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Cause Determined on The Apple Fire in Cherry Valley Riverside County Fire Department in Cooperation with CAL FIRE BILL WEISER | FIRE CHIEF, CONTRIBUTED

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AL FIRE Peace Officers have determined that the Apple Fire was the result of a vehicle malfunction, specifically, a diesel- fueled vehicle emitting burning carbon from the exhaust system. The determination is reinforced by multiple independent witnesses, as well as supporting physical evidence.

CAL FIRE Peace Officers are seeking information from anyone that may have seen a vehicle which appeared to have mechanical problems, or unusual smoke emitting from it. If you were driving on Oak Glen Road at the time the fires were small, CAL FIRE Peace Officers want to talk to you. Please call our anonymous hotline at (800) 633-2836.

The Apple Fire started on Friday, July 31, 2020, at approximately 4:55 p.m. near the 9000 block of Oak Glen Road in Cherry Valley. The initial on scene units reported multiple spot fires burning alongside Oak Glen Road and a significant augmentation of resources were requested to the incident. By the following afternoon, the fire had burned over 4,000 acres, destroyed one single family dwelling and two out buildings, and prompted evacuations in several communities that affected approximately 2,586 homes and 7,800 people.

The Apple Fire is now over 20,000 acres and is still actively burning. Much of the fire activity is being driven by record low moisture

rescue swimmer assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD-8), looks out of a U.S. Navy MH-60 Seahawk on Thursday, July 30, 2020 while conducting search and rescue relief operations following an AAV-P7/A1 assault amphibious vehicle mishap off the coast of Southern California. The Marine Corps Sunday, Aug. 2 declared the missing are presumed dead and released the names of the crew members. | Lance Cpl. Mackenzie Binion/U.S. Marine Corps via AP

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FIRE: The Apple Fire which began on Friday, July 31st caused approximately 2,586 homes totaling approximately 7,800 people are under evacuation orders. | Photo by CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire Department, Facebook

content of the vegetation combined with high temperatures and low relative humidity. Evacuations and closures remain in place in both Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Management of the incident was transitioned to California interagency Incident Management Team II on Sunday, August 2, 2020. For incident updates relating to fire activity, please call 909-383-5688, or visit www.inciweb.nwcg.gov.

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he U.S. Marine Corps has identified all nine people killed when a Marine landing craft sank in hundreds of feet of water off the Southern California coast.

Only one of their bodies was found, despite an intense days-long search involving helicopters and boats ranging from inflatables to a Navy destroyer.

Found at the scene was Lance Cpl. Guillermo S. Perez, 20, of New Braunfels Texas. The 15th Marine

Expeditionary Unit announced on Sunday that the others, from California, Texas, Wisconsin and Oregon, are “presumed dead.”

They include: Pfc. Bryan J. Baltierra, 19, of Corona, California; Lance Cpl. Marco A. Barranco, 21, of Montebello, California; Pfc. Evan A. Bath, 19, of Oak Creek, Wisconsin; U.S. Navy Hospitalman Christopher Gnem, 22, of Stockton, California; Pfc. Jack Ryan Ostrovsky, 21, of Bend, Oregon; Cpl. Wesley A. Rodd, 23, of Harris, Texas; Lance

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MOSQUITOES: Test was positive for West Nile virus. | Photo source: freepik tive. The samples were collected on July 21st from the Reservoir

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t. San Jacinto College (MSJC) Political Science major James Crawford has been named a 2020 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship.

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he county has confirmed that mosquitoes collected from the unincorporated area of Nuevo tested positive for West Nile virus.

The Riverside County Department of Environmental Health received confirmation July 30th from the Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control testing lab that mosquitoes collected in the Nuevo location tested posi-

The 18-year-old Hemet resident is one of only 207 Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) members nationwide to earn the honor this year.

"For me, the scholarship is a personal visible validation of the work and community involvement that I have been so proud to be a part of through-

On Aug. 6, 1928

Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the latter part of the 20th century, is born in Pittsburgh. Warhol, a pioneer of the pop art movement, painted comic strips, canned soup and soft drinks because an early art teacher told him to paint things he liked.

On Aug. 7, 1782

Gen. George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army, creates the "Badge for Military Merit," a decoration consisting of a purple, heart-shaped piece of silk. The Purple Heart is awarded to members of the U.S. armed forces who have been killed or wounded in action against an enemy.

Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) Political Science major James Crawford, 18, of Hemet has been named a 2020 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship. | Photo courtesy of MSJC

out the past couple of years," said Crawford, who plans to graduate from MSJC in May. "And aside from the obvious financial assistance that the scholarship offers, it also provides further motivation for me to use as I continue

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On Aug. 8, 1988

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On Aug. 9, 1974

A group of federal prisoners classified as "most dangerous" arrives at Alcatraz Island, a 22-acre rocky outcrop situated 1 1/2 miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. The convicts were the first civilian prisoners to be housed in the new high-security penitentiary.

The Chicago Cubs host the first night game in the history of Wrigley Field when they play the Philadelphia Phillies. The game was called due to rain in the bottom of the fourth inning.

Gerald Ford is sworn in as the 38th president of the United States after the resignation of Richard Nixon.

In a television address, Ford declared, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."

On Aug. 10, 1984

The action thriller "Red Dawn" opens in theaters as the first movie with a PG-13 rating. The Motion Picture Association of America created the PG-13 category to indicate film content with a "higher lev-

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Fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson discovers three huge bones jutting out of a cliff near Faith, South Dakota, part of the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton ever found. The 65 million-year-old specimen dubbed Sue, after its discoverer, is 42 feet long with a 2,000-pound skull and 58 teeth.

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EMWD Honored for Financial Reporting Excellence Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) was recently recognized for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association, marking the 16th consecutive year that EMWD has earned the distinction.

EMWD received the Certificate of Achievement for its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.

The Government Finance Officers Association is a 21,000-member nonprofit organization for government finance professionals. “EMWD is honored to once again be recognized by the Association for our commitment to financial transparency,�

EMWD Board President Ron Sullivan said. “We are proud to continually demonstrate responsible stewardship of public funds on behalf of EASTERN MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT | Photo source: www.EMWD.com our customers.�

Copies of EMWD’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports are available online at www.emwd.org.

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Nevada search and rescue member dies in California fall A member of a Nevada search and rescure team fell to his death while climbing a mountain in California’s Sierra Nevada, authorities said Tuesday.

Paul Sheykhzadeh, 52, of Reno was hiking Mount Humphreys on Sunday when he fell off of large boulders along the western slope of the nearly 14,000-foot (4,267-meter)-high peak, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said. “A man with a different hiking group witnessed the fall and was able to scale the granite slope and determine the man was deceased,� the Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.

A Fresno County sheriff’s helicopter later spotted the man’s body. On Monday, a California Air National Guard helicopter flew seven sheriff’s search and rescue members to the mountaintop and they rappelled 370 feet (113 meters) down to recover Sheykhzadeh’s body, authorities said.

Sheykhzadeh was a physician and a volunteer search and rescue member for the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office in Nevada, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said. “In honor of Sheykhzadeh’s service to Washoe County Search and Rescue, our team took an American flag with them and draped it over the victim at the recovery site,� the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office post said.

Mount Humphreys sits on the border between Fresno and Inyo counties and above the Eastern Sierra community of Bishop. The peak is a challenging climb with no easy way to the summit.

Although the least difficult route is not considered especially challenging, climbers often use a rope for safety on exposed sections where a fall would be deadly.

Sheykhzadeh’s death is at least the second on the mountain this year. The body of Ray Warburton, an experienced climber and skier, was found in June after he apparently fell while descending in a steep snow chute, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office said.

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Weekend Closure of Route 60 through Badlands Area set for August 7 - 10 RCTC | CONTRIBUTED

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rivers planning to use Route 60 through Riverside County’s Badlands should make other plans or allow extra travel time the weekend of August 7-10. A full closure of the westbound lanes will take place between Gilman Springs Road and the Interstate 10/Route 60 Interchange in Beaumont from Friday, August 7 at 9 p.m. to Monday, August 10 at 6 a.m. One eastbound lane also will be closed nightly after 9 p.m. and will reopen daily before 7 a.m.

The closures are needed for the Riverside County Transportation Commission’s Route 60 Truck Lanes Project, which began construction in June 2019.

Crews will be shifting motorists onto the newly paved westbound lanes and moving k-rail into place to allow work to begin in the Route 60 median. Drivers should expect significant delays, allow extra time, and use Interstate 10 as an alternate route.

During the past year, crews have been excavating the steep hillsides to provide space to add a truck lane in both directions. Crews have

excavated 1.6 million cubic yards of dirt, about 78 percent of the total needed for the project. During that time, crews also have constructed drainage systems using 7,000 feet of drainage pipe and are building two 20-foot by 20-foot wildlife crossings.

Paving of the westbound lanes began this June with an aggregate base, followed by a layer of hot mix asphalt, which was topped with a 12inch layer of Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement. The concrete will cure this week and next week before drivers shift to the new lanes the night of August 7.

improve safety and efficiency and reduce traffic congestion for commuters, goods movement, and travelers to and from desert resorts.

Project features include: • Constructing an eastbound truck climbing lane • Constructing a westbound truck descending lane • Widening shoulders to standard widths – 12-foot exterior shoulders and 11foot interior shoulders • Establishing two wildlife crossings and placing wildlife fencing • Improving motorist sight distance by flattening roadway curves

OVERVIEW: The Riverside County Transportation Commission, in partnership with Caltrans, is building the Route 60 Truck Lanes Project in the “Badlands� area of Riverside County. RCTC is the lead agency for the project.

Construction is expected to open in 2022. Drivers are reminded to follow the 55 mph speed limit and watch for changing conditions.

