The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday adopted the 2021 five-year Multi-Jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (MJLHMP) for the county and its partners to reduce the impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires, floods, extreme heat and landslides.
This action has cemented final approval from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), ensuring San Mateo County and its planning partners continue to receive grant funding for mitigation projects before and after a disaster.
So, San Mateo County, led by the Department of Emergency Management, and its 35 planning partners, began updating the previous plan in January and asked the public for help in identifying solutions to problems associated with natural hazards.
As the plan was developed, the County invited community members to participate in the hazard mitigation plan by reviewing and commenting on the Draft Multijurisdictional Plan and/or attending two virtual public workshops in June and August.
The 2021 update includes all 20 San Mateo County cities, the unincorporated area, and 15 special districts. Together, these plan partners identified more than 700 actions they plan to implement over the next five years to reduce the risk of natural disasters in the county.
It is worth noting that the 2021 update will remain active until 2025.
For more information on the Multi-Jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, interested parties can visit the project website at: https://cmo.smcgov.org/multijurisdictional-local-hazard-mitigation-plan, by emailing MJLHMP@smcgov.org; and/or by contacting Ann Ludwig, Project Manager, at 510-734-9831.
"When you see your neighbor's beard cut, put yours to soak," says an old saying. And it could even seem cabalistic that Honduras, along with six other countries, abstained from casting its vote in the Organization of American States (OAS) on the resolution that declared the elections of November 7 in Nicaragua illegitimate, just a few days before Hondurans elect their next president, among other officials.
There are exactly 13 days left until “The” election that could determine the fate of Honduras takes place. However, political violence has not ceased. Just this Sunday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed its “concern” over the violent deaths recorded in recent hours in the Central American country.
"We observe with concern the violent deaths in the electoral context of the current mayor and candidate of the municipality of Cantarranas, Francisco Gaitán; the local leader of San Luis, Santa Bárbara, Elvir Casaña; and Luis Gustavo Castellanos, of San Jerónimo, Copán," the organization highlighted through its Twitter account.
He added that since the call for primary elections, at least 28 deaths have been recorded in the context of political violence.
The OHCHR condemned acts of electoral violence that affect the right to political participation and called on the actors involved to carry out peaceful elections with respect for human rights.
"We stand in solidarity with the victims and their families and call on the authorities to carry out prompt, thorough and impartial investigations to identify and punish those responsible," he said.
Honduras is aware of electoral fraud. In 2014, Juan Orlando Hernández came to power, and just one year later he implemented a constitutional reform to make his re-election possible.
In 2017, general elections were held again to choose who would be in power for 4 years (the time established by the Honduran constitution), however, these were marked by three key points: first, that Hernández's opponents accused him of shaping the institutions to stay in office; second, that on election day the results changed direction after a "blackout", giving Juan Orlando as the winner again; and third, that 33 protesters died in the subsequent protests.
All this, after the country experienced one of its darkest moments, as it suffered a coup d'état in 2009. From then on, the die was cast. The country has suffered serious damage to its economy, job creation, health - which has been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic -, education, migration, and a host of other problems that run from one end to the other in the country, which, according to various rankings in the world, has two of the most dangerous cities in the world: Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.
According to the National Observatory of Violence-IUDPAS/UNAH-Honduras, homicides have been "the most common form of violence against political actors in Honduras."
According to the Center for the Study of Democracy in Honduras (CESPAD), since the call for the primary elections until October 25, there have been 27 deaths, 18 cases of coercion, 11 attacks, six threats, one kidnapping and one coercion.
Of the reported incidents, the statement said, 36 were committed with firearms.
They also highlighted that, to date, and according to data from IUDPAS, 36.0 percent of the victims have been militants: 13 leaders and 10 sympathizers.
In light of this, CESPAD has made an urgent call for the imperative need for "electoral institutions to work to at least try to prevent violence from continuing to threaten the electoral process."
This, they stated, makes the National Electoral Council (CNE) use the regulations that allow it to establish administrative sanctions for those who provoke violence and verbal expressions of hatred and offense.
