US hot spots see COVID-19 level off, but case counts stay high | CIDRAP

Today, Florida reported 191 fatalities and 9,230 new cases, bringing that state’s total to 440,000. According to Reuters, Florida now has the second-most COVID-19 cases in the country, after California. Florida had previously reached a record-high average of daily new cases of 11,870 on Jul 17.

Yesterday, Birx recommended that Tennessee Governor Bill Lee close the state’s bars and indoor restaurants due to increasing positivity rates throughout the state. Lee said he has no plans to do so, according to The Tennessean.

“red zones,” states with more than 100 new cases per 100,000 people, in the past week. Those states now include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin

 

Source: US hot spots see COVID-19 level off, but case counts stay high | CIDRAP

Police Allege Umbrella Man is a White Nationalist

Police identified the suspect thanks to a tip that came via email last week, Christensen said.

Police have also connected the 32-year-old man to a widely publicized incident in Stillwater late last month, in which a Muslim woman was confronted by a group of men wearing white supremacist garb.

Christensen says in the affidavit that she had spent countless hours watching videos across TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, and various other social media platforms to try and identify the man, to no success. Further investigation revealed that the man was also connected to an incident in June where a Muslim woman was harassed by members of the Aryan Cowboy Brotherhood, a white supremacist gang based in Minnesota and Kentucky.

Source: Police Allege Umbrella Man is a White Nationalist

Gov. Scott Seeks To Reassure Public On School Start, Delays Reopening To September | Vermont Public Radio

Gov. Phil Scott will delay school reopenings to Sept. 8 to give educators and administrators time to implement procedures needed to keep students and teachers safe from COVID-19.

Many schools were scheduled to resume classes in late August. But Scott said schools need more time to develop plans that can involve remote learning, in-person education, and a hybrid model of online education and classes in school.

“I know anxiety is high even while the health data and experts clearly support in-person instruction,” Scott said at his Tuesday news briefing. “And I can assure you that, if necessary, we will not hesitate to act to protect our students and school employees.”

 

Source: Gov. Scott Seeks To Reassure Public On School Start, Delays Reopening To September | Vermont Public Radio

Facebook Censors Viral Video of Doctors’ Capitol Hill Coronavirus Press Conference

Good move – “Doctor” is a money oriented person that believes high notice will get more money. Facebook removed a live video stream posted by Breitbart News earlier today, which at the time of removal was the top-performing Facebook post in the world, of a press conference in D.C. featuring frontline doctors speaking out against misinformation about COVID-19.

It is matters of time

time has come today

Ismael Mansoor

The power is safe.
But He is coming.
Yes, they made contact.
Others are coming with Him.
The truth has to get Peace
Oh, if you don’t find him, everything,
Everything and everything will be lost.
Your majestic, have you heard anything from him?
We need to make decisions,
Because He is coming
It will be all out to the hope of one man.
Where is Peace?
It is matters of time oh such urgent!
The truth has already begun
And Peace must be found immediately!

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A 20-Year-Old Black Medical Student Is Writing a Guide on How Common Medical Symptoms Appear on Dark Skin

A Zimbabwe-born medical student living in London is filling in an important blind spot in the medical community: informing healthcare providers and patients how symptoms for a broad range of conditions appear on darker skin. It’s the kind of problem that feels shockingly outdated for the 21st century, but as 20-year-old St. George student Malone Mukwende recently told the Washington Post, the lack of teaching about darker skin tones, and how certain symptoms would present differently on nonwhite skin, was obvious by his first class at the University of London school.

In the spirit of community input, the Mind The Gap team intends for the manual to be a “live document,” with ongoing contributions from patients, medical students and clinicians, the Post reports.

The input is crucial to the manual’s mission. While other texts on how to assess medical symptoms on darker skin have been written, Mind the Gap aims to be unique in its accessibility and its ability to be responsive to the people who use it.

Dr. Minal Singh, the curriculum director at the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Manchester, told The Post the book identifies “an absolute need” in the medical community, one that centers Black and darker-skinned patients in a much-needed way.

“It’s not so much just the visual pictures that are important,” said Singh, “it’s understanding the story the patient has told.”

Source: A 20-Year-Old Black Medical Student Is Writing a Guide on How Common Medical Symptoms Appear on Dark Skin

New Jersey’s quarantine advisory list expanded to 36 states, territories – (President not doing his job, so states have to act as if they are the nation)

The travel advisory applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents or a 10% or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average.

Travelers and residents who may be returning from impacted states are asked to self-quarantine at their home, hotel, or other temporary lodging.

Source: New Jersey’s quarantine advisory list expanded to 36 states, territories

Coronavirus cases in Texas nursing homes more than doubled in July | The Texas Tribune

On Monday, the state released data on COVID-19 cases in Texas nursing homes after initially arguing that the information wasn’t subject to public disclosure.

COVID-19 infections have exploded in Texas nursing homes this month, with 8,291 confirmed cases through Monday — four times more than the number of cases recorded in all of June, according to the state’s health agency.

Texas initially required all nursing home residents and staff to be tested, but has since switched to less sweeping, targeted testing.

Last week, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services committed to sending testing devices to nursing homes. The agency has allocated 57 of those devices so far to Texas facilities that have reported at least three confirmed COVID-19 cases in the previous week or one case among their staff or one death in the previous week.

But with more than 1,200 nursing homes and 2,000 assisted-living facilities in Texas, 57 devices are “not nearly enough,” Tran said.

Source: Coronavirus cases in Texas nursing homes more than doubled in July | The Texas Tribune

“Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests”: In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights — ProPublica

Federal authorities are using a new tactic in their battle against protesters in Portland, Oregon: arrest them on offenses as minor as “failing to obey” an order to get off a sidewalk on federal property — and then tell them they can’t protest anymore as a condition for release from jail.

Legal experts describe the move as a blatant violation of the constitutional right to free assembly, but at least 12 protesters arrested in recent weeks have been specifically barred from attending protests or demonstrations as they await trials on federal misdemeanor charges.

Source: “Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests”: In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights — ProPublica

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