Boeing sold 82 aircraft in February and logged 51 cancellations, marking the first time since November 2019 that monthly sales outpaced scrapped orders.
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to weigh on sales of new planes as airlines largely try to conserve cash wherever they can. Some carriers, however, are starting to prepare for a recovery in travel demand by buying new planes.
Boeing’s February sales included 25 Boeing 737 Max planes to United Airlines and 27 KC-46 tankers. The Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer posted 51 cancellations, including 32 Max planes. Singapore Airlines replaced an order for 19 787-10 Dreamliners with one for 11 777X jets, Boeing’s long-delayed new plane. The company expects that twin-aisle, long-range jet to enter commercial service in late 2023.
Boeing’s backlog now stands at 4,041 planes.
Boeing delivered 22 aircraft last month, including 18 737 Max planes. The Federal Aviation Administration in November cleared the jets to fly again after a 20-month grounding that followed two deadly crashes. Most other aviation regulators have followed suit, allowing Boeing to resume deliveries of the more than 3,000 Max planes it has had on backorder.
‘Victory is in sight’: Gov. DeWine lays out plans to remove all health orders across Ohio
Updated: 6:16 PM EST Mar 4, 2021
Saying the end is in sight, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has laid out plans to drop all health orders across the state.When Ohio gets down to 50 cases per 100,000 people for two weeks, all health orders will be revoked, the governor said.On Thursday, that figure is at 179 cases per 100,000. In December, the figure was at 731, so already the state has seen drastic improvements. But the state still has a ways to go before health orders will be dropped.Cases per 100,000 people for a two-week period is a standard measure the state has used since early in the pandemic.”The end of our fight is now in view, but we must continue pressing forward in these final days,” the governor said. “We must not relent.”The governor has slowly rolled back coronavirus restrictions in recent months, dropping the state’s overnight curfew, revoking stay-at-home orders and reopening restaurants, bars and gyms.But the work is far from over, the governor warned.”Our path back is by each of us getting vaccinated when we can, and by each of us wearing masks in public,” DeWine said. “While no one will be forced to take the vaccine, the more of us who are vaccinated, the more complete our victory, and the more confidently we can put this behind us.”As of Thursday, Ohio have vaccinated more than 1.8 million people across the state. There are more than 1,200 vaccination locations, but only select groups are eligible.“The vaccine is the most efficient, effective, and powerful weapon,” DeWine said. “Our vaccination plan has been to prioritize Ohioans most likely to die if they get the virus: older Ohioans, those with severe developmental disabilities, and those with serious, life-threatening medical condition.”WLWT will update this story.
COLUMBUS, Ohio —
Saying the end is in sight, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has laid out plans to drop all health orders across the state.
When Ohio gets down to 50 cases per 100,000 people for two weeks, all health orders will be revoked, the governor said.
On Thursday, that figure is at 179 cases per 100,000. In December, the figure was at 731, so already the state has seen drastic improvements.
But the state still has a ways to go before health orders will be dropped.
Cases per 100,000 people for a two-week period is a standard measure the state has used since early in the pandemic.
“The end of our fight is now in view, but we must continue pressing forward in these final days,” the governor said. “We must not relent.”
The governor has slowly rolled back coronavirus restrictions in recent months, dropping the state’s overnight curfew, revoking stay-at-home orders and reopening restaurants, bars and gyms.
But the work is far from over, the governor warned.
“Our path back is by each of us getting vaccinated when we can, and by each of us wearing masks in public,” DeWine said. “While no one will be forced to take the vaccine, the more of us who are vaccinated, the more complete our victory, and the more confidently we can put this behind us.”
As of Thursday, Ohio have vaccinated more than 1.8 million people across the state. There are more than 1,200 vaccination locations, but only select groups are eligible.
“The vaccine is the most efficient, effective, and powerful weapon,” DeWine said. “Our vaccination plan has been to prioritize Ohioans most likely to die if they get the virus: older Ohioans, those with severe developmental disabilities, and those with serious, life-threatening medical condition.”