Funding for the $113 million construction phase is provided by a combination of sources, including federal, state, and Measure A, the voter-approved half-cent sales tax for transportation improvements in Riverside County.

The $113 million construction project is expected to be complete in 2022.

For information, visit rctc. org/60trucklanes or follow the project on social media using @60trucklanes

The project is widening a 4.5-mile section of State Route 60 between Gilman Springs Road and 1.4 miles west of Jack Rabbit Trail between Moreno Valley and Beaumont. The project lies within mountainous terrain with a curving alignment and steep grades. When completed, the project will

PLAN: The Riverside County Transportation Commission, in partnership with Caltrans, is widening a 4.5mile section of Route 60 from Gilman Springs Road to 1.4 miles west of Jack Rabbit Trail in the Badlands area between Moreno Valley and Beaumont. The project lies within mountainous terrain with a curving alignment and steep grades. The project is designed to improve safety and efficiency and to reduce traffic congestion. WEEKEND CLOSURE: AUGUST 7-10, 2020. | Courtesy Image.

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new COVID-19 study is currently enrolling patients, and researchers believe it has the potential to change the course of the virus around the world.

The study is examining the effects of Colchicine, a widely available and inexpensive anti-inflammatory drug on one of the most common, and most debilitating side effects of SARS-CoV-2–acute respiratory distress syndrome

(ARDS).

ARDS is caused by an intense inflammatory response that results in what’s called a cytokine storm. Cytokines are molecules that signal to inflammatory cells that there’s a problem within the body that needs their attention. Any normal immune response involves cytokines.

In a cytokine storm however, they’re released in larger numbers than necessary, resulting in an immune response out of proportion to the threat at hand, whereby immune cells attack healthy

tissues.

Cytokine storms in COVID-19 are common and potentially do more damage than the virus itself, causing some patients to develop pneumonia or ARDS, which are life-threatening lung conditions. Many such patients require admission to ICU wards to be provided with respiratory support via mechanical ventilation.

One research team believes they may have the solution, however. Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, director of the Research Centre at Montreal

Heart Institute, professor of medicine at the University of Montreal, and primary investigator of the study, believes that these cytokine storms seen in COVID-19 patients are manufactured by a tiny inflammatory cell part, or organelle, called inflammasome. Colchicine, targets that one tiny organelle. “More than 10 years ago, it was shown that the most closely related virus to SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, is Sars-CoV-1.

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Soboba Tribal Member begins Graduate Program MIKE HILES | CONTRIBUTED

phy-orientation and emphasizes multicultural content, processes and experiences.

The program provides an integrated sequence of theory, research and practice in seven areas over a three-year sequence of full-time study, followed by a full-time, year-long internship. This integrated graduate-profession program culminates in the Educational Specialist (Ed.S.) degree in School Psychology.

“During my last year as

an undergrad, Geneva Lofton-Fitzsimmons, CSUSM’s President’s Native American Council Board (NAC) and student program coordinator for NARCH, informed me about the program and helped me get into contact,” Peterson said. “She has offered so much support and guidance to not only myself but many other Native students. I decided on SDSU because of the advanced preparation the program has to offer and the SHPA grant which focuses on mental health needs of Native and Indigenous youth.”

Peterson was the first-ever graduate from CSUSM’s American Indian Studies bachelor’s degree program in 2019. As a member of the campus’ American Indian Student Alliance (AISA), she was given a platform to reach a bigger and new population of people that could be educated on issues surrounding Indian Country. She served as Chair at AISA for the last two years at the college.

“Without the continued encouragement, support

and guidance of Dr. John W. Tippeconnic III and Dr. Stanley Rodriguez I would not have pursued my master’s degree,” she said. “Throughout my educational journey they have been my mentors and role models teaching me the power of education.

I am so grateful to have such strong Native leaders to show me the way.”

Peterson began a six-week long summer course on July 7 and will start fall semester classes on August 24. SDSU has given permission for the program to allow some in-person classes but it may change as protocols surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic change. Currently, she is scheduled to attend four of her seven classes on the campus and three others online.

“I am very excited for the near future and the many opportunities it will bring,” she said. “School is never easy.

It can be difficult trying to balance work, family, friends and school all at once.”

Peterson said that while she is on the SHPA grant, she

will have the opportunity to work with other Native students in the same program and the school counseling program.

“SHPA allows Native students to have our own community within the program to support and connect with each other,” she said. “SDSU also has a student organization on campus known as the Native American Student Alliance (NASA).”

Prior to starting this next chapter of her academic journey, Peterson worked at Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc. as part of its Native Challenge program, which serves youth and families through health education programming.

“Working at Native Challenge gave me a stronger perspective on issues within the educational institution, specifically regarding the Native student population,” she said.

“The work we did with these students made me realize the need for mental health professionals for Native youth.”

School psychologists are

dynamic educators that work within school settings in order to help diverse students succeed academically, socially, behaviorally and emotionally. They collaborate across school, home and community to facilitate positive educational change. They are change agents within the schools, serving multicultural and diverse populations and striving to ensure that every student receives an equitable education.

“I hope to give back to my tribe and Native community in the future by working at Noli Indian School and Sherman Indian High School,” Peterson said.

She is always willing to draw on her own experiences and share advice to young students, especially Native youths.

“If you are unsure about attending college go anyway whether it is a university, a trade school or community college,” Peterson said. “Invest in yourself – not for just you but for the generations that follow because they need you to be the change.”

tee. He has also helped on several political campaigns, including Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign.

After MSJC, Crawford plans to transfer to UC Riverside or UC Berkeley to earn his bachelor's degree in political science, and eventually earn a doctorate in political theory. He said he hopes to become a professor at a community college, and continue actively participating in various political campaigns and organizations.

The Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholarship Program helps new Phi Theta Kappa members defray ed-

ucational expenses while enrolled in associate degree programs. Scholars are encouraged to assume leadership roles by participating in PTK programs and are selected based on scholastic achievement, community service, and leadership potential. Nearly 700 applications were received.

“The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation has a long history of providing financial assistance to outstanding students at community colleges,” said Jane Hale Hopkins, President of the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. “We are proud to part-

ner with Phi Theta Kappa to make it possible for more deserving students to achieve their educational goals and support tomorrow’s leaders of the global community.”

The funds provided by the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation not only aid college completion, but also give students the opportunity to engage in PTK programs and develop leadership skills to become future leaders in their communities.

“Research shows that Phi Theta Kappa members are four times more likely to complete a college degree than their peers,” said Dr.

Monica Marlowe, Executive Director of the Phi Theta Kappa Foundation. “The Leaders of Promise Scholarships recognize students for what they have achieved already and assure that financial need isn’t an obstacle to achieving their academic goals.”

Phi Theta Kappa is the premier honor society recognizing the academic achievement of students at associate degree-granting colleges and helping them to grow as scholars and leaders. PTK has more than 3.5 million members and nearly 1,300 chapters in 11 nations,

with about 240,000 active members in the nation’s colleges. Learn more at www. ptk.org.

Mt. San Jacinto College serves about 27,000 students in a district covering 1,700 square miles from the San Gorgonio Pass to Temecula, with campuses in San Jacinto, Menifee, Banning and Temecula. Fall registration is underway and the semester starts Aug. 17. Transform your life at MSJC. In May 2020, Mt. San Jacinto College awarded a record-breaking 3,554 degrees and certificates to 1,958 graduates.

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fter a highly successful academic career at California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM), Rachelle Peterson found a graduate program that could deliver what she wanted. With an ultimate career goal of working as a school psychologist serving the Native American population, this member of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians found what she needed at San Diego State University (SDSU).

Peterson is enrolled in the School Psychology (Ed.S.) program and is also a scholar on the SHPA grant for the upcoming school year.

SHPA stands for Supporting High-Intensity Mental Health Needs of Native and Indigenous Youth: School Psychologist and Counselor Advanced Preparation.

SDSU’s School Psychology Program prepares school psychologists to be systems change agents in culturally diverse schools. It embraces an ecosystemic philoso-

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At MSJC, Crawford is a member of PTK and the Political Science Club, and serves as a mentor for the Honors Enrichment and Supplemental Instruction programs. In the community, he serves on the executive board for the Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto, where he's part of the scholarship subcommittee, the voter registration and voter outreach subcommittee, and the youth outreach subcommit-

MEMBER: Rachelle Peterson found a graduate program that could deliver what she wanted. | Courtesy Photo

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Negligence probed in deadly Beirut blast amid public anger BASSEM MROUE, ZEINA KARAM AND SARAH EL DEEB | AP NEWS

Investigators probing the deadly blast that ripped across Beirut focused Wednesday on possible negligence in the storage of tons of a highly explosive fertilizer in a waterfront warehouse, while the government ordered the house arrest of several port officials.

International aid flights began to arrive as Lebanon’s leaders struggled to deal with the widespread damage and shocking aftermath of Tuesday’s blast, which the Health Ministry said killed 135 people and injured about 5,000 others.

Public anger mounted against the ruling elite that is being blamed for the chronic mismanagement and carelessness that led to the disaster. The Port of Beirut and customs office is notorious for being one of the most corrupt and lucrative institutions in Lebanon where various factions and politicians, including Hezbollah, hold sway.

The investigation is focusing on how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical used in fertilizers, came to be stored at the facility for six years, and why nothing was done about it.

Losses from the blast are estimated to be between $10 billion to $15 billion, Beirut Gov. Marwan Abboud told Saudi-owned TV station Al-Hadath, adding that nearly 300,000 people are homeless.

