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More than 200 struck with mysterious disease in India
There
was confusion and panic in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh
on Sunday (December 6), as at least 227 people were admitted to
hospital, having contracted an unknown disease. The first case of the
mysterious illness was reported on Saturday. Doctors said the symptoms
include dizziness, nausea, headache and epilepsy-like symptoms,
affecting both young and old alike. The state's health minister who
visited Eluru Government General Hospital said the situation is under
control, with all patients now reported as stable. Blood samples were
sent to labs and no viral infections were detected. All the patients
were tested for COVID-19 and all tested negative, according to local
media reports. The state government is now focusing on the areas where
cases are prevalent and a door-to-door survey is being conducted to
monitor condition of the residents.
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Hundreds ill, one dead after unidentified disease hits city in India
Associated Press
At
least one person has died and 200 others have been hospitalized due to
an unidentified illness in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh,
reports said Monday.
The illness was detected Saturday evening in
Eluru, an ancient city famous for its hand-woven products. Since then,
patients have experienced symptoms ranging from nausea and anxiety to
loss of consciousness, doctors said.
Image: (AP)
A
45-year-old man who was hospitalized with symptoms similar to epilepsy
and nausea died Sunday evening, the Press Trust of India news agency
reported.
Officials are trying to determine the cause of the
illness. So far, water samples from impacted areas haven’t shown any
signs of contamination, and the chief minister's office said people not
linked to the municipal water supply have also fallen ill. The patients
are of different ages and have tested negative for COVID-19 and other
viral diseases such as dengue, chikungunya or herpes.
An expert team deputed by the federal government reached the city to investigate the sudden illness Monday.
State
chief minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy visited a government hospital and
met patients who were ill. Opposition leader N. Chandrababu Naidu
demanded on Twitter an “impartial, full-fledged inquiry into the
incident.”
Andhra Pradesh state is among those worst hit by
COVID-19, with over 800,000 detected cases. The health system in the
state, like the rest of India, has been frayed by the virus.
Hundreds hospitalised with 'mystery illness' in Andhra Pradesh
Marcus Parekh
Andhra
Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (C-L) meeting with the
patients going under treatment for an unknown disease - STR
HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock /Shutterstock
Local
people are blaming an anti-mosquito spraying campaign for a mystery
illness that has hospitalised more than 300 people in a city in southern
India.
A 45-year-old man died of epilepsy-type symptoms and
hundreds of others complained of nausea, burning eyes and seizures in
the town of Eluru in Andhra Pradesh.
A report released by the
district collector said that as many as 340 people have fallen sick
since Saturday night, with 157 still undergoing treatment.
Locals
in Eluru, which is known as mosquito city, have said authorities in the
past week were spraying anti-mosquito chemicals in the area.
One
local man, Dhananjay Kumar, said: "Authorities have been spraying
anti-mosquito chemicals in the area, creating a massive fog. It seems
the chemicals sprayed by authorities led to the disease.”
However, health officials in Andhra Pradesh say the exact cause of the illness is unknown.
"We
were informed by some locals that anti-mosquito spray resulted in the
infection. As of now, I can only say the exact cause of the disease is
not known yet. We have sent samples to AIIMS, New Delhi and expect the
reports on Tuesday morning, " said a senior health official in Andhra
Pradesh.
Blood tests and brain scans of the infected patients
could not establish the cause of the disease and health authorities
have ruled out water contamination.
All of those who were
hospitalised have tested negative for Covid-19, according to the state’s
Health Minister, Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas.
Andhra Pradesh has the third-highest caseload of any state in India with 800,000, despite being the 10th most populous state.
“We
ruled out water contamination or air pollution as the cause after
officials visited the areas where people fell sick,” Mr Srinivas said.
He
added that both blood and water samples have been sent off for lab
analysis. The Andhra Pradesh Health Department released a statement
saying that initial tests did not reveal any viral infection. This rules
out diseases such as dengue or chikungunya, which are both caused by
mosquito bites.
However,
the state’s former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has called for a
full inquiry into the outbreak, pointing to water contamination as the
likely cause.
“I demand an impartial, full-fledged inquiry into
the incident,” he wrote on Twitter. “The Eluru water contamination
incident calls for a declaration of Health Emergency in Andhra Pradesh.”
A
report in the Indian Express claimed that a case of contaminated water
was reported in Eluru 10 days prior to the hospitalisations.
