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By Elyse CarmosinoITEM STAFF
SAUGUS — Christopher Reilly has been appointed as the town’s new Director of Planning and Economic Development, Town Man-ager Scott Crabtree an-nounced this week.
Reilly joined the de-partment in June to work alongside Saugus’ Senior Planner, Alex Mello.
“I am pleased to welcome Christopher to the role of
Director of Planning and Economic Development for the town of Saugus,” Crabtree said. “Christo-pher brings extensive ex-perience in planning and development, knowledge of municipal planning, and technical training, all of which will be of great bene� t to the residents of Saugus and the communi-ty as a whole.”
In his role, Reilly will
By David McLellanITEM STAFF
SWAMPSCOTT — During the Nov. 3 election, Massachusetts voters will be asked whether they want to keep the state’s “pick-one” voting system, or switch to a different system known as “ranked-choice voting.”
Question 2 on the Massachusetts bal-lot this November calls for a switch to the latter system, which proponents say is more democratic, and eliminates some problems with the current voting system, including voters choosing “the lesser of two evils,” said Billy Jackson,
who in 2016 helped found Voter Choice for Massachusetts, the organization that has pushed for the ranked-choice voting ballot question.
Ranked-choice voting is a system of voting in which voters list their pre-ferred, second-favorite, and third-favor-ite candidate on their ballot sheet while voting, rather than just picking and vot-ing for one candidate under Massachu-setts’ current system.
If Question 2 passes, Massachusetts would adopt ranked-choice voting for primary and general elections for all
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Swampscott man looks to give voters a choice
Charges dropped against
three men ‘unlawfully
arrested’By Gayla Cawley
ITEM STAFF
LYNN — The Essex County Dis-trict Attorney’s of� ce has dropped the charges against three Black men who said they were unlawfully arrested by Lynn Police last month.
And an independent investiga-tion into the of� cers involved in the incident is underway, according to a statement from the DA’s of� ce.
“After a review of all the facts and circumstances, the of� ce of District Attorney (Jonathan) Blodgett has elected its discretion to discontinue the prosecutions of Victor White, Alexandros Armand and Scott Reed in Lynn District Court,” said Carrie Kimball, a DA spokesperson.
Kimball said the Lynn Police con-ducted an internal affairs investi-gation surrounding the arrests and detention of White, 32, Armand, 26, and Reed, 55. Those materials have been forwarded to a special assis-tant district attorney appointed by Blodgett to avoid any appearance of a con� ict of interest, she said.
“Daniel Bennett, former Secre-tary of the Executive Of� ce of Pub-lic Safety and Security will conduct an independent investigation to determine whether any criminal charges (against the of� cers) are appropriate,” said Kimball.
Lynn Police Lt. Michael Kmiec, a department spokesman, said “the department respects the DA’s de-cision in the matter,” but declined further comment, referring The Item to their initial statement on the incident that was released last month.
One of� cer resigned after the Lynn Police Department launched its internal investigation. The de-partment declined to release the name of the of� cer, Matthew Cop-pinger, who was identi� ed in a Bos-ton Globe report.
Police reports obtained from
ST. MARY’S SENIORS FINALLY GET THEIR SENDOFF
By Daniel KaneITEM STAFF
LYNN — It may not be the way any of them would have imagined it a short time ago, but the St. Mary’s Class of 2020 � nal-ly got to toss their graduation caps in the air and say goodbye to the school that they called home for four years.
St. Mary’s 139th commencement cere-mony was held at St. Mary’s church where more than 100 Spartans, some in atten-dance dawning masks along with their cap and gowns and others watching live on so-cial media, were honored in front of family,
friends and faculty.“Greetings to the class of 2020, it’s just
so good to see you, it really is,” St. Mary’s Head of School Dr. John F. Dolan said to the crowd. “We are so pleased to be here to hon-or our graduates even if it is late July and it’s 99 degrees. Everything is different. On March 12 we dismissed our students for two weeks only to have it turn out the way it did today.”
Thankfully, after talks of a virtual com-mencement and other options, a live annu-al commencement was made possible. The
The St. Mary’s High School graduating class throws their caps in the air after a ceremony at St. Mary’s Church in Lynn on Thurs-day night.
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MarketStreet Lynn� eld to take shopping outsideBy David McLellan
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LYNNFIELD — Food, fashion, art, and outdoor shopping will all be available in the same place for MarketStreet Lynn-� eld’s upcoming Shop to Table event.
The open-air event will be Saturday, Aug. 8, from noon to 3 p.m. on the side-walks of Market Street.
According to MarketStreet Lynn� eld spokesman Chris Langley, in addition to being a shopping festival with exclusive discounts from participating shops such
as Altar’d State, Carhartt, Lush Cos-metics, Casper, Kendra Scott, The Paper Store, and Williams-Sonoma, the event will have picnic-style dining and an art show.
“As guests shop, they can also stop by a public art show produced onsite by the Lynn� eld Art Guild, or enjoy a cool popsicle from the Boys & Girls Club of Wake� eld and Stoneham,” Langley said. “There will also be a balloon garden to pick from, chalk buckets for free-form artists to draw with, and space on Mar-ketStreet’s ever-popular green to enjoy
a picnic lunch from the lifestyle center’s diverse collection of dining options.”
Outdoor and indoor dining will be avail-able at select restaurants, Langley said. The event is free and open to the public.
Social distancing measures will be in place via signage due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Langley said, with visitors and employees reminded to remain six feet apart.
“MarketStreet Lynn� eld has adjust-ed communal spaces and furniture con� guration throughout the proper-ty,” Langley said. “In addition, guests
and staff are required to wear face coverings while in stores and salons, as well as when checking into restau-rants, prior to being seated, as recom-mended by the (U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention) and in keeping with local government guidance.”
People in need of face coverings for the event will be offered complimentary masks upon request from MarketStreet Lynn� eld security staff, Langley said.
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Arrest made after student killed over backpack in Revere
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BOSTON — The man who shot and killed a 20-year-old man during a confrontation over a stolen backpack in Revere was arraigned Thurs-day.
The arrest of Felix Martinez, 19, accused of murder in the death of Yaseen Butt last week, came after an investigation by state police detec-tives assigned to the Suffolk County District At-
torney’s of� ce, with the assistance of the Revere Police Department.
Martinez was arraigned, by telephone in Chel-sea District Court, on charges of the murder of Butt, assault with a dangerous weapon and two counts of armed robbery. At the request of As-sistant District Attorney David McGowan, Judge Matthew Machera ordered Martinez held without
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statewide of� ces, state leg-islative of� ces, and federal congressional of� ces in 2022. It would not apply to presidential primaries or elections, or elections for municipal of� ces.
Opponents of ranked-choice voting, such as con-servative think tank The Heritage Foundation, say the system gives undue at-tention to “marginal” can-didates. However, Voter Choice for Massachusetts has now received endorse-ment from several prom-inent people who have been named “honorary co-chairs” for the campaign, including former Demo-cratic Gov. Deval Patrick and former Republican Gov. Bill Weld.
“It’s been proven that not only does ranked choice voting discourage negative campaigning, but it provides more choices for voters while increasing participation in our elec-tions. This is what true
representative democracy is about,” Patrick said.
Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury secretary and professor emeritus at Harvard Uni-versity, was also named an honorary co-chair and said “ranked-choice voting is the single most import-ant change we can make to improve American de-mocracy.”
Jackson said the move-ment to adopt ranked-choice voting in Massa-chusetts is nonpartisan, and it has been endorsed by the Massachusetts Lib-ertarian, Green-Rainbow, and Democratic parties.
By doing away with the pick-one system, Jackson said voters will no longer have to “settle” and choose the “lesser of two evils” — a candidate who is per-ceived as having a chance to win, but is otherwise not preferred — when vot-ing. With ranked-choice voting, voters may also be more likely to vote for mi-nor-party candidates.
“(Under the current sys-
tem), a lot of people feel like they want to vote for a Libertarian or Green party candidate, but they would be throwing their vote away,” Jackson said.
Jackson also said, with ranked-choice voting, peo-ple will no longer be able to blame third-party can-didates as “spoilers” for having “stolen votes” from Democrats or Republicans because the system allows people to vote for more than one candidate.
Voter Choice for Massa-chusetts was able to meet the threshold of 13,374 signatures required to get the question on the ballot, despite having to campaign largely online due to the COVID-19 pan-demic, and the inability to campaign as much in pub-lic places such as shopping plazas.
Jackson helped found Voter Choice for Massa-chusetts after nine years of researching and teaching alternative voting meth-ods to students and devel-oping his own opinions on
the current voting system. He’d ask people, “Have you ever had to vote for the lesser of two evils?” with the answer most often be-ing “Yes.” In 2016, when Maine adopted ranked-choice voting, Jackson said he knew Massachusetts voters had an opportunity to go the same direction.
To learn more, visit www.voterchoice2020.org.
David McLellan can be reached at [email protected].
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LYNN — Pauline M. “Polly” (Dineen) Chernoff, age 68 and lifelong resident of Lynn, died on Tuesday, July 28, 2020, surrounded by her lov-ing family, following a lengthy illness.
Born in 1952, she was the daughter of the late Albert W. and Patricia D. (Donoghue) Dineen, who predeceased her on June 25. She was raised and educated in Lynn, at-tended St. Patrick’s Grammar School, graduated from St. Mary’s High School in 1969 and attended Marion Court College. Pauline worked as an assistant town clerk for the Town of Dracut for 10 years and later as a manager in the HR Department at Sears in Peabody for more than 20 years, until her retirement. She enjoyed bowling, quilting and playing cribbage. She was an avid reader, loved bingo, going for rides on the motorcycle and trips to Foxwoods.
Pauline is survived by her loving children, Lessa Benden and spouse Charleen of Titus-ville, Fla., Charles Chernoff and partner Bobbie Jo Powers of Turner Falls, and Thomas Cher-noff and spouse Shannon of Ti-tusville, Fla.; her beloved grand-son Sean Chernoff; her brother Albert P. Dineen and his wife Sissie of Lynn; her sister Mary F. Schomburg and her husband Fred of North Myrtle Beach, S.C.; her aunts Claire Kaminski and her late husband Robert of Peabody and Ellen Barker and her late husband Orville of Madison, Wis.; and her many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. In addition to her par-ents, she was predeceased by
her brother Charles V. Dineen, her sister Patricia C. Vaughan, her nephew Albert W. Dineen and her former husband Wil-liam Chernoff.
Service information: A funeral Mass will be cele-brated on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020 in St. Mary’s Church, Lynn. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend and are required to adhere to the guidelines of the Commonwealth of Mas-sachusetts, the CDC and St. Mary’s Church. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery, Lynn. Visitation will be on Satur-day in the SOLIMINE Funeral Home, 426 Broadway (Route 129), Lynn, beginning at 9 a.m. and is limited to 40 family and friends. Direc-tions and online guestbook for family and friends to of-fer condolences at www.soli-mine.com.
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LYNN — Mr. Edward J. Yaeger, 87 years, of Lynn, died unex-pectedly at home on Saturday, July 25, 2020. He was the husband of the late Evelyn “Evie” (Janvrin) Yaeger.
He was born in The Bronx, N.Y., the son of the late Eu-gene and Nora (Deegan) Yae-ger. He attended schools in New York. He moved to Lynn in 1952.
Edward was a Navy veteran of the Korean War. He was a Mason and once served as Grand Master. He enjoyed put-tering around the house and yard and puzzles.
He is survived by his three daughters, Donna Yaeger of Lynn, Diane Phinney of Weymouth and Debra Taylor and her husband Ted of East Wake� eld, N.H. He leaves his grandchildren, John Peterson and his wife Kerri, Renee Peterson, Jamie Pe-terson-Blair and her husband Jason, Kris-tin Wong and Leah Grace. He also leaves his great-grand-children, Nathan, Jacob, Aiden
Peterson and Ethan Wong.Service information: Private
funeral and burial was held today from the SOLIMINE Fu-neral Home, Lynn. Donations
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bail while the case is pending.
McGowan told the court that, on July 26, Martinez allegedly participated in a robbery in which he stole two backpacks — one of which was valued at ap-proximately $800 — from Butt and a second individ-ual in the area of Gar� eld Avenue. During the rob-bery, the individual who was with Martinez dis-played what appeared to be a � rearm.
Following the robbery, the victims gathered a group of companions and set out to � nd Martinez in an attempt to retrieve the backpacks. They located Martinez among a group of individuals in the area of Revere Beach Boulevard; he was in possession of one
of the backpacks, the DA’s of� ce said During a con-frontation between the two groups, Martinez alleged-ly attempted to get a � re-arm from another person, according to McGowan. In response, the victim left the location and was chased by Martinez and a group of males to a grassy area near 82 Revere Beach Blvd. The victim fell to the ground, where the group began to kick and beat him. During the assault, Martinez shot the victim, prosecutors said.
Butt was rushed to Mas-sachusetts General Hospi-tal, where he died.
Martinez and other members of the group were captured by secu-rity cameras � eeing into a nearby MBTA station. Martinez jumped onto the live tracks and was nar-rowly missed by a train as
he made his escape, prose-cutors said.
During the course of the investigation, detectives gathered additional evi-dence from security cam-era footage, social media, witness statements, and ballistic evidence. The State Police continue to investigate with the assis-tance of the Revere Police Department.
“First and foremost, my thoughts and prayers go out to the victim’s family,” said recently-appointed Revere Police Chief David Callahan. “As a communi-ty, we’re all shocked by this terrible and heinous crime.
“I want to thank the in-vestigators who worked tirelessly on this case over the last several days, lead-ing to today’s arrest. Re-vere police are continuing to work with state police detectives and the Suffolk
DA’s of� ce to make sure that those who had a role in this crime are arrested, and to prevent further vio-lence in the city of Revere.”
“Yaseen’s life was sto-len over a backpack. This violence and complete disregard for human life is unacceptable,” Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins said. “The state police detec-tives assigned to my uf-� ce will continue to work alongside the Revere Po-lice Department to make sure those responsible for Yaseen’s murder are held accountable.
“We intend to support Yaseen’s loved ones and connect them with re-sources,” she said. “We will also work directly with the Revere community in the wake of this senseless act of violence.”
The case returns to court on Sept. 2.
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Wall Street slides, but tech strength helps avert a big loss
By Stan ChoeASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Most of Wall Street stumbled Thursday, but yet anoth-er rise for big technology stocks helped keep the market’s losses in check.
The S&P 500 dropped 12.22 points, or 0.4 percent, to 3,246.22, with nearly three out of four stocks in the index falling. Among the hardest-hit were oil producers, banks and other companies that most need the economy to pull out of its recession. Treasury yields also sank in a sign of increased pessimism about the economy.
The Dow Jones Indus-trial Average lost 225.92 points, or 0.9 percent, to 26,313.65. Earlier in the morning, though, the mar-ket had seemed set for a much steeper fall. The Dow was down as many as 547 points, while the S&P 500 tumbled 1.7 percent within the � rst hour of trading.
Stronger-than-expected pro� t reports from UPS and other companies helped the market trim its loss-es through the day. So did steadying prices for Amazon and other big tech-oriented stocks, which reported their own results after the day’s trading ended. Anticipa-tion for their reports, which proved to be even better than Wall Street expected, helped the Nasdaq compos-ite completely erase its ear-ly loss and climb 44.87, or 0.4 percent, to end the day at 10,587.81.
The jumbled trad-ing came after a report showed that layoffs are continuing at their stub-born pace across the coun-try, denting hopes that the economy can recover near-ly as quickly as it plum-meted into recession. A separate report on Thurs-
day showed that the U.S. economy contracted at a nearly 33 percent annu-al rate in the spring, the worst quarter on record.
Markets worldwide had already turned lower before those data releases dropped. An earlier report showed that Germany’s economy, Europe’s largest, suffered through its worst quarter on record during the spring.
Investors had already been expecting the re-ports on the economy to be weak, “so the real story today for traders is earn-ings,” said Chris Larkin, managing director of trad-ing and investment prod-uct at E-Trade Financial.
Thursday was the bus-iest day for pro� t reports
among S&P 500 compa-nies within the busiest week this earnings season.
Earnings reports have mostly been better than Wall Street’s expectations so far, but they’ve been far below year-ago levels, be-fore the pandemic struck. The big companies in the S&P 500 are on track to report a nearly 38 percent drop for the second quar-ter from a year earlier, ac-cording to FactSet.
Energy stocks had some of the market’s sharpest losses, dropping in concert with oil prices amid wor-ries about a weaker econ-omy. Exxon Mobil dropped 4.9 percent, and Cono-coPhillips lost 5.8 percent.
Financial stocks were
also weak, hurt by a drop in interest rates that reins in the pro� ts to be made from lending. JPMorgan Chase fell 2.7 percent, and Citigroup lost 3.1 percent
On the winning end was UPS, which jumped 14.4 percent to a record high after reporting revenue and pro� ts for the spring that blew past analysts’ expectations. It bene� ted from more people getting deliveries at home amid the pandemic.
Qualcomm rose 15.2 percent after it also re-ported stronger-than-ex-pected quarterly results, while announcing it had resolved a dispute with Huawei and signed a new license agreement.
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A stock trader, left, adjusts his mask as he enters the New York Stock Exchange Thursday.
Scientist seeks return of transmitter from caught mako shark
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (AP) — A shark research-er wants the tracker back from a mako shark he was following that was appar-ently caught somewhere near Block Island, R.I.
University of Rhode Island scientist Brad-ley Wetherbee tagged the shark off the coast of Maryland in June and tracked its journey north to Rhode Island, where the tracker indicated last week that it was on land, The Providence Journal reported.
Wetherbee is asking whoever caught the shark to return the satellite transmitter, which was at-tached to the shark’s dor-sal � n.
Along with colleagues at the Guy Harvey Research Institute in Florida, he studies the migration and behavior of mako, blue and tiger sharks, and will
use the transmitter to tag a different shark. The de-vice costs about $2,000, he said.
Mako sharks are some of the fastest predators in the Atlantic Ocean and are prized for their high-quality meat, the newspaper reported.
