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Everyone is sick right now. 3 tables will help you figure out what ailment you’ve got.
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There are tons of seasonal illnesses spreading around, not just flu, COVID, and RSV.
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Many have overlapping symptoms, but there are a few telling ways to tease different ailments apart.
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If you have a fever, plus a headache or cough, doctors recommend getting tested for flu and COVID.
The US is ill. Federal health data shows the country is currently red-hot with lots of fevers, sore throats, and coughs popping up from coast to coast.
Most of the sickness out there right now is flu. Wastewater surveillance also suggests COVID is on a post-Thanksgiving uptick, and RSV — which has been sending babies and toddlers to urgent care for months — is still circulating widely too.
But there are many other illnesses beyond the “tripledemic” of flu, COVID, and RSV which are contributing to this year’s earlier-than-usual onslaught of seasonal yuckiness.
“There’s a lot of viral junk out there,” infectious disease expert Dr. William Schaffner, from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, told Insider.
Here are some of the most common culprits in action right now, according to infectious disease experts who are conducting viral testing at major medical centers across the US, as well as federal sickness watchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Other than taking a guess based on prevalence, it isn’t so easy to tease out exactly which illness has made you sick.
“Fever, muscle aches, cough, headache, those are going to be common,” Dr. Roy Gulick, chief of infectious disease at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, told Insider. “You really can’t tell the difference between flu and COVID.”
However, there are some telling symptoms that may help distinguish one illness from another. Paying attention to how quickly your illness evolves, and which symptoms are most prominent can help you take an educated stab at which seasonal illness you might have:
If you think you may have the flu or COVID, it can be worth getting tested. If you catch the infection early enough, antiviral treatments are available, which can shorten the course of your infection, and make it milder too.
“If people have fever or cough, headache, they really should get tested both for flu and COVID,” Gulick said. This is especially important for older adults, who account for the vast majority of both COVID and flu deaths. “You’ve got to be seen and treated and diagnosed early.”
However, if your illness is not flu or COVID, often there’s not too much to be done, other than wait for your immune system to finish its fight, staying as comfortable and healthy as possible as you can in the meantime.
“Knowing that it’s RSV is really not going to change anything that we do,” pediatrician Manuela Murray, medical director of the Pediatric Urgent Care Centers at the University of Texas Medical Branch, told Insider. “We really don’t have any medications that help.”
The same is true of many other viruses. For most of them, doctor’s orders are to rest, hydrate, and take pain relievers and fever reducers to help ease your pain.
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Tables turn in Missouri Senate race after Schmitt takes GOP lead over Greitens, Hartzler
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Attorney General Eric Schmitt leads the front-runners with a 12-point edge in the GOP primary race for the open Senate seat in Missouri, according to a new poll.
The Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey showed that the tables have turned in the Republican primary. Schmitt took the lead in the race, receiving 33% of the votes. U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler came in second with 21%, and Eric Greitens fell behind with only 16%, a 10% drop in his support from the previous month.
Greitens’ numbers are significantly lower than a June poll conducted by Emerson that found he was leading in the race among 26% of GOP voters, with Schmitt at 20%, and Hartzler receiving 16%.
The poll found that among the three front-runners, likely Republican voters in Missouri had the least favorable opinion of Greitens. It concluded that 61% have a somewhat or very unfavorable view of the former governor, who resigned in 2018 after sexual assault and campaign fraud allegations.
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While Greiten’s numbers decline, 61% of Republican Missourians said they have a somewhat or very favorable view of his opponent Eric Schmitt, the candidate that recently received a prominent endorsement from Arkansas gubernatorial nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Attorney General Eric Schmitt takes the lead in Missouri GOP Senate primary.
(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
According to the poll, 41% of GOP voters said they would be more likely to vote for candidates if they were endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
Executive director of Emerson College Polling Spencer Kimball said a Trump endorsement “could allow Schmitt to secure his lead or provide a last-minute game changer for Greitens if Trump were to get involved in the race.”
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In the Democratic primary, the poll showed that 39% of likely Democrat voters in Missouri plan on voting for Trudy Busch Valentine in the primary, but a close 35% support opponent Lucas Kunce, with 22% still undecided.
