The U.S. Defense Department said Wednesday that it was deploying advanced fighter aircraft to the United Arab Emirates to help protect the country against the threat posed by Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi rebels.
In a statement, the Pentagon said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin informed UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahy via telephone Tuesday that he was sending the aircraft to bolster U.S. military support for the country.
Austin also agreed to send the USS Cole, a guided missile destroyer, to assist the UAE navy and make a port call in Abu Dhabi, the department said.
It said the deployments were meant send “a clear signal that the United States stands with the UAE as a long-standing strategic partner.”
Yemen’s Houthi rebels recently launched three missile attacks on the UAE, including a foiled attempt that targeted a base that hosts U.S. forces.
The Houthi movement, which is fighting a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen that includes the UAE, has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The most recent attack occurred during a visit Monday by Israel’s president, when UAE forces intercepted a missile. Israel and countries on the Arabian Peninsula have pursued closer relations in recent years as a bulwark against Iran.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz began a two-day visit to Bahrain on Wednesday, during which he will sign a security agreement with Bahraini leaders, according to Israeli media reports.
The Biden administration has said it is considering financial sanctions against the Houthi rebels and their leaders as part of an effort to get the Houthis to join talks to wind down the war in Yemen. The eight-year conflict has devastated Yemen, a nation where of millions of people have been pushed into poverty by clashes and government mismanagement.
Some information for this report came from Agence France-Presse, The Associated Press and Reuters.
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has confirmed that the sixth wave of the pandemic in Spain consolidates its decline after reducing the accumulated incidence by 21% since it peaked on January 21 with 3,418 cases and up to 2,564 per 100,00 inhabitants of this Wednesday. For the moment, the outdoor masks are maintained, although “this measure is getting closer to modulating,” she says.
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, during the press conference after the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, this Wednesday in Madrid. EFE / Kiko Huesca
This decline in the sixth wave of coronavirus is also accompanied by a drop in daily infections below 100,000 since yesterday (86,222 today).
After the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, Darias explained at a press conference that this drop in transmission occurs in all age groups, although it remains high in those under 11 years of age (5,156 cases/100,000). .
The lower severity of this sixth wave, although there is still a high number of deaths, 224 reported since yesterday, is due, according to the minister, to the high vaccination rate, 90.8% with a complete schedule.
The omicron variant already exceeds 95% of reported cases, although it varies according to each territory.
Epidemiological data
The cumulative incidence at 14 days it has dropped 130 points since yesterday to 2,564 cases/100,000 inhabitants, while the incidence at 7 days drops from 1,028 to 955.
All the autonomous communities are at the bottom of new infections with Catalonia in the lead (4,397) and followed by the Valencian Community, Aragon, Cantabria, Murcia, Navarra, Andalusia and Ceuta with more than 3,000 cases and, at the other extreme, Andalusia with 885.
The Ministry of Health has notified this Wednesday 86,222 cases since yesterday. The total number of infections since the start of the pandemic is 10,125,348.
The positivity rate of diagnostic testsdownwards, is 35.83%.
Since yesterday 224 are reported deaths more (yesterday there were 408) and 799 with a date of death in the last 7 days.
The total since there are records of deaths certified by tests in the pandemic in Spain is 93,857.
The global lethality represents 0.9%.
There is also a decrease in the hospital occupation.
The total number of patients admitted to hospitals (plant and ICU) is 17,441, 646 fewer since yesterday and drops to 13.9% of occupied beds.
ICU occupancy drops to 21.34% (21.71% yesterday) with 2,010 patients, 44 less than yesterday.
Catalonia continues to lead the occupation by covid in critical units, although in slow decline to 39%, while Aragon is at 32%.
Vaccines: In total there are 38.3 million citizens -90.8% of the total population- with the double dose, of which 21.9 million have the extra or booster serum against the coronavirus (75.9% of those over 40 years) and 55.1 of children aged 5 to 11 with the first dose.
The masks, closer to stop using outdoors
Although infections are falling, the Ministry of Health considers that it is not yet time to lower our guard and stop using masks abroad.
This is how he defended it last night in Congress in the validation of the decree law approved on December 22 to go back to wearing masks abroad (since it was already mandatory indoors) due to the increase in infections by omicron and before the Christmas holidays.
