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Navajo Nation Has Highest Covid-19 Infection Rate in the U.S.
https://www.ecowatch.com/navajo-nation- ... belltitem2

The Navajo Nation already has high risk factors of comorbidities, including diabetes, lung disease, high-blood pressure, hypertension and heart disease. There's also a lack of running water, medical infrastructure, internet access, information and adequate housing. Navajo also tend to live in close quarters with multiple generations in one household.

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Here is another approach to covid, from Senegal.

Senegal Pledges A Bed For Every Coronavirus Patient — And Their Contacts, Too
May 17, 20207:10 AM ET

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/0 ... /24356961/

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Here is another approach to covid, from Senegal.

Senegal Pledges A Bed For Every Coronavirus Patient — And Their Contacts, Too
May 17, 20207:10 AM ET

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/0 ... /24356961/

In Senegal, does bed mean "off-the-floor-with-a-mattress", or a straw mat on a dirt hut floor. Given all the other problems in the country, I find it hard to believe they could provide Western-standard medical care or beds. Sounds like an extravagant promise that the country will not be able to keep.

On Wednesday, Governor Tim Walz announced a phased re-opening of restaurants, bars and places of public accomodation beginning on June 1st.

According to Governor Walz, outdoor dining can begin on June 1, with restaurants maintaining social distancing and seating no more than 50 patrons at a time. In addition to outdoor dining, restaurants and bars will be able to continue to offer takeout, curbside, and delivery services, which have been permitted throughout the pandemic in Minnesota.

The Spooner Rodeo is now among the many major events that won't happen this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Organizers announced Wednesday that the 67th Annual Heart of the North Spooner Rodeo is being postponed until July 8-10, 2021. The decision was made by the committee that runs the event.

"This decision was not taken lightly as it has a huge impact on our community, businesses, rodeo personnel, contestants, fans, and many others. To ensure the safety of all and make sure the rodeo remains viable in future years," the rodeo said in a statement posted on its website.

The Duluth Airshow made the difficult decision Wednesday to postpone the 2020 show scheduled for July 18-19, 2020 at the Duluth International Airport. Leadership cited the extraordinary circumstances as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

“In 20 years of doing the Airshow, and doing what we do for a living, this is probably the most difficult decision we’ve ever had to make,” Duluth Airshow President Ryan Kern told WDIO News.

The Duluth Airshow has been postponed to June 26-27, 2021. It will feature the United States Navy Blue Angels and be presented by Essentia Health and AAR.

"Most, if not all of the performers will be performing on the postponement date, with the exception of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds, but the Blue Angels will be headlining the postponed show," Kern told WDIO News.

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Oh no, our Wild West is Wisconsin is CANCELED! [:@]

Updated: May 21, 2020 04:08 AM

The 100th South St. Louis County Fair has been canceled.

It had been scheduled for July 29-Aug. 1, but organizers posted on Facebook that they made the decision to cancel it due to health concerns with large crowds.

"So for now stay safe," the announcement read. "Let's make 2021 So. St. Louis County Fair's 100th Anniversary one we will remember."

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Hey Mundy!

South St. Louis County Fair canceled

Updated: May 21, 2020 04:08 AM

The 100th South St. Louis County Fair has been canceled.

It had been scheduled for July 29-Aug. 1, but organizers posted on Facebook that they made the decision to cancel it due to health concerns with large crowds.

"So for now stay safe," the announcement read. "Let's make 2021 So. St. Louis County Fair's 100th Anniversary one we will remember."

https://www.wdio.com/duluth-minnesota-n ... d/5736442/

That is how you build herd immunity . . . [8|]

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At least 4 states combined numbers from two tests, possibly providing a misleading picture of coronavirus spread

