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Coronavirus tracker: California reported 2,901 new cases, 224 new deaths as of Feb. 28

The end-of-day totals from California public health websites for Sunday, Feb. 28, registered 2,901 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases there have been in the state to 3,544,572.

The 14-day total of new cases, 5,815, is down 86.2% from the Jan. 1 high of 42,268.

There were 224 new deaths reported Sunday, for a total of 52,203 people in California who have died from the virus.

Hospitalizations also continue to decline. There were 5,409 hospitalizations of people with coronavirus-related infections reported on Sunday. That’s a 76% drop since the Jan. 1 high of 22,853 people who needed hospital care.

 

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Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Johns Hopkins University, the World Health Organization, the California Department of Public Health, The Associated Press, reporting counties and news sources

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Starting today, March 1, Los Angeles County’s food and agriculture workers can receive the free COVID-19 vaccine. It’s part of a push to broaden vaccine eligibility and speed up the timeline for inoculating Californians.

“In addition to getting vaccinated at any public site,” the L.A. County Department of Public Health says specific groups of people can make appointments to get vaccinated on specific days at county-run MegaPODs. (MegaPODs are just massive vaccination sites. POD = Point Of Distribution.)

For food and agriculture workers, those days are Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Source: Food And Agriculture Workers Can Now Get Vaccinated In LA County: LAist

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In a recent report conducted by The New Economics Foundation one in three people will be living in hardship by May despite the universal Credit Working Tax Credit £20 uplift hopefully being extended. The New Economics Foundation also reports that 21.7 million people will still not have a decent standard of living even if the […]

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Madison Cawthorn Lied About Crash That Partially Paralyzed Him, Pal Says | HuffPost

“It hurt very badly that he would say something as false as that,” Ledford told the paper. “That is not at all what happened. I pulled him out of the car the second that I was able to get out of the car.” That was just one element of a story rich with lies, the Post reported. Cawthorn claimed he was “declared dead” after the wreck. He wasn’t. The police report noted he was “incapacitated.” Cawthorn said he was preparing before the crash to start studies at the U.S. Naval Academy ― a boast that he eventually turned into a campaign ad. But the news outlet AVL Watchdog reported in August that Cawthorn had been rejected by the Naval Academy before the crash. Cawthorn, now 25, exploited his tale of his crash at age 18 for his successful 2020 House campaign. He’s now the youngest House representative. He has become one of the most vocal peddlers of the claim that the presidential election was fraudulently stolen from Donald Trump, another lie. Yet in a stunning confession last month, he admitted he has no evidence of election fraud. “I think I would say the election was not fraudulent,” Cawthorn said on CNN.

Source: Madison Cawthorn Lied About Crash That Partially Paralyzed Him, Pal Says | HuffPost

Tocilizumab in Hospitalized Patients with Severe Covid-19 Pneumonia | NEJM – (no positive effect)

In this trial involving hospitalized patients with severe Covid-19 pneumonia, we found no significant difference in clinical status between the tocilizumab group and the placebo group at day 28. No mortality benefit was associated with the use of tocilizumab, although the trial was not powered for this outcome.  Source: Tocilizumab in Hospitalized Patients with Severe Covid-19 Pneumonia | NEJM

Valor and Disability

A Lawyer's Prayers

Public Notice for the Invalid Corps (1863), Author US War Dept. (PD)

The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them” (Matt. 11: 5).

In the midst of a brutal Civil War, the need for manpower was so great that the US War Dept. on April 28, 1863 created the Invalid Corps a/k/a Veteran Reserve Corps [1].

Comprised of men severely disabled by wounds or disease, the Invalid Corps was to have been an honor corps of soldiers who had already served faithfully, but would now be assigned light tasks in order to free up healthy men for the front lines.

Instead, the Invalid Corps was despised by one and all – its members reviled as cripples, cowards, and malingerers.

Despite this, the Invalid Corps served valiantly.  Jeered…

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