December 2018. He worked mostly as recreation supervisor, organizing and coordinating youth sports leagues.

Michael also coached and officiated many games and is a former boys varsity basketball coach at San Jacinto High. Thousands of children in the San Jacinto Valley benefited from his efforts.

"I will not attempt to find words to express our sadness, since there are no words that can really handle this moment," General Manager Dean Wetter wrote in a message to the staff. "Michael has a rooted presence in the community; and, my heart is bleeding and my eyes are tearing."

The gymnasium in the Sport Center at Region-

SPEECH: Michael Paul speaks during the dedication of the gymnasium in Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District's Sport Center in San Jacinto in his honor in June 2019. Paul died Thursday, June 9, after a long battle with cancer. | Photo courtesy Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District. al Park in San Jacinto was dedicated to Michael in June 2019. The facility was recently recognized as a Community Landmark by the California Association of Recreation and Park District. The annual Award of Distinction recognizes public park facilities that have served communities for 30 or more years and honors those facilities that have been at the core of recreation and park activities for a diverse user base and provided a wide-range of experiences and activities to the community.

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ed the dedication event last year, which was highlighted by the unveiling of a sign on the wall outside the Sport Center reading “Michael Paul Gymnasium.� “I was touched by this,�

Paul told the crowd. “For 32 years I was only doing my job. It’s truly an honor to me.�

Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District operates more than 90 parks and community centers in French Valley, Hemet, Menifee, San Jacinto, Sage and Winchester. For information, visit gorecreation.org.

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MSJC Foundation invites the public to join Virtual Concert benefiting students MSJC | CONTRIBUTED

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e may not be able to attend a concert in a large or quaint venue right now, but thanks to the Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) Foundation, we can still rock out at a virtual concert.

Thompson Square, the Grammy-nominated country music duo who headlined the Menifee Music & Arts Festival in 2019, will entertain MSJC students, family and friends, and members of the public for an hour at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 22. The multi-platinum-selling husband and wife have earned “Vocal Duo of the Year� honors from both the Academy of Country Music (ACM) and Country Music Association (CMA) awards.

The public is welcome to join the exclusive and very entertaining Zoom portion of the virtual concert for $20, which will benefit the MSJC Foundation’s Pledge for Success. The Zoom portion provides an up close and personal experience with Thompson Square

CONCERT: Thompson Square, the Grammy-nominated country music duo who headlined the Menifee Music & Arts Festival in 2019, will entertain MSJC students, family and friends for an hour at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 22. The public is welcome to purchase a limited amount of tickets for the concert by visiting the MSJC website. | Courtesy Photo. that fans rarely have access to in which they can interact with the band, request songs and hear the band share some unique stories.

Tickets are limited and are first-come, first-serve, so plan to buy early by visiting the MSJC website.

The Pledge for Success, a basic-needs initiative, supports MSJC students with emergency funding and food, books and supplies, professional clothing, and essential hygienic kits throughout the year. Learn

more about the Pledge for Success at www.msjc.edu/ pledgeforsuccess.

The concert would not be possible without generous MSJC Foundation sponsors Pepsi; CW Driver; Keenan; Image Source; Dominion Trust; So Cal Gas; and California Coast Credit Union.

Mt. San Jacinto College serves about 27,000 students – about two-thirds of which are on financial aid – over a 1,700-squaremile area.

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CITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS: Residents interested in running for office for the November 3, 2020 General Consolidated Elections are encouraged to contact the City Clerk’s Office early for information about required paperwork and filing deadlines. Candidates must be registered to vote in the City of Hemet.

City of Hemet City Clerk’s Office City Hall, 445 E. Florida Avenue, Hemet, CA 92543 (Mon. - Thur., 7:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m.)

Phone (951) 765-2307 Email City Clerk: cjames@ cityofhemet.org The City Clerk’s Office of the City of Hemet is the receiving agency for nomination papers for City Council and Treasurer candidates.

Potential candidates, and citizens interested in more information about candidates, are encouraged to contact the City Clerk at (951) 7652307 or via email at cjames@ cityofhemet.org.

Individuals who intend to run for office must file certain Fair Political Practice Commission (FPPC) forms with the City Clerk’s Office before soliciting campaign contributions or making campaign expenditures. In order for a candidate’s name to appear on the ballot, the candidate must obtain a candidate materials binder from the City Clerk’s Office, and submit all required nomination paperwork; including a petition signed by other city voters within the candidate’s district unless office is

at-large, during a specified nomination period (filling period). Other filing requirements include FPPC forms disclosing certain economic

interests and information about campaign contributions and expenditures.

The official nominating (filing) period opens in mid

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July and closes in August of election years. The nominating period will be extended by five days if an eligible incumbent for the office has

announced they will decline to file. The nomination period for the November 3, 2020 Elections is from July 13 - August 6, 2020, Mon-

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Pitbull female male Mix

We have named this cute girl Echo.

She came in as a stray from the Soboba Indian Reservation on 7/7. The shelter has estimated her age as 3 years old weighing 42 lbs. Poor girl looks like she’s lived outside her whole life. Her poor ears are either raw from the sun or from fly strike.

It looks like one of her eyes maybe impaired.

She can still see just fine. She loves to play ball.

Echo is such a sweetheart who deserves a better life then what she had, living in a home with a family who will love and care for her forever.

Echo is up to date on shots, de-wormed and she will be spayed prior to her adoption.

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CRICKET

Brown female Tabby DSH Cricket was brought to us by her elderly prev. owner who could no longer take care of her. Now, we hope to find a home. We est. her age to be 2 yrs. old and she weighs 10.2 lbs. She’s very pretty and would sure love a 2nd chance at happiness. Could it be with you?

Cricket is spayed, good w/other kitties, litter-box trained, up to date on shots, dewormed and she is available NOW!!

175007 / R239249 THE SHELTER IS OPEN MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY FROM 9-2:30 FOR ADOPTIONS!

Ramona Humane Society, 690 Humane Way, San Jacinto, CA 92582.

Tel: (951) 654-8002 Press 4 for the operator. E-mail: ramonahumanesociety@yahoo.com

day - Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Request an appointment with City Clerk staff here: Schedule a Candidate Orientation Meeting.

LUNA

DOB: 9/12/16 Female Cane Corso Luna has a regal beauty. Her unique color and elegant way of carrying herself sets her apart from other dogs. Luna is friendly with people: however, she is wary of strangers and seems to trust men more easily. She needs to be given space to approach new people on her terms. She is also sensitive about having her ears touched, which can make her head shy.

Once she knows you, she is sweet, loving, and goofy. She is playful and loves getting belly rubs.

Luna will do best as an only dog with an experienced adopter who knows to deal with large dogs. Children are not recommended.

MISS RAINBOW

DOB: 3/31/2020 DSH Calico Female Meet Miss Rainbow! Her personality is as colorful as her fur! She enjoys cuddling, loves playtime and never turns down freeze dried treats!

She has the sweetest purr and loves attention! Miss Rainbow has a heart full of love and is ready to find her forever home!

All of our cats are spayed or neutered, microchipped, and up to date on vaccinations. Our two main requirements for adopting a cat are: Cats must be indoors only and declawing is not allowed.

Living Free, is a donor-supported, nonprofit, no-kill animal sanctuary. Located at 54250 Keen Camp Road in Mountain Center off Highway 74, 15 Minutes from Idyllwild. Call: 951-321-9982 or visit living-free.org/adopt.

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A Triumph at Mount Rushmore

How I discovered a career in Hollywood by accident

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Dr. Ruiz calls on President Trump Mail could be delayed as new to extend Unemployment Benefits postal boss pushes cost-cutting for millions of Americans MATTHEW DALY | AP NEWS

Joins 109 Members of Congress in urging the President to extend benefits before looming expiration

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We write to express our strong support of extending the critical Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement to unemployment benefits.

These benefits are critical to continuing to support hardworking American families impacted by coronavirus.

Throughout the pandemic so far, over 130,000 Americans have lost their lives and over 14 million Americans are still out of work, even as we begin to safely reopen our economy. For 16 weeks in a row, the number of U.S. workers applying for unemployment benefits for the first time has been over one million.

According the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the country’s unemployment rate stands at 11.1 percent— far above 3.6 percent in January 2020, before the coronavirus spread within the U.S. To put this into perspective, over 5 million Americans who had jobs when you took office are unemployed today.

The coronavirus pandemic—and the subsequent health and economic crisis it created—is far from over. While the CARES Act extended unemployment insurance by providing an additional $600 weekly federal unemployment benefit for those who lost their job due to the coronavirus pandemic, the expanded benefit currently expires at the end of July. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) expects the unemployment rate to remain around 10 percent through the end of 2021. Thus, Americans will continue to need extended unemployment benefits to weather the pandemic.