“Beirut as we know it is gone and people won’t be able to rebuild their lives,” said Amy, a woman who swept glass from a small alley beside by a tall building that served as a showroom for a famous Lebanese design-

DAMAGES: A survivor is taken out of the rubble after a massive explo-

CITY: A drone picture shows the scene of an explosion at the seaport

sion in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. The explosion flattened much of a port and damaged buildings across Beirut, sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. In addition to those who died, more than 3,000 other people were injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said. | AP Photo/Hassan Ammar

of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city's port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. More than 70 people were killed and 3,000 injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said. | AP Photo/Hussein Malla

er and was a neighborhood landmark.

“This is hell. How are they (people) going to survive.

What are they going to do?” she said, blaming officials for lack of responsibility and “stupidity.”

Hospitals were overwhelmed by the injured. One that was damaged in the blast had to evacuate all its patients to a nearby field for treatment.

It was the worst single explosion to strike Lebanon, a country whose history is filled with destruction — from a 1975-1990 civil war, conflicts with Israel and periodic terrorist attacks.

Lebanon already was on the brink of collapse amid a severe economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic.

Many have lost their jobs and seen their savings evaporate because of a currency crisis. Food security is a worry, since the country imports nearly all its vital goods and its main port is now devastated. The government is strapped for cash.

A senior U.S. Defense Department official and member of the U.S. intelligence community said there were no indications the explosion

all letters related to the materials stored at the port, as well as lists of those in charge of maintenance, storage and protection of the hangar.

In the letter, the customs chief warned of the “dangers if the materials remain where they are, affecting the safety of (port) employees” and asked the judge for guidance. He said five similar letters zwere sent in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The letter proposes the material be exported or sold to a Lebanese explosives company. It is not known if there was a response.

President Michael Aoun vowed before a Cabinet meeting that the investigation would be transparent and that those responsible will be punished.

“There are no words to describe the catastrophe that hit Beirut last night,” he said.

After the meeting, the Cabinet ordered an unspecified number of Beirut port officials put under house arrest pending the investigation.

The government also said public schools and some hotels will be opened for the homeless and promised unspecified compensation for the victims.

With the Port of Beirut de-

stroyed, the government said imports and exports will be secured elsewhere, mostly in the northern city of Tripoli and the southern port of Tyre.

There were signs that public anger went beyond port officials to Lebanon’s long-entrenched ruling class.

Political factions have divided control of public institutions, including the port, using them to benefit their supporters, with little actual development. That has translated into crumbling infrastructure, power outages and poor services.

“May the Virgin Mary destroy them and their families,” Joseph Qiyameh, a 79-year-old grocery store owner, said of the leadership.

The blast damaged his store, his wife was hospitalized with injuries she suffered at home next door, and his arm was hurt. He doesn’t have the money to fix his business, with his savings locked up in banks by controls imposed during the financial crisis.

The Hospital of the Sisters of Rosaries was knocked out of service by the blast, with one of the nuns killed and three others badly injured.

“In a moment, there was no longer a hospital. It is all ing body armor, and flotation vests, Osterman said.

The vehicle, known as an AAV but nicknamed an “amtrac,” for “amphibious tractor” is used to take Marines and their gear from Navy ships to land.

The sunken craft, one of 13 involved in the exercise, was designed to be naturally buoyant and had three water-tight hatches and two large troop hatches, Osterman said.

The vehicles have been used since 1972, and continually refurbished. Marine Corps officials said Friday they did not know the age or other details of the one that sank.

The Marine Corps com-

mandant, Gen. David Berger, suspended waterborne operations of more than 800 amphibious assault vehicles across the branch until the cause of the accident is determined.

This is the third time in recent years that Camp Pendleton Marines have been injured or died in amphibious assault vehicles during training exercises.

In 2017, 14 Marines and one Navy sailor were hospitalized after their vehicle hit a natural gas line, igniting a fire that engulfed the landing craft at Camp Pendleton.

In 2011, a Marine died when an amphibious assault vehicle in a training exercise sank offshore of the camp.

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, and Houston, with plans to open in Jacksonville, Gainesville as well as throughout Arizona, Mississippi, and Alabama. The team also plans on expanding the study into Georgia and the Carolinas. The trial is funded by the Government of Quebec (Canada), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of

the US National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Sophie Desmarais, Montréal philanthropist, daughter of the late business mogul, Paul Desmarais Sr. Interested patients should consult their health care providers for more information and to find out if study materials are available in their area.

was the result of an attack by either a nation state or proxy forces. Both spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss intelligence briefings publicly.

They told AP that at the moment, the explosion seems to have been caused by improper storage of explosives.

Fueling speculation that negligence was to blame for the accident, an official letter circulating online showed the head of the customs department had warned repeatedly over the years that the huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate stored in the port was a danger and had asked judicial officials for a ruling on a way to remove it.

Ammonium nitrate is a component of fertilizer that is potentially explosive. The 2,750-ton cargo had been stored at the port since it was confiscated from a ship in 2013, and on Tuesday it is believed to have detonated after a fire broke out nearby.

The 2017 letter from the customs chief to a judge could not be immediately confirmed, but state prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat ordered security agencies to start an immediate investigation into

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San Clemente Island, off San Diego.

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assault vehicles responded but

couldn’t stop the 26-ton, tank-like vehicle from quickly sinking, Osterman said.

“The assumption is that it went completely to the bottom” several hundred feet below, Osterman said. That was too deep for divers, and Navy and Coast Guard were discussing ways to reach the sunken vehicle to get a view inside it, Osterman said.

Seven other Marines were rescued from the water; two were in stable condition at a hospital, authorities said.

All the Marines were attached to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based at nearby Camp Pendleton.

They ranged in age from 19 to early 30s and all were wearing combat gear, includ-

(FMF) and viral pericarditis. The side effect profile is well-known and side effects are rare.

The groundbreaking study is called COLCORONA. Like most studies, patients are assigned either a course of the study medication or a placebo for 30 days. However, this study is unique as it is contact-less, helping protect health care

workers and the population at-large from unnecessary risk of virus exposure.

To enroll, patients can call the hotline to speak with a dedicated healthcare professional who will explain the study and verify their eligibility, as well as to receive and sign the informed consent document. The study medication is then delivered to the patient’s door

within four hours and the patient is remotely followed for 30 days.

To enroll or learn more, visit https://en.colcorona.net or call the 24-hour Hotline at 1(877) 536-6837, which is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

The COLCORONA trial is currently available in a number of countries as well as the New York Tri-State area,

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“Literally every asset we have available” was mobilized in the search for seven Marines and a Navy corpsman, Lt. Gen. Joseph Osterman, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said Friday.

They were aboard an amphibious assault vehicle that was heading back to a Navy ship Thursday evening after a routine training exercise when it began taking on water about a half-mile (0.8 kilometers) from Navy-owned

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diagnosis for a Colchicine study. If his hypothesis is correct, it could change the way COVID-19 is treated globally. Colchicine is a widely available, inexpensive drug that has already been in use for years in the treatment of conditions like gout, familial Mediterranean fever

gone,” said one of the nuns, who suffered a leg injury.

Residents confronted a scene of utter devastation Wednesday, with smoke still rising from the port. The blast tore out a crater 200 meters (yards) across that filled with seawater, as if the Mediterranean had taken a bite out of the port and swallowed buildings with it. Much of downtown was littered with damaged cars and debris.

Drone footage shot by the AP showed the blast tore open a silo structure, dumping its contents into the debris. Estimates suggested about 85% of the country’s grain was stored there.

Economy and Trade Minister Raoul Nehme said all the wheat was contaminated and unusable. But he insisted Lebanon had enough for its immediate needs and would import more, according to the state news agency.

Two planeloads of French rescue workers and aid headed to Beirut and French President Emmanuel Macron was to arrive Thursday to offer support for the former protectorate. The countries retain close political and economic ties.

Several planes of medical equipment and supplies from Greece, Kuwait, Qatar and elsewhere arrived at Beirut’s international airport.

Turkey sent search-andrescue teams, humanitarian aid, medical equipment and a field hospital, its Foreign Ministry said. The EU planned to send firefighters with vehicles, dogs and equipment designed to find people trapped in debris.

MAYOR: Former San Clemente Mayor Wayne Eggleston looks back after lowering the U.S. flag to half-staff at Park Semper Fi in San Clemente, Calif., on Friday, July 31, 2020. An amphibious assault vehicle carrying multiple Marines and a Navy sailor sank near a military-owned island off the coast of Southern California on Thursday. | Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via AP

Associated Press writers Sarah El Deeb and Hassan Ammar in Beirut, Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Joseph Krauss in Jerusalem contributed.

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Time to get serious about upcoming elections RUSTY STRAIT | SENIOR WRITER

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ess than 100 days until November 3rd and a crucial election, not just the nationals but local candidates will be running for mayors, councilpersons, state offices, etc.

Until now, the focus has been on the Presidential lottery, but let us not forget what Tip O’Neil told us several years ago: All politics is local.

Which brings me to our local elections. I spoke to Clay James, Deputy City Clerk for Hemet today and he gave me an earful of what’s coming up. As everyone should know by now, Hemet elects by District (known throughout the rest of the country as the Ward System). Many would like to see the Mayor elected by the ballot rather than rotated amongst the council members, but that is a story for another day.

With the sudden resignation of Bonnie Wright, the council has an open seat and it looks as though they may leave it that way until November (nobody told me

that, but so far it remains open).

This year the Governor has ordered election officials to send vote-by-mail ballots to all registered voters. Californians who may need in-person voting opportunities will be able to access in-person opportunities.

HEMET MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS In addition to local offices, our ballot particular other county and state measures, as well as Federal offices and propositions or measures that affect us, will be shown.

