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ledenews · 2 years ago

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ARCHIVED: Fabio’s Remains a Fixture at the Ohio Valley Mall

(Publisher's Note: This article first appeared on LEDE News when pandemic restrictions remained in place throughout the tri-state region, but this place stood the test of very trying times and continues to offer one the valley's favorite slices of pie.) When the Ohio Valley Mall first opened in October 1978, the small pizza shop next to the hallway to Kaufmann’s was called Scotto’s Pizza. After 14 years, though, the name above the front door changed to Fabio’s Pizza after Tom Cracolici purchased the business and named it after his son. Kind of, and that’s because there is an interesting story behind the reasons why Cracolici named his son Fabio. “I named him after Fabio Grosso, who scored the winning goal when Italy last won the World Cup in 2006,” Cracolici explained. “My son is 28 now, and he works here, too, and Fabio has blessed me with a grandson this past Monday. Fabio's Pizza has been a very popular destination for mall patrons for nearly 30 years. “I came to America in 1974 because my father was a prisoner of war here, and he told us that it was the best time of his life. He got treated like a king even though he was a prisoner of war,” he said. “He was allowed to work even though he was a prisoner, and when World War II ended, he wanted his family to come here so we would have a better future. I don’t care what anyone says; this is the best damn country in the whole world.” But he still roots for Italy in the World Cup? “Of course,” Cracolici said with a masked smile. “I will always root for Italy.” The pizza buffet at Fabio's offers customers a wide variety of options. Pizza with Your Pandemic? At a time when the American public was learning how to distance and debating about wearing masks, the Cafaro Co. shuttered the Ohio Valley Mall while following the precautions mandated by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. Businesses like Boscov’s, Lids, Victoria’s Secret and yes, Fabio’s, were closed for two months. “That hurt. I cleaned the house. I went on walks. I cooked at home. And after the first few days I was going to crazy,” Cracolici recalled. “It made me wonder what people do when they don’t go to work every day. It was something I had not experienced. It’s not like I could go anywhere. I was stuck at home, so I just tried to stay busy. But then we were allowed to reopen in mid-May, and it hasn’t been easy at all. Thank God I have great customers and great employees. They all have been amazing, so I feel I have been blessed. “It’s kind of slow compared to this time last year, but I am hearing that most businesses are down from last year,” he explained. “It’s been a struggle with Covid. There are so many uncertainties right now. It seems as if it’s been one thing after another, but we just have to endure. I’m a warrior, so I’m not worried about it. As long as I pay my bills and stay ahead of the game, I’m fine. But we are down about 30 percent right now, so I’m hoping that it gets better pretty soon.” Tom Cracolici has three more years on his lease at the Ohio Valley Mall, and what happens after that will be a decision for his children. More Than Pie Fabio’s customers always enjoy the parade of pizza that rests under the shop’s front counter each day because there are the Sicilian and the Chicago style from which to choose. Cracolici’s menu, however, also features items he learned how to prepare from his family through the years, including the manicotti, spaghetti, rigatoni, stuffed shells, and several different hoagies and salads. “Pretty much everything we make is fresh,” Cracolici said. “We have our own spices, our own recipes, and all of the recipes are in my head, and that’s where they are going to stay. My kids know some of them, and if they ask, I will tell them, but it’s always about practice, practice, practice. Cracolici is very hands on at Fabio's as he assists his staff with everything from working the ovens to waiting on customers. “I get told that I should write everything down, but to me, it’s not the same,” he said. “When my mom cooked, it was a little bit of this, a little bit of this, and a little bit of this. That’s because if it’s in your head, it’s in your heart.” Cracolici is now 64 years old, and Fabio’s has three years remaining on its lease with the Cafaro Co. Whether or not Fabio’s Pizza renews the agreement is a decision that will be up to his children, and Cracolici did not rule out a move to the city of Wheeling. “We are thinking about making a change when our lease is up here,” he revealed. “My kids work here, so when the lease is up, that decision will be up to them. I love it here, and I love my customers, but at that time it’s their decision. “No matter what they decide, I will help them here or at a new place in Wheeling,” Cracolici said. “I am looking forward to cutting down a little. Just a little … not much. I get asked every day when I am going to retire, and I ask back, ‘And do what?’ I love what I do, the people I work with, and the people who come here for our food.” Read the full article

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an-puca · 5 years ago

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gordonwilliamsweb · 3 years ago

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Long Drives, Air Travel, Exhausting Waits: What Abortion Requires in the South

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Just a quick walk through the parking lot of Choices-Memphis Center for Reproductive Health in this legendary music mecca speaks volumes about access to abortion in the American South. Parked alongside the polished SUVs and weathered sedans with Tennessee license plates are cars from Mississippi, Arkansas, Florida and, on many days, Alabama, Georgia and Texas.

