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Tuesday, October 6, 2020
CDC acknowledges COVID-19 is airborne, can travel beyond six feet
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged Monday that coronavirus can spread through particles in the air and sometimes travel beyond distances of six feet — after walking back similar guidance last month.
The update on the agency’s site said that “COVID-19 can sometimes be spread by airborne transmission” due to small droplets that linger in the air for anywhere from minutes to hours.
“There is evidence that under certain conditions, people with COVID-19 seem to have infected others who were more than six feet away,” the agency said.
“These transmissions occurred within enclosed spaces that had inadequate ventilation. Sometimes the infected person was breathing heavily, for example while singing or exercising.”
The agency added that “under these circumstances, scientists believe that the amount of infectious smaller droplet and particles produced by the people with COVID-19 became concentrated enough to spread the virus to other people.”
“The people who were infected were in the same space during the same time or shortly after the person with COVID-19 had left,” the page said.
The admission comes after similar guidance was posted last month and then taken down.
“A draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency’s official website,” a CDC spokesman told the Wall Street Journal at the time.
The CDC said Monday it “continues to believe, based on current science, that people are more likely to become infected the longer and closer they are to a person with COVID-19.”
“Today’s update acknowledges the existence of some published reports showing limited, uncommon circumstances where people with COVID-19 infected others who were more than 6 feet away or shortly after the COVID-19-positive person left an area,” the agency said in a statement.
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Trump releases video after White House return, says ‘don’t be afraid’ of COVID-19
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2020
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Monday, October 5, 2020
When the Lubavitcher Rebbe Met Public School Children in His Sukkah in 1976
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Masses at funeral of Pittsburgh Rebbe in Ashdod
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Why did Russian police fake a rabbi's death?
Authorities in Russia staged the death of a rabbi as part of a sting operation that ended with the arrest of two alleged terrorists who are said to have ordered to have him killed.
The operation has been ongoing since last year, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs revealed last week. The ministry neither named the suspects, who were identified only as being 60 and 70, nor indicated when they had been arrested.
The suspects are leaders of an extremist group known as Citizens of the USSR, which does not recognize the dissolution of the Soviet Union, according to the ministry.
Last year, members of that movement began targeting and threatening the Jewish community of Krasnodar, a city in southern Russia, the ministry said. Murder was among the threats.
An undercover counterterrorism agent approached the suspects and offered to kill Rabbi Aryeh Leib Tkatch, chairman of the Jewish Community of Krasnodar, if they accepted him into their ranks as a senior member. The suspects agreed and a police makeup artist worked with Tkatch on a photoshoot in which his death was staged.
The agent presented the photos to the suspects as proof he had done their bidding. They were arrested after giving the agent certificates accepting him into their ranks as a field commander, the ministry’s report said.
Under communism, open religious worship, especially by Jews, was largely prohibited. The collapse of communism led to a revival of Jewish life in Russia with support from the government of President Vladimir Putin.
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Trump Gets a "Mi She'beirach" at the Kotel From the Kotel Rabbi and Chief Rabbis
A special 'Mi SheBeirach' prayer was recited at the Western Wall Monday morning, wishing for the speedy recovery of President Donald Trump.
The prayer was recited following the Birkat Kohanim ceremony, and was recited by the two Chief Rabbis of Israel, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon.
The prayer was recited as follows:
"From this holy place, in the presence of the Chief Rabbis of Israel, the American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon, we shall recite the 'mi shebeirach' prayer on behalf of the American President, and pray for his recovery and success."
"May the One who blessed our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Moses, Aaron, David, and Solomon, heal Donald John the son of Fred by virtue of our prayers."
"May The Holy One, Blessed is He overflow with compassion upon him, to restore him, to heal him, to strengthen him,
and to enliven him, and to send him speedily a complete healing from heaven for his entire body, among the sick of Israel. A healing of the soul and of the body, soon, speedily, without delay."
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NINE NEIGHBORHOODS FACE SHUTDOWNS THIS WEDNESDAY
New York City’s mayor said Sunday that he has asked the state for permission to close schools and reinstate restrictions on nonessential businesses in several neighborhoods because of a resurgence of the coronavirus.
The action, if approved, would mark a disheartening retreat for a city that enjoyed a summer with less spread of the virus than most other parts of the country, and had only recently celebrated the return of students citywide to in-person learning in classrooms.
Shutdowns would happen starting Wednesday in nine ZIP codes in the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
DEBLASIO SAID: “This would begin this Wednesday morning coming – Wednesday, October 7th – require the closure of nonessential businesses in these nine ZIP codes, and I want to go through them now. It’s Edgemere, Far Rockaway 11691; Borough Park, 11219, Gravesend, Homecrest, 11223; Midwood, 11230; Bensonhurst and Mapleton, 11204; Flatlands, Midwood, 11210; Gerritsen Beach, Homecrest, Sheepshead Bay, 11229; Kew Gardens, 11415; and Kew Gardens Hills, Pomonok, 112469 – those are the nine ZIP codes that have over three percent positivity for at least seven consecutive days.”
About 100 public schools and 200 private schools would have to close. Indoor dining, which just resumed a few days ago, would be suspended. Outdoor restaurant dining would shut down in the affected neighborhoods as well, and gyms would close.
Houses of worship would be allowed to remain open with existing restrictions in place, de Blasio said.
The mayor, a Democrat, said he was taking the action in an attempt to stop the virus from spreading deeper into the city and becoming a “second wave,” like the one that killed more than 24,000 New Yorkers in the spring.
“We’ve learned over and over from this disease that it is important to act aggressively, and when the data tells us it’s time for even the toughest and most rigorous actions we follow the data, we follow the science,” de Blasio said.
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HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein: “We’re Obligated To Daven For President Trump”
Hagaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein, a member of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah, the Rav of the Ramat Elchanan neighborhood of Bnei Brak, and the son-in-law of HaRav Elyashiv, z’tl, paskened that Jews are obligated daven for the refuah shleimah of President Trump due to the obligation of Hakaras HaTov (gratitude).
On the first day of Chol Hamoed in Israel, following the announcement that US President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus [and was subsequently hospitalized], Kikar H’Shabbos asked HaRav Zilberstein: “Is the Jewish nation obligated to daven for the refuah of US President Donald Trump?”
HaRav Zilberstein initially responded that he’s not worthy of paskening on the issue, saying that this can only be decided with the approval and at the instruction of Gedolei Yisrael since it’s only appropriate for a great Jewish leader to call to daven for the most powerful leader of the nations of the world.
However, Rav Zilberstein then added that in his opinion we are obligated to daven: “It’s a great obligation to daven for the refuah of Trump and this is due to the din of Hakaras HaTov and this is how Hagaon HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv paskened.”
The Rav added that we should daven for Trump using his name and the name of his father, Donald John ben Fred Trump, noting that this is what the Maharshal writes.
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Pittsburger Rebbe Dies From COVID-19
The Pittsburger Rebbe, HaRav Mordechai Mottel Yissachar Leifer, 64. was Niftar late Sunday night.
He had been on a respirator since he was hospitalized in mid-August for COVID-19.
The Levaya will be on Monday in Ashdod.
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