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A top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tells leading state Democratic lawmakers that the administration had reportedly withheld data on COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes to avoid federal scrutiny; Laura Ingle reports. Melissa DeRosa has been a familiar name in the press since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic as Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s competent and trusted top aide. Her name became synonymous with the New York governor’s pandemic response and recovery efforts as she flanked the Democratic state leader at COVID-19 press conferences and events day by day. But on Thursday, DeRosa m...

12/23/20 WorkCompAcademy.com Sacramento, CA - In November, gig companies including Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart helped pass California's Proposition 22, effectively writing their own labor law. Now the companies plan to bring similar legislation elsewhere. Last month, the companies launched a group called the App-Based Work Alliance to support their agenda. Industry-supported bills in the works in New York state and Illinois would, like the California ballot measure, deny gig workers status as employees, and the workers' compensation, paid family leave, sick pay, unemployment insurance...

Bird Song of the Day The sound on this a bit low, but it really reminds me of the prairie. #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Resuming the upward climb, though at a lesser slope. Looks like the Midwest did it, from the regional data, with now a little help from the Northeast. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or even weeks. Is the virus gathering itself for another leap?