Choices is one of two abortion clinics in the Memphis metro area, with a population of 1.3 million. While that might seem a surprisingly limited number of options for women seeking a commonplace medical procedure, it represents a wealth of access compared with Mississippi, which has one abortion clinic for the entire state of 3 million people.

A tsunami of restrictive abortion regulations enacted by Republican-led legislatures and governors across the South have sent women who want or need an early end to a pregnancy fleeing in all directions, making long drives or plane trips across state lines to find safe, professional services. For many women, that also requires taking time off work, arranging child care and finding transportation and lodging, sharply increasing the anxiety, expense and logistical complications of what is often a profoundly difficult moment in a woman’s life.

“Especially for women coming from long distances, child care is the biggest thing,” said Sue Burbano, a patient educator and financial assistance coordinator at Choices. “They’re coming all the way from Oxford, Mississippi, or Jackson. This is a three-day ordeal. I can just see how exhausted they are.”

The long drives and wait times could soon spread to other states, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares this fall to consider a Mississippi ban on nearly all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with no allowances for cases of rape or incest. Under a law enacted in 2018 by the Republican-led legislature, a woman could obtain a legal abortion only if the pregnancy threatens her life or would cause an “irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.”

Mississippi’s ban was promptly challenged by abortion rights activists and put on hold as a series of lower courts have deemed it unconstitutional under the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision. That 1973 ruling, in concert with subsequent federal case law, forbids states from banning abortions before “fetal viability,” the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb, or about 24 weeks into pregnancy.

Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi and several other states have since passed laws that would ban abortions after six weeks. That legislation is also on hold pending legal review.

Groups opposed to abortion rights have cheered the court’s decision to hear the Mississippi case, believing the addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett gives the court’s conservative bloc enough votes to overturn Roe, or at least vastly expand the authority of individual states to restrict abortion.

But, for supporters of reproductive rights, anything but a firm rejection of the Mississippi ban raises the specter of an even larger expanse of abortion service deserts. Abortion could quickly become illegal in 21 states — including nearly the entire South, the Dakotas and other stretches of the Midwest — should the court rescind the principle that a woman’s right to privacy protects pregnancy decisions.

“If we end up with any kind of decision that goes back to being a states’ rights issue, the entire South is in a very bad way,” said Jennifer Pepper, executive director of Choices in Memphis.

The decades-long strategy by conservative white evangelical Christians to chip away at abortion access state by state has flourished in the South, where hard-right Republicans hold a decisive advantage in state legislatures and nearly all executive chambers.

Though details vary by state, the rules governing abortion providers tend to hit similar notes. Among them are requirements that women seeking abortions, even via an abortion pill, submit to invasive vaginal ultrasounds; mandatory waiting periods of 48 hours between the initial consultation with a provider and the abortion; and complex rules for licensing physicians and technicians and disposing of fetal remains. Some states insist that abortion providers require women to listen to a fetal heartbeat; other providers have been unable to obtain admitting privileges at local hospitals.

“Everything is hard down here,” said Pepper.

The rules also have made some doctors reluctant to perform the procedure. While obstetricians and gynecologists in California, New York, Illinois and elsewhere routinely perform abortions at their medical offices — the same practices where they care for women through pregnancy and delivery — their peers in many Southern states who perform more than a small number of abortions a year must register their practices as abortion clinics. None has done so.

Texas offers an example of how targeted legislation can disrupt a patient’s search for medical care. In 2012, 762 Texans went out of state for abortions, according to researchers at the University of Texas-Austin. Two years later, after then-Gov. Rick Perry signed into law the nation’s most restrictive abortion bill, shuttering about half the state’s abortion facilities, 1,673 women left Texas to seek services. In 2016, 1,800 did so.

Similarly, in March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic took hold, Gov. Greg Abbott issued an order prohibiting all abortions unless the woman’s life was in danger, deeming the procedure “not medically necessary.” The month before the order, about 150 Texans went out of state to seek abortion services. In March and April, with the order in effect, nearly 950 women sought care outside Texas.

There can also be an unsettling stigma in some parts of the South.

Vikki Brown, 33, who works in education in New Orleans, said she initially tried to end her pregnancy in Louisiana, calling her gynecologist for advice, and was told by a receptionist that she was “disgusted” by the request.

She sought out the lone abortion clinic operating in New Orleans but found it besieged with both protesters and patients. “I knew but didn’t understand how difficult it was to get care,” said Brown, who moved to Louisiana in 2010 from New York City. “The clinic was absolutely full. People were sitting on the floor. It was swamped.” It took her six hours to get an ultrasound, which cost $150, she said.

