L.A. County teachers eligible for vaccine starting Monday
Teachers and workers in child care, emergency services and food and agriculture will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations in Los Angeles County starting Monday, though officials warn that the pace will be slowed by limited supply.
Nearly 1.2 million people fall into these newly approved categories, according to county estimates. They will join about 2.2 million L.A. County residents who are already eligible to be vaccinated — those who work in healthcare, live in long-term care facilities or are 65 or older.
“Opening eligibility to more groups of essential workers will save more lives and accelerate our recovery,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Sunday in a statement.
The county has so far administered 2,049,666 doses of vaccine (first and second doses), according to The Times’ vaccination tracker.
Newly eligible residents will be able to make appointments at city-run vaccination sites starting Monday, the mayor’s office said, but only a small number of first-dose appointments will be available this week, at Pierce College.
The 70,000 doses of Moderna vaccine the city expects to receive Monday will go primarily to its six mass vaccination sites, which are open Tuesday through Saturday, to be administered as second doses, Garcetti’s office said. Appointments for the second shot were being scheduled automatically for people who received their first dose at a city-run site between Feb. 1 and 6.
An additional 7,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine that are expected Monday will be provided as first doses through the city’s mobile vaccination program, which aims to deliver inoculations directly to the hardest-hit neighborhoods, officials said.
The program is set to triple the number of doses administered this week, from 4,000 to 12,000, through clinics offering first doses in Baldwin Hills, South Park, Highland Park, Panorama City, Westlake and Pacoima and clinics offering second doses in Baldwin Hills, South Park and Vermont Vista, the city said.
Supply remains the chief barrier to doling out more vaccine, Garcetti’s office said, noting that last week the city administered more than 90,000 doses, a peak but still only 68% of the program’s capacity.
Like many states, California has distributed the vaccine in phases, setting broad criteria for who can be inoculated at each step. Exactly how that has played out has varied by city and county, with officials facing tough choices when it comes to determining who should be prioritized to receive a limited share of vaccine.
Long Beach, which has its own health department and receives its own vaccine supply, started vaccinating food workers and educators in January at sector-specific clinics. More than 3,000 restaurant workers, market employees, cooks and other food industry workers are slated to be vaccinated Friday at a clinic at the Long Beach Convention Center, the city said.
In San Francisco, workers in education, child care and food and agriculture were eligible to receive vaccinations starting Friday.
Orange County last week began earmarking doses for workers in education, child care, and food and agriculture, saying it would dedicate 30% of its allocation to workers in those sectors, as well as those in emergency services; the remaining 70% goes to residents 65 or older. Seniors and first responders who work in high-risk communities have been eligible to be vaccinated since mid-January.
San Bernardino County also expanded vaccinations to educators last week, and Ventura County said it would start vaccinating teachers, food and agriculture workers and emergency services workers.
San Luis Obispo County will start scheduling vaccinations for some local child-care workers and teachers starting Monday; they will be contacted by their employer for an appointment and should not try to schedule one themselves, the county said.
California and other states have seen political discord over vaccination priorities, and leaders have said such clashes are unavoidable.
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-Ky.) said his state was about to become the first to fully vaccinate all educators, but the process has been contentious at times. “We pushed our teachers to the front of the line, moving them up faster than the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] or other states had,” the governor said in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“Everything’s difficult in COVID, even the concept of what’s an essential worker — is one person more essential than another?”
Where educators are concerned, Beshear said, Kentucky was guided by science as well as social need.
“It was development for our children scholastically, emotionally and socially,” he said. “We made this call early on — we stuck to it.”
The expansions in eligibility come as public health authorities in California and across the country continue to report declines in new cases and hospitalizations.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Sunday recorded 1,064 new cases of the coronavirus and 107 related deaths. There were 1,578 COVID-19 patients in county hospitals Saturday, a drop of nearly 50% from two weeks before.
Still, experts say it’s critical to remain cautious.
President Biden’s chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said Sunday that even with heartening news about the declining national caseload and the accelerating vaccine rollout, some states, including California, are a source of concern because of emerging variants of the virus.
Appearing on “Face the Nation,” Fauci said “we will be” victorious in the fight against the virus, but “we’re not there yet, particularly with the variants that are circulating in various parts of the country, such as in California and New York.”
In California, these include the U.K. variant, which spreads more readily than its predecessors and may be more deadly, as well as a homegrown variant that may have the ability to evade antibodies generated by vaccines or prior infection.
The presence of the variants, combined with the sluggish pace of vaccinations due to supply constraints and fatigue over public health rules, have some expressing fears of a potential “fourth wave” of new cases.
That possibility has set off a race to vaccinate as many people as possible before a surge triggers another wave of suffering and gives the variants more opportunities to mutate. Authorities hope to significantly speed up efforts with the arrival of a vaccine by Johnson & Johnson that requires only one dose, unlike the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and does not need to be stored at such cold temperatures.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine was cleared Saturday by the Food and Drug Administration and recommended Sunday by a CDC committee. Senior officials from the Biden administration said they were excited to add a third approved vaccine to the country’s arsenal.
“The bottom line here is we have a safe and highly efficacious vaccine,” said one official, who requested anonymity when discussing the administration’s plans.
Another official said nearly 4 million Johnson & Johnson doses would be distributed as soon as Tuesday.
However, that represents the company’s entire stockpile, and it could take time to ramp up production. An additional 16 million doses are expected to be shipped by the end of March. Delivery will be “uneven,” the official said, but “we’re getting doses out the door as quickly as possible.”