This year Districts 1, 3, and 4 are up for election this year. Karlee Meyer (1), Michael(3) and Vacated (4). One Treasurer seat, elected at large, currently held by Judith Oltman. The nomination period ends as of Thursday, August 6th, at 5:30 PM. As of this writing, the following have indicated a desire to run: DISTRICT 1 DeniAntoinette Mazingo Form 501 submitted 7/22/20

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and so is related or is somebody’s second cousin and a good one to vote for. If you buy into that, as my grandmother used to say, “you Norman W. Kyriss III Joe Males bought a pig in a poke.” Do some Form 501 Submitted 7/30/2020 Form 501 Submitted research before you cast your balPulled papers 7/29/2020 Pulled papers 7/20/2020 lot. The internet is a wonderful Filed papers 8/3/2020 Filed Papers place to find a person’s backPending Verification ground. What have they been up CITY TREASURER to in the past? What, if anything, DISTRICT 3 are they experts at? What I’m Howard Feigenbaum saying folks is know who you are Michael Perciful Form 501 Submitted 6/1/2020 voting for. I’m sure Bundy’s mothForm 501 Submitted 7/29/2020 Pulled papers 7/14/2020 er thought he was a good boy. I’ll Pulled papers 7/14/2020 Filed papers 7/21/2020 be following the elections for the Filed papers Signature Qualified 7/29/2020 rest of the year and will keep you

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rustrated Senate Republicans re-upped their complaints on Tuesday that Democratic negotiators are staking too hard a line in talks on a sweeping coronavirus relief bill, but pressure is mounting for progress as COVID-weary senators are eager to return to their home states for the August recess.

Another negotiating session is underway.

“Secretary Mnuchin is prepared to make a few proposals that hopefully will be met with enthusiasm, and yet we’re a long ways away from striking any kind of a deal,” said White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

One glimmer of hope emerged as a key Senate Republican telegraphed that the party may yield to Democrats on an increase in the food stamp benefit as part of the huge rescue measure, which promises to far exceed a $1 trillion target set by the GOP. Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said Tuesday that “you can make an argument that we need some kind of an increase” in food stamps and that he’s raised the topic with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He added that an agreement on that issue could lead to further overall progress on the legislation,

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SPEECH: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, speaks as she stands next to Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. Schumer and Pelosi met earlier with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows as they continue to negotiate a coronavirus relief package. | AP Photo/Susan Walsh which remains stalled despite days of Capitol negotiations.

“They are taking a look at it and I think we can get a positive result,” Roberts told The Associated Press.

“If we can get a breakthrough on that, it could lead to some other stuff.”

The food stamp issue — left out of earlier relief bills — is a top priority for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, among other powerful Democrats, who have passed a 15% increase in the food stamp benefit as part of their $3.5 trillion coronavirus relief bill.

The overall talks are going slowly, though urgency is growing among Senate Republicans, several of whom face tough election races and are eager to deliver a bill before heading home to campaign this month.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Monday that the chamber should not go on recess without passing the huge relief measure, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., offered a jobless benefit proposal that’s more generous than a pending

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THE POLITICAL NOTEBOOK From the Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto

NEWS CYCLES Major issues have dominated the news cycles for the last six months. The Trump Virus aka Covid-19 has been front and center and for good reason. Everyone has been negatively affected by it, even those who haven’t yet contracted it yet. It has changed the way we go about our daily lives, kept us from seeing family and friends and limited travel. It has caused many to change vacation plans, wedding plans, reunion plans. It has affected the education of our children. It took away one of our favorite diversions, sports, which is still struggling to recover. Because the Trump administration was so slow to react, we will be impacted by the virus for years to come. We have reached the point where almost every American knows someone personally who has contracted the Trump virus.

Then the killing of George Floyd happened. It was such a horrific event that it was not only able to break through the Trump virus news but set of waves of protests against racism in this country. The public has become more aware of not just unacceptable acts of racism but of the way systemic racism is entrenched in our society, how discrimination against people of color is written into our very laws.

And the economy has been part of the current news cycle because of the effect of the Trump virus. Millions have lost their jobs. Millions have been unable to pay their rent. While the Federal Government has provided a temporary fix for the rent issue by not allowing evictions. It is a temporary fix at best designed to hide just how devastating this recession until after the November election. Bread lines reminiscent of the 1929 Great Depression have sprung up. The economy was a house of cars, propped up by unsustainable policies before the Trump virus hit. Republicans have been struggling even to agree among themselves on a plan to help Americans survive through the pandemic.

What has been largely ignored by these news items in 2020 is that global warming continues. From the British Independent “Despite the warnings, we’re heading into a climate catastrophe utterly ill-prepared. Remind you of anything? The government has now been told it must prepare for a terrifying 4-degree centigrade rise in global temperatures – the point at which organized society will start to break down.” Past computer models have predicted the effects of global warming and have proved to be very accurate. What is disconcerting is that the models have been a little too conservative. The actual effects are close to the predicted worst-case scenario. Science Daily reports that parts of the Pacific Ocean could lose up to 80% of marine species, a critical source of food for many people. From USA Today “The report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes a cycle in which the problems of land degradation and climate change exacerbate each other to make land and climate less livable. The cycle is accelerating, NASA climate scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig, a report co-author, told The Associated Press. The threat of climate change affecting people’s food on their dinner table is increasing.” We are still early in the hurricane season. The recent hurricane Isaias is the 9th named hurricane this year.

From Weather.com “So we’re on a record early hurricane season pace for named storms, or about 9 weeks ahead of an average season, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As we have seen from the Trump pandemic, the current administration is incapable of responding to a crisis. We simply cannot expect this administration to be responsible to address climate change. They don’t even recognize it is real. On December 6, 2013 Trump said “Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee – I’m in Los Angeles and it’s freezing. Global warming is a total and very expensive hoax!” Remember he called the current pandemic a hoax too. The only way to keep the world safe from global warming is to vote Trump out of office.

Dick Gale, President of Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto

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Reopening schools for all the wrong reasons JIM WALLIS | COLUMNIST

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am not the first one to say this, and it is less prophetic than just observably true: Donald Trump is consistently putting his calculus of how he can win reelection over any commitment to protect the nation’s public health. The president clearly has no coherent strategy for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the recent surge across the country, and it’s clear that the health and lives of the people of the United States matter much less to him than his own political fortunes.

This shameful and alarming truth clarifies the stakes of this chaotic time. Trump’s latest political ploy is demanding the opening of all schools in the fall, threatening to withhold supplementary funding from those that refuse. Just as he turned mask-wearing into a political litmus test, he’s using our children’s futures as a political tactic to try to put the pandemic behind us, get the economy going again, and help him win reelection.

In the meantime, families are anxious to hear whether, when and how schools will reopen; how to keep our kids, their teachers and ourselves safe; and how in the world they can keep caring for and homeschooling their children while working full time. They can’t. And it’s because of a failure of leadership.

Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have decided to weigh in as strongly as they can in favor of reopening schools across the country for full-time, in-person learning, despite the fact that cases of COVID-19 have been surging across the South.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, just weeks after issuing a statement much touted by President Trump in support of as much in-person learning as possible this fall, has reversed course, acknowledging that the decisions on whether to reopen schools must be guided by the health and scientific data on the spread of the virus in any given community.

Decisions on how to provide education and child care in the context of a global pandemic that has already killed more than 150,000 people in the United States are terribly complex and emotionally fraught.

It has been apparent for some time that there are no easy answers or quick fixes, and the widespread failure in the United States to lower the spread of the virus to levels that many European and Asian countries have now achieved only makes these personal decisions more wrenching.

A provocative July 2 New York

Times article, “In the COVID-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both,” laid out the dilemmas faced by parents under distance learning or hybrid plans extremely well. These are the conversations I am hearing in my own community and around the country, including with our own staff at Sojourners — many of whom have young children and are feeling the “crush” and “untenable” pressures of work and family life under COVID-19.

Of course, the many tangible and intangible costs of keeping schools fully or partially closed is only part of the equation. Because of the way our society is stratified by class and permeated by racist structures in almost every way, the fact that working people of color are among the most likely to need to be able to send their children to school in order to put food on the table collides viciously with the reality that working people of color are among the most likely to have health, living or family conditions that put them and their loved ones at greater risk of severe illness or death if they contract COVID-19.

Forcing working people generally, and disproportionately people of color, to choose between their lives and their livelihoods has been a feature of this pandemic since its earliest days and is perhaps the pandemic’s most morally monstrous aspect — all the more so because other countries have shown that it is possible to simply pay most workers to stay home and businesses to stay closed until the virus is much more under control, as has happened in much of Europe. This strategy would also have been both more equitable and more effective in stopping the spread of the virus in the United States — but it wasn’t done effectively here. As it has done with so many other facets of our society, COVID-19 is revealing all the inequities in our education systems in new and stark ways that expose the injustices that were already there.

To give just one foundational example, the fact that public schools in the United States are so dependent on property taxes for their funding makes the whole enterprise fundamentally unequal right from the get-go, as schools in wealthier areas invariably have bigger budgets to educate their children than those in poorer areas.

Absent significant federal aid to every school district in the country, that inequity will be felt as some districts, with more or fewer resources, move toward reopening with school districts’ ability or lack thereof to

JIM WALLIS | Courtesy Photo. modify their classrooms and other facilities to make them safer for students to attend school without accelerating the spread of the virus.

Again, it is simply unconscionable that the classrooms where students, teachers and families are at the highest risk of contracting COVID-19 will be disproportionately the same classrooms where demand is highest for in-person learning and where there will be the least funding for effective safeguards against the spread of the virus.

But Trump and DeVos don’t appear to care about any of this. Again, recent reporting and even the most casual familiarity with the way the president appears to come to his decisions strongly suggests he believes pushing for schools to reopen could help his reelection chances by appealing to parents seeking some level of return to normal and reviving the battered economy by getting parents back into the workforce.

The fact is that the nation’s chronically underpaid public school teachers and the families of the nation’s lowest-income children are the ones whose lives are most at risk if schools reopen too soon or without adequate safeguards for either public health or necessary education.

