There have been over 15 million confirmed coronavirus cases around the world with 618,000 deaths. Of those cases 8,500,000 have recovered. In the US there are over 4 million confirmed cases and over 145,000 have died in the 6 months since the first case was confirmed in the US. Almost 8,500,000 of the US cases have recovered. The United States has set another grim record for coronavirus infections, with more than 75,600 new cases confirmed. At least 11 states are reporting record hospitalizations, with nearly 1,000 new deaths in just 24 hours. Officials in Texas and Arizona have put out calls for refrigerated trucks, as morgues overflow with the bodies of COVID-19 patients. Texas and Florida both reported their highest death tolls of the pandemic.
As the number of new global coronavirus cases reaches record highs, the World Health Organization is warning the coronavirus outbreak will continue to worsen if governments don’t take basic public health measures. Reports the number of coronavirus deaths in Latin America has now exceeded the death toll in the United States and Canada. Researchers estimate the US will have 219,864 total Covid-19 deaths by November 1, according to the Institute for Health Metrics at the University of Washington.
In Florida, confirmed coronavirus cases topped 300,000 even as Disney World completed a phased reopening of its Orlando theme parks. Nearly 50 Florida hospitals said they were out of ICU beds. In Miami, hospitals have run out of regular intensive care beds, with new patients moved into converted ICUs. Governor Ron DeSantis said he was mobilizing 1,000 medical workers to fill critical staffing shortages.
California, the most populous state and the first to shut down months ago, appeared to have Covid-19 under control — only to suffer a massive resurgence and surpass New York with the most coronavirus cases in the nation. California, which now has 417,000 confirmed cases due to the recent spikes, is largely shutting down again. California Governor Gavin Newsom has a plan to halt the recent surge by ordering all indoor restaurants, wineries, movie theaters and museums to be closed again. Bars have been ordered to cease all operations. Indoor businesses have been shuttered in many areas. Newsom said the new shutdowns are needed to address the public health crisis. The Los Angeles and San Diego school districts have announced that all classes will be conducted online at the start of the school year due to the pandemic.
Covid-19 is set to become one of the leading causes of death in Los Angeles County, according to Barbara Ferrer, the county’s health director. “It’s killing more people than Alzheimer’s disease, other kinds of heart disease, stroke and COPD,” Ferrer said. Comparing Covid-19 to the flu, Ferrer said data shows Covid-19 killed twice as many people in six months as the flu did in eight months.
The city of Atlanta announced a similar plan. In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said schools will be allowed to reopen, but only in regions with low daily infection rates. At least 41 states have some kind of mask requirement in place or planned. In Colorado, Governor Jared Polis issued a statewide mask mandate, a week after refusing public health officials’ pleas to require facial coverings in public. Arkansas Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson issued a similar mask mandate. The CDC reports that 10 states have reported 10,000 new cases while three states each reported over 60,000 new cases in the last week.
Several vaccine trials are progressing well, and researchers say a vaccine might be publicly available by early 2021. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said any Covid-19 vaccine that’s sponsored by the US government will be free or affordable for the American public.
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Self-Employed? You May Be Eligible for a $1,000 Grant During COVID-19.
There is another source of financial relief you may be entitled to if you work for yourself: a $1,000 grant you won’t have to repay. It’s a provision of the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and it’s money that could come in handy during a very difficult time. Under the EIDL program, you can apply for a single $1,000 grant to use to supplement any lost income you may be grappling with during the ongoing recession.
Millions of workers have lost their jobs in the course of the COVID-19 outbreak, so many so that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported a double-digit unemployment rate for the past three months. The good news is that if you’re consider a salaried or hourly employee and have lost a job through no fault of your own, you’re generally eligible to collect unemployment benefits. And because of the extreme nature of the pandemic, the rules have been changed to allow freelance and gig workers to collect unemployment benefits, too.
But here’s another source of financial relief you may be entitled to if you work for yourself: a $1,000 grant you won’t have to repay. It’s a provision of the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and it’s money that could come in handy during a very difficult time.