In addition, the CNE initiative for a Pact for Peace, signed by all political parties participating in the electoral contest, is expressly implemented with the purpose of discouraging and neutralizing political violence.
The organization also said that the justice system should act independently and efficiently in the investigation and prosecution of acts of political violence, since impunity, that is, the lack of punishment, is the main stimulus for this phenomenon.
"CESPAD expresses its deep concern about the current climate of political violence, because it does not contribute to the democratic process and, on the contrary, discourages citizen participation, thereby weakening the citizen's right to vote in a peaceful and trustworthy environment," they stressed.
The coming storm
The National Electoral Council of Honduras has considered that everything is on schedule for the general elections to be carried out properly, however, and "in theory" it guarantees that the elections will be clean and without setbacks.
This is what Rixi Moncada, a member of the CNE, told this newspaper. This institution was created in 2019 and will be in charge of these elections for the first time.
When questioned about whether these will be clean elections, the councilor stressed that "formally yes", since "the full councilors have worked with hundreds of obstacles these two years and a month, to have an electoral process different from that of 2013 and 2017".
He also stated that in order to achieve elections of true change, the Council administers, organizes and guarantees that it can arrive on election day with the electoral material in each of the polling stations, despite the fact that the conditions in the country are "quite complex."
However, the official said that the key and most difficult moments of the elections will occur after the polls close, when the counting will begin, and on the evening of November 28, Rixi will be the one to give the preliminary results, and from there, anything could happen.
Violence, Drugs, and Elections: Together and Hand in Hand
Nothing is simple in these elections. Earlier this month, Honduran authorities arrested presidential candidate Santos Rodríguez Orellana, a retired army captain accused of laundering drug money and participating in homicides, including an informant for the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
This is not the only case, as just a few weeks ago, authorities raided properties belonging to the mayor of the municipality of Talanga, department of Francisco Morazán, Roosevelt Eduardo Avilez López, by the Directorate for the Fight against Drug Trafficking - DLCN - for alleged money laundering.
Avilez was unable to justify more than 160 million lempiras - a little over 6.5 million dollars - in relation to the amount he earns as income; while his wife, Nancy Mareyil Santos Ríos - also detained - was found to have another 150 million lempiras - 6.1 million dollars - which could not be accredited either.
The coin is in the air, and in the meantime we can only hope that, despite the scenarios, the "perfect storm" does not occur and trigger post-election terror.
Península 360 Press announced in a timely manner the vaccination of children from 5 years of age against COVID-19, a disease caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that was initially identified in the central city of Wuhan, China in December 2019.
Vaccination will be carried out using the Pfizer-BioNTech formula, and in just the first day of application, a population of nearly 900,000 children between the ages of 5 and 11 was vaccinated. Vaccination is one of the prevention methods against COVID-19.
For this reason, frontline workers discussed the advantages of vaccination in the child population and the measures that parents should implement to safeguard the health of this sector of the population, which is considered vulnerable due to its age.
We must remember that vulnerable populations to COVID-19 include the elderly, people with comorbidities or chronic diseases, disabilities, and children.
Ethnic Media Services provided its space to speak in favor of vaccination for children between 5 and 11 years of age.
Dr. Monica Gandhi is a professor of medicine and associate division chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at UCSF/SF General Hospital, said that we are facing a new pathogen. And she explained that, although herd immunity does not have to exist, it is better to think of a “control” that consists of monitoring people's vaccination processes and alternative treatments for people who choose not to get vaccinated. Monica Gandhi suggests vaccinating the population that can be vaccinated and thus create an immune level that is capable of keeping the presence of the coronavirus “at its lowest point.”
On the other hand, Dr. Jennifer Miller, a pediatrician at East Bay Pediatrics, said that “we are seeing numbers going up in California” when talking about recent COVID-19 infections. She said that despite having a good number of people vaccinated, cases of infection with the new coronavirus are rising at alarming rates among the general population, “it is something that worries me,” she said. She pointed out that the Halloween season and the upcoming Hanukkah and Christmas seasons are conducive to the spread of SARS-CoV-2. She called on the general population to continue getting vaccinated as one of the ways to prevent COVID-19 infections.