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered airstrikes on buildings in Syria that the Pentagon said were used by Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for rocket attacks on U.S. targets in neighboring Iraq.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby portrayed the bombing in eastern Syria as carefully calibrated, calling it “proportionate” and “defensive.”
The operation was the first known use of military force by the Biden administration, which has for weeks emphasized plans to focus more on challenges posed by China.
The president’s decision appeared aimed at sending a signal to Iran and its proxies in the region that Washington would not tolerate attacks on its personnel in Iraq, even at a sensitive diplomatic moment.
Three rocket attacks in one week in Iraq, including a deadly strike that hit a U.S.-led coalition base in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil, presented a test for Biden only weeks after assuming the presidency. The rocket assaults coincided with a diplomatic initiative launched by the administration to try to revive a 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers.
A worker cleans shattered glass outside a damaged shop following a rocket attack the previous night in Irbil on Feb. 16.Safin Hamed / AFP – Getty Images file
The airstrikes “were authorized in response to recent attacks against American and coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats to those personnel,” Kirby said in a statement.
The operation “destroyed multiple facilities located at a border control point used by a number of Iranian-backed militant groups,” including Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, he said.
Syrian and Iranian officials did not immediately react to the strikes.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday that 22 people were killed in the strikes. The London-based monitoring group did not provide any details about how it obtained that figure. Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB news, meanwhile, said 17 “resistance fighters” were killed in the strikes, but also didn’t provide detail about the source of that figure other than citing “reports.”
A senior U.S. defense official told NBC News on Thursday evening that the target was a transit hub near the Iraqi-Syrian border used by the militia fighters, and it was too early to say what casualties might have been inflicted on the militants.
“The operation sends an unambiguous message: President Biden will act to protect American and coalition personnel. At the same time, we have acted in a deliberate manner that aims to de-escalate the overall situation in both eastern Syria and Iraq,” he said.
Two U.S. aircraft were involved in the strikes that took place at about 6 p.m. EST on Thursday, or 2 a.m. Friday in Syria, the official said.
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters travelling with him that the administration had been “very deliberate about our approach.”
“We’re confident that target was being used by the same Shia militia that conducted the strikes,” Austin said, referring to the recent rocket attacks in Iraq on U.S. and coalition personnel.
The Pentagon had said previously that it was awaiting the results of an Iraqi investigation into the Irbil rocket attack.
“We allowed and encouraged the Iraqis to investigate and develop intelligence and that was very helpful to us in refining the target,” said Austin, who spoke en route to Washington after a visit to California and Colorado.
Biden had approved the operation on Thursday morning, he said.
A civilian contractor was killed in the Irbil rocket assault, and a U.S. service member and others were wounded. At least two 107mm rockets landed on the base, which also hosts Irbil’s civilian international airport.
NBC News had previously reported that Iranian-backed militias were most likely behind the Irbil rocket attack, and that the weapons and tactics resembled previous attacks by the Iranian-linked militias. However, it was unclear if Iran had encouraged or ordered the rocket attack.
An obscure group called Saraya Awliya al-Dam, or Custodians of the Blood, claimed responsibility for the Irbil attack. But former diplomats and regional analysts said the group was merely a front organization created by the main Shiite militias in Iraq.
Following the rocket attack on the Irbil base, Iraq’s Balad air base came under rocket fire days later, where a U.S. defense firm services the country’s fighter jets, and then two rockets landed near the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad.
Iran has rejected any connection to the rocket attacks.
In a phone call Tuesday between Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, the two leaders agreed that “that those responsible for such attacks must be held fully to account,” according to a White House readout of the conversation.
Dennis Ross, a former senior U.S. diplomat who worked on Middle East policy under several presidents, said the administration had lowered the risk of causing friction with the Iraqi government by hitting targets in Syria.
“By striking facilities used by the militias just across the border in Syria, the risk of blowback against the Iraqi gov is reduced,” Ross tweeted.
Dan De Luce and Mosheh Gains reported from Washington; Ali Arouzi reported from London; Amin Hossein Khodadadi reported from Tehran; and Charlene Gubash reported from Cairo.