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How the grant works
Under the EIDL program, those who apply for a loan can also request an advance of up to $1,000 per employee for up to 10 employees, and those grants don’t need to be repaid. If you’re self-employed and therefore don’t have employees, you can apply for a single $1,000 grant to use to supplement any lost income you may be grappling with during the ongoing recession.
Now technically, you do have to apply for a loan under the EIDL program to qualify for a grant. However, you don’t have to accept that loan — you can choose to accept the grant portion only and use that money to salvage your business, whether by investing in marketing, supplies, or other expenses.
What if you’ve already gotten a PPP loan?
You’re allowed to apply for relief through the PPP and EIDL at the same time, but you’ll need to use that money for different purposes. That may not pose a problem, though.
With a PPP loan, you’re capped at two and a half times your monthly payroll costs. If you’re self-employed and own an S-corp where you pay yourself a regular salary, and you continue doing so, you may wind up getting your entire PPP loan forgivable (PPP loans are eligible for forgiveness provided 60% of their proceeds go toward payroll costs).
Meanwhile, you can apply for an EIDL and use that money for things like supplies, office space, or whatever other expenses you incur in the course of earning an income. You should document how you spend each loan you receive, in case the Small Business Administration winds up needing that information, and that includes any grant money you collect.
Self-employed folks finally aren’t left out in the cold
Usually, self-employed individuals are left to fend for themselves when their income takes a hit. But because of the overwhelming nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, those who are self-employed are thankfully included in the Trump Administration’s relief measures that have been made available to struggling Americans.
If you’re self-employed, it pays to see if you qualify for a $1,000 grant under the EIDL program. Usually, you’ll get that money within three days of receipt of your application, though you may experience volume-related delays.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, July 12th, 2020 was:
KAYLA JADE
Aztec, NM
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Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners & Drawing Entries 7/13/20 thru 7/19/20 are as follows:
7/13/20
Karen Ann Hinkle
Alexis Maureen
Becky Holland
Melissa White
Be Schwerin
Gina Guarente Fieger
Angela Janisse
Rosanne Clark
Debbie Bloxom
Ashley Weaver
Amber McGrath
Jenifer Garza
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Anna Nichols
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Andrea Somers
Trish Hysell
Shannon Rush
Sarah Frank
Jessica Steiner
Kim Avery
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Christina Cannon
7/14/20
Brandi Gail Manley
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Dean Bruss
Kimberly Snyder
Eleazar Ruiz
Rhonda Grisham
Brittney Dorsey
Amanda Rosario
Trish Hysell
Thomas Ryan Gan
Sherry Lilly
Brooke Scott
JayJay Bagunu
Fannie McQuirter Dorsey
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Mary M
Carrie Vucinaj
Derelys Peterson
Alicia Dansby
Michael Ingelido
Kayla Jade
7/15/20
Tabitha Sinks
Jenai Merri
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Melinda Sue Fritz
Christy Hawkes
Stephanie Beckwith
Sarah Harrison
Jennifer Ramlet
Katrina Worford
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Tom JG
Amy L Sass
Nicole Watson
Samantha Brwn
Amber McGrath
Darlene Whyte
Dean Bruss
Kendra Lewis Mcbride
Dawn Raasch
Cathie Ahner
Mary Pettiford
Melissa Shaulis Mazzur
7/16/20
Rosanne Clark
Trish Hysell
Paula M Bondy
Kristina Rosson
Jenai Merri
Donna Porter
Carrie Vucinaj
Rhonda Grisham
Kayla Jade
Sherry Lilly
Amber Chandler
Be Schwerin
Ashley Agner
Christy Hawkes
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Terry Schmitt Sutton
Holly Jarczynski-mcdowell
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Kim Avery
Joanna Hacker
Kate Williams
Tera Lee Culverwell
7/17/20
Tammy Lee Stookey
Tera Lee Culverwell
Karen Brunet Moore
Joanna Hacker
Christy Hawkes
Hasna Brzg
Rhonda Grisham
Jenai Merri
Melodie Thomas
Angela Janisse
Trish Hysell
Alyssa DiFazio
Kristina Harris
Nicole Watson
Jennifer Ramlet
Thomas Ryan Gan
Carla Marie
Melanie Raman
Brandi Gail Manley
Trish Marks
7/18/20
Andrea Somers
Cheryl Lynn
Wayne Gallas
Carrie Vucinaj
Amanda Brewer
Tina Gilbert
Diane Hamric
Josephine Casey
Melissa White
Tom JG
Rhonda Grisham
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Maria Bouchard
Sherry Barnes
Kimberly Snyder
Lucyna Dorota
Lena Perry
George Pownall
Christin Cannon
Sheila Carvell
7/19/20
Misty Shallcross
Jan Peoples
Sarah Frank
Jenifer Garza
Debbie Bloxom
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Mary VanTil
LaNique Dees
April Ashcraft
Susan Clarke Jette
Alicia Johnson
Angela Janisse
Tiffany Patrick
Carla Marie
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Becky VanGinkel
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Jenai Merri
George Pownall
Brittney Dorsey
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The FBI has arrested Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and heiress who is accused of luring girls to be sexually abused by convicted predator and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell is scheduled to appear in a New York court and could face up to 35 years behind bars. Epstein died from an apparent suicide last August in his jail cell. Maxwell has also previously been accused of sexually assaulting girls with Epstein.