Fauci, appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” called the approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine “very good news.” If he were awaiting a shot, he said, “I would take whatever vaccine would be available to me as quickly as possible.”
The Johnson & Johnson approval means that “now we have three important tools” for combating the virus through vaccinations, Fauci added.
CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky agreed, saying in a statement that the approval comes “at a potentially pivotal time.”
“CDC’s latest data suggest that recent declines in COVID-19 cases may be stalling and potentially leveling off at still very high numbers,” Walensky said. “That is why it is so critical that we remain vigilant and consistently take all of the mitigation steps we know work to stop the spread of COVID-19 while we work our way toward mass vaccination.”
Forget ‘Succession.’ You Can Watch ‘90 Day Fiancé’ for 100 Hours Straight.
“Ninety Day Fiancé” is, on some Sunday nights, the most-watched show on television. And in the latest innovation in streaming, Discovery+ includes a channel that lets you watch it for four days straight without seeing the same episode twice.
If you’re not familiar with the six-year-old show, as a surprisingly large share of New Yorkers (my editors here, shamefully, included) are, the 90 days of the title refers to the period in which the noncitizen holder of a K-1 visa may remain in the country before marriage or face deportation. The show chronicles couples through that period, complete with skeptical in-laws, bickering and the enchantment or disenchantment with Nebraska or New Hampshire, all with countdown music and chyrons like “73 Days to Wed.”
Now, on the Discovery+ show “90 Days Bares All” (one of about a dozen spinoffs, including “90 Day Fiancé: Self-Quarantined”), the show can “push the boundaries even further versus the standards and practices of a regular cable channel,” said Howard Lee, the president of TLC, one of the cable networks that make up Discovery’s U.S. business. So you can watch the couples scream curses at one another, unbleeped, or discuss their favorite sex toys.
The biggest story in big media these days is the “streaming wars,” the scramble by the people who traditionally make TV and movies to catch up with Netflix. Disney is dominating the race for second place; it’s unclear who else will even survive. CBS limps to the party next month with Paramount+, with the hopeful (to the company) and terrifying (to consumers) suggestion that normal, content-addicted Americans will wind up putting down their credit cards for five different streaming services.
Discovery, the dominant programmer of what used to be called “reality TV” and it now prefers to call “real life,” has emerged as perhaps the most successful new entrant to this complicated, high-stakes competition. It is bringing along a mostly female audience. The company says it has 12 million paid subscriptions around the world, a more than respectable start that has helped make the company’s stock among the best performing on the S&P 500 this year (though it’s also riding a broader wave in the market).
The app, which was introduced on Jan. 4, has a sheer mass of content that rivals Netflix, with 55,000 episodes — and it’s rolling out a suite of exclusive content dominated by American cultural figures like Oprah Winfrey, a procession of People cover fixtures led by Chip and Joanna Gaines and pop icons including the chef Guy Fieri. (Discovery also bid nine figures for a deal with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, but the couple chose to go with Netflix, which has been less insistent on exclusivity, two people familiar with the conversations said.)
The app’s early success is partly the result of a deal with Verizon, and Discovery won’t disclose the share of its subscriptions coming via that route; it also won’t say how many subscriptions are for an unrelated European sports service. (A media analyst, Michael Nathanson, estimates that Verizon provided about 20 percent of the five million subscriptions in the United States.) But the surge in new sign-ups this year beat analysts’ expectations, initial validation of the company’s big bet that delivering shows through new apps on a range of devices is now a fully mainstream phenomenon. And as the hype falls away about technical bells and whistles and using new kinds of data to predict people’s interests, the audience still loves watching people fix houses, tour diners, crawl around sewers and bicker about their relationships.
“Our bet is when the world makes a full rotation, that the content people have chosen when they could choose anything on TV or cable, the content that they love and run home for — ‘90 Day,’ ‘Fixer Upper,’ ‘Property Brothers’ — they’re still going to love that,” said David M. Zaslav, the president and chief executive of Discovery. “In the end, people really don’t change that much.”
That’s Mr. Zaslav’s unromantic version of the old declaration that content is king. And it’s a punctuation mark to a media era that began with a vertiginous sense of transformation. It has instead devolved into me explaining to my 11-year-old Disney’s devious strategy of releasing a single episode of “WandaVision” at the same time each week, producing an experience mysteriously identical to the way we used to watch television.
Mr. Zaslav, too, is the last of his kind — the “last tycoon,” his old friend, the former HBO chief executive Richard Plepler, told me. He’s a relentless, fleece-vested mogul who likes to call reporters to talk his own book (and caught me on Tuesday morning in a moment of panic about what I would write this week). He likes to visit his stars at home, and to keep them close. He pals around with Disney’s former chief, Bob Iger, and Mr. Plepler, and others who rose by creating television and films. But those companies are now run by people who come out of other parts of the business — telecommunications or apps or theme parks. He’s a Hamptons mainstay who also holds an annual “boys’ dinner” for 50 of his closest male friends, including Apple’s content chief Eddy Cue and the Netflix co-chief executive Ted Sarandos, in Los Angeles. The dinner is held during a golf tournament to which Discovery holds the television rights.
The smooth start of Discovery+ comes as streamers closer to the heart of the media class are struggling. Apple’s service is off to a slow start. WarnerMedia’s HBO Max has been defined by stumbles. But Discovery remains in an odd position in the media business: The company, which is valued at more than $23 billion, is far smaller than the handful of dominant media and telecommunications conglomerates. But it is too big to be acquired by any but a few companies. There’s a running debate among those who know Mr. Zaslav about whether he’s buying or selling — that is, whether Discovery+ is another move to make the company more attractive for a giant to swallow before the bottom really falls out of the U.S. cable business or whether the company’s current high stock price will prompt Mr. Zaslav to acquire other businesses.