Short� n mako sharks are over� shed, the Na-tional Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration has found. In December, NOAA issued new lim-itations on the length of mako sharks sport � shers are allowed to keep and instructed commercial � shers to only keep dead mako sharks that come in with their catch.
Weatherbee has lost transmitters attached to caught sharks before, and told the newspaper he has almost always been able to recover them.
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Revere reported two more coronavirus deaths on Thursday to bring the city’s death toll to 93.
And new virus cases were reported in Lynn, Revere and Saugus on Thursday.
With 10 new cases, Re-vere now has 1,994 cases, but 1,675 residents have recovered, according to the city website.
Lynn also reported 10 new cases on Thursday to bring the city’s caseload to 3,921. Of that total, 484 cases are active, 110 residents have died and 3,327 have recovered from the virus, according to city data.
Eight new cases were reported in Saugus, which updated its numbers for the first time in a week.
The town’s death toll re-mained the same at 38.
New cases were re-ported in Marblehead and Swampscott late on Wednesday, but neither town updated their num-bers on Thursday.
As of Wednesday, Mar-blehead had 247 cases and 30 deaths and Swamp-scott had 143 cases and nine deaths, according to the state Department of Public Health.
Numbers remained the same in Lynnfield (104 cases, 11 deaths) and Na-hant (50 cases, six deaths) on Thursday, and were not updated in Peabody, which reported 1,121 cases and 172 deaths on Wednesday.
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manage all shorter term, intermediate, and longer range master planning within the community. He will also support the town’s continued initia-tives and efforts in regards to land use planning; en-ergy, housing, and open space projects and initia-tives; infrastructure needs assessments; and econom-ic development.
A press release from Crabtree referred to Reil-ly’s “wealth of experience” in planning and economic development, as well as municipal government. He most recently worked as the Director of Plan-ning for the town of Bil-lerica, and before that, served as the Director of Planning and Land Use Permitting for the town of Lincoln. Throughout his long career, Reilly has also
held similar roles in Ware-ham, Salisbury, Reading, and Quincy.
He holds a Masters of Science in planning and policy development, a Masters of Arts in Ge-ography, and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography, all from Rutgers. Reilly also completed a graduate exchange program from Princeton’s Woodrow Wil-son School and he was a special graduate student in planning at the Massa-chusetts Institute of Tech-nology.
In addition, Reilly is certified from the Ameri-can Institute of Certified Planners and he holds a certificate from the Col-lins Center for Public Management Supervisory Leadership Program.
More information about Reilly and his new position can be found by contacting the Town Manager’s office at (781) 231-4111.
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and an organization, a consortium of more than 80 shops and restaurants — 20 of which are owned by Lynnfield locals — and an organization that has won awards for its open-
air model offering dining, shopping, entertainment, charity fundraisers, and family friendly events throughout the year. In Boston Magazine’s 2019 “Best of Boston” issue, MarketStreet Lynnfield won the “Best Shopping Complex, North” award.
Led by Massachusetts commercial developer WS Development, Other Mar-ketStreet Lynnfield busi-nesses include Amazon Books, Whole Foods Mar-ket, Kings Dining & En-tertainment, Tommy Ba-hama, Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse, Apple,
Wahlburgers, Vineyard Vines, California Pizza Kitchen, and others. For more information, visit www.marketstreetlynn-field.com.
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Class of 2020 has already been through plenty but it’s also given them a chance to show their char-acter.
“Your perseverance and trust in your faith has demonstrated to all of us that the Class of 2020 will continue to make us proud,” Dolan said. “You’ve made me proud, you’ve made your school com-munity proud. I can only imagine the pride of your family to see you gradu-ate today. To the Class of 2020, Godspeed. You have been tested and you have still moved forward.”
Valedictorian Erin Pow-ers wasn’t able to attend the commencement, but
Salutatorian Isabella Leo was on hand to give her address.
“Although the end of high school isn’t how we imagined it would be, we still have all the stories to reflect on of all those that were there for us,” Leo said. “In the last few months of school leading up to now we have faced constant uncertainty. Our teachers and administra-tors did everything they could to help us finish off our year successfully and safely.”
That was a common theme for Leo’s speech as she also thanked the fam-ily and friends of the class of 2020.
“It’s important to ac-knowledge everyone who has contributed to all of
our successes during our time here,” Leo said. “We have our parents, who al-ways push us to be the best that we can be. Whether it was academics, sports or clubs, they always encour-aged us to do more and not settle for anything less. They helped us set our goals because they knew we could achieve them.
“And let’s not forget the tremendous support we’ve received from our fellow classmates,” she said. “Friendship is truly the glue that held us all together. No matter how stressed we were, at the end of the day, we have our friends to count on and share our lives with.”
Of course Thursday is just the end of one chap-ter for St. Mary’s Class
of 2020 as they take their success from their days as a Spartan on into the rest of their lives.
“To my classmates I want you all to know that this is just the beginning. We all have a bigger task at hand,” Leo said. “St. Mary’s has given us the foundation for success that we need and now we must apply this knowledge in all that we will do. We are the leaders of the future. If we want to see a change in our society we have to start with ourselves. We must practice what we preach. As Gandhi said, ‘the future depends on what we do to-day.’”
Daniel Kane can be reached at [email protected].
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Lynn District Court iden-tified the arresting officers as John Michael Clem III, Freddy Demota, and Michael Chalmers. White identified Coppinger as the officer who used force against him in a cell block following his arrest.
The arrests of White, Ar-mand and Reed on June 15 immediately proved to be controversial. White said he was sitting outside on his Brightwood Terrace porch and drinking with his co-worker, Armand, and neighbor, Reed, when they were arrested by Lynn Police.
The incident sparked a protest that drew hun-dreds of people at the Lynn Commons after the three men said they were “un-lawfully arrested, assault-ed and falsely charged” by Lynn Police. The purpose of the protest was to push for the charges to be dropped.
White said he heard through his lawyer that the charges against him had been dropped on Thursday.
“It’s a sign of relief, but I don’t feel like that’s re-ally what we were trying to accomplish,” said White. “We still want the officers
involved held accountable for what they did. My civil rights were violated.”
White said there is an-other protest centered around their arrests that is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 7. As the charges have been dropped, he said the demonstration will instead be focused on efforts to “hold the police accountable and have reform for police.”
White alleges that Cop-pinger threw him to the ground and beat him with closed fists in his cellblock. He denies the narrative in the police report, which says that force was used against him after he re-fused to take off his face mask, saying that he had already taken it off for a mugshot.
According to last month’s statement from Lynn Po-lice, one of the men re-mained uncooperative during the booking pro-cess, which resulted in a use of force in the cellblock.
Attempts to reach Cop-pinger were unsuccessful.
In his written report of the incident, Coppinger described White as unco-operative and resistant to requests to remove his shoes, socks and face mask in the cell block.
When he refused to take
off his socks and shoes, Coppinger said in his report that White was informed that if he did not comply with their re-quests, officers would take them off by force. He said White eventually com-plied, but refused to re-move his face mask, which is not allowed inside a cell.
“We gave him one final chance and told him it would be removed from him by us if he did not do so,” Coppinger wrote. “I then moved towards White to remove his mask from around his neck. When I reached for it, White grabbed my wrist, pushed me away and continued to hold onto my forearm with a firm grip.
“Officer Demota and I grabbed White and guided him onto the floor of the cell, to stop his violent be-havior and place ourselves into a position of advan-tage.”
Coppinger said he and Demota were eventually able to remove his face mask and lock his cell door before White could get back up off the floor and “continue his attack.”
In a statement last month, Lynn Police said officers responded to Brightwood Terrace short-
ly after midnight on June 15 after receiving a com-plaint regarding a loud group that was drinking and smoking marijuana at the address.
When officers respond-ed to the area, they found three men drinking alco-hol in public and noticed several empty alcohol con-tainers around the indi-viduals. When responding officers told the men that it was illegal to drink in public, they became argu-mentative, police said.
After one man began to swear at officers and refused to cooperate, the officers made the decision to place them under arrest for violating the city ordi-nance pertaining to drink-ing in public. Two of the men resisted arrest at the scene, but were taken into custody, police said.
White said he expected the charges to be dropped in lieu of their subsequent protests.
“I feel like this is a sign that people need to speak up when they’re being mistreated and don’t be quiet about it,” said White. “Our voices are power.”
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Scan the skies to-day for a seagull, and when you spot one, spend a couple of sec-onds thinking about Frank Clements, who devoted his heart and mind to the ships that sailed the seas across the centuries.
The Nahant resi-dent and master mod-el shipbuilder died on Monday after spend-ing more than 50 years of his life carefully crafting replicas of vessels ranging from Viking ships to fishing boats and World War II battleships.
He knew the USS Constitution like the back of his hand and his devotion to study-ing and celebrating the oldest commissioned warship in the United State Navy knew no bounds. He could de-scribe every lee gun, spanker and topgal-lant mast on the ship.
Any sailor’s ghosts roaming the Consti-tution’s decks surely knew Frank and con-sidered him an hon-orary crewmate. Cle-ments understood the central role seafaring vessels and the people who sail them play in American history.
The first American history story chil-dren learn includes the words, “sailed the
ocean blue.” The coun-try’s economic expan-sion and its first test as a rival to European powers occurred on the sea. It’s formative history includes traf-ficking in humans tied to the rum and sugar trades along transoce-anic routes.
When he showed you a ship model, Clem-ents didn’t lecture you about ships or over-whelm you with his wealth of nautical jar-gon. He pointed out the carefully-crafted rigging or tiny port-holes and oars and transported you onto a rolling ship’s deck awash in salt water with the roar of the sea competing with sailors shouting in the rigging or the blasts of big guns.
A volunteer for years at the USS Constitu-tion Museum/Boston National Historical Park, Clements knew the place ships occu-pied in history and he had a gift for opening a door into history every time he showed one of his models.
Clements co-founded
the Model Shipwright Guild of New England and won award af-ter award for his cre-ations in juried shows that pitted his meticu-lously-crafted models against master build-ers from around the world.
His model of the ill-fated Swedish war-ship, Vasa, was dis-played for a year in the Stockholm museum devoted to the ship’s history.
The little house where Clements and his wife, Helen, raised their big family was an example of ingenious-ly-used space within sight of the sea.
He gifted me with a Viking ship model and it sits in a glass case feet away from a pho-tograph of my father, a son of Norway and self-styled Viking who would have appreciated the tribute to his heri-tage and lust for life.
I was one among many people to be gift-ed with a Clements model. But Frank Cle-ments’ true gift was the abiding love for the sea and sailors that he gave the thousands of people who marveled over his models.
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Testing for COVID-19 has increased na-tionwide, but delays in processing those tests — and providing the results — are keeping some away from work or potential-ly putting asymptomatic people out in pub-lic to spread the virus.
A national program to increase test pro-cessing and turnaround times is desperately needed if the coronavirus is to be contained. White House officials have acknowledged the need for quicker turnaround times; what’s needed now is federal funding to in-crease laboratory testing capacity.
Laboratories that process the tests are being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers as total infections across the country have now topped the 4 million mark. Officials estimate 770,000 tests are being performed daily. With some labs taking weeks to pro-cess tests, health experts fear asymptom-atic people who are not self-quarantining while awaiting results could be spreading the virus.
And those who are isolating are often missing significant work days — and pay-checks — while sometimes waiting weeks for results that come back negative.
Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion, said the country has become obsessed with how many tests are being done per day, but it is overlooking the more import-ant turnaround time.
“The question is how many tests are be-ing done with results coming back within a day, where the individual tested is proper-ly isolated and their contacts are promptly warned,” Dr. Frieden said.
Health experts have said from the start of the pandemic testing and contact tracing are keys in controlling the virus, but the de-lays in obtaining test results make tracing all the more difficult or too late to be effec-tive. Officials estimate if turnaround times extend beyond several days, the results can be useless because the person tested may have already infected scores of people in the interim.
The CDC issued guidelines recommend-ing states lifting restrictions have testing turnaround times of under four days. That has been a difficult — if not impossible — target to hit for most states.
States should adopt a plan supported by Dr. Frieden and other health experts to re-port testing turnaround times, just as they report the number of new cases. It’s an im-portant metric, along with the total number of new cases, recent deaths and percentage of tests that come back positive. The turn-around time is key to making contact trac-ing an effective mitigation tool.
Federal officials are reportedly working with testing companies to ramp up the number of tests they can perform. That needs to be a priority with an immediate funding commitment.
Crafting a win-win for seniorsAt the beginning of
the year, doctors told me that I needed to get blood work done again. But my Medicare supple-ment insurance was at its limit for the quarter and I had to either pay out of pocket or wait six months. Paying out of pocket is not an option so I was forced to wait four months until my in-surance allowed the test. In the state that’s first in the nation for econom-ically unstable seniors, Massachusetts is forcing thousands of seniors to choose between essential health care and putting food on the table.
The Massachusetts leg-islature expanded the state’s Medicare Sav-ings Program in Janu-ary covering many of the out-of-pocket Medicare costs seniors struggle to pay — but I just barely missed the cutoff by $140 a month.
I may be earning more than the cutoff allows, but I’m certainly not sav-ing any more. The $140 is basically what I pay for Medicare premium every month, not to men-tion my copayments and deductibles.
If I’m able to qualify for this program, this health care relief won’t mean vacations or luxu-ries — it will allow me to buy the fresh fruits and vegetables that doctors recommended for my di-abetic and pancreatic di-ets, and I will be able to have the necessary medi-cal test without choosing between my budget and my health.
As so many seniors in our community struggle to make ends meet, we need a second expansion of the Medicare Savings Program, especially in
the midst of a global pan-demic that has left so many seniors vulnerable.
Lynn’s population is 11 percent seniors and the city has the fifth-high-est number of COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts. An estimated 36 per-cent of Lynn seniors live alone, many without the support of home care be-cause of its astronomical expense.
Right now, the expand-ed Medicare program cov-ers health costs for those at 165 percent of the fed-eral poverty level. With so many seniors strug-gling with the health and economic effects of COVID-19, this expan-sion leaves thousands un-covered.
You may think that Medicare expansion is too expensive, especial-ly today, but let’s take a deeper look at the num-bers.
While the state would need to invest funds to expand the Medicare Savings Program to in-clude seniors living at the 200 percentile of the federal poverty level — it leverages $183 million federal aid dollars. That means 45,000 seniors across the state would get to keep $200 a month on average, and the state would actually gain ac-cess to federal funding. It’s a win-win for seniors and for our state.
Massachusetts claims to be a progressive state, but the numbers don’t lie: We are first in the na-tion for economic insta-bility amongst seniors. Our progressive values should be mirrored in the way we treat senior citizens at all times, even during a pandemic, and our representatives are demonstrating that they
simply do not want to walk the walk. Our rep-utation as a state that cares about its citizens is clearly on the line in 2020. Will we lead the way toward a brighter world for seniors? Thou-sands of Massachusetts seniors are asking them-selves this question ev-ery day.
There are far too many Lynn seniors with-out access to grocer-ies, prescriptions, and the peace-of-mind that comes with the ability to trust elected officials to enact meaningful solu-tions, or even short-term solutions. Our politicians have distributed billions of dollars in stimulus money to our largest cor-porations. But I think seniors like me have been hit harder by this pandemic than any bil-lion-dollar business.
This year’s expanded Medicare Savings Pro-gram means that many seniors can make ends meet throughout the course of this pandemic. The thousands of Mas-sachusetts seniors just above the qualification threshold are barely keeping afloat. As seniors are hit with the economic and health repercussions of COVID-19, the Medi-care Savings Program needs to be expanded to cover seniors at the 200 percentile of the federal poverty level.
The seniors of Lynn are demanding a Medicare expansion and making it known that we will not be undermined during COVID-19.
Joan Noble is a Lynn resident of 83 years and a member of the Massa-chusetts Senior Action Council.
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Arrests
Michelle Carter, 60, of 1 Kingsley Terrace, was arrested on warrant charges of assault and battery and intimidation of a witness/juror/police/court official at 12:19 a.m. Thursday.
Alexander Hernandez, 26, of 33 Howard St., was arrest-ed and charged with firearm possession without a firearm identification card, Class D drug possession with intent to distribute, unlawful im-proper storage of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammo without a firearm iden-tification card at 10:05 a.m. Thursday.
Kevin Medrano, 30, of 47 Hanover St., was arrested and charged with violation of the city knife ordinance and on warrant charges of refusing to produce a DNA database sample, Class B drug pos-session subsequent offense, use of a motor vehicle with-out authority and operation of a motor vehicle with a sus-pended license at 2:34 p.m. Wednesday.
Hector Rivera, 24, of 76 Spencer St., was arrested and charged with motor vehi-cle breaking and entering with theft, receiving stolen proper-ty, arrestee furnishing false ID information, malicious damage to a motor vehicle, possession of a counterfeit note and on warrant charges of nighttime breaking and entering for a felony and ma-licious destruction of property at 8:55 a.m. Thursday.
Accidents
A report of a motor vehicle crash at 1:16 p.m. Wednes-day at Alley and Pleasant streets; at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Broad and Newhall streets.
A report of a motor vehicle crash with personal injury at 2:54 p.m. Wednesday at Cha-tham Street and Oakwood Avenue.
Assaults
A report of an assault and battery at 1:21 p.m. Wednes-day on Willow Street; at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday on Fern-wood Avenue; at 6:34 p.m. Wednesday at Empire and Essex streets; at 7:56 p.m. Wednesday on Nelson Street.
Breaking and Entering
A report of a breaking and entering at 8:25 p.m. Wednesday at 12 Rust St.
A report of a motor vehi-cle breaking and entering at 10:02 a.m. Thursday at 173 Oxford St.
Complaints
A report of an injured cop at 3:24 p.m. Wednesday at 300 Washington St.
Overdose
A report of an opiate over-dose at 5:02 p.m. Wednesday on Houghton Street.
A report of an overdose at 6:07 p.m. Wednesday on Western Avenue; at 9:06 p.m. Wednesday on Neptune Bou-levard.
