How the NFL Risks the Health of Cheerleaders, Its Hardest Working, Lowest Paid Women
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Watching NFL cheerleaders perform for limited or nonexistent crowds with masks obscuring their white strip-sponsored smiles was one of the more off-putting spectacles of 2020. In spite of the
coronavirus pandemic, they waved pom-poms and danced, all with unflinching loyalty to the godforsaken game of football.
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But the uncanny presence of cheerleaders during a global health meltdown snowballed into something more ominous when two individuals with knowledge of the Los Angeles Rams said that the organization was not providing or requiring covid-19 tests for its cheerleaders throughout 2020.
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There are at least three concerning variants currently spreading in countries around the world, according to Jay Butler, deputy director for infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who spoke at a Jan. 29 briefing organized by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Plus, there are many other lesser-known variants that researchers are tracking, including a number that have emerged within the U.S.
The three variants noted by Butler which first emerged in the U.K., South Africa, and Brazil are all either more transmissible, more likely to cause severe disease, or better at evading the antibodies generated by vaccination or a previous infection. Some have a combination of these traits.
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Biden’s use of silence “is extremely important,” said Norma Mendoza-Denton, a professor of linguistics anthropology at UCLA. “President Trump never mentioned the death toll. He was never one to dwell on anything negative, whether it was the economy or the unrest.”
(Commentary written by UCLA’s Margaret Peters) As promised on the campaign trail, President Biden laid out his plan for immigration on his first day in office. The plan calls for changes to much of the U.S. immigration system, including repealing the “Muslim ban,” adding a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the United States, changes in the asylum system and more.
As only the fourth woman (all of them white) to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, [UCLA’s] Ghez understands that the Nobel also confers on recipients the responsibility of serving as an international role model for girls contemplating careers in science and for women scientists.
“I think at the start, there are a series of executive orders which are in process and ready to go. At the top of that list will be a campaign promise that he made at the end, which was to immediately reverse the Trump policy of separating families – and reuniting children with their parents,” said UCLA’s Matt Barreto (approx. 8:13 mark).