“He should use this opportunity to make his business stronger,” said Mr. Nathanson, the media analyst, who suggested that Discovery “buy CNN.”
Mr. Zaslav, who was involved in the creation of CNBC and MSNBC as an executive at NBC from 1989 to 2006, has begun to play in the global news business. Discovery is an investor in GB News, a right-of-center television challenger to the BBC. In Poland this year, the Discovery-owned channel TVN went dark along with other media outlets to protest the latest government attempt to hobble independent media. Mr. Zaslav said the investments in those channels were part of a strategy to sell streaming services as a bundle with news and sports.
But he said he hadn’t talked to CNN’s president, Jeff Zucker, an East Hampton golf partner, about buying the network from its parent company, AT&T, and signaled that he was leery of the political charge that comes with top-shelf American cable news.
“News is very overplayed and excoriated here in the U.S.,” he said.
Discovery has its own nuanced cultural politics, which are the subject of a whole school of cultural criticism. The success of “90 Day” tracked Donald Trump’s xenophobic rise, and the show was “so rooted in real-world consequences and the real lives of these people that it often feels too tender to touch,” Scaachi Koul wrote in 2019. “The politics of immigration and class and race and gender are so present in every episode, you sometimes have to watch through the cracks of your eyelids.”
Much of the company’s audience emphatically includes Donald Trump’s America (though shows like “90 Day” also have cult followings among, say, readers of New York Magazine’s Vulture). Some of its programming is resolutely anti-coastal. But its casting is inclusive, its couples diverse. And its programming also offers a clue as to why Republican attempts to revive, in particular, anti-L.G.B.T. culture war attacks have lost some of their political effectiveness. TLC’s version of real life regularly includes an array of couples. One “90 Day” spinoff tells the story of an American-born partner relocating to his husband’s native Mexico and grappling with overt homophobia. At one point, looking up at a giant statue of Jesus Christ in Cantamar, the American-born partner reassures his husband, “I think he would approve of us.”
The tensest relationships for Mr. Zaslav, as for the other streamers, are with distributors. The chairman of the Dish Network last week warned Discovery that selling content through the app could mean lower fees from cable companies and other pay TV operators. But that threat hasn’t materialized yet.
The bigger question may be if and when the service will develop an identity, or high-profile programming, that feels more than a supplement to the television network. It is an experiment, as my colleague John Koblin wrote, in whether people will pay $5 a month (or $7 without ads) for a service that plays in the background while you fold laundry or pay the bills.
So far, the exclusive content is mostly for superfans of specific shows, with occasional experiments with formats that don’t fit neatly onto cable. One early attempt is “Ben’s Workshop,” which the host, Ben Napier, said he was pleased that Discovery+ had picked up. “People kept saying, ‘Ben should have a woodworking show’ and I kept retweeting it and tagging the network and saying we should do this,” he said. “I didn’t care if it was going to be a social media-only show. I really wanted to make the show.” And Mr. Fieri told me he’s shooting four episodes of an adventure show in Hawaii for the service that “wouldn’t have been able to sit right in that mainstream track of doing what Food Network does.”
But the company says it will increasingly put more of its desirable content there first, including a drinking show featuring the chef Ina Garten and the actress Melissa McCarthy, as well as shows with the promising titles, “Amy Schumer Learns to Cook: Uncensored” and “Judi Dench’s Wild Borneo Adventure.”
And while the emergence of Discovery+ is mostly an indication that shifting distribution technologies haven’t changed American tastes, that doesn’t mean the shift is without consequence. Sunny Anderson, a co-host of “The Kitchen” on the Food Network, said she had been — mostly — enjoying a wave of feedback about older content.
Last week, a viewer messaged her to congratulate her on her weight loss.
“I thought, what did they watch? I haven’t lost any weight,” she said, then realized that they were deep in her library, watching old episodes of her show “Cooking for Real.” She said she had to reply, “You’re watching me 10 years ago, I’ve actually gained weight.”
iPhone 13 release date: When can we expect to see the new phones?
The iPhone 12 Pro Max was released in October.
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Though it’s been only a few months since the iPhone 12 went on sale, Apple is already setting its sights on its next flagship smartphone, the iPhone 13 (or whatever it ends up being called). We’re expecting to see four versions of the new phone: the iPhone 13, the iPhone 13 Mini, the iPhone 13 Pro and the iPhone 13 Pro Max, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. But when can we expect Apple to unveil its newest phones?
Apple has yet to hint at any iPhone 13 event date. Based on Apple’s history, however, we can typically predict when the company’s iPhone events will happen, and make an educated guess on a release date based on that. While the pandemic changed the usual course for 2020, marking the first September Apple event in eight years without an iPhone due to production delays, Kuo predicts that 2021 will see a return to the company’s typical cadence.
Read more:Every iPhone 13 rumor we’ve heard so far
If this is true, we can expect to get a first look at the iPhone 13 at an event at some point in September.
Apple usually holds its events on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, and iPhone release dates typically are set about a week and a half after Apple announces the new devices. Usually, new iPhones are released on a Friday, around the third week of September.
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A few years ago, CNET took a deep dive into the Apple event timeline and emerged with a compelling Labor Day hypothesis, which you can read about here. Based on the 2021 calendar, the Labor Day rule would put the September Apple event (and the unveiling of the iPhone 13) on Sept. 8, with a Sept. 17 release date.
