[School Reopening\Childcare]
Limonic: “A September with little in-person school is expected, yet many parents are expected back at the office as early as this month. Choices will need to made – who will stay home and mind the kids? You guessed it – most likely mom.”
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COVID-19
South African President on COVID-19: “The Storm is Upon Us”
[South Africa\COVID-19]
NPR: “South Africa has now surpassed Italy, Pakistan, Spain and Iran in the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections, with more than 276,000 cases and more than 4,000 related deaths.”
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COVID-19: Asthma Inhalers Being Tested for Treatment
[COVID-19\Steroid Inhalers]
News Medical: “Researchers in this new trial are studying if the steroid inhalers used for reducing the exacerbations of asthma could be useful for patients with early COVID-19 and reduce their risk of severe disease.”
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Yale Researcher: Intellectual Property Rights Ensures Drug Makers Deliver
[Intellectual Property\COVID-19]
Sonderstrom: “The nation’s leading public health expert recently warned against such efforts, noting that drug makers won’t make huge research investments if there’s no chance to realize ‘some degree of profit.”
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Jamaal Bowman on “Incompetent” Trump’s Threat to Cut School Aid
[School Reopenings\COVID-19]
Bowman: “As Donald Trump aims his fire at school districts that won’t haphazardly reopen, we don’t have to keep accepting his failures as the best we can do. Just because he is too incompetent to lead, doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t.”
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Prisons and Jails Remain Hotspots for Spreading COVID-19
[COVID-19\Prison]
Dr. Valda Crowder: “As a former medical director in a jail, I know that a constant flow exists between a correctional facility and a community.”
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NY Court Rules Against Investigation into NYPD Abuses, Discrimination
[NYPD\United States District Court]
Corey Stoughton: “This ruling is a missed opportunity to bring much-needed accountability for the NYPD’s enforcement of social distancing rules disproportionately against Black and Latinx New Yorkers.”
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NYC Schools Will Offer Mix of In-Person, Online Classes
[NYC Public Schools\COVID-19]
Politico: The nation’s largest school system will not be able to fully reopen for its 1.1 million students because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
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Black Lives Matter Shines Light on Police Brutality in Africa
[Police Brutality\Africa]
Campbell: “Police use of excessive force is an old song in Africa, and reform is difficult. Police forces tend to have been established by the former colonial powers, and they are national—a gendarmerie—rather than local”
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