GOP Senate primary candidate Eric Greitens is the former governor of Missouri.
(Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP, File)
The most important issue to Republican voters in Missouri was the economy (57%), a number that is down 4% from June. Inflation hit a 40-year-high in June, with speculation rising that the economy will soon enter into a recession if it hasn’t already.
Democratic voters in Missouri believe that abortion trumps the economy as the number one issue the country is facing, following the Supreme Court’s June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, effectively declaring that abortion access is not a constitutional right for all Americans and returning abortion regulations to the states.
Missouri Democrats ranked abortion as the leading issue at 27% of the vote, according to the Emerson poll, while only 19% of likely Democratic voters said the economy was the most important issue.
Anheuser-Busch heiress Trudy Busch Valentine is the most favored Democrat primary candidate for the Missouri Senate, according to poll.
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Among Republican voters, President Joe Biden had 17% approval, while 73% of Democrat primary voters in the state expressed approval of his presidency.
The president’s national approval rating hit an all-time low of 31% in early July, as many Democrats express they don’t want him seeking re-election 2024.
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Current GOP Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., announced last year that he would not be seeking re-election in 2022, leaving the seat open and vulnerable in the midterms. The Missouri primary election will take place on Aug. 2, 2022.
Emerson College/The Hill Survey was conducted July 21-23, 2022. The sample consisted of Republican and Democratic likely voters in Missouri, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Time May Not Exist at All, According to Physics
Does time exist? The answer to this question may seem obvious: Of course it does! Just look at a calendar or a clock.
But developments in physics suggest the non-existence of time is an open possibility, and one that we should take seriously.
How can that be, and what would it mean? It’ll take a little while to explain, but don’t worry: Even if time doesn’t exist, our lives will go on as usual.
A crisis in physics
Physics is in crisis. For the past century or so, we have explained the Universe with two wildly successful physical theories: general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Quantum mechanics describes how things work in the incredibly tiny world of particles and particle interactions. General relativity describes the big picture of gravity and how objects move.
Both theories work extremely well in their own right, but the two are thought to conflict with one another. Though the exact nature of the conflict is controversial, scientists generally agree both theories need to be replaced with a new, more general theory.
Physicists want to produce a theory of “quantum gravity” that replaces general relativity and quantum mechanics, while capturing the extraordinary success of both. Such a theory would explain how gravity’s big picture works at the miniature scale of particles.
Time in quantum gravity
It turns out that producing a theory of quantum gravity is extraordinarily difficult.
One attempt to overcome the conflict between the two theories is string theory. String theory replaces particles with strings vibrating in as many as 11 dimensions.
However, string theory faces a further difficulty. String theories provide a range of models that describe a Universe broadly like our own, and they don’t really make any clear predictions that can be tested by experiments to figure out which model is the right one.
In the 1980s and 1990s, many physicists became dissatisfied with string theory and came up with a range of new mathematical approaches to quantum gravity.
One of the most prominent of these is loop quantum gravity, which proposes that the fabric of space and time is made of a network of extremely small discrete chunks, or “loops”.
One of the remarkable aspects of loop quantum gravity is that it appears to eliminate time entirely.
Loop quantum gravity is not alone in abolishing time: A number of other approaches also seem to remove time as a fundamental aspect of reality.
Emergent time
So we know we need a new physical theory to explain the Universe, and that this theory might not feature time.
Suppose such a theory turns out to be correct. Would it follow that time does not exist?
It’s complicated, and it depends what we mean by exist.
Theories of physics don’t include any tables, chairs, or people, and yet we still accept that tables, chairs, and people exist.
Why? Because we assume that such things exist at a higher level than the level described by physics.
We say that tables, for example, “emerge” from an underlying physics of particles whizzing around the Universe.
But while we have a pretty good sense of how a table might be made out of fundamental particles, we have no idea how time might be “made out of” something more fundamental.
So unless we can come up with a good account of how time emerges, it is not clear we can simply assume time exists.
Time might not exist at any level.
Time and agency
Saying that time does not exist at any level is like saying that there are no tables at all.
