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Posted by Angela Denning | May 14, 2021
This sign is posted on the door of the Petersburg Post Office. (Photo by Angela Denning/KFSK)
COVID show notes for Friday, May 14, 2021 –
Incident commander Karl Hagerman – COVID situation in Petersburg right now, still at low risk, four active cases, all travel related, people who have left Petersburg, returned here and since tested positive. They were symptomatic and were tested at the airport and at Petersburg Medical Center’s respiratory clinic. They have been directed to isolate and he believes the risk to festival-goers is low.
Petersburg still has a face covering mandate in place. He mentioned the Centers for Disease Control’s latest guidance on fully vaccinated people and masking.
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The Secret Service has helped recover about $2 billion in fraudulent unemployment payments connected to Covid relief efforts, the agency announced Wednesday, and the funds are being returned to state unemployment offices.
“The amount of unemployment insurance benefits provided in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in the history of the nation’s unemployment insurance system,” Larry D. Turner, Acting Inspector General at the Department of Labor, said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the significant increase in benefits made the program a target for those seeking to defraud government programs.”
Saying that the $2 billion figure is a “conservative estimate” and that investigations are ongoing, Roy Dotson, Secret Service assistant special agent in charge, told CNBC that the crimes were typical of the kind of cyberfraud the agency deals with every year, though at a larger scale. Most of the fraudulent u