In another sense, Maria Meraz, founder and director of the Parent Engagement Academy in Los Angeles, pointed out the avalanche of alternative information that could confuse the population, resulting in parents opting for alternatives to vaccination. She stated that those people who choose not to vaccinate are low-income people who do not have access to cable TV and who, in the same way, do not have complete information about the treatments available to avoid COVID-19 infections. She condemned the "chains of misinformation" spread via WhatsApp, Facebook and YouTube; "it's terrible," she said. "They don't know what's really going on," said Meraz.
The goal, explained Maria Meraz, is "to be able to share information aimed at parents and we have to send a unanimous message that encourages families to feel comfortable with vaccination" as a method of preventing COVID-19.
The news The New York Times reported this weekend that a US military drone flew over Baghouz, Syria, searching for military targets; however, dozens of women and children were found sheltering on the banks of a river.
The ground attack was carried out by an American F-15E aircraft and dropped a 500-pound (226 kg) bomb, which covered the population in a fireball.
As if that were not enough, the people who managed to survive the first explosion and who were seeking shelter from the area of the first bomb, a jet dropped a second 2 thousand pound bomb –907 kg– which ended up killing most of those who had survived at the beginning.
The events took place on 18 March 2019. The New York TimesHe said several analysts confirmed the deaths of the women and children via chat, giving a total of "about 70 people."
The report says that the attack targeting the Islamic State "was never publicly acknowledged by the US military" and that, in order to cover up the incident, the investigation was delayed internally and preliminary information was withheld from superiors.
The New York Times The paper collected “confidential documents and descriptions from classified reports, as well as interviews with personnel directly involved and officials with top-secret security clearances who discussed the incident on the condition that they not be named.” After the paper forwarded the information to U.S. Central Command for review, it acknowledged the incident “with justification,” saying that 16 people were combatants and “only a small number of civilians were killed,” and that the effects of the bombings were accidental.
The New York Times It concluded that “Satellite imagery from four days later shows that the protected bank and the area around it, which were under coalition control, appeared to have been razed to the ground.” It said the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations declined to comment.
The attacks in Baghouz, Syria, marked the end of the US-led fight against the Islamic State group led by former President Donald Trump.
The city of Redwood City has decided to unite and raise its voice against an emotion that only generates social pain when it is taken to its maximum expression: "hate."
Thus, in a call to local civic action to stop hate and implicit bias that are a dangerous threat to the safety and civility of our neighborhoods, towns and cities, from Sunday, November 14 to Saturday, November 20, the United Against Hate Week will be held in the city.
The initiative, which emerged from a United Against Hate poster campaign created by Bay Area Cities, came in response to white supremacist protests in Berkeley and San Francisco in 2017.
“Too many communities continue to suffer from acts of discrimination, hate crimes and microaggressions. We stand in unwavering solidarity with all those who have suffered at the hands of senseless violence and hate. I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. And as leaders and members of our community, we must come together and say together, Enough!” said Redwood City Mayor Diane Howard.
For her part, Redwood City Vice Mayor Giselle Hale said that this campaign is about saying “Enough!” and being united against hate.
In that sense, she shared that, recently, a friend of hers of Asian origin was attacked by a customer, who, while picking up an order, decided to attack her by telling her to return to her country, despite the fact that she was born in the US, and "is the owner of a third-generation restaurant that has served her community for decades."
This situation had "huge" implications on her mental health, and made her feel like she did not belong in this community.
"When we see things like this we have two options: to be spectators or to act. We can speak up and say that we will no longer tolerate these situations and that we can defend others in their moment of vulnerability," he stressed.
Brianna Evans, Redwood City’s first Equity and Inclusion Officer, explained in a video that as part of the city government, she helped fulfill its core guiding principle of equity, established by the City Council in 2020.
“Redwood City is committed to putting equity first. We call for a collective reset to ensure that city policies genuinely serve everyone in our community regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, income, citizenship status, or any other identity. We all deserve a safe and opportunity-filled community.”