During a recent House Budget Committee hearing on the economic impacts of the coronavirus, former CBO Director Doug Elmendorf said, “I think the worst thing you could do is let these benefits expire at the end of next month.” While the U.S. House of Representatives has acted with the passage of The Heroes Act to extend unemployment insurance through January 31, 2021, the U.S. Senate has so far failed to act.

First and foremost, extended unemployment insurance benefits have helped American workers. Millions of workers who lost their job or were furloughed due to the global public health crisis, because of FPUC, were able to continue paying rent, putting food on the table and covering health care expenses. The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) found that during the pandemic, unemployed workers receiving unemployment benefits were more likely to be able to afford unexpected emergency expenses and groceries, compared to those not receiving benefits.

FPUC also helps businesses and stimulates the overall economy. The JEC estimated that extended unemployment benefits supported as many as 2.8 million jobs and reduced the unemployment by as much as 1.8 percent. The CBO estimated that extending FPUC through January

ail deliveries could be delayed by a day or more under cost-cutting efforts being imposed by the new postmaster general. The plan eliminates overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal workers and says employees must adopt a “different mindset” to ensure the Postal Service’s survival during the coronavirus pandemic.

Late trips will no longer be authorized. If postal distribution centers are running late, “they will keep the mail for the next day,” Postal Service leaders say in a document obtained by The Associated Press. “One aspect of these changes that may be difficult for employees is that — temporarily — we may see mail left behind or mail on the workroom floor or docks,” another document says.

The changes come a month after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major donor to President Donald Trump, took over the sprawling mail service. In a memo titled “PMG Expectations and Plan,” the agency said the changes are aimed at “making the USPS fundamentally solvent which we are not at this time.”

The memo cites deep revenue losses from a decadelong decline in mail deliveries that has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and says an overdue “operational pivot” is needed to ensure the agency’s health and stability.

Postal Service officials, bracing for steep losses from the nationwide shutdown caused by the virus, have warned they will run out of money by the end of September without help from Congress. The service reported a $4.5 billion loss for the quarter ending in March, before the full effects of the shutdown sank in.

Single-piece, first-class mail volume fell 15 to 20% week to week in April and May, agency leaders told Congress. Losses will increase by more than $22 billion over the next 18 months, they said.

Bills approved by the Democratic-controlled House would set aside $25 billion to keep the mail flowing, but they remain stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate. Congress has approved a $10 billion line of credit for the Postal Service, but it remains unused amid restrictions imposed by the Trump administration.

A spokesperson said Wednesday that the agency is developing a business plan to ensure it will be financially stable and continue to provide reliable, affordable and secure delivery of mail and packages.

While the plan “is not yet finalized, it will certainly include new and creative ways for us to fulfill our mission, and we will focus immediately on efficiency and items that we can control,” said spokesperson Dave Partenheimer.

The memo cites U.S. Steel as an example that the Postal Service is far from “untouchable.” In 1975, the steel giant was ”the largest company in the world,” the memo states. “They are gone.” In fact, U.S. Steel remains a leading steel producer, with more than 27,000 employees as of earlier this year.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the Postal Service in a double crisis, said Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, which represents more than 200,000 postal workers and retirees.

As many as 12,000 postal workers have fallen ill, with at least 64 fatalities, and the economic contraction has caused a dramatic drop in letter and other flat mail volumes. A spike in package deliveries that has buoyed the agency during the pandemic is likely to be temporary, Dimondstein said, adding that the outbreak has sharply increased expenses for personal protective equipment, deep cleaning of facilities and temporary workers to replace postal workers who get sick.

“Postal workers are tremendously dedicated to the mission of getting the mail out,” Dimondstein said, but the new policies could cause delays that will further drive down revenues.

“It’s the customer who will suffer if the mail slows down,” he said.

Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey denounced the proposal to delay mail delivery, saying it would be a “stunning act of sabotage against our postal service.”

“Trump and his cronies are openly seeking to destroy the post office during the worst public health crisis in a century,” Pascrell said. With states increasingly relying on voting by mail to continue elections during the pandemic, destabilizing the Postal Service not only threatens the economy and the jobs of 600,000 workers, but is also “a direct attack on American democracy itself,” Pascrell said.

For most Americans, mail deliveries to homes or post boxes are their only routine contact with the federal government. It’s a service they seem to appreciate: The agency con-

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ongressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) is calling on President Donald Trump to extend the expanded unemployment benefits made available under H.R. 748, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. In a letter to President Trump, Dr. Ruiz and 109 other members of the House of Representatives urged an extension of these expanded benefits, which are set to expire at the end of the month.

“It is essential that we extend federal pandemic unemployment compensation before it ends at the end of July,” Dr. Ruiz and the other members wrote in the letter. “Cutting off enhanced unemployment benefits while the economy is still in crisis would ignore the millions of Americans who are still suffering. We hope that you will support this measure in the weeks ahead.”

In March, Dr. Ruiz voted for the CARES Act, which is now law and provided an additional $600 in weekly federal unemployment benefits for those who lost their job due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In May, Dr. Ruiz voted for H.R. 6800, the Heroes Act, which would extend the supplemental unemployment benefits through January 31, 2021. Despite the fact that the number of U.S. workers applying for unemployment benefits is continuing to climb, the Senate has so far failed to act.

You can read a copy of the letter below.

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Dear Mr. President,

OPINION

Thursday | July 16 - 22, 2020

THE POLITICAL NOTEBOOK From the Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto

GOING FORWARD What do you expect your tomorrow to be? Youth looks ahead to being grown up. Young people dream of being movie stars or professional athletics or Olympic champions. Most Americans are at heart optimistic people. We hope for and we work towards providing a better life for our children. The song “I Believe” for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows is a great example of looking past the current situation and hoping, even expecting a better future. The lyrics to the song “Over the Rainbow” are full of hopes and dreams and looking forward.

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high And the dreams that you dream of once in a lullaby, oh Somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly And the dreams that you dream of, dreams really do come true, ooh Someday I’ll wish upon a star Wake up where the clouds are far behind me Where trouble melts like lemon drops High above the chimney top That’s where you’ll find me, oh Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly And the dream that you dare to, oh Why, oh why can’t I? In the midst of a political season what are candidates, what are the parties looking forward to. One party looks forward to a rapidly growing stock market while the other looks forward to a burgeoning and expanding middle class. A growing stock market enhances the wealth of the already well to do but does nothing for the working class, the teachers, the nurses, the people we have recently denoted as “essential.” One party tries to define itself as protecting constitutional rights while the other works to protect human rights. One party believes no one is free unless everyone is free. Perhaps FDR said it best. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” This is not just about wealth but dignity, safety, education, justice and especially hope. We need to give hope to those who are discriminated against. We need to give hope to those who have been denied justice. We need to give hope to all those not born into a wealthy educated family. Only one of our two major parties promote those goals, those beliefs. I find it encouraging that our teens and young adults today seem to be rejecting material gain as motivation but are looking forward to live meaningful lives and making meaningful contributions to society. Our “essential people” our teachers and nurses and the working class have been setting excellent examples. The myriads of Americans showing the willingness to wear masks and socially distance to help our country recover from the pandemic. While the President has set a terrible example and wants only a return of a growing stock market at any cost, the overwhelming majority of Americans have been doing their part for a healthier future.

They have hope. Betsy Devos, Secretary of Education for Trump said earlier this week it should “the rule” for children to return to full time school this fall. The rule should be that our children’s health comes first and return to school only if their health can be guaranteed. Our hope for the future going forward requires the protection of our children, not in sacrificing them for an economic gain. One party provides hope going forward, the other seems more like the grim reaper.

Dick Gale, President of Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Online learning isn’t for everyone. But for many students, it’s a solution that works.

Growing up, the teachers I had in my brick-and-mortar school promoted me to a new grade in the middle of the school year.

While I was challenged academically, I wasn’t prepared for the difficulties of being with a new class and the bullying I experienced.

I reached a point where I felt my love for school was dying. That’s when I discovered online school.

At California Virtual Academies I pushed myself academically and excelled in my classes without being bullied by my peers.

I devoted more time to volunteering and helping with my church, which is a big part of my life. I completed both 7th and 8th grade in one year and graduated a semester early from high school.

Since I graduated, I’ve traveled and lived abroad for several years.

Prior to COVID-19, I was living in a European country where I learned Arabic and volunteered in refugee camps.

I’m thankful online school was the solution for me. It’s not the solution for every student’s needs. But, it might be just what you’re looking for and should be an option anyone can choose.

Caitlyn Keil, Hemet PUTIN’S PUPPET Dear Editor: Vladimir Putin’s puppet Donald Trump is a political dead man walking. November 3rd is the scheduled date of Trump the traitor’s political execution which will be watched live on TV by hundreds of millions of happy people both here at home and around the world. The end of Trump’s tyranny will be the beginning of hope and change for us all.

Don’t miss your chance to vote for the American presidential candidate Joe Biden. The political demise of demonic Don the con will no doubt be the highest rated reality TV show of all time, so stay tuned, because the voters are about to tell Trump he’s fired!