Trying to get by in a world without tables might be tough, but managing in a world without time seems positively disastrous.
Our entire lives are built around time. We plan for the future, in light of what we know about the past. We hold people morally accountable for their past actions, with an eye to reprimanding them later on.
We believe ourselves to be agents (entities that can do things) in part because we can plan to act in a way that will bring about changes in the future.
But what’s the point of acting to bring about a change in the future when, in a very real sense, there is no future to act for?
What’s the point of punishing someone for a past action, when there is no past and so, apparently, no such action?
The discovery that time does not exist would seem to bring the entire world to a grinding halt. We would have no reason to get out of bed.
Business as usual
There is a way out of the mess.
While physics might eliminate time, it seems to leave causation intact: the sense in which one thing can bring about another.
Perhaps what physics is telling us, then, is that causation and not time is the basic feature of our Universe.
If that’s right, then agency can still survive. For it is possible to reconstruct a sense of agency entirely in causal terms.
At least, that’s what Kristie Miller, Jonathan Tallant, and I argue in our new book.
We suggest the discovery that time does not exist may have no direct impact on our lives, even while it propels physics into a new era.
Sam Baron, Associate professor, Australian Catholic University.
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Alexander Lukashenko: Belarusian strongman tries to turn the tables in combative interview
Challenged on human rights abuses, including attacks on protesters, a bomb threat that forced a plane to land allowing Belarusian authorities to arrest dissidents on board, and what the European Union calls the “weaponization” of migrants, Lukashenko tried to deflect anything negative.
“This is madness,” he said of Polish government claims that Belarus was dumping migrants on their border.
But the tension between Belarus and the EU is real.
So is the fact that most airlines are no longer overflying Belarusian territory. That action was triggered when a vocal critic of Lukashenko’s regime was taken into custody in May from a Ryanair plane heading from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania.
A Belarusian fighter jet intercepted the passenger plane in Belarus airspace as it was told to make an emergency landing in Minsk by local air traffic controllers who said they feared there was a bomb on board. Once on the ground, Belarusian authorities arrested exiled dissident journalist Roman Protasevich alongside his Russian girlfriend, before allowing the aircraft to depart.
A Belarusian official claimed the Palestinian militant group Hamas had sent an email saying there was a bomb aboard the flight. A Hamas spokesman denied the allegation as “fake news.” Protasevich’s supporters said it was a fantastical ruse to get the plane on the ground in Minsk.
Pressed by CNN on whether there was a genuine bomb threat or whether it had been manufactured as an excuse to arrest a critic, Lukashenko merely insisted his country followed international laws.
“If you are afraid to fly over our territory, I can personally guarantee your safety and that of your company, your country or any other country when flying over Belarus, just as ever before,” Lukashenko told CNN.
“If you choose not to fly, that’s fine, OK, fly over the North Pole or the South Pole, that is your right, I cannot force you. I’m not as powerful as Great Britain, let alone the United States, to dictate any terms. If you don’t fly, others will, as you’ve just said. That’s fine, we’ll get by.”
Lukashenko, a temperamental former collective farm boss, has been president of Belarus since 1994, its first and only leader since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Called “Europe’s last dictator,” his iron grip on his country has become increasingly forceful, especially since last year’s vote.
His public appearances are tightly controlled and he is generally surrounded by fawning countrymen.
At the CNN interview in the Palace of Independence, he weaved and ducked, attempting to turn the issues onto the West.
Confronted with details of some of the victims of the harsh, even deadly, treatment of those against him, he said he had nothing to apologize for.
“I don’t think this is even a relevant question, and in principle, I have nothing to apologize for,” he said.
CNN cited evidence from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International of some detainees reporting injuries including broken bones and burns, while others said they were forced to lie naked in dirt while being assaulted.
Lukashenko responded: “You know, we don’t have a single detention center, as you say, like Guantanamo, or those bases that the United States and your country created in Eastern Europe … As regards our own detention centers, where we keep those accused or those under investigation, they are no worse than in Britain or the United States. I can guarantee you that.”