In this way Redwood City stands united against hate, and invites you to attend one of the following events:
Teddy Bear Tea – Tea with Teddy Bears
Sunday, November 14 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the downtown library, located at 1044 Middlefield Road, with tickets available from November 1 at the same location.
There, families with children ages 4-8 from Redwood City and North Fair Oaks are invited to an afternoon of community fellowship to kick off United Against Hate Week. This event is sponsored by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and presented by RCPL CARES and Redwood City Together.
Identifying and interrupting microaggressions
This workshop will provide you with the opportunity to develop or deepen your awareness of what microaggressions are and how we unknowingly commit them during interactions with others, and will provide tangible communication techniques to interrupt microaggressions in the moment.
The event will be held virtually on Wednesday, November 17 at 5:00 p.m. through the Zoom platform, for which it is necessary to register by giving click here.
Transgender Day of Remembrance Virtual Event
This virtual gathering is an opportunity to provide a space for community mourning, reflection, and healing for all the transgender lives lost in the U.S. to hate.
Presented by the San Mateo County LGBTQ Commission, the San Mateo County Pride Center, and the Redwood City Public Library, the event will take place on Friday, November 19 at 5:00 p.m., via Zoom for which registration is required. register, however, it can also be seen on the channel Redwood City Public Library YouTube.
Sequoia High School Dream Club Virtual Dinner
The 12th Annual Sequoia High School Dream Club Fundraising Dinner will be held virtually on Friday, November 19 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets ranging from $20 to $50 are required for admission and can be purchased online. by clicking here.
As a symbol of your solidarity, you can also display a United Against Hate Week poster, which are available for pick up at all Redwood City Public Library locations, or you can download them to print. here.
Apple reinvented the phone in 2007, when marketing genius Steve Jobs introduced it at the MacWorld event in California, USA.
The trending US city is the birthplace of the flagship device that still tops more expensive smartphones like the $1,800 Sony Xperia Pro I.
The Scene gamer It is characterized by the cutting-edge technology they use for their broadcasts, with Twitch being the leading company in real-time content streaming –streaming– dedicated to the genre. There, you can watch live broadcasts by video game content creators, where they talk about the specifications their computers have, which are not visible to the eye.
Meanwhile, you can see the preferred microphone model for gamers, as well as hearing aids.
However, something that draws attention and is consistent with the Hispanic majority comes when it comes to playing video games on mobile phones.
And every model – starting with the iPhone 4S, launched in 2011 – is capable of AirPlay mirroring, which allows you to mirror the iPhone screen in high definition as well as its audio either by cable or wirelessly.
Personalities from the world of streaming in Spain such as Vegeta777, Willyrex, Rubius, Alexby11, Aroyitt and Auronplay have been seen on camera using a recent generation iPhone.
For the streamers The reliability of a device dedicated to playing live and showing them to your followers is important. A failure on the phone – such as an application crashing or a lack of internet – could mean hundreds, if not thousands of people abandoning the broadcast in the middle of the live broadcast, which in turn translates into fewer paid subscriptions and fewer donations obtained.
Recently, the gamer Mexican, ElMariana, playing “Call of Duty” in its mobile edition on an iPhone XS –launched in 2018–, declared: “Yes, I asked for another phone, I bought the new iPhone, the iPhone 13 (…), I bought it because, in truth, it was a necessity because it is what I do”, and it is not surprising, since only on Twitch, said broadcast was seen by more than 457 thousand people.
Not only the gamers They prefer the iPhone for its reliability in live streaming, Apple's new processor for mobile devices, the A15 Bionic chip found in the new generation of iPhone has a performance of 3.23 GHz and, according to Apple, has 50% better computational processing than the competition and up to 30% better in graphics. And is that, in the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max models, five graphics processing cores are included, capable of moving the iPhone screen up to 120 Hz.
The iPhone recognizes Xbox and PlayStation wireless controllers like the DualShock 4 and the new DualSense on the PlayStation 5 without extensive user setup, making it perfect for gaming on the go.