It’s all over for Benedict Donald. Russia’s useless idiot Trump the chump is done. The American choice for president Joe Biden will be elected the 46th President of the United States in an overwhelming electoral college landslide, not to mention by what is sure to become one of the largest popular vote margins of victory in American presidential election history.

Jim Jones Trump’s deranged death cult (formerly known as the Republican Party) is a national embarrassment. Fortunately, most Americans are good patriotic people who will no longer tolerate traitor Trump’s psychotic circus of incompetence, corruption and cruelty. This upcoming election is all over but the shouting. Specifically, the shouting will be coming from the world’s whiniest lying loser Donald Trump with his usual dimwitted and dishonest refrain of “Hoax! Fake news!”

The story of the November 3rd election will be America wins, Vladimir Putin loses, and delusional Donald Trump can go inject his lungs with Lysol all he wants, it won’t save his illegitimate, pathological presidency from the wrath of the American people on Election Day. Trump is a loser and an idiot!

Jake Pickering, Hemet

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EMWD serves more than 839,000 residents, businesses and agricultural customers in Western Riverside County. EMWD is one of the largest marketers of recycled water in the state which offsets our need to import water for irrigation. However, we still need to import the majority of our area’s tap water supply from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Colorado River, with only 20 percent coming from local groundwater supplies.

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The leftover salt from this process is piped to Orange County for further treatment before being released into the ocean.

After completing our third desalination facility in early 2021, Perris II, the groundwater desalination program will remove up to 50,000 tons of salt from our local groundwater basins each year and generate enough water to supply up to 30,000 households. The addition of this new desalter to our two existing groundwater desalination facilities means we will cumulatively produce 14 million gallons a day of drinking water from brackish groundwater basins in Perris and Menifee. Groundwater desalination provides a cost-effective

EMWD BOARD PRESIDENT RONALD W. SULLIVAN | Courtesy Photo. water supply in our area that is competitive with the cost of imported supplies.

Having reliable water available locally has a significant positive impact on our way of life. In times of drought or natural disaster, and during unprecedented times like those we are living in now, we have a local water supply source, which allows us to continue to thrive. By investing in our local water supplies now, future generations will also be able to enjoy an abundance of high quality, local water when they need it.

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THE LOWRY COLUMN

A Triumph at Mount Rushmore RICH LOWRY | COLUMNIST

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f nothing else, President Donald Trump’s July Fourth speech at Mount Rushmore clarified the battle lines of our culture war.

The New York Times called the speech “dark and divisive,” while an Associated Press headline declared, “Trump pushes racial division.” A Washington Post story said the speech “crystallized” the president’s “unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination.”

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth insisted that Trump “spent all his time talking about dead traitors.”

To be clear -- and despite all of this -- the media and the left didn’t freak out about a speech extolling the valor of Robert E. Lee or the statesmanship of Jefferson Davis. They didn’t scorn a speech pining for Antebellum America or expressing ambiguity about the Civil War. They didn’t pan a speech that slighted the quest for justice and civil rights throughout American history.

As a matter of fact, Trump didn’t mention any Confederates at all. He hailed Abraham Lincoln at length and called the Civil War “the struggle that saved our union and extinguished the evil of slavery.” He said we must defend “the ideas that were the foundation of the righteous movement for civil

rights.”

It’d be difficult to get a more textbook expression of the American civic religion than the speech at Rushmore. It’d be difficult to get a more wide-ranging appreciation of the warriors, inventors, adventurers, reformers, entertainers and athletes that have made the country what it is. It’d be difficult to get a more affirming account of the greatness of America and its meaning to the world.

And, yet, the speech was tested and found wanting.

Trump’s attacks on what he called “a new far-left fascism” and a cultural revolution “designed to overthrow the American Revolution” were indeed hard-edged, but who can doubt the basic truth of the claims?

There’s a fear afoot in the land, as a merciless authoritarian spirit informs a spate of firings and cancellations. The day before Trump’s speech, a Boeing executive resigned over something he had written ... in 1987.

The setting for Trump’s speech is itself now deemed problematic. A CNN report previewing the event said Trump “will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.”

There’s no doubt that Trump is a deeply flawed messenger. But it wasn’t just Trump the messenger

RICH LOWRY | Courtesy photo. who was attacked in the aftermath of the Mount Rushmore speech; it was the message.

Patriotic sentiments of the sort that have adorned American oratory for centuries were deemed hateful and divisive. A celebration of the Founders that once would have been the stuff of schoolbooks and primers was considered controversial. A defense of the nation’s ideals was waved away. No, nothing to see here -- only hate and division.

Surely, if some other Republican president had given the Mount Rushmore speech the pushback wouldn’t have been as intense. But this isn’t just about Trump. It goes much deeper.

Critics of the speech objected to what they said was its wildly exaggerated account of the stakes in the culture war -- and at the same time, vindicated that account by equating patriotism with white supremacy.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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tions to the shots that aren’t uncommon with other vaccines -fatigue, headache, chills, fever and pain at the injection site. For three participants given the highest dose, those reactions were more severe; that dose isn’t being pursued.

Some of those reactions are similar to coronavirus symptoms but they’re temporary, lasting about a day and occur right after vaccination, researchers noted.

“Small price to pay for protection against COVID,” said Dr.

Thursday | July 16 - 22, 2020 William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a vaccine expert who wasn’t involved with the study.

He called the early results “a good first step,” and is optimistic that final testing could deliver answers about whether it’s really safe and effective by the beginning of next year.

“It would be wonderful. But that assumes everything’s working right on schedule,” Schaffner cautioned.

Moderna’s share price jumped nearly 15 percent in trading after U.S. markets closed. Shares of the

company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have nearly quadrupled this year.

Tuesday’s results only included younger adults. The first-step testing later was expanded to include dozens of older adults, the age group most at risk from COVID-19. Those results aren’t public yet but regulators are evaluating them. Fauci said final testing will include older adults, as well as people with chronic health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the virus — and Black and Latino populations likewise affected.

www.HSJChronicle.com Nearly two dozen possible COVID-19 vaccines are in various stages of testing around the world.

Candidates from China and Britain’s Oxford University also are entering final testing stages.

The 30,000-person study will mark the world’s largest study of a potential COVID-19 vaccine so far. And the NIH-developed shot isn’t the only one set for such massive U.S. testing, crucial to spot rare side effects. The government plans similar large studies of the Oxford candidate and another by Johnson & Johnson; separately, Pfizer Inc. is planning its own huge study.

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“My plan is to major in mechanical engineering and minor in business,” Laupsa-Briones said. “The job I hope to receive (after enlistment in the U.S. Army) is engineer officer where I will design, build and maintain machinery.”

The softball standout also is looking forward to playing on the school’s team all four years she attends. She played club ball for the Semper Fi Bulldogs John Lucero 18u team in Murrieta for years.

Her mom, Faith Laupsa, works part time at AMR Hemet and said her daughter’s involvement in sports led to improvement in many areas of her life including health, community and tribal leadership, unity and academics.

“Travel ball is year-round, excluding the time you play high school ball, and it consists of practices weekly and tournaments and showcases on weekends,” said her father Jacob Briones, a Fire Captain at the Soboba Fire Department.

Most tournaments were held in Southern California, but several were out of state.

“With all the traveling I have done with club sports, it does not help with moving across the country,” Laupsa-Briones said. “I am optimistic but being far away from family will be quite hard.”

She attended a softball camp at West Point before she applied and said the gorgeous campus reminds her of the Soboba Reservation, which might be helpful as she transitions to her new home.

West Point is a military academy, so all tuition is paid as long as U.S. Army enlistment follows graduation. A four-week boot camp be-

31, 2021, would result in greater consumer spending, helping to directly support businesses as they continue to reopen. Thus, extending unemployment benefits is critical to stimulating the economy during this economic crisis.

Some Republicans have made allegations that unemployment benefits disincentivize work. Working Americans are not choosing unemployment benefits over returning to work. Rather, they are choosing to keep themselves and their families safe. In a June Gallup poll, nearly half of workers reported they were afraid to return to work, for fear of being exposed to COVID-19.

Additionally, the June jobs report debunks the Republican myth that unemployment benefits disincentivize work. Since April, employment has risen sharply in many industries Republicans claim compete with extended unemployment insurance benefits, such as the restaurant, construction and retail industries.

This demonstrates that Americans choose to return to work when businesses reopen and jobs become available again. Furthermore, a recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago found that those collecting unemployment insurance benefits work harder on their job

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FRIENDS: Yawaywish Laupsa-Briones is joined by her family as she prepares to settle in at the United States Military Academy at West Point on July 12. | Photo courtesy of Yawaywish Laupsa-Briones’ family gan on July 13 and academic classes will start soon after that.

“It is an honor to get into such an establishment,” Laupsa-Briones said. “I also received a scholarship from Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health Inc., which was a tremendous help in getting all of my supplies for the upcoming school year.”