We won’t know if this is true until Apple announces an event, and shows off the phones. But if you want to plan ahead and save up for an iPhone 13, we’d bet on the September timeline, at least for now.
For more, check out why the iPhone 13 could have a 120Hz always-on display, and our review of the iPhone 12.
Stay up-to-date on the latest news, reviews and advice on iPhones, iPads, Macs, services and software.
“Remarkable how our doctors and scientists have worked in quick time to strengthen the global fight against COVID-19,” PM Modi tweeted.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi early on March 1 morning took the first shot of COVAXIN, the Indian-researched and produced COVID-19 vaccine (produced by Bharat Biotech) at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.
Tweeting a picture of himself getting a shot, Prime Minister Modi said:”Took my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS. Remarkable how our doctors and scientists have worked in quick time to strengthen the global fight against COVID-19. I appeal to all those who are eligible to take the vaccine. Together, let us make India COVID-19 free!”
It was learnt that the nurse who administered the vaccine jab to Prime Minister Modi was Sister P. Niveda of Puducherry, assisted by a nurse from Kerala. In an interesting coincidence, Kerala and Puducherry are both going to polls in April.
Prime Minister Modi wore an Assamese gamcha, another State going to polls.
Sources said no special route was laid out for the Prime Minister and the lack of traffic early morning was used to ensure that the visit did not cause inconvenience for Delhi commuters.
At a meeting of Chief Ministers on vaccine disbursal, Prime Minister Modi had said that political leaders and legislators should allow health and frontline workers to get the jab first as they need protection. He had said that most political leaders would get their turn when senior citizens aged above 50 would be allowed to get the jab. On March 1st the centre allowed both government and private hospitals to administer the vaccine to those aged above 45 years with declared co-morbidities.
India has given emergency use approval to AstraZeneca-developed and India-produced Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin.
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A Walmart in Sacramento was evacuated Sunday afternoon after someone set off a firework inside the store, officials with the Sacramento Fire Department said.Officials said a person placed a firework in a shirt and lit it inside the Walmart, which is located on Truxel Road in Natomas.Staff quickly extinguished the firework, and fire crews evacuated customers due to the smoke.The store will remain closed until the smoke is removed.No injuries were reported in the incident.No other details were released.Stay with KCRA 3 for the latest.
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A Walmart in Sacramento was evacuated Sunday afternoon after someone set off a firework inside the store, officials with the Sacramento Fire Department said.
Officials said a person placed a firework in a shirt and lit it inside the Walmart, which is located on Truxel Road in Natomas.
Staff quickly extinguished the firework, and fire crews evacuated customers due to the smoke.
The store will remain closed until the smoke is removed.
Publisher Aniplex and developer CyberConnect2 have released new footage and screenshots for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Hinokami Keppuutan introducing character Giyu Tomioka, who is playable in the game’s “Versus Mode.”
The following character visual for Giyu was created by CyberConnect2 based on his in-game 3D model:
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Hinokami Keppuutan is due out for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam in 2021 in Japan. If you missed it, watch seven minutes of Versus Mode gameplay here.
Watch the footage below. View the screenshots at the gallery.
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Watch live above and join our chat below as SpaceX targets 8:37 p.m. ET Sunday for the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and batch of Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Science fairs are the platforms for igniting the young minds, said the officials who participated in the one-day science fair organised on Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) Nuzvid IIIT campus on Sunday.
Hundreds of students exhibited models desigined by them on different concepts in the programme titled ‘Scientia-2021’ organised by Student Development and Campus Activity Cell (SDCAC), IIIT, Nuzvid, marking the National Science Day.
RGUKT Chancellor K.C. Reddy, Vice-Chancellor K. Hemachandra Reddy and other officials took part in the event in virtual mode.
Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) principal scientist L. Giri Babu, who was the chief guest for the programme, said the theme of this year’s science day is ‘Future of Science, Technology and Innovations. He praised the staff and students of the IIIT, Nuzvid for celebrating the National Science Day on a grand scale.
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“As many as 950 entries for mega science quiz, 50 on students arts, 70 models on science fair and other projects were exhibited,” said Mr. Srinivas Rao, who went round the exhibition. Later, Director Giri Babu, Dean of Academics D. Shravani, SDCAC convenor K.K. Singh distributed prizes to the winners.
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Teachers and workers in child care, emergency services and food and agriculture will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations in Los Angeles County starting Monday, though officials warn that the pace will be slowed by limited supply.
Nearly 1.2 million people fall into these newly approved categories, according to county estimates. They will join about 2.2 million L.A. County residents who are already eligible to be vaccinated — those who work in healthcare, live in long-term care facilities or are 65 or older.
“Opening eligibility to more groups of essential workers will save more lives and accelerate our recovery,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Sunday in a statement.
The county has so far administered 2,049,666 doses of vaccine (first and second doses), according to The Times’ vaccination tracker.
Newly eligible residents will be able to make appointments at city-run vaccination sites starting Monday, the mayor’s office said, but only a small number of first-dose appointments will be available this week, at Pierce College.
The 70,000 doses of Moderna vaccine the city expects to receive Monday will go primarily to its six mass vaccination sites, which are open Tuesday through Saturday, to be administered as second doses, Garcetti’s office said. Appointments for the second shot were being scheduled automatically for people who received their first dose at a city-run site between Feb. 1 and 6.
An additional 7,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine that are expected Monday will be provided as first doses through the city’s mobile vaccination program, which aims to deliver inoculations directly to the hardest-hit neighborhoods, officials said.
