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It is the same substance found in Baffert-trained filly Gamine, leading to her disqualification from third place in the 2020 Kentucky Oaks. Baffert did not appeal that ruling. The trainer, who has denied giving the steroid to Medina Spirit, has cited contamination as a reason for this and previous violations.
In this Dec. 22, 2020, photo provided by Richard Chung, his son Caleb Chung receives the first dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine or a placebo as a trial participant for kids ages 12-15 at Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina. (Richard Chung)
Day camps for those ages 6 to 12, the bulk of Park District campers, run from June 28 to Aug. 6. There also will be play camps for kids ages 3 to 5 and teens ages 13 to 17, although traditionally, the hours and scope of those programs have been more limited.
The aid is part of Biden’s larger $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that became law in March. Administration officials said payments could begin to go out in the coming days to eligible governments, allowing state, local, territorial and tribal officials to offset the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came after the government reported Friday that just 266,000 jobs were added in April — a miss that the president felt obligated to address from the White House on Monday.
As of Sunday night, 1,906 people in Illinois were hospitalized with COVID-19, with 473 patients in intensive care units and 242 patients on ventilators. The seven-day average of total hospitalizations is 1,984, the lowest since an average of 1,981 was reported April 15.
The sectors of the economy that face the most difficulty in regaining all their lost jobs are the service sectors that were hit hardest by the pandemic recession: Restaurants, bars, hotels, gyms, and entertainment venues. Though college graduates often take such jobs temporarily, they typically seek out careers in professional or technical fields, where job losses were far less severe last year and are now recovering.
JetBlue creator David Neeleman is seen with a Breeze Airways aircraft. Neeleman’s latest startup carrier, which hopes to begin flying this spring, is giving up on a plan to hire only college students as flight attendants after the strategy failed to draw enough applicants. (CeanOrrett/AP)
Medina Spirit was found to have 21 picograms of betamethasone, which is sometimes used to treat pain and inflammation in horses. It was the same drug found in Baffert-trained filly Gamine, who finished third in last fall’s Kentucky Oaks before being disqualified following a test. Baffert was fined $1,500.
“The time of the outage is now approaching critical levels and if it continues to remain down we do expect an increase in East Coast gasoline and diesel prices,” said Debnil Chowdhury, IHS Markit Executive Director. The last time there was an outage of this magnitude was in 2016, he said, when gas prices rose 15 to 20 cents per gallon. But the Northeast had significantly more local refining capacity at that time, potentially intensifying any impact.
A Colonial Pipeline Co. facility is seen Dec. 11, 2016, in Baltimore. A cyberextortion attempt that has forced the shutdown of a key pipeline operated by the company that carries gasoline and other fuel from Texas to the Northeast. (Kris Tripplaar/Sipa USA/TNS)