The
current Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy said specialist medical teams
have been dispatched and are conducting door-to-door surveys in order to
get control of the situation.
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I feel so sorry for this person... such hate !
And this person thinks that only Trump supporters have hate in their hearts...
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No, I Will Not Be 'Reaching Out' To Trump Voters, Now Or Ever. Here's Why.
Two pro-Trump hats sit on top of a car dashboard in Nyack, New York, on Nov. 1. (Photo: STRF/STAR MAX/IPx)
When
Donald Trump was elected in 2016, like millions of other Americans, I
was horrified. He had campaigned on a platform of hate, pledging to ban Muslims from entering the United States and build a literal wall to keep Latinos out of the country. He stoked anti-Semitism, mocked a disabled reporter and had a history of misogyny.
Once
Trump actually became president, he called white supremacists “very
fine people,” locked children in cages and systematically sought to
dismantle the Affordable Care Act, disregarding the millions of Americans who would be left without access to health care if he were successful.
Over
the past four years, I’ve lived in fear as Trumpism has taken over the
country. In counties where Trump held campaign rallies, hate crimes increased a shocking 226%,
showing that this rhetoric has real consequences for marginalized
groups. Nearly everyone in America who is not a natural-born white,
Christian heterosexual male in relatively good health has been targeted
by the policies of the Trump administration.
As a Jew, an atheist, a woman and the mother of a disabled child,
I have watched as my communities have been threatened repeatedly. The
day the 2020 election was called with Joe Biden projected to be our next
president, Idanced in the streets at Black Lives Matter Plaza along with thousands of others who finally felt like this long nightmare was coming to an end.
These calls for unity come from a place of
privilege, and they’re coming from mostly straight, white, cisgender
people who are financially secure. They may not have liked some of
Trump’s policies, but they were not actively harmed by them. They likely
never feared for their safety or well-being in Trump’s America.
Gestures toward reconciliation are also premature, given that Trump has yet to concede the election and still has about two months left in office to inflict even more damage.
Before
any attempt at “unity” can be made, there needs to be a reckoning, an
acknowledgment that so many of Trump’s actions have been unconscionable
and do not align with societal ideals that claim to value all life.
Building bridges with people who share Trump’s views sends a clear
message that you are willing to keep the peace at the expense of the
dignity and well-being of those with less power and privilege.
My
friends and family members who supported Trump had four years to
renounce his policies. Instead, they stood by him. They knew that
Trump’s policies had a very real impact on my life, and they showed me
time and time again that they did not care.
These
calls for understanding ignore the very real fact that Trump has had a
tremendous impact on the lives of so many marginalized people.
Jews like me were literally slaughtered in their place of worship in my home state of Pennsylvania, where a gunman opened fire
on the congregation at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. The
president failed to implement commonsense gun control policies while stoking anti-Semitism,
claiming that “Jews are only in it for themselves.” Trump repeatedly
questioned whether Jews could be loyal to the United States by telling Jews that Israel is “your country,”
seemingly unwilling to distinguish American Jews from Israelis. In this
climate, it was inevitable that violence would be unleashed against
Jews and that some would lose their lives. I will not forgive, and I
will not forget.
As an atheist, I have watched in
horror as the Trump administration has tried to turn our country, which
was founded on the belief that church and state should remain separate,
into a theocracy. Trump’s latest Supreme Court pick, Amy Coney Barrett,
is poised to impose her extreme religious views on the rest of us. She
has gone so far as to state that Catholic judges are “obliged to adhere to their church’s teaching on moral matters.” Religious views have allowed corporations such as Hobby Lobby to circumvent laws requiring insurance coverage for birth control and discriminate against the LGBTQ community.
As
the mother of two daughters, I have spent the Trump years fearing that
none of us will have the right to control our own reproductive choices
if Trump has his way. I have watched as Trump’s atrocious handling of
the pandemic has forced women out of the workforce in record numbers. He bragged about how his celebrity status allows him to sexually assault women with impunity, and then he lashed out at the 26 women
who have accused him of sexual assault. The fact that such a person
could rise to the most powerful office in the world has created a
dangerous environment for all women.
Time and time again, Trump has tried to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. Each time, his administration has put my disabled daughter’s future at risk,
along with the futures of millions of other Americans with preexisting
conditions. My daughter’s well-being depends on the ACA, and trying to
save it has consumed much of my life for the past four years. My
daughter got to know Capitol Hill well, as I often visited with her and
challenged senators to look at her and tell her that life had no value,
that she was too expensive to insure.