Maxwell, 58, was arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire, on charges she conspired with Epstein to sexually abuse minors. She was found living at a reclusive, million-dollar luxury home with 156 acres of rural mountainside property, federal prosecutors said. In a brief electronic appearance in New Hampshire federal court, a judge remanded her to the custody of the U.S. Marshals and ordered her transferred to New York City. She did not enter a plea, and her attorney indicated he will seek a detention hearing in New York, a prelude to a possible bail request.
The six-count indictment in Manhattan federal court alleges that Maxwell helped Epstein groom girls as young as 14 years old, going back as far as 1994. Prosecutors say she was in the room during — and took part in — the sexual abuse of three underage girls at Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse, his Florida estate and his ranch in New Mexico. Maxwell was also alleged to have helped Epstein groom teen girls for sex with the rich and powerful. One of those teens, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, leveled that charge against Maxwell in a 2015 defamation suit, as have a number of other women since.
Maxwell has previously denied allegations linking her to Epstein’s exploitation of girls and young women — including denials she made during the sworn testimony for depositions in 2016. The new indictment accuses Maxwell of committing perjury in those depositions.
In the months since Epstein died, federal agents have been discretely keeping an eye on Maxwell during the ongoing investigation. Prosecutors are asking for Maxwell to be held without bail, and also said they are continuing to investigate the case. Maxwell is “an extreme flight risk,” who faces the prospect of serving “many years in prison,” prosecutors said in a court filing. That filing also noted that Maxwell, the daughter of the late crooked media mogul Robert Maxwell, has extensive international connections, citizenship in Britain and France, passports from the U.S., United Kingdom and France, and large sums of money.
The filing stated that Maxwell has 15 different bank accounts, and has made intentional efforts to avoid detection, including moving locations at least twice, switching her primary phone number (which she registered under the name “G Max” and email address, and ordering packages for delivery with a different person listed on the shipping label.” The property she was living in at the time of her arrest was purchased in December by a limited liability corporation that was anonymized to hide the identity of the person or persons behind the purchase, according to prosecutors. The real estate agent who handled the sale for the seller said she was unaware of the buyer’s actual identity because the buyer’s representatives would not disclose it.
Maxwell is the first to be charged in the Epstein investigation besides Epstein himself. Audrey Strauss, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which is prosecuting the case said her office “would welcome” Prince Andrew “coming in and giving us an opportunity to hear his statement” about his relationship with Epstein and Maxwell. Prince Andrew previously has denied a claim by one of Epstein’s victims that he had sex with her at the direction of Maxwell.
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The U.S. coronavirus outbreak continues with over 3 million confirmed cases as more states reported record numbers of new infections, and Florida faced an impending shortage of intensive care unit hospital beds. Additional hospitalizations could strain healthcare systems in many areas, leading to an uptick in deaths from the respiratory illness that has killed more than 131,000 Americans since the pandemic began and many survivors are grappling with long-term complications. Authorities have reported alarming increases of daily caseloads in roughly two dozen states over the past two weeks, a sign that efforts to control transmission of the novel coronavirus have failed in large swaths of the country.