Apple says the A15 Bionic chip – the brains of the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max – is “the world’s fastest chip in a smartphone,” and notes that when developing the new device’s display and the team responsible for developing the iPhone’s software, iOS, “determined where speed would be best used and looked at ways to optimize refresh rates to help save battery life.”
Finally, it should be mentioned that the first versions of applications such as PUBG: New State, by KRAFTON Inc., and Awaken: The Age of Chaos, by DianDian Interactive Holding, which are on the waiting list and can be pre-ordered before their launch, are coming to the iPhone; however, the battle between Apple and Epic Games has caused iOS users to lose access to the Fortnite video game by incorporating a payment method that went against the rules established by the App Store.
Yoritos, located about 200 km north of the capital, made headlines two years ago when residents successfully united to expel a mining company that had attempted to set up operations in the region.Photo: Peter Schurmann
TEGUCIGALPA – His face streaked with tears, a teenager hides at the entrance of a building, staring beyond the yellow police tape that secures the area. Inside, a group of indigenous Hondurans are gathered after traveling to the capital to denounce what they say is “the government’s continued theft of their ancestral lands.”
“I’m sorry about all this,” the security guard says, gesturing at the scene around him: “this is Honduras.”
In this context of extreme poverty and social violence, Hondurans will vote for their president on November 28. For many, the upcoming elections offer the best, and perhaps the last, opportunity to improve the deplorable situation in their country.
“These elections are an opportunity to recover the democratic process and confront the multiple crises we are experiencing,” says Gustavo Irias, executive director of CESPAD, a nonprofit that advocates for marginalized communities. “This is an opportunity for Honduras to recover its sense of nationhood.”
That notion was shattered in 2009 when the Honduran military overthrew former President Manuel Zelaya in a move in which the United States is believed to have played a fairly active role. Since then, Honduras has remained under the control of the right-wing National Party, currently led by President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is ending his second term under a cloud of suspicion over possible links to drug trafficking.
VIctor Mayorga, 79, a resident of Tegucigalpa, says he will not vote in the upcoming elections. “I believe in democracy, but in Honduras it is broken. It has been broken since the coup [in 2009].”Photo: Peter Schurmann
Candidates seeking to replace him include National Party front-runner and current Tegucigalpa mayor Nasry Asfura — “Papi” as he is known — and the Libre Party’s Xiomara Castro, wife of ousted former president Zelaya, who has vowed to rein in the excesses of free-market policies adopted by her opponent while forging closer ties with China.
Corruption and poverty are endemic in the Central American country. According to the World Bank, since 2019, 15 percent of Hondurans live on less than 2 dollars per day, conditions likely worsened by Covid-19 and the impact of two hurricanes last year, which led to more than half of its inhabitants falling below the poverty line in 2020.
Such conditions are fueling a mass exodus of migrants from the country. According to data from June 2021 presented in a June report by the Migration Policy Institute, 168,546 Hondurans were detained by immigration officials in the United States and Mexico, with the report noting that 1 in 5 want to leave their country for reasons ranging from food insecurity to unemployment and fear of insecurity.
But for some citizens of the capital, the upcoming elections offer little hope of improvement.
“Nothing is going to change,” says Victor Manuel Mayorga, a civil servant who says he has been unable to retire because the government has stolen state pension funds. At 79, Mayorga is part of a small minority of older people in a country where the average age is just 24.
Sitting in the city’s central square talking about football with friends, he laments the lack of education and healthcare, and accuses officials of all political persuasions of abandoning the country. “I believe in democracy, but in Honduras it is destroyed. It has been broken since the coup.”
Rixi Moncada is a lawyer and part of the three-person rotating presidency of the newly created National Electoral Council (CNE), which is responsible for delivering the final vote count. “The only opportunity for the country to build a democratic foundation is through the next elections.” Photo: Peter Schurmann
Still, not everyone is so desperate.
Cesar Nahun Aquino, 44, is a car mechanic in the town of Yoritos, located about 200 km north of the capital. This small town made headlines two years ago because residents successfully united to expel a mining company that had tried to set up operations in the region.
