The CDC Halted Evictions. Texas Judges Have Been Proceeding With Them Anyway.

At the end of March, without announcement or explanation, the Texas Supreme Court allowed that order to expire. Confused, Patronella called the court for guidance—was he supposed to enforce the CDC moratorium or not? 

“They said no,” he says. “The Supreme Court felt that the state of Texas should get out of the business of reviewing those affidavits and that that was something between the landlord and tenant.”

So he started allowing evictions to continue, even when the tenant complied with the federal law and presented a declaration saying they were covered by the CDC’s moratorium. By July 31, when the CDC’s national moratorium expired, only 12 percent of tenants in his courtroom had been able to successfully invoke the order to stay in their homes, according to January Advisors, a data analytics company based in Houston.  

Source: The CDC Halted Evictions. Texas Judges Have Been Proceeding With Them Anyway.

Brazil races to get the coronavirus vaccine despite president Bolsonaro’s skepticism – The Washington Post

Brazilians, even those who support Bolsonaro, have been largely tuning him out. As the delta variant bears down on Brazil, a country at odds over nearly everything has found common ground on the vaccine, assuaging fears that vaccine skepticism would undermine the country’s response to its devastating outbreak, and showing the limits of Bolsonaro’s powers of persuasion. Source: Brazil races to get the coronavirus vaccine despite president Bolsonaro’s skepticism – The Washington Post

APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Coronavirus – South Africa: COVID-19 Statistics for Republic of South Africa (16 August 2021)

As of today the cumulative number of #COVID19 cases identified in SA is 2, 613, 569 with 7, 983 new cases reported.  Source: APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Coronavirus – South Africa: COVID-19 Statistics for Republic of South Africa (16 August 2021)

Russia-Linked Ad Agency Smeared Vaccines Using Hundreds of Fake Instagram Accounts – Slashdot

Facebook said Tuesday that it has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a mysterious advertising agency operating out of Russia that sought to pay social media influencers to smear Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca. A network of 65 Facebook accounts and 243 Instagram accounts was traced back to Fazze, an advertising and marketing firm working in Russia on behalf of an unknown client.

The network used fake accounts to spread misleading claims that disparaged the safety of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines. One claimed AstraZeneca’s shot would turn a person into a chimpanzee. The fake accounts targeted audiences in India, Latin America and, to a lesser extent, the U.S., using several social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram. Russia has been actively marketing its Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, abroad in what some analysts see as an effort to score geopolitical points… Source: Russia-Linked Ad Agency Smeared Vaccines Using Hundreds of Fake Instagram Accounts – Slashdot

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