Because of COVID-19 and the interruption to in-person school activities, no senior awards were presented but Laupsa-Briones earned a 4.0 grade point average on her final report and said that was a good enough reward for all the hard work she put in and all that she accomplished.

Great Oak High School had a student body of 3,255 this past year and more than 800 were seniors.

“With a large school, I was able

to develop my people skills, which will be very useful in college,” she said. “I am looking forward to meeting new people and making great memories. I also am excited to learn the ways of the Army and becoming an officer.”

Laupsa-Briones had some advice for younger students who haven’t found their own path yet.

“For those who are debating to leave home and go to college, do it. The world is full of opportunities that need to be taken,” she said. “If you don’t know how to go about pursuing your dreams, talk to an elder or someone in your field of interest as they will be more than willing to share their story and what they have done to make it a perfect career. By talking with a veteran, I was able to decide my career.”

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sistently earns favorability marks that top 90%.

Esther Haynes, of Philadelphia, said she and her family get clothes, jewelry, perfume, food and more delivered by mail. “If it’s a day late, two days late, I’ll be looking for it,” she said Wednesday. “I’d be concerned.”

Haynes, 53, shares a home with

Already, people can start signing up to volunteer for the different studies.

People think “this is a race for one winner. Me, I’m cheering every one of them on,” said Fauci, who directs NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

“We need multiple vaccines. We need vaccines for the world, not only for our own country.”

Around the world, governments are investing in stockpiles of hundreds of millions of doses of the different candidates, in hopes of speedily starting inoculations if any are proven to work. search and receive better job offers than those who are not collecting benefits. The truth is that our economy is still is crisis, with permanent job losses continuing to increase and employment numbers nowhere near pre-coronavirus levels.

While the nation as a whole is suffering, certain populations are being hit harder than others. The unemployment rate for people of color remains higher than the national rate.

The unemployment rates for the African American, Hispanic or Latino and Asian populations, respectively, are 15.4, 14.5 and 13.8 percent. Furthermore, the CBO issued a report illustrating the harmful effects ending FPUC will have, particularly on communities of color. Our nation is currently reckoning with deep-rooted racial injustices. These injustices are the reason communities of color disproportionately feel the health and economic effects of this pandemic and must be addressed.

Therefore, it is essential that we extend FPUC before it ends at the end of July. Cutting off enhanced unemployment benefits while the economy is still in crisis would ignore the millions of Americans who are still suffering. We hope that you will support this measure in the weeks ahead.

Sincerely, Dr. Raul Ruiz her sister, her son and a family friend. Haynes likes to shop — which means she’s been busy ordering things online during the pandemic. “Everybody wants their mail on time,” she said.

The memo outlining potential mail delays was first reported by The Washington Post.

Associated Press writer Maryclaire Dale in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

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How I discovered a career in Hollywood by accident

HOLLYWOOD STAR: Jayne and me at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas 1958. |

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RUSTY STRAIT: Senior Writer for HSJC| File Photo. end. After that, I became her constant companion for ten years, sharing all of her problems and successes. I became the go-to guy in her life and traveled the world with her. We were inseparable.

When she suddenly lost her life in an automobile accident in the wee hours of the morning on a lonely road between Biloxi, Mississippi and New Orleans, I was thrown into the job of doing an inventory of all her possession. In shock and a feeling of being left alone in the world without a rudder, I sought solace with my good friend, actor Jim Backus who was opening in Las Vegas the following weekend - July 4th - at the Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas where I had been at Jayne's side when she brought her night club act there a year earlier. It was a painful visit.

Jim asked me, "How long were you with Jayne?"

"Ten years."

"You must have a terrific book in you.'

I spent the next 90 days in my garage with a typewriter, which drove my wife to despair, I am sure.

After three months and 800 pages, I submitted my manuscript to publishers.

Turned down by 26 major publishers, I continued to submit and one day, an editor from Regnery Books in Chicago called me and spoke the magic words.

"We'd like to publish your Mansfield book."

More than 30 books later, mostly celebrity biographies, I've built a career as an author/biographer. The moral of my story that even a hillbilly kid from West Virginia can find success in Hollywood even if it is by accident.

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1. Citizen Kane (1941) Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.

2. Casablanca (1942) A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.

3. Gone with the Wind (1939) A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

4. Laura (1944) A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

5. 12 Angry Men (1957) A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.

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I didn't know that at the time. I never came to Hollywood to work in the movies. I only wanted to be a friend to Jayne Mansfield, but what better way to meet her than working at a movie studio - or so I thought.

My first visit to Miss Cooper netted me nothing more than to come back the following Friday. I did that. She asked me, "What do you know about business management?"

"A lot," I said although I didn't have the faintest idea what she was talking about.

I always felt if I got my foot into the door, my charm would keep me there.

"Ray, I have a request for a male secretary with a business management firm at 8810 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood."

I quickly said yes, without knowing that it was part of the famous Sunset Strip.

"Charles Goldring represents a number of screen and television writers and he pays well."

My appointment was for a Friday afternoon. After Mr. Goldring and his executive secretary interviewed me, I was feeling maybe I didn't measure up when Mr. Goldring added, "Ray, I yell a lot."

Without any hesitation, I knew what to say. "Mr. Goldring, I spent six years in the military. I've been yelled at by experts." I got the job and started work the following Monday.

My office was a small cubicle at the foot of the stairs that led up to Mr. Goldring's office, also referred to by the staff as "The lion's den," which is self-explanatory.

The following day a bundle of pink and fluff and a 41-inch bust floated past me and up the stairs to Charlie's office. When she came down again, she stopped and said, "You must be Charlie's new secretary."

Almost spellbound, I said, "Yes ma'am."

"What's your name?"

I barely muttered, "Ray Strait."

'Well, I'm Jayne Mansfield and I'm a movie star.

How would you like to help me with my fan mail on weekends?"

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did not settle in Hollywood with acting ambitions. I was a male secretary with the Southern Pacific Railroad in Houston, Texas when I was asked to come with the guys to see one of our fellow employee's estranged wife starring in a big rock and roll movie.

Paul Mansfield worked in our publicity department and the gang wanted to be supportive of his wife although they were near divorce. Although not particularly interested, I went along to be supportive, although I didn't know Paul personally.

When Jayne Mansfield came on the screen, I was mesmerized. My first thought was that she needed a friend. How a kid from the hollows of West Virginia could aspire to befriend a beautiful blonde movie star was beyond comprehension but my imagination belied my common sense.

However, the very next day, I put in for a transfer to Los Angeles, one of the largest terminals of Southern Pacific. My request was granted and within three weeks I stepped off the train and into the magic

land of California.

I secured a one-bedroom apartment in the famous Hollywood Argyle, although I had no idea of its history as a starting location for dozens of young actors seeking stardom. My new job took me on a long round trip to the Taylor Yards in Eagle Rock changing busses twice in each direction since any vehicle was out of range on my salary and recent residency. After a couple of weeks of long hours commuting back and forth to work, I gave the railroad a two-week notice and left railroading behind me forever.

With no promise of new employment, I did what most of my contemporaries were doing.

I hounded the want ads for a job. Meanwhile, I made friends with a young man who worked at M.G.M. studios.

"Would you be interested in working in the film business?" You bet I would.

Tom continued. "There's a woman at Life Employment named Billie Cooper.

She finds work for young guys in the industry. You should go see her."

It turned out to be the best career advice anyone ever gave me, although

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he pandemic has upended the world as we know it in nearly every aspect of our lives — our jobs, schools, and social lives have had to drastically change to fit the new normal.

With the unemployment rate at a historic high, paired with legally mandated stay-athome orders, many Americans have found themselves in a difficult situation, as paying rent has never been more difficult yet necessary.

In late March and early April, many cities across the U.S. instituted measures such as eviction moratoriums and rent freezes to accommodate these extenuating circum-

stances. Under an eviction moratorium, landlords are prevented from evicting tenants during this public health emergency (and thirty days beyond its declared end).

Rent freezes ensure that rent prices cannot increase. However, as more cities continue to re-open, these housing security measures are set to end, even as they have helped many families maintain a safe place to live. If cities with copiously high rent burdens allow their eviction moratoriums to expire, they may face a homelessness crisis compounding on an already quickly-spreading outbreak.

The national discourse around rent affordability may be under the nation-

al spotlight due to stay-athome orders, but these issues predate the pandemic and will continue to affect Americans after. According to the United States Census Bureau, both average rent prices and the number of rental properties have followed an upward trajectory within the past decade — between 2012 and 2016, four out of five U.S. metropolitan areas experienced rent increases, and the national average for median gross rent rose by $21. One potential factor in this trend is the housing market crash in 2008, which had widespread ripple effects on the real estate market and overall housing costs. However, as the quarantine era hasclearly

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shown, the ability for many people to afford their rent is erratic, especially given that the American economy has yet to fully recover to its pre-pandemic state. The conversation around housing access in the U.S. should continue after the eviction moratoriums and rent freezes end. To that end, the data and research team at Insurify studied rent and demographic data to determine the top twenty cities whose residents are paying the most in rent, proportional to their income.