A member of the Tolupán indigenous community, Aquino ran a transport company in San Pedro Sula before the Covid-19 pandemic, which he says wiped out his business. He is now back in his hometown, a largely agricultural region known for coffee, avocados and cattle ranching.
“We’re asking for the basics, getting rid of corrupt elections, transparency, reviving the local economy so it benefits the people in the community,” says Aquino, a supporter of local mayoral candidate Freddy Murio, an undocumented migrant who spent 12 years working in construction in New York before returning to his hometown two years ago. “We have to start with our municipality before we can start changing the country.”
Back in the capital, officials acknowledge that no election will resolve the challenges facing Honduras. But they stress that protecting the integrity of the vote and ensuring the democratic process in November are key to repairing the ongoing damage caused by the 2009 coup.
“The only opportunity for the country to build a democratic foundation is through the next elections,” says Rixi Moncada, a lawyer and one of three people who, with rotating positions, form part of the recently created National Electoral Council (CNE).
The CNE, the entity responsible for delivering the final count once the polls close, was created in the wake of widespread irregularities and violence that marked the 2017 election. Along with the National Registry of Persons and the Clean Politics Unit, it is charged with monitoring campaign financing in a country where drug money and politics are rife. intrinsically united, These three institutions are responsible for ensuring the integrity of the elections.
Moncada, a former member of Zelaya's government, admits that it is not an easy task.
“Nobody is prepared for the criminality,” he says, referring to the ongoing political violence that he sees as an extension of the 2009 coup, including the recent assassination of mayoral candidate and member of the opposition Libre Party, Nery Reyes, who was killed in early this month. No one has yet been arrested for her murder.
Although COP26 was due to end on Friday 13 November, the summit published a new draft of the Glasgow agreement on Saturday, but it has been described as insufficient, as the proposed measures may not be able to achieve the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C in accordance with the 2015 Paris agreement.
The first two drafts were not well received by environmentalists, who stressed that countries' greatest efforts should be directed toward eliminating fossil fuels and ending offsets used by large energy companies.
“…Offsets stifle ambition and give polluters a way to avoid genuine, substantial and timely emissions reductions. It’s like saying you’re going on a diet, but you keep eating cake while paying someone else to eat lettuce,” said Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director of Greenpeace International.
This third installment has been slightly better received by environmentalists, who have described it as “weak” but point out that it is essential for the transition to clean energy.
Another of the most important points discussed in England is the subsidy by developed countries to the poorest ones. Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of England, called on rich countries to contribute more money to move developing countries away from the use of fossil fuels.
It is worth noting that in the 2009 agreement, developed nations committed to something similar, and proposed $100 billion dollars annually by 2020. This commitment was not fulfilled and now appears insufficient.
China and the US pledge to take action on climate change
One of the most surprising alliances that this summit has produced is that between the United States and China, two of the biggest polluters, which announced a pact to take action to curb the effects of global warming.
The president of the Asian nation declared last Thursday the great need to work together since the sum of both nations represents 40 percent of global carbon emissions.
In the document, both countries commit to reducing methane emissions and to holding regular meetings to address the most pressing issues of the environmental crisis. The United States plans to be carbon neutral by 2050, while China aims for a net-zero goal by 2060.
Despite China's promises, it should be noted that it refused to sign the document in which more than 100 nations commit to reducing methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.
Do not eat, sell or serve Citterio brand premium Italian-style salami sticks, which have been recalled after California health officials found salmonella bacteria in the products, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency responsible for developing and implementing actions for disease prevention and control, among other issues, said California officials found salmonella in two unopened packages of Citterio brand Italian-style premium salami sticks.
She said that among the 23 people interviewed about the foods they ate before becoming ill, 22 - 96 percent - reported having eaten or perhaps having eaten it.
In light of this, researchers are continuing to work to determine whether other products may actually be contaminated.
So far, the CDC has found 31 people sick with salmonella from the product - all of them in California - and six of them have had to be hospitalized.
What the consumer should do
CDC calls for Do NOT eat Citterio brand premium Italian style salami sticks. recalled. And if you have the product at home, you should throw them away or return them to the store.
Wash items and containers that may have touched the removed product with hot, soapy water or in a dishwasher.
