Palestinians launched a COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Tuesday, with health workers receiving the first shots after the delivery of doses from Israel.
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WHO team in Wuhan says discussions open, meetings frank

World Health Organization investigators looking for clues into the origin of the coronavirus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan say the Chinese side has provided a high level of cooperation but caution against expecting immediate results from the visit
How one of the world’s wettest major cities ran out of water

The ancient south Indian port city of Chennai has become a case study in what can go wrong when industrialization, urbanization and extreme weather converge.
Myanmar coup: UN chief Guterres calls for failure of military takeover

The UN’s secretary general calls the takeover “unacceptable” and pledges international pressure.
Coronavirus tracker: 12,872 new cases and 545 new deaths reported Tuesday in California
According to Tuesday’s end-of-day totals from California public health websites, there were 421 fewer hospitalizations from the previous day, lowering the total of hospitalizations to 14,578.
California communities reported 12,872 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases to 3,335,654. There were 545 new deaths reported Tuesday, for a total of 41,881 people who have died from the virus.
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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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Trader Joe’s doubles COVID-19 ‘thank you’ wage to extra $4 per hour
Trader Joe’s doubles COVID-19 ‘thank you’ wage to extra $4 per hour
Good on Trader Joe!

MONROVIA — Trader Joe’s is raising its workers’ pay by an additional $2 an hour — for a total of $4 — during the coronavirus pandemic as Los Angeles weighs an ordinance that would mandate an extra $5 an hour for many workers at large grocery stores and pharmacies.
The raise doubles the $2-an-hour bump the Monrovia-based company began offering last year.
“Since the beginning of the pandemic, Trader Joe’s has provided all hourly crew members with an additional $2/hr ‘thank you’ wage, in recognition of the outstanding, inspiring work they do every day, in our stores and communities,” the company announced on its website.
Effective Feb. 1, “the ‘thank you’ premium for all hourly, non-management crew members, was increased by $2, for a total of $4 an hour. Moreover, during this time, we have offered crew members a few additional ways to qualify for and maintain health insurance. We want crew members to have the opportunity to take extended time off without repercussions to their benefits.”
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to move forward with a proposed emergency ordinance that would require grocery and pharmacy retailers with 300 or more employees nationally and 10 or more employees on site to add the $5 hazard pay to all hourly, non-managerial employees’ wages for 120 days.
The council directed the city attorney to prepare the ordinance and the chief legislative analyst to report on potential economic impacts of the measure and potential legal challenges.
The city of Long Beach recently enacted an emergency ordinance for $4 per hour in hazard pay, but it was challenged in court by the California Grocers Association. A hearing is scheduled on Feb. 19.
The Kroger Co. announced Monday that it will be shuttering two of its stores in Long Beach — a Ralphs location and a Food4Less store — in response to that city’s hazard pay ordinance. The United Food and Commercial Workers union blasted Kroger’s decision as an attack on workers.
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Combined COVID mutations discovered in the UK
Boris turned UK into a petri dish for new variants… turn him out!

A South African variant of coronavirus, now also in the UK, is making an existing mutation there more infectious and may even reduce the effect of vaccines.
Country Star Morgan Wallen Rebuked by Music Business After Using Racial Slur
No one held you down… own it and get a different day job!

The musician apologized in a statement to TMZ, saying, “I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back.”
Top Space Force general says ‘America owns space’ in part due to companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Shilling for Musk – time for retirement and no big job with Musk either.

Companies and investors continue to pour into the space industry, with the recent successes of private ventures of interest to the U.S. Space Force.
Omar slams GOP ‘whitewashing,’ false equivalency with Greene
GOP racism is obvious and evil!

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday slammed the push by a handful of GOP lawmakers to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee as a racist and misogynistic attempt to draw false equivalency with the controve…
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