The program is set to triple the number of doses administered this week, from 4,000 to 12,000, through clinics offering first doses in Baldwin Hills, South Park, Highland Park, Panorama City, Westlake and Pacoima and clinics offering second doses in Baldwin Hills, South Park and Vermont Vista, the city said.
Supply remains the chief barrier to doling out more vaccine, Garcetti’s office said, noting that last week the city administered more than 90,000 doses, a peak but still only 68% of the program’s capacity.
Like many states, California has distributed the vaccine in phases, setting broad criteria for who can be inoculated at each step. Exactly how that has played out has varied by city and county, with officials facing tough choices when it comes to determining who should be prioritized to receive a limited share of vaccine.
Long Beach, which has its own health department and receives its own vaccine supply, started vaccinating food workers and educators in January at sector-specific clinics. More than 3,000 restaurant workers, market employees, cooks and other food industry workers are slated to be vaccinated Friday at a clinic at the Long Beach Convention Center, the city said.
In San Francisco, workers in education, child care and food and agriculture were eligible to receive vaccinations starting Friday.
Orange County last week began earmarking doses for workers in education, child care, and food and agriculture, saying it would dedicate 30% of its allocation to workers in those sectors, as well as those in emergency services; the remaining 70% goes to residents 65 or older. Seniors and first responders who work in high-risk communities have been eligible to be vaccinated since mid-January.
San Bernardino County also expanded vaccinations to educators last week, and Ventura County said it would start vaccinating teachers, food and agriculture workers and emergency services workers.
San Luis Obispo County will start scheduling vaccinations for some local child-care workers and teachers starting Monday; they will be contacted by their employer for an appointment and should not try to schedule one themselves, the county said.
California and other states have seen political discord over vaccination priorities, and leaders have said such clashes are unavoidable.
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-Ky.) said his state was about to become the first to fully vaccinate all educators, but the process has been contentious at times. “We pushed our teachers to the front of the line, moving them up faster than the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] or other states had,” the governor said in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“Everything’s difficult in COVID, even the concept of what’s an essential worker — is one person more essential than another?”
Where educators are concerned, Beshear said, Kentucky was guided by science as well as social need.
“It was development for our children scholastically, emotionally and socially,” he said. “We made this call early on — we stuck to it.”
The expansions in eligibility come as public health authorities in California and across the country continue to report declines in new cases and hospitalizations.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Sunday recorded 1,064 new cases of the coronavirus and 107 related deaths. There were 1,578 COVID-19 patients in county hospitals Saturday, a drop of nearly 50% from two weeks before.
Still, experts say it’s critical to remain cautious.
President Biden’s chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said Sunday that even with heartening news about the declining national caseload and the accelerating vaccine rollout, some states, including California, are a source of concern because of emerging variants of the virus.
Appearing on “Face the Nation,” Fauci said “we will be” victorious in the fight against the virus, but “we’re not there yet, particularly with the variants that are circulating in various parts of the country, such as in California and New York.”
In California, these include the U.K. variant, which spreads more readily than its predecessors and may be more deadly, as well as a homegrown variant that may have the ability to evade antibodies generated by vaccines or prior infection.
The presence of the variants, combined with the sluggish pace of vaccinations due to supply constraints and fatigue over public health rules, have some expressing fears of a potential “fourth wave” of new cases.
That possibility has set off a race to vaccinate as many people as possible before a surge triggers another wave of suffering and gives the variants more opportunities to mutate. Authorities hope to significantly speed up efforts with the arrival of a vaccine by Johnson & Johnson that requires only one dose, unlike the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and does not need to be stored at such cold temperatures.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine was cleared Saturday by the Food and Drug Administration and recommended Sunday by a CDC committee. Senior officials from the Biden administration said they were excited to add a third approved vaccine to the country’s arsenal.
“The bottom line here is we have a safe and highly efficacious vaccine,” said one official, who requested anonymity when discussing the administration’s plans.
Another official said nearly 4 million Johnson & Johnson doses would be distributed as soon as Tuesday.
However, that represents the company’s entire stockpile, and it could take time to ramp up production. An additional 16 million doses are expected to be shipped by the end of March. Delivery will be “uneven,” the official said, but “we’re getting doses out the door as quickly as possible.”
Fauci, appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” called the approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine “very good news.” If he were awaiting a shot, he said, “I would take whatever vaccine would be available to me as quickly as possible.”
The Johnson & Johnson approval means that “now we have three important tools” for combating the virus through vaccinations, Fauci added.
CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky agreed, saying in a statement that the approval comes “at a potentially pivotal time.”
“CDC’s latest data suggest that recent declines in COVID-19 cases may be stalling and potentially leveling off at still very high numbers,” Walensky said. “That is why it is so critical that we remain vigilant and consistently take all of the mitigation steps we know work to stop the spread of COVID-19 while we work our way toward mass vaccination.”
“Ninety Day Fiancé” is, on some Sunday nights, the most-watched show on television. And in the latest innovation in streaming, Discovery+ includes a channel that lets you watch it for four days straight without seeing the same episode twice.
If you’re not familiar with the six-year-old show, as a surprisingly large share of New Yorkers (my editors here, shamefully, included) are, the 90 days of the title refers to the period in which the noncitizen holder of a K-1 visa may remain in the country before marriage or face deportation. The show chronicles couples through that period, complete with skeptical in-laws, bickering and the enchantment or disenchantment with Nebraska or New Hampshire, all with countdown music and chyrons like “73 Days to Wed.”
