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Here’s a timely panel discussion for church leaders.
ReOpening Churches: Executive Operations & Facility Management After COVID-19, Vanderbloemen
As we transition from thinking about COVID-19 strategies to post-COVID-19, how can we start preparing operations and facility management after such an unprecedented change in the way we gather and worship?
Now is the time to determine what values and processes will remain consistent, what innovative strategies you’ve uncovered in the past weeks that need to be further integrated into your church, and what needs to be completely restructured to experience God to the fullest capacity when your church doors open again. I spoke with a panel of church leaders to discuss how they’re preparing to reopen their facilities.
The already at-risk are even more at-risk in New York.
COVID-19 hits the developmentally disabled with ferocity, WORLD Magazine
“For a good three minutes he stood by the spot where she used to eat and was spaced out,” said Folly-Gah. The residents have lived together for decades, and usually if anyone from the house has to go to the hospital, the others go to visit. They can’t now. The residents keep asking Folly-Gah about their hospitalized housemate: “Is she coming back?”
Those in New York with developmental disabilities—autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, or similar physical and intellectual disabilities that require supportive care—have experienced the dual economic and physical evils of the virus.
First Boris Johnson, now Mikhail Mishustin
Russian PM Mishustin tests positive for virus, BBC
Mr Mishustin was given the role of prime minister in January and has been actively involved in Russia’s handling of the epidemic.
Russian TV showed him telling President Vladimir Putin of his diagnosis.
“I have just learned that the test on the coronavirus I took was positive,” the prime minister said during the video call.
Anthony Fauci sees hope in remdesivir.
Fauci voices optimism about remdesivir as treatment for COVID-19 infection, CBS News.
This development is “really quite important for a number of reasons,” Fauci said, calling the data “highly significant.” He said that the recovery time was reduced from 15 days to 11 days in the drug trial, which involved over 1,000 hospitalized patients in the U.S., Germany, Denmark, Spain, Greece and other countries, and was, he said,”the first truly high-powered, randomized, placebo-controlled” trial for a coronavirus treatment.
The LA Times board calls for an inquiry into Joe Biden allegations.
Tara Reade’s allegation that Joe Biden assaulted her demands an independent investigation, LA TIMES
As he prepares to claim the Democratic presidential nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden is rightly being exhorted to make a fuller and more public response to an allegation by Tara Reade, who asserts that Biden sexually assaulted her when she was on his Senate staff in the 1990s. But what Biden says about the accusation — which his campaign flatly denies — is less important than what he does. And what he should do is agree to an independent investigation of Reade’s troubling claims.