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African Americans make up over 70% of Chicago's COVID-19 deaths,
CBS News•April 7, 2020


More than half of the people in Chicago who have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, and over 70% of those who have died are African Americans, health officials and Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday. African Americans make up 30% of the city's population, according to the city's data.
According to data shared by the city on Sunday, 98 people have died from COVID-19 in Chicago. Of those 98 deaths, 67 were African American.
"Fifty-two percent of our cases have been in black Chicagoans, and, most strikingly, 72% of our deaths here in Chicago," Chicago Public Health Department Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady, said Monday.
In addition, there has been significant under reporting within the Latinx community, CBS Chicago points out. Lightfoot noted that some of the city's more culturally tight-knit communities may be experiencing higher incidents of COVID-19.
"What is turning out to be a positive attribute is turning into a risk factor," Lightfoot said. "We are all in this crisis together, but we are not all experiencing this crisis in the same way."

African Americans make up over 70% of Chicago's COVID-19 deaths

African Americans make up 52% of all coronavirus cases in Chicago even though they only account for 30% of the total population.

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[TSU/BAMA]

And who was the M----rf----r that started the lie that black people don't get the virus?

 

[Storm96]

African Americans make up over 70% of Chicago's COVID-19 deaths,
CBS News•April 7, 2020


More than half of the people in Chicago who have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, and over 70% of those who have died are African Americans, health officials and Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday. African Americans make up 30% of the city's population, according to the city's data.
According to data shared by the city on Sunday, 98 people have died from COVID-19 in Chicago. Of those 98 deaths, 67 were African American.
"Fifty-two percent of our cases have been in black Chicagoans, and, most strikingly, 72% of our deaths here in Chicago," Chicago Public Health Department Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady, said Monday.
In addition, there has been significant under reporting within the Latinx community, CBS Chicago points out. Lightfoot noted that some of the city's more culturally tight-knit communities may be experiencing higher incidents of COVID-19.
"What is turning out to be a positive attribute is turning into a risk factor," Lightfoot said. "We are all in this crisis together, but we are not all experiencing this crisis in the same way."

African Americans make up over 70% of Chicago's COVID-19 deaths

African Americans make up 52% of all coronavirus cases in Chicago even though they only account for 30% of the total population.

news.yahoo.com

Blacks make up 70% of deaths in Louisiana as well. Everytime I see pix/articles of that white pastor in baton rouge who's defying the governor's orders I see Black folks going in the church, smh.

 

[Mace]

State health official: Coronavirus is disproportionately affecting black Mississippians
Giacomo Bologna, Mississippi Clarion LedgerPublished 5:32 p.m. CT April 6, 2020 | Updated 5:57 p.m. CT April 6, 2020

https://www.clarionledger.com/story...cans-disproportionately-affected/2953480001/#
A state health official told reporters Monday that Mississippi appears to be following a trend emerging in states across the nation: African Americans are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus.

"Early indications are, we're seeing similar (data) here in Mississippi that it is impacting the African American community at a little higher rate," said Jim Craig, senior deputy at the Mississippi Department of Health.

While some states have been releasing demographic data related to coronavirus, the Mississippi Department of Health has not. The Clarion Ledger filed a public records request for this information last week.

Jim Craig, senior deputy and director of health protection at the Mississippi State Department of Health, answers a reporter's question at the governor's news conference in Jackson, Miss., Monday, April 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) (Photo: Rogelio V. Solis, AP)

Craig said he did not know why COVID-19 appears to be disproportionately affecting black Mississippians, but said other health officials might be able to shed light on the issue.

Mississippi joins a growing list of state that is seeing relatively high rates of African Americans infected with coronavirus, including Michigan, North Carolina and Illinois.

State health official: Coronavirus is disproportionately affecting black Mississippians

Gov. Tate Reeves held a press conference Monday with other state officials to discuss the upcoming surge of coronavirus patients.

www.clarionledger.com

 

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WARNING!

The feds are stopping testing in Philadelphia and suburban Montgomery County - The numbers in coming weeks will look better because they are not testing.

Dont stop wear masks and using wipes!

 

[Olde Hornet]

Trump removes inspector general overseeing $2 trillion coronavirus relief package days after he was appointed

Trump removes inspector general overseeing $2 trillion coronavirus relief package days after he was appointed

The president has removed acting Pentagon Inspector General Glenn Fine, who was tapped last week to lead the committee charged with overseeing the $2 trillion coronavirus relief package.

www.cnbc.com

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has removed the lead watchdog overseeing the $2 trillion coronavirus package, just days after the official, Glenn Fine, was appointed to the role.