The Associated Press contributed.
Dan De Luce is a reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
Mosheh Gains is a Pentagon producer for NBC News.
Ali Arouzi, Amin Hossein Khodadadi and Charlene Gubash contributed.
A watchdog group has said that patients in the United Kingdom with learning disabilities who contracted the coronavirus were given unnecessary “do not resuscitate” orders.
Mencap, a watchdog group aimed at helping those with learning disabilities, has said they received multiple reports from coronavirus patients with learning disabilities who were told they would not be resuscitated if their health deteriorated, according to a report from The Guardian.
“Throughout the pandemic many people with a learning disability have faced shocking discrimination and obstacles to accessing healthcare, with inappropriate Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) notices put on their files and cuts made to their social care support,” Edel Harris, Mencap’s chief executive, told The Guardian.
The do not resuscitate orders might have cost lives during the pandemic last year, according to The Care Quality Commission, a health care regulator in the U.K., said.
According to the news source it is not immediately clear why these orders were placed on people with learning disabilities. Do not resuscitate orders are usually administered to people who cannot withstand CPR.
New evidence also suggests that people with learning disabilities are more likely to have severe negative health consequences from the virus, according to The Guardian.
The UK is under lockdown again as the country continues to combat the new, more infectious, UK variant of the coronavirus virus.
In the first five weeks of their most current lockdown, the National Health Service, the UK’s publicly funded healthcare system, has found that 65 percent of COVID-19 deaths have been linked to those with disabilities, the Guardian reported.
And despite evidence of disproportionate effects, there has been debate in the country over whether those with learning disabilities should be a priority to receive vaccinations.
“It’s unacceptable that within a group of people hit so hard by the pandemic, and who even before Covid died on average over 20 years younger than the general population, many are left feeling scared and wondering why they have been left out,” Harris said.
WARSAW — A Polish judge on Tuesday ordered two Holocaust scholars to issue a public apology for including “inaccurate information” in a two-volume academic study that delved into the role played by individual Poles in the murder of Jews during World War II.
The order came at the end of a closely watched libel trial brought by the niece of a wartime village mayor who, according to a Jewish survivor cited in a 2018 study coedited by the scholars, was complicit in the murder of 18 Jews who took shelter from the Nazis in a forest in eastern Poland.
But the judge, Ewa Jonczyk, rejected a demand for damages of $27,000 by the niece, Filomena Leszczynska, who was supported in her legal action by a partly state-funded organization dedicated to protecting the “good name of Poland and that of the Polish nation.”
Judge Jonczyk said she had ruled against awarding damages because court decisions “should not have a cooling effect on scientific research.” She also rejected a demand that the apology describe the wartime mayor of Malinowo village, Edward Malinowski, as a “Jew-saving hero.” The book had portrayed him as a thief and Nazi collaborator.
The libel case has caused alarm among Jewish groups and scholars around the world, who worry that Poland’s nationalist government, led since 2015 by the conservative Law and Justice party, wants to curb independent research into the Holocaust. The government has denied any involvement in the case.
Jan Grabowski, a Polish-Canadian history professor at the University of Ottawa and a defendant in the case, told Wyborcza Gazeta, Poland’s leading liberal newspaper, that “I find it hard to accept this particular ruling.” He said he would appeal.
The second defendant is Barbara Engelking, a historian with the Polish Center for Holocaust Research. “I don’t feel guilty,” she said after the verdict in a video statement.
Professor Engelking said the issues “we are supposed to apologize for have no basis in fact.” She said her account of the wartime mayor’s actions, which included both helping and betraying Jews, was based on the postwar testimony of a Jewish woman whom he had aided and also robbed.
“This case shows that in the history of the Holocaust, there are no black-and-white situations,” Professor Engelking said.
The two scholars edited “Night Without End,” a 1,700-page study of Polish behavior under Nazi occupation from 1939 to 1945. During that time, around three million Jews were killed on conquered Polish territory, mostly in Nazi death camps but also sometimes by their Polish neighbors.