Last week, the country averaged just under 50,000 new cases daily — the highest rate recorded, and twice as high as a month ago. An influential coronavirus model has increased its projections for US deaths and it’s now forecasting more than 208,000 deaths by November. Experts say that face masks could save as many as 45,000 US lives by November if 95% of the population wears a covering in public, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, which built the model.
California, Hawaii, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma and Texas shattered their previous daily record highs for new cases. California reported more than 10,000 coronavirus cases in one day, a record rise for a single day that also surpassed the number of contact tracers recently trained by the state to detect and prevent potential outbreaks. About 24 states have also reported disturbingly high infection rates as a percentage of diagnostic tests conducted over the past week. New COVID-19 infections have risen in 42 states in the past two weeks. Only three other U.S. states have reported more than 10,000 cases in a day. Florida reported 11,458 new cases on July 4 and Texas reported 10,028 on July 7.
At least 56 intensive care units in Florida hospitals had reached capacity on July 7, state officials said. Another 35 hospitals show ICU bed availability of 10% or less, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration in that state. Georgia surpassed 100,000 reported coronavirus cases, becoming the ninth state to pass the mark. In California, the number of hospitalizations across the state were at an all-time high and the virus positivity rate jumped more than 2% in Los Angeles.
New York recorded 12,847 new infections on April 10, three weeks after the state implemented a strict lockdown that closed most businesses. Once the epicenter of the U.S. epidemic, New York saw cases rise by about 6% in June – the lowest rate in the entire country. In Texas, the number of hospitalized patients has more than doubled in just two weeks. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it was adding short-term “surge” testing sites in three metropolitan areas in Florida, Louisiana and Texas.
Affecting nearly one of every 100 Americans, the surge has forced authorities to backpedal on moves to reopen businesses, such as restaurants and bars, after mandatory lockdowns in March and April reduced economic activity to a virtual standstill and put millions of Americans out of work.
Governors and mayors in many states have ordered people in hotspot counties to wear face coverings in public. Recently published research found that on average, the time from exposure to symptom onset (known as the incubation period) is about five to six days. However, studies have shown that symptoms could appear as soon as three days after exposure to as long as 13 days later. That is why contact tracing is so important in controlling the spread of the coronavirus although in parts of the south and southwest, cases are now rising so quickly that experts are warning contact tracing isn’t possible any more.
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Researchers at the University of Chicago have documented 50 incidents of Black Lives Matter protestors being hit by cars from May 27 to June 17 across the country. The rash of attacks where they say right wing extremists have used their vehicles as weapons against Black Lives Matter protestors. Of those, five were by law enforcement and 45 by civilians. At least 18 are categorized as deliberate attacks; another two dozen are unclear as to motivation or are still under investigation, according to a count released Friday by Ari Weil, a terrorism researcher at the University of Chicago’s Chicago Project on Security and Threats. Weil has tracked vehicle-ramming attacks, or VRAs, since protests began.
Four were ruled accidental, including the viral incident when a tanker barreled down a highway in Minneapolis, sending terrified protesters running for their lives. Authorities later released the driver without charges, saying he had acted foolishly but did not deliberately target protesters.
The 20 people facing prosecution in the incidents include a state leader of the Virginia Ku Klux Klan, as well as a California man who was charged with attempted murder after antagonizing protesters and then driving into them, striking a teenage girl. Video footage of some attacks shows drivers yelling at or threatening Black Lives Matter protesters before hitting the gas.
In New York, an SUV driver sped through a peaceful protest march in Times Square, narrowly missing several people. In Bloomington, Indiana, two people were injured when a driver rammed a peaceful march demanding justice for a Black activist who survived an attempted lynching. In Long Island, New York, police arrested a man after he allegedly plowed his SUV into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters, injuring two people. One ramming in Boston unfolded live on the local TV news, with the reporter at the scene saying, “Several people just got hit! Several people just got run over!”