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/21/health/u ... index.html

. . . Following professional baseball’s shutdown in March, minor league clubs now exist in a sort of sports purgatory, 160 affiliates unsure whether they will have games to host and worried about how they will pay employees, settle debts, and potentially return millions of dollars in ticket and advertising revenue to fans and sponsors. Not to mention the existential anxiety they’ve felt since early last winter, when Major League Baseball proposed a plan that would reportedly eliminate 42 affiliates and give big league clubs greater control over the system.
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And in the era of COVID-19, everyone is hurting. Local businesses failing, or even cutting their advertising budgets, is a looming disaster for clubs. “Of course I’m worried about our team, but I’m worried about our businesses and all the people in our community who are being affected by this,” says Marcus Sabata, the general manager for the Double A Jackson (Tenn.) Generals. “We’re a small business, too, so we get it. We’re right there with them.”
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On a Friday evening in early May, the scene at the Colorado Springs stadium of the Rocky Mountain Vibes was decidedly different. Jennifer Cupples; her husband, Ken; and their two children pulled up curbside to pick up a food order. The family had been player hosts last year for the Vibes, the Brewers’ short-season rookie league team that is reportedly on the list of teams slated for contraction. Every year thousands of families nationwide house young ballplayers, often from other countries, baseball’s own form of cultural exchange. As Toasty—the Vibes’ anthropomorphic flaming s’more mascot—stood near the Cupples’ Toyota SUV, a Vibes employee handed Jennifer her $35 “Quarantined Couple” meal, which included chicken bacon ranch and pulled pork sandwiches, fries, cookies, a bottle of wine and two rolls of toilet paper. The Cupples hoped this wasn’t their last visit to the ballpark.

“This place has become part of our family,” Jennifer says.

Toasty’s Takeout, as it is called, is the brainchild of Vibes general manager Chris Phillips, an 18-year veteran of minor league front offices. The curbside food business runs three evenings per week at the stadium, and a good night might earn $600—“Hardly a get-rich-quick scheme,” Phillips says—but it’s enough to keep some of the staff employed through the pandemic. “We can either sit around and feel bad about this situation, or we can have some fun,” Phillips says. “We’re going to focus on 2020, hope for the best and then deal with what happens after that.”
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Outside the stadium, Jennifer and Ken Cupples unboxed their meals while their six-year-old daughter, Hope, threw a baseball in the air. Several friends arrived a while later—families who’d also hosted Vibes players last season. The husbands and wives set up chairs or stood several feet apart from one another, talking about the pandemic, the potentially lost season, and whether minor league baseball would exist in Colorado Springs come next year.

They laughed about player sleepovers at their homes, about the Dominican kids who’d never tasted a s’more before arriving in the Springs, about birthday parties and the time they drove five hours to Grand Junction, Colo., where they surprised their players and waved at them from the stands. They talked about their final Sunday with the players last season, how they cried all the way home from the airport, how each of the young men had stayed in touch during the pandemic.

The group got quiet as their food began to arrive. Toasty, the s’more, stood off to one side, hanging on to the sides of his cloth graham crackers. “Those boys were just like our kids,” one of the women finally said. The group nodded. “Baseball is special to all of us. I just hope this isn’t the end.”

ictoria's Secret will close 250 stores in the U.S. and Canada, parent company L Brands said on Wednesday, in the latest retail casualty of the coronavirus pandemic.

The closures will represent nearly a quarter of Victoria's Secret's 1,091 locations in North America, and L Brands will also permanently shut down 50 Bath & Body Works in the U.S. and Canada.

When combined with initial jobless claims filed over the last eight weeks, the new figures took the nine-week jobless claims total to 38.6 million as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rattle the U.S. economy.

According to the Bureau of Labour Statistics, the entire civilian labor force stood at 156.4 million in April this year, meaning now roughly a quarter of the American workforce have filed for unemployment benefits in the last two months.
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The Department of Labor released its latest jobless claim figures as all 50 states began rolling back lockdown measures after two months of coronavirus-related restrictions.

The Economic Policy Institute's policy director Heidi Shierholz tweeted: "Whether furloughed workers will actually be called back or whether furloughs will turn into layoffs will hinge on whether policymakers enact an effective testing and contact tracing so that people will feel safe enough to reengage in normal activity as the economy reopens."

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that 17 percent of Londoners have had COVID-19.

Hancock outlined the figure during the Downing Street press briefing.

The health secretary said that the results of the Government's antibody surveillance study have shown 17 percent of people in London and five percent of the population in the rest of the country have tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies.

Given London's population, that would mean 1.5 million people in the capital have had the virus.

It comes a week after the government announced that a new COVID-19 antibody test to tell whether someone has had the virus has been approved for use in the U.K. after being found to be 100 percent accurate.

The test, developed by Swiss pharmaceutical company Roache, has been tested by Public Health England and was found to be highly specific and accurate.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson had previously labeled a reliable antibody test as a "game-changer" as it would allow the government to understand how many people had COVID-19 and if they had developed immunity.