He brought up the death of Ashli Babbitt, shot and killed as she tried to crawl through a broken window leading to the Speaker’s Lobby during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, falsely saying CNN and others “keep quiet about it.”
He first seemed reluctant to even say the name of opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who left Belarus after the election that was widely seen as fraudulent.
Then he said Tikhanovskaya had not had to flee. “I swear by my children that Tikhanovskaya was not fleeing anywhere,” he said.
Tikhanovskaya is regarded by Europe and the United States as having had the election stolen from her. She was granted a White House meeting in July with President Joe Biden, who tweeted he had been “honored” to meet her, adding the US “stands with the people of Belarus in their quest for democracy and universal human rights.”
Lukashenko paints a rosy picture of life in Belarus, saying families are safe to go out.
On the streets of Minsk, the people we met did seem afraid of something though. Most did not stop to speak to CNN and quickly hurried away.
One young man who did talk gave a blunt assessment of why people were scared. “This is Belarus,” he said. “The police can arrest you and me.”
Back in Independence Palace, Lukashenko said his people understood him. That he was joking when he said coronavirus could be warded off with a shot of vodka and a sauna.
He cultivates an image as a man of the people, a strong leader and a maverick on the world stage.
But still, he watches what he says.
“I am not going to admit to anything in front of you. I am not under investigation. So please choose your words carefully,” he said In one answer.
He veered between not being a “weakling” who would care about having revenge against the EU for sanctions, to threatening reprisals should relations with the West deteriorate further.
But it is weakness that his critics say is pushing Lukashenko ever closer to another strongman next door, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in financial aid — Kremlin support that is likely to come with strings.
The closer economic, political, and military integration has fueled speculation that Lukashenko will be the last as well as the first Belarusian President, effectively merging his country with Russia.
In one breath, he denies this.
“Putin and I are intelligent enough to create a union of two independent states that would be stronger together than separate. Sovereignty is not for sale,” he said.
In the next breath, he suggests what could happen if there’s provocation.
“If we need to, Belarus will turn into one military base for Russia and Belarus in order to withstand your aggression, if you decide, or if any one country decides to attack. And you should be clear on this, I have never made any secret of it.”
CNN’s Katharina Krebs contributed to this story.
Apple turns post-lawsuit tables on Epic, will block Fortnite on iOS
Enlarge / A Fortnite loading screen displayed on an iPhone in 2018, when Apple and Epic weren’t at each other’s legal throats.
Weeks after Epic’s apparent “win” against Apple in the Epic Games v. Apple case, Apple issued a letter denying Epic’s request to have its developer license agreement reinstated until all legal options are exhausted. This effectively bans Fortnite and any other software from the game maker from returning to Apple’s App Store for years.
Epic was handed an initial victory when the US District Court for Northern California issued an injunction on September 10 ordering Apple to open up in-game payment options for all developers. At the time, the injunction was something of a moral victory for Epic—allowing the developer to keep its in-game payment systems in its free-to-play Fortnite intact while avoiding paying Apple a 30 percent fee that had previously covered all in-app transactions.
But now Epic has faced a significant reversal of fortune.
In a letter sent on September 21 to Epic’s legal counsel, Apple’s lawyers said the company refused to reinstate Epic’s account until the courts issue a final, non-appealable verdict. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney revealed Apple’s decision in series of tweets posted on September 22. Sweeney claims the appeals process for the case could take as long as five years.
Apple’s revocation of Epic’s developer license—required to develop and distribute games to the App Store—was “valid, lawful, and enforceable,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in her ruling. This leaves the decision whether to allow Epic back into the App Store up to Apple.
Apple’s legal team also cited Epic’s alleged “duplicitous” conduct. Apple is referring to the move that sparked the case—Epic adding code into iOS’s version of Fortnite that enable users to buy items directly from the company.
The letter pointed to a tweet Sweeney had posted earlier this month. In the tweet, Sweeney said he “wouldn’t trade an alternative payment system away to get Fortnite back on iOS.” Sweeney said his words were taken out of context.
What “statements” are we talking about here? All Apple cites is a quote they fabricated, claiming I said said Epic “[w]ouldn’t trade [an alternative payment system] away to get Fortnite back on iOS.”