INSIGHTS National averages. Across cities in the United States, the average share of renters paying 50% or more of their household income on rent was 23.61 percent. The median gross rent was $966.27 per month. The percent of city populations below the poverty line was 16.67 percent.

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The U.S. cities with the lowest share of renters paying 50% or more of household income on rent were Mauldin— Simpsonville (SC), Paso Robles—Atascadero (CA), and Casper (WY) at 12.34, 13.49, and 14.18 percent, respectively.

Most, but not all, have high poverty rates. While the majority of the cities on this list have a greater-than-average percentage of their population living below the poverty line, not all cities on this list follow that trend. Notably, Miami (FL), Vineland (NJ), and Watsonville (CA), all have a lower-than-average proportion of their population living below the poverty line.

In fact, Miami’s is 9 percent lower than the national average. That said, many of these cities’ shares of impoverished citizens greatly exceed the national average. San Marcos (TX) has 50 percent more of its population under the poverty line than the national average, at 32.8 percent.

Big city dreams? Interestingly, many notoriously expensive cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, did not make the list. An explanation for this phenomenon is the relative wealth of those cities that are always lauded to have such high rents.

Many of the aforementioned cities are home to lucrative industries such as finance, entertainment, and tech.

While the median rent may be higher than average, the higher volume of wealth held by city residents means that there are smaller proportions of the population where rental prices consume 50% or more of a renter’s income.

The trend of gentrification in these cities, or how many former residents are being priced out by wealthier newcomers, can also account for this finding.

METHODOLOGY The data and research team at Insurify, a home insurance quotes comparison site, referred to data from the American Community Survey by the United States Census Bureau to determine the twenty cities paying the most in rent. In this study, cities were designated by their status as an urbanized area by the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. Census Bureau defines “urbanized area” as a densely populated urban territory that encompasses 50,000 or more people.

The share of renters paying 50% or more of household income on rent was calculated by taking city-level estimates of renters paying 50.0 percent or more of household income on gross rent in the past 12 months compared to the total population of renters. Median gross rent and the percent of the population below the poverty line were also taken from the American Community Survey’s most recent calculations. The U.S. Census Bureau measures poverty

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by subtracting the poverty threshold, or the minimum level of income deemed adequate for a family of a particular size, from the total household income, inclusive of all family members earning an income for that particular family unit. If a family’s total income is less than their designated poverty threshold, they are considered to be under the poverty line.

U.S. CITIES PAYING THE MOST IN RENT 20. BELLINGHAM, WA Share of Renters Paying 50%+ of Household Income on Rent: 31.84% Median Gross Rent: $1,012 Percent of Population Below Poverty Line: 18.30% 19. ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY, GA Share of Renters Paying 50%+ of Household Income on Rent: 31.90% Median Gross Rent: $849 Percent of Population Below Poverty Line: 28.80% 18. MIAMI, FL Share of Renters Paying 50%+ of Household Income on Rent: 32.02% Median Gross Rent: $1,299 Percent of Population Below Poverty Line: 15.30% 17. VINELAND, NJ Share of Renters Paying 50%+ of Household Income on Rent: 32.03% Median Gross Rent: $988 Percent of Population Below Poverty Line: 15.90% 16. WATSONVILLE, CA Share of Renters Paying 50%+ of Household Income on Rent: 32.65% Median Gross Rent: $1,385 Percent of Population Below Poverty Line: 16.30% 15. HEMET, CA Share of Renters Paying 50%+ of Household Income on Rent: 33.44% Median Gross Rent: $1,099 Percent of Population Below Poverty Line: 20.40% 14. COLLEGE STATION — BRYAN, TX Share of Renters Paying 50%+ of Household Income on Rent: 34.39% Median Gross Rent: $932 Percent of Population Below Poverty Line: 27.50% 13. GREENVILLE, NC Share of Renters Paying 50%+ of Household Income on Rent: 34.50% Median Gross Rent: $788 Percent of Population Below Poverty Line: 25.90% 12. CHICO, CA Share of Renters Paying 50%+ of Household Income on Rent: 34.54% Median Gross Rent: $1,048 Percent of Population Below Poverty Line: 23.20%

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ou might wonder how one who has lived the high life for most of her life would in up in a humble town like Hemet.

Ask Patricia Yepremian, who has become a permanent fixture here and a woman to be reckoned with.

It all began in Brooklyn, New York, where she was born into a family with little more than a pot to pee in and a window to toss it out. Her father was dirt poor, but due to determination and tenacity of purpose, he struggled to make due and finally made it to the top as the largest distributor of TEFLON for Dupont. He started his first business in a 1000 square foot factory under the Williamsport Bridge and grew it from the ground up into a 50,000 square foot location on Long Island.

How did that affect the young Italian girl with Miss America’s looks and personality?

“It gave me the privilege of attending a private allgirls school and the ability to attend the most exclusive summer camps in Vermont.

I was a very well taken care of child.”

More than that, she inherited ambitions beyond what women were expected to have in the 1950’s.

“I went to camp and soon became a camp counselor, worked in a local drugstore and later attended College in Casanova, New York and Collegiate Business College.”

Her father sent her to Europe where she absorbed everything in sight, always reaching up and out to improve her status. The day she departed, he gave her a bit of sage advice, “Go have a good time, be careful and don’t fall in love with an American.”

True to form, she followed her own trail. “One night in Nice I’m sitting on the beach and this American guy came up to me and we started spending time together and the advice my father came me went out the window.

Gerald and I got married but not right away. He lived in California and I worked in New York.

Her first real job was with the Swank, a high-value men’s jewelry company that also manufactured Jade East cologne, a popular men’s product of the times. Swank had offices in Los Angeles, so she transferred to California and lived there for two

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LANDSCAPE: Patricia Yepremian. | Courtesy Photo years. But her gypsy foot and homesickness for New York brought her back to Long Island.

“Back to the East Coast Gerald and I were married in a very fancy Italian wedding.

We settled down in Queens.

I continued with Swank and he went to school. We eventually parted ways when I realized that our marriage wasn’t to be. I wanted more.

My ambitions were greater than his.”

She moved to Greenwich Village with a roommate until she was able to rent her own apartment on the Upper Eastside of Manhattan. She began to date again and seemed to have the perfect life, but that old urge of ambition took over. She left Swank and moved around to several different jobs.

“I worked for Mayor John Lindsay and spent some time in politics and with an advertising firm. Through that connection, I met the president of the Plaza Hotel who offered me a location in the hotel where I opened up an antique/gift shop. I was dating and having fun.”

She later met a Canadian man who wanted to buy her lease at the Plaza to sell imported chocolates from Switzerland, but she wasn’t interested. She offered a compromise. “However, if you are interested, I’ll go into partnership with you.”

They changed from gifts to chocolates and before long they had another chocolate shop at the Waldorf-Astoria.

“One day a gentleman

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came into the shop to buy candy. He seemed shy, but I could tell that he liked me.

“Krikor Yepremian was offered a job as general manager of The New York Cosmos Soccer team and was in New York for the interview. I thought he might stop by again, but he lived in Florida and went home to settle up his affairs before he took the job. When he returned to New York, he asked me out and we eventually married.”

Patricia wanted more, so she and Krikor decided to open their own chocolate business, traveling to Europe to find all the right chocolate producers. Due to the popularity of the two shops at the Plaza and Waldorf they were always being approached by people wanting to open a franchise.

“We began franchising in Hawaii, Chicago and other spots in New York. We eventually had 30 or 40 stores.

Our business grew so fast we decided to move our headquarters to a rural area outside Philadelphia. This was during the mid-eighties and people were more affluent and spending money like crazy.”

They had an account with Disney when they opened The Grand Floridian, and at most of Trump’s hotels and casino’s in Atlantic City, and finally a shop in Trump Towers.

When the economy took a dump in the early nineties, things sank faster than the Titanic.

The 275-year-old farmhouse they bought was restored to their dream home.

Three months after the restoration was complete, the house burned to the ground.

“We lost everything. The chocolate business went belly up and we simply walked away. We moved to Florida, where one of my girlfriends was running an outdoor market on the coast and was looking for someone to run it. Krikor had left soccer because it wasn’t doing well at the time. We left Pennsylvania with two teenaged sons and $20,000 I had stashed in my bra from the sale of all my furniture and antiques.

We tried to make the trip an adventure for the boys. One rode with me in a car that had no air conditioning, the other with my husband in an air condition truck.”

Krikor found work selling cars and became the number one Buick in the United States.

“We were making and stashing money and eventually moved to California to live with my sister and brother-in-law until he sort of got tired of two families in the same house. I had purchased a house on Stanford Street not far from Hemet High School without telling my husband. We had no idea what we were going to do.