And it has also done so after the Interterritorial Council where some autonomous communities have raised it.
Galicia, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León and Madrid believe that it is time to start thinking about their withdrawal.
The minister has said that “we are closer to modulating that measure” that is necessary “for the strictly essential time”.
Nor has the possibility of reducing home quarantines due to covid, now set at 7 days, been discussed.
Fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three teams on Tuesday over alleged racist hiring practices for coaches and general managers, saying the league remains “rife with racism” even as it publicly condemns it.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, said the hypocrisy was on display with the chilly treatment Flores received from the Dolphins after he refused to accept a $100,000-a-game offer from the club his first season to “tank” so it could secure the top draft pick.
The lawsuit sought class-action status and unspecified damages from the league, the Dolphins, the Denver Broncos and the New York Giants, along with unidentified individuals.
Flores, 40, was fired last month by Miami after leading the Dolphins to a 24-25 record over three years. They went 9-8 in their second straight winning season, but failed to make the playoffs during his tenure.
In a statement released by the lawyers representing him, Flores said: “God has gifted me with a special talent to coach the game of football, but the need for change is bigger than my personal goals.”
“In making the decision to file the class action complaint today, I understand that I may be risking coaching the game that I love and that has done so much for my family and me. My sincere hope is that by standing up against systemic racism in the NFL, others will join me to ensure that positive change is made for generations to come,” he said.
In a statement, the NFL said it will defend “against these claims, which are without merit.”
It added: “The NFL and our clubs are deeply committed to ensuring equitable employment practices and continue to make progress in providing equitable opportunities throughout our organizations. Diversity is core to everything we do, and there are few issues on which our clubs and our internal leadership team spend more time.”
The lawsuit alleges that the league has discriminated against Flores and other Black coaches for racial reasons, denying them positions as head coaches, offensive and defensive coordinators and quarterbacks coaches, as well as general managers.
According to the lawsuit, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross told Flores he would pay him $100,000 for every loss during the coach’s first season because he wanted the club to “tank” so it could get the draft’s top pick.
The lawsuit alleged that Ross then pressured Flores to recruit a prominent quarterback in violation of the league’s tampering rules. When Flores refused, he was cast as the “angry Black man” who is difficult to work with and was derided until he was fired, the suit said.
The Dolphins issued a statement, saying: “We vehemently deny any allegations of racial discrimination and are proud of the diversity and inclusion throughout our organization. The implication that we acted in a manner inconsistent with the integrity of the game is incorrect. We will be withholding further comment on the lawsuit at this time.”
The lawsuit said the firing of Flores was typical for Black coaches who are not given the latitude other coaches receive to succeed. It noted that Flores led the Dolphins to back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 2003.
FILE – Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll is seen prior to a game against the Miami Dolphins at Highmark Stadium, in Orchard Park, New York, Oct. 31, 2021. (USA Today Sports via Reuters)
Last week, the Giants disclosed to third parties that they had decided to hire Brian Daboll as their new coach even when they had not yet had their scheduled meeting with Flores, the lawsuit said.
“Mr. Flores was deceptively led to believe he actually had a chance at this job,” the lawsuit said, adding that he had to endure a dinner with the Giants’ new general manager knowing that the team had already selected Daboll.
The lawsuit also cited a message Flores received three days before his scheduled Giants interview from New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, which at first told Flores he’d heard that Flores was “their guy.” But the lawsuit said Belichick apologized and corrected himself, saying he’d misread the text and now realized Daboll was chosen.
A message left with the Patriots was not immediately returned.
In a statement, the Giants said: “We are pleased and confident with the process that resulted in the hiring of Brian Daboll. We interviewed an impressive and diverse group of candidates. The fact of the matter is, Brian Flores was in the conversation to be our head coach until the eleventh hour. Ultimately, we hired the individual we felt was most qualified to be our next head coach.”
Patriots safety Devin McCourty, who played for Flores and shares a Twitter account with his twin brother Jason, tweeted that Flores was “pivotal in my career and love that I can support him for calling out what we all already know.”