Theft
A report of a larceny at 11:25 a.m. Wednesday at 45 Jackson St.; at 12:38 p.m. Wednesday at 202 Ocean St.; at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Lynn Shore Drive and Wave Street; at 7:18 p.m. Wednes-day at EbLens at 14 State St.; at 10:39 p.m. Wednesday at Walmart at 780 Lynnway; at 8:03 a.m. Thursday at Buffum and Union streets.
Vandalism
A report of motor vehicle vandalism at 9:47 a.m. Thurs-day at Baltimore Park and Baltimore Street.
MARBLEHEAD
Complaints
A caller reported her plants were destroyed at 11:17 a.m. Wednesday on Powder House Court.
A report of someone scream-ing at 8:37 p.m. Wednesday on Pleasant Street. A caller reported he could hear some-one screaming and thought the person was on the railroad right-of-way. Police checked the area and reported there was no one in distress.
SAUGUS
Complaints
A 911 caller reported an unwanted party laying on his grass at 12:23 a.m. Thurs-day. Officers dispatched to Ledgewood Rd. requested an ambulance for evaluation. One party was transported to Melrose/Wakefield Hospital.
A caller reported a loud noise coming from their neighbor’s house at 9 p.m. Wednesday. Officers dis-patched to Guard St. reported all appeared quiet.
Police received a report at 8:38 p.m. Wednesday about three people with firearms in a large group in front of Five Guys. Officers were dis-patched for more information.
Police received a report at 6:43 p.m. Wednesday from a caller who reported a truck pulled up to their group and threw a slushie at them near the Lynn Fells Parkway. The caller believed it was a ma-licious action. Officers were dispatched.
Thefts
At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, a male party reported leaving his wallet in the gas station and said he went back 10 minutes later and it was gone. Officers were dispatched to Superior Petroleum on Broad-way for more information.
A manager at DSW on Broadway called at 7:17 p.m. Wednesday to report a shop-lifting incident that occurred 10 minutes prior. Officers were dispatched for more in-formation.
SWAMPSCOTT
Accidents
A report of a motor vehicle hit and run crash at 8:50 a.m. Wednesday at 646 Humphrey St.
A report of a motor vehicle crash at 11:07 a.m. Wednes-day at Swampscott High School at 200 Essex St.
Complaints
A report of a disturbance at 10:49 a.m. Wednesday at 565 Humphrey St. A caller reported an elderly woman with dementia assaulted staff members and was threaten-ing to stab people. She was not armed. The woman was taken to Salem Hospital.
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Slaying at U.S. judge’s home raises concern about cyberthreats
By Maryclaire DaleASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA — In 2005, U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow returned from work to find her husband and mother shot dead in the basement of her Chicago home. Inves-tigators initially focused on a White Supremacist who had put out a hit on Lefkow.
But the killer turned out to be someone else entire-ly: a homeless electrician who had lost a medical malpractice suit in her courtroom. He killed him-self when police pulled him over a week later — and found a list of enemy judges, including Lefkow, in his van.
Lefkow was forced to relive her family tragedy this month when a strug-gling lawyer armed with a gun and a grudge opened fire at the home of another female judge — U.S. Dis-trict Judge Esther Salas in suburban New Jersey — killing her 20-year-old son and critically wound-ing her husband.
“It seems to me it’s al-most always men, with these obsessions. They act on them in violent ways. And it ends up in (these) tragedies,” Lefkow, 76, told The Associated Press.
Both attacks, like oth-ers against judges, were carried out by men with a weapon and a vendetta. And in both, the assailants were not on law enforce-ment’s radar. But the lat-est case adds a dangerous new twist that authorities nationwide have struggled to thwart until it’s too late: the vast misogyny that proliferates online.
Investigators have con-cluded that a Manhattan lawyer who seethed about women in obsessive on-line posts targeted Salas on July 19 — and killed a rival lawyer in the men’s rights movement in Cal-ifornia a week earlier — before killing himself in rural New York.
Roy Den Hollander had a document with informa-tion about a dozen female judges from across the
country — half, including Salas, Latina — with him when he was found dead, two people with knowl-edge of the investigation told the AP. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not au-thorized to speak publicly about the case.
Den Hollander’s an-ti-feminist screeds go back at least 20 years, when his divorce from a Russian woman he met during a work stint in the country led to years of court filings against her, her lawyer, her workplace and others.
“It was rage against women and it was palpa-ble,” said lawyer Nicholas J. Mundy, who represented Den Hollander’s ex-wife. “If they were successful or had any power over him, he just had a hatred for them, a deep hatred. He would seethe.”
In the years since, the 72-year-old spewed vitri-ol and sometimes violent imagery about women on his website — deriding his late mother, his ex-wife, friends from childhood and “feminazi” judges in a
nearly 2,000-page rant.The obsessive, unfiltered
posts, discovered only af-ter his shooting rampage, alarm those who believe law enforcement must do more to flag the dangerous combination of misogyny, guns and online abuse.
“I’ve been very rattled,” said New York lawyer Carrie Goldberg, who rep-resented some of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sex assault victims, and has been the subject of fre-quent online harassment. “There was so much public indication by this man of his hatred toward women, his love of guns, and his particularized angst to-ward Judge Salas.”
Yet the U.S. Marshals Service, which protects the nation’s approximate-ly 2,700 federal judges, said they were not track-ing Den Hollander. Mar-shals typically keep watch over judges in their court-houses. At home, where many have worked during COVID-19 quarantines, judges mostly rely on training and alarm sys-tems installed after the
Lefkow attack.“Many judges are good
at being security minded. But it’s not for everybody. And it’s tough to stay in that condition all the time. Guards go down,” said John Muffler, a former U.S. Marshal who led the agency’s National Center for Judicial Security.
In the wake of the Salas attack, some federal judg-es and legal scholars in-terviewed by the AP called for the U.S. Marshals Ser-vice to spend more time monitoring such online hate speech. That’s com-plicated by both the ex-panse of the internet and the thorny question of when criticism protected by the First Amendment becomes a threat.
The Marshals Service said it reviewed more than 1 million “deroga-tory” social media posts aimed at people it protects during the last fiscal year. However, feminist schol-ars and activists believe that misogynistic threats are overlooked and un-der-prosecuted because there are so many of them.
Two arrested, thousands of marijuana plants
seized by feds
BOSTON (AP) — Two people federal authorities say operated a massive illegal marijuana grow-ing operation that was cultivating thousands of plants at multiple loca-tions are heading to court, prosecutors said Thurs-day.
Weiqing Li, 41, and Li Qin Li, 49, were arrest-ed on Wednesday and charged with manufac-turing marijuana and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, according to the U.S. at-torney’s office in Massa-chusetts.
Both suspects are scheduled to make an initial appearance in Springfield federal court on Thursday. No defense attorneys were listed in court records.
Authorities executing search warrants at two homes in Palmer, two homes in Monson, and a warehouse in Monson found a total of more than 4,000 pot plants, federal authorities said. The sus-pects were also located at the Monson warehouse.
Federal authorities also filed a civil forfei-ture complaint against the four homes and the warehouse, alleging the properties are subject to forfeiture because they are being used, or are intended to be used, to facilitate the illegal culti-vation of marijuana.
Union relents, removes police support flags from firetrucks
HINGHAM (AP) — The firefighters’ union in a Boston suburb on Thurs-
day complied with an order to remove Thin Blue Line flags from firetrucks after several days of resis-tance.
The flags — black and white versions of the U.S. flag with one blue stripe that show support for police — were ordered removed from the Hing-ham Fire Department’s trucks by town officials because they violated a town policy that bars po-litical messages on town property.
A town resident had complained about the flags.
The union disagreed that the flags were a po-litical statement and for days refused to take them down.
The flags were original-ly purchased to show sup-port for police after the 2018 killing of police Sgt. Michael Chesna in nearby Weymouth, and police and firefighters from Weymouth removed the flags. They will be kept by Weymouth police.
“We did not want to risk having these flags re-moved from the trucks in a disrespectful manner,” the Hingham firefighters’ union said in a statement, according to The Patriot Ledger.
Rhode Island man gets two life sentences for
break-ins, murder
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years in prison for two burglaries at the same home and the fatal shooting of the res-ident during the second break-in, authorities say.
Juan Gibson, 49, of
Providence, was sen-tenced by a judge Wednes-day after being convicted in January of murder and several other charges in the 2013 death of Jeffrey Lebrun, 41, according to a statement from the office of Attorney General Peter Neronha.
Gibson and an accom-plice broke into Lebrun’s Pawtucket home in May 2013 armed with a knife, authorities said. Lebrun fought off both intruders but sustained several cuts from the knife during the struggle, according to the attorney general.
Lebrun told police after the first break-in that he believed he was being targeted because he used and sold medical mari-juana.
The same two men broke into Lebrun’s home again about two months later, and during another struggle, shot and killed him, the attorney gener-al’s office said.
Gibson, who wasn’t ar-rested until March 2019, was implicated thanks to the persistence of Paw-tucket police investigators and advances in DNA technology, Neronha said in a statement.
Massachusetts man killed in altercation in Auburn, Maine
AUBURN, Maine (AP) — A Massachusetts man died from injuries sus-tained in an altercation in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant, police said Thursday.
Roger Cornell, 21, of New Bedford, was found injured in the parking lot Wednesday evening and later died at Central Maine Medical Cen-ter, said Katy England,
spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety,
Trai Larue, 22, of Lewiston, was arrested on a murder charge with assistance from the Lew-iston Police Department, England said.
The victim’s body was transported to the state medical examiner’s office. The timing of Larue’s ini-tial court appearance and if he is being represented by an attorney weren’t immediately known.
Police: Man dies trying to save 3 teens from rip current
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A Rhode Island man apparently drowned after jumping into the water to save three teenagers caught in a rip current, police said.
Hoen Chin, 56, of Provi-dence, was visiting Bristol with family and friends on Wednesday, Bristol police Capt. Brian Burke said in a statement.
Chin entered the water at about 2:30 p.m. when two 13-year-old youths and one 14-year-old got caught in the rip current, police said.
Chin was swept under the water and wasn’t found for five to 10 min-utes, according to police.
He was pulled from the water by a bystander. Bystanders performed life saving measures before emergency medical personnel arrived at the scene.
The teens made it to shore safely.
Chin was taken to Rhode Island Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
POLICE BRIEFS
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Senior U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow returned from work to find her husband and mother shot dead in the basement of her Chicago home. Lefkow was forced to relive her family tragedy this month when a strug-gling lawyer armed with a gun and a grudge opened fire at the home of another female judge.
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A seal lounges on rocks in Casco Bay, off Portland, Maine, Thursday.
Pfizer exec targets end of year for vaccineBOSTON (AP) — An ex-
ecutive at a facility help-ing create a potential vac-cine for the coronavirus said Thursday that the company hopes to have the treatment ready by the end of the year.
“We have the potential, subject to technical suc-cess and regulatory autho-rization, to manufacture up to 100 million vaccine doses by the end of this year and up to 1.3 billion doses by the end of 2021,” said Meg Ruesch, research and development leader at Pfizer Inc.’s Andover facil-ity.
The vaccine candidate, a collaboration between Pfizer and BioNTech, “in-troduces into the body the genetic instructions for the cell to make a specif-ic protein — in this case a SARS-CoV-2 protein — which is intended to stumulate an immune re-sponse,” she said.
The data on the trials has been encouraging, she said at a news conference with Gov. Charlie Baker.
She also put to rest con-cerns that the vaccine pro-cess is being rushed.
“We don’t cut any quali-ty corners,” she said.
The Trump administra-tion last week announced that it would pay Pfizer nearly $2 billion for De-cember delivery of 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine under development.
Pfizer earlier this week announced it had started a study of its vaccine can-didate in the U.S. and else-where. That study aimed to recruit 30,000 people.
“A vaccine or a treatment is critical to breaking the cycle of this insidious vi-rus, and helping us all re-turn to something more like regular normal” the Republican governor said.
Baker, expressing con-cern about clusters of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 associated with private parties, warned residents not to relax when it comes to mask wearing
and social distancing.“To all our residents, I
can’t express this enough, don’t be careless or com-placent,” he said.
SOLDIERS’ HOME WORKERS
Six employees at the Sol-diers’ Home in Holyoke who had previously been cleared to return to work after re-covering from COVID-19 tested positive for the virus for a second time this week, officials said.
All six employees test-ed positive for the virus months ago when the outbreak began. Each was considered “clini-
cally recovered,” Brooke Karanovich, a spokes-woman for the Massachu-setts Executive Office for Health and Human Ser-vices, told Masslive.com.
None was showing symp-toms prior to the most re-cent positive test result and they were sent home “out of an abundance of caution,” she said.
A resident of the veter-ans’ care facility who had recovered from COVID-19, but started showing symp-toms again, tested positive for a second time earlier this week. A second test on that resident given
Wednesday came back negative.
The virus is blamed for the deaths of 76 veterans at the home, one of the worst outbreaks at a long-term care facility in the country.
NEW CASESThe state Department
of Public Health reported 304 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Thurs-day, but said the number was inflated because of a technical reporting error by a hospital group that caused a delay in its lab-oratory test results being reported to the state.
Those test results were included in Thursday’s re-port.
Still, the seven-day roll-ing average of daily new cases in Massachusetts has risen over the past two weeks from 249.29 new cases per day on July 15 to 266 new cases per day on July 29, accord-ing to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and En-gineering.
The state also reported 15 new coronavirus-relat-ed deaths, for a total of nearly 8,400.
H o s p i t a l i z a t i o n s dropped to 367, 23 fewer than the previous day. The number of patients in in-tensive care dropped to 55, down from 62.
REOPENING SCHOOLS
The state’s largest teach-
ers union wants school districts to continue re-mote learning from home this fall — at least at first — and is asking its more than 350 local affiliates to negotiate such work-ing conditions with their respective districts in the coming weeks.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association says the state has not done enough to ensure that school buildings will be a safe environment for students and staff, even if everyone wears masks, practices good hand hy-giene, and exercises social distancing.
“Sending people back into the buildings only increases the risks of our most vulnerable students contracting the virus, and it puts staff members at risk too,” Merrie Najimy, the association’s pres-ident, told The Boston Globe on Thursday.
The union emphasized that educators are eager to return to their class-rooms and be with their students, but the condi-tions of too many build-ings are problematic and there has been a recent uptick in coronavirus cas-es in Massachusetts.
Gov. Charlie Baker has said he wants districts to bring back as many students for in-person learning as possible this fall for the well-being of children.
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A passer-by, right, walks past a storefront window Tuesday in Boston.
More seals means learning to live with sharks in New England
By Patrick WhittleASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND, Maine — Seals are thriving off the Northeast coast thanks to decades of protections, and that victory for wild-life has brought a con-sequence for humans — more encounters with sharks.
Seals are a favorite prey of large sharks such as the great white. The death this week of swimmer Ju-lie Dimperio Holowach, who was killed by a great white off Harpswell, Maine, might have hap-pened because the shark mistook her for a seal, au-thorities said.
Swimmers off the New England states have learned to be more mind-ful in recent years due to a spate of sightings of great whites, the apex predator made famous in the movie “Jaws.” A shark that killed a man off Cape Cod in 2018 was also believed to be a great white.
That was the first fatal shark attack in Massachu-
setts in more than eight decades, while the death of Holowach on Monday was the first document-ed fatal shark attack in Maine history.
“They’re not vindictive or mad or angry or pre-ferring human flesh. They just occasionally make a mistake. And it’s tragic when they do,” said Greg Skomal, a shark special-ist with the Massachu-setts Division of Marine Fisheries. “As we restore top predators, the poten-tial for these interactions could increase.”
Incidents of shark bites remain vanishingly rare, especially in Northeastern waters. The International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida lists only 10 unprovoked shark attacks off New England, according to records that go back to 1837.
The majority of docu-mented shark attacks in the U.S. happen off Flor-ida, and internationally, warm weather countries such as South Africa and
Australia have higher to-tals than most. But shark bites are rare in those places, too. Australia has been the site of 652 un-provoked shark attacks according to records that go back to 1580, the In-ternational Shark Attack File reported.
Shark bites in cold-er northern waters are not unheard of. A hand-ful have been recorded off Russia, Finland and Washington state. And re-searchers are seeing more of the great whites off New England, said James Sulikowski, a researcher of Northeastern sharks who is located at Arizona State University.
The greater number of sightings is “unequivo-cally” because of the re-surgence of seals in New England, Sulikowski said. The seal comeback traces to the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, which afforded seals a chance to repopulate after generations of human ex-ploitation.
Grey seals, once hunted with bounties and pushed close to the point of local extinction, are now com-mon sights in coastal Cape Cod. Some people even feel the animals have come back to the point where they pose a nuisance, in part because they draw more sharks.
The sharks aren’t look-ing for people, but they’re a reason for swimmers to be cautious, Sulikowski said.
“They’re not looking for us. We’re not on the menu,” he said. “But as these predator prey rela-tionships continue, and because they are so coast-al, there’s potential for in-teraction with humans to increase.”
In Maine, marine patrol officers are conducting searches for the presence of sharks in the aftermath of Holowach’s death. The state is restricting swim-ming at some state parks. And it has sent a clear message to beachgoers — if you see seals, stay away.
Small business grants available; new R.I. virus cases rising
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island’s lieu-tenant governor is urging owners of small business-es struggling because of the coronavirus pandemic to apply for a grant to help them recover.
Applications for the Re-store RI program will be available starting Mon-day, Lt. Gov. Dan McKee said in a statement Thurs-day.
The $50 million pro-gram will provide grants of up to $15,000 based on whether the business is in a severely impacted in-dustry, the number of full-time employees, and the degree of revenue loss.
Businesses will need to demonstrate at least 30 percent revenue loss if they are in a severely im-pacted industry or at least 50 percent revenue loss for other eligible indus-tries.
Businesses with between one and 20 employees are eligible to apply, with the exception of restaurants and caterers, which are not subject to an employee cap. Sole proprietors are eligible for the program as long as they have at least
one employee in addition to the owner.
Applicants must have a physical presence in Rhode Island and must be open or plan to be open within 60 days.