The wealthy win again — as always in America — as they have the ability to afford child care and are much more able to provide their children with the highest-quality remote education as long as necessary.

And that is the reversal of biblical values and priorities, in which the most vulnerable are to be among the first, not the last.

It is time for Congress to step up with the resources necessary for every school district to open in the safest ways possible. And it’s time for the churches to step up and provide the space and the volunteers to care for and help educate children whose parents will need to go back to work.

And it’s time for Donald Trump to step down or away from the mess he has created and allow federal leadership to finally occur in the midst of what has become both a health and moral crisis.

The Rev. Jim Wallis is president of Sojourners. His new book “Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus” is available now. Follow Jim on Twitter @JimWallis.

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In Defense of Liz Cheney RICH LOWRY | COLUMNIST

I LETTER TO THE EDITOR Lunatic fringe fascist fool Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is without a doubt the dumbest, most worthless member of Congress, and considering the laughably low intelligence level of the average lazy Republican racist officeholder these days, that’s really saying something! Rep. Gohmert is an imbecile and a sick scumbag, not to mention corrupt.

Lamebrain Louie Gohmert needs to resign from office immediately and begin preparing his legal defense against the multiple lawsuits headed his way for Gohmert maliciously forcing his staff members (by forbidding them from wearing masks or from working at home) and his colleagues (by Gohmert refusing to wear a mask while at work) to become infected with Gohmert’s COVID-19 disease, all because whiny little clueless conservative crybaby Gohmert the goofball has apparently been taking his medical advice from traitor Trump’s White House witch doctor named Dr. Demon Seed.

Resign, Louie Gohmert - you’re an idiot! And if dishonorable dimwit Louie the loser isn’t man enough to resign, just vote the Moscow-loving moron out of office on November 3rd right along with Gohmert’s god Donald Trump otherwise better known as Vladimir Putin’s puppet. Send sick psycho Louie Gohmert and his partner in crime demonic Donald Trump to Russia where those anti-American bigots belong.

Jacob Pickering, Arcata, CA

n this summer of Republican discontent, a handful of GOP House members have identified what’s ailing the party: Liz Cheney.

The two-term Wyoming congresswoman, chair of the House GOP Conference and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney was called out at a conference meeting for myriad alleged sins, including insufficient loyalty to President Donald Trump.

This episode is much more telling about Cheney’s internal GOP critics than Cheney.

She rightly refuses to play by the dumb rule insisted on by MAGA and Never-Trump Republicans from their respective parts of the spectrum, that the only two options are to submit to the president totally or to oppose him totally, with no honorable space in between.

Cheney is a member of Republican leadership, which imposes its obligations, but she hasn’t checked her mind or conscience at the door.

She has deeply held views on foreign policy and doesn’t hide them, even when they depart from those of the president.

She has also been a consistent voice for taking the pandemic seriously and wearing masks, and has defended Dr. Anthony Fauci. Can

anyone doubt that if Trump had taken her tack, he’d be in a stronger position today? But some of Cheney’s colleagues are upset with her rather than the president. Her occasional dissents supposedly endanger the project of taking back the House, an absurd notion.

This is a variant of the odd political accounting of the most fervent Trump supporters. By their lights, if, say, the president stumbles his way through a “Fox News Sunday” interview, that’s not the problem. No, the problem is only if someone who is right-of-center points it out.

This logic has put an accent on whispered conversations in the GOP -- even the most vociferous defenders of the president will often admit in private that they are disquieted or even outraged by something Trump has said or done, but won’t dare say it openly.

It is also a way to deflect any responsibility from the president, when, obviously, if the worst comes in November, it will be because of what he did in office, not because Rep. Liz Cheney said it’s a bad idea to pull U.S. troops out of Germany.

Whatever you think of Cheney, she inarguably has a well-thoughtout worldview that she defends resolutely and thoughtfully.

The Cheney episode shows how loyalty, or purported loyalty, to

RICH LOWRY | Courtesy photo.

Trump is used as a political bludgeon in internal GOP fights.

According to Sen. Rand Paul, who took shots at her in the press after the GOP meeting, “She tries to sabotage everything he tries to do in foreign policy, so I don’t know whether she’s a good advocate for the president.”

But it’s not as though when Paul strongly disagrees with Trump, the senator salutes smartly and marches in lockstep.

The backdrop to the Cheney conflict is a broader fight over foreign policy. At the moment, that takes the form of a struggle to influence Trump’s policy decisions. If the president loses, it will be one of a host of ideological conflicts over the direction of a post-Trump party.

Whichever way it goes, Cheney is going to be a formidable voice, and her willingness to speak her mind, even at time when it is discouraged, redounds to her credit.

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GOP alternative. Both are facing closer-than-hoped reelection bids in states that should be easy holds for Republicans.

Multiple obstacles remain, including an impasse on extending the $600-per-week pandemic jobless benefit, funding for the U.S. Postal Service and aid to renters facing eviction. Democratic negotiators spoke of progress after meeting with administration officials on Monday but Republicans remain privately pessimistic.

The two sides are expected to resume talks again Tuesday afternoon.

Neither side has budged

from their positions, with Democrats demanding an extension of the $600-perweek supplemental unemployment benefit that’s credited with propping up the economy. Republicans have yet to offer any aid to states to prevent furloughs, layoffs and cuts to services.

Both will have to compromise before a deal can be agreed to.

“The $600 unemployment insurance benefit is essential because there are no jobs to go back to,” House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries of New York said on MSNBC on Tuesday morning. “We’ve got to help out everyday Americans.

That’s a line in the sand.”

Democratic negotiators

are pressing the case for additional food aid, funding for the Postal Service, and the $600-per-week jobless benefit that lapsed last week.

The benefit has helped sustain consumer demand over recent months as the coronavirus has wrought havoc.

Pelosi, D-Calif., wants to extend it through January at a $400 billion-plus cost, while Republicans are proposing an immediate cut to $200 and then replacing the benefit with a cumbersome system that would attempt to provide 70% of a worker’s “replacement wage.”

On the Senate floor, McConnell, R-Ky., continued to protest that Democrats are taking too tough a line.

But he signaled he’s far more

flexible now than he was weeks ago.

“The American people in the end need help,” McConnell told reporters. “And wherever this thing settles between the president ... and the Democrats is something I am prepared to support even if I have some problems with certain parts of it.”

Most members of the Demo cratic-controlled House have left Washington and won’t return until there is an agreement to vote on, but the GOP-held Senate is trapped in the capital.

Areas of agreement already include another round of $1,200 direct payments and changes to the Paycheck Protection Program to permit especially hard-hit

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On unemployment, Pelosi said she’d consider reducing the $600 benefit for people in states with lower unemployment rates. Republicans want to cut the benefit to encourage beneficiaries to return to work and say it is bad policy since it pays many jobless people more money than they made at their previous jobs.

Graham is among the Republicans who most aggressively protested the $600 benefit when it passed in March, But on Monday, he said that he wants to replace it with a system ensuring 100% of replacement wages, meaning the government

would try to pay people as much to not work as to work.

The House passed a $3.5 trillion measure in May, but Republicans controlling the Senate have demanded a slower approach, saying it was necessary to take a “pause” before passing additional legislation. Since they announced that strategy, however, coronavirus caseloads have spiked and the economy has absorbed an enormous blow.

The Senate GOP draft measure carries a $1.1 trillion price tag, according to an estimate by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Republicans have not released any estimates of their own.

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brand new life is ahead for the vintage sitcom “Who’s the Boss?” and its devoted fans.

Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano are set to reprise their father-daughter roles for a sequel that’s in the works at Sony Pictures Television, the studio said Tuesday.

The original series created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter ran from 1984 to 1992 and was a hit for ABC, if not a critical darling. A total of 196 episodes aired over its eight seasons.

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Stay home safe and enjoy some of our movie suggestions!

1. The Others (2001) A woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted.

2. Insidious (2010) A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.

WHO'S THE BOSS?: In this combination photo, Alyssa Milano, left, arrives at the premiere of "Insatiable" on Aug. 9, 2018, in Los Angeles and Tony Danza arrives at the Pre-Grammy Gala and Salute To Industry Icons on Jan. 27, 2018, in New York. A sequel to “Who’s the Boss?” is in the works at Sony Pictures Television, with Danza and Milano set to reprise their father-daughter roles from the 1980s-'90s sitcom. | AP News

3. Rose Red A group of people with psychic powers are invited to spend the night in a haunted house.

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JAY Z: In this July 23, 2019, file photo, Jay-Z makes an announcement of the launch of Dream Chasers record label in joint venture with Roc Nation, at the Roc Nation headquarters in New York. Jay-Z’s Roc Nation entertainment company is partnering with Brooklyn’s Long Island University to launch the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment. The new school will begin enrolling students for the fall 2021 semester, and 25% of the incoming freshmen class will receive Roc Nation Hope Scholarships. | Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File

community and young people in Brooklyn, in New York City, and beyond.”

“We’re excited that The Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment will provide unique insight, knowledge and experiences for students and introduce the world to the next generation of unmatched talent,” Perez continued in her statement Tuesday.

need-based first-time freshmen from New York.

“Our proximity in and around New York City’s epicenter of music and sports clearly positions us to offer unparalleled experiential learning and access to professional opportunities that will launch students to success,” LIU President Dr. Kimberly Cline said in a statement. “We look forward to joining with Roc Nation to offer an unprecedented educational resource that opens up the entertainment and sports world to a new and eager generation.”

In addition to learning from professors, students will also engage with guest artists and lecturers and will gain hands-on experience through internships.

The school will also offer resources to high school students and those younger: Starting in spring 2021, the school will launch summer residential camps for high schoolers and Saturday programs for students ages 10-18 that focus on music and sports management. Those programs will begin in spring 2021 and scholarships will be available for need-based students.