Now, on the Discovery+ show “90 Days Bares All” (one of about a dozen spinoffs, including “90 Day Fiancé: Self-Quarantined”), the show can “push the boundaries even further versus the standards and practices of a regular cable channel,” said Howard Lee, the president of TLC, one of the cable networks that make up Discovery’s U.S. business. So you can watch the couples scream curses at one another, unbleeped, or discuss their favorite sex toys.
The biggest story in big media these days is the “streaming wars,” the scramble by the people who traditionally make TV and movies to catch up with Netflix. Disney is dominating the race for second place; it’s unclear who else will even survive. CBS limps to the party next month with Paramount+, with the hopeful (to the company) and terrifying (to consumers) suggestion that normal, content-addicted Americans will wind up putting down their credit cards for five different streaming services.
Discovery, the dominant programmer of what used to be called “reality TV” and it now prefers to call “real life,” has emerged as perhaps the most successful new entrant to this complicated, high-stakes competition. It is bringing along a mostly female audience. The company says it has 12 million paid subscriptions around the world, a more than respectable start that has helped make the company’s stock among the best performing on the S&P 500 this year (though it’s also riding a broader wave in the market).
The app, which was introduced on Jan. 4, has a sheer mass of content that rivals Netflix, with 55,000 episodes — and it’s rolling out a suite of exclusive content dominated by American cultural figures like Oprah Winfrey, a procession of People cover fixtures led by Chip and Joanna Gaines and pop icons including the chef Guy Fieri. (Discovery also bid nine figures for a deal with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, but the couple chose to go with Netflix, which has been less insistent on exclusivity, two people familiar with the conversations said.)
The app’s early success is partly the result of a deal with Verizon, and Discovery won’t disclose the share of its subscriptions coming via that route; it also won’t say how many subscriptions are for an unrelated European sports service. (A media analyst, Michael Nathanson, estimates that Verizon provided about 20 percent of the five million subscriptions in the United States.) But the surge in new sign-ups this year beat analysts’ expectations, initial validation of the company’s big bet that delivering shows through new apps on a range of devices is now a fully mainstream phenomenon. And as the hype falls away about technical bells and whistles and using new kinds of data to predict people’s interests, the audience still loves watching people fix houses, tour diners, crawl around sewers and bicker about their relationships.
“Our bet is when the world makes a full rotation, that the content people have chosen when they could choose anything on TV or cable, the content that they love and run home for — ‘90 Day,’ ‘Fixer Upper,’ ‘Property Brothers’ — they’re still going to love that,” said David M. Zaslav, the president and chief executive of Discovery. “In the end, people really don’t change that much.”
That’s Mr. Zaslav’s unromantic version of the old declaration that content is king. And it’s a punctuation mark to a media era that began with a vertiginous sense of transformation. It has instead devolved into me explaining to my 11-year-old Disney’s devious strategy of releasing a single episode of “WandaVision” at the same time each week, producing an experience mysteriously identical to the way we used to watch television.
Mr. Zaslav, too, is the last of his kind — the “last tycoon,” his old friend, the former HBO chief executive Richard Plepler, told me. He’s a relentless, fleece-vested mogul who likes to call reporters to talk his own book (and caught me on Tuesday morning in a moment of panic about what I would write this week). He likes to visit his stars at home, and to keep them close. He pals around with Disney’s former chief, Bob Iger, and Mr. Plepler, and others who rose by creating television and films. But those companies are now run by people who come out of other parts of the business — telecommunications or apps or theme parks. He’s a Hamptons mainstay who also holds an annual “boys’ dinner” for 50 of his closest male friends, including Apple’s content chief Eddy Cue and the Netflix co-chief executive Ted Sarandos, in Los Angeles. The dinner is held during a golf tournament to which Discovery holds the television rights.
The smooth start of Discovery+ comes as streamers closer to the heart of the media class are struggling. Apple’s service is off to a slow start. WarnerMedia’s HBO Max has been defined by stumbles. But Discovery remains in an odd position in the media business: The company, which is valued at more than $23 billion, is far smaller than the handful of dominant media and telecommunications conglomerates. But it is too big to be acquired by any but a few companies. There’s a running debate among those who know Mr. Zaslav about whether he’s buying or selling — that is, whether Discovery+ is another move to make the company more attractive for a giant to swallow before the bottom really falls out of the U.S. cable business or whether the company’s current high stock price will prompt Mr. Zaslav to acquire other businesses.
“He should use this opportunity to make his business stronger,” said Mr. Nathanson, the media analyst, who suggested that Discovery “buy CNN.”
Mr. Zaslav, who was involved in the creation of CNBC and MSNBC as an executive at NBC from 1989 to 2006, has begun to play in the global news business. Discovery is an investor in GB News, a right-of-center television challenger to the BBC. In Poland this year, the Discovery-owned channel TVN went dark along with other media outlets to protest the latest government attempt to hobble independent media. Mr. Zaslav said the investments in those channels were part of a strategy to sell streaming services as a bundle with news and sports.
But he said he hadn’t talked to CNN’s president, Jeff Zucker, an East Hampton golf partner, about buying the network from its parent company, AT&T, and signaled that he was leery of the political charge that comes with top-shelf American cable news.
“News is very overplayed and excoriated here in the U.S.,” he said.
Discovery has its own nuanced cultural politics, which are the subject of a whole school of cultural criticism. The success of “90 Day” tracked Donald Trump’s xenophobic rise, and the show was “so rooted in real-world consequences and the real lives of these people that it often feels too tender to touch,” Scaachi Koul wrote in 2019. “The politics of immigration and class and race and gender are so present in every episode, you sometimes have to watch through the cracks of your eyelids.”