NEW CASES ON THE RISE
The seven-day average of new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Rhode Island rose to more than 100 on Thursday, the highest it’s been since ear-ly June, according to state Department of Health sta-tistics.
The department on Thursday reported 110 new confirmed cases and a positive rate of 2.5 per-cent.
No new deaths were re-ported.
The number of people in the hospital climbed to 77 as of Tuesday, the latest day for which the infor-mation was available, up from 74 the previous day. Of those, 13 were in inten-sive care.
Gov. Gina Raimondo on Wednesday blamed the uptick in cases on social gatherings and warned people not to party so much.
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Customers sit inside a Dunkin’ Donuts in New York.
Dunkin’ to close 800 stores as pandemic hurts sales
CANTON (AP) — Dunkin’ Brands Inc. ex-pects to close up to 800 underperforming U.S. stores this year as it tries to shore up its portfolio in the wake of the coronavi-rus pandemic.
The company had previ-ously announced the clo-sure of 450 stores within Speedway gas stations. But the company said Thursday it’s targeting an additional 350 stores, most of which are unprof-itable. Closing the restau-rants would allow their
franchisees to reinvest in newer stores in high-er-traffic areas, Dunkin’ Chief Financial Officer Katherine Jaspon said during a conference call with investors.
Jaspon said the 800 stores represent 8 percent of Dunkin’s U.S. footprint but just 2 percent of its sales.
International franchi-sees are also assessing their stores and could close 350 low-volume stores abroad by the end of this year, Jaspon added.
FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM A7
THIS WEEK IN PHOTOS
ITEM PHOTOS | SPENSER HASAK
From left, Ryan Tylicki, 5, swings as staff member Mackenzie Schena watches him during the Jr. Rec summer program at the Summer Street School in Lynnfield; Hunter Merrill, 5, takes part in a dance party; Kylie Geary, 8, shows off her windmill that she made during arts and crafts time of the Big Rec program.
Caroline McGraine, of Saugus, right, and Joyce
Fukasawa, of Lynn, be-low, work on their paint-
ings with fellow artists from the Lynnfield
Senior Center as they gather at Saugus Iron
Works National Historic Site to paint. With the
senior center closed due to the COVID-19 pan-
demic, the group often finds themselves at the
Iron Works or Salem Willows where they
can enjoy the outdoors while creating art.
Alexander Colon gestures to the crowd before receiving his diploma during Saugus High School’s graduation.
Brandon Borda smiles as he looks at his diploma.
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LOWELL — Local residents named to the Dean’s List at the Uni-versity of Massachusetts Lowell include:
LYNNCristina Lemus Marti-
nez, Alexander Patten, Johan Lopez Payano, Jonathan Paulino, Jai-ro Soriano, Enderson Mejia Jimenez, Josias Polonia, Noah Lake Benjamin, Alexander Jennifer Robles, Rob-ert Pichardo, Newton Rufino, Brian Patten,-Daisy Angel,Devin Curley, Shnaidie Macajoux, Sophia Lin, Sarah Abdelrah-man, John Riley, Julia Jordan, Caige Sadler, Xuan Thanh Bui, Em-ily McMahon, Manuel Martinez Mejia, Ebu-bechukwu Okparaoko, Rachel Jordan, Chris-tian Couillard, Lam Messina, Erik Whittier, Jayden Carroca, Kayla Pacheco, Diana Aquino Deleon, Dashon Jones, Tyler Way,Theresa-Ann Jordan, Kyle Doucette, Braulio Lopez, Hung Tran, Brenda Brown, Guensly Thelemaque, Nelson Barrios, Den-nisse Lima, Arek Wol, Sidarong Men, Elisha Thomas, Anny Rivera, Ryan Mouhib, Nicole
Lule, Daniel Orrego, Jade Leong, Mayulyn Llanos Ruiz, Joceline Garcia Yafreisis, Llanos Ruiz, Jillian Bencosme, Alytah Noum, Victoria Bamaca, Diana Morillo, and Michelle Garcia.
NAHANTSteven Toomajian,
Cristian Tidd, Vala Alnehmi, Erickson Ea-ton, and Olivia Reiser.
SAUGUSAllison LeBlanc, Sarah Brooks, Nakeisha Louis, Michael Cunningham, Thomas Sparages, Di-ego Estrada, Salvatore Sicari, Guozhen Luo, Yasmin Simoes, Emily Janvrin, Alicia MacAr-thur, Aryana Carney, John Vasquez, Seven Greer, Ronnel Jacob Anglo, Makenzie Lloyd, Anthony Sorrentino, William King, Gwen-dolyn Amico, Leah Trentsch, Matthew LeB-lanc, Richard Barnes, Evan Smith, Megan Wit-kowski, Ashley Walsh, Autumn Lopez, Megan Bradbury, Karissa Bel-yea, Elizabeth Schirri-pa,Tiffany Powers,Vic-toria Pugh, Nicole Dost, Diana Whitcomb, Alana Aldred, Duy Nguyen, Alyssa Corrado, Alexis Lever, Mateus Ferreira, Andrew Whitcomb, and Emily Deterding.
Local students makes UMass Lowell Dean’s List
Women embrace #challengeaccepted, but some ask: To what end?
CHICAGO (AP) — “Challenge accepted,” they wrote — female Instagram users across the United States, flooding the pho-to-sharing app with black-and-white images. Togeth-er they formed a grid of millions of magazine-style captures of celebrities, spur-of-the-moment selfies and filtered snaps from weddings or other special occasions. The official goal: a show of support for other women.
An accompanying hashtag, #womensupport-ingwomen, often was the only sign of the cam-paign’s intent, along with friends’ Instagram han-dles to encourage partic-ipation. And some users quickly began to wonder: What’s the point?
To some observers of so-cial media activism, #chal-lengeaccepted represents a clear example of “slacktiv-ism” — campaigns based on social platforms that require little effort of partic-ipants. There’s no donation requested, no volunteer shift required, just a few minutes to post a message or image that people are unlikely to fight over.
They say photo-driven campaigns can become a powerful push for social change. But they feel this
latest effort so far lacks a concrete goal.
“Successful selfie pro-tests made what’s invis-ible visible,” said Mona Kasra, an assistant professor of digital media design at the University of Virginia. “They are effec-tive when they shift public perception, when they create a counterculture, when they resist, when they claim a place online.”
By Thursday, more than 6 million Instagram posts had used the #challengeac-cepted hashtag. Others just included the phrase “chal-lenge accepted” in their
post, making it difficult to count total participation.
Some participants praised the posts as a straightforward way for women to support one another — one that comes days after U.S. Rep. Alex-andria Ocasio-Cortez’s passionate speech on the House floor calling out sexist culture.
Tara Abrahams joined the millions of women posting under the hashtag after a friend invited her to share. She chose a shot of herself smiling, her dark hair streaming across the square frame.
Before posting it, the phil-anthropic adviser from New York added a caption encouraging people to check their voter registra-tion status and make a plan to vote in November.
“I just kept smiling because I saw these very inspiring women flood my feed,” said Abrahams, who also chairs a nonprofit focused on girls’ access to education in 11 other countries. “I know that there are real women doing the real work. Ins-tagram can be where the activism begins, but it’s not where it ends.”
Some researchers are encouraged by the debate. They consider it a sign that many Americans’ expectations for social media communication have been honed by the ongoing coronavirus pan-demic and large demon-strations demanding change in U.S. policing following the deaths of George Floyd and other Black Americans.
Questions about this latest photo challenge also mirror reaction to the #blackoutTuesday push in early June, stemming from an effort within the music industry to halt normal operations for a day.
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This image provided by Tara Abrahams shows her Instagram post with the #challengeac-cepted joining female users across the United States, flooding the photo-sharing app with black-and-white images.
By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF
LYNN — The COVID-19 pandemic may have forced the Pan-Mass Challenge to a virtual for-mat this year, but Mayor Thomas M. McGee said his plans to ride in the event this weekend are still on track.
“My commitment to fighting cancer won’t take a break, because cancer doesn’t take one,” said McGee, who is taking part in the bike-a-thon for the second time.
McGee, 64, signed up for the two-day, 161-mile route from Wellesley to Provincetown Inn, but since the pandemic has canceled or altered large-scale events, this year’s challenge has been reimagined.
Instead, McGee will be riding around Lynn and surrounding communities over three days this week-end, Friday-Sunday, and tracking his mileage on a cellphone app.
His goal is to log 170 miles over that three-day span and raise $10,000 for the Dana-Farber Can-cer Institute. Last year, McGee took a one-day 83-mile challenge from Wellesley to Bourne and raised more than $11,000.
“The bottom line is the ride is secondary to the underlying cause which is raising money for the Dana Farber Institute and working together to beat cancer,” said McGee. “That gives you the ener-
gy to get out here and do the biking.
“I think all of us are impacted in some way by people who have had cancer, are fighting cancer or have lost the battle to cancer and passed away.”
Last year, McGee rode for his mother-in-law, Barbara Desmarais, who was diagnosed with cancer two years ago. After undergoing treatment and chemotherapy, Desmara-
is, 82, is now thankfully cancer-free, he said.
In addition to his moth-er-in-law, he will also be riding for a close friend of McGee and his wife, Ma-ria, Debbie Plunkett, who died in January after a long battle with cancer. A well-known figure in the community, Plunkett was 54.
During the years that Plunkett was fighting cancer, McGee was part of
her team during several cancer walks in Salem, where he learned the val-ue that those fundraising events could have.
“It made it clear that this is something that is really important and you can make a difference,” said McGee. “(The goal is to) get it to a place where people can beat cancer and it’s something that we can put behind us. That’s what inspires you to get out
there and do the training, to get on the bike. You’re trying to make a differ-ence for people.”
McGee has been able to get some training in before the event, though not as much as he would have liked due to the “cra-zy times we’re in.” He has been using a Peloton bike at home since February and tries to bike outside on the weekends. He can be seen riding along Lynn
Shore Drive or to the beaches at Nahant and Marblehead
“I’d be on the Northern Strand (Trail), but it’s still not ready for traffic yet,” said McGee. “That’s exciting to really see that coming together. It’s going to be such a great resource for the community.”
During the virtual event, dubbed “PMC Reimagined,” riders are encouraged to make their social posts and profiles public on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, so they can be shared by the official account of the Pan-Mass Challenge.
McGee will start riding on Friday morning, but the official kickoff of the event does not start until that night, which includes a live broadcast from WBZ-TV.
He admits there will be some challenges to riding virtually this year, particularly without an established route, but he is looking forward to the event. One of his stops will be to his mother-in-law’s house in Nahant.
“The hard part is you have to get from place to place,” said McGee. “Do-ing it virtually means you don’t have any support. Once you get into it, it’s so rewarding to see why you’re doing it. (When you see) pictures of young kids fighting cancer, you understand why you ride.”
To donate to McGee’s event campaign, visit his PMC profile at https://pro-file.pmc.org/TM0372.
McGee ready to hit the road for a good cause
Mayor Thomas M. McGee will be riding around Lynn and surrounding communities over three days this weekend, Friday-Sunday, and tracking his mileage on a cellphone app.
SPORTS BFRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020
COURTESY PHOTO
Boston Cannons head coach Sean Quirk (second from right) holds up the Major League La-crosse Championship trophy with (from left) offensive coordinator Jim Nagle, defensive coor-dinator John Klepacki and assistant coach/equipment manager Lars Keil after the Cannons won the title in Annapolis, Md. on Sunday.
Nahant’s Sean Quirk helps lead Boston Cannons to MLL title
By Mike AlongiITEM SPORTS EDITOR
When the Boston Can-nons won the Major League Lacrosse Cham-pionship on Sunday, it was the culmination of five years’ work for head coach/director of player personnel Sean Quirk, a Nahant resident who has been around the game at all levels for years.
“It was a great few weeks in Annapolis (Md.) and it was a great way
to cap things off,” Quirk said of the win. “Our guys showed so much mental and physical toughness through the shortened season, and that’s real-ly what put us over the edge.”
It wasn’t an easy road for Quirk and the Can-nons, who played a sev-en-game season in a span of just 10 days before moving on to a four-team playoff. But once that four-team playoff came around, two of the four
teams were forced to for-feit after multiple person-nel from each team tested positive for COVID-19. With the semifinal games canceled, the Cannons faced the Denver Out-laws in the championship game on Sunday, which the Cannons won by a score of 13-10.
“The biggest adjustment was without question the time crunch,” said Quirk, who also serves as an associate athletic direc-tor at Endicott College.
“We’re used to playing one game a week during a normal season and all of a sudden we were forced to play seven games in 10 days, and that’s a big difference. Not only that, there was the issue of not having a real training camp and not being able to fully evaluate some players. So there were a lot of things we had to work through.”
QUIRK, B2
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The Miami Marlins, a team that usually flies under the radar, have been making news lately after being overtaken by a coronavirus outbreak.
Blue Jays manager: Series at Phillies off because of virus
NEW YORK (AP) — Ma-jor League Baseball has postponed this weekend’s scheduled series between Toronto and Philadelphia because of concerns about the coronavirus after two Phillies staffers tested pos-itive.
“Major League Baseball will coordinate with health experts and the Major League Baseball Players Association in planning for the Phillies’ resumption of play, and will provide fur-ther scheduling updates as necessary,” the league said in a statement Thursday.
Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo revealed news of the postponed se-ries Thursday, saying his club was “not going to Phil-adelphia,” where the se-ries was scheduled to take
place.“Our plans right now are
to stay put and let MLB work through whatever they’re working through,” Montoyo said before his club played the last of four games in Washington.
It’s the latest in a series of scheduling changes as MLB attempts to play a 60-game season amid a pandemic that is surg-ing in parts of the United States.
Earlier Thursday, word emerged that another play-er with the Miami Marlins — who recently played at Philadelphia — tested pos-itive for COVID-19, bring-ing their total outbreak to 17 players, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The Phillies said there
were no positive results among players from Wednesday’s testing of their team. But there were two positives: One from a member of the coaching staff and one from a mem-ber of the home clubhouse staff.
All activity at Citizens Bank Park was canceled Thursday until further no-tice.
The Blue Jays are stuck on the road because the Canadian government wouldn’t let them use their stadium in Toronto this season because of fears about teams traveling back and forth to the Unit-ed States. Eventually, the Blue Jays are supposed to play home games at a minor league ballpark in Buffalo, but it isn’t ready.
So Montoyo’s team played its “home opener” at Wash-ington on Wednesday.
The Blue Jays were then supposed to start a three-game series at the Phillies on Friday. First, MLB shift-ed Friday’s game to part of a doubleheader Saturday, with the series finale Sun-day — and now all three games are scrapped, leav-ing Toronto in limbo.
“We’re going to talk to the Nationals, see if we can work out here,” Mon-toyo said. “If they say yes, we’ll stay and work out un-til MLB tells us where to go next.”
Blue Jays reliever Jor-dan Romano says the long break shouldn’t pose much of a problem.
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The powerhouse South-eastern Conference re-configured its schedule Thursday to include only league games in 2020, a pandemic-forced decision that pushes major college football closer to a siloed regular season in which none of the power confer-ences cross paths.
The SEC’s university presidents agreed on a 10-game schedule that eliminates all noncon-ference opponents and is set to begin Sept. 26. The SEC championship game, originally scheduled for Dec. 5, will be pushed back to Dec. 19.
Each SEC team will have a midseason off week and Dec. 12 will be an off week for the entire conference. The delayed start for the Southeastern Conference is two weeks later than what the At-lantic Coast Conference set for itself Wednesday and creates 12 weeks to get in 10 games and de-termine participants for the SEC title game in At-lanta.
The regular season was originally sched-uled to begin Labor Day weekend, but there was concern among SEC of-ficials the return of stu-dents to campus in the coming weeks will spike COVID-19 cases. Con-ference officials believe delaying the start of the season improves the SEC’s chances to launch.
“We believe these schedule adjustments of-fer the best opportunity to complete a full season by giving us the ability to adapt to the fluid nature of the virus and the flexi-bility to adjust schedules as necessary if disrup-tions occur,” Commission-er Greg Sankey said.
A schedule with new matchups still must be approved by athletic di-rectors and will be an-nounced later, the SEC said. The 14 SEC teams normally play eight con-ference games and four nonconference games, with seven teams in each division. The SEC is expected to keep its divisional format, with each team adding two cross-divisional games.
The Big Ten and Pac-12 have already announced plans to play only con-ference games. The ACC this week announced a reworked 11-game sched-ule that left room for one non-conference game.
The ACC wanted to allow four of its schools to maintain in-state ri-valry games with SEC schools, but now Geor-gia-Georgia Tech, Flori-da-Florida State, Clem-son-South Carolina and K e n t u c k y - L o u i s v i l l e have been canceled. That puts all ACC noncon-ference games in doubt because the conference had stipulated it would only allow its schools to play in their home states against non-ACC teams.
The Big Ten and Pac-12 have yet to reveal detailed schedules but both could come as soon as Friday. Big 12 offi-cials were holding out hope their 10 members would be able to play nonconference games, but options are dwin-dling. The SEC’s deci-sion cancels LSU’s home game against Texas and Tennessee’s scheduled trip to Oklahoma in Sep-tember.
Big 12 athletic direc-tors are expected to meet Monday and could have a decision on their sched-ule then.
SEC goes to conference-only
schedule, will start Sept. 26
MLB, B2
By Mike AlongiITEM SPORTS EDITOR
A pair of former St. John’s Prep golf stars put them-selves in position for a win Thursday afternoon, as Chris Francoeur and Nick Maccario each shot scores of 5-under 67 to move up the leaderboard at the 53rd Francis Ouimet Memorial Tournament at Framing-ham Country Club.
The 54-hole stroke play event, which serves as both a Mass Golf Championship and Women’s Champion-ship, took place at Fram-ingham Country Club on Wednesday and Thursday and will conclude, as al-ways, at Woodland Golf Club in Auburndale (New-ton) on Friday.
The exemption-only event is split into three divisions: Championship Division, Lowery Division (Senior Division) and Women’s Di-vision. Past champions who have gone on to play pro-fessional golf include Brad Faxon, Fran Quinn, Alison Walshe, Jim Renner and Megan Khang.
