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Iowa nurse uncovers error on state coronavirus database that lowered case tally | TheHill

A nurse practitioner in Iowa City, Iowa, uncovered a glitch in the state’s coronavirus website that has caused the site to mistakenly report lower numbers of new COVID-19 cases and, by extension, a lower statewide infection rate, resulting in state agencies making decisions based on inaccurate numbers.

The Associated Press reported Monday that Dana Jones, the nurse who uncovered the problem, was contacted by the Iowa Department of Public Health in an email confirming the validity of her discovery and noting that the agency is working to fix the problem. The inaccurate data, however, was not reported or announced publicly until Jones spoke with the AP.

 

Source: Iowa nurse uncovers error on state coronavirus database that lowered case tally | TheHill

Trump tried to block aid to California fire victims, former official says – Los Angeles Times

“He told us to stop giving money to people whose houses had burned down from a wildfire because he was so rageful that people in the state of California didn’t support him and that politically it wasn’t a base for him,” Miles Taylor, who left the Trump administration in 2019, claims in the ad.

“A lot of the time, the things he wanted to do not only were impossible but, in many cases, illegal,” Taylor said, recalling how Trump “didn’t want” to hear aides inform him that his policies wouldn’t stand up to legal challenges.

“These were his words: He knew that he had ‘magical authorities,’” Taylor said, recalling a phrase he said Trump used to brush off questions from aides.

 

Source: Trump tried to block aid to California fire victims, former official says – Los Angeles Times

LA Unified Schools Will Offer ‘Periodic’ Coronavirus Tests To All Staff, Students This Year

LAUSD leaders announced plans Sunday to provide periodic coronavirus testing to nearly half-a-million students and more than 66,000 employees over the course of the coming year, all as part of a broader effort to research COVID-19 and determine whether school reopening is safe.

“The health system, ideally, would be doing this,” LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner said in an interview Sunday, “but the health system hasn’t responded quickly enough to the need.” (Beutner was careful not to lay blame with any specific public or private entity.)

“We can’t wait,” Beutner added later, “because we need to make sure our teachers and those working in schools are safe. We need to make sure our students can get back to school as soon as reasonably possible.”

 

Source: LA Unified Schools Will Offer ‘Periodic’ Coronavirus Tests To All Staff, Students This Year

Caribbean Travel – This Caribbean Island Is Shutting Down Again As Regional Coronavirus Cases Continue Uptick

The U.S. Virgin Islands, which reopened its borders to tourists in June, now has 741 cases but its death tally remains at 9. Governor Albert Bryan Jr. announced the U.S. Virgin Islands will close its doors once again to leisure visitors, effective August 19, 2020, for a period of at least one month.

The Caribbean region added another 1,500 new cases in total Sunday.

 

Source: Caribbean Travel – This Caribbean Island Is Shutting Down Again As Regional Coronavirus Cases Continue Uptick

Harris ‘electrifies’ West Indian voters — and gives Biden a new edge in Florida — Repeating Islands

Marc Caputo (Politico) writes about Kamala Harris’s effect on Caribbean voters, stating that “the Black West Indian diaspora community is a little-discussed but increasingly influential slice of the electorate of the nation’s biggest swing state.” Almost as soon as Kamala Harris became the first woman of Jamaican-Indian descent to be nominated for vice president, a […]

Harris ‘electrifies’ West Indian voters — and gives Biden a new edge in Florida — Repeating Islands

What Makes Trump an Autocrat? — The Weekly Sift

The most dangerous thing about Trump is that he doesn’t see his power as belonging to the Office of the Presidency. It belongs to Donald J. Trump. When used sloppily, the word autocrat is little more than an insult. An “autocrat” may simply be an executive who makes decisions you don’t like, one who acts […]

What Makes Trump an Autocrat? — The Weekly Sift

Territoire Yanomami, rio Putaco, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela – NON à la destruction des terres indigènes par l’Arc minier de l’Orénoque de Maduro au Venezuela !!!

Barbara Crane Navarro

Territoire Yanomami, rio Putaco, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela.

Forêt du Jaguar – dessin sur papier – Meromi Yanomami 

NON à la destruction des terres indigènes par l’Arc minier de l’Orénoque de Maduro au Venezuela !!!

NON à la suppression par Bolsonaro des protections pour les territoires autochtones du Brésil !!!

NON à l’OR DU SANG !!!

EXPOSITION “Pas de Cartier !” – Les YANOMAMI et les ARBRES – Mines d’or et articles de luxe en or – COVID-19 propagé par des mineurs d’or… 3 septembre – 4 octobre 2020

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Wyden: FBI didn’t share information related to GOP Obama-era probe with Dems | TheHill

“Based on this letter, it is evident that not only has most of the requested Crossfire Hurricane information that has been provided to the committees not been provided to the ranking members and their staffs, but Democrats were not informed of its existence,” Wyden wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Hill.

Source: Wyden: FBI didn’t share information related to GOP Obama-era probe with Dems | TheHill