The move came as Trump pursued similar action in recent weeks against independent inspectors general across the federal government.

Fine had been the acting Pentagon inspector general until Monday afternoon, when Trump abruptly removed him from his post.

“Yesterday, the President nominated Mr. Jason Abend for the position of DoD Inspector General,” said Dwrena Allen, a spokesperson for the Defense Department’s Inspector General, in a statement to CNBC.

“The same day, the President also designated Mr. Sean W. O’Donnell, who is the Environmental Protection Agency Inspector General (EPA IG), to serve as the Acting DoD IG in addition to his current duties at the EPA,” Allen said.

 

[Olde Hornet]

I guess he did not find those polyps!

Acting Navy secretary quits after he ripped captain pleading for help over coronavirus

Acting Navy secretary quits after he ripped captain pleading for help over coronavirus

www.cnbc.com

WASHINGTON — The Navy’s top civilian has resigned following after he criticized an aircraft carrier captain who pleaded for help with a coronavirus outbreak on his ship, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The latest revelation comes hours after acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly apologized after ridiculing USS Theodore Roosevelt captain Brett Crozier.

 

[Olde Hornet]

Why some people of color say they won't wear homemade masks

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/us/face-masks-ethnicity-coronavirus-cdc-trnd/index.html

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that all Americans wear homemade face coverings in public to help stem the spread of coronavirus.
But Trevon Logan, an economics professor at Ohio State University, will not be following this guidance.

"We have a lot of examples of the presumed criminality of black men in general," Logan, who is black, told CNN. "And then we have the advice to go out in public in something that ... can certainly be read as being criminal or nefarious, particularly when applied to black men."

Logan is not alone in his concerns. On social media and in interviews with CNN, a number of people of color — activists, academics and ordinary Americans — expressed fears that homemade masks could exacerbate racial profiling and place blacks and Latinos in danger.

 

[Olde Hornet]

Trump said “nobody could have predicted” coronavirus. White House memos show his advisers did.

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/7/21211845/trump-coronavirus-memos-predicted

Trump was warned the coronavirus could kill 2 million Americans. Three days later, he said it was going away.

On Tuesday, Axios published internal White House memos that make the statements from President Donald Trump downplaying the coronavirus before it became a full-blown crisis look even more willfully ignorant.

A February 23 memo labeled as a “MEMORANDUM TO PRESIDENT” sent through the National Security Agency, then-acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and the Covid-19 task force warns in its very first sentence that “[t]here is an increasing probability of a full-blown COVID-19 pandemic that could infect as many as 100 million Americans, with a loss of life of as many as 1-2 million souls.”

Three days later, however, Trump held a news conference in which he suggested the coronavirus would soon go away on its own in the United States.

“When you have 15 [coronavirus cases], and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done,” Trump said.

 

[skyvolt2000]

This is one reason Home Economics should not have been taken out of high school. Those who took sewing...male or female could be making masks for family and friends.

22 states still require that class in high school.

17 REQUIRE that class on personal finance be taken in high school.

Texas requires it. New York, Louisiana & Missouri offers it.

California, Illinois, Wyoming & Wisconsin do not.

Also in some states that class is now called Life Skills.

And interesting enough that job is a hard to fill position for some schools. Including some colleges where the average class size is 10-20-made up of MEN.

 

[Herbert77060]

22 states still require that class in high school.

17 REQUIRE that class on personal finance be taken in high school.

Texas requires it. New York, Louisiana & Missouri offers it.

California, Illinois, Wyoming & Wisconsin do not.

Also in some states that class is now called Life Skills.

And interesting enough that job is a hard to fill position for some schools. Including some colleges where the average class size is 10-20-made up of MEN.

Not in HISD and that is in Texas

 

[Olde Hornet]

Has Anyone Found Trump’s Soul? Anyone?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/...rus-empathy.html?referringSource=articleShare

Americans are dying by the thousands, and he gloats about what a huge, rapt television audience he has. They’re confronting financial ruin and not sure how they’ll continue to pay for food and shelter, and he reprimands governors for not treating him with adequate adulation.

He’s not rising to the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. He’s shriveling into nothingness.