Francoeur (Amesbury G&CC), who plays his col-lege golf at the University of Rhode Island, made seven birdies on the day. He made
four birdies on the front nine en route to making the turn in 32 strokes, then he made three more on the back nine that were offset by two bird-ies. His 67 on Thursday now puts him at 5-under for the tournament, just one shot behind co-leaders James Imai (George Wright GC) and Joseph Lenane (KOHR Golf Center) in a tie for third place.
Maccario (Bradford CC) got off to a blazing start to his second round, making five birdies on the front nine. Those five birdies were offset by just one bo-gey as Maccario made the turn in just 32 strokes. He came back down to Earth a bit on the back nine, but he still managed to notch eight pars and one more birdie to finish his day with a 5-under 67. He currently sits at 4-under for the tour-nament, two shots behind the leaders and in a tie for fifth place.
Swampscott native Ste-ven DiLisio (Salem CC) got off to a slow start on Friday but recovered late to make it a solid day. After three bogeys on his front nine led him to make the
Pair of Prep alumni climb up leaderboards at
Ouimet Memorial
OUIMET, B2
B2 SPORTS THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020
TODAY IN SPORTSJuly 31
1932 — France beats the United States 3-2 for its sixth consecutive Davis Cup championship.1934 — Britain, led by Fred Perry and Bunny Austin, beats the United States 4-1 at Wimbledon to win the Davis Cup.1954 — Joe Adcock hits four hom-ers and a double to give the Milwau-kee Braves a 15-7 victory over Brook-lyn.1963 — The Cleveland Indians become the first American League club to hit four straight home runs and in unlikely fashion. No. 8 hitter Woody Held hits a two-out homer off Paul Foytack, pitcher Pedro Ramos follows with his second homer of the game and Tito Francona and Larry Brown’s first major league homer fin-ish the string. Foytack is the only major league pitcher to give up four straight home runs.1983 — Jan Stephenson beats JoAnne Carner and Patty Sheehan by one stroke to win the U.S. Women’s Open.1990 — Nolan Ryan wins his 300th game, reaching the milestone in his
second try, in the Texas Rangers’ 11-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.1993 — Mike Aulby becomes the third player in PBA history to win a tournament by rolling a 300 game in the title game. Aulby beats David Ozio 300-279 in the Wichita Open.1994 — Sergei Bubka sets a world pole vault record for the 35th time in his career at a meet in Sestriere, Italy. Bubka soars 20 feet, 1 3/4 inches, adding a half-inch to his old mark set in Tokyo in 1992.2000 — Dorothy Delasin becomes the LPGA’s youngest winner in 25 years by beating Pat Hurst on the second extra hole to win the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic. The 19-year-old Delasin is the youngest winner on the tour since Amy Alcott took the Orange Blossom Classic at age 19 in 1975.2005 — Grant Hackett becomes the first swimmer to win four straight world titles in the same event, cap-turing another 1,500-meter freestyle. The Aussie stretches out his own record for world championship med-als to 17.
NBAEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBx-Toronto 46 18 .719 —x-Boston 43 21 .672 3x-Philadelphia 39 26 .600 7½Brooklyn 30 34 .469 16New York 21 45 .318 26Southeast Division W L Pct GBx-Miami 41 24 .631 —Orlando 30 35 .462 11Washington 24 40 .375 16½Charlotte 23 42 .354 18Atlanta 20 47 .299 22Central Division W L Pct GBx-Milwaukee 53 12 .815 —x-Indiana 39 26 .600 14Chicago 22 43 .338 31Detroit 20 46 .303 33½Cleveland 19 46 .292 34
WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBx-Houston 40 24 .625 —Dallas 40 27 .597 1½Memphis 32 33 .492 8½New Orleans 28 36 .438 12San Antonio 27 36 .429 12½Northwest Division W L Pct GBx-Denver 43 22 .662 —x-Utah 41 23 .641 1½x-Oklahoma City 40 24 .625 2½Portland 29 37 .439 14½Minnesota 19 45 .297 23½Pacific Division W L Pct GBx-L.A. Lakers 49 14 .778 —x-L.A. Clippers 44 20 .688 5½Sacramento 28 36 .438 21½Phoenix 26 39 .400 24Golden State 15 50 .231 35x-clinched playoff spot
MLBAmerican LeagueEast DivisionW L Pct GBNew York 3 1 .750 _Tampa Bay 4 2 .667 _Toronto 3 3 .500 1Baltimore 2 2 .500 1Boston 2 4 .333 2Central DivisionW L Pct GBMinnesota 4 1 .800 _Cleveland 4 2 .667 ½Detroit 4 2 .667 ½Chicago 2 4 .333 2½Kansas City 2 4 .333 2½West DivisionW L Pct GBHouston 3 3 .500 _Oakland 3 3 .500 _Texas 2 3 .400 ½Los Angeles 2 4 .333 1Seattle 2 4 .333 1
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MLBFrom B1
“I consider it a small-er challenge,” he said. “I think we can still hopeful-ly practice, pitchers throw bullpens. I think we would still be ready to roll af-ter this four-day break, if that’s what they’re going to do.”
Miami’s team remains quarantined in Philadel-phia, where the Marlins’ outbreak was discovered during a weekend series against the Phillies.
Two Marlins staff mem-bers have also tested pos-itive.
The person who spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday about the Marlins did so on condi-
tion of anonymity because test results were not an-nounced.
Miami’s season has been suspended through at least Sunday, and it ap-pears the schedule will be altered next week, too.
Milwaukee Brewers gen-eral manager David Stea-rns said it’s crucial for the league to understand what is taking place in Miami.
“The volume of positives we’ve seen on one team now is alarming,” he said. “And I think everyone feels that way. We have a very robust set of protocols in place for the explicit rea-son of preventing some-thing like this happening.”
After Thursday’s game, the Nationals will be stuck
in Washington because their three-game series at Miami scheduled for Fri-day through Sunday was postponed because of the Marlins’ outbreak.
Nationals manager Dave Martinez joked that his team’s upcoming four-day layoff -- Monday already was a scheduled off day, so the World Series cham-pions don’t play next un-til Tuesday against the visiting New York Mets -- is like a “mini All-Star break.”outbreak was dis-covered during a weekend series against the Phillies.
Two Marlins staff mem-bers have also tested pos-itive.
The person who spoke to The Associated Press
on Thursday about the Marlins did so on condi-tion of anonymity because test results were not an-nounced.
Miami’s season has been suspended through at least Sunday, and it ap-pears the schedule will be altered next week, too.
Milwaukee Brewers gen-eral manager David Stea-rns says it’s crucial for the league to understand what is taking place in Miami.
“The volume of positives we’ve seen on one team now is alarming,” he said. “And I think everyone feels that way. We have a very robust set of protocols in place for the explicit rea-son of preventing some-thing like this happening.”
QUIRKFrom B1
But once it came time to play games, Quirk felt that his Cannons were in a good spot.
“We felt that if we were able to get three wins, we’d have a good chance to be in the playoffs,” Quirk said. “We won two games in the first three days and our guys were still fresh, but we still had to grind our way to get those four wins that we ended up with.”
Quirk also commended Major League Lacrosse for its handling of the pan-demic and the bubble that the teams were confined to during the season. All teams stayed in Annapo-lis the entire season, and were only permitted to travel between their hotel
and the stadium each day.“I think the MLL did a
phenomenal job explain-ing what we all needed to do to make this a suc-cessful endeavor, and then they executed on it,” said Quirk. “We were tested be-fore we left for Annapolis and then we were tested every day when we were there. We were the only ones in the hotel and we only traveled between there and the stadium, so it all felt really safe. We all wore masks the whole time except for when the players were out on the field, and coaches wore masks on the sidelines. It was all really well done.”
Now that the Cannons season has come to an end, Quirk can turn his full attention back to his job at Endicott, where the
school and athletic depart-ment are also trying to get a handle on the COVID-19 situation. Endicott’s con-ference, the Common-wealth Athletic Confer-ence (CCC), has already suspended fall sports, but the school is allowing teams to hold individu-al training sessions and practices at their own dis-cretion for the time being.
“It’s something that we talk about every day,” Quirk said. “At this point you can really only take things one day at a time because everything is changing so quickly. It will be a challenge navigating these waters over the next few months.”
As for his sport, which has been deemed “High Risk” by the state of Mas-sachusetts’ latest youth
and adult sport guide-lines, Quirk says there’s still ways to play the game safely.
“There’s no getting around the fact that full-contact lacrosse can be considered high risk because of the proximity, but at the same time we had doctors and experts in Annapolis telling us that the risk was somewhat mitigated by us being in an outdoor environment,” said Quirk. “We were in a bubble so that might have something to do with it, but there’s also a way to play lacrosse without con-tact. I run multiple clinics and camps for non-contact lacrosse with social dis-tancing practices in place, so that can keep the kids playing without as much of the risk.”
Nahant’s Quirk helps lead Boston Cannons to MLL title
Blue Jays-Phillies series postponed over coronavirus concerns
OUIMETFrom B1turn in 39 strokes, DiLisio went on to make two bird-ies (back-to-back on the 12th and 13th holes) to finish his day at 1-over 73. He’s currently in 11th place at 1-under for the tourna-
ment. Former St. Mary’s star
Christian Emmerich (Kern-wood CC) also made the cut, shooting a 3-over 75 on Thursday. Emmerich, who plays college golf at Holy Cross, made two birdies on the day but also made five
bogeys, never quite able to build any momentum. He currently stands at 4-over for the tournament in a tie for 19th place.
The final round of the 53rd Francis Ouimet Me-morial Tournament will begin Friday morning at
Woodland Golf Club. Em-merich will tee off at 9:17 a.m., DiLisio will tee off at 11:07 a.m., Maccario will tee off at 11:29 a.m. in the penultimate group and Francoeur will tee off at 11:40 a.m. in the final group with the two co-leaders.
Prep alumni Francoeur, Maccario climb leaderboard at Ouimet Memorial
Thursday’s GamesUtah at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m.L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.Friday’s GamesOrlando at Brooklyn, 2:30 p.m.Memphis at Portland, 4 p.m.Phoenix at Washington, 4 p.m.Boston at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.
Sacramento at San Antonio, 8 p.m.Houston at Dallas, 9 p.m.Saturday’s GamesMiami at Denver, 1 p.m.Utah at Oklahoma City, 3:30 p.m.New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 6 p.m.Philadelphia at Indiana, 7 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Toronto, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesWashington at Toronto, 4:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Philadelphia at N.Y. Yankees, ppd.Boston at N.Y. Mets, 7:07 p.m.Cleveland at Minnesota, 7:07 p.m.Kansas City at Detroit, 7:10 p.m.Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.Miami at Baltimore, ppd.Seattle at L.A. Angels, 9:40 p.m.Friday’s GamesBoston (Weber 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Montgom-ery 0-0), 7:05 p.m.Cincinnati (Bauer 0-0) at Detroit (Turnbull 0-0), 7:10 p.m.Tampa Bay (Snell 0-0) at Baltimore (Milone 0-1), 7:35 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Keuchel 1-0) at Kansas City (Bubic 0-0), 8:05 p.m.
Cleveland (Clevinger 0-0) at Minnesota (TBD), 8:10 p.m.Houston (McCullers Jr. 1-0) at L.A. Angels (TBD), 9:10 p.m.Texas (Minor 0-1) at San Francisco (TBD), 9:10 p.m.Oakland (Manaea 0-1) at Seattle (Walker 0-1), 9:40 p.m.Saturday’s GamesPhiladelphia at Toronto, ppd., 1st gameCincinnati at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.Philadelphia at Toronto, ppd., 2nd gameChicago White Sox at Kansas City, 7:05 p.m.Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:07 p.m.Houston at L.A. Angels, 7:07 p.m.Cleveland at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m.Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 7:35 p.m.Oakland at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.Texas at San Francisco, 9:10 p.m.
Baseball2 p.m. ................... St. Louis at Milwaukee ................................ MLB Network7 p.m. ................... Cincinnati at Detroit .................................... MLB Network7:05 p.m. .............. Boston at NY Yankees .....................NESN, WEEI-FM 93.79:10 p.m. .............. Texas at San Francisco ...........................................ESPN10 p.m. ................. Los Angeles Dodgers at Arizona .................. MLB Network
Pro basketball4 p.m. ................... Memphis at Portland ............................................ NBATV6:30 p.m. .............. Boston at Milwaukee ............ESPN, NBCSB, WBZ-FM 98.57 p.m. ................... WNBA: New York vs. Atlanta, ................................NBA TV8 p.m. ................... WNBA: Indiana at Dallas ...................................... CBSSN9 p.m. ................... Houston at Dallas ...................................................ESPN10 p.m. ................. WNBA: Las Vegas at Phoenix ................................ CBSSN
Golf9 a.m. ................... LPGA: Drive On Championship ...................................Golf11:30 a.m. ............ Champions: Ally Challenge ........................................Golf2 p.m. ................... PGA: WGC FedEx St. Jude Invitational ........................Golf7 p.m. ................... PGA: Barracuda Championship ..................................Golf
Horse racing1 p.m. ................... Saratoga Live ........................................................... FS2
Lacrosse7 p.m. ................... PLL: Whipsnakes vs. Chaos.................................. NBCSN
Men’s soccer8 p.m. ................... MLS: Orlando City vs. LA FC ..................................ESPN2
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Brooks Koepka watches his tee shot on the 18th hole during the first round of the World Golf Championship-FedEx St. Jude Invitation-al Thursday in Memphis, Tenn.
Koepka cards best round of year for lead at WGC in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Defending champion Brooks Koepka matched his career best with an 8-under 62 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over Rickie Fowler in the FedEx St. Jude Invitational.
Koepka had nine birdies and a bogey on a windy day at TPC Southwind in the World Golf Champi-onship event, a week after missing the cut in Minne-sota in the 3M Open.
Koepka also will defend his PGA Championship ti-tle next week at TPC Hard-ing Park in San Francisco, and his coaches helped him realize last weekend how much he was favoring his injured left knee.
He sure seemed to have found something at TPC Southwind, where he turned in his lowest round of the year and best in sev-en events at this course . This was his eighth time shooting under par in his last nine rounds here.
Fowler, who last missed the cut at Memorial, chipped in from 30 feet to tie Koepka for the lead with a hole to play. But Fowler two-putted for bo-gey after putting his tee shot in the left rough on his final hole to finish at 64 and tied with Brendon Todd.
Sung Kang shot 65. Jus-tin Thomas, who can move back to No. 1 in the world
with a victory, shot a 66 and was tied with Matt Kuchar, Chez Reavie and Max Homa.
Jon Rahm, playing his first event since becoming No. 1 with a win at Memo-rial, shot 70.
Rory McIlroy also could move back to No. 1 with a win. He opened with a 73.
Koepka, teeing off in the next-to-last group, made clear his injured left knee won’t slow down his title defense. He birdied his first four holes to shoot up the leaderboard and went to 4 under to share the lead with Bryson DeChambeau after rolling in a 23-footer for birdie on the par-3 No. 4.
Koepka bogeyed No. 7. when he missed a 10-footer. But he hit his tee shot on the par-3 No. 8 within 7 feet and made the birdie putt. He used his putter again for a second straight birdie, rolling in an 18-footer on No. 9 to make the turn with the best front nine of the day with a 30 that tied him for the lead at 5 under.
DeChambeau’s renowned power off the tee put him into trouble on his back nine. He bogeyed No. 5 after hitting his tee shot into the left rough, and he wound up in the right rough on No. 6 after a 382-yard drive. But DeChambeau put his shot within 4 feet but had to settle for par.
NCAA to allow players to support
causes with uniform patches
The NCAA announced Thursday college athletes in all sports will be per-mitted to wear patches on their uniforms to support social justice issues.
The NCAA’s playing rules oversight panel adjusted rules in some sports that do not allow patches to be worn. In some sports, patch-es on uniforms are not ad-dressed in playing rules.
The NCAA says patches can be worn on either the front or back of the uni-form to “express support and voice their opinions.”
The patch on the front must not exceed 2¼ square inches and must
be placed on the front or sleeve of the uniform. Not all team members are re-quired to wear a patch, but team members must wear identical patches.
The NCAA says players will also be permitted to replace the name plates on the backs of uniforms with “names/words in-tended to celebrate or me-morialize people, events or other causes.”
The NBA is permitting its players to replace the names on the backs of the jerseys with phrases and words intended to support social and racial justice causes.
FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM B3
NATION
By Jeff MartinASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — John Lewis was celebrated as an Amer-ican hero during his fu-neral Thursday as former President Barack Obama and others called on people to follow Lewis’ example and fight injustice.
Three former presidents joined in the eulogies at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Bap-tist Church after nearly a week of mourning that took the civil rights icon from his birthplace in Al-abama to the nation’s cap-ital of Washington to his final resting place in his home of Atlanta.
Lewis was “a man of pure joy and unbreakable perseverance,” Obama said during a fiery speech in which he hearkened back to Lewis’ legacy and connected it to the ongoing fight against those who are “doing their darndest to discourage people from voting.”
“He as much as anyone in our history brought this country a little bit closer to our highest ideals,” Obama said. “And some day when
we do finish that long journey towards freedom, when we do form a more perfect union, whether it’s years from now or decades or even if it takes another two centuries, John Lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better America.”
Former President George W. Bush said Lewis preached the Gospel and
lived its ideals, “insisting that hate and fear had to be answered with love and hope.” Lewis died July 17 at the age of 80.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recalled how Lewis’ body was lying in state at the U.S. Capitol earlier this week, and a double rainbow appeared.
“There was this double rainbow over the casket,”
she said. “He was telling us, ‘I’m home in heaven, I’m home in heaven.’ We always knew he worked on the side of angels, and now he is with them.”
“Get in good trouble, nec-essary trouble, and help re-deem the soul of America,” Lewis said of his run-ins with the law. The phrase was repeated several times during the funeral.