Over the past
eight months, I’ve felt helpless as Trump has failed to control
COVID-19, preferring instead to wish it away. Even though he said at
least 40 times
that the coronavirus would disappear, it is instead tearing through the
country with a vengeance, claiming the lives of two of my family
members and making several of my friends and family very ill. Some of
them have not yet fully recovered. Trump’s wishful thinking has forced
my family to isolate and kept my children from school and away from
their grandparents. It has deeply hurt friends who are small-business
owners and others who have lost their jobs as a result of Trump’s
stunningly poor handling of the virus.
Indifference in the face of such cruelty does not deserve understanding, now or ever. Some fences cannot be mended.
Through
all of this, my communities have come together in solidarity with one
another to fight against Trump’s hateful acts. We are allies to one
another, even when not directly under attack. Those who supported Trump,
and those who still do, lack the compassion and the basic decency to
recognize that every life has value. I have no need for them in my life
and no desire to now pretend that I can accept their views, that any of
this was ever OK.
Those who supported Trump and those
who remained neutral in the face of such cruelty enabled him. I will
not forget, and I certainly will not forgive.
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Census takers say they were told to enter false information
MIKE SCHNEIDER
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Two
census takers told The Associated Press that their supervisors
pressured them to enter false information into a computer system about
homes they had not visited so they could close cases during the waning
days of the once-a-decade national headcount.
Maria Arce said her
supervisor in Massachusetts offered step-by-step instructions in how to
trick the system. She said she felt guilty about lying, but she did not
want to disobey her supervisors, who kept repeating that they were under
pressure from a regional office in New York to close cases.
“It
was all a sham. I felt terrible, terrible. I knew I was lying. I knew I
was doing something wrong, but they said, ‘No, no, we are closing. We
have to do this,'" Arce said.
At the time, in mid- to late
September, census workers were drawing close to a deadline imposed by
President Donald Trump's administration to finish the count by the end
of the month.
Indiana census taker Pam Roberts' supervisor pressured her to make up answers about households where no one was home.
Roberts
agreed to do it for only one day — making up information on about two
dozen households — before refusing to continue the next day because she
believed it was wrong. She said she entered made-up answers while in her
car outside the homes since the mobile device used for data entry could
track where a person was when making an entry.
“That’s not what
this is about. If it’s not truthful, how can we use it?" Roberts, who
lives in Lafayette, Indiana, said in an interview.
Asked about the
workers' statements to the AP, the Census Bureau said it was looking
into the allegations, but the agency did not provide further details.
The
census takers shared their experiences with the AP as a coalition of
local governments and advocacy groups wages a battle in federal court
over the accuracy of the 2020 census. A lawsuit filed in California
challenged the decision by the Commerce Department, which oversees the
Census Bureau, to speed up deadlines so that the count would end in
September.
The coalition argued that the shortened timeline would
cause minority communities to be undercounted in the data used to
determine the number of congressional seats in each state.
A judge
ruled that the count could continue through the end of October and that
census officials could continue crunching the numbers through April
2021. But the Trump administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court,
which sided with the administration and allowed census field operations
to end in mid-October. An appellate court suspended the judge's order on
the deadline for the numbers to be used for congressional
representation. That issue is still being litigated.
The coalition
that filed the lawsuit said the deadline was changed to ensure that the
number crunching would take place while Trump was still in office, no
matter the outcome of the presidential race. That would guarantee the
enforcement of an order Trump issued in July seeking to exclude people
who are in the country illegally from the numbers used to determine the
distribution of congressional seats.
Trump's order has been found
unlawful and unconstitutional by three courts — in New York, California
and Maryland. The Justice Department is appealing.
After the
Supreme Court decision, the local governments and advocacy groups
documented other cases in which census takers were instructed to falsify
information or cut corners in order to finish the count.
Under
federal law, Census Bureau employees who make false statements can be
fined up to $2,000 and imprisoned for up to five years. But census
workers are rarely prosecuted for falsification of census responses
since the Census Bureau is more concerned with identifying fraud and
correcting mistakes than pursuing legal penalties, said Terri Ann
Lowenthal, a former congressional staffer who specializes in the census.
During
the 2010 census, two managers in a Brooklyn census office were fired
for instructing workers to falsify questionnaires, requiring around
4,220 households to be recounted. Each time a national census winds
down, the more difficult homes to count “tend to generate a greater
incidence of falsification," the bureau's watchdog agency, the Office of
Inspector General, said in a 2010 report.