The book infuriated nationalists by describing the complicity of individual Poles in the murder of Jews. That is something that patriotic versions of Poland’s history, which stress Polish suffering during World War II, have sought to avoid.
“The conclusion drawn from the numbers is grim: two out of every three Jews looking for rescue died — most often because of their Christian neighbors,” the scholars wrote in the introduction.
While declining to award damages, the judge’s order that the scholars publish an apology on the website of Ms. Engelking’s research center and send a written apology to Ms. Leszczynska, the wartime mayor’s niece, marked a victory for the Polish League Against Defamation, the driving force behind the case, and other nationalist outfits.
Maciej Swirski, the head of the League, welcomed the court’s decision, posting a message on Twitter that Ms. Leszczynska is “fighting for all of us so that we don’t have to bear the stigma ascribed to us by historians as perpetrators of the Holocaust.”
Jewish groups condemned the verdict.
“The history of the Holocaust requires independent scholarly research that must not be subject to inappropriate efforts at pressure by politicians and the courts,” said a statement by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a major sponsor of historical research on the Holocaust, and the World Jewish Restitution Organization.
A judge on Tuesday ordered all inmates in the Oregon prison system to be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccinations — a move that should make prisoners immediately eligible for inoculation.
The preliminary injunction orders all Oregon Department of Corrections inmates be offered a vaccine as part of phase 1A, group 2, of Oregon’s COVID-19 vaccination plan — putting prison inmates in the same category as people living in nursing homes and other congregate care settings.
The order should make prisoners eligible for vaccines now, but it’s not clear if they’ll move ahead of teachers or the elderly. But given that the Oregon Health Authority dictates where vaccines are shipped, the state has the ability to redirect doses for prisons.
“This will save an incredible amount of lives,” said Juan Chavez, an Oregon Justice Resource Center attorney who is representing a group of seven inmates.
The order will allow adults in custody to “stand in the same line” as others in congregate living facilities with a high risk of COVID-19 infection, Chavez said.
“As far as jumping the line ahead of anybody, they should’ve been vaccinated already,” he said.
The decision comes after seven inmates at Oregon correctional facilities filed motions Jan. 21 for the federal government to intervene and immediately compel the state to vaccinate all prison inmates against COVID-19. The same inmates first filed a class action lawsuit in federal court last April seeking protection against the spread of COVID-19.
Inmates across the state have described horrid conditions in the state’s correctional facilities as 3,392 cases of COVID-19 and 42 deaths have been confirmed in prisons to date.
In her ruling, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman noted state officials had prioritized residents of other types of congregate care settings, such as nursing homes, but bypassed inmates, despite widespread COVID-19 outbreaks in the state’s prisons.
The decision to exclude the state’s prison population from high-tier priority lists demonstrated “deliberate indifference to the serious risk of harm” prisoners face from COVID-19, the judge concluded.
Beckerman was unswayed by the state’s argument that the public interest called for teachers to be vaccinated first, so children could return to school. The judge pointed out the prisoners’ attorneys weren’t asking for inmates to be vaccinated first, just that they be vaccinated at the same time as teachers.
Chavez pointed out that Oregon’s current rate of vaccination is about 12,000 a day — roughly the same size of the state prison population. Any diversion of vaccines would be equivalent to a day’s worth of vaccines administered, compared to the previous plan, which put prisoners behind 900,000 others, he said.
To date, the state has used 65% of its vaccine allotment, according to Oregon Health Authority numbers.
MULTNOMAH COUNTY JAIL VACCINATIONS
The first vaccinations of Multnomah County Jail inmates began Tuesday, as the county administered vaccines to 108 adults at the Inverness Jail. More inmates will be vaccinated once more doses are available, according to Julie Sullivan-Springhetti, a county spokeswoman.
Sullivan-Springhetti said the county has always planned to treat jails as part of the high-risk congregate settings category for vaccinations.
These vaccinations began as two more outbreaks have been reported in Multnomah County and Josephine County jails in recent days.
There have been 107 cases of COVID-19 and no deaths during the Inverness Jail’s current outbreak, which began Jan. 15, Sullivan-Springhetti said. That’s equivalent to 21% of the current population of 512 inmates.