A friend in Washington, D.C., counseled Brown that “it didn’t have to be like that” and the pair researched clinics in the nation’s capital. She flew to Washington, where she was able to get an abortion the same day and for less than it would have cost her in New Orleans, even including airfare.

“No protesters, no waiting period,” she said. “It was a wildly different experience.”

Atlanta, a Southern transportation hub, has also become a key piece in the frayed quilt of abortion care in the region.

Kwajelyn Jackson, executive director of Feminist Women’s Health Center in Atlanta, said the clinic regularly sees patients from other states, including Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and the Carolinas.

These visits often involve long drives or flights, but rarely overnight stays because the state-mandated 24-hour waiting period can begin with a phone consultation rather than an in-person visit. Georgia has many of the same laws other states employ to make clinical operations more burdensome — requirements to cremate fetal remains, for instance, and that abortion providers adhere to the onerous building standards set for outpatient surgical centers — but its urban clinics so far have weathered the strategies.

Jackson said staffers at her clinic are aware of its role as a refuge. “We’ve had patients who were able to get a ride from Alabama, but they weren’t able to get a ride home,” she said. “We had to help them find a ride home. It is so much simpler to go 3 or 4 miles from your home and sleep in your bed at night. That is a luxury that so many of our patients can’t enjoy.”

Many women embarking on a search for a safe abortion are also confronting serious expenses. State Medicaid programs in the South do not pay for abortions, and many private insurers refuse to cover the procedure. In addition, the longer a woman’s abortion is delayed, the more expensive the procedure becomes.

Becca Turchanik, a 32-year-old account manager for a robotics company in Nashville, Tennessee, drove four hours to Atlanta for her abortion in 2019. “We got an appointment in Georgia because that was the only place that had appointments,” she said.

Turchanik said her employer’s health insurance would not cover abortion, and the cost of gas, food, medications and the procedure itself totaled $1,100. Her solution? Take on debt. “I took out a Speedy Cash loan,” she said.

Turchanik had a contraceptive implant when she learned she was six weeks pregnant. She said she was in an unhealthy relationship with a man she discovered to be dishonest, and she decided to end her pregnancy.

“I wish I had a child, but I’m glad it wasn’t his child,” she said. “I have accomplished so much since my abortion. I’m going to make my life better.”

But the emotions of the ordeal have stayed with her. She’s angry that she had to call around from state to state in a panic, and that she was unable to have her abortion close to home, with friends to comfort her.

Others turn to nonprofit groups for financial and logistical support for bus and plane tickets, hotels, child care and medical bills, including the National Abortion Federation, which operates a hotline to help women find providers. Last year, the federation received 100,000 calls from women seeking information, said its president, the Very Rev. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale.

Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, an abortion fund based in Atlanta, has trained over 130 volunteers who pick women up at bus stations, host them at their homes and provide child care. A study published this year in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health examined 10,000 cases of women seeking assistance from ARC-Southeast: 81% were Black, 77% were uninsured or publicly insured, 77% had at least one child, and 58% identified as Christian.

“It’s amazing to see the scope of the people we work with,” said Oriaku Njoku, ARC-Southeast’s co-founder. “The post-Roe reality that y’all are afraid of is the lived reality for folks today in the South.”

A Texas law targets precisely this kind of help, allowing such organizations or individuals to be sued by anyone in the state for helping a woman get an abortion. It could go into effect Sept. 1, though abortion rights advocates are suing to stop the new law.

Despite the controversy surrounding abortion, Choices makes no effort to hide its mission. The modern lime-green building announces itself to its Memphis neighborhood, and the waiting room is artfully decorated, offering services beyond abortion, including delivery of babies and midwifery.

Like other clinics in the South, Choices has to abide by state laws that many abortion supporters find onerous and intrusive, including performing transvaginal ultrasounds and showing the women seeking abortions images from those ultrasounds.

Nonetheless, the clinic is booked full most days with patients from almost all of the eight states that touch Tennessee, a slender handsaw-shaped state that stretches across much of the Deep South. And Katy Deaton, a nurse at the facility, said few women change their minds.

“They’ve put a lot of thought into this hard decision already,” she said. “I don’t think it changes the fact that they’re getting an abortion. But it definitely makes their life harder.”

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Long Drives, Air Travel, Exhausting Waits: What Abortion Requires in the South

Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi and several other states have since passed laws that would ban abortions after six weeks. That legislation is also on hold pending legal review.

