These people don't need anything to roam about this country.
A Border Patrol official estimated that more than 1 million illegal immigrants are expected to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021 as the White House grapples with how to find facilities and process them.
Biden will never agree Russian President Vladimir Putin challenged President Joe Biden to a debate following a fracas over comments made by Biden earlier this week in agreeing that the Russian leader is a “killer.”
“I’ve just thought of this now,” Putin told Russian state TV. “I want to propose to President Biden to continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it basically live, as it’s called. Without any delays and directly in an open, direct discussion. It seems to me that would be interesting for the people of Russia and for the people of the United States.”
His comments come days after Biden told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos he agreed with this assertion that Putin is a “killer.” Biden said, “Yes, I do.”
The next day, on Wednesday, a Russian embassy spokesperson said that Moscow would be withdrawing its ambassador to the United States, although the reason for the recall was not disclosed.
After making the challenge, Putin said he would debate with Biden as early as Friday.
“I don’t want to put this off for long. I want to go the taiga this weekend to relax a little,” Putin told reporters. “So we could do it tomorrow or Monday. We are ready at any time convenient for the American side.”
Earlier Thursday, Putin directly responded to Biden’s remark by saying: “I remember in my childhood, when we argued in the courtyard with each other we used to say: it takes one to know one.” He added, “I wish you health. I say that without any irony or joke.”
Written 4-2-2020 At its worse, the Spanish flu infected 500 million people worldwide, which at the time was about a third of the Earth’s population. More than 50 million people died of the disease, with 675,000 in the U.S. There is some disagreement on that figure, with recent researchers suggesting it was about 17.4 million deaths, while others go as high as 100 million. Generally speaking, the fatality rate for the Spanish flu is calculated at about 2%.
Although it is something of a moving target as more deaths occur and broader diagnostic testing is performed, finding higher levels of infection, sometimes with no symptoms, the global fatality rate for COVID-19 as of April 1 is about 5%, although in the U.S. it is about 2.16%. Some experts believe the 5% figure is significantly lower because of doubts about the accuracy of China’s reporting of the cases, where COVID-19 originated.
Some experts, such as Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who is something of the public point-man for the U.S. response to COVID-19, project the fatality rate will be about 1%, which is still about 10 times the fatality rate of a typical seasonal influenza of 0.1%.
Another commonality between the Spanish flu’s H1N1 and the COVID-19 coronavirus is that both are considered “novel,” which is to say, they are so new nobody in either era had any immunity to them. One marked difference between the two is the most affected groups in the 1918 pandemic were otherwise healthy adults between the ages of 20 to 40. Mortality was also higher in people younger than five years of age and 65 and older.
“The 1918 pandemic strain influenza was new and novel for most people under the age of 40 or 50, but that’s where the death rate really was high—that’s different than the usual flu,” Mark Schleiss, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Minnesota told Healthline.
Shut it down Health officials in California are telling medical providers across the state not to administer doses from one lot of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine while they investigate possible severe allergic reactions last week in a number of people who got shots at a community vaccination clinic.
More than 330,000 doses from the lot were distributed to 287 providers across the state from January 5-12. Tens of thousands of doses may have already been administered, but the number of unused doses is unknown, according to Darrel Ng, a spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health.
We may have to temporarily suspend ridesharing in California starting this week.
The California Attorney General obtained a court order that requires rideshare companies to hire drivers as employees—immediately—or else shut down.
We’ve appealed this decision, but if we are not successful in our appeal, we will need to temporarily shut down by Thursday night.
We know that riders rely on Uber to get around, and drivers rely on the Uber app to earn income. We wanted to let you know that this is a possibility, so you can plan accordingly.
We remain committed to helping drivers get access to new benefits and protections without compromising the flexibility they have today via Proposition 22, which is on the ballot this November. You can learn more about Prop 22 here.
We’ll keep you updated this week as we learn more.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Be tried for 2nd degree murder, manslaughter, or just get a slap on the wrist?
At issue is a directive that Mr. Cuomo’s administration delivered in late March, effectively ordering nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients from hospitals.