An ongoing outbreak at the Multnomah County Detention Center also has affected 26 staff and 10 inmates since October.
To prevent further spread at the Inverness Jail, at least two dormitories have been placed in isolation and three others on quarantine, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.
All inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 have been moved into an isolation dorm for about two weeks. Those who have been exposed to the coronavirus but tested negative are in quarantine for the same amount of time.
Those in quarantine are being tested every few days and anyone with symptoms is offered COVID-19 testing, Sullivan-Springhetti said.
The outbreak has caused delays in court hearings for those in the affected dorms, according to Multnomah Public Defender Michael Rees.
A release hearing for one of his clients was abruptly canceled last week, Rees said, and a remote hearing via video was not rescheduled until Tuesday morning. Rees said he was told the hearing was canceled because his client was in a locked down dorm.
“I think the jail should’ve started taking this seriously ages ago,” Rees said. “People sitting in there are at risk of serious illness and death.”
The Inverness Jail is at about 77% capacity, according to the most recent figures from Sullivan-Springhetti. The county reduced its jail population by 30% near the start of the pandemic due to fewer arrests, early releases of sentenced inmates and stepped-up pretrial releases.
The Josephine County Sheriff’s Office reported 30 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 using rapid testing since Jan. 26. All inmates and staff will be tested again Feb. 8 to verify the results using PCR testing, which uses genetic material.
The OHA, meanwhile, reported 619 new confirmed or presumptive coronavirus cases and 23 more deaths Tuesday.
Here are today’s coronavirus numbers:
Where the new cases are by county: Baker (2), Benton (16), Clackamas (59), Clatsop (8), Columbia (2), Coos (10), Crook (3), Curry (2), Deschutes (18), Douglas (15), Harney (3), Hood River (7), Jackson (54), Jefferson (5), Josephine (23), Klamath (18), Lake (3), Lane (32), Lincoln (5), Linn (10), Malheur (5), Marion (42), Morrow (1), Multnomah (135), Polk (21), Sherman (3), Tillamook (2), Umatilla (25), Union (9), Wallowa (3), Wasco (4), Washington (64) and Yamhill (10).
Deaths:
The 1,905th death is a 72-year-old Clackamas County man who tested positive Jan. 12 and died Jan. 23 at Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center.
The 1,906th death is a 90-year-old Clackamas County woman who tested positive Jan. 3 and died Jan. 16 at her residence.
The 1,907th death is an 88-year-old Clackamas County woman who tested positive Dec. 29 and died Jan. 24 at her residence.
The 1,908th death is a 90-year-old Deschutes County woman who tested positive Jan. 22 and died Jan. 26 at her residence.
The 1,909th death is an 82-year-old Deschutes County woman who tested positive Jan. 4 and died Jan. 19 at her residence.
The 1,910th death is a 79-year-old Deschutes County woman who tested positive Jan. 8 and died Jan. 19 at St. Charles Bend Hospital.
The 1,911th death is a 68-year-old Deschutes County woman who tested positive Jan. 4 and died Jan. 5 at her residence.
The 1,912th death is a 70-year-old Douglas County man who tested positive Jan. 6 and died Jan. 26 at Mercy Medical Center.
The 1,913th death is an 81-year-old Hood River County woman who tested positive Jan. 12 and died Jan. 27 at her residence.
The 1,914th death is a 93-year-old Jackson County woman who tested positive Jan. 28 and died Jan. 29 at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center.
The 1,915th death is an 86-year-old Jackson County woman who tested positive Dec. 24 and died Jan. 1 at her residence.
The 1,916th death is a 91-year-old Jackson County man who tested positive Dec. 27 and died Jan. 17 at his residence.
The 1,917th death is an 88-year-old Columbia County man who became symptomatic Dec. 26 after contact with a confirmed case and died Jan. 25 at his residence.
The 1,918th death is an 81-year-old Jackson County man who tested positive Jan. 23 and died Jan. 29 at his residence.
The 1,919th death is an 83-year-old Klamath County woman who tested positive Jan. 20 and died Jan. 28 at her residence.
