Alaska COVID-19 Count Tuesday May 19, 2020 - 0 New Case, Only Recoveries Go Up, By 3

Great News - no new cases!  The only that went up were recoveries.

With all the media frenzy over every report of someone saying they had a new vaccine in the works, or some old drug shows promise with COVID-19, I was wondering whether anyone has kept records on whether people who have been positive had flu shots this year.  I have no idea if flu shots could even conceivably help someone's immune system if COVID got in, but I'd like to hear if that's even a possibility and whether there are any records on this and COVID cases.

Meanwhile keep safe.

CONFIRMED COVID-19 CASES ALASKA MARCH/APRIL/May 2020
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
new/total	hos=hospital		12th  = 0/0	13th = 1/1	14th = 0/1	15th = 0/1
16th = 0/1	17th = 2/3	18th = 3/6	19th = 3/9	20th = 3/12	21st= 2/14	22nd= 8/22
23rd=14/36	24th =6/42 1 hos 1 dead	25th = 17/59 3 hos 1 dead	26th = 10/69 3 hos 1 dead	27th =16/89 5 hos 2 dead	28th = 13/102 6 hos 2 dead	29th= 12/114 7 hos  3 dead
30th=5/119 7 hos 3 dead	31st= 14/133 9 hos 3 dead
April 2020		1st=  10/143 9 hos 3 dead	2nd=8(6)/149 13 hos 3 dead	3rd=8(11)157 15 hos 3 dead	4th=15/171 16 hos 5 dead	5th= 14/185 20 hos 6 dead
6th=6/191 23 hosp 6 dead	7th= 22/213 23 hosp 6 Dead29 recovered	8th= 13/226 27 hosp 7 dead 32 recovered	9th= 9/235 27 hosp 7 dead 49 recovered	10th=11/246 28 hosp 7 dead 55 recovered	11th=11/257 31 hosp 8 dead 63 recovered	12th= 15/272 31 hosp 8 dead 66 recovered
13th= 5/277 32 Hosp 8 dead 85 Recovered	14th = 8/285 32 Hosp 9 dead 98 Recovered	15th= 8/293 34 Hosp 9 dead 106 Recovered	16th= 7/300 35 hosp 9 dead 110 recovered	17th=  9/309 36 hosp 9 dead 128 recovered	18th =  5/315 36 hos 9 dead 147 Recovered	19th= 4/319 36 hos 9 dead 153Recovered
20th 2/321 36 hos 9 dead 161 recovered	21st 8/329 36 hos 9 dead 168 recovered	22nd  6/335 36 hos  9 dead 196recovered	23nd  2/337 36 hos  9 dead 209recovered	24th  2/339 36 hos  9 dead 208recovered (-1 from 4/23)	25th  0/339 36 hos  9 dead 217recovered	26th  2/341 36 hos  9 dead 217recovered
27th  4/345 37 hos  9 dead 218recovered	28th  6/351 37 hos  9 dead 228 recovered	29th  4/355 36 hos  9 dead 240recovered	30th  0/355 36 hos  9 dead 252recovered
May 2020				1st  9/364 36 hos  9 dead 254recovered	2nd  1/365 36 hos  9 dead 261recovered	3rd  3/368 36 hos  9 dead 262recovered
4th  2/370 37 hos  9 dead 263recovered	5th  1/371 38 hos  9 dead 277 recovered	6th  1/372 38 hos 10 dead 284recovered	7th  2/374 38 hos 10 dead 291recovered	8th  3/377 38 hos 10 dead 305recovered	9th  1/378 38 hos 10 dead 318recovered	10th  1/379 38 hos 10 dead 324recovered
11th  1/381 38 hos 10 dead 328recovered	12th  2/383 38 hos 10 dead 334 recovered	13th  0/383 38 hos 10 dead 335recovered	14th  4/387 39 hos 10 dead 339recovered	15th  1/388 41 hos 10 dead 343recovered	16th  4/392 43 hos 10 dead 344recovered	17th  4/396 43 hos 10 dead 344recovered
18th  3/399 43 hos 10 dead 345recovered	19th  0/399 43 hos 10 dead 348 recovered

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Alaska COVID-19 Count Monday May 18, 2020 - 3 New Case, 1 New Recovery

Alaska is still in a sweet spot compared to most states, especially those opening up while they still have hundreds of new cases daily.  See Worldometer for current figures.