A 27-year-old man, Dawit Kelete was charged with vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and reckless driving after barreling into a Black Lives Matter protest on a closed Seattle freeway, killing protester Summer Taylor, 24, and seriously injuring nother protester, Diaz Love, 32. Kelete allegedly drove his white Jaguar onto a closed section of the interstate where ongoing demonstrations have been occurring, and slammed into Taylor and Diaz.
Surveillance video captured the 2013 Jaguar apparently speeding down the freeway, swerving around cars supporting the protest that were blocking the lanes, and striking Taylor and Love, who were walking on the shoulder. The blow knocked them into the air, over the roof of the vehicle, and onto the pavement. According to the charging documents, Kelete allegedly did not slow down as he drove on the shoulder, aiming for the two.
The last rash of vehicle rammings occurred in 2015 and 2016, Weil said, when the “Run Them Over” meme was popularized in far-right circles in response to Black Lives Matter protests and demonstrations against the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. The most high-profile attack occurred a year later, during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. James Alex Fields previously espoused neo-Nazi and white supremacist beliefs. He was convicted of hit and run and first degree murder after he plowed his car into a crowd, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and wounding dozens of others.
“To see dozens of these incidents occur over two weekends was surprisingly high. I want to caution that this isn’t just a far-right, neo-Nazi thing, but it’s becoming something that’s encouraged broadly, and I think that should worry everyone,” Weil said.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, July 12th, 2020.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, July 12th, 2020 was:
ALISA JONES
McBain, MI
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX/VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners & Drawing Entries 7/06/20 thru 7/12/20 are as follows:
7/6/20
Shannon Rush
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Sherry Lilly
Lori Capobianco
Leigh Reader
Josephine Casey
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Mary M
Dale Fish
Tonya Velazquez
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Sean Stover
Anna Nichols
Jessica Steiner
Be Schwerin
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Trish Marks
Priscilla Shimp
Paula Johnson
Tammy Lee Stookey
Donna Porter
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Rhonda Grisham
7/7/20
Cathy Ahner
Melanie Raman
Sheila Carvell
Jenifer Garza
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Paula Gillespie
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Mike Wallace
Katrina Worford
Marcia Gauer
Michelle Webb
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Tina David Konegan
Cathie Ahner
Dawn Raasch
Jennifer Ramlet
Karyn Koehler
Pam Johnson Rowland
Paula Johnson
Steve Ahner
Rosanne Clark
Jessica Steiner
Stephen Earl
7/8/20
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Kristina Harris
Jennifer Vega
Rhonda Grisham
Katrina Worford
Kim Avery
Darlene Whyte
Jill Nagel
Madeline Lonergan
Brooke Scott
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Linda Godin
Melissa Shaulis Mazzur
Brandy Cardenas
Michelle Webb
Mary M
Tammy Lee Stookey
Becky Holland
Be Schwerin
Jennifer Ramlet
7/9/20
Jennifer Marie
Phylicia Phillips
Sarah Frank
Brittany Doerfler
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Rhonda Grisham
Debbie Bloxom
Sunney Michelle Johnson
April Ashcraft
Suzanne Driscoll
Josephine Casey
Tiffany Borek
Ashley Agner
Leigh Reader
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Rosanne Clark
Kimberly Snyder
Stephen Earl
Carrie Capehart
Sue Dudley
Christy Hawkes
7/10/20
Tom JG
Angela Janisse
Lucyna Dorota
Pam Johnson Rowland
Jessica Steiner
Kevin Cusack
Be Schwerin
Becky Holland
Amanda Kyrie’ Ayala
Yolanda Oretega-Hackett
Kimberly Snyder
Vickie Gipson
Eleazar Ruiz
Shannon Rush
Trish Hysell
Debbie Bloxom
Kate Williams
Lisa Puckett
Gina Guarente Fieger
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
April Ashcraft
7/11/20
Jill Nauyokas
Kristina Harris
Brandi K Chaney
Rhonda Grisham
Carrie Vucinaj
Briana Washington
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Stacy Nelson
Lori Sexton Leal
Cathy Ahner
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Michelle Webb
April Ashcraft
Becky Holland
Mary M
Angela Janisse
Steve Ahner
Stephanie McCoy
Alicia Dansby
Jay Robert
Mike Wallace
7/12/20
Brittany Doerfler
Melinda Sue Fritz
Becky Holland
Nia Rammal
April Ashcraft
Kate Williams
Jenifer Garza
Lori Capobianco
Tammy Lee Stookey
Lori Capobiance
Jodi Stevens
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Alicia Dansby
Alana Dimambro
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Stacy Nelson
Wendy Pesce
Carrie Capehart
Shannon Rush
Alisa Jones
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The family of Vanessa Guillen, the 20-year-old Fort Hood soldier who has been missing since April 22, says military investigators have positively identified her remains. The remains were found last week in a shallow grave near the Texas Army base. The Army said that one suspect, Cecily Anne Aguilar, was in custody in connection with Guillen’s disappearance. A second suspect in the case, Specialist Aaron David Robinson, took his own life in Killeen, Texas, as officers approached him.
