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Ohio’s COVID cases per 100K people climbs back over 400

After weeks of declining COVID-19 transmission rates, Ohio saw an increase in cases per 100,000 people over two weeks.

Ohio reported an average of 410.5 cases per 100,000 people over two weeks, according to the Ohio Department of Health. On Nov. 4, the state recorded 354.3 cases per 100,000.

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All of Ohio’s 88 counties reported fewer than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people. The CDC’s definition of a high COVID transmission rate is 100 case per 100,000 people. None of the counties had fewer than 100 cases per 100,000. Defiance County had the highest transmission rate with 908.4 cases per 100,000 people. Athens County reported 176 cases per 100,000, the fewest reported in the state.

Source: Ohio’s COVID cases per 100K people climbs back over 400

Ohio’s COVID cases per 100K people climbs back over 400

After weeks of declining COVID-19 transmission rates, Ohio saw an increase in cases per 100,000 people over two weeks.

Ohio reported an average of 410.5 cases per 100,000 people over two weeks, according to the Ohio Department of Health. On Nov. 4, the state recorded 354.3 cases per 100,000.

All of Ohio’s 88 counties reported fewer than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people. The CDC’s definition of a high COVID transmission rate is 100 case per 100,000 people. None of the counties had fewer than 100 cases per 100,000. Defiance County had the highest transmission rate with 908.4 cases per 100,000 people. Athens County reported 176 cases per 100,000, the fewest reported in the state.

Source: Ohio’s COVID cases per 100K people climbs back over 400

Finally, A Settlement In Flint – by Erin Brockovich and Suzanne Boothby – The Brockovich Report

On Wednesday a judge approved a $626 million deal to settle lawsuits filed by the people of Flint, making money available to those most vulnerable—the children who were exposed to unsafe, toxic levels of lead in their drinking water. Adults with injuries, business owners, and anyone who paid water bills at that time will also have access to money from the settlement.

An estimated 10,000 kids were exposed to drinking water with unsafe levels of lead in Flint, a town of about 100,000 people.

It’s now November 2021 and this crisis began in April 2014. That’s 7 years! That’s way too long for any family to deal with health issues and water problems, and all the fear that goes with them.

Source: Finally, A Settlement In Flint – by Erin Brockovich and Suzanne Boothby – The Brockovich Report

Failed Rainy Seasons, Harvests Failing, Dried River – Climate Change is Happening – FunWritings

Let us wake up and show compassion for the people who are suffering in Africa today There might be something you can do to help them to live in a better way If the earth gets any warmer, trees will not grow anymore Let us try to make an effort to change our ways so…

Source: Failed Rainy Seasons, Harvests Failing, Dried River – Climate Change is Happening – FunWritings

COP-26 : « Notre résistance collective pour défendre nos territoires ancestraux fait partie d’une proposition urgente et nécessaire des peuples autochtones qui s’aligne sur notre appel à protéger au moins 80% de la forêt amazonienne avant 2025. » Il est maintenant temps de « Exit Amazon Oil & Gas » – « Sortir du pétrole et du gaz de l’Amazonie » et d’autres industries extractives ! 

Barbara Crane Navarro

Peuples indigènes de la forêt amazonienne

Les dirigeants autochtones de toute l’Amazonie ont adopté une résolution visant à protéger 80% de la forêt tropicale d’ici 2025 lors du Congrès mondial de la nature de l’UICN en septembre 2021. Aujourd’hui, à la COP-26, ils continuent d’appeler les gouvernements, les entreprises et les sociétés financières du monde entier à mettre fin au financement d’industries extractives de la région amazonienne.

«L’industrie des combustibles fossiles a passé des décennies à nier et à retarder une action réelle sur la crise climatique, c’est pourquoi il s’agit d’un problème si énorme. Leur influence est l’une des principales raisons pour lesquelles 25 ans de pourparlers sur le climat de l’ONU n’ont pas conduit à de réelles réductions des émissions mondiales. »

  • Global Witness – (Témoin global)

Sur les quelque 40 000 personnes présentes à la COP-26, le gouvernement brésilien dispose de la plus grande équipe officielle de…

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DAILY DOSE: Activists keeping COP26 honest; Darwin’s notebooks are still missing. — Scientific Inquirer

Barbara Crane Navarro

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER With COP26 chugging along in all its self-congratulatory, pledge-heavy glory, boots-on-the-ground activists are raising their voices and concerns on the streets of Glasgow. Per Al-Jazeera, “Activists criticised plans by corporations and governments to solve the climate change emergency through opaque carbon-trading schemes instead of urgently shutting down fossil fuel productionas…

DAILY DOSE: Activists keeping COP26 honest; Darwin’s notebooks are still missing. — Scientific Inquirer

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Federal judge rules Texas schools can issue mask mandates. – The New York Times

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates in Texas schools violates the rights of students with disabilities, clearing the path for districts in the state to issue their own rules for face coverings, a decision that could affect more than 5 million students.

The ruling comes after months of politicized disputes over measures at the state level opposing mask-wearing policies that had been intended to prevent the spread of Covid.

The lawsuit, which sought to overturn the mandate, was filed on behalf of several families of students with disabilities and the organization Disability Rights Texas.

They stated that the defendants — the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton; the commissioner of the Texas Education Agency, Mike Morath; and the Texas Education Agency — had put students with disabilities at risk through their complete erasure of mask mandates.