For this year's census, the Office of Inspector General, says it’s evaluating the quality of the data collected.
So
far, statisticians have not uncovered anything that raises red flags,
Ron Jarmin, the Census Bureau’s deputy director, said Thursday in a blog
post.
There are early signs that the pandemic affected college
towns and that higher numbers of people failed to answer questions about
their date of birth, sex, race and Hispanic origin than in the 2010
census, Jarmin said.
The Census Bureau says it reached 99.9% of
the nation’s households — with two-thirds of them responding online, by
mail or by phone, and a third being counted by census takers.
Arce,
outside Boston, said a census manager called her at the end of
September to tell her a supervisor would be sending her some cases. Arce
packed a lunch, expecting that she would be out in neighborhoods all
day.
But when her supervisor called, the supervisor said she would
be working from her home. The supervisor then walked her through steps
that would allow her to override the software on her mobile device so
she could close cases remotely, away from the addresses in Framingham,
Massachusetts, that she had been given.
Arce said she did not feel right about what she was doing and objected, but she was told the cases had to be closed.
Then
she was instructed to go to the neighborhood, which appeared to be
heavily Hispanic based on its stores and restaurants, and she closed
cases from her car by entering into her mobile device that she was
unable to reach residents of households, even though she had not tried
knocking on their doors.
The supervisor did not respond to a voicemail message left Friday.
In
Indiana, Roberts said she was instructed to fill out information about
households even if she had not talked to any of the residents. Her
supervisor wanted her "to fill it out and make up names and put it down
as a refusal,” Roberts said. “I did this from outside the house.”
Her supervisor did not respond to an email inquiry on Friday.
She
closed about two dozen cases that way. Now she worries that faith in
the 2020 census numbers will be undermined because of the corners that
were cut.
“They’re not going to trust the numbers if you told them you cheated,” she said.
The head 'Tonight Show' writer leaves job after 7 months, vows never to do a Trump sketch 'ever again'
Jason Guerrasio
"The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon." NBC
The head writer of "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" has left the show after only seven months.
Becky
Drysdale wrote in a private Facebook post, obtained by the Chicago
Sun-Times, that she didn't want to do jokes involving President Donald
Trump ever again.
Drysdale said that the exit was a
mutual decision between her and the show and that "doing material about
Trump, has led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears and pain."
Insider contacted "The Tonight Show" for comment but didn't immediately hear back.
The
head writer of NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," Becky
Drysdale, has said she is leaving the late-night show because she is fed
up with doing material involving President Donald Trump.
The exit
by Drysdale — a veteran comedian who has written for "Key & Peele"
and even starred in "Arrested Development" — was revealed in a private
Facebook post she wrote, which was obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
"I
am making the decision for myself to never work on, write, or be
involved with, another Trump sketch ever again," Drysdale wrote,
according to the Sun-Times.
"I have landed in several jobs and
situations over the last few years, not just 'The Tonight Show,' where
the project of making fun of Trump, or doing material about Trump, has
led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears and pain. I can't decide
the outcome of this election, but I can make the choice for myself, to
vote him out of my creative life."
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Drysdale,
who joined "The Tonight Show" in April when Fallon was recording the
show from home, said in her Facebook post that the decision to exit the
show was mutual.
"They made it clear that I was not a good fit for
the show and I did not disagree," Drysdale wrote. "I wish it had gone
differently and I had been able to be what they needed but that is not
how it shook out."
A 2016 "Tonight Show" interview with Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate. NBC
Critics
of Trump have criticized NBC for the way it's covered Trump in the past
— all the way back when he was running for office four years ago and
was invited to be a host on "Saturday Night Live."
Fallon also
caught heat back in 2016 when he had Trump on the show and did a
generally lighthearted interview with the candidate. The interview today
is best known for the moment Fallon tussled Trump's hair.
Since
then Fallon has been more critical of the president, but Drysdale
clearly believes Fallon's show wasn't a good fit for the way she wants
to do comedy.
"I believe that comedy is a powerful tool," she
wrote in her Facebook post. "I believe that it can handle anything, no
matter how unfunny. I don't believe that making fun of this man, doing
impressions of him, or making him silly, is a good use of that power. It
only adds to his."
Insider contacted to NBC for comment but hasn't heard back ye
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