Number of COVID-Positive Migrants Released into Texas Border Town Rises over Past Week
A spokesperson with the City of Brownsville, Texas, said on Monday the number of migrants who tested positive for Coronavirus and were subsequently released from U.S. custody doubled in recent days.
Felipe Romero told Fox News that 185 migrants were dropped off and rapid tested at the citys main bus station up from 108 less than one week ago.
Fox News reported:
The increased figures come as a camp housing around 800 migrants in nearby Matamoros closed Sunday, with most of those people being allowed onto U.S. soil.
Mar 10, 2021
There are lots of questions about the process that led to awarding a giant federal government contract to a Wisconsin-based company rather than to a company with ties to the Mahoning Valley.
The U.S. Postal Service vehicle contract worth billions of dollars will be publicly funded, and Americans deserve to hear the answers.
It came to light this week that millions of dollars in Oshkosh Corp. stock was purchased one day before a division of the Wisconsin-based company was awarded the contract to build the U.S. Postal Service’s next-gen delivery vehicles.
The stock’s price rose significantly one day before the contract was announced, raising questions about whether details of the announcement were leaked before the public announcement.
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Sideswipe: March 11: Prescient words on pandemic
10 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
3 minutes to read Ten years ago by the New York Times published comments by Dr Abigail Zuger criticising certain supposedly unrealistic aspects of Contagion, Steven Soderbergh s film about a deadly pandemic sweeps the globe. The movie s screenwriter, Scott Burns, responded . We took great care to make sure our fictional story was based on real science. The world had seen more than three dozen new pandemic-ready viruses in the last three decades. The scientists who consulted on the film, along with most of their colleagues in epidemiology and virology, believe it is only a matter of time coupled with lack of preparation before the world faces a real-life pandemic like the make-believe one in the film. Dr Zuger s point that the Contagion virus or MEV-1 does not precisely replicate Nipah encephalitis, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic or HIV/AIDS is correct. She is also right about the tr