By Mike Stobbeand Nicky Forster
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — While deaths from the coronavi-rus in the U.S. are mount-ing rapidly, public health experts are seeing a flicker of good news: The second surge of confirmed cases appears to be leveling off.
Scientists aren’t cele-brating by any means, warning that the trend is driven by four big, hard-hit places — Arizona, Cal-ifornia, Florida and Texas — and that cases are ris-ing in close to 30 states in all, with the outbreak’s center of gravity seeming-ly shifting from the Sun Belt toward the Midwest.
Some experts wonder whether the apparent case-load improvements will en-dure. Nor is it clear when deaths start coming down. COVID-19 deaths do not move in perfect lockstep with the infection curve, for the simple reason that it can take weeks to get sick and die from the virus.
The future? “I think it’s very difficult to predict,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s foremost
infectious-disease expert.The virus has claimed
over 150,000 lives in the U.S., by far the highest death toll in the world, plus more than a half-million others around the globe.
Over the past week, the average number of deaths per day in the U.S. has climbed more than 25 per-cent, from 843 to 1,057.
Florida on Thursday re-ported 253 more deaths, setting its third straight single-day record. The number of confirmed in-fections nationwide has topped 4.4 million.
In other developments:— The collateral damage
from the virus mounted, with the U.S. economy shrinking at a dizzying
32.9 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter — by far the worst quar-terly plunge on records dating to 1947. And more than 1.4 million laid-off Americans applied for un-employment benefits last week, further evidence that employers are still shedding jobs five months into the crisis.
By Martin Crutsinger and Paul Wiseman
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy plunging by a record-shat-tering 32.9 percent annu-al rate last quarter and is still inflicting damage across the country, squeez-ing already struggling businesses and forcing a wave of layoffs that shows no sign of abating.
The economy’s collapse in the April-June quarter, stunning in its speed and depth, came as a resur-gence of the viral outbreak has pushed businesses to close for a second time in many areas. The govern-ment’s estimate of the sec-ond-quarter fall in the gross domestic product has no comparison since records began in 1947. The previous worst quarterly contraction — at 10 percent, less than a third of what was report-ed Thursday — occurred in 1958 during the Eisenhow-er administration.
Soon after the govern-ment issued the bleak economic data, President Donald Trump diverted attention by suggesting a “delay” in the Nov. 3 pres-idential election, based on his unsubstantiated alle-gations that widespread mail-in voting will result in fraud. The dates of presidential elections are enshrined in federal law and would require an act of Congress to change.
So steep was the economic fall last quarter that most analysts expect a sharp rebound for the current Ju-ly-September period. But with coronavirus cases ris-ing in the majority of states and the Republican Senate proposing to scale back aid to the unemployed, the pain is likely to continue and potentially worsen in the months ahead.
The plunge in GDP “un-derscores the unprecedent-ed hit to the economy from the pandemic,” said An-drew Hunter, senior U.S. economist at Capital Eco-nomics. “We expect it will
take years for that damage to be fully recovered.”
That’s because the virus has taken square aim at the engine of the Ameri-can economy — consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of ac-tivity. That spending col-
lapsed at a 34.6 percent annual rate last quarter as people holed up in their homes, travel all but froze, and shutdown orders forced many restaurants, bars, entertainment ven-ues and other retail estab-lishments to close.
John Lewis mourned as ‘founding father’ of ‘better America’
Second U.S. virus surge hits plateau, but few experts celebrate
Record economic plunge, bleak jobs numbers reveal virus toll
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Former President Barack Obama, addresses the service during the fu-neral for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday.
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Pedestrians wear masks as they walk in front of a sign reminding the public to take steps to stop the spread of coronavirus, Thursday, in Glendale, Calif.
By Zeke Miller and Colleen LongASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Pres-ident Donald Trump, lagging in the polls and grappling with deepen-ing economic and public health crises, on Thurs-day floated the startling idea of delaying the Nov. 3 presidential election. The notion drew immediate pushback from Democrats and Republicans alike in a nation that has held it-self up as a beacon to the world for its history of peaceful transfer of power.
Trump suggested the delay as he pushed un-substantiated allegations that increased mail-in vot-ing due to the coronavirus pandemic would result in fraud. But shifting Election Day is virtually impossi-ble and the very idea rep-resented another bracing attempt by Trump to un-dermine confidence in the American political system.
The date of the pres-
idential election — the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in every fourth year — is en-shrined in federal law and would require an act of Congress to change.
Top Republicans in Con-gress quickly rebuffed Trump’s suggestion. Senate Majority Lead-er Mitch McConnell said the election date is set in stone and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy said the election “should go forward” as planned. Regardless, the Constitu-tion makes no provisions for a delay in the end of Trump’s term — noon on Jan. 20, 2021.
“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most IN-ACCURATE & FRAUDU-LENT Election in history,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “It will be a great embar-rassment to the U.S.A. De-lay the Election until peo-ple can properly, securely and safely vote???”
Trump floats idea of election delay, a
virtual impossibility
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President Donald Trump delivers remarks about American energy production during a visit to the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig, Wednesday, in Midland, Texas.
By Lisa J. Adams Wagner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Herman Cain, former Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of a ma-jor pizza chain who went on to become an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, has died of complications from the coronavirus. He was 74.
A post on Cain’s Twit-ter account Thursday an-nounced the death. Cain had been ill with the vi-rus for several weeks. It’s not clear when or where he was infected, but he was hospitalized less than two weeks after attending Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., in June. Cain had been co-chair of Black Voices for Trump.
“We knew when he was first hospitalized with COVID-19 that this was going to be a rough fight,” read an article posted on the Twitter account.
In a condolence tweet Thursday, Trump de-scribed Cain as “a Power-ful Voice of Freedom and all that is good.”
“Herman had an incredi-ble career and was adored by everyone that ever met him, especially me,” Trump wrote. “He was a very spe-cial man, an American Pa-triot, and great friend.”
Cain, who had hoped to become the first Black politician to win the GOP nomination, was initial-ly considered a long-shot candidate. His bid was pro-pelled forward in Septem-ber 2011 when he won a straw poll vote in Florida, instantly becoming an al-ternative candidate for Re-publican voters concerned that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was not conservative enough.
But Cain struggled to respond to accusations that he had sexually ha-rassed several women and — in a video that went vi-ral on the internet — ram-bled uncomfortably when asked whether he sup-ported or opposed Pres-ident Barack Obama’s policies in Libya. There were also gaffes on abor-tion and torture that led Cain’s critics to question whether he was ready for the White House.
Herman Cain, former presidential
candidate, dies at 74
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Former presidential candidate Herman Cain addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
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City of Hialeah employees loading up food and vegetables to hundreds of cars lined up for hours early during a drive-thru food distribu-tion at the Goodlet Park in Hialeah, Fla.
B4 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020
COMICS
CROSSWORD
MODERATELY CONFUSED / JEFF STAHLEROFF THE MARK / MARK PARISI
ARLO AND JANIS / JIMMY JOHNSON
GARFIELD / JIM DAVIS
THE BORN LOSER / ART AND CHIP SANSOM
BIG NATE / LINCOLN PEIRCE
ROSE IS ROSE / PAT BRADY
DILBERT / SCOTT ADAMS
HERMAN / JIM UNGER ZIGGY / TOM WILSON
If you study action photos of top tennis players, you will see that their eyes are rarely looking directly at the ball. Is this because the rebound of the ball after being hit by the racket is too quick for the eye to follow?
Good bridge players occasionally take their eyes off the ball too. Let’s end the week with a couple of ex-amples. Against South’s four-spade contract, West led the diamond ace and continued with a low diamond when his partner signaled enthu-siastically with the jack. The expert South tried dummy’s queen, but East covered with the king, and declarer ruffed. How should he have contin-ued?
When a defender has four trumps, it is usually right to try to force de-clarer to ruff something, in the hope that he will lose trump control. But on this deal, at double-dummy (ev-
eryone could have seen all of the cards), West’s only winning lead was his singleton heart.
South cashed the club ace, ruffed a club in the dummy and played a trump. True, if the spades had split 2-2 or 3-1, he would have been fine. Here, though, West won with his spade ace and returned the spade 10. Declarer took another round of trumps, then tried to cash some hearts. West ruffed the second round and led a club to his partner’s king: down one.
After the club ruff, South should have crossed to hand with a heart and ruffed his last club before touching trumps. Even if a defender could have won with the spade ace and given his partner a heart ruff, the contract would have been safe.
Ruff those losers in the dummy.
BRIDGE
Even good players err occasionally
DEAR ABBY
Words intended to comfort only trigger man’s griefDEAR ABBY: My wife
died unexpectedly two years ago, after 18 years of a happy marriage and two kids. While we are doing as well as can be expected, one thing seems to set my grief off. It’s when someone refers to my life as my “new normal.”
I’m not sure I can put my finger on why this phrase bothers me so much, but if I had to guess, it’s because I sus-pect people are using it to hint that it’s time I moved on. Why is it that people who would be deeply of-fended if I attempted to tell them what to do with their life, seem to think it’s acceptable to imply that I have grieved enough?
As I look at my life, I know it is forever changed, and it will nev-er be “normal” again. It will be what it is, but I will have lost forever the love of my life and the mother of my children. Right now, I am trying my best to keep them healthy, working to keep a roof over their heads and dealing with my own grief. (We are all seeing our own counselors.) I
have zero time and ener-gy to invest in anything or anyone else.
Am I just holding onto the past? Are these peo-ple thoughtlessly saying something hurtful, or is it something completely different?
ANNOYED IN ARKANSAS
DEAR ANNOYED: People often are at a loss about what to say to someone who has lost a parent, a spouse or a child. While they may be well-meaning, what comes out of their mouths can be hurtful rather than comforting.
Something I have learned from experience, as well as from my read-ers, is that EVERYONE GRIEVES DIFFERENT-LY. It’s an individual pro-cess. Do not assume you
know what these people are implying when they make that statement. “New normal” is a catch-phrase that’s popular now. It is used to describe conditions as the quaran-tines are being lifted or re-imposed. They may not realize how emotionally loaded that term can be. When it happens again, don’t be confrontational, but do tell them how it made you feel.
DEAR ABBY: What’s the correct way to break up with someone who lives with you? A friend of mine wants to break up with his girlfriend, who lives in his home along with her adult son and teenage daughter. His concern is she has no place to go. She refuses to work a steady job, so he pays all the bills and sup-
plies her with a vehicle and spending money.
She wants desperately to get married. After two or three years of living with her, he knows he won’t marry her. He says she’s a nice person, but she’s a terrible house-keeper and has no ambi-tion. My friend is a finan-cial planner and works three to four side jobs, etc. He doesn’t have a clue how to end this, but he wants to. How should he dissolve this live-in re-lationship?
ASKING FOR A FRIEND
DEAR ASKING: Your “friend” needs to summon up the courage to tell this lady he isn’t in love with her, doesn’t plan to marry her and he wants her to move. When he gives her the unhappy news, he should also give her a date by which he expects her and her “children” to be out of there. Advise him that if he’s smart, he should first discuss this with his attorney and, possibly, offer her enough money for a deposit on a place of her (or their) own. He’ll be glad he did.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM B5
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Let your conscience be your guide. Do something that will have an impact. Making someone smile will be rewarding and will push you in a new direction. Romance is featured.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Make changes instead of letting situations fester. A great idea will lead to offers and suggestions that will help you move forward. Speak your mind and follow your heart.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
Let experience be your teacher. Expand your interests instead of procrastinating. Deal with matters intelligently. Let go of the past and embrace the future. Romance is featured.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
Prepare for the changes you want to make. Be innovative and incorporate new technology into your plans. Don’t trust anyone else to be as thorough as you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)
Anger is a waste of time, and being evasive will cause problems. Honesty and integrity will bring what’s troubling you to the surface and push you to improve your life.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Take control and bring about positive change. Address a problem and listen to what others have to contribute. If you work in unison with others, excellent oppor-tunities will develop.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
A passionate approach will make a difference. Let experience guide you, and you will find new ways to excel. Celebrate your achievements with a loved one. Personal growth and enlightenment are featured.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20)
Honesty matters. Don’t avoid issues that need addressing. A professional change will turn out to be beneficial. Protect your home, family and health. Use intelli-gence to make the best choices.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Being consistent, delivering what you promised and doing more and talking less will help you gain momentum and deter unwanted interference. Take time to relax at the end of the day.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Getting along with the people you live or work with will win you the support you need to reach your goal. Don’t waste time on conditional offers; focus on what’s tangible.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Joint ventures will not be in your best interest. Verify any information that comes your way to avoid making a mistake. Curtail excessive behavior or overspending. Depend on trusted resources, not outsiders.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
Offer answers, solutions and positive alternatives. Your approach will determine how much you get in return. Know your boundaries, and you’ll reach your goal. Take care of unfinished business before starting something new.
HOROSCOPE EVENING TV LISTINGS FRIDAY’S TV JULY 31, 20207:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00
BROADCAST STATIONS WGBH^ PBS
Greater Boston
Basic Black
Antiques R’dshow
Open Studio
Evening at Pops Great Performances “Noel Coward’s Present Laugh-ter” A revival of Present Laughter.
Greater Boston
Frontline
WBZ$ CBS
Mass Chal
Patriots All
The Greatest AtHome Videos (N)
Magnum P.I. Blue Bloods “Vested Interests”
News Late Show-Colbert Late Late Show With James Corden
WCVB% ABC
News-Center 5
Chronicle Shark Tank Knife sharpening by mail.
20/20 (N) News-Center 5
Jimmy Kimmel
Nightline (N)
Jimmy Kimmel
Tamron Hall
WBTS* NBC
Boston News
Ac. Hol-lywood
The Wall “Michael and Jahmar”
Dateline NBC Boston News
Tonight Show-J. Fallon
Late Night With Seth Meyers
WFXT9 FOX
Ent. Tonight
TMZ (N) WWE Friday Night SmackDown (N) Boston 25 News at 10PM (N)
Boston News
TMZ Live (N) National News
Boston News
WUTF= UMA
“Cold Zone”
Fútbol MLS (N) ›‡Wrath of the Titans (2012) Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson.
Los 10 videos
Noticiero Univisión
Vas con todo
WSBKF MNT
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
CSI: Miami “Last Stand”
CSI: Miami “Stoned Cold”
WBZ News 10p (N) Seinfeld Big Bang Theory
Seinfeld How I Met Mike & Molly
WGBX L PBS
The Great British Baking Show
Washing-ton Wk
Greater Boston
Firing-Hoover
Frontline The battle over truth and lies.
POV Shorts
PBS NewsHour (N) Washing-ton Wk
Firing-Hoover
Greater Boston
WWJER JN
Secrets Of The Morgue
Murder She Solved “A Deadly Turn”
The Last 24 Cruise Ship Killers “SALLY”
FBI: Criminal Pursuit
Bizarre Murders
Bizarre Murders
Killer Kids
WLVIX CW
Gold-bergs
Gold-bergs
Masters-Illusion
Masters-Illusion
Whose Line
Whose Line
7 News at 10PM on CW56 (N)
Modern Family
Modern Family
Family Guy
Family Guy
Bob’s Burgers
WNUE¨TELE
Exatlón Estados Unidos (N) Cennet (N) Enemigo íntimo “El traidor” (N)
Noticiero Noticias Titulares y más
Cennet
WABU¥ ION
NCIS: Los Angeles “Vengeance”
NCIS: Los Angeles “Patriot Acts”
NCIS: Los Angeles “Touch of Death”
NCIS: Los Angeles NCIS: Los Angeles “Sans Voir”
NCIS: Los Angeles “Sans Voir”
NCIS: LA
CABLE STATIONS
A&E Storage Wars
Storage Wars
Storage Wars
Storage Wars
Storage Wars
Storage Wars
Storage Wars
Storage Wars
Storage Wars
Storage Wars
Storage Wars
Storage Wars
Storage Wars
AMC (5:00) ››“White House Down”
››Police Academy (1984, Comedy) Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall.
››Road House (1989) Patrick Swayze. A legendary bouncer agrees to tame a notorious gin mill.
››Evolution (2001, Comedy)
BRAVO Below Deck Sailing Yacht “DOPE!”
Below Deck Sailing Yacht
›››Hitch (2005) Will Smith. A smooth-talker helps a shy accountant woo an heiress. ‘PG-13’
›››Hitch (2005, Romance-Comedy) Will Smith. ‘PG-13’
DISC Bering Sea Gold: Dredged Up (N)
Bering Sea Gold (N) Gold Rush Bering Sea Gold (N) Gold Rush Bering Sea Gold Gold Rush
DISN (6:10) ›››‡“Moana” (2016)
Upside-Down Magic (2020, Children’s) Izabela Rose, Siena Agudong. ‘NR’
Upside-Down Magic (2020, Children’s) Izabela Rose. ‘NR’
Raven About Bunk’d
Jessie Jessie
ESPN (6:30) NBA Basketball Boston Celtics vs Milwaukee Bucks. HP Field House. (N)
NBA Basketball Houston Rockets vs Dallas Mavericks. The Arena. (N)
SportsCenter (N) SportsCenter
ESPN2 NFL Live UFC Live UFC Top 10
UFC Reloaded Ronda Rousey vs. Holly Holm. NFL Live Basket-ball
FREE Family Guy
Family Guy
›››The Blind Side (2009) Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw. A well-to-do white couple adopts a homeless black teen.
The 700 Club ›‡Tammy (2014) Melissa Mc-Carthy, Susan Sarandon.
FX (6:00) “The Secret Life of Pets” (2016)
››‡Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vaca-tion (2018) Voices of Adam Sandler.
››‡Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vaca-tion (2018) Voices of Adam Sandler.
›››Love, Simon (2018) Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel.
HBO (6:30) “Stockton on My Mind” (2020)
››X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019, Action) James McAvoy. ‘PG-13’
Real Time With Bill Maher (N)
Room 104 (N)
Real Time With Bill Maher
Room 104
Perry Mason
HIST Ancient Aliens Ancient Aliens “The Alien Wars”
Ancient Aliens Ancient Aliens “Se-crets of the Tombs”
Ancient Aliens “The Replicants”
Ancient Aliens “The Alien Wars”
Ancient Aliens
LIFE (6:00) “Nanny Killer” (2018)
The Nanny Is Watching (2018, Suspense) Talya Carroll, Adam Huber.
