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After welcoming 49ers, Sharks, Arizona leaders express concern about hosting Giants, A’s and others [Mercury News]
Jan. 25 With about three weeks remaining until pitchers and catchers are set to arrive in Arizona, nine local politicians and the executive director of the Cactus League are urging Major League Baseball to delay the start of spring training.
Citing Maricopa County’s high coronavirus infection rate and concerns about providing “a safe, secure environment” for MLB clubs, Arizona-based leaders including Scottsdale Mayor Dave Ortega and Mesa Mayor John Giles asking MLB in letter Friday to consider waiting to open Cactus League play until the region’s COVID-19 situation improves.
Fact-checking 7 statistical claims from Biden’s (quite factual) economic speech
President Joe Biden recited a flurry of figures in a Friday speech in which he urged Congress to pass the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package he calls the American Rescue Plan.
We fact-checked many of the statistical claims Biden made in the speech and found Biden was highly factual, though there are some nuances worth noting. Here’s an assessment of seven of the claims we looked into:
Job losses in education
Biden noted that his plan includes funding for local governments to keep critical public employees on the job; his predecessor Donald Trump and other Republicans resisted this kind of direct aid to state and local governments. Biden said: “Over the last year, more than 600,000 educators have lost their jobs in the cities and towns.”
Is the Covid-19 peak (finally) behind us? Here s what experts say.
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The U.S. daily case rate of the novel coronavirus appears to be slowing, but public health officials say the ongoing race between rolling out Covid-19 vaccines and the quickly circulating new coronavirus variants will ultimately determine whether the nation has finally hit a turning point in its battle against the virus.
New York Times, the United States average daily number of newly reported coronavirus cases over the past week was 172,429, which is down by 31% when compared with the average from two weeks ago and enough of a decline to spur some experts to say this could mark a downshift in America s epidemic after nearly four months of consistently increasing case numbers.
This Utah respiratory therapist died of COVID-19 in the hospital where he helped save newborns for decades
The colleagues of Rufino Rodriguez, 65, showed him love in his last moments.
(Photo courtesy of the Rodriguez family) Mariano Rufino Rodriguez, who worked as a respiratory therapist at Utah Valley Hospital s newborn intensive care unit for decades, died at that hospital Saturday, Jan. 23, 2020, from complications of COVID-19. He was 65.
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Rufino Rodriguez worked 37 years saving lives as a respiratory therapist at Provo’s Utah Valley Hospital, where he “was the one who would fight for all the babies” in the newborn intensive care unit, his son said.