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Coronavirus in Jacksonville: What you need to know for Saturday, Feb. 27 3:15 p.m. Florida adds 118 COVID-19 deaths, 5 in area loridas cumulative total of COVID-19 positive tests surpassed 1.9 million Saturday, while the state added 118 more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in the latest statistics from the Florida Department of Health. Northeast Florida added five deaths in Saturdays daily report, four in St. Johns County and one in Duval County. The health department has now recorded an ...

Coronavirus causes drop in sexual assault reports at military academies On Location: Feb. 25, 2021 Replay Video UP NEXT The number of reported sexual assaults and unwanted sexual contact at the three military academies went down last year according to an annual Pentagon report released on Thursday, but only because the coronavirus pandemic resulted in cadets and midshipmen being sent home for the fourth academic quarter of the 2019-2020 academic year. Sending the cadets and midshipmen home ...

By CAITLIN M. KENNEY | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 25, 2021 WASHINGTON — The three military service academies had less reports of sexual assault and sexual harassment in the 2019-2020 school year after students transitioned to online classes at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Pentagon report released Thursday. However, the number of sexual assault reports matched the same quarterly trend as the previous academic year before cadets and midshipmen were sent home...

Working in tandem, these multiple lines of effort—prevention, response, research—could help the department keep service members safe from sexual assault and harassment.

USA TODAY WASHINGTON – The follow-up survey to a devastating report on sexual assaults at the military academies two years ago was short circuited by the COVID-19 pandemic, Pentagon officials said Thursday. Military officials had planned to conduct in-person surveys at the academies in the spring of 2020 but the pandemic had forced cadets and midshipmen from their campuses to remote learning, Nathan Galbreath, deputy director of the Pentagons Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, tol...

Pentagon officials have objected to the idea for years, but the new Senate Armed Services Committee chairman says the proposal is back on the table.

Experiencing Sexual Assault Doubles Odds That Troops Will Leave Military, Report Finds The teal ribbon is a national symbol of support for victims of sexual assault. (U.S Air Force/illustration/Staff Sgt. Don Hudson) 11 Feb 2021 U.S. military personnel who have experienced sexual assault are twice as likely to leave the military within 28 months of an attack, according to a new Rand Corp. report. "Sexual assault and sexual harassment are associated with a wide range of harms to individual servi...

Exposure to sexual assault in the U.S. military doubled the odds that a service member would leave the military within 28 months, and sexual harassment was associated with roughly 8% of all military separations during this same time period, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation.

 E-Mail Exposure to sexual assault in the U.S. military doubled the odds that a service member would leave the military within 28 months, and sexual harassment was associated with roughly 8% of all military separations during this same time period, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation. Specifically, the report estimates that sexual assaults were associated with 2,000 more separations than would normally be expected, and another 8,000 separations were associated with sexual hara...

A Hacker Is Threatening to Leak Patients’ Therapy Notes News Highlights: A Hacker Is Threatening to Leak Patients’ Therapy Notes. Ransomware attacks have increased around the world in recent months, targeting large companies and critical organizations such as hospitals. But digital extortion comes in many forms. And a particularly brutal attack is currently taking place in Finland, where a hacker threatens to release therapy notes and other data stolen from one of the country’s largest ...