“If we end up with any kind of decision that goes back to being a states’ rights issue, the entire South is in a very bad way,” said Jennifer Pepper, executive director of Choices in Memphis.

“Everything is hard down here,” said Pepper.

There can also be an unsettling stigma in some parts of the South.

“No protesters, no waiting period,” she said. “It was a wildly different experience.”

Atlanta, a Southern transportation hub, has also become a key piece in the frayed quilt of abortion care in the region.

“I wish I had a child, but I’m glad it wasn’t his child,” she said. “I have accomplished so much since my abortion. I’m going to make my life better.”

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Forget Back Stage Passes or V.I.P. Bracelets. Vaccination Cards Are the New Ticket. At Fort Bragg, soldiers who have gotten their coronavirus vaccines can go to a gym where no masks are required, with no limits on who can work out together. Treadmills are on and zipping, unlike those in 13 other gyms where unvaccinated troops can’t use the machines, everyone must mask up and restrictions remain on how many can bench-press at one time. Inside Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles, where lines not long ago snaked for miles with people seeking coronavirus vaccines, a special seating area allows those who are fully inoculated to enjoy games side by side with other fans. When Bill Dugan reopens Madam’s Organ, his legendary blues bar in Washington, D.C., people will not be allowed in to work, drink or play music unless they can prove they have had their shots. “I have a saxophone player who is among the best in the world. He was in the other day, and I said, ‘Walter, take a good look around because you’re not walking in here again unless you get vaccinated.’” Evite and Paperless Post are seeing a big increase in hosts requesting that their guests be vaccinated. As the United States nudges against the soft ceiling of those who will willingly take the vaccine, governments, businesses and schools have been extending carrots — actually doughnuts, beers and cheesecake — to prod laggards along. Some have even offered cold hard cash: In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine this week went so far as to say that the state would give five vaccinated people $1 million each as part of a weekly lottery program. On Thursday, federal health officials offered the ultimate incentive for many when they advised that fully vaccinated Americans may stop wearing masks. Now, private employers, restaurants and entertainment venues are looking for ways to make those who are vaccinated feel like V.I.P.s, both to protect workers and guests, and to possibly entice those not yet on board. Come summer, the nation may become increasingly bifurcated between those who are permitted to watch sports, take classes, get their hair cut and eat barbecue with others, and those who are left behind the spike protein curtain. Access and privilege among the vaccinated may rule for the near future, in public and private spaces. “The bottom line is this interesting question of the conception of our society,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, a former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the architect of a smoking ban and a tuberculosis control program in New York City, both of which included forms of mandates. “Are we in some important way connected or not?” A vaccine requirement to attend school or participate in the military is not a novel concept. But because the three Covid vaccines offered in the United States have yet to receive full approvals by the Food and Drug Administration, the military has declined to insist on inoculation. For their part, public school districts cannot consider mandates until the vaccines are available to most children. The F.D.A. just granted emergency use authorization to Pfizer this week for children ages 12 to 16. But even without a mandate, a nudge can feel like a shove. The military has been strongly encouraging vaccines among the troops. Acceptance has been low in some branches, like the Marines, with only 40 percent having gotten one or more shots. At Fort Bragg, one of the largest military installations in the country and among the first to offer the vaccine, just under 70 percent have been jabbed. A podcast designed to knock down misinformation — a common misbelief is that the vaccines affect fertility — plays around the base. In addition to their freedom gym, vaccinated soldiers may now eat in groups as they please, while the unvaccinated look on as they grab their grub and go. With soldiers, experts “talk up to decliners versus talk down,” said Col. Joseph Buccino, a spokesman at Fort Bragg. Still, holdouts pose obstacles. For a recent mission to Europe, a handful of unvaccinated troops had to be replaced with those who had gotten shots, because of quarantine rules in countries there. “What we need to do is restore readiness,” Col. Buccino said. Updated May 13, 2021, 9:25 p.m. ET Segregating the unvaccinated and limiting access to gyms and dining areas were not measures aimed specifically at getting soldiers vaccinated, he said, “but there is an enticement.” The private sector, sometimes with the encouragement