‘Rooney Rule’
The lawsuit also claimed Flores was forced to undergo a “sham interview” with the Broncos in 2019, when then-Broncos general manager John Elway, President Joe Ellis and others showed up an hour later for his interview.
“They looked completely disheveled, and it was obvious that they had been drinking heavily the night before,” the lawsuit said. “It was clear from the substance of the interview that Mr. Flores was interviewed only because of the Rooney Rule.”
In a statement, the Broncos said the allegations were “blatantly false.”
The club said its over three-hour interview with Flores began promptly on Jan. 5, 2019, at a hotel in Providence, Rhode Island.
“Pages of detailed notes, analysis and evaluations from our interview demonstrate the depth of our conversation and sincere interest in Mr. Flores as a head coaching candidate,” the Broncos said. “Our process was thorough and fair to determine the most qualified candidate for our head coaching position. The Broncos will vigorously defend the integrity and values of our organization — and its employees — from such baseless and disparaging claims.”
According to the lawsuit, Flores’ treatment by the Giants and Broncos was typical of how the “Rooney Rule” has been administered for the last two decades.
The rule, named after former Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney while he was chairman of the NFL’s diversity committee, was created to give more minority candidates opportunities to become a head coach and reward teams who develop them.
In 2020, the NFL amended the Rooney Rule to stipulate teams must interview at least two minority candidates not associated with their own team for a head coaching vacancy. Also, one minority candidate has to be interviewed for coordinator positions as well as high-ranking positions in the front office, including the general-manager role.
“In certain critical ways, the NFL is racially segregated and is managed much like a plantation,” the lawsuit said.
NFL numbers
“Its 32 owners — none of whom are Black — profit substantially from the labor of NFL players, 70% of whom are Black. The owners watch the games from atop NFL stadiums in their luxury boxes, while their majority-Black workforce put their bodies on the line every Sunday, taking vicious hits and suffering debilitating injuries to their bodies and their brains while the NFL and its owners reap billions of dollars,” it added.
According to the lawsuit, only one of the NFL’s 32 teams employs a Black head coach, only four of them employ a Black offensive coordinator and only 11 employ a Black defensive coordinator.
The lengthy lawsuit discusses the history of race in the league, from the slow acceptance of Black quarterbacks to the treatment that Colin Kaepernick endured when he kneeled during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.
Two lawyers, Douglas H. Wigdor and John Elefterakis, said in a statement that it was a privilege to file the lawsuit on behalf of Flores at the start of Black History Month.
“This case seeks to level the playing field in the hope that future owners and coaches will be representative of the athletes who are playing this great game,” they said. “We fully expect coaches and players of all races to support Brian as he embarks on his journey to create positive change.”
Por «fallas en la atención a pacientes con terapias de cáncer, VIH y otras enfermedades de alto costo», se hizo la toma de posesión, pero no se cierra la EPS ni se trasladan usuarios, sigue el servicio.
Por «fallas en la atención a pacientes con terapias de cáncer, VIH y otras enfermedades de alto costo», se hizo la toma de posesión, pero no se cierra la EPS Emssanar ni se trasladan usuarios, sigue el servicio.
Noticias Occidente.
En Nariño, Valle del Cauca, Cauca y Putumayo están en expectativa por la toma de posesión de EPS Emssanar este miércoles por parte de la Superintendencia de Salud, en estos cuatro departamentos la entidad tiene más de 50 mil usuarios.
El Delegado para Entidades de Aseguramiento en Salud, Henri Phillipe Capmartin, explicó el proceso.
Indicó que la decisión se debió, al hallar una deteriorada situación con indicadores -en rojo- financieros y técnico científicos.
Ya Emssanar, «se encontraba bajo medida de vigilancia especial de la Supersalud desde hace casi dos años y medio, tiempo en el cual no logró corregir el deterioro», indicaron.
Subsidiado
Preocupa, que la mayoría de los usuarios que tienen, el 92% es del régimen subsidiado, «es decir, población vulnerable».
Detectaron «fallas en la atención a pacientes con terapias de cáncer, VIH y otras enfermedades de alto costo».