The Twisted Nanny (2019, Suspense) Tara Erickson, Chantelle Albers.
The Nanny Is Watching (2018) Talya Carroll, Adam Huber.
MTV ›Grown Ups 2 (2013) Adam Sandler. Lenny Feder and his family relocate back to his hometown.
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
NBCSB (6:30) NBA Basketball Boston Celtics vs Milwaukee Bucks. HP Field House. (N)
Celtics Post.
Celtics Post
Boston Sports Tonight (N)
Boston Sports Tonight
NBA Basketball Boston Celtics vs Milwaukee Bucks.
NESN MLB Baseball Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees. Yankee Stadium. (N)
Extra Innings
Red Sox Final (N)
After Hours
Charlie Moore
MLB Baseball Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees.
NICK Danger Force
Danger Force
Danger Force
Danger Force
Danger Force
Unfiltered Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends
SHOW (5:30) ›››‡“Minor-ity Report”
›››Ex Machina (2015, Science Fiction) Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac. ‘R’
›››Under the Skin (2013, Science Fic-tion) Scarlett Johansson. ‘R’
The Chi “Woo Woo Woo”
Desus & Mero
STARZ (5:54) “Jumanji: The Next Level”
›››‡Little Women (2019, Drama) Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson. ‘PG’ (Adult situations)
›››Elizabeth (1998, Historical Drama) Cate Blanchett. ‘R’
›‡Miss Bala (2019) ‘PG-13’
SYFY “Harry Potter”
›››Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint. Voldemort lays a trap for Harry at the Triwizard Tournament.
Futurama Futurama Futurama Futurama Futurama
TBS (6:00) ›››“Ant-Man” (2015, Action) Paul Rudd.
›››Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018, Action) Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas.
The Sims Spark’d (N)
›››It (2017) Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor.
TNT Bones “The Cowboy in the Contest”
Movie ›››‡Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, Action) Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult.
USA Las Vegas “Viva Las Vegas”
Las Vegas Las Vegas Las Vegas Modern Family
Modern Family
Modern Family
Modern Family
Modern Family
VH1 ››‡Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? (2007, Comedy-Drama) Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Jill Scott.
Fresh Prince
Fresh Prince
Fresh Prince
Fresh Prince
Fresh Prince
Fresh Prince
Fresh Prince
EVENING TV LISTINGS THURSDAY’S TV JULY 30, 20207:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00
BROADCAST STATIONS WGBH^ PBS
Greater Boston
Steves’ Europe
This Old House
Ask This Old H’se
Japan With Sue Perkins
Japan With Sue Perkins
Amanpour and Company (N)
Greater Boston
Steves’ Europe
Murder Myster.
WBZ$ CBS
Wheel of Fortune
Jeopardy! (N)
Young Sheldon
The Unicorn
Mom Mom NCIS: Los Angeles “Watch Over Me”
News Late Show-Colbert Late Late Show With James Corden
WCVB% ABC
News-Center 5
Chronicle Holey Moley “Porta Party” (N)
Don’t “Don’t Meet Your Heroes” (N)
To Tell the Truth (N) News-Center 5
Jimmy Kimmel
Nightline (N)
Jimmy Kimmel
Tamron Hall
WBTS* NBC
Boston News
Ac. Hol-lywood
Ellen’s Game of Games
Law & Order: Spe-cial Victims Unit
Law & Order: Spe-cial Victims Unit
Boston News
Tonight Show-J. Fallon
Late Night With Seth Meyers
WFXT9 FOX
MLB Baseball Boston Red Sox at New York Mets. Citi Field. (N) Boston 25 News at 10PM (N)
Boston News
TMZ Live (N) National News
Ent. Tonight
WUTF= UMA
¿Qué culpa tiene Fatmagül?
Guerreros 2020 Noticiero Univisión
Vas con todo Vecinos Nosotros los.
WSBKF MNT
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Law & Order: Crimi-nal Intent “Loyalty”
Law & Order: Crimi-nal Intent “Loyalty”
WBZ News 10p (N) Seinfeld Big Bang Theory
Seinfeld How I Met Mike & Molly
WGBX L PBS
The Great British Baking Show
Miss Fisher’s Mur-der Mysteries
800 Words The Tunnel PBS NewsHour (N) This Old House
Ask This Old H’se
The War
WWJER JN
Secrets Of The Morgue
Murder She Solved “Severed”
The Last 24 “De-ranged and Deadly”
Cruise Ship Killers “NADIA”
FBI: Criminal Pur-suit “Bombshell”
Bizarre Murders
Bizarre Murders
Killer Kids
WLVIX CW
Gold-bergs
Gold-bergs
Killer Camp “A Killer Accusation”
Penn & Teller: Fool Us
7 News at 10PM on CW56 (N)
Modern Family
Modern Family
Family Guy
Family Guy
Bob’s Burgers
WNUE¨TELE
Exatlón Estados Unidos (N) Cennet (N) Enemigo íntimo “A pedir de boca” (N)
Noticiero Noticias Titulares y más
Cennet
WABU¥ ION
Chicago P.D. Chicago P.D. “Debts of the Past”
Chicago P.D. “Climb-ing Into Bed”
Chicago P.D. Chicago P.D. Chicago P.D. “Forget My Name”
Chicago P.D.
CABLE STATIONS
A&E The First 48 The First 48 “Kiss of Death”
The First 48 “Night of Lies” (N)
Court Cam (N)
Court Cam (N)
The First 48 The First 48 “Kiss of Death”
The First 48
AMC (5:15) ›››“Point Break”
››‡Crocodile Dundee II (1988, Comedy) Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Charles Dutton.
›››Erin Brockovich (2000) Julia Roberts. A woman probes a power company cover-up over poisoned water.
BRAVO Housewives/NYC Housewives/NYC Housewives/NYC Watch What
››‡Sex and the City (2008, Romance-Comedy) Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Chris Noth. ‘R’
DISC Homestead Rescue Homestead Rescue: Surviving the Wild (N) Homestead Rescue “Winter’s Fury”
Homestead Rescue: Surviving the Wild
DISN (6:20) ›››‡“Up” (2009) ‘PG’
›››‡Zootopia (2016) Voices of Ginnifer Goodwin.
Bunk’d Bunk’d Sydney-Max
Coop & Cami
Raven’s Home
Jessie Jessie Jessie
ESPN WNBA Basketball: Storm vs Mystics
MLS Soccer First Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. (N)
WNBA Basketball Connecticut Sun vs Los Angeles Sparks. IMG Academy. (N)
SportsCenter (N) SportsCen-ter
ESPN2 NFL Live To Be Announced UFC Unleashed E60 DeAndre Hop-kins and his mother.
E60
FREE (6:00) ›››“The 40-Year-Old Virgin” (2005) Paul Rudd
›››There’s Something About Mary (1998, Romance-Comedy) Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon.
The 700 Club ›››Clueless (1995) Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash.
FX ›››‡Avatar (2009, Science Fiction) Sam Worthington, Voice of Zoe Sal-dana. A former Marine falls in love with a native of a lush alien world.
›››‡Avatar (2009) Sam Worthington. A former Marine falls in love with a native of a lush alien world.
HBO Perry Mason “Chap-ter Five”
Perry Mason “Chap-ter Six”
››‡In Time (2011, Science Fiction) Justin Timberlake. ‘PG-13’
I May Destroy
The Weight of Gold ››‡Motherless Brooklyn (2019) ‘R’
HIST Mountain Men “Sink or Swim”
Mountain Men “Bloody Knuckles”
Mountain Men “Tom’s Big Day”
Alone “Up In Smoke” (N) Mountain Men
Mountain Men “Tom’s Big Day”
Mountain Men
LIFE Married at First Sight
Married at First Sight (N)
Married at First Sight (N)
Married at First Sight (N)
Married at First Sight
Married at First Sight
Married at First
MTV Jersey Shore “Cabs Are Here”
Double Shot at Love Revenge Prank
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
Ridicu-lousness
NBCSB Celtics Best of Felger & Mazz Radio
American Ninja Warrior
Celtics Boston Sports Tonight (N)
Boston Sports Tonight
World Poker Tour: Season 9
World Poker
NESN NHL Preseason Hockey Boston Bruins vs Columbus Blue Jackets. Scotiabank Arena. (N)
Bruins Overtime
Bruins NESN After Hours (N)
Dining Playbook
NHL Preseason Hockey: Bruins vs Blue Jackets
NICK Sponge-Bob
Sponge-Bob
››‡Good Burger (1997, Children’s) Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Sinbad.
Young Dylan
Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends
SHOW (6:00) ›››“Missis-sippi Grind” ‘R’
Shameless On Becoming a God The Chi “Woo Woo Woo”
Desus & Mero (N)
Waves (2019, Drama) Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell, Sterling K. Brown. ‘R’
STARZ ››Made of Honor (2008, Romance-Com-edy) Patrick Dempsey. ‘PG-13’
››‡The Notebook (2004, Romance) Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams. ‘PG-13’
P-Valley “Higher Ground”
›‡The Grudge (2020, Horror) Andrea Riseborough. ‘R’
SYFY “Harry Potter-Chamber”
›››‡Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, Chil-dren’s) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson.
Great Debate
›››Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001, Children’s) Daniel Radcliffe.
TBS Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Lost Resort (N) Conan Lost Resort Conan New Girl “Dress”
TNT (6:30) NBA Basketball Utah Jazz vs New Orleans Pelicans. HP Field House. (N)
NBA Basketball Los Angeles Clippers vs Los Angeles Lakers. The Arena. (N)
Inside the NBA (N) NBA Basketball: Clippers vs Lakers
USA Chrisley Knows
Chrisley Knows
Cannonball (N) Chrisley Knows
Chrisley Knows
Chrisley Knows
Chrisley Knows
Cannonball Chrisley Knows
Modern Family
Modern Family
VH1 “I Can Do Bad”
››Think Like a Man Too (2014, Romance-Comedy) Adam Brody, Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara.
››‡Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? (2007, Comedy-Drama) Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Jill Scott.
Wayans Bros.
Get EvenNetflixNew Series!Four teen enemies join forces to get revenge on their bullies but are then blamed for a crime they didn’t commit. Season 1 available 7/31.Muppets NowDisney+New Series!Jim Henson’s beloved creations are back in The Muppets Studio’s first original series for Disney+.Black Is KingDisney+Original Film!This “visual album” written, directed and executive produced by Beyoncé is based on the music of The Lion King: The Gift.The Umbrella AcademyNetflixSeason Premiere!The superhero series based on the comic book se-ries returns for a 10-episode Season 2. Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda and Emmy Raver-Lam are among the ensemble cast.Special Theme: Directed by John FordTCM, beginning at 12 p.m.Catch a Classic!TCM ends its monthlong Friday salute to director John Ford today. The lineup starts with “Rookie of the Year,” a half-hour baseball drama Ford directed for an episode of the TV series Screen Directors Play-house in 1955. It stars John Wayne, Vera Miles, Ward Bond and Patrick Wayne, all of whom would appear in Ford’s classic The Searchers the following year. Also airing today are the films How the West Was Won(1962), Cheyenne Autumn(1964), The Horse Soldiers(1959), Sergeant Rutledge(1960) and Two Rode Together(1961), as well as the 2019 docu-mentary John Ford: The Man Who Invented America.NBA Basketball ESPN, beginning at 6:30 p.m. LiveAn NBA doubleheader on ESPN has the Boston Celtics vs. the Milwaukee Bucks and the Houston Rockets vs. the Dallas Mavericks.M*A*S*H: “None Like It Hot”MeTV, 7 p.m.Swelter along with the 4077th in a heat wave-themed 1978 episode. Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) find relief in their new tub — but no way will this secret keep.Upside-Down MagicDisney Channel, 8 p.m.Original Film!Premiering on Harry Potter’s birthday? Perfect! This original flick — also based on a book series — fol-lows Nory (Izabela Rose) and a group of magical misfits who are overlooked at the prestigious Sage Academy.The Wrong StepfatherLMN, 8 p.m.Original Film!Single mom and teacher Karen (Krista Allen) falls for charismatic college adviser Craig (Corin Nemec), which is great, until Karen’s daughter (Sydney Mal-akeh) learns about his troubling past.
TV BEST BETS
By Paul HallAt this point of the year,
the pandemic has truly dec-imated movie theaters. With rare theaters open and those that are at a limited capacity, it has been a lost summer at the box office. We’ve turned to the handful of pop-up drive-in theaters and our stream-ing devices in amazing num-bers. And even when there, we are gobbling up comfort food movies. And Paramount Home Entertainment has three titles from our past that have anniversary editions ready for you to enjoy with a new generation of fans.
Let’s start the discussion with a 25-year anniversary for Clueless, the film that established the fashion icon Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and the study of being a teen in the ’90s. Clueless is new on Limited Edition Blu-ray Steelbook, as well as other
formats. Viewers get to relive the laughs with the cast that includes a young Paul Rudd along with Brittany Murphy, Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, Jeremy Sisto, Breckin Meyer and Wallace Shawn, just to name a few. As if you don’t want to add this to your col-lection.
But does this 25-year-old film stand the test of time? I would argue it is still a fun watch today. And it is not just for the fashion, cellphones or pop culture references of the day —those still have weight and can connect generations — but the entire story of not looking past the obvious and not passing judgment on oth-ers before really getting to know them is a universal-ly good message for today’s generations. While they may not be so petty in the halls, today’s youths take the ar-gument to social media and become keyboard warriors
with little repercussions for their actions. Cher and her friends had to face what they did or said every day and could clearly see some of the damage. Although we’re clueless about some things, it can help if we see the conse-quences of our attacks. Clue-less is fun and still socially relevant today from a totally different angle.
If the romance of Clueless between Silverstone and Rudd doesn’t appeal to you, maybe Patrick Swayze will. It’s been 30 years since the release of the romantic dra-ma that is Ghost. Swayze stars alongside Demi Moore with a great role for Whoopi Goldberg — she wasn’t al-ways a talk show host — that won her an Academy Award. Part of the Paramount Pres-ents collection, the release of Ghost brings a Blu-ray home with the most famous pottery scene I can remember. It’s the
30th anniversary of this clas-sic that took the summer by storm in 1990.
And last, but certainly not least, it’s the 40-year anni-versary for Airplane! (“Sure-ly you can’t be serious.” “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.”) The PG-rated come-dy, which wouldn’t carry that rating today, brings jokes to the screen that would proba-bly not make it in the current environment. Watch it with your tongue planted firm-ly in your cheek. Quotable lines abound from this 1980 release that set the stage for countless comedy efforts through the ’80s.
So there you have it — a three-course meal of comfort food options, all celebrating anniversaries this year and all with new Blu-ray releases available to expand your col-lection of some of the classic Hollywood favorites.
THIS WEEK IN MOVIES
It’s good to be Clueless again
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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020 THE DAILY ITEM B7
INTERNATIONAL
By Dánica CotoASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tropical Storm Isaias battered Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic on Thursday as it contin-ued on a forecast track to-ward the U.S. East Coast. The storm unleashed small landslides and caused widespread flood-ing and power outages on an island still recovering from previous hurricanes and earthquakes.
The storm’s maximum sustained winds of 60 mph also toppled trees and some telephone and elec-trical cables across Puerto Rico.
Especially hard hit was the territory’s southern region, which still shakes daily. Santos Seda, mayor of the southwest coast-al town of Guánica, told The Associated Press that
he has received reports of downed trees and in-undated neighborhoods where earthquake-dam-aged homes still stand.
“The emotional state of people is deteriorating more every day,” he said.
Isaias was centered about 85 miles southeast of Puerto Plata, Domini-can Republic early Thurs-day afternoon, according to the U.S. National Hur-ricane Center. It was mov-ing northwest at 20 mph, and its center was forecast to move near the south-eastern Bahamas by early Friday.
Isaias was already top-pling trees in the Domin-ican Republic as govern-ment workers in some impoverished neighbor-hoods used loudspeakers to urge people to evacuate ahead of the worst of the storm. Police also arrested
a handful of surfers in the capital of Santo Domingo accused of violating gov-ernment storm warnings.
Meanwhile, Isaias knocked out power to more than 400,000 cli-ents across Puerto Rico, including hospitals that switched to generators, and left some 150,000 cus-tomers without water, ac-cording to government of-ficials. Meanwhile, crews opened the gates of one dam that last month had such a low water level it led officials to cut service every other day for some 140,000 customers. Out-ages also were reported in the neighboring U.S. Vir-gin Islands.
Minor damage was re-ported elsewhere across Puerto Rico, where tens of thousands of people still use tarps as roofs over homes damaged by Hurri-
cane Maria in September 2017.
José Pagán, a 22-year-old who lives in the east-ern mountain town of Jun-cos, said his power went out before dawn.
“I didn’t think it was go-ing to be this strong,” he said of the storm, adding that his home is slightly flooded. “It’s a rather diffi-cult experience because it reminds us of Maria.”
More than 50 people sought shelter in Puer-to Rico, said Gov. Wanda Vázquez, who urged those living near swollen rivers to find refuge and said of-ficials rescued at least one family from rising waters. Many remained wary of shelters, however, given a spike in COVID-19 cases on the island.
In the western town of Mayaguez, Alan Rivera, a 40-year-old engineer, told
the AP that the street in front of his house turned into a flowing river — something that didn’t even happen during Hur-ricane Maria. He and his family planned to tempo-rarily move in with his parents despite concerns about the coronavirus.
“We have to take the risk,” he said. “There’s no other alternative.”
U.S. President Donald Trump approved an emer-gency declaration in Puer-to Rico as a result of the storm.
The hurricane center said Isaias, for now, is not expected to become a hur-ricane before reaching the U.S. mainland.
“Isaias is sending some mixed signals,” the fore-cast discussion stated. “The intensity forecast re-mains challenging.”
Tropical storm warnings
were issued for the Turks and Caicos Islands and portions of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the Bahamas.
Isaias was expected to produce 4 to 8 inches of rain across Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and northern Haiti, with iso-lated maximum totals of 10 inches.