of government, is also trying to make life a bit nicer for the vaccinated, emphasizing the privileges — rather than perceived infringements on freedom — bestowed by the protection of the vaccines. It’s baseball season, and fans have clamored to get back to normal, to a place where the wave used to mean something other than the next surge of the coronavirus. Major League Baseball is heavily promoting inoculations, and stadiums have become a new line of demarcation, where vaccinated sections are highlighted as perks akin to V.I.P. skyboxes. In Washington, Gov. Jay Inslee recently announced that sporting venues and churches would be able to increase their capacity by adding sections for the vaccinated. Some businesses — like gyms and restaurants — where the coronavirus was known to spread easily are also embracing a reward system. Even though many gyms have reopened around the country, some still haven’t allowed large classes to resume. Others are inclined to follow the lead of gyms like Solid Core in Washington, D.C., which seeks proof of inoculation to enroll in classes listed as “Vaccine Required: Full Body.” “Our teams are now actively evaluating where else we think there will be client demand and will be potentially introducing it to other markets in the weeks ahead,” said Bryan Myers, president of the national gym chain, in an email. The Bayou, a restaurant in Salt Lake City, will open its doors only to those who have had their shots, according to Mark Alston, one of the owners. “It was entirely driven by the fact that I work at the Bayou seven days a week,” he said. “I do not work from a comfy office and send staff off to work in unsafe conditions, but work there alongside them.” The “vaxxed-only” policy has flooded his voice mail with rancorous messages. “One in particular accuses us of running some kind of pedophile beer cult,” he said. “It’s a bit unhinged.” Even private citizens are deploying the practice in their homes. A spokesperson for Evite said 548,420 guests had received online invitations to events mentioning “fully vaccinated” or using other vaccinated-related terms since March 1, 2021, and invitations with the exact term “fully vaccinated” had been sent to 103,507 people. A similar company, Paperless Post, has created specific invitation designs with the inoculated in mind, vaccinated only please RSVP. Not everyone endorses this type of exclusion as good public policy. “I worry about the operational feasibility,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. “In the U.S., we don’t yet have a standard way to prove vaccination status. I hope we’ll see by fall such low levels of infection in the U.S. that our level of concern about the virus will be very low.” But few dispute that it is legal. “Having dedicated spaces at events reserved for vaccinated people is both lawful and ethical,” said Lawrence O. Gostin, an expert in health law at Georgetown Law School. “Businesses have a major economic incentive to create safer environments for their customers, who would otherwise be reluctant to attend crowded events. Government recommendations about vaccinated-only sections will encourage businesses and can help us back to more normal.” Large employers with a few notable exceptions have been reluctant so far to impose vaccine mandates for workers, especially in a tight labor market. “Our association came out in favor of masks,” said Emily Williams Knight, president of the Texas Restaurant Association. “We probably will not be taking a position on mandates, which are incredibly divisive.” But some companies are moving that way. Norwegian Cruise Line is threatening to keep its ships out of Florida ports if the state stands by a law prohibiting businesses from requiring vaccines in exchange for services. Public health mandates — from smoking bans to seatbelt laws to containing tuberculosis outbreaks by requiring TB patients to take their medicines while observed — have a long history in the United States. “They fall into a cluster of things in which someone is essentially making the argument that what I do is only my business,” said Dr. Frieden, who is now chief executive of Resolve to Save Lives, a program designed to prevent epidemics and cardiovascular disease. “A lot of times that’s true, unless what you do might kill someone else.” Dr. Frieden was the main official who pushed for a smoking ban in bars and restaurants in 2003 when he was the New York City health commissioner under former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Other senior aides at the time felt certain the ban would cost Mr. Bloomberg a second term. “When I was fighting for that, a City Council member who was against the ban said of bars, ‘That is my place of entertainment.’ And I said, ‘Well, that’s someone’s place of employment.’ It did have impact.” Mr. Dugan, the bar owner in Washington, said protecting his workers and patrons are of a piece. “As we hit a plateau with vaccines, I don’t think we can sit and wait for all the nonbelievers,” he said. “If we are going to convince them, it’s going to be through them not being able to do the things that vaccinated people are able to do.” Source link Orbem News #bracelets #cards #Forget #passes #Stage #ticket #Vaccination #VIP