Tiene 1.954.587 afiliados:
Valle (967.946)
Nariño (687.086)
Putumayo (181.773)
Cauca (117.780)
Contra la EPS Emssanar se radicaron 78.940 peticiones, quejas, reclamos y peticiones (PQRD) en los últimos años.
Ahora, con la posesión la SuperSalud buscan establecer si «es posible situar a la EPS en condiciones de desarrollar adecuadamente su objeto social, o si se pueden realizar otras operaciones que permitan lograr mejores condiciones».
Esto significa que por ahora, no está cerrada ni tampoco hay traslado de pacientes a otras EPS. Los servicios se seguirán prestando.
Por «fallas en la atención a pacientes con terapias de cáncer, VIH y otras enfermedades de alto costo», se hizo la toma de posesión de #Emssanar que opera en el Suroccidente del país. La idea es «que se supere la crisis y poder mejorar el servicio.», informó la @SuperSaludpic.twitter.com/8cd3gtD6D6
La @Supersalud comparte Boletín CP-OCEII-006 donde da a conocer la resolución 2022320000000292-6 de 2022 por medio de la cual se ordena la toma de posesión inmediata de la EPS EMSSANAR . pic.twitter.com/xV9zwx3gfx
President Joe Biden is committing to reduce the cancer death rate by 50% — a new goal for the “moonshot” initiative against the disease that was announced in 2016 when he was vice president.
Biden has set a 25-year timeline for achieving that goal, part of his broader effort to end cancer as we know it, according to senior administration officials who previewed Wednesday’s announcement on the condition of anonymity.
The issue is deeply personal for Biden: He lost his elder son, Beau, to brain cancer in 2015. Yet the rollout comes without any new funding elements at a time when the gains from new research can be uneven, such that Biden is setting an aspiration for the country more than 50 years after President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act and launched a war on the disease. The benefits of that act were seen recently in areas outside of cancer as well as vaccines that were developed for the coronavirus.
The pain experienced by Biden is shared by many Americans. The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 1,918,030 new cancer cases and 609,360 cancer deaths this year. What the president is aiming to do is essentially save more than 300,000 lives annually from the disease, something the administration believes is possible because the age-adjusted death rate has already fallen by roughly 25% over the past two decades. The cancer death rate is currently 146 per 100,000 people, down from nearly 200 in 2000.
“The progress in cancer research is slow — some of the fruits of Nixon’s 1971 declaration were only harvested with the development of the COVID mRNA vaccine,” said Dr. Otis Brawley, a professor of oncology and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University and former chief medical and scientific officer for the American Cancer Society. The research progress that has occurred has led to a “better understanding of the biology of cancer and will do even more for us in the future.”
Better public health practices, reducing cancer risks such as smoking and informing people about the best cancer research could reduce deaths. Brawley said that one of his studies found that 130,000 people die annually from cancer because they do not benefit from known science.
Dr. Barron Lerner, a professor of medicine and population health at New York University Langone Health, said that “hyperbolic goals” can be needed to attract public attention but achieving the 50% reduction is “extremely unlikely.”
“Similar past efforts like the ‘War on Cancer’ have made gains, but they have been more modest,” said Lerner, the author “The Breast Cancer Wars.” “Cancer is many diseases and requires very complicated research. Translating these advances to the clinical setting is never easy either.”
Biden was scheduled to give remarks Wednesday from the East Room of the White House, along with his wife, Jill, and Vice President Kamala Harris. Also scheduled to attend the speech: members of Congress and the administration and about 100 members of the cancer community including patients, survivors, caregivers, families, advocacy groups and research organizations.
As part of the effort, Biden will assemble a “cancer Cabinet” that includes 18 federal departments, agencies and offices, including leaders from the Departments of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, Defense, Energy and Agriculture.
There were no plans to announce new funding commitments on Wednesday, though the administration will outline why it believes it can curb cancer through efforts such as increased screening and removing inequities in treatment. The coronavirus pandemic has consumed health care resources and caused people to miss more than 9.5 million cancer screenings.
The White House also will host a summit on the cancer initiative and continue a roundtable discussion series on the subject. The goal is to improve the quality of treatment and people’s lives, something with deep economic resonance as well. The National Cancer Institute reported in October that the economic burden of treatment was more than $21 billion in 2019, including $16.22 billion in patient out-of-pocket costs.