As we drove down Lambs Canyon into the valley it was early evening and before us I saw the most beautiful sight.

Lights were shimmering across the valley.”

It was love at first sight.

“I knew this would be my home. There was something about the place that caused me to catch my breath with excitement. We spent most of the summer fixing the place up. I decided that if this was going to be my adopted home, I wanted to be involved in the community”.

One afternoon they were driving down Florida Avenue and stopped for the light at Harvard Street. “My God, turn right. Turn right. It was such a cool looking block.” I knew I could do something to make it even better.’

Meanwhile, she had begun a garden since she had so much land that came with the new home. “I knew there was a farmer’s market in Temecula but none in Hemet, so I decided to start the Hemet Farmer’s Market.

I reached out to the community. I later learned that people were watching me.

Hemet is a place where you have to prove yourself if you are going to get anywhere. I was ready, able and willing to do just that.”

She was just beginning.

Her youngest son, Alexander, came out from New York and they created “Hemet’s Got Talent” at the Historic Hemet Theater, where we had several successful years.

I was amazed at the amount of talent in the valley.”

On Harvard Street, she created “A Hometown Christmas.” There was a live nativity scene, people from all around paraded up and down Harvard. She brought the high school in and got

people to donate Christmas Trees, which were decorated and given to needy families.

After four years she decided the city should have it’s own Christmas tree to light up every year.

“Through the help of Rick Trusewski at True Valley Hardware and Attorney David Angeloff, we were able to donate a large Christmas Tree in the middle of the block with a ceremony that included the Mayor and City Council.”

Still anxious to do more, when the theater needed help, she presented a blacktie event to raise funds to bring it back to life. She created a State of the City event and for two seasons produced Broadway at the famous Ramona Bowl.

Still anxious to improve the city she got wind that the Coffee Shop at one end of the old Hemet Railroad Depot had closed, she contacted the president of the Board and asked to see it.

You can guess the rest. “My daughter-in-law Giovanni had a number of years with Starbucks and I had the experience of operating a business so two crazy broads decided to rent the place. She eventually turned the business over to her son Nicholas because, “I feel the community never really accepted. It is run by the good old boys.”

But Hemet is her home and she never stops. When she heard that on weekends during school months that many students aren’t fed right over the weekend, she got with the Salvation Army and created the Backpack Program. Kids would bring their backpacks to school and on Friday they would be filled with food for the weekend. It has been a tremendous success.

This woman has done and seen it all and yet she reaches for new horizons every day. When she sees a need, she tried to fulfill it. Bobby Kennedy would have loved this woman just as most people who meet her do. Acceptance? She is one of the most accepted citizens of this valley.

What’s next? Who knows, but she will continue to make improvements for the good of Hemet.

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ore than 94,000 Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) members found support during COVID through an unlikely source: texting.

IEHP’s Social Isolation Texting Program helped seniors and members with disabilities establish routines, remain emotionally connected with friends, and foster healthy habits while staying home.

Using a two-way SMS (text message) system, the program engaged members through a series of texts based on the member interaction and preferences.

Some members took to the program platform to share their thoughts, “It’s nice that you are persistent and messaging people, so we know someone out there cares. It is stressful to have to go through COVID, especially for people with health issues, like me.”

The 45-day program included messages focused on staying connected with friends and family, remaining active, finding new hobbies, and provided links to a variety of resources to support these strategies.

“We know loneliness is linked to increased risks in stroke, coronary heart disease, anxiety, stress and depression,” said Amrita Rai, IEHP’s Clinical Director of Behavioral Health.

“To combat those impacts,

we really wanted to help our vulnerable populations maintain a strong sense of purpose and an opportunity to remain connected to that purpose.”

IEHP members in the program set message frequency and engaged at their own pace. In addition to activity and connection support, members received information links for food, unemployment resources and online courses—most of which were available at no cost.

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“Social isolation continues to be a strategic tactic in fighting the spread of COVID-19,” said Rai. “This program was a necessary

pivot to keep in touch with our most vulnerable members to ensure connectivity and to let our members know they are not alone.”

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ursing homes have become ground zero in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with outbreaks causing high rates of illness and death among vulnerable residents living together in close quarters.

That’s why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken a series of aggressive actions over the last several months to protect nursing home residents against the spread of this new coronavirus.

We understand how terrifying these outbreaks are for nursing home residents and their families, and how essential it is for them to know what is going on inside nursing homes.

So, we acted accordingly.

Beginning in May, CMS required nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid to inform resi-

dents, their families, and their representatives within 12 hours of when a single confirmed COVID-19 case is reported, or when three or more residents or staffers develop respiratory symptoms within 72 hours of each other.

Residents, families, and their representatives also must be given weekly updates or be told by the end of the next day each time a subsequent COVID-19 case is confirmed and/or three or more residents or staffers develop respiratory symptoms within 72 hours of each other.

Nursing homes also must include information about what actions they’re taking to prevent or reduce the risk of transmission, and inform residents and their families about how those actions will change normal operations in the nursing home.

But we didn’t stop there.

We also developed a system so the public could quickly and easily access data re-

ported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the prevalence of COVID-19 at every CMS-certified nursing home in the country. This information is now publicly available in a searchable database that allows people to look up individual nursing homes and see how many COVID-19 cases and deaths, among both residents and staffers, have been reported there.

This new system of national reporting for nursing homes is unprecedented.

The data can be found at our Nursing Home Compare website. (See the “Spotlight” section for the link.) CMS will update the data weekly and take enforcement action against nursing homes that do not report the required information. About 15,400 nursing homes nationwide are certified to accept people enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid.

The Nursing Home Compare website features a FiveStar Quality Rating System

to rate nursing homes, with one star indicating the lowest overall quality of care and five stars indicating the highest. Early analysis of reported COVID-19 data shows that facilities with a one-star health inspection rating were more likely to have larger numbers of COVID-19 cases than facilities with a five-star health inspection rating.

In March, CMS and the states suspended standard inspections of nursing homes and began looking specifically for violations of infection control and prevention rules. We also provided a focused infection-control survey tool for nursing homes to do self-assessments to ensure they were taking necessary steps to protect their residents against COVID-19.

CMS is providing additional support and technical assistance to low-performing nursing homes through its Quality Improvement Organizations. QIOs are

composed of health quality experts and clinicians with experience in helping healthcare providers to improve the quality of care for people with Medicare. CMS directed QIOs to focus their efforts on providing education and training to all nursing homes in the country.

Finally, CMS recently provided state and local officials with recommendations on phased re-openings of nursing homes in their areas, including when and under what circumstances to allow visitors.

Visits from family and friends are generally restricted at nursing homes now to help control and prevent the spread of the virus, except in compassionate care situations. We understand how hard it is to be separated from loved ones, especially elders, for so long.

But as nursing homes meet certain criteria, they may be in a position to allow visitors again. Our guidelines recommend that visi-

SEEMA VERMA | Courtesy photo. tation be allowed in Phase 3 with screening and additional precautions, including social distancing and hand hygiene (e.g., use of alcohol-based hand rub upon entry). We also recommend that all visitors wear a cloth face covering or facemask for the duration of their visit.

You can read more about the reopening guidelines here: https://www.cms.gov/files/ document/qso-20-30-nh.pdf-0 Be assured that CMS will use every tool at its disposal to protect the health and safety of America’s nursing home residents.

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a primera vacuna contra el COVID-19 probada en Estados Unidos estimuló el sistema inmunitario de los participantes en el estudio justo como los científicos habían esperado, reportaron investigadores el martes, y la vacuna se encamina a comenzar las pruebas finales.

“No importa cómo lo veas, estas son buenas noticias”, dijo a The Associated Press el doctor Anthony Fauci, el principal experto en enfermedades infeccionas del país.

La vacuna experimental, desarrollada por los colegas de Fauci en los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (NIH por sus iniciales en inglés) y por Moderna Inc., comenzará su fase más importante alrededor del 27 de julio: Un estudio con 30.000 personas para probar si las vacunas realmente son lo suficientemente fuertes para proteger a la gente del coronavirus.

Pero el martes, los investigadores reportaron los hallazgos de los primeros 45 voluntarios que fueron inoculados en marzo. La vacuna proporcionó el esperado impulso inmunitario.

Los voluntarios desarrollaron lo que se conoce como anticuerpos neutralizantes en el torrente sanguíneo —moléculas clave para bloquear las infecciones— en niveles comparables a los halla-

dos en personas que sobrevivieron al COVID-19, reportó el equipo de investigación en la revista New England Journal of Medicine.

“Este es un componente básico necesario para avanzar con los ensayos que podrían determinar si la vacuna protege contra la infección”, dijo la doctora Lisa Jackson del Instituto de Investigación Kaiser Permanente Washington, en Seattle, y quien estuvo a cargo del estudio.

No existe una garantía, pero el gobierno espera tener resultados para finales del año, lo que sería una velocidad récord para desarrollar una vacuna.