Guillen was reported missing on April 23 and her car keys, identification card, bank card, and barracks key were found inside the armory where she worked. Her family felt Guillen disappeared under suspicious circumstances. The case was investigated under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with Bell County Sheriff’s Office. They began searching the area and SPC Robinson was interviewed for the first time on April 28.
On June 19, Aguilar is interviewed for the first time and the remains of another missing soldier, Pvt. Gregory Morales, were found outside Fort Hood during the search for Guillen. The remains were left in a field near the 3200 block of Florence Road in Killeen. Morales had been missing since August 2019 and was listed by the Army as a deserter. Robinson left his post on June 30 and shot himself in the head as police tried to make contact with him along a roadside in the early morning hours of July 1st. CID interviewed Aguilar a second time hours after Robinson killed herself and she helped lead investigators to the remains of Guillen. She admitted that he picked her up from her job and in the early morning hours of April 23, showed her the body of Guillen, admitting he bludgeoned her on base.
Army investigators told the family Guillen was beaten to death with a hammer in the armory building where she worked before being removed from the base. According to her family, Guillén had been planning on reporting Robinson for sexual harassment. Aguilar admitted that the two dismembered the body and attempted to burn the remains before placing them in two separate holes. They returned and continued dismembering the remains to better conceal the murder. Aguilar is being held in custody while the criminal investigation continues. If convicted, she could face up to 20 years in prison. She is expected back in court on 14 July, when bail could be considered.
Guillen’s family has called for a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood base. They allege that she was harassed by someone in her unit. Her sister, Mayra Guillen said last week she believed her sister was afraid during her time on the base. Officials have said they have no report to indicate she was sexually harassed or assaulted. Major General Scott Efflandt said the army would “complete the ongoing investigation into sexual harassment and take action against those findings” at the base, in addition to the investigation into Guillen’s murder.
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Protests against racism and police violence continued over the weekend. In Aurora, Colorado, police used pepper spray on crowds as thousands took to the streets, shutting down an interstate, in a call for justice for Elijah McClain. McClain, 23, was killed by police after he was tackled by police as he headed home from a local convenience store, placed in a chokehold and then injected with the sedative ketamine by paramedics. Three officers with the Aurora Police Department were fired, and a fourth resigned, after they took selfie photos reenacting the killing of Elijah McClain in front of a memorial for him two months after his death. Aurora’s interim police chief, Vanessa Wilson, called the photo a “crime against humanity and decency.”
Colorado Governor Jared Polis announced a special prosecutor would reopen a probe into the police killing of Elijah McClain. Those officers are Erica Marrero and Kyle Dittrich. The officer in the middle of the photos, Jaron Jones, resigned. Officer Jason Rosenblatt, one of the officers involved in McClain’s arrest, was terminated after responding via text to the photos with “haha.” It’s not clear if Rosenblatt will appeal his termination.
Federal law enforcement agencies revealed that, since last year, they’ve been investigating the death of Elijah McClain at the hands of Aurora police and paramedics. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the Denver Division of the FBI said in a news release that the recent international attention around the death of McClain caused them to disclose their ongoing investigation. McClain was walking home from a store when a passerby called 911 and reported McClain was acting odd.
