Fox News contributor Kayleigh McEnany says liberal politicians such as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were quick to “politicise” the Jussie Smollett incident

The criminal trial for actor Jussie Smollett began on Monday after a long delay due to COVID.

Mr Smollett is charged with six counts of felony disorderly conduct for allegedly staging a hate crime in January 2019

The actor claims two men attacked him in Chicago in the early hours of January 29, 2019 and yelled pro-Trump, anti-gay and anti-black epitheths at him.

In the immediate aftermath of the story there was a huge outpouring of support by other actors and politicians, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Both had to backtrack after credible reports emerged that the actor was making the whole incident up.

https://www.news.com.au/world/biden-harris-used-the-jussie-smollett-story-for-their-own-political-purpose/video/23f0d5fa92ea6e07d54bfc30afb44ff0

Pitt students, faculty and staff all have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or receive an approved exemption by Monday. Students who don’t won’t be able to enroll in classes next semester or live in the dorms. Faculty and staff who don’t could lose their jobs.

University officials announced the mandate last month.

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A barrage of threats against several school districts across the region — including Allegheny County this week and Westmoreland several weeks ago — sent administrators reaching for action plans to help thwart any potential danger to students and staff.

Violence at schools is spiking as students return to in-person classes following months of online learning because of the covid-19 pandemic. This year, there have been 29 school shootings resulting in injury or death, including 21 since Aug. 1, according to Education Week. The most recent came Tuesday at a high school in Oxford, Mich., where a 15-year-old student is charged with killing four classmates and injuring seven others.

Western Pennsylvania schools have responded to student fights and threats that this week alone disrupted five Allegheny County districts, including Pittsburgh Public Schools and 13 Propel Schools as well as West Mifflin, North Hills and Clairton City school districts. Local police and the FBI are investigating.

Pittsburgh placed all of its schools on modified lockdown Friday following social media threats of potential violence.

Jeannette and Greater Latrobe schools were targeted with social media threats in late October, prompting Jeannette officials to temporarily go to virtual learning out of “extreme caution.” Police linked the Greater Latrobe threat to Jupiter, Fla.

“This is unusual,” said Aaron Skrbin, director of safety and security with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. “This volume, this many schools. This is very unusual.”

Skrbin, who is also vice president of the Pennsylvania Association of School Resource Officers, speculated that the increase in violence ties back to the pandemic and social justice issues that have rocked the nation over the past year, leaving adults and children feeling angst and anxiety.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security this year warned of the possibility of heightened threats as students return to classrooms.

https://triblive.com/local/regional/schools-across-western-pa-u-s-try-to-keep-students-safe-in-face-of-increased-threats/

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Thank you!

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>>15147366

Modern math is ridiculously hard for kids. They make them use base 10 blocks & solve equations in the thousands. Math isn’t racist now, it is absurdly difficult to learn for all races.

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That’s not true. The state I live in pushes reading & writing in kindergarten. I had a teacher tell me years back that the amount of prisons is determined by the amount of children who can’t read by 3rd grade.

What happened to this vaccine?

PITTSBURGH – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists today announced a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. When tested in mice, the vaccine, delivered through a fingertip-sized patch, produces antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2 at quantities thought to be sufficient for neutralizing the virus.

The paper appeared today in EBioMedicine, which is published by The Lancet, and is the first study to be published after critique from fellow scientists at outside institutions that describes a candidate vaccine for COVID-19. The researchers were able to act quickly because they had already laid the groundwork during earlier coronavirus epidemics.

“We had previous experience on SARS-CoV in 2003 and MERS-CoV in 2014. These two viruses, which are closely related to SARS-CoV-2, teach us that a particular protein, called a spike protein, is important for inducing immunity against the virus. We knew exactly where to fight this new virus,” said co-senior author Andrea Gambotto, M.D., associate professor of surgery at the Pitt School of Medicine. “That’s why it’s important to fund vaccine research. You never know where the next pandemic will come from.”

“Our ability to rapidly develop this vaccine was a result of scientists with expertise in diverse areas of research working together with a common goal,” said co-senior author Louis Falo, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of dermatology at Pitt’s School of Medicine and UPMC.

Compared to the experimental mRNA vaccine candidate that just entered clinical trials, the vaccine described in this paper — which the authors are calling PittCoVacc, short for Pittsburgh Coronavirus Vaccine — follows a more established approach, using lab-made pieces of viral protein to build immunity. It’s the same way the current flu shots work.

https://www.upmc.com/media/news/040220-falo-gambotto-sars-cov2-vaccine