The 1,920th death is an 89-year-old Klamath County woman who tested positive Jan. 20 and died Jan. 26 at Sky Lakes Medical Center.
The 1,921st death is a 74-year-old Klamath County man who tested positive Jan. 11 and died Jan. 23 at his residence.
The 1,922nd death is an 86-year-old Klamath County woman who tested positive Jan. 4 and died Jan. 21 at her residence.
The 1,923rd death is an 87-year-old Lake County woman who tested positive Jan. 27 and died Jan. 29 at Lake District Hospital.
The 1,924th death is a 71-year-old Lincoln County woman who tested positive Jan. 9 and died Jan. 27 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
The 1,925th death is an 85-year-old Malheur County woman who tested positive Jan. 13 and died Jan. 26 at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho.
The 1,926th death is a 75-year-old Marion County man who tested positive Jan. 16 and died Jan. 28 at Salem Hospital.
The 1,927th death is a 43-year-old man in Marion County who tested positive Dec. 31 and died Jan. 25 at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center.
The 1,928th death is a 69-year-old Marion County man who tested positive Dec. 31 and died Jan. 26 at Salem Hospital.
The 1,929th death is a 64-year-old Marion County woman who tested positive Dec. 26 and died Jan. 28 at Salem Hospital.
The 1,930th death is a 76-year-old Marion County woman who tested positive Dec. 21 and died Jan. 26 at Salem Hospital.
The 1,931st death is an 88-year-old Marion County man who tested positive Nov. 19 and died Dec. 12 at his residence.
The 1,932nd death is an 84-year-old Marion County woman who tested positive Nov. 8 and died Nov. 29 at her residence.
The 1,933rd death is a 90-year-old Marion County man who tested positive Jan. 26 and died Jan. 29 at Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center.
The 1,934th death is an 86-year-old Marion County man who tested positive Jan. 17 and died Jan. 26 at his residence.
The 1,935th death is an 82-year-old Morrow County man who tested positive Jan. 5 and died Jan. 24 at St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center in Idaho. He had no underlying conditions.
The 1,936th death is a 72-year-old Washington County man who died Jan. 5 at Portland VA Medical Center. His death certificate listed disease or SARS-CoV-2 as a cause of death or a significant condition contributing to death.
The 1,937th death is a 67-year-old Washington County woman who tested positive Dec. 13 and died Jan. 1 at her residence.
The 1,938th death is a 53-year-old Washington County man who died Dec. 6 at his residence. His death certificate listed disease or SARS-CoV-2 as a cause of death or a significant condition contributing to death.
The 1,939th death is a 97-year-old Washington County woman who tested positive Dec. 9 and died Jan. 17 at her residence.
The 1,940th death is a 74-year-old Washington County man who died Jan. 5 at his residence. His death certificate listed disease or SARS-CoV-2 as a cause of death or a significant condition contributing to death.
The 1,941st death is an 84-year-old Union County woman who tested positive Jan. 20 and died Jan. 29 at Grande Ronde Hospital.
The 1,942nd death is a 79-year-old Polk County man who tested positive Jan. 13 and died Jan. 25 at Salem Hospital.
The 1,943rd death is a 69-year-old Multnomah County man who tested positive Jan. 5 and died Jan. 23 at Oregon Health & Science University.
The 1,944th death is a 53-year-old Multnomah County woman who tested positive Dec. 26 and died Jan. 6 at Adventist Hospital.
The 1,945th death is a 59-year-old woman in Multnomah County who tested positive Dec. 8 and died Jan. 8 at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center.
The 1,946th death is a 75-year-old Multnomah County man who tested positive Dec. 3 and died Jan. 4 at his residence.
The 1,947th death is a 78-year-old Multnomah County man who tested positive Nov. 30 and died Dec. 14 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.
The 1,948th death is an 85-year-old Multnomah County woman who tested positive Nov. 23 and died Nov. 28 at her residence.
The 1,949th death is a 93-year-old Multnomah County woman who tested positive Nov. 11 and died Nov. 21 at her residence.