CONFIRMED COVID-19 CASES ALASKA MARCH/APRIL/May 2020
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
new/total	hos=hospital		12th  = 0/0	13th = 1/1	14th = 0/1	15th = 0/1
16th = 0/1	17th = 2/3	18th = 3/6	19th = 3/9	20th = 3/12	21st= 2/14	22nd= 8/22
23rd=14/36	24th =6/42 1 hos 1 dead	25th = 17/59 3 hos 1 dead	26th = 10/69 3 hos 1 dead	27th =16/89 5 hos 2 dead	28th = 13/102 6 hos 2 dead	29th= 12/114 7 hos  3 dead
30th=5/119 7 hos 3 dead	31st= 14/133 9 hos 3 dead
April 2020		1st=  10/143 9 hos 3 dead	2nd=8(6)/149 13 hos 3 dead	3rd=8(11)157 15 hos 3 dead	4th=15/171 16 hos 5 dead	5th= 14/185 20 hos 6 dead
6th=6/191 23 hosp 6 dead	7th= 22/213 23 hosp 6 Dead29 recovered	8th= 13/226 27 hosp 7 dead 32 recovered	9th= 9/235 27 hosp 7 dead 49 recovered	10th=11/246 28 hosp 7 dead 55 recovered	11th=11/257 31 hosp 8 dead 63 recovered	12th= 15/272 31 hosp 8 dead 66 recovered
13th= 5/277 32 Hosp 8 dead 85 Recovered	14th = 8/285 32 Hosp 9 dead 98 Recovered	15th= 8/293 34 Hosp 9 dead 106 Recovered	16th= 7/300 35 hosp 9 dead 110 recovered	17th=  9/309 36 hosp 9 dead 128 recovered	18th =  5/315 36 hos 9 dead 147 Recovered	19th= 4/319 36 hos 9 dead 153Recovered
20th 2/321 36 hos 9 dead 161 recovered	21st 8/329 36 hos 9 dead 168 recovered	22nd  6/335 36 hos  9 dead 196recovered	23nd  2/337 36 hos  9 dead 209recovered	24th  2/339 36 hos  9 dead 208recovered (-1 from 4/23)	25th  0/339 36 hos  9 dead 217recovered	26th  2/341 36 hos  9 dead 217recovered
27th  4/345 37 hos  9 dead 218recovered	28th  6/351 37 hos  9 dead 228 recovered	29th  4/355 36 hos  9 dead 240recovered	30th  0/355 36 hos  9 dead 252recovered
May 2020				1st  9/364 36 hos  9 dead 254recovered	2nd  1/365 36 hos  9 dead 261recovered	3rd  3/368 36 hos  9 dead 262recovered
4th  2/370 37 hos  9 dead 263recovered	5th  1/371 38 hos  9 dead 277 recovered	6th  1/372 38 hos 10 dead 284recovered	7th  2/374 38 hos 10 dead 291recovered	8th  3/377 38 hos 10 dead 305recovered	9th  1/378 38 hos 10 dead 318recovered	10th  1/379 38 hos 10 dead 324recovered
11th  1/381 38 hos 10 dead 328recovered	12th  2/383 38 hos 10 dead 334 recovered	13th  0/383 38 hos 10 dead 335recovered	14th  4/387 39 hos 10 dead 339recovered	15th  1/388 41 hos 10 dead 343recovered	16th  4/392 43 hos 10 dead 344recovered	17th  4/396 43 hos 10 dead 344recovered
18th  3/399 43 hos 10 dead 345recovered

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Can Shaup Stir Up Four Strong Republicans?

