Global: Total confirmed cases: ~15,057,000; deaths: ~620,000
U.S.: Total confirmed cases: ~3,942,000; deaths: ~143,000
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/07/22/day-1280/
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/07/22/day-1280/
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Some follow up, it gets interesting
Barr claimed feds in KC made 200 arrests in two weeks. Thatās not even close to true.
Speaking with McClatchy after the Wednesday event, the senior Justice Department official clarified that the 200 figure included arrests dating back to December 2019.
It also included, the official said, both state and FBI arrests in joint operations.
The official said Barr was referring to the number of arrests made in the city since the launch of Operation Relentless Pursuit, a precursor effort to Operation Legend that surged federal agents in U.S. cities facing crime waves, including Kansas City.
āWe have made since December 2019 200 arrests in Kansas City,ā the senior official said, referring to the launch of that initial operation. āLegend is essentially a continuation of that.ā
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Prior to the DOJās correction of the misinformation, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas had cast doubt on the claim. Lucas said that he was aware only of one arrest that had been announced by the U.S. attorneyās office in Kansas City.
āYou canāt verify it because nothing can be verifiedā¦ This is where some of the confusion goes on,ā Lucas said.
Lying in an easily checkable way to make Trump look tougher on crime, is a hallmark Trumpian move. Iām not surprised.
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More on this from former CDC head, Tom Frieden and Cyrus Shaphar in NYT Opinion piece which tells us that useful information is missing.
We arenāt tracking the public health equivalent of vital signs. Thatās one big reason the United States is losing the battle against Covid-19.
We have a per capita death rate five times the global average, cases are increasing, and our economy and educational systems will not recover until we get the virus under control. Last weekās abrupt decision by the Trump administration to stop sending information on Covid-19 patients to the C.D.C. and instead to send it to the Department of Health and Human Services reflects this lack of national coordination.
Over the past three weeks, researchers in our initiative, Resolve to Save Lives, searched all the data they could find on publicly available websites from all 50 states. They found it to be shockingly inconsistent, incomplete and inaccessible.
Not a single state published turnaround time for testing, nor how promptly patients are isolated, nor the proportion of cases diagnosed among people who had contact with a Covid-19 patient. In most states, there is no way to track the trend of Black and Hispanic people suffering hospitalizations and deaths at greater rates than white people.
Only two states ā Oregon and Virginia ā even reported information on whether patients were interviewed promptly for contact tracing. Indicators such as these are essential to know how well we are fighting the virus so that we can do better.
The fault does not lie with the states ā itās a federal failing. Although getting the data quickly and accurately is hard, the underlying problem is the lack of common standards, definitions and accountability. This reflects the absence of national strategy and leadership. Unless we get onto the same page, we will face continued and preventable disorganization, economic decay and death.
There is a better way. Our group ā along with a coalition of national, state and academic partners including the American Public Health Association and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security ā has developed a list of 15 indicators. Every state and county should be able to collect and publish nine of these immediately and the other six within a few weeks.
The basics are early signals from emergency departments that could warn us if cases are spiking; information about cases, tests and deaths over time by age, sex, and race and ethnicity; and information about outbreaks in nursing homes and elsewhere, as well as epidemiological links among cases.
Indicators that could be published in a few weeks include performance measures for testing, case interviews and contact tracing; health care worker infections; and objective assessment of the proportion of people wearing masks correctly in indoor public spaces such as stores and public transit. (This could be monitored by human surveyors or security cameras for aggregate analysis, while protecting individualsā privacy.)
The full list is available here.
The greatest benefit of good information isnāt knowledge, itās action. Among other things, these indicators would give us:
An early-warning system to prevent explosions of cases by scaling back physical connections as soon as cases begin to rise.
More incentive to improve the turnaround time of tests, which is crucial to stop spread (there is little value to tests that come back more than two or three days later).
Information on the size, lethality and status of control of every outbreak, including those in every nursing home, homeless shelter, correctional facility and meatpacking factory.
The opportunity to better understand and reverse the unequal burden the pandemic is placing on Black, Hispanic, Native American and other communities.
Accountability for how many health care workers have been infected each week; if we published this, we would drive that number down toward zero.
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Judge orders release of Jeffrey Epstein records in response to Miami Herald litigation
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article244432782.html
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Portland Federal Agents Accused of War Crimes for Destroying Medical Supplies
Reporter Sergio Olmos shared a video on Twitter Tuesday night showing medical supplies and protective gear covered in an orange liquid.
"It appears that federal officers, during dispersal, pepper sprayed the medical supplies in the tents," Olmos wrote.
Portland Bans Local Police From Cooperating With āFederal Occupiersā
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