He’s not rising to the challenge before him, not even a millimeter. He’s shriveling into nothingness.

On Friday, when Trump relayed a new recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that all Americans wear face masks in public places, he went so far out of his way to stress that the coverings were voluntary and that he himself wouldn’t be going anywhere near one that he might as well have branded them Apparel for Skittish Losers. I’ve finally settled on his epitaph: “Donald J. Trump, too cool for the coronavirus.”

 

[Normal1875]

View: https://twitter.com/CarolynEast2/status/1247561884514971648?s=19


He was still making house calls to cut hair in Brookhaven.

 

[jag4life]

22 states still require that class in high school.

17 REQUIRE that class on personal finance be taken in high school.

Texas requires it. New York, Louisiana & Missouri offers it.

California, Illinois, Wyoming & Wisconsin do not.

Also in some states that class is now called Life Skills.

And interesting enough that job is a hard to fill position for some schools. Including some colleges where the average class size is 10-20-made up of MEN.

Which class does Texas require?

 

[Olde Hornet]

Polls: Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, trust Fauci.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ties-disapproving-trumps-handling/2967994001/

New polls released this week show most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic – a marked shift as the death toll climbs in the United States.

Trump, who is running for reelection in November, initially downplayed the threat posed by the coronavirus before taking action to mitigate its spread. His approval rating initially rose, but as the virus hammered the economy and more Americans became infected, views on how he has handled the outbreak have taken a negative turn.

In a CNN poll released Wednesday, 52% disapproved of how Trump was combating the virus, up from about 48% disapproval in early March's CNN poll. When asked about Trump's handling of the pandemic at the beginning of March, 41% approved and 48% disapproved.

The federal government as a whole fared worse in the CNN poll, with 55% disapproving of its response and 41% approving, compared with 48% approving and 47% disapproving in CNN's poll at the end of March.

 

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PPP loan plan a mess so far for small businesses riding out coronavirus crisis.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...rollout-disaster-small-businesses/2963901001/

Disaster. Fiasco. Debacle. That’s how the rollout of the Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) is widely described. PPP is the loan program aimed at helping small businesses and the self-employed keep their employees paid through the coronavirus crisis, with loans that can be "forgiven" – in other words, turned into a grant. But frankly, it’s just a mess.

As part of the CARES act passed in late March, Congress allocated $359 billion for small-business relief. PPP enables businesses to get loans of 2.5 times their average annual "payroll costs" and have those loans forgiven if they spend at least 75% of those funds on "payroll costs" within eight weeks. It’s designed to get paychecks to those working in small businesses quickly. It immediately became a very, very popular program.

(If you want more information on how to apply for the PPP program or other resources for small business and the self-employed, sign up for my newsletter at www.PlanningShop.com or follow one of my Facebook Live events at www.facebook.com/RhondaAbramsSmallBusiness. )

 

[Olde Hornet]

ABC News: US intelligence warned of China's spreading contagion in November

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/us-intelligence-report-china-coronavirus/index.html

Washington (CNN)US intelligence officials were warning as far back as late November that the novel coronavirus was spreading through China's Wuhan region and posing a threat to its people and daily life, according to ABC News.

The US military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) compiled a November intelligence report in which "analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," one of the sources of the NCMI's report told ABC News.

The source told ABC News that the intelligence report was then briefed "multiple times" to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's Joint Staff and the White House.
Repeated briefings were held through December across the US government, including the National Security Council, culminating in a detailed outline of the threat in the President's Daily Brief in early January, according to ABC News, whose report cited four sources briefed on the matter.

 

[skyvolt2000]

Which class does Texas require?

Some version of Health and Finance class. It varies by name in school districts.

I know there is a version for Special Edcaution kids. They help the kids manage money, ride the bus, shop, take care of a baby, cook, make things and get jobs.

 

[jag4life]

Some version of Health and Finance class. It varies by name in school districts.

I know there is a version for Special Edcaution kids. They help the kids manage money, ride the bus, shop, take care of a baby, cook, make things and get jobs.

Health is different than home economics. Texas does not require a Home Economics class for graduation.

 

[Olde Hornet]

Kansas GOP leads overturn of Dem governor’s limits on church, funeral attendance.

Great news!

Kansas GOP leads overturn of Dem governor’s limits on church, funeral attendance

A Republican-led panel of Kansas legislative leaders on Wednesday overturned an executive order by the state’s Democrat governor that called for attendance limits on church services and funerals amid the coronavirus pandemic.

