Category: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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‘Apolitical’ Statewide Grand Jury endorses DeSantis’s anti-mask, anti-lockdown policy choices
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org A statewide grand jury is writing a chapter of Florida history that says Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration was “following the science” by rejecting masking and lockdowns at the peak of the COVID-19 public health crisis.
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No one’s a winner in Miami home eviction ordered during brief lull in pandemic moratorium
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org A Miami woman says her landlord took advantage of a brief pause in the national eviction moratorium to force her out of her home illegally.
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Dire need for COVID-19 shots adds urgency to Miami homeless advocates’ refrain
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org Civil rights lawyers and activists are agitating for Miami police to stop disrupting homeless people by emptying their camps. It’s the same old song, but with a different meaning in a pandemic.
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Racial politics flavor debate over banning menthol cigarettes
By Myron Levin FairWarning Lorillard Tobacco donated nearly four times as much to Republican candidates as to Democrats in the 2014 congressional elections. No surprise there — most businesses count on Republicans to hold the line on regulations and taxes. But Lorillard made a striking exception for one set of Democrats: African Americans.
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As more imported foods reach the dinner table, holes remain in FDA safety net
By Rick Schmitt FairWarning In April 2012, a team of inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigated a seafood company in southern India that had been exporting tons of frozen yellow fin tuna to the United States. Tainted fish shipped by the company sickened 425 people in 28 states and the District of…