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Sicily asks Cuba to send medics as Italy fights second Covid wave | Italy | The Guardian

Authorities in Sicily have asked Cuba’s government to send about 60 healthcare workers, including doctors and nurses, to the region as hospitals in the Italian island struggle with a shortage of medical personnel during the second coronavirus wave.

The request was filed this week to the Italian embassy in Cuba and refers to intensive care specialists, nurses, anaesthetists, resuscitators, virologists and pneumologists, the Italian newspaper la Repubblica reported.

Source: Sicily asks Cuba to send medics as Italy fights second Covid wave | Italy | The Guardian

Tianxi Wang

Fish-33.jpg There are as many fish releasers as fishers by the river. These two crowds attempt to ignore each other, which allows them to maintain a tricky balance. The connection between them is the fish sellers. Fishers catch fish and sell them to the sellers, then the sellers sell fish to the releasers, whom later releases the fish back to the river. Such a perfect and balanced cycle.  For the fish releasers, releasing the fish probably fulfills some of their emotional needs. Some fish were thrown as high as possible into the river as if it the height decides how many merits and virtues the releaser would accumulate. A few pieces of fish scales fell off to the water, reflecting subtle light, while the fish seemed to be knocked out. Fortunately, some turned over a few seconds later and swam away.  There are as many ways of releasing the fish as catching them. What most of the releasers do is to purchase fish from the fish sellers, recite scriptures, then pour the fish into the river. Some rather faithful ones would be reciting scriptures for over one or two hours before releasing the fish.

Fish-11.jpg Source: Tianxi Wang

Coronavirus: U.S. Supreme Court rules against New York limits on religious services – National | Globalnews.ca

(Bogus court rules against public heath in decision that does not uphold first amendment but corrupts it to support theocracy and not separation of church and state.)  Source: Coronavirus: U.S. Supreme Court rules against New York limits on religious services – National | Globalnews.ca

Feds Propose More Than 6,000 Square Miles of Coral Habitat Protections in Florida, Caribbean, Pacific — Repeating Islands

A report from the Center for Biological Diversity. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced two proposed rules today to designate more than 6,000 square miles of critical habitat protections for 12 threatened coral species off Florida, in the Caribbean and in the Pacific Ocean. The rules were prompted by a legal settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity, which sued […]

Feds Propose More Than 6,000 Square Miles of Coral Habitat Protections in Florida, Caribbean, Pacific — Repeating Islands

Mass. reports highest-ever number of new COVID-19 cases after technological issue

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 3,224 confirmed COVID-19 cases Wednesday, bringing the statewide total to 207,284.

This marks the highest number of new confirmed cases that state health officials have reported since the coronavirus hit Massachusetts.

Wednesday’s report was issued more than an hour and a half later than normal. The DPH says the delay was caused by a technological issue that resulted in an interruption of the data download.

Source: Mass. reports highest-ever number of new COVID-19 cases after technological issue

Texas bars use restaurant loophole to reopen during the pandemic | The Texas Tribune (lack of courage to take on and control virus is killing and sickening Texas – needlessly!)

If the current trend continues — over 8,300 Texans were hospitalized with confirmed coronavirus infections Monday, up by nearly 900 from last week — “there may be a time in which it is appropriate to shut down bars and restaurants completely,” Norwood said.

Austin health officials agree.

“We are at a precarious spot right now where cases are rising across the country,  cases are rising across Texas,” said Mark Escott, interim Austin-Travis County health authority, before adding, “We really have to find a way to stabilize things to avoid that surge.”

But Abbott, who has concentrated power within himself to take action on COVID-19, said he has no plans to do so. He did not respond to requests for comment.

Source: Texas bars use restaurant loophole to reopen during the pandemic | The Texas Tribune

California, Texas shatter single-day nationwide record for new coronavirus cases | TheHill

California reported around 18,350 cases and Texas reported nearly 16,100 according to The Washington Post. The numbers are about 3,000 and 1,000 more cases than California and Texas had previously reported, respectively, as record highs.

Both states are currently the first and only in the U.S. to surpass 1 million coronavirus cases.

The Post reports that almost 2,300 deaths were reported nationally, making Wednesday the deadliest day in the U.S. since May

Source: California, Texas shatter single-day nationwide record for new coronavirus cases | TheHill