GOP members of the state’s Legislative Coordinating Council, composed of House and Senate leaders, asserted that first-term Gov. Laura Kelly had overstepped her authority by issuing the order, so they blocked it in a 5-2 vote along party lines.

 

[Olde Hornet]

How the government delayed coronavirus testing

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/politics/coronavirus-testing-cdc-fda-red-tape-invs/index.html

A weeks-long testing delay that effectively blinded public health officials to the spread of the coronavirus in the US might have been avoided had federal agencies fully enacted their own plan to ramp up testing during a national health crisis.

The plan, which is spelled out in an April 2018 agreement between the Centers for Disease Control and three of the biggest associations involved in lab testing, called for boosting the capacity of public health labs, bringing big commercial labs into the testing process early, and making sure labs would have whatever they needed to mount a rapid, large-scale response.

But over January and February, agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services not only failed to make early use of the hundreds of labs across the United States, they enforced regulatory roadblocks that prevented non-government labs from assisting, according to documents obtained by CNN, and interviews with 14 scientists and physicians at individual laboratories and national laboratory associations.

 

[Olde Hornet]

This is a hoax - not real - thats some good orange kool aid.

Louisiana lawmaker Reggie Bagala dies amid battle with coronavirus at age 54

Louisiana lawmaker Reggie Bagala dies amid battle with coronavirus at age 54

A Louisiana lawmaker whose constituency includes Grand Isle died Thursday after battling COVID-19.

www.nola.com

A Louisiana lawmaker whose constituency includes Grand Isle has died after battling COVID-19, a close friend said Thursday.

State Rep. Reggie Bagala, R-Lockport, was 54. Former lawmaker Marty Chabert announced Bagala’s death, citing information provided to him by Bagala’s son, Tristan.

 

[Storm96]

Kansas GOP leads overturn of Dem governor’s limits on church, funeral attendance.

Great news!

Kansas GOP leads overturn of Dem governor’s limits on church, funeral attendance

A Republican-led panel of Kansas legislative leaders on Wednesday overturned an executive order by the state’s Democrat governor that called for attendance limits on church services and funerals amid the coronavirus pandemic.

GOP members of the state’s Legislative Coordinating Council, composed of House and Senate leaders, asserted that first-term Gov. Laura Kelly had overstepped her authority by issuing the order, so they blocked it in a 5-2 vote along party lines.

How is this great news? I'm tired of the gop and evangelicals and their strawman arguments when they overwhelmingly support the most immoral president ever. If churches want to defy government orders then they need to be stripped of their tax exempt status.

 

[Olde Hornet]

How is this great news? I'm tired of the gop and evangelicals and their strawman arguments when they overwhelmingly support the most immoral president ever. If churches want to defy government orders then they need to be stripped of their tax exempt status.

Its the price they pay for believing in a false god - agent orange.

 

[Olde Hornet]

Truth vs. Fiction: Will Microwaving Your Takeout Protect You From Coronavirus?

https://www.fodors.com/news/coronav...urce=flyertalk&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=

According to health experts, there are a lot of measures to take when it comes to food consumption and Covid-19. Is microwaving one of them?


Rumor #1: Microwaving Your Food Can Kill the Virus

Yes and no. Maria Konnikova, award-winning science journalist, Ph.D. in psychology, and author of the upcoming book, The Biggest Bluff, says “Heat kills the virus. But I’d suggest the oven rather than the microwave because the length of time exposed to heat also matters. Per the WHO, ‘heat at 56 degrees Celsius kills the SARS coronavirus at around 10,000 units per 15 minutes (quick reduction).’ Also, a 2003 study of SARS says that it becomes non-infectious within 30 minutes at 75 degrees Celsius (about 167 degrees Fahrenheit). Bottom line is that the freezer doesn’t destroy it, but heat does. So, heat it through and heat it hot.”

Rumor #2: The Virus Only Lasts a Few Hours on Surfaces

The answer here is: It depends. They call this a novel Coronavirus because it’s new, and all studies of it are new. But here’s what we kind of know about surfaces: According to WebMD, the virus can last on metal for at least five days, wood for at least four day, plastics for at least two day, stainless steel for at least two days, cardboard for 24 hours, glass up to five days, ceramics five days, and paper up to five days.