Three officers responded to the call and located McClain walking northbound near Interstate 225. McClain was wearing a mask but was not armed, and had not committed a crime. McClain didn’t stop when officers told him to, later telling them he had his music playing on his headphones and couldn’t hear them. One officer grabs McClain, who asked the officer to respect his boundaries, placed him in a chokehold and tackled him to the ground. He was also given ketamine, a sedative, by an Aurora Fire Department paramedic.
The officers claim McClain resisted arrest and that he attempted to take one of their guns. Body camera footage does not show McClain reaching for their guns. McClain “briefly went unconscious,” according to a report the local district attorney, Dave Young, completed last fall. McClain could also be heard in the police video telling the officers, “I can’t breathe, please,” and he vomited while he was on the ground. When paramedics arrived, McClain was injected with ketamine, placed into soft cuffs and loaded into an ambulance. About seven minutes after he received the ketamine, McClain had no pulse in the ambulance and went into cardiac arrest, the report said. Medics were able to revive him, but he was later declared brain dead, and he was taken off life support less than a week later.
Mari Newman, an attorney for McClain’s family, said that the ketamine was unnecessary and that she wants a thorough investigation. “The Aurora medics had no right to inject Elijah with ketamine at all,” she said. “He was handcuffed, crushed against the ground by officers much larger then he was, and he was not fighting. He was begging for his life, vomiting and trying to breathe. And they certainly had no right to involuntary inject him with a dose intended for someone over twice his size.”
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The World Health Organization is warning “the worst is yet to come” as countries across the globe are experiencing new spikes, with some putting the brakes on reopening. The pandemic is the worst in the Americas, where the number of COVID-19 deaths are projected to nearly triple to 627,000 by October 1. Coronavirus cases have now surpassed 11 million worldwide, with over a half-million deaths. Cases continue to surge across much of the United States, where confirmed cases have now topped 2.8 million, with over 128,000 reported deaths — that’s one-quarter of the world’s cases and deaths, though the U.S. has just over 4% of the global population.
Spikes are being reported in 36 states. Only two states — Connecticut and Rhode Island — saw a decline in new cases compared to the previous week. The United States has set another grim coronavirus record, confirming nearly 52,000 cases of COVID-19 in just 24 hours. Alaska, Arizona, California, Georgia, Idaho, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas all reported single-day record levels of the disease with hospitals in some regions already overwhelmed with patients.
At least a dozen states have “paused” their reopening. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered bars in seven counties, including Los Angeles, to close. The governors of Florida and Texas have ordered bars to close, among other restrictions, in an attempt to curb the surge in cases. A major hospital system in Houston reportedly stopped disclosing COVID-19 data after its ICU capacity hit 100%, and following conversations with Governor Greg Abbott in which he expressed concern over negative headlines. Both governors are refusing to impose statewide stay-at-home orders and mandate the wearing of face masks.
More states around the country are imposing new measures and rolling back their reopening as coronavirus cases continue to surge. The governors of Oregon and Kansas are mandating face masks for residents. Jacksonville, Florida, also said it will make face coverings mandatory. Seven cities in Texas say they will impose orders mandating face masks. Meanwhile, hospitals in Texas report a dire situation as cases surge.
Meanwhile, beaches in Los Angeles, as well as several Florida counties, were closed for Fourth of July weekend. Despite skyrocketing cases, crowds still packed many of the open beaches in coastal cities for the Fourth of July holiday weekend, sparking further fears of new spikes.
Officials in Texas, Florida and Arizona say the states’ early reopenings helped fuel the explosion in cases. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom reimposed coronavirus restrictions, shutting down bars and indoor dining in 19 counties that are home to more than 70% of California’s population. In Arizona, Governor Doug Ducey ordered bars, gyms, movie theaters and water parks closed for at least 30 days amid an exponential rise in new infections. New York City has also halted plans to reopen indoor dining at restaurants. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have ordered travelers from 16 states with high infection rates to self-quarantine upon their arrival.
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