Much of the company’s audience emphatically includes Donald Trump’s America (though shows like “90 Day” also have cult followings among, say, readers of New York Magazine’s Vulture). Some of its programming is resolutely anti-coastal. But its casting is inclusive, its couples diverse. And its programming also offers a clue as to why Republican attempts to revive, in particular, anti-L.G.B.T. culture war attacks have lost some of their political effectiveness. TLC’s version of real life regularly includes an array of couples. One “90 Day” spinoff tells the story of an American-born partner relocating to his husband’s native Mexico and grappling with overt homophobia. At one point, looking up at a giant statue of Jesus Christ in Cantamar, the American-born partner reassures his husband, “I think he would approve of us.”
The tensest relationships for Mr. Zaslav, as for the other streamers, are with distributors. The chairman of the Dish Network last week warned Discovery that selling content through the app could mean lower fees from cable companies and other pay TV operators. But that threat hasn’t materialized yet.
The bigger question may be if and when the service will develop an identity, or high-profile programming, that feels more than a supplement to the television network. It is an experiment, as my colleague John Koblin wrote, in whether people will pay $5 a month (or $7 without ads) for a service that plays in the background while you fold laundry or pay the bills.
So far, the exclusive content is mostly for superfans of specific shows, with occasional experiments with formats that don’t fit neatly onto cable. One early attempt is “Ben’s Workshop,” which the host, Ben Napier, said he was pleased that Discovery+ had picked up. “People kept saying, ‘Ben should have a woodworking show’ and I kept retweeting it and tagging the network and saying we should do this,” he said. “I didn’t care if it was going to be a social media-only show. I really wanted to make the show.” And Mr. Fieri told me he’s shooting four episodes of an adventure show in Hawaii for the service that “wouldn’t have been able to sit right in that mainstream track of doing what Food Network does.”
But the company says it will increasingly put more of its desirable content there first, including a drinking show featuring the chef Ina Garten and the actress Melissa McCarthy, as well as shows with the promising titles, “Amy Schumer Learns to Cook: Uncensored” and “Judi Dench’s Wild Borneo Adventure.”
And while the emergence of Discovery+ is mostly an indication that shifting distribution technologies haven’t changed American tastes, that doesn’t mean the shift is without consequence. Sunny Anderson, a co-host of “The Kitchen” on the Food Network, said she had been — mostly — enjoying a wave of feedback about older content.
Last week, a viewer messaged her to congratulate her on her weight loss.
“I thought, what did they watch? I haven’t lost any weight,” she said, then realized that they were deep in her library, watching old episodes of her show “Cooking for Real.” She said she had to reply, “You’re watching me 10 years ago, I’ve actually gained weight.”
Though it’s been only a few months since the iPhone 12 went on sale, Apple is already setting its sights on its next flagship smartphone, the iPhone 13 (or whatever it ends up being called). We’re expecting to see four versions of the new phone: the iPhone 13, the iPhone 13 Mini, the iPhone 13 Pro and the iPhone 13 Pro Max, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. But when can we expect Apple to unveil its newest phones?
Apple has yet to hint at any iPhone 13 event date. Based on Apple’s history, however, we can typically predict when the company’s iPhone events will happen, and make an educated guess on a release date based on that. While the pandemic changed the usual course for 2020, marking the first September Apple event in eight years without an iPhone due to production delays, Kuo predicts that 2021 will see a return to the company’s typical cadence.
Read more:Every iPhone 13 rumor we’ve heard so far
If this is true, we can expect to get a first look at the iPhone 13 at an event at some point in September.
Apple usually holds its events on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, and iPhone release dates typically are set about a week and a half after Apple announces the new devices. Usually, new iPhones are released on a Friday, around the third week of September.
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A few years ago, CNET took a deep dive into the Apple event timeline and emerged with a compelling Labor Day hypothesis, which you can read about here. Based on the 2021 calendar, the Labor Day rule would put the September Apple event (and the unveiling of the iPhone 13) on Sept. 8, with a Sept. 17 release date.
We won’t know if this is true until Apple announces an event, and shows off the phones. But if you want to plan ahead and save up for an iPhone 13, we’d bet on the September timeline, at least for now.
For more, check out why the iPhone 13 could have a 120Hz always-on display, and our review of the iPhone 12.
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Dow futures rise more than 150 points ahead of first trading day of March
A woman walks past the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street on January 12, 2021 in New York City.
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U.S. stock futures rose in overnight trading on Sunday, pointing to a strong open on the first trading day of March.
Dow futures rose 175 points. S&P 500 futures gained 0.7% and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.7%.
Boosting sentiment on the vaccine front, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel voted unanimously Sunday to recommend the use of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot Covid-19 vaccine for people 18 years of age and older. The company expects to ship out 4 millions of doses initially.
Last week, stocks were pressured by rising interest rates. Higher interest rates can threaten the dominance of equities, as bonds are viewed as less risky. The yield on the benchmark 10-year got as high as 1.6% on Thursday but retreated to around 1.41% on Friday.
10-year Treasury futures rose in overnight trading, implying that yields would fall on Monday. Prices move inversely to yields.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 lost and 1.7% and 2.5%, respectively, between Monday and Friday.
The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped more than 4% for the week, suffering its worst one-day sell-off since October on Thursday. Technology companies rely on being able to borrow money for a low rate in order to invest in future growth.
“Bond market volatility surged to its highest level since April and until some calm and some new peak level of yields is found, this well be the key focus for investors,” Jim Paulsen, The Leuthold Group chief investment strategist, told CNBC.