Isaias is the earliest ninth Atlantic named storm to form, according to Colorado State Univer-sity hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. The pre-vious record was Irene on August 7, 2005, Klotzbach tweeted.
So far this year, Cristob-al, Danielle, Edouard, Fay, Gert and Hanna have also been the earliest named Atlantic storms for their alphabetic order.
‘Isaias’ unleashes flooding in north Caribbean
By Ricardo ColettaASSOCIATED PRESS
BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s first lady and a fifth member of President Jair Bolsonaro’s Cabinet have tested positive for the new coronavirus, offi-cials said Thursday.
Science and Technology Minister Marcos Pontes wrote on Twitter that he tested positive after ex-periencing flu-like symp-toms and headache. The 57-year-old is now in iso-lation. The presidency’s press office said in a state-ment later that Michelle Bolsonaro, 38, also tested positive.
The statement said she appeared to be in good health, but would follow established protocols.
President Bolsonaro told
reporters on July 7 he had been diagnosed with the coronavirus and was then confined to the pres-idential palace in capital Brasilia for more than two weeks. He announced he tested negative on Satur-day.
He participated in his first public event on Wednesday, to recognize rural women workers, along with his wife. They were joined by Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina and the minister of wom-en, family and human rights, Damares Alves.
Last week, Citizenship Minister Onyx Lorenzoni and Education Minister Milton Ribeiro announced they had tested positive. In March, two other Cabinet members were infected.
By Hau DinhASSOCIATED PRESS
HANOI, Vietnam — For 99 days, Vietnam seemed to have defeated the coronavi-rus. There wasn’t a single reported case of community transmission. Not a single death. A handful of cases were caught and isolated at the border, but other-wise people were returning to their normal lives. The country of 96 million peo-ple was hailed globally as a standout success.
But then a week ago, an outbreak began that has now grown to 48 cases in six parts of the coun-try, including three of the largest cities, and forced authorities to reimpose restrictions many thought they had put behind them. And experts worry the out-break could be much larg-er than currently known.
The outbreak began last Thursday in the pictur-esque coastal city of Da Nang, where thousands of tourists were taking their
summer vacations on golden beaches. A 57-year-old man was hospitalized with a fever and tested positive. His condition soon worsened and he was put on a ventilator.
Health authorities swung into action. But the man’s case was puzzling. He hadn’t left his hometown for over a month and tests on his family and 100 oth-er possible contacts all came back negative.
Then health workers found three other infec-tions in Da Nang over the weekend. And then on Monday, another 11. All of those were other patients or health workers at the Da Nang Hospital, where the man remains in criti-cal condition.
On Monday, authorities encouraged 80,000 tour-ists to leave the city by providing extra flights. Hotels emptied out and thousands canceled their plans to visit.
Then on Tuesday, the
city was put into lockdown. The packed beaches were closed, roamed only by pa-trolling security guards. But the order of events left some scratching their heads. Surely the fleeing tourists had the potential to spread the virus further?
Indeed by Thursday, au-thorities had found 43 cas-es, including two people in the capital, Hanoi. All of the cases seemed to link back to Da Nang and re-turning travelers.
The cases included an American who had been a patient last week at Da Nang Hospital before moving to another hospi-tal in Ho Chi Minh City in the south. His companion also tested positive.
Authorities are now reimposing broader re-strictions. They’re closing nonessential services and banning large public gath-erings in Da Nang and other nearby cities, and closing bars and clubs in Hanoi. They’re also plan-
ning to test 21,000 people in the capital who recently returned from Da Nang.
Pham Hien, owner of a noodle restaurant in Hanoi, said she will no longer have seated guests and instead will offer only takeout ser-vice or deliveries. She said her business is hurting but she will abide by govern-ment recommendations.
“What is important now is that all citizens join hands together with the govern-ment in this fight,” she said.
Just how the virus crept back remains a mystery. Authorities say they think the source was from out-side Vietnam because this time the virus is a differ-ent strain.
“One big difference I’ve noticed between this wave and the previous one is that the cases we have right now, a lot of them are severe,” said Marc Choisy, a Hanoi-based bio-mathe-matician with the Oxford University Clinical Re-search Unit.
Brazil first lady, another Cabinet minister infected
After 99 days of success, virus returns to haunt Vietnam
PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brazil’s first lady Michelle Bolsonaro adjusts her face mask during an event at the presiden-tial palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday.
By Jamey KeatenASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA — A criminal case against FIFA presi-dent Gianni Infantino was opened by a Swiss special prosecutor on Thursday, plunging the soccer body into a new scandal and potentially threatening the tenure of the man who was brought in to restore its tarnished reputation.
FIFA said it and Infan-tino will cooperate with Swiss authorities after prosecuto Stefan Keller — barely a month into the job — concluded there is enough evidence to go to court after investigat-ing the circumstances of a meeting Infantino had with Swiss attorney gen-eral Michael Lauber.
The turmoil involving Lauber, who offered his resignation last week, centers on three meetings he had with Infantino in recent years — includ-ing one that he hadn’t disclosed and claimed no memory of — just as he was leading a sprawling investigation into soccer corruption.
Keller, a regional court judge, uncovered “ele-ments that make up rep-rehensible behavior,” an oversight panel monitor-ing federal prosecutors said in a statement. He opened a case against In-fantino and regional pros-ecutor Rinaldo Arnold, a childhood friend of the FIFA boss, and sought au-thorization to open a case against Lauber.
Keller, who was named to the post of special pros-ecutor on June 29, found possible infractions in-cluded abuse of public office, breach of official secrecy, “assisting offend-ers” and “incitement to these acts,” the panel said, adding other criminal acts and proceedings could also be considered.
Under the Swiss crim-inal code, conviction for abuse of public office can bring penalties of up to five years in prison or oth-
er detention, while breach of official secrecy and as-sisting offenders can in-cur up to three years each. Each charge can also bring financial penalties.
Suspects in such cases benefit from a presump-tion of innocence in Swit-zerland until legal pro-ceedings are completed.
It was unclear whether Keller believes the alleged wrongdoing was the mere fact that Lauber and In-fantino had met, or if com-promising information was divulged during their conversations.
FIFA said it “acknowl-edges” Keller’s decision, and vowed it and Infan-tino “will, as we have al-ways done, cooperate fully with this investigation.” It also highlighted past trou-bles at soccer’s governing body before Infantino took office, and said meetings with prosecutors were necessary.
“As president of FIFA, it has been my aim from day one, and it remains my aim, to assist the au-thorities with investigating past wrongdoings at FIFA,” Infantino said. “FIFA offi-cials have met with prose-cutors in other jurisdictions across the world for exactly these purposes.”
FIFA also revived a statement from Infantino on June 25, when he said: “To meet with the attorney general of Switzerland is perfectly legitimate and it’s perfectly legal. It’s no violation of anything. On the contrary, it is also part of the fiduciary duties of the president of FIFA.”
At the time, Infantino also quipped: “this whole thing is quite absurd.”
In March, Lauber was found to have lied to and obstructed the oversight panel. Its probe began af-ter reports last year said he had an undisclosed meet-ing with Infantino in a ho-tel in Bern in June 2017.
Lauber did not take notes at the meeting and both men later claimed not to recall details of their discussion.
Criminal case opened against FIFA president
Gianni Infantino
FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS
FIFA president Gianni Infantino speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.
A woman walks past a
row of T-shirts printed with Vietnamese
flags in Hanoi, Vietnam on
Thursday.
PHOTO |ASSOCIATED PRESS
B8 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020
By Stacey BurlingTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
PHILADELPHIA — Previous studies have raised concerns that the coronavirus can lead to big strokes in young patients, but a new analysis from Penn Medicine finds that most strokes in patients at Penn’s three Philadelphia hospitals were in older people with known stroke risk factors like high blood pressure and diabetes.
Only one stroke patient was under age 50.
Doctors had worried that stroke might be a “huge risk” for coronavirus pa-tients, said Brett L. Cuc-chiara, a stroke neurolo-gist who is senior author of the paper, published this month in the journal Stroke. The risk is “real, but it’s not really as big a problem as we were wor-ried it was going to be.”
Pascal M. Jabbour, a vascular neurosurgeon at Jefferson Health, said multiple studies have found associations between COVID-19 and clotting in various parts of the body. He was part of a much-pub-licized study with research-ers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in the spring that looked at stroke pa-tients with major blockag-es during the peak of the East Coast coronavirus surge. Their small study of 14 COVID-19 patients with stroke found that about 40 percent were under age 55 and 55 percent had no risk factors for stroke.
In some, stroke was the first symptom of the coronavirus. A more re-cent and still unpublished study involving 12 centers in the United States and Europe and 50 stroke pa-tients found that about a third were under age 55 and a third had stroke as their first symptom. Thir-ty-eight percent had no stroke risk factors.
“This is something im-portant,” Jabbour said. “We shouldn’t downplay this thing.”
He said the public needs to know to take stroke symptoms like sudden
numbness or loss of bal-ance seriously when the coronavirus is circulating. “The message from both papers should be, regard-less, if you have stroke symptoms, you need to call 911.”
Because Jabbour’s team looked only at people who had strokes, he could not say how unusual it is for coronavirus patients to have the large-vessel blockages he targeted.
The Penn team looked only at strokes, not at whether patients devel-oped clots outside the brain.
They examined data on 844 patients hospi-talized with COVID-19 from March 15 to May 3. Of those, 2.5 percent had strokes caused by clots, a low percentage when considering how many COVID-19 patients do not need hospitalization, Cuc-chiara said. While he does not have this sort of data on people with other con-ditions, he said that stroke rate would probably not be unusual in people in an intensive care unit, but those patients usu-ally are older with more chronic health problems. The COVID-19 patients had an average age of 59.
“We don’t normally see a population that’s relative-ly young that’s this sick,” Cucchiara said.
An early study from Wu-han, China, found that 2.3 percent of hospitalized coronavirus patients had strokes. A large study in New York found a rate of almost 1 percent.
Studies have also found that the risk for stroke is higher among people who have recently had the flu. Jabbour cited a recent study that found stroke risk was 7.5 times high-er in COVID-19 patients than in those with the flu.
Sixty-eight percent of the COVID-19 patients at the Hospital of the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Med-ical Center, and Pennsyl-vania Hospital during the study time period were Black, a figure that sur-prised Cucchiara. Black patients accounted for 80 percent of the people who had strokes. Because they are more likely to have risk factors like high blood pressure and diabetes, Black individuals tend to be at higher risk for strokes than other groups. Most of the coronavirus patients who had strokes had high blood pressure,
diabetes, or other risk factors like heart failure. More than one-third had a previous stroke.
Nearly 1 percent of the patients had bleeding in the brain, a type of stroke that is especially danger-ous. That was more than Cucchiara had expected. Patients are now even more likely to receive blood thinners because doctors want to prevent clots. “This is kind of a cautionary note,” Cucchi-ara said.
Most of the patients in the Penn study had strokes after they were hospi-talized. On average, the strokes occurred 21 days after symptoms began.
Cucchiara doubts the coronavirus directly caus-es clotting, but said in-flammation caused by viral infection can make blood clot more easily. Critical illness may also be a factor. Stroke may be more common in patients who are immobilized and hooked to machines and IV lines.
Jabbour said the stud-ies are not contradictory. They are just pieces of in-formation from different perspectives as scientists try to understand this new disease.
By Everitt RosenTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
ORLANDO, Fla. — With more people staying home during the coronavirus pandemic and playing closer attention to their dogs and cats, the need for veterinary care is booming right now.
That and other factors which arose before the vi-rus emerged are fueling the need for thousands of new workers at animal clinics across the U.S.
According to an April 2020 report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis-tics, veterinary jobs are expected to grow by 18 percent from 2018 to 2028, with 15,600 new jobs add-ed. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics did not specify what kind of vet-erinary jobs will be added.
As veterinary students graduate in the spring, the shortages can wane, but according to the American Veterinary Medical Asso-ciation, nearly 20 percent of veterinarians are ex-pected to retire in the next decade.
“We did have a shortage of veterinarians [even] be-fore the pandemic,” said Dana Varble, chief veteri-nary officer for the North American Veterinary Community, which has its headquarters in Orlando. “There’s still an incredible need for veterinarians.”
During the pandemic, people are spending more time with their pets and
are catching more minor symptoms or abnormal-ities that they weren’t noticing when they were working away from home.
“Treatment options for things like heart disease and kidney disease, and even cancer, are really increasing,” Varble said. “They’re not all cost pro-hibitive anymore, we’re seeing people really be able to afford these things as medical advancement changes.”
Varble said Banfield Pet Hospital, a major pet care company, recently did a study and showed that 20 percent of people are more willing to do preventative care for their pet now than they were before the pan-demic.
“When you know you have limited funds, where are you willing to spend them?
“Right now people are willing to spend them on their pets,” Varble said.
Throughout the pan-demic, veterinary prac-tices were considered an essential business, but be-cause elective procedures weren’t being done, busi-ness slowed down a small bit.
This has rebounded as elective procedures and preventative procedures are being added back into their schedules.
“Pretty much every vet-erinarian I know is com-pletely busy, every day,” Varble said.
A nurse writes a note on a window as a team of doctors and nurses per-forms a procedure on a coronavirus COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Regional Medical Center in San Jose, Calif.
PHOTO | TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Linda Hull, Orange County Animal Services administrative assistant, gives Dali some TLC. North American Veterinary Community, which has its headquarters in Orlando, there are plenty of veterinary jobs available in the Unit-ed States.
HEALTHWho gets the first shot when a virus vaccine arrives?
PHOTO | SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
Dennis Burton, professor of immunology and microbial science at The Scripps Research Institute, takes a break from his lab work.
Study finds relatively low levels of stroke in COVID-19 patients
Pets get extra care amid the lockdown
By Stacey BurlingTHE PHILADELPHIA
INQUIRER
Whenever a vaccine for the coronavirus becomes available, one thing is vir-tually certain: There won’t be enough to go around. That means there will be rationing.
Someone will have to de-cide which of the world’s 7.8 billion people gets first crack at returning to a more normal life. Infec-tious disease experts and medical ethicists say this exceptionally complex de-cision must weigh not only who is most at risk from the virus and who is most likely to spread it, but also who is most important for maintaining the medical and financial health of a nation as well as its safety.
This pandemic has also added a new quandary: how to address the fact that people of color have suffered higher rates of serious illness and death than white people.
“It’s going to be very, very hard,” Harald Schmidt, a University of Pennsylva-nia bioethicist, said of the priority-setting process. There will likely be more than one type of vaccine. One may work better in certain groups, say, older adults, than another.
“We don’t only have to make this decision once, but multiple times for multiple vaccines,” Schmidt said. “They won’t all be there at the same time, and they will have different profiles.”
Arthur Caplan, a bioeth-icist at New York Univer-sity, said the rush to bring vaccines to market likely will leave many questions unanswered at first about how well they work in dif-ferent groups. He sees the first public doses as an ex-tension of clinical trials. That will require careful tracking of recipients. “We keep acting as if the race to get FDA approval is the end of things,” he said. “I would say it’s just the start.”
Vaccine development has been moving at light-ning speed, and a handful of candidates have had promising results. Experts say the best-case scenario is that a vaccine could be available to the public by the first quarter of 2021.
Traditionally, the U.S. Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention’s Advi-sory Committee on Immu-nization Practices (ACIP) recommends who should get vaccines, and it has been discussing since April how to divvy up a new coro-navirus shot. It is unclear whether officials from the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed on vaccine development will want in on the decision as well. “It’s a black box,” said Paul Offit, a vaccine ex-pert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He thinks Warp Speed will proba-bly focus on distribution. The National Academy of Medicine, at the behest of the National Institutes of Health, has also created an expert panel to study
the issue.At the panel’s first meet-
ing on Friday, Victor Dzau, dent, said he expected fin-ww al recommendations by late September to ear-ly October. CDC Director Robert Redfield stressed that it was important for Americans to see vaccine allocation as “equitable, fair, and transparent.”
National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, who has faced some criticism for po-tentially adding to deci-sion-making confusion, said this issue is so thorny, we can benefit from extra “deep thinkers.”
“This is going to be con-troversial,” he said. “Not everybody is going to like the answer.”
Caplan favors an inde-pendent commission that includes both scientists and representatives of af-fected communities, such as people with disabilities and children. Whoever makes the decisions, he said, “it’s got to be trust-worthy.”
Eddy Bresnitz, a former deputy commissioner of the New Jersey Depart-ment of Health who is now advising the department on coronavirus response, said he expects that the White House Coronavirus Task Force will also weigh in, but that the ultimate decision will rest with of-ficials at the U.S. Depart-ment of Health and Hu-man Services.
The federal government points that will “ensure the entire population gets the
coronavirus vaccination.”Priorities need to con-
sider the multiple public health roles vaccines can play, said William Schaff-ner, an infectious diseas-es specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Cen-ter. Typically, younger peo-ple mount the strongest immune response, said Schaffner, who represents the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases as a liaison to ACIP. They are currently catching COVID-19 at higher rates and spreading it to other, more vulnerable popula-tions. Vaccinating them could weaken the chain of transmission.
Older people and those
with chronic health prob-lems are clearly getting sickest, but vaccines tend to be less effective in these groups. A third group are “the people in society that are responsible for its most essential functions,” Schaffner said: medical workers, police and fire-fighters, those who make, sell and distribute food.
Schaffner said it’s im-portant not to create such narrow categories that vaccine sits unused in re-frigerators. “Vaccine does not prevent disease,” he said. “Immunization pre-vents disease.”
During the H1N1 influ-enza pandemic in 2009, ACIP developed a five-
tiered priority list for vaccine distribution that frames the current dis-cussion. First came criti-cal health care and public health personnel, pharma-cists, emergency respond-ers, police and firefighters, along with “deployed per-sonnel.” The second tier included essential mili-tary support, the National Guard, intelligence ser-vices and other national security personnel as well as mortuary workers, and those in communications, IT and utilities. High-risk adults were in the fourth tier and healthy adults, aged 19 to 64 were in the last group.