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Maskless Nancy Pelosi Goes to San Francisco Hair Salon Despite Coronavirus Restrictions

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visited a San Francisco hair salon for a wash and blowout despite local coronavirus restrictions — a move the salon owner called a “slap in the face.”

Fox News obtained security footage showing the maskless Speaker walking through San Francisco’s eSalon on Monday, August 31. Salons throughout the city have been shut down for months but were permitted to offer outdoor services, beginning Tuesday, September 1.

The salon owner Erica Kious told Fox News that she learned of the Speaker’s visit after one of the stylists, who rents a chair from the salon, informed her of the Speaker’s appointment the day prior. Kious described Pelosi’s action as a “slap in the face.”

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“I was like, are you kidding me right now? Do I let this happen? What do I do?” Kious told Fox News, while noting that she “can’t control” what her stylists do if they rent chairs from her, as “they’re not paying” at this time.

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“It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work,” Kious told Fox News, adding that she “can’t believe” the Speaker didn’t have a mask on. (From the footage, it appears Pelosi had some kind of covering around her neck.)

Pelosi reportedly got a wash and blowout, the latter of which Kious noted is a no-go, according to coronavirus safety guidelines for hair salons. A directive from the city’s department of health states that salons and barbershops should “consider temporarily eliminating services that require lengthy blow-drying” — one of the primary services Pelosi reportedly enjoyed.

Kious, a single mom, stated that she has been “fighting for six months for a business that took me 12 years to build to reopen.” She originally planned to reopen the salon in July, taking the necessary safety precautions to adhere to local and statewide restrictions. However, she said, “they never let us open.”

“The fact that they did this, and she came in, it’s like a slap in the face,” she said of Pelosi’s self-care escapade.

“This is for everybody,” she told Fox News. “I am sharing this because of what everyone in my industry, and my city, what every small business is going through right now.”

Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill did not deny the Speaker’s presence at the salon, telling Fox News, “The Speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID requirements.”

However, Pelosi was reportedly not wearing a proper face-covering, per the security footage, and she was inside the salon — another violation. Certain personal care services are permitted only to offer outdoor services beginning September 1.

Last week’s press release detailing the update for personal care services in the city

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Mayor London N. Breed and Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of Public Health, today announced that outdoor personal services will resume in San Francisco, effective Tuesday, September 1, 2020. Outdoor gyms and fitness centers can reopen starting September 9, 2020. Additionally, the Mayor and Dr. Colfax announced that once San Francisco is removed from the State’s watch list, the City’s top priorities for reopening will be the gradual opening of classrooms, services that support the development of children, and other activities that can occur outdoors.

Outdoor personal services that can operate include haircuts, barber services, massages and nail services. Only those services where both clients and providers can be masked at all times are allowed to resume. The City has posted information and guidance in multiple languages for businesses and is conducting outreach to personal services businesses to ensure they have access to the guidance and are able to prepare accordingly.

Pelosi told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in June that a nationwide mask mandate was “definitely long overdue” and chastised the president for not wearing one himself.

“The president should be an example. Real men wear masks. Be an example to the country and wear the mask. It’s not about protecting yourself; it’s about protecting others,” she said.

On Monday, the same day she ventured to the salon, the Speaker criticized President Trump for giving an in-person speech at the White House on the final night of the Republican National Convention, concluding that he “doesn’t care less about the spread of this virus” by “bringing all those people there, no mask, no distancing, and the rest.”

She added that he “slapped science right in the face” and set a bad example.

Pelosi is far from the only politician to act in ways contrary to her own rhetoric. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), a prominent pro-mask advocate, was spotted in public yet again without a face covering in a photo that has gone viral on social media in recent days:

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OPINION: ‘Nasty’ Nancy Pelosi got caught! A democrat at her worst. They want people to do as they say but not as they do! The Democrats are hypocrites!

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White Home coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci informed Congress Tuesday that some components of the U.S. are seeing a “disturbing surge” of infections and he is involved concerning the elevated neighborhood unfold. High officers from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, the Meals and Drug Administration and the Division of Well being and Human Providers are discussing what every company has accomplished in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

That is CNBC’s reside weblog overlaying all the newest information on the coronavirus outbreak. This weblog will likely be up to date all through the day because the information breaks.

International circumstances: Greater than 9.11 million

International deaths: At the very least 472,541

U.S. circumstances: Greater than 2.31 million

U.S. deaths: At the very least 120,402

The information above was compiled by Johns Hopkins College.

Some faculties chopping educational packages as faculties take monetary hit from Covid-19 closures

12:24 p.m. ET — As faculties and universities throughout the nation face excessive monetary misery, some establishments are chopping the tutorial packages that have been as soon as central to a well-rounded training.

In early June, the College of Alaska system introduced it is going to reduce 39 academic departments in all, together with diploma packages in sociology, inventive writing, chemistry and environmental science.

With a purpose to keep afloat going ahead, extra faculties could should shift their priorities away from the worth of a liberal arts training and give attention to levels which have a direct return on funding, in keeping with Robert Franek, editor in chief of The Princeton Assessment. —Jessica Dickler

As Trump blames rising circumstances on testing, knowledge suggests the virus is spreading

Dr. Vincent Carrao attracts blood from a affected person for the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) check at Palisades Oral Surgical procedure, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S., June 15, 2020. Image taken June 15, 2020.

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11:54 a.m. ET — President Donald Trump has continued responsible rising coronavirus circumstances on elevated testing regardless of mounting proof that the virus is spreading quickly all through some communities.