La vacuna requiere dos dosis, con un mes de diferencia.

No hubo efectos secundarios graves. Pero más de la mitad de los participantes en el estudio reportaron reacciones parecidas a las provocadas por otras vacunas, como fatiga, dolor de cabeza, escalofríos, fiebre y dolor en el sitio de la inyección. En tres participantes que recibieron la dosis más alta, esas reacciones fueron más graves, por lo que no se busca proporcionar esa dosis.

Algunas reacciones son parecidas a los síntomas del coronavirus, pero son temporales, durando aproximadamente un día y ocurren justo después de la inyección, señalaron los investigadores.

“Es un pequeño precio que pagar por la protec-

ción contra el COVID”, dijo el doctor William Schaffner, del Centro Médico de la Universidad de Vanderbilt, un experto en vacunas que no participó en el estudio.

Dijo que los resultados anunciados son “un buen primer paso” y que confiaba en que las pruebas finales puedan brindar respuestas sobre su seguridad y efectividad para comienzos del próximo año.

“Sería maravilloso. Pero eso es asumiendo que todo sale conforme a lo planeado”, advirtió Schaffner.

Además, los resultados del martes únicamente incluyeron a adultos jóvenes.

La etapa inicial de pruebas se expandió posteriormente para incluir a decenas de adultos mayores, el grupo de mayor riesgo a los efectos del COVID-19.

Esos resultados aún no se han dado a conocer, pero ya están siendo evaluados por los reguladores, y Fauci dijo que las pruebas finales incluirán a adultos mayores y a personas con padecimientos crónicos que los vuelven más vulnerables a los efectos del virus, así como poblaciones de personas de raza negra e hispanas, que también han resultado sumamente afectadas.

Alrededor de una veintena de posibles vacunas contra el COVID-19 se encuentran en distintas etapas de prueba en todo el mundo.

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os gobiernos de Estados Unidos, México y Canadá se disponen a prolongar sus acuerdos para mantener cerradas sus fronteras compartidas a los viajes no esenciales hasta el 21 de agosto, informaron el martes las autoridades.

Los acuerdos prolongarían los cierres por 30 días más.

Una persona con conocimiento del asunto dijo que aún no se confirma el acuerdo entre Estados Unidos y Canadá, pero que es muy posible. El funcionario habló bajo la condición de mantener el anonimato por no estar autorizada a anticiparse a un anuncio oficial en los próximos días. Las restricciones, anunciadas el 18 de marzo, fueron extendidas en abril, mayo y junio.

La Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México informó vía Twitter el martes que “tras revisar el desarrollo de la propagación de COVID-19, México planteó a Estados Unidos la extensión, por 30 días más, de las restricciones al tránsito terrestre no esencial en su frontera común”.

El primer ministro canadiense Justin Trudeau dijo esta semana que se anunciaría la decisión “en los próximos días”.

“Seguiremos trabajando por la seguridad de los canadienses y para mantener en marcha nuestras economías, y tendremos algo más que decir esta semana”, dijo Trudeau.

El secretario de Relaciones Exteriores mexicano Marcelo Ebrard había dicho el viernes que “no sería prudente

FRONTERAS CERRADAS: El primer ministro canadiense, Justin Trudeau, realiza una conferencia de prensa en Rideau Cottage en Ottawa, Canadá, el viernes 15 de mayo de 2020. | Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP en este momento” reabrir la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México dado que los casos de coronavirus en “los estados del sur de Estados Unidos: California, Nuevo México, Arizona y Texas, están aumentando”.

La mayoría de los canadienses temen una reapertura. Estados Unidos tiene más casos confirmados y muertes de COVID-19 que cualquier otro país del mundo, en tanto que Canadá ha aplanado la curva de la epidemia.

“Hemos hecho un buen trabajo aplanando la curva.

Tenemos un promedio de cerca de 300 casos diarios.

En Estados Unidos tienen alrededor de 60.000 casos al día”, dijo el doctor Howard Njoo, subsecretario de Salud Pública de Canadá.

“Los canadienses han hecho enormes sacrificios y estamos viendo los frutos de nuestra labor. No queremos desperdiciar ese esfuerzo y reintroducir el virus a Canadá”, añadió.

Njoo dejó entrever que la frontera podría reabrirse si

Canadá y Estados Unidos pasaran por una situación similar en cuanto al número de casos y tuvieran la misma capacidad para el rastreo de contactos. “Ellos no tienen un buen manejo o control”, puntualizó. “Tomará algo de tiempo... Es más una cuestión de varias semanas y meses, o de cerca de un mes, y no tanto de días”.

Trabajadores esenciales como profesionales de la salud, tripulaciones aéreas y conductores de camiones aún están autorizados a cruzar. Los camiones son cruciales para transportar alimentos y medicamentos en las dos direcciones. Buena parte del suministro de alimentos de Canadá viene de Estados Unidos o cruza el país vecino.

Los estadounidenses y canadienses que deban regresar a sus respectivos países pueden hacerlo. Los familiares inmediatos de canadienses también pueden entrar a Canadá, pero deben permanecer en cuarentena durante 14 días.

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a Organización Panamericana de la Salud anunció el martes que está trabajando para lograr que los países más vulnerables de Latinoamérica obtengan una vacuna de forma subvencionada para el COVID-19 a precios “razonables” cuando ésta exista.

La directora de la OPS, Carissa Etienne, dijo en una videoconferencia que su organización está negociando con la Alianza Mundial para Vacunas e Inmunización, conocida como GAVI por sus siglas en inglés, para que eso ocurra.

Etienne explicó que la OPS cuenta con un mecanismo

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de cooperación que es realmente un fondo revolvente a través del cual se pueden comprar vacunas para países miembro, independientemente de su capacidad económica.

Etienne dijo que las Américas son la única región con este “mecanismo compartido para comprar y entregar vacunas”.

En la videoconferencia del martes la OPS confirmó que Latinoamérica es la segunda región del mundo más afectada por el coronavirus, ya que ha sobrepasado a América del Norte y está detrás de Europa en cuanto a tasas de fatalidad por COVID-19. En la región hay más de 3,4 millones de casos confirmados

de coronavirus y han habido ya más de 146,000 muertes.

Etienne destacó la importancia de asegurar que países con pocos recursos tengan acceso a la vacuna del coronavirus cuando se encuentre una.

“Al fin y al cabo, ¿cómo de buena es una vacuna si la gente no tiene acceso a ella?”, preguntó.

La OPS también dijo que está negociando con el COVAX (Global Access Fund for COVID-19 Vaccines) — un programa para garantizar acceso a la vacuna— con el objetivo de lograr las mejores condiciones de compra de vacuna para países latino-

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¿Qué es el rastreo de contactos y cómo funciona con el COVID-19?

El objetivo del seguimiento de los contagiados es alertar a las personas que podrían haber estado expuestas a alguien con coronavirus, y evitar que lo transmitan a otros. Expertos en salud dicen que el rastreo de contactos es clave para contener el virus y permitir las reaperturas con una mayor seguridad.

Pero el proceso no es fácil.

Cuando una persona da positivo al virus, un rastreador de contactos se pone en contacto con ella e intenta determinar dónde ha estado y con quién.

La atención se centra en los contactos cercanos o en la gente que estuvo a unos dos metros (seis pies) de distancia de la persona infectada por al menos 10 minutos. A esas personas se les pedirá que se aíslen, se automonitoreen para detectar síntomas y se sometan a una prueba si fuese necesario.

En aquellos casos que muestren

VACUNA de la pág. E1 Candidatas desarrolladas en China y en la Universidad de Oxford, en Gran Bretaña, también están por ingresar a las etapas finales.El estudio con 30.000 personas será el más grande del mundo hasta la fecha en la búsqueda de una posible vacuna contra el COVID-19. Y la vacuna desarrollada por los NIH no es la única que se dispone a realizar pruebas de tal magnitud en Estados Unidos, pruebas que son fundamentales para detectar efectos secundarios inusuales. El gobierno planea estudios de tamaño similar para la

OPS de la pág. E1 americanos. De esta forma, dijo Etienne, los países no tendrán que pasar ese proceso solos.

“Actuando en bloque, los países miembro de la OPS se beneficiarán de nuestra experiencia técnica y de décadas de experiencia asegurando

síntomas, el proceso de seguimiento comenzaría de nuevo.

El rastreo de contactos se hace de distintas formas en todo el mundo.

Pero un problema común es determinar con quien ha estado una persona, algo que se complica si se reanudan las reuniones con amigos y familia y a medida que los bares, restaurantes y otros establecimientos recuperan la actividad.

Las autoridades sanitarias también podrían verse desbordadas de casos. En Estados Unidos, por ejemplo, los departamentos de salud locales confían en mensajes de texto automatizados para alertar a la población que pudo haber estado expuesta a una persona infectada.

Los funcionarios prefieren llamar a la gente si es posible porque puede ayudar a generar confianza. Pero algunos no llegan a responder a los llamados o mensajes.