President Barack Obama announced the cancer program during his final full year in office and secured $1.8 billion over seven years to fund research. Obama designated Biden, then his vice president, as “mission control,” a recognition of Biden’s grief as a parent and desire to do something about it. Biden wrote in his memoir “Promise Me, Dad” that he chose not to run for president in 2016 primarily because of Beau’s death.
When Biden announced he wasn’t seeking the Democratic nomination in 2016, he said he regretted not being president because “I would have wanted to have been the president who ended cancer, because it’s possible.”
The effort fell somewhat out of the public focus when Donald Trump became president, though Trump, a Republican, proposed $500 million over 10 years for pediatric cancer research in his 2019 State of the Union address.
Biden continued the work as a private citizen by establishing the Biden Cancer Initiative to help organize resources to improve cancer care. When Biden did seek the presidency in 2020, he had tears in his eyes as he said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that “Beau should be running for president, not me.”
The U.S. Army announced Wednesday it will begin discharging soldiers who have refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
In a news release, the Army said effective immediately, commanders are to “initiate involuntary administrative separation proceedings against any Soldier who has refused the COVID-19 vaccination order and does not have an approved or pending exemption request.”
The statement says the order applies to regular Army soldiers, active-duty Army reservists and cadets.
The directive was issued by Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth, who said in the statement, “Army readiness depends on Soldiers who are prepared to train, deploy, fight and win our nation’s wars. Unvaccinated Soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardize readiness.”
The statement said service members separated due to their refusal of the COVID-19 vaccination order will not be eligible for involuntary separation pay and may be subject to recoupment of any unearned special or incentive pays.
Some Republican lawmakers have expressed misgivings about the vaccine mandate for U.S. service members. Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, last week tweeted that “millions of taxpayer $ will be spent discharging unvaccinated troops & recruiting replacements.”
Unvaccinated soldiers who have requested medical exemptions or religious accommodations are temporarily exempt from the COVID-19 vaccination requirement while their requests are under review. Soldiers retiring on or before July 1, 2022, will be given a temporary exemption.
The Army said that as of Jan. 26, 2022, 96% of its active-duty personnel and 79% of its reservists were fully vaccinated. As of the same date, of the 709 permanent medical exemptions applied for, six were approved, 656 were disapproved and 53 were pending.
Similarly, of the 2,910 religious exemptions requested, none had been approved, 266 were disapproved and 2,644 were pending.
Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.
Con vídeos y fotos están buscando a ‘Sarco’ y a quienes se lo llevaron. Han preguntado en Bogotá y otras ciudades del país.
Noticias Bogotá.
Hoy día muchos delincuentes que tienen como víctimas principales a mascotas utilizan ‘métodos’ y ‘estrategias’ que muchas personas quedan sorprendidos.
Las víctimas son golpeadas, envueltas en mentiras o se aprovechan de momentos de distracción para hacer de las suyas.
Este es el caso de ‘Sarco’, un perro guía que se robaron en la ciudad de Bogotá y que su historia fue revelada en las últimas horas por Noticias Caracol.
Sarco y a su lado varias personas.
En el reporte detallaron que el pasado domingo 30 de enero del 2022 sobre las 11:50 de la mañana el perro de raza ‘chow chow’, que de acuerdo a sus tenedores, dueños y familiares es el canino guía de un adulto mayor.
El sujeto intentó amarrarlo en varias ocasiones.
Sarco lo observaba.
«Tiene 10 años de edad, es el perro lazarillo de una persona de la tercera edad» y aseguran que las personas que se lo llevaron usaron otra perra como carnada, una canina que expresaron estaba receptivas a se montada por ‘Sarco’.
Reportaron que los presuntos ladrones «llevaban una perrita de raza pitbull y blanca que estaba en celo, la utilizan para halarlo y se lo llevan. Este es el momento en el que no sabemos nada».
Utilizaron a una perrita en celo, denuncian.
Lograron llevarlo.
Sus dueños no saben quiénes se lo llevaron, no conocen a las personas que estaban en el lugar pero vecinos le habrían comentado son recicladores «pero no viven en el barrio».