“Instances are going up within the U.S. as a result of we’re testing excess of every other nation, and ever increasing,” Trump tweeted early Tuesday. “With smaller testing we might present fewer circumstances!”

Citing an increase in lots of states that the % of whole exams coming again optimistic is on the rise, public well being specialists and a few politicians have pushed again, saying that infections, not simply confirmed circumstances, are accelerating.

“Even with the testing growing or being flat, the variety of folks testing optimistic is accelerating quicker than that,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, informed reporters final week. ” that is proof that there is transmission inside these communities.” —Will Feuer

Higher care and youthful sufferers might decrease the mortality charge, Dr. Scott Gottlieb says

11:26 a.m. ET — Because the coronavirus seems to contaminate principally youthful folks in not less than some states and medical doctors be taught to supply higher take care of Covid-19 sufferers, the mortality charge of the illness will seemingly drop within the weeks forward, former Meals and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb informed CNBC.

Younger and in any other case wholesome individuals are much less prone to die of Covid-19, in keeping with knowledge compiled by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Nevertheless, younger folks can nonetheless develop extreme illness in addition to die of the illness and scientists are nonetheless researching the long-term well being results of an an infection.

“Because the hospitals refill with Covid sufferers, we’ll see how a lot the mortality charge declines as a operate of it is a youthful cohort, youthful age cohort, but additionally we’ve higher therapy,” Gottlieb stated on CNBC’s “Squawk Field.” “There is no query that we’ll protect extra life now that we’ve these therapeutic alternatives accessible to us.” —Will Feuer

Delta CEO requires a authorities mask-wearing mandate

10:01 a.m. ET — Main U.S. airways now require passengers to put on masks on board in an effort to curb the unfold of Covid-19, however implementing it’s tough with no authorities mandate, Delta Air Strains’ CEO Ed Bastian stated. Proper now, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention recommends facial coverings like masks in locations the place it’s tough to socially distance, reminiscent of on airplanes.

“Should you take your masks off, no … we won’t forcibly take away you from the airplane,” Bastian informed Axios in an interview that aired Monday evening. “If the federal government have been to mandate it I believe that will assist. If the federal government mandated it then you’ll be able to implement it.”

The federal government has “left it to the airways to make these selections.” Final week, American Airways stated it’s quickly banning a passenger who refused to put on a masks, saying he can return when these face coverings are not required on flights. —Leslie Josephs

Tennis participant Novak Djokovic exams optimistic after organizing exhibition sequence

A file photograph dated June 5, 2016 reveals Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns to Andy Murray of United Kingdom in the course of the males’s single last match on the French Open tennis event at Roland Garros Stadium in Paris, France on June 05, 2016.

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9:57 a.m. ET — High-ranked Serbian tennis participant Novak Djokovic examined optimistic for the coronavirus after enjoying in a tennis exhibition sequence he organized, the Related Press reported.

Djokovic grew to become the fourth participant to check optimistic following matches in Belgrade and Zadar, Croatia. Each Djokovic and his spouse have examined optimistic.

There was no social distancing measures carried out on the matches as gamers have been seen hugging one another, per the AP report. Djokovic has been criticized for internet hosting the exhibition amid well being considerations with the pandemic.

Organizers of the Adria Tour confirmed to AP that the third stage of the sequence, initially deliberate subsequent for subsequent week in Bosnia, has been canceled. —Alex Harring

Shares open solidly greater following temporary China-U.S. commerce deal scare in a single day

9:38 a.m. ET — Inventory futures recovered from earlier losses to commerce greater on the open after White Home commerce advisor Peter Navarro clarified his remarks that urged the U.S.-China commerce deal is over.

Navarro shortly walked again his remarks. “My feedback have been taken wildly out of context,” he stated in a press release. “They’d nothing in any respect to do with the Part I commerce deal, which continues in place.”

Dow Jones Industrial Common futures have been up about 230 factors firstly of buying and selling. S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures additionally traded greater.

Shares prolonged Monday’s positive aspects, regardless of unease surrounding the rising variety of Covid-19 “sizzling spots” throughout the nation. —Terri Cullen

College of Michigan pulls out of internet hosting presidential debate, citing well being considerations

9:30 a.m. ET — The College of Michigan stated it will likely be pulling out of its settlement with the Fee on Presidential Debates to host a normal election presidential debate on its campus within the fall.

The talk will nonetheless happen on Oct. 15, however will as an alternative be held in Miami on the Adrienne Arsht Heart for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, in keeping with a press release by the fee.

The College of Michigan’s determination to again out was rooted in considerations over the general public well being dangers of bringing candidates, campaigns and the media to campus in the course of the pandemic, the Detroit Free Press reported Monday, citing sources with direct information of the matter.