Below is a Twitter Thread calling for four Senate Republicans to stand up to Trump.  But first a little context.

Public Accountability was one of the topics I taught. I've published a few articles and book chapters on Ombuds offices*, which serve a slightly different, but similar function to Inspector Generals.   Their jobs are to uncover waste, fraud, and abuse in government agencies.  Here's a page form the Department of Justice Inspector General website that lists ongoing work so you get a sense of things they do. These are offices that are supposed to be independent of the agencies they investigate. In Anchorage, for example, the Ombuds office is part of the Anchorage Assembly (city council), not the mayor's office. 

Trump is dismantling all the organizations that can check his power. He's already appointed two Supreme Court justices and has a five member majority. The Senate, under the leadership of Mitch McConnell, refused to even call new witnesses or ask for more documents during the impeachment hearings.

Unless the Senate is willing to take action, we're screwed. [No,  euphemisms are no longer appropriate.]

Yes, there's an election in November, but the Republicans are getting rid of or blocking enough votes to overturn a fair election. The Guardian lists five key ways they're doing that:

1. Intimidating minority voters
2. Curbing registration
3. Felony disenfranchisement
4. Election security issues
5. Partisan courthouses

Greg Palast, the Ralph Nader, of crooked elections, has a book coming out entitled, How Trump Stole the 2020: The Hunt for America's Vanished Voters.  

And then there's Fox News and their partners around the world disseminating lies, exacerbating political differences, and generally trying to destroy trust in any kind of truth.

So if the Republicans in the Senate don't stand up to Trump soon our democracy could be undone.  Recently I posted a letter I'd sent to Senator Lisa Murkowski suggesting she find five other Republican Senators who would vote no on confirmations and any other legislation that strengthens Trump or harms democracy.

Well, below is a Twitter feed by Walter Shaub, former Director of the Office Governmental Ethics making similar, but more specific recommendations.

"As Director [of Office of Governmental Ethics], Shaub was outspoken with concerns about the Trump administration during the transition period before he took office. He delivered a speech on January 11, 2017 regarding concerns with the president-elect's refusal to divest his assets and, instead, place them in trust managed by his sons.[9][10] Shaub was also the author of a series of tweets published on the Office of Government Ethics Twitter account, which gained media attention for breaking from the account's typically serious tone to mimic Donald Trump's tweeting style and congratulate him on his announcement that he would divest himself of his business assets.[9][11][12]
On April 28, 2017, Shaub issued a data call directing the White House, agency ethics officials, Inspectors General, and the White House to produce copies of the ethics waivers given to ex-lobbyists in the executive branch.[13] Writing on behalf of the administration on May 17, 2017, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney sent Shaub a letter that seemed to question OGE's authority to collect the requested ethics records.[14] Mulvaney sent copies of his letter to every General Counsel and every designated agency ethics official in the executive branch"

Here's a link to the original thread.

- call Pompeo too
- if Pompeo refuses to come, sue to enforce the subpoena
- also find him in contempt, using your inherent contempt power, to at least have that on his political record (I recommend against sending the Sergeant at arms to be gunned down by diplomatic security)

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 17, 2020

- announce that you will cut the White House budget to 1/3 its current level for the first quarter of FY 2021 (Oct - Dec 2020)
- to have a powerful effect, only 4 Republican Senators would need to threaten to block all of Trump's nominees until he reinstates Atkinson and Linick

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 17, 2020

- if the Republicans won't cooperate Schumer and Pelosi and others need to make the same level of noise Grassley would be making if he actually cared about inspectors general or if a Democrat were president
- melt the airwaves again, rinse, repeat

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 17, 2020

Will these things work? Who knows. But what won't work is lowering the American flag and raising the white flag of surrender. We didn't send you to Washington to surrender to a wannabe authoritarian.

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 17, 2020

*I choose to use the more gender neutral term, Ombuds Office, rather than the original Swedish term, Ombudsman.