What did I actually say?https://t.co/fedkyNm3RV
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) September 22, 2021
Sweeney tweeted an email he wrote to Apple’s legal counsel on September 16, stating that, while Epic was appealing the court’s decision, the developer had paid Apple the court-ordered $6 million in damages required by the September 10 ruling. He said that his company had disabled the server-side software required for in-game payments for players who still had Fortnite installed on their iOS devices. He also alleged that Apple lied about its intentions to work with Epic to bring the developer back to the App Store.
“Apple lied,” Sweeney said. “Apple spent a year telling the world, the court, and the press they’d ‘welcome Epic’s return to the App Store if they agree to play by the same rules as everyone else.’ Epic agreed, and now Apple has reneged in another abuse of its monopoly power over a billion users.”
While the September 10 ruling went in Apple’s favor, the company was not granted everything it sought in its legal defense. Judge Gonzalez Rogers gave Apple a victory in ruling it had not violated antitrust law, though the company lost the ability to prevent developers from including and advertising their own in-game app purchase payment systems. That ruling could lead to greater repercussions for Apple from other game makers or subscription service providers in the future.
The Anandiben parallel: this time how the tables turned on Rupani
THE parallel between Vijay Rupani’s exit and Anandiben Patel’s couldn’t have been more striking — and ironic.
Replacing Anandiben with Rupani in August 2016 was seen as a deft political move by then BJP president Amit Shah a year ahead of Assembly elections.
Named CM by Narendra Modi who left for New Delhi to take charge as Prime Minister in 2014, Anandiben came under fire: the Patidar agitation, led by Hardik Patel, now working president of the state Congress, foreshadowed party distress — it lost elections to a majority of the local bodies in December 2015. This was followed by the public flogging of Dalits in Una in 2016 which played out nationally ahead of the UP elections.
To mollify Patidars, Anandiben’s government announced 10% reservation for the economically backward class in the general category — an announcement by Rupani from the party office seen as a snub to Anandiben.
Rupani was a minister in her government and the state unit chief.
With Rupani’s exit Saturday, a year ahead of polls in December 2022, the tables are turned reflecting the changing contours of power in the Gujarat BJP.
Rupani has been criticised for his failure in managing the pandemic – the Gujarat High Court’s strictures were harsh and regular. He had also, by many accounts from within, failed to emerge as a “strong and efficient leader who could lead the party into elections.” Indeed, the rise of Aam Aadmi Party as a political force in the state was attributed by many of his critics within to his “inefficient leadership.”
In 2016, a section of the BJP had wanted Nitin Patel to replace Anandiben but Shah got his way and Rupani, considered close to him, was given the job.
This time around, circumstances alter cases. Rupani’s resignation comes days after the state executive meeting was attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in the conspicuous absence of Shah.
Sources said Shah, who continues to play a key role in the BJP’s organisation and functioning, will share responsibilities in the Gujarat BJP with B L Santhosh (General Secretary, Organisation); Mansukh Mandaviya (handpicked by Modi to be Union Health Minister); J P Nadda (BJP president); C R Paatil (again, chosen by Modi to be chief of the Gujarat unit); and the new Chief Minister.
There is some talk in the party of advancing elections to early next year when it’s due in five states including UP. This would also enable the party to choose a non-MLA as CM and legal opinion is being sought, sources said. However, fighting both UP and Gujarat at the same time will be a challenge for the party, a leader said.
The change of guard in Gujarat fits the BJP’s new pattern of shuffling Chief Ministers. In fact, between 2014 and 2019, Anandiben’s exit was an exception to the rule: the party was reluctant to replace CMs despite calls for change in state units like Jharkhand, Rajasthan or Haryana.
In contrast, in July, the party’s central leadership asked four-term Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa to resign in Karnataka and instructed Tirath Singh Rawat to quit just four months after he was appointed as Uttarakhand CM. Both were under pressure from their faction-ridden state units.
There were some early pointers to change in Gujarat. Paatil was brought in as president of the state unit in July last year ahead of crucial local body elections. Paatil, who replaced Jitu Vaghani, a Patel by caste and a Shah protégé, was always considered a diehard Modi loyalist.