The 1,950th death is a 93-year-old Multnomah County woman who died Dec. 6 at her residence. Her death certificate listed disease or SARS-CoV-2 as a cause of death or a significant condition contributing to death.
The 1,951st death is a 95-year-old Washington County woman who tested positive Jan. 4 and died Jan. 28 at her residence. She had no underlying conditions.
The 1,952nd death is a 73-year-old Washington County woman who tested positive Jan. 11 and died Jan. 18 at OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center.
The 1,953rd death is a 95-year-old Washington County woman who died Jan. 22 at her residence. Her death certificate listed disease or SARS-CoV-2 as a cause of death or a significant condition contributing to death.
The 1,954th death is a 67-year-old Yamhill County woman who tested positive Jan. 8 and died Jan. 26 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.
The 1,955th death is a 66-year-old Yamhill County man who tested positive Jan. 12 and died Jan. 22 at his residence.
The 1,956th death is a 98-year-old Yamhill County woman who tested positive Jan. 19 and died Jan. 22 at her residence.
The 1,957th death is an 85-year-old Yamhill County woman who tested positive Jan. 21 and died Jan. 22 at her residence.
The 1,958th death is an 81-year-old Crook County man who tested positive Jan. 1 and died Jan. 23 at St. Charles Bend Hospital.
Unless noted above, each person who died had underlying health conditions or state officials were working to determine if the person had underlying medical conditions.
The prevalence of infections: The state reported 699 new positive tests out of 16,540 tests performed, equaling a 4.2% positivity rate.
Who got infected: New confirmed or presumed infections grew among the following age groups: 0-9 (37); 10-19 (67); 20-29 (101); 30-39 (109); 40-49 (93); 50-59 (76); 60-69 (62); 70-79 (43); 80 and older (20).
Who’s in the hospital: The state reported 262 Oregonians with confirmed coronavirus infections in the hospital Tuesday, nine fewer than Monday. Of those, 61 coronavirus patients were in intensive care units, three fewer than Monday.
Vaccines: Oregon reported 454,246 doses of vaccine have been administered, or about 65% of the doses received. Oregon reported 15,967 newly administered doses, which includes 10,712 on Monday and the remainder from previous days.
Since it began: Oregon has reported 143,978 confirmed or presumed infections and 1,981 deaths, among the lowest per capita numbers in the nation. To date, the state has reported 3,218,747 lab reports from tests.
Walmart says the new design will create a “seamless” omni shopping experience with more self-checkout kiosks and contactless payment options.
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Robots could help get your future Walmart pickup or delivery order filled and ready for you faster.
Walmart announced Tuesday that it is increasing the number of its stores that will serve as local fulfillment centers, which are condensed modular automated warehouses built within a store or added to a store. The centers will house pantry items, frozen foods, consumables as well as electronics.
Tom Ward, Walmart’s senior vice president of customer product, said the retail giant is planning dozens of locations with additional stores to come in the future. Some stores also will add automated pickup points that would allow customers and delivery drivers to drive up, scan a code and grab their order.
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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, consumer demand for pickup and delivery options has grown and more retailers have added contactless curbside pickup.
“Since the pandemic began we’ve steadily experienced record-high adoption of these services,” Ward said during a call with reporters. “We expect we will continue to serve more and more customers who will come to rely on pickup and delivery as an important part of their lives.”
Walmart started testing its first local fulfillment center in Salem, New Hampshire, in late 2019. Ward said one local fulfillment center can fulfill orders for many stores and the system adds to availability for customers since orders can be fulfilled faster.
Instead of store associates walking the store to fulfill an order, the automated bots – that buzz around on wheels – retrieve the items from throughout the fulfillment center.
Store employees still pick fresh items like produce, meat and seafood as well as large general merchandise items from the sales floor, Ward said.
Walmart has broken ground on a few centers at stores in Plano and Lewisville, Texas; Bentonville, Arkansas, and American Fork, Utah. A list of future stores getting the upgrade was not available.