4. Stir of Echoes (1999) After being hypnotized by his sisterin-law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around him.

5. Paranormal Activity (2007) After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.

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The new school will begin enrolling students for the fall 2021 semester, and 25% of the incoming freshmen class will receive Roc Nation Hope Scholarships. Hope Scholars will graduate without any debt.

Jay-Z, a 22-time Grammy winner and entertainment mogul, was born and raised in Brooklyn.

He launched Roc Nation in 2008 and the company has worked with some of the top players in music, including Rihanna, Alicia Keys, DJ Khaled, J. Cole, Megan Thee Stallion, Lil Uzi Vert and more. The company also partnered with the NFL and co-produced this year’s Emmy-nominated halftime show with Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. Roc Nation Sports was founded in 2013 and has worked with many athletes.

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n the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, learning about cross-bore is important, as certain lifestyle changes you may have made over the past few months could turn an existing cross-bore condition into a potentially dangerous situation. Fortunately, unlike many items on your list of concerns these days, cross-bore is something that you can do something about besides just worry.

So, what is a “cross-bore” is and why is it important for you to know about it?

Simply put, a “cross-bore”

is the unintended intersection of two utility lines.

This article is concerned specifically with natural gas utility and unpressurized sanitary sewer lines, both of which you likely have on your property. An “unintended intersection,” means the penetration of a sanitary sewer line by a gas utility line. According to the Cross Bore Safety Association, this is not an uncommon condition and, although statistics vary, some estimates suggest that it occurs at an average rate of 0.4 cross-bores per mile of sewer line. So how does it happen?

Cross-bores most frequently occur in associ-

ation with “trenchless” methods of utility line installation. In other words, it involves installing a utility line without digging up the ground. The reasons for doing this typically involve minimizing surface disruption, increasing the speed of installation, and reducing costs. The downside to this method is that historically, installers have not been able see when the installed utility line penetrates a sanitary sewer line. The immediate result is typically uneventful, until the affected sewer line becomes blocked.

As far back as 1976, there have been documented incidents of at-

tempts to clear blocked sewer lines where there is an undiscovered crossbore. The resulting rupture of the intersecting gas utility line by some mechanical device, like a root-cutter, allows gas to enter a home through the sewer where it is accidentally ignited, causing an explosion.

As the existence of cross-bores has become better understood, steps are being taken to eliminate existing cross-bores, and to prevent them from occurring at all. Still, many “legacy” cross-bores remain.

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The modern-day reboot revolves around Danza’s Tony Micelli, a former ballplayer and now retired housekeeper, and Milano’s Samantha.

The daughter lives in the home where the original series was set and is a single mother, Sony said.

Veteran producer Norman Lear, part of the remake of his original series “One Day at a Time,” is among the “Who’s the Boss?” producers, as are Danza and Milano.

The new comedy “will explore generational differences, as well as opposing world views and parenting styles within the dynamic of a modern family in 2020,” in line with Lear’s shows, Sony

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Now you know about cross-bores and how, as a homeowner, to deal safely with a potential cross-bore situation. said in a statement.

Sony left the door open for the involvement of Judith Light, whose character Angela sparred with Tony as his employer and later romantic interest, and Danny Pintauro, who played her son, Jonathan.

They are “supportive of the new series,” the studio said. “The cast remains very close to this day and the hope is to find creative ways to work them and their characters into the show.”

Katherine Helmond, who was Emmy-nominated and won a Golden Globe for her role as Angela’s mother, Mona, died in February 2019 at age 89.

Whether the original show’s theme song, “Brand New Life,” will be heard again wasn’t announced.

1980'S SCENE: This image provided by Sony Pictures Television shows Tony Danza, left, as Tony Micelli and Alyssa Milano as Samantha Micelli in a scene from "Who's The Boss." A sequel to the 1980s-'90s sitcom is in the works at Sony Pictures Television, with Danza and Milano set to reprise their father-daughter roles. | Sony Pictures Television via AP.

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resident Donald Trump’s demand that the U.S. government get a cut from a potential Microsoft purchase of TikTok is the latest unprecedented scenario in an unprecedented situation.

Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok, a forced sale after Trump threatened to ban the Chinese-owned video app, which claims 100 million U.S. users and hundreds of millions globally. The Trump administration says TikTok is a national-security concern. How a ban would have worked was not clear; that federal authority has never been used before with a consumer app. TikTok denies that it would send U.S. user data to the Chinese government. Microsoft did not address a potential price when it confirmed the talks.

Trump said Monday to reporters that the U.S. “should get a very large percentage of that price because we’re making it possible,” adding that “we want and we think we de-

DEMAND: President Donald Trump points to a question as he speaks during a briefing with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, in Washington. Trump’s demand that the U.S. government get a cut of Microsoft buying TikTok is the latest unprecedented scenario in an unprecedented situation. Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok, a forced sale after Trump threatened to ban the Chinese-owned video app, which has one hundred million U.S. users and hundreds of millions globally. | AP Photo/Alex Brandon. serve to have a big percentage of that price coming to America, coming to the Treasury.”

Trump sometimes floats ideas or actions that get set aside without follow-through.

Appearing on the Fox Business Network Tuesday, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow appeared to walk back the idea of a payment to the Treasury, saying

“I don’t know if that’s a key stipulation.” TikTok was under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, known as CFIUS, a U.S. government group chaired by the Treasury Secretary that studies mergers for national-security reasons, for its acquisition of another video app, Musical.ly, in 2017.

The president can approve

or disapprove a transaction recommended by the interagency panel. CFIUS collects filing fees, but those top out at $300,000.

“I doubt that’s what Trump has in mind,” said Hal Singer, an antitrust expert and managing director at consulting firm Econ One. “Outside of that I can’t think of any means by which the U.S. could basically get its vig on its forced transfer.” A “vig” is slang for interest on a loan, usually in the context of illegal activity, or the fee charged by a bookie for a bet.

There’s no legal precedent in antitrust law for such a payment, said Gene Kimmelman, a senior adviser at the advocacy group Public Knowledge and a former antitrust official at the Department of Justice. “In terms of a foreign company agreeing to sell assets to a U.S. company subject to antitrust review, I can’t see any logical basis under which Treasury or the White House would be negotiating elements of the financial portions of the deal.”

While noting that he is not

an expert in all areas of U.S. law and the broad authority that the president has, he said the TikTok deal and the White House’s role in it was highly unusual. “Not in my experience have I seen any engagement from the White House in this manner,” he said. “It’s already a unique situation from start to finish with the government intervening to prevent use of a service in the U.S.” There are no “obvious antitrust or other legal bases” for the demand for “what is in effect a payoff to the U.S. government,” said Eswar Prassad, an economist at Cornell University. “The notion of a payment to the U.S. government sets a dangerous precedent of explicit entanglement between national security and economic considerations.”

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany sidestepped a question Tuesday about what authority the federal government had to collect a portion of proceeds from the potential sale of TikTok, saying “I’m not going to get ahead of the president on

any official action.”

Treasury did not reply to questions about what legal precedent Trump is relying on to get a payment for the TikTok deal.

In a statement Sunday, Microsoft had said that that it was committed to the deal “subject to a complete security review and providing proper economic benefits to the United States, including the United States Treasury.”

TikTok has said that it is loved by Americans and “will be here for many years to come.” In a memo ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming sent Chinese employees Tuesday, a translated version of which ByteDance sent to The Associated Press, he said that he felt the goal of the Trump administration was not the forced sale of TikTok’s U.S. business to an American company through CFIUS, but “a ban or even more.”

A representative for Microsoft did not reply to questions about the payment demand Tuesday. TikTok declined to comment beyond its Monday statement.

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tark evidence of the damage the resurgent viral outbreak has caused the U.S. economy could come Friday when the government is expected to report that the pace of hiring has slowed significantly after a brief rebound in the spring.

As the coronavirus continues to transform a vast swath of the economy, it’s becoming evident that millions of Americans face the prospect of a permanent job loss that will force some to seek work with new industries or in new occupations. If so, that would lead to a slower recovery in the job market than if restaurants, hotels, bars and retail shops were able to fully reopen and recall all their laid-off employees. Few expect that to happen.

On Friday, economists expect the government to report that employers added 1.6 million jobs in July, according to data provider FactSet, and that the unemployment rate declined from 11.1% to a still-high 10.5%. At any other time, a million or more jobs would constitute an unheard-of increase. But July’s expected gain would fall way short of June’s 4.8 million increase and would signal that hiring has sharply slowed.

It would also mean that the economy has regained barely

40% of the jobs that fell to the coronavirus.

The pandemic has lasted far longer than most Americans expected, with likely profound consequences for the economy. Traditional retail stores will probably never regain their pre-pandemic levels of sales or employment as consumers increasingly turn to internet purchases.

Online health care will likely eliminate some doctors’ office jobs. And online videoconferencing will replace some portion of business travel.

Those changes alone could destroy millions of jobs.

Michelle Holder, a labor economist at John Jay College, said it’s unlikely that many retail workers and others whose jobs are gone for good will find work this year, given that the viral outbreak will hold back hiring until a vaccine is widely available.

“It’s definitely going to be a drag on the economy,” she said.

Steven Davis, an economist at the University of Chicago, estimates that even after the virus has been brought under control, the proportion of people working from home will triple compared with pre-pandemic levels.

That could result in the shuttering of many restaurants, coffee shops and other downtown businesses.

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“This recession is unusual in the extent of permanent (job) reallocation that will ultimately result,” Davis said.

He and two co-authors have estimated that up to 40% of layoffs in March through May were permanent. That figure will likely rise, he said, the longer the pandemic squeezes the economy.

“We’re kind of past the stage where we’re quickly recalling workers to their old jobs,” Davis said, “and getting to the stage that people will need to get new jobs at new companies or in new industries.”