College President Mark Schlissel wrote in a letter to the committee that internet hosting the controversy is not possible, given the general public well being and issues of safety which accompany bringing so many guests to the Ann Arbor, Mich. campus. —Alex Harring

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Sanofi CEO says the corporate might contribute two profitable coronavirus vaccines

8:56 a.m. ET — Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson informed CNBC each of the French drugmaker’s vaccine pursuits could possibly be profitable in stopping Covid-19.

“The world wants billions of doses. We need to be sure each nation, all people that wants that safety, can get it,” Hudson stated on “Squawk Field.” “We predict we’ll positively play an element with one, and possibly even each of our vaccines.”

Hudson’s feedback come after Sanofi introduced a possible $2 billion take care of U.S. biotech agency Translate Bio to develop a Covid-19 vaccine. Sanofi has already entered a vaccine partnership with GlaxoSmithKline, a British pharmaceutical firm.

Hudson touted Translate Bio’s expertise engaged on therapeutics utilizing mRNA expertise, which tells human cells to supply specified proteins so as to produce an immune response to a selected illness. The vaccine candidate from Sanofi and Translate Bio could possibly be prepared “later in 2021,” Hudson stated.

“One of many explanation why we went deeper into this collaboration was as a result of they have been on mRNA for 10 years. They know the way it make it scaled, which has by no means been accomplished earlier than with every other firm. As soon as we have cracked it, which we predict we are going to, we’ll be capable to get to giant volumes in a short time,” he stated. —Kevin Stankiewicz

England pubs, eating places and motels to reopen on July 4

Persons are seen shopping for takeaway pints at a pub on Wandsworth Frequent on Might 28 2020 in London, England.

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8:05 a.m. ET — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson introduced England’s pubs, eating places and motels will likely be permitted to reopen on July Four as a part of the nation’s subsequent section of a resumption of enterprise, in keeping with a Reuters report.

“All hospitality indoors will likely be restricted to desk service and our steerage will encourage minimal workers and buyer contact,” he stated in parliament, in keeping with Reuters. “We are going to ask companies to assist NHS Take a look at and Hint reply to any native outbreaks by amassing contact particulars from clients.” —Sara Salinas

German district goes again into lockdown after outbreak at meat processing plant

A person speaks to overseas labourers inside an space secured by native police forces inside an condominium advanced utilized by the Toennies meat firm to deal with labourers from japanese Europe in the course of the coronavirus pandemic on June 20, 2020 in Verl close to Guetersloh, Germany.

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7:13 a.m. ET — A district in Germany that has seen an acute outbreak of coronavirus circumstances at a meat-processing plant is being put again into lockdown, the premier of North Rhine-Westfalia stated.

State premier Armin Laschet stated he was placing the district of Guetersloh, residence to round 360,000 folks, again underneath lockdown till June 30. The transfer comes after not less than 1,000 employees at a meat processing plant within the space contracted Covid-19.

Germany has been lauded all through the coronavirus disaster in Europe as a rustic that had seemingly managed to manage the virus’ unfold, largely by way of an organized and early contact tracing system. Now, nevertheless, the nation has seen a resurgence of circumstances attributable to a number of localized outbreaks in numerous components of the nation.

In addition to the outbreak in Guetersloh, a big Covid-19 outbreak within the district of Goettingen in Decrease Saxony was traced to household gatherings and one other, in Magdeburg within the state of Saxony-Anhalt, emerged in a number of faculties that at the moment are closed. In Berlin, an outbreak of 85 circumstances has been linked to members of a non secular neighborhood. —Holly Ellyatt

AstraZeneca’s potential vaccine reveals promise in pigs with two photographs

AstraZeneca’s constructing in Luton, Britain.

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7:03 a.m. ET — AstraZeneca’s potential coronavirus vaccine confirmed some promise in a trial of pigs, which discovered that two doses of the shot produced extra antibodies than one dose.

The analysis, which was printed by The Pirbright Institute, suggests that a two-shot method of the Oxford College-developed vaccine candidate may be only in stopping Covid-19 an infection.

“The researchers noticed a marked enhance in neutralizing antibodies, which bind to the virus in a approach that blocks an infection,” the Pirbright group stated in a press release. Nevertheless, the potential vaccine nonetheless should show it is protected and efficient in people as effectively.

The potential vaccine, also called AZD1222, is being developed in partnership between researchers at Oxford College and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca. The candidate is already in human trials and the corporate beforehand stated it hopes to have knowledge on whether or not it is efficient in stopping Covid-19 later this yr. —Will Feuer

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