In late September, Walmart unveiled a reimagined store design that officials said will create a “seamless” omni-shopping experience with more self-checkout kiosks and contactless payment options. The design is starting to roll out to stores. Walmart is also testing on-demand drone delivery.
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The anime series comes after the 2017 feature Kong: Skull Island re-introduced the world to King Kong and comes ahead of March’s upcoming Godzilla vs. Kong movie from Warner Bros. and Legendary.
Meanwhile, Tomb Raider picks up after the events of Square Enix’s Tomb Raider video game reboot trilogy, which was released in installments from 2013-18 and was developed by Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montréal. It will be unrelated to the ongoing series of films starring Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, the adventurer first introduced in 1996.
Tasha Huo, known for The Witcher: Blood Origin, will write and executive produce Tomb Raider. Other executive producers include dj2 Entertainment Founder and CEO Dmitri M. Johnson, Stephan Bugaj and Howard Bliss; and Jacob Robinson.
U.S. President Joe Biden holds up a face mask as he speaks about the fight to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at the White House in Washington, January 26, 2021.
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday is set to sign several executive orders to tackle climate change and transition the country to a clean energy economy, the White House said on Wednesday.
The executive actions include establishing climate change as a national security priority, conserving at least 30% of federal land and oceans by 2030 and canceling new oil and gas leases on public lands and waters, according to a review of the orders released by the administration.
Biden’s executive agenda will also focus on creating green jobs and union opportunities as well as environmental justice for communities disproportionally impacted by climate change.
The administration said the climate actions will build modern and sustainable infrastructure while restoring scientific integrity in the federal government. The orders further the president’s agenda to cut carbon emissions from the electricity sector by 2035 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Biden, who has staffed the White House with a historic number of climate experts, signed an order last week to rejoin the U.S. into the Paris climate accord, a landmark agreement among nations to curb their emissions. He also canceled construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S.
The president plans to deliver remarks and sign the orders at 1:30 p.m. Biden’s special climate envoy John Kerry and national climate advisor Gina McCarthy are set to brief reporters on the administration’s plans.
The Biden administration will also convene the Climate Leaders’ Summit on April 22, which will gather global leaders to discuss climate change issues. The summit will likely be remote during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected on Monday to lift regional coronavirus stay-at-home orders across California, a change that could allow restaurants and gyms in many counties to reopen outdoor dining and services.
All counties will return to the colored tier system that assigns local risk levels based on case numbers and rates of positive test results for COVID-19 infections, according to sources briefed on the plan by the governor’s office.
Most counties will go into the “widespread” risk tier, which permits hair salons to offer limited services indoors but restricts many other nonessential indoor business operations. The change is expected to take effect immediately after Newsom’s announcement on Monday.
It’s far from clear whether the decision will lead to easing of stay-at-home rules in Los Angeles County, which has become a national epicenter of the coronavirus with hospitals overwhelmed by patients. In less than one month, more than 5,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the county alone.
Still, the outdoor dining ban has been highly controversial, with some elected officials and the restaurant industry fighting in court and out to overturn it. Officials in some other Southern California counties have been even more critical of the state-imposed rules and had urged Newsom to give them more local control.
The governor announced the regional stay-at-home orders on Dec. 3 in an effort to reduce the strain on hospitals as case numbers surged. While state data show hospital systems in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley remain strained, the Newsom administration told officials Sunday that models project ICU capacity in those areas will exceed 15% — a threshold for lifting the regional shutdowns — over the next four weeks.
State officials never released the full details of how the four-week ICU calculations were being made. And while services were allowed to reopen in the Sacramento region on Dec. 13, daily reports of available intensive care beds never approached the 15% threshold deemed necessary to cancel the restrictions. ICU capacity in the Northern California region, which is not under the stay-at-home order, has continued to remain above the state’s shutdown benchmarks.
The Bay Area, which reported 23.4% capacity, had remained under the stay-at-home order due to a four-week projection of a decrease in hospital bed availability. Southern California showed no ICU capacity and the San Joaquin Valley region reported 1.3%, according to state data as of Saturday.
John Myers and Paloma Esquivel contributed to this report.