And call your health care provider if you have any of the serious symptoms of salmonellosis, such as diarrhea and fever higher than 102° F (38° C); diarrhea for more than 3 days that doesn't get better with blood; vomiting so much that you can't keep liquids down; and signs of dehydration, such as: not urinating enough, dry mouth and throat, and feeling dizzy when you stand up.
What points of sale should do
For all establishments that have this product, the CDC calls on them NOT to sell or serve it, and they have already been removed from the market.
They also ask that items and surfaces that may have been in contact with the product, if applicable, be washed and disinfected.
Symptoms of Salmonella
Most people infected with salmonella experience diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramps, while symptoms usually begin 6 hours to 6 days after ingesting the bacteria.
Most people recover without treatment after 4 to 7 days, however, some people, especially children younger than 5 years, adults 65 years of age or older, and people with weakened immune systems, may experience more severe illness that requires medical treatment or hospitalization.
On Nov. 10, the Euro Foods chain in Freeland, Penn., began recalling approximately 119,091 pounds of the salami in question, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced.
FSIS issued a public health alert for salami stick products on October 29, 2021, however the product continues to be marketed. Following this alert, FSIS observed the product available at a retail store, and two samples of Citterio salami sticks previously collected by the California Department of Public Health tested positive for Salmonella.
The United States of America is founded on one idea: we are all created equal and deserve equal treatment, equal dignity and equal opportunity throughout our lives, President Joseph Biden said, yet, he said, that promise has been denied to Native Americans who have lived on this land since time immemorial.
Marking National Native American Heritage Month, the president noted that despite a painful history marked by unjust federal policies of assimilation and termination, American Indian and Alaska Native peoples have persevered.
“During National Native American Heritage Month, we celebrate the countless contributions of indigenous peoples past and present, honor the influence they have had on the advancement of our nation, and recommit ourselves to upholding treaty trust and responsibilities, strengthening tribal sovereignty, and promoting tribal self,” she stressed.
In a statement released by the White House, Biden explained that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated pre-existing inequalities faced by tribal nations, as at the beginning of the pandemic, reported cases in the Native American community were more than 3 times the rate of white Americans; and in some states, Native American lives were lost at a rate 5 times higher than the proportion of the population.
“Even as they shouldered a disproportionate burden throughout the pandemic, tribal nations have been models of resilience, resolve, and patriotism, implementing key mitigation strategies like testing and prioritizing vaccination of tribal communities at high rates to save lives.”
Biden said the country cannot live up to the promise upon which it was founded while inequalities affecting Native Americans persist.
“My Administration is committed to advancing equity and opportunity for all American Indian and Alaska Native people and to helping tribal nations overcome the challenges they have faced due to the pandemic, climate change, and lack of sufficient infrastructure in a way that reflects their unique political relationship.”
In that regard, he noted that the American Rescue Plan represented the most significant funding legislation for the Indian Nation in the country's history, with $20 billion in direct funding to help tribal governments combat and emerge from the COVID-19 Crisis.
He said his administration is pushing for strong tribal involvement to help build a clean energy future, implement clean water and high-speed internet in every home, and invest in Native American families, businesses, jobs and communities.
Earlier this year, to further elevate Native American voices, the administration relaunched the White House Council on Native American Affairs.
During National Native American Heritage Month, we also honor our Native American veterans and service members who have bravely served and continue to serve in our Armed Forces, including the brave Native American Code Talkers in World War I and World War II.
Separately, the president also recognized Native Americans who have served in the country's military, who, for more than 200 years, he said, "have defended our country during every major conflict and continue to serve at a higher rate than any other ethnic group in the nation."
"Because of their selflessness, every generation of Americans receives the precious gift of freedom, and we owe each of them and their families a debt of gratitude for their sacrifice and dedication."
“Native American roots run deep in this land – a homeland loved, nurtured, strengthened, and fought for with honor and conviction. This month and every month, we honor the precious, strong, and enduring cultures and contributions of all Native Americans and recommit to fulfilling the full promise of our Nation together,” he concluded.