The major averages rose for the month of February, bolstered by a strong earnings season, positive news on the vaccine rollout and hopes of anther stimulus package.
The House passed a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, early Saturday. The Senate will now consider the legislation.
The Dow gained 3.15% for its third positive month in four in February. The S&P 500 gained 2.61% and the Nasdaq Composite gained nearly 1% for its fourth positive month in a row.
February’s final read for Markit’s U.S. manufacturing purchasing managers’ index for February comes out on Monday at 9:45 a.m. ET. Economists polled by Dow Jones are expecting a read of 58.5, the same as December’s read of 58.5.
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1,428 new COVID-19 cases, 52 additional deaths reported in Mass.
1,428 new COVID-19 cases, 52 additional deaths reported in Massachusetts
Updated: 5:06 PM EST Feb 28, 2021
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 1,428 confirmed COVID-19 cases Sunday, bringing the statewide total to 550,302 since the start of the pandemic.State health officials also added 52 confirmed COVID-19-related deaths to the state’s total, which is now 15,796. As of Sunday, a total of 2,049,130 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been shipped to the state, of which 1,736,477 — or 84.7% — have been administered. So far, 531,258 people have received both doses in Massachusetts. An estimated 30,062 cases are active across Massachusetts, according to the report.Click here to see a graphical look at COVID-19 dataLatest town-by-town breakdown released by state The report said 760 patients with confirmed coronavirus cases were hospitalized in Massachusetts, of which 183 were reported to be in an intensive care unit. This marks the first time since Nov. 21, 2020, that the number of COVID-19 patients in Massachusetts ICUs was below 200.In the DPH’s weekly report released on Thursday, 28 communities were in the “Red,” or at high risk of COVID-19, down from 66 communities the week before. The state says there have been 494,740 recoveries, according to the latest weekly report.New data is typically published daily around 5 p.m. and weekly reports are typically released on Thursdays, also around 5 p.m.
BOSTON —
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 1,428 confirmed COVID-19 cases Sunday, bringing the statewide total to 550,302 since the start of the pandemic.
State health officials also added 52 confirmed COVID-19-related deaths to the state’s total, which is now 15,796.
As of Sunday, a total of 2,049,130 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been shipped to the state, of which 1,736,477 — or 84.7% — have been administered. So far, 531,258 people have received both doses in Massachusetts.
An estimated 30,062 cases are active across Massachusetts, according to the report.
The report said 760 patients with confirmed coronavirus cases were hospitalized in Massachusetts, of which 183 were reported to be in an intensive care unit. This marks the first time since Nov. 21, 2020, that the number of COVID-19 patients in Massachusetts ICUs was below 200.
In the DPH’s weekly report released on Thursday, 28 communities were in the “Red,” or at high risk of COVID-19, down from 66 communities the week before.
The state says there have been 494,740 recoveries, according to the latest weekly report.
New data is typically published daily around 5 p.m. and weekly reports are typically released on Thursdays, also around 5 p.m.
The Murad Nagar police here arrested a man for allegedly killing an occultist, an official said on Sunday.
According to the police, the incident had taken place on February 19 at 10.30 a.m. near the Firdous mosque of New Noorganj area.
The accused has been identified as Salman of Husseinpur in Murad Nagar, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Iraj Raja said.
During investigation, Salman told police that his wife frequently visited Aas Mohammad, who also worked as an auto driver, to get rid of evil spirits. Salman said Aas tried to establish illicit relations with his wife. After knowing it, in gush of anger, Salman killed him while the victim was waiting for passengers at an auto stand.
Weapon of crime
Police have recovered the sword used in the crime and the clothes the accused was wearing at the time of the incident. A motorcycle used by the accused in the commission of the crime has also been recovered, the SP added.
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If you like the Yakuza series but also only own a PS5, then you seem like a strange person. Also, some good news: Yakuza: Like A Dragon releases on PS5 later this week.
I had an extended weekend recently and I almost downloaded Yakuza 0 via Game Pass. I still want to try and play through that series. I know many people suggest starting with Yakuza 0, so maybe the next time I’m looking for a game to play I’ll finally commit and begin my journey through the Yakuza franchise.
Beyond Yakuza: Like A Dragon, other stuff is coming out this week too. Check out the full list below:
Monday, March 1
Foregone | PC
A Gilder’s Journey | Switch
Gunslugs 2 | Switch
Teamfight Manager | PC
Tuesday, March 2
Maquette | PS5, PS4, PC
Monster Jam Steel Titans | PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC
Harvest Moon: One World | PS4, Switch
Yakuza: Like A Dragon | PS5
Ground Zero: Texas – Nuclear Edition | PS4, PC
Neptunia Virtual Stars | PS4
PAKO Caravan | Switch
Wednesday, March 3
Sir Lovelot | PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC
3 Out Of 10: Season 1 | Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch
Cave Bad | PS4, Xbox One, Switch
Bang-On Balls: Chronicles | PC
GraviFire | Xbox One
Wind Peaks | Switch
Scrapnaut | PC
Thursday, March 4
Kill It With Fire | PS4, Xbox One, Switch
Mortal Shell | PS5, Xbox Series X/S
Everhood | Switch, PC
Sea of Solitude | Switch
Ranch Simulator | PC
Loop Hero | PC, Mac
Ruinverse | Switch
Sticky Monsters | Switch
Give It Up! Bouncy | Switch
Sea of Solitude: The Director’s Cut | Switch
Task Force Delta – Afghanistan | Switch
Pixel Game Maker Series Puzzle Pedestrians | Switch