It is a trend that points to a grinding, sluggish recovery.

Allegra Troiano initially thought her layoff in May from a company that provides English language instruction would last only through the summer and that she’d be recalled as the school year began. But as the months have gone by and with few school systems fully reopening, the company — ELS Language Centers — has made clear that’s not the case.

Just 10 of the 30 centers it operated before the pandemic have reopened, not including the one in Milwaukee, which Troiano managed.

Troiano has tried to look for other jobs. But at 64 and with an autoimmune disease,

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she is reluctant to take work that would require public interaction. She also fears that her age makes a job hunt more difficult.

“I am feeling that this is the end of my career,” she said.

“The fortunate thing is I go on Medicare this January.”

Many other companies are giving up and closing their doors. Dunkin’ Donuts said last week that it will close 800 stores this year, about 8% of its total. Lord & Taylor, America’s oldest retailer, and the parent company of Men’s Wearhouse and Jos. A. Bank both said Monday that they would file for bankruptcy protection. Last month, Brooks Brothers, another men’s chain deeply hurt by the decline in formal business clothes, sought bankruptcy protection.

One-third of bars and lounges have permanently closed nationwide, up from about one-quarter in late June, according to the small business data analysis firm Womply. So have one-fifth of restaurants and 12% of retailers.

The Partnership for New York City, a business group, projects that one-third of the city’s small businesses will close for good. In California, mass layoff notices filed with the state now show that about half the job cuts are permanent, up from 17% in May. And a survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in July found that nearly half of those who have lost jobs during the pandemic say those jobs are gone for good. By contrast, in April,

78% had thought their layoffs would prove only temporary.

Business shutdowns have fallen disproportionately on Black-owned businesses, which are more than twice as likely to close as white-owned small companies, according to a report from the New York Federal Reserve. Blackowned business are more often located in coronavirus hot spots and are in service industries like restaurants and retail that have been hit hardest by the outbreak, the New York Fed said.

Looking toward Friday’s report, researchers at the St. Louis Federal Reserve have analyzed data from Homebase, a provider of scheduling software to small businesses, and concluded that job growth weakened in July compared with June. Hiring has slowed much more in states with heavy viral outbreaks, including Arizona, Florida, and Texas, they said.

Jane Oates, a former Labor Department official who is president of the nonprofit WorkingNation, said that widespread school closings this fall could also depress job gains in future months because some parents will have to quit jobs to watch their children.

“I worry about what that means for women, who are most often in that role,” Oates said. “That’s going to be disruptive.”

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Unlearning.

It’s a term that we’ve been hearing a lot as the country participates in a critical social dialogue around racism and justice. We need to unlearn so much of what we have learned culturally.

This is especially true for our medical professionals.

Health sciences are rooted in concepts that go back centuries, and some of those concepts were crafted with a racist lens.

In August 2017, Malika Sharma, a Toronto physician, summed up the problem in an essay for Advances in Health Sciences Education: Most medical education continues to emphasize a primarily biological understanding of race. We argue that a different approach is needed.

Highlighting the social construction of race is an essential starting point for educators and trainees to tackle racialized health disparities in our clinics and to challenge racism in our classrooms, educational and research institutions, and communities.

If physicians have been trained to approach their patients with the idea that race is biological rather than social, they are apt to make mistakes in caring for them. What can

WILLIAM HEISEL | Courtesy photo. you do as a reporter to reveal the problem at the core of this approach?

First, find the nearest academic center within your coverage area. Where are physicians, nurses, and other health professionals getting their training? Keep in mind, of course, that not all health professionals stay in the area where they earned their degrees. In my case, I could start with the University of Washington Medical School.

Second, find out what kinds of classes students have to take to prepare for their medical training.

Third, contact the professors or other staff assigned to those classes and ask them what textbooks they use in their medical school classes.

During normal times, you would ask them if you could borrow a copy. This is obvi-

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ously tricky during the pandemic, and so you should ask them if they’d be willing to copy any sections from the textbooks for you that deal with race. If you can’t figure out who is teaching the classes, contact the school public relations office and ask them for a list of textbooks that were used the last time the course was taught.

(If you don’t have a medical school, nursing school, or other type of health certificate training program in your area, you might consider tackling high school biology classes instead.)

Fourth, review the sections about race. Do the textbooks emphasize physical differences based on race? Do they take an approach that would be considered a “phenotypic” approach, emphasizing the outward physical characteristics, such as skin color or nose shape? Or do they emphasize “genetic” differences between people?

Both the phenotypic and genetic approaches are problematic. The genetic approach has become more common as the phenotypic approach has come under criticism for being obviously racist in nature.

Here’s an example of the genetic concept of race from the textbook “The Nature of Race” from 2015: Biological races are groups

of organisms; the genes of the members of these groups cluster together; as such, genetic clusters index biological races but are not themselves races. … As we noted above, with races, individuals are grouped based on their overall genetic similarity. This similarity is evidenced by similarity in concordant specific characters.

That is, relatedness in clusters of specific characters, phenotypic and genetic (e.g., specific genetic loci) are used to infer overall relatedness.

The drive toward a more “genetic” conception of race comes from scientists who are often referred to as “essentialists,” meaning that they believe categorizing people by race is essential for a true biological understanding of humanity. Ann Morning at New York University wrote this excellent piece about biology textbooks in 2008 that you can use as a starting point for launching your own investigation. In it, she described how genetics are being used to obscure a stubborn clinging to racial differences as a biological concept.

Textbooks’ genetic framing of race has preserved the authority of the essentialist notion of race by obscuring it, leaving it less accessible to potential critics. Applying a genetic model to race has meant translating

Next, go and talk with leading physicians and health scientists in your community. Ask them how they think about race and what they think about the way race is handled in these textbooks.

Make sure you are reaching out to people of color and to younger professionals. Science sometimes changes rapidly and sometimes slowly. In the case of race, many of these long-held ideas about racial differences being biological in nature are deeply embedded in the minds of many physicians and health scientists.

Don’t be afraid to challenge them.

They will bring up diseases such as Tay-Sachs or sickle cell that tend to be found among people of certain racial and ethnic groups — TaySachs among Ashkenazi Jews and sickle cell among Blacks.

The Mayo Clinic’s website handles this potentially confusing information nicely by focusing on the disease and then saying: For a baby to be born with

symptoms should contact their health care provider.

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day biting mosquitoes to vector staff, stressing that you are being bitten during the day vs at dawn or dusk.

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the concept into a language that is still largely foreign to the layperson, making it unassailable by anyone outside elite scientific circles. Or, to use another metaphor, it buries the race concept under the skin so that it is no longer available to most for examination.

sickle cell anemia, both parents must carry a sickle cell gene.

In the United States, sickle cell anemia most commonly affects black people.

But a concentration of a diseases among people who have been assigned a specific racial or ethnic categorization does not justify a biological division among people by race. Malaria was a disease that affected people all over the world at one point, including in the United States.

Now it is largely found in countries in sub-Saharan Africa. So it would be wrong to assume that malaria is somehow proof that people of African descent are a distinct race.

Richard S. Cooper, the chair of the department of epidemiology and preventive medicine at Loyola University in Illinois, put it best in a piece for Cold Springs Harbor Perspectives in Medicine: Variation among geographic populations is real, and study of its origins can yield important biological insights. But there are no categories of race that segment human populations, and there are no mysterious qualities “in the blood” that justify the belief in racial superiority.

But not all medical professionals put that insight into practice. Journalists can highlight where and how these breakdowns occur.

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euniones por el Día de la Independencia, fiestas de graduación, bodas sin mascarillas, bares atiborrados... hay razones por las que Estados Unidos ha acumulado más de 155.000 muertes por COVID-19, el mayor número para cualquier país, y por las que se acerca rápidamente a 5 millones de infecciones confirmadas, también la mayor cantidad en el mundo.

Muchos estadounidenses se han resistido a usar mascarillas y a mantener el distanciamiento social, calificando dichas medidas de prevención como una respuesta exagerada o una violación a su libertad. Expertos en salud pública dicen que dicho comportamiento ha sido agravado por las normas confusas e incongruentes de los políticos y por la diversidad de estrategias para contener la propagación por parte de los gobiernos condales, estatales y federal.

“Lo que es exasperante es que país tras país, estado tras estado, nos han mostrado cómo podemos contener el virus”, dijo el doctor Jonathan Quick, del Instituto de Salud Global Duke. “No es como si no supiéramos qué funciona. Lo sabemos”.

El número de infecciones confirmadas en Estados Unidos ha superado los 4,7 millones, con más de 60.000 nuevos casos al día. Aunque está por debajo del pico que superó por mucho los 70.000 casos diarios durante la segunda mitad de julio, los contagios están aumentando en 26 estados, muchos en el sur y oeste del país, y las muertes se están incrementando en

35 estados.

En promedio, el número de muertes diarias por COVID-19 en Estados Unidos durante las últimas dos semanas ha pasado de unas 780 a 1.056, según un análisis de The Associated Press.

En Massachusetts, las autoridades de salud investigan una media docena de brotes vinculados con eventos tales como una fiesta en piscina, una fiesta de graduación de secundaria, un baile de fin de curso, un campamento de futbol americano no autorizado y un paseo en crucero.

De una reciente fiesta en casa en Cape Cod a la que asistieron hasta 60 personas surgieron más de una docena de casos nuevos y provocó que algunos restaurantes cerraran o limitaran su servicio en la temporada alta de turismo.

Focos de infección están surgiendo en todo Estados Unidos, en lugares que en algún momento parecían ideales para resguardarse del brote: zonas rurales, menos pobladas y con mucho espacio al aire libre. En Dakota del Sur se originó un brote en un campamento de verano para jóvenes cristianos en Black Hills, con 96 casos entre los 328 asistentes.

