Monday, July 13, 2020
Los Angeles, San Diego schools to resume online classes in fall due to jump in coronavirus cases
https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-san-diego-schools-wont-reopen
California's two largest school districts announced Monday that they would not be opening its facilities to students in the fall but will resume classes online.
In a letter to parents, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent
Austin Beutner said the nation’s second-largest school district had
decided to resume online classes due to a resurgence of the novel coronavirus.
“We
made the decision to close school facilities before there was any
occurrence of the virus at our schools, and this proved to be the right
call,” Beutner said. “Science was our guide then, and it will continue
to be. Unfortunately, Covid-19 continues to spread in the Los Angeles
area and the virus is going to impact how we start the new school year.”
Trump Predicts ‘Beginning of the End’ for Fox News
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-predicts-beginning-of-the-end-for-fox-news
President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday morning at Fox News even as the network continued to defend him
at every turn of the ongoing impeachment trial. “Really pathetic how
@FoxNews is trying to be so politically correct by loading the airwaves
with Democrats like Chris Van Hollen, the no name Senator from
Maryland,” Trump tweeted, equating political correctness with any
attempt to hear from the “other” side.
“So, what the hell has happened to @FoxNews,” he continued. “Only I
know! Chris Wallace and others should be on Fake News CNN or MSDNC.
How’s Shep Smith doing? Watch, this will be the beginning of the end for
Fox, just like the other two which are dying in the ratings. Social
Media is great!”
Judge asks if Trump ally Roger Stone must serve probation after prison sentence commuted
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/13/judge-asks-if-roger-stones-probation-still-applies-after-trumps-commutation.html
A
federal judge ordered the parties in Roger Stone’s criminal case to
clarify the “scope” of President Donald Trump’s executive action
commuting the prison sentence of his longtime ally.
- U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson asked those parties to address whether Trump’s clemency applies only to Stone’s prison term or also to the two-year probation period included in his sentence.
- Jackson also asked for a copy of Trump’s executive order.
Trump retweets game show host Chuck Woolery’s baseless claim that ‘everyone is lying’ about coronavirus
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/13/coronavirus-trump-cites-chuck-woolery-questioning-covid-19-on-twitter.html
Soon after Trump shared the post, the president retweeted another comment by Woolery about the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
“There is so much evidence, yes scientific evidence, that schools should open this fall. It’s worldwide and it’s overwhelming. BUT NO,” wrote Woolery, whose game show resume also includes acting as the first host of “Wheel of Fortune,” and hosting “Scrabble,” “Greed” and “Lingo.”
President Donald Trump retweeted a post by game show host Chuck Woolery that baselessly claimed “everyone is lying” about the coronavirus pandemic in a possible effort to thwart Trump’s reelection by harming the economy.
The
conservative Woolery, who hosted shows such as “Love Connection,” wrote
on Sunday evening, “The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid
19.”
“Everyone
is lying. The CDC [federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],
Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to
trust,” Woolery wrote.
Soon after Trump shared the post, the president retweeted another comment by Woolery about the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
“There is so much evidence, yes scientific evidence, that schools should open this fall. It’s worldwide and it’s overwhelming. BUT NO,” wrote Woolery, whose game show resume also includes acting as the first host of “Wheel of Fortune,” and hosting “Scrabble,” “Greed” and “Lingo.”
Heart scans of Covid-19 patients show range of abnormalities
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/13/heart-scans-of-covid-19-patients-show-range-of-abnormalities
Heart scans of coronavirus patients in hospital have revealed a range
of abnormalities that can disrupt the ability to pump blood and in
severe cases lead to a life-threatening failure in the organ.
Doctors at Edinburgh University examined ultrasound scans known as
echocardiograms from more than 1,200 patients in 69 countries and found
heart problems in 55%, with one in seven exhibiting signs of “severe
abnormalities”.
The scans found damage to the ventricles – the two main chambers of
the heart – in more than a third of the patients, while 3% had
experienced heart attacks and a further 3% had inflamed heart tissue.
The majority had no known heart disease before the scans were done.
French Bus Driver Beaten to Death After Asking Passengers to Wear Face Masks
https://time.com/5866326/french-bus-driver-beaten-masks/
The wife of a French bus driver who was beaten to death after he asked four passengers to wear face masks aboard his vehicle called Saturday for “exemplary punishment” for his killers.
The assault on Philippe Monguillot has scandalized
France. President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday dispatched the interior
minister to meet the driver’s widow after his death was announced
Friday. He had been hospitalized in critical condition after the July 5
attack.
Coronavirus unlikely to be spread by children, research suggests
https://www.pe.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-why-kids-arent-the-germbags-and-grownups-are/
For months, we’ve kept children carefully isolated, pleading with
them to behave, wear masks, wipe their boogers and not hug Gram and
Grandpa. We’ve assumed this new virus acts just like the flu and common
cold — so classrooms full of kids would create one giant cootie colony.
But a growing body of research suggests young children aren’t responsible for most viral transmission. Adults are.
Based on these findings, school-based transmission could be a
manageable problem, particularly for elementary school aged-childrenwho
appear to be at the lowest risk of infection, according to a recent commentary in the journal Pediatrics.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump team's false comfort on schools, virus
https://www.startribune.com/ap-fact-check-trump-team-s-false-comfort-on-schools-virus/571737892/
President Donald Trump's aides are misrepresenting the record on kids and the coronavirus as they push for schools to reopen.
White House
press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday inaccurately characterized
what the chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
said on the matter. A day earlier, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos also
was wrong in stating that the research shows there is no danger "in any
way" if kids are in school.
No such conclusion has been reached.
McENANY: "Just last week you heard Dr.
Redfield say that children are not spreading this." — Monday on Fox News
Channel's "Fox and Friends"
THE FACTS: No,
Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC director, did not say that. He said
officials don't have evidence that children are "driving" infections at
this point. But they have not ruled out that children spread the virus
to adults.
Dr. Deborah
Birx, the White House coronavirus coordinator, said last week the
government doesn't have enough data to show whether and to what degree
kids can infect others.
The bulk of data
has been collected from adults and particularly from those who were
sick, leaving questions about children still unanswered, Birx said. She
said children under 10 are the least tested age group.
The officials did not reach a conclusion that "children are not spreading this." Nor does the evidence prove that they are.
The government has counted tens of thousands
of children who have been infected with the virus and in some cases
hospitalized. Overall, public health officials believe the virus is less
dangerous to children than adults.
Lockdowns go into effect in neighborhoods of 5 cities, as virus hits new high
https://www.timesofisrael.com/lockdowns-go-into-effect-in-neighborhoods-of-5-cities-as-virus-surges/
Lockdowns came into effect at 1 p.m. on Friday in neighborhoods in
five towns and cities hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, a day after
cabinet ministers approved the measure as the number of new cases in
Israel continued to surge.
Parts of Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Lod, Ramle and Kiryat Malachi
became “restricted zones” for seven days. The restrictions will be
lifted at 8 a.m. on July 17.
In Jerusalem, the neighborhoods of Romema, Kiryat Sanz and Matersdorf
— all majority ultra-Orthodox areas — have been closed; in Beit
Shemesh, the areas of Nahala and K’ne Habosem; in Lod, Ganei Ya’ar and
Sach; in Ramle, Amidar Beilav; and in Kiryat Malachi, the Rotner area
and Chabad neighborhood.
Other parts of Lod will be closed for five days.
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