Además hay presión para actuar rápido. En un escenario ideal, la mayoría de los contactos de una persona deberían ser avisados en el plazo de un día. vacuna de Oxford y una de Johnson & Johnson. Pfizer Inc planea su propio estudio por separado.

Las personas ya pueden empezar a ofrecerse como voluntarias para los distintos estudios.

La gente cree que “es una carrera con un solo ganador”, dijo Fauci, director del Instituto Nacional de Alergias y Enfermedades Infecciosas de los NIH. “Necesitamos múltiples vacunas.

Necesitamos vacunas para todo el mundo, no sólo para nuestro país”.

Gobiernos de todo el mundo ya están invirtiendo para adquirir cientos de millones de dosis de los distintos candidatos, con la esperanza de acelerar el proceso de inoculación en caso de que se demuestre su efectividad. y distribuyendo vacunas de forma rápida y eficiente”, dijo la directora.

“También aseguraremos que el proceso es lo más inclusivo posible distribuyendo las dosis de forma justa entre los países que participen”.

El fondo revolvente ya ha ayudado a más de 41 países y territorios en la región a comprar vacunas en el pasado para sus programas de inmunización nacionales, dijo Etienne.

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estudiantes extranjeros habrían tenido prohibido tomar todos sus cursos en línea este otoño. No se habrían emitido nuevas visas para los alumnos cuyas escuelas tenían planeado impartir todas las clases en línea, como Harvard. Los estudiantes habrían enfrentado la deportación si no cambiaban de escuela o se iban del país de manera voluntaria.

Las autoridades de inmigración emitieron la política la semana pasada, dando marcha atrás a una disposición del 13 de marzo en la que se indicaba a las escuelas de educación superior que los límites relacionados con la educación en línea serían suspendidos durante la pandemia. Las autoridades universitarias consideraron que esa decisión se inscribía en los intentos de Trump de apremiar a las escuelas e instituciones de enseñanza superior del país a reabrir este otoño a pesar del aumento en los casos de coronavirus.

La política generó el rechazo de las instituciones de educación superior, más de 200 de las cuales firmaron documentos judiciales en apoyo a la impugnación de Harvard y el MIT. Las escuelas dijeron que la política pondría en peligro la seguridad de los estudiantes y las perjudicaría financieramente. Muchas escuelas de estudios superiores dependen de los pagos de los estudiantes extranjeros, y algunas corrían el peligro de perder millones de dólares en ingresos si la disposición se hubiera mantenido.

Harvard y el MIT fueron las primeros en impugnar la política, pero otras universidades y estados opuestos a esa medida presentaron al menos siete demandas federales más.

La decisión fue una buena noticia para los estudiantes que estaban nerviosos en todo el país.

“Me siento tranquila”, dijo Andrea Calderón, una estudiante ecuatoriana de 29 años que cursa una maestría en biología. “Habría sido un problema muy grande si hubiera tenido que irme del país”.

La estudiante del City College de Nueva York dijo que regresar a su país le habría dificultado terminar su tesis y buscar un doctorado.

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nte ocho demandas federales y la oposición de centenares de universidades, el gobierno del presidente Donald Trump rescindió el martes una norma que habría obligado a estudiantes extranjeros a cambiar de escuela o abandonar el país si sus universidades impartían clases completamente por internet debido a la pandemia.

La decisión fue anunciada al inicio de una audiencia en una demanda federal en Boston presentada por la Universidad de Harvard y el Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts (MIT por sus siglas en inglés). La jueza federal Allison Burroughs dijo que las autoridades federales de inmigración aceptaron retirar la disposición del 6 de julio y “regresar al statu quo”.

Un abogado que representó al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional y al Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) sólo dijo que la descripción hecha por la jueza era correcta.

El anuncio tranquiliza a miles de estudiantes extranjeros que enfrentaban el riesgo de que los deportaran, así como a centenares de universidades que se apresuraban a revaluar sus planes para el otoño debido a la nueva medida.

Con la cancelación de la política, el ICE regresará a una directriz de marzo que suspendió los límites ordinarios a la enseñanza en línea para estudiantes extranjeros.

El ICE no hizo declaraciones de momento sobre la decisión.

El rector del MIT dijo que la institución estaba satisfecha por el giro de los acontecimientos pero que está lista “para proteger a nuestros estudiantes de cualquier política arbitraria posterior”.

“Estos estudiantes nos hacen más fuertes, y nos perjudicamos cuando los alejamos de nosotros”, dijo el rector L. Rafael Reif en un comunicado. “Este caso también deja bastante claro que vidas reales están en juego en estos asuntos, con el potencial de un perjuicio real. Necesitamos abordar la elaboración de políticas con más humanidad, mas decencia, no con menos, en especial ahora”.

De acuerdo con la política, los

un futuro sería demasiado costoso, agregó.

Rahul Lobo, de 19 años, originario de la India, dijo sentir “un enorme alivio”.

“Tal como es, estamos viviendo tiempos muy inciertos, y la reciente política del ICE sólo aumentó la incertidumbre”, dijo Lobo, estudiante de tercer año en la Universidad de Notre Dame.

“De repente dejó de preocuparme si podría regresar al campus, sino más bien si podría terminar mis estudios en cuatro años”.

El Consejo Estadounidense de Educación, que representa a los rectores universitarios, elogió la cancelación de la disposición del ICE. El grupo dijo que la política estuvo equivocada desde el principio y causó un rechazo sin precedentes de los colegios.

“Nunca hubo un caso en el que tantas instituciones demandaran al gobierno federal”, declaró Terry Hartle, vicepresidente sénior del grupo. “En este caso, el gobierno ni siquiera intentó defender la política que había diseñado”.

Harvard y el MIT arguyeron que las autoridades de inmigración violaron las normas procesales cuando emitieron la disposición sin justificación ni permitir comentarios del público.

También alegaron que la política contradecía la disposición del 13 de marzo del ICE en la que se indicaba a las escuelas que los límites actuales a la educación en línea serían suspendidos “por el tiempo que dure la emergencia”.

En la demanda se destacó que la declaración de emergencia nacional que hizo Trump no estaba revocada y que los casos de coronavirus están en aumento en algunas regiones.

Sin embargo, las autoridades de inmigración afirmaron que habían indicado a las escuelas desde el principio que cualquier disposición adoptada debido a la pandemia estaría sujeta a cambios.

Dijeron que la disposición era congruente con una ley vigente que prohíbe a los estudiantes extranjeros tomar clases totalmente en línea. Las autoridades federales aseveraron que estaban siendo indulgentes porque permitirían a los estudiantes mantener sus visas aun si tomaban sus clases en línea desde el extranjero.

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Our best price on brandy.Made from fermented grapes & distilled & aged in oak

499

$

When you buy 6

750 ml

It is our favorite brewery and it is local. They keep making new flavors and styles and they keep reducing their prices. We have many 22oz for

WILSON CREEK CHAMPAGNE

899

7

$

One of our best selling wines!

699

$

750 ml

99

750 ml

HENNESSY VS

WHISKEY STUPID DEAL!

Cognac. Almost 2/3 of all cognac sales in the U.S.

One of the best bourbons in existence.

And it is on sale now.

3999

$

R&R

Rich & Rare

999

$

34

99

$

750 ml

1.75 Liter

750 ml

ON SALE

ELIJAH CRAIG SB One of the 6 best Bourbons.

Delicious high proof (94). It is bold, huge flavor, aged in fresh American Oak. One of the best bargains in this store

19

$

ON SALE LINE 39 WINES

It is being made since 1863.

It is one of the few D.O.C.G. Asti.

It is made from the ripe Moscato grape that gives it taste and aroma of grape juice, wine peaches, elderberry, and sage. It is flavorful and refreshing sweet and fruity.

Serve chilled.

750 ml

JACK DANIELS SINGLE BARREL SELECT

99

BLOWOUT SALE MARTINI & ROSSI ASTI

A unique sparkling wine with hint of flavor.

Very Tasty bubbles with little flavor. One of the most popular champagne we sell.

Give them a try.

Normally about double the price.

$

399

$

6

750 ml

STOLICHNAYA

GARAGE BREWING

12 oz cans

6PK For $

The most popular wines in our stores.

New flavors every other month.

On sale always depends on the varietal either

Hand Sanitizer and face masks available for sale

18 PACK

99

STELLA ROSA WINES

HAND SANITIZER & FACE MASK

$

$129.99 $129.99

99

ON SALE

PROPER 12 IRISH WHISKEY It is young whiskey made from wheat & barley. Aged for minimum of 3 years. It’s distilled 3x. That explains the light taste. It is aged in American oak. At smooth balanced taste with hints of vanilla, honey, and toasted wood.

750 Liter

BUY FROM US ON LINE AT MOREWINES.COM

1999

$

FIREBALL CINNAMON WHISKY

1999

$

1.75 Liter

750 ml

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