Subsequently, there were key changes in the organisation, including the appointment of Ratnakar replacing Bhikhubhai Dalsaniya — who had worked with Shah – as organisation general secretary. Dalsaniya was appointed as the general secretary (organisation) of the Bihar unit.
Another key development was the elevation of Mandaviya and Parshottam Rupala as Cabinet ministers – both are considered close to Modi.
BJP leaders, however, underlined that Rupani was changed after the leadership was “convinced” the party could not go to polls under his leadership.
“Although the elections will anyway be fought with Modi’s face, the party needed to send a message that it has a strong and effective leadership in the state,” said a party MP.
Rupani was seen as the first Jain to be made CM, an influential minority in the state. But under his leadership, the BJP performed dismally in the Assembly elections of 2017 winning just 99 of the 182 seats.
Although it won back most of the constituencies in the by-elections and the local body elections earlier this year, the achievement was largely seen as Paatil’s.
Asked why was he being replaced now, a top BJP functionary in Gujarat said: “We might be wearing nice clothes but we do want to change and get new ones, right? People always want change”.
Rupani’s resignation came, as Paryushan, the period of penance for Jains ended Saturday, when the community seeks forgiveness.
Oil Prices Tumble on Worries Over China Delta Variant Outbreak
The price of oil and other key industrial commodities slid Monday after Chinese government measures to halt the spread of the Delta variant spooked investors about global energy demand.
Brent crude oil, the global benchmark, fell 4% to $67.87 a barrel and West Texas Intermediate futures—the main U.S. benchmark—were down 4.3% at $65.38 a barrel. At those prices, both gauges were set for their lowest close in around 2½ months.
The spread of Delta variant Covid-19 cases has raised alarms in China and other East Asian countries. Beijing health authorities said last week that the city would cancel all large-scale exhibitions and events for the remainder of August.
China is the world’s biggest importer of oil and “while some countries seem to be flipping to learning to live with the coronavirus, it is adopting a zero-tolerance policy” with stricter travel rules and quarantine measures, said Norbert Rücker, head of economics at Swiss private bank Julius Baer .
Customs data published over the weekend show that China imported less crude per day in July than in June and those figures were also weighing on prices, according to analysts at Dutch bank ING.
Outdoor dining returns to LA with tables 8 feet apart, no TVs allowed
California restaurant owner Angela Marsden says she ‘can’t imagine’ implementing minimum wage increase across the country amid coronavirus pandemic.
After weeks of being limited to takeout and delivery, struggling restaurants in Los Angeles were allowed to reopen for outdoor dining Friday with new restrictions in place.
Restaurants must require employees to wear a face mask and shield, tables must be eight feet apart and seat no more than six people, and televisions are not allowed to be turned on.
“Televisions or any other screens that are used to broadcast programming must be removed from the area or turned off,” the order from the Los Angeles Department of Public Health says. “This provision is effective until further notice.”
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This no-TVs edict is likely in place to prevent people from gathering at restaurants to watch the Super Bowl next week.
“We really do need to be cautious as we move forward, given we have a major sporting event. We’ve seen lots of people together shouting, yelling, screaming during the excitement of a game,” Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis said this week about the Super Bowl, according to the Los Feliz Register. “This should be a virtual get-together, just like many of you celebrated the holidays with just your immediate family present.”
Restaurants in Los Angeles haven’t been open for outdoor dining since late November when the county’s department of health limited restaurants to takeout and delivery.
The reopening comes as Los Angeles starts to recover from the worst COVID-19 wave since the pandemic first hit. 5,669 Los Angeles residents were hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Friday, which is down from the peak of 8,098 people hospitalized on Jan. 5. Los Angeles County has recorded 1,097,941 confirmed cases and 16,107 deaths since the pandemic began.
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Restaurants will welcome the reopening despite the rules, as the hospitality industry nationwide has been hammered by coronavirus.
Restaurants sales fell by $240 billion in 2020, workers saw 2.5 million jobs lost, and 110,000 eating and drinking places are closed either permanently or temporarily, according to a National Restaurant Association report released this week.