“Estamos en un punto en el que existe suficiente propagación de COVID-19 como para que las personas de todo el país tengan mayor probabilidad de encontrarse con el virus y resultar expuestos”, informó la doctora Cindy Prins, epidemióloga de la Universidad de Florida.

“Para muchas personas, esta es una enfermedad conductual en este momento”, añadió. La prevención, dijo, significa “cambiar nuestra forma de pensar, y es algo muy

difícil de hacer para el ser humano. Somos criaturas sociales”.

En Mississippi, el gobernador republicano Tate Reeves anunció a regañadientes una orden a nivel estatal que requiere el uso de mascarillas debido al repunte de casos de COVID-19. También demoró el inicio del ciclo escolar en los grados superiores en ocho de los condados más afectados de la entidad.

“Utilizar una mascarilla — por más irritante que sea, y les prometo que yo lo odio más que cualquier persona que está viendo esto — es fundamental”, declaró.

En Virginia, los casos han aumentado a tal grado en ciudades como Norfolk y Virginia Beach que el gobernador demócrata Ralph Northam impuso límites a la venta de alcohol y a las concentraciones de más de 50 personas en dichas localidades. Northam, el único gobernador del país con un título en medicina, hizo mención del aumento de infecciones entre los jóvenes y señaló que el problema es que “hay demasiada gente egoísta”.

“Todos sabemos que el alcohol te nubla el juicio”, comentó. “Simplemente ya no te importa tanto mantener una distancia social después de un par de tragos”.

La doctora Demetria Lindsay, directora del Departamento de Salud para los distritos de Virginia Beach y Norfolk, indicó que se ha registrado un pronunciado aumento de infecciones entre las personas de 20 a 29 años.

Dijo que entre los factores que propiciaron el aumento se encuentran las concentraciones de personas sin cubrebocas o que no guardan la distancia social.

n los primeros días de la crisis del coronavirus, el presidente Donald Trump aparecía en la sala de prensa de la Casa Blanca acompañado por un equipo de expertos en salud pública, en lo que parecía ser un frente unido contra la enfermedad que asediaba al mundo.

Pero a medida que la crisis se esparció a todos los rincones del país, con un creciente número de muertes y poca sensación de que el final esté cerca, la brecha entre el presidente y sus expertos de salud se ha vuelto más grande. El resultado: Una serie de mensajes contradictorios a diario en momentos en que se necesita más coherencia.

Trump y sus asesores políticos insisten en que Estados Unidos no tiene rival en su respuesta a la pandemia. Apuntan al hecho de que el país ha realizado más pruebas de diagnóstico que cualquier otra nación, y que el porcentaje de decesos entre los pacientes infectados es uno de los más bajos del mundo.

“En este momento, creo que está bajo control”, dijo Trump durante una entrevista con Axios. “Hemos hecho un gran trabajo”.

Pero el repunte de infecciones, hospitalizaciones y muertes narra una historia distinta. Y deja entrever que el presidente cada vez está más distanciado de los expertos médicos y de salud pública de su propio gobierno.

Se prevé que el saldo de muertes en Estados Unidos, que actualmente es de 155.000, se acelere.

El pronóstico compuesto más reciente de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC por sus iniciales en inglés) proyecta un promedio de casi 1.000 decesos diarios hasta el 22 de agosto.

La doctora Deborah Birx, coordinadora del grupo de trabajo contra el coronavirus de la Casa Blanca, advirtió esta semana que el virus se ha “propagado de manera extraordinaria”.

A Trump no le gustó eso. Le restó importancia a su comentario, describiéndolo como “patético”, y la acusó de doblegarse a las críticas de la presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes Nancy Pelosi, quien horas antes había arremetido contra Birx.

El almirante Brett Giroir, subsecretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos que ha evitado contradecir al presidente a lo largo de la crisis, declaró el domingo que era momento de “dejar atrás” el debate sobre la hidroxicloroquina, el medica-

COVID19: Trump y sus asesores políticos insisten en

que Estados Unidos no tiene rival en su respuesta a la pandemia.| Foto / Wikipedia mento que Trump sigue promoviendo como un tratamiento eficaz contra el COVID-19, a pesar de que no existe una evidencia contundente al respecto.

El doctor Robert Redfield, director de los CDC, reconoció la semana pasada en una entrevista con ABC News que la respuesta inicial del gobierno federal a la pandemia fue demasiado lenta.

“No es una distanciamiento con el presidente, es un abismo”, dijo Lawrence Gostin, experto de salud pública de la Universidad de Georgetown.

“Lo que estamos viendo es que los científicos ya no serán amedrentados por la Casa Blanca”.

Hasta hace poco, los expertos médicos en el grupo de trabajo contra el coronavirus de la Casa Blanca caminaban sobre la cuerda floja. Habían estado presionando por proporcionarle al público la mejor información científica mientras al mismo tiempo intentaban no contradecir directamente a Trump — con la esperanza de mantener influencia en el proceso de toma de decisiones.

Tales esfuerzos se han desarrollado, por momentos, como una danza incómoda.

Ya son varios meses en que la presidencia ha controlado el horario de atención a la prensa del doctor Anthony Fauci, quien irritó al mandatario y a sus asesores en los primeros días de la pandemia, debido a la atención desmedida que recibía de la prensa y a la percepción de su disposición para contradecir al presidente, según tres funcionarios de la Casa Blanca y republicanos allegados al Ala Oeste y que hablaron bajo condición de anonimato a fin de revelar conversaciones privadas.

Fauci, el principal experto en enfermedades infecciosas del país, ha adoptado un tono mucho más cauteloso que Trump o cualquier otro miembro del grupo de trabajo sobre la “reapertura” del país, desatando la frustración de un presidente

que ve al resurgimiento económico como la clave para ganarse otros cuatro años en el poder.

Hasta hace poco, Birx aún contaba con el apoyo del presidente, aunque sus descripciones optimistas de la lucha contra la pandemia recientemente generaron escepticismo entre los demócratas y otros funcionarios de salud pública. Pero Trump también arremetió contra Birx en privado, así como en sus comentarios públicos de esta semana, por no expresarse con mayor optimismo sobre los estados que gozaban de una buena situación y por decir que tenía un “enorme respeto” por Pelosi, relataron los funcionarios.

Durante la pandemia, algunos funcionarios de salud pública del gobierno han expresado en privado sus inquietudes a miembros de la presidencia, indicándoles que tienen miedo de contradecir al mandatario incluso mientras intentan enfocarse en los datos e información científica detrás de la respuesta gubernamental, señalaron funcionarios.

Pero públicamente existe una labor coordinada para mostrarse como un frente unido y que la Oficina Oval habla con una sola voz.

Redfield refutó el lunes que los funcionarios de salud intenten distanciarse del presidente.

“No creo que eso sea preciso”, dijo Redfield en una entrevista. “Creo que nos comunicamos con libertad y directamente de lo que vemos de la epidemia como miembros del grupo de trabajo”.

El lunes, Trump pareció revertir sus críticas a Birx por “picar el anzuelo” de Pelosi y señaló que tenía un enorme respeto por la doctora.

Insinuó que se desató su frustración debido a que su gobierno no recibe suficiente crédito por realizarles pruebas de diagnóstico a tantas personas o por presionar para reabastecer el suministro de respiradores durante los primeros días de la crisis.

“Bueno, yo creo que lo estamos haciendo muy bien”, dijo Trump.

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a junta de Texas que certifica a los médicos advirtió el martes que podría tomar medidas contra quienes promocionen falsamente una cura para el COVID-19.

La Junta Médica de Texas emitió su advertencia luego de que una pastora y médica del área de Houston, la doctora Stella Immanuel, promovió públicamente a la hidroxicloroquina como una cura para la enfermedad cau-

sada por el coronavirus, reportó el diario Houston Chronicle.

Varios estudios han revelado que la hidroxicloroquina no ayuda a combatir el virus y la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA por sus siglas en inglés) ha pedido no utilizarla para atender a pacientes contagiados debido a los reportes que vinculan al fármaco con problemas cardíacos y otras afecciones.

En un video que se

volvió viral la semana pasada e incluso llamó la atención del presidente Donald Trump, Immanuel dijo que si todos tomaran hidroxicloroquina, el virus se detendría por completo en 30 días. Señaló que era “ciencia falsa” decir que el medicamento no funciona como una cura.

Trump ha dicho en repetidas ocasiones que la hidroxicloroquina es un tratamiento seguro y efectivo contra el COVID-19, afirmación que ha sido refutada por expertos médi-

cos.

El video fue eliminado por Twitter por compartir información falsa. También fue retirado de Facebook y YouTube.

Immanuel dijo que ha utilizado el fármaco en más de 400 pacientes, incluidos ancianos, asmáticos y diabéticos.

“Las grandes compañías tecnológicas están censurando a los expertos y reprimiendo la cura. No me silenciarán”, tuiteó Immanuel.

El doctor Robin Arm-

strong, director médico en un asilo de ancianos de Texas y funcionario estatal del Partido Republicano, ha dicho que también ha proporcionado hidroxicloroquina a 35 residentes que dieron positivo al COVID-19, pero no habían desarrollado síntomas. Y el médico Joseph Varon, jefe de personal del United Memorial Medical Center, ha dicho que el medicamento fue parte de un “coctel” que el centro médico ha dado a sus pacientes y que ha funcionado

“de maravilla”.

El Houston Chronicle dijo que no estaba claro si Armstrong y Varon seguían tratando a sus pacientes contagiados con el fármaco.

En su comunicado, la Junta Médica de Texas dijo que a pesar de que hay medicamentos y terapias para tratar el COVID-19, no hay una cura definitiva y que la comunidad médica sigue “aprendiendo, investigando y adquiriendo conocimientos sobre el virus”.

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