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  2020-05-05

  Cinco de Mayo

  A comic strip about Covid-19
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  2021-10-05

  Masks in Puerto Rico with Five High Schoolers

  This summer (2021) my husband and I were lucky enough to take our two high schoolers along with three of their friends to Puerto Rico. It was a way to escape the boredom of Utah as well as its high Covid rate. Of course we wore masks in the airport and the airplanes and continued to wear them in all public places in Puerto Rico, even outside. The teenagers were resistant to wearing masks because Utah had stopped wearing them in March 2021. I explained to them that not only was the Puerto Rican government asking us to wear masks, but the local culture was expecting them too. I realize that this picture shows them not wearing masks but they wore them indoors and when we were near people outdoors – but almost never for pictures!
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  2021-09-15

  Puerto Rico es la jurisdicción de Estados Unidos con más estudiantes de escuela pública vacunados

  Puerto Rico es la jurisdicción de los Estados Unidos con más estudiantes de escuelas públicas vacunados contra el COVID-19, con más del 85% de los estudiantes elegibles inoculados contra el coronavirus. “Puerto Rico está liderando al país en vacunar a nuestros jóvenes”, sostuvo el secretario del Departamento de Educación federal, Miguel Cardona. El funcionario detalló que, de acuerdo con datos del Departamento de Educación local, el 86% de los estudiantes de 12 a 15 años ha recibido, al menos, una dosis de la vacuna contra el COVID-19. Mientras, el 92% de los estudiantes mayores de 16 años recibió ya una dosis de la vacuna o está completamente vacunado. En el caso de los docentes, Cardona señaló que más del 96% de los maestros está vacunado. “Estamos muy complacidos con los esfuerzos en torno a la vacunación en Puerto Rico”, expresó. A diferencia de los estados, en Puerto Rico la vacunación contra el COVID-19 es compulsoria para todos los estudiantes mayores de 12 años, de escuelas públicas y privadas, así como de educación superior. Solo están exentos de cumplir con este requisito aquellos alumnos y empleados de centros educativos que padezcan alguna condición de salud que no le permita ser vacunado o por consideraciones religiosas.
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  2020-12-03

  COVID-19 Restrictions in Puerto Rico in English in December 2020

  From the "Friends of Rincon" Facebook page, Marysol Cuevas, a realtor in Rincon, shares the December 2020 Covid-19 restrictions in English. The comments show that people were grateful to have access to the new restrictions in English. The restrictions read: 🏠 Curfew is from 9pm until 5am. Sunday is a "lock-down" day - you are only permitted out for emergencies 🍺 Dry-law (no alcohol sales) in effect 5am Saturdays until 7am Mondays. Restaurants are permitted to serve alcohol at tables on Saturdays 🛒 On Sundays, only supermarkets, pharmacies, gas stations, hardware stores, a...
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  2021-10-05

  Turistas Ignoran Aislamiento Social en Rincon PR

  Maria del Carmen Gonzalez de Telemundo PR entrevista al alcalde de Rincón, Carlos López Bonilla. El alcalde dice que los turistas están ignorando las reglas de distancia social y los toques de queda. Maria del Carmen Gonzalez: "Nostotros con se encuentra el alcalde de rincón, Carlos López, a quien le agradecemos que esté aquí con nosotros durante la tarde de hoy. Como el municipio a manera de las situactión para controlar a los turistas a tenido a problema con el." Carlos Lopez Bonilla: "Sí, ese es situactión un mucho problema. Cuando comenzó todo esto, el toque de queda, por lo menos tuvimos que nosotros a intervenir con más de 100 ahorita en las diferentes calles, las diferentes playas, extraído poco a poco. En el segundo día fueron menos y hay hoy en el día de hoy ya ha sido 88 personas que nosotros tenemos que ir con otro. Personal a intervenir con ellos y hablar con ella."
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  2021-10-05

  Puerto Rico Requires Negative Covid Test

  Beginning July 15, 2020, the governor of Puerto Rico ordered all tourists to show a negative, molecular Covid test in order to enter the island. The governor had tried to close down all US mainland flights from coronavirus hotspots but the FAA did not respond to her request. Instead, the governor required tourists to show proof of a negative Covid test, using this QR code (above), in order to leave the airport. Throughout one's stay in Puerto Rico, the government texted/emailed everyday asking for any symptoms. For the first several months, the questions were only in Spanish (above).
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  2021-10-21

  6 muertas y hay 154 hospitalizaciones

  Lamentablemente, estas personas en Puerto Rico y en todo el mundo continúan muriendo y enfermando gravemente por Covid-19. Estas son las cifras del 21 de octubre de 2021: El Departamento de Salud registró en su actualización para hoy, viernes, seis muertes y 78 casos confirmados adicionales de Covid-19 en Puerto Rico. Los decesos reportados fueron en las regiones de Bayamón, Fajardo, Mayagüez y la zona Metropolitana, entre las edades de 38 a 85 años. Se informó que cuatro de los seis fallecidos no estaban vacunados, mientras que los otros dos tenían condiciones de salud preexistentes. Hay 137 adultos y 17 pacientes pediátricos hospitalizados por el virus. De estos, 47 adultos están en unidad de intensivo.
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  2021-10-01

  Sabado en la era de Covid

  Puerto Rico ha tenido serias reglas de Covid. cada persona usa una máscara en todo momento. Este meme muestra el impacto cuando alguien no usa máscara.
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  2020-09-21

  Protests against ICE, Forced Sterilization and Under Reporting of Covid-19 Cases in Detention Centers

  Last Monday, Dawn Wooten, a nurse at an ICE detention center in Irwin County, Georgia, revealed doctors were performing unnecessary gynecological procedures, including hysterectomies, on immigrant women being held. She also revealed the facility was underreporting the number of positive of COVID-19 cases by failing to test detainees and neglecting their medical needs. These cases of forced sterilizations are far too common in American history. After sterilization became legal and provided to Puerto Rican women for free, approximately one-third of the female population was sterilized between the 1930s and the 1970s, making it the highest rate of sterilization in the world. Health workers encouraged the procedure through door-to-door visits and employers showed favoritism towards sterilized women. I highly recommend a short documentary called La Operación available online about this US-imposed sterilization policy in Puerto Rico.
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  2020-05-23

  COVID 20th Birthday

  What I have submitted is important to me because I learned that I don't need a lot in life in order to be happy, but instead I have more than enough with the people that love and support me.
• 2020-12-11

  School during a Pandemic

  Everything was going great, I was doing good in school and I loved being able to go to the beach and spend time with my family. When all of a sudden I got a news alert on my phone about an outbreak about something called COVID- 19. I ran to my parent's room and asked them what it was. They told me it was a disease with flu-like symptoms that has already affected thousands of people. Places had started to shut down and the next thing I knew there was a stay-at-home order. During this time I was making a move from Puerto Rico back to California and was scared about having to fly. We wore masks the whole flight and weren't allowed to take them off unless we were eating or drinking. Once we landed in California we walked through many doors that had built-in thermometers that we're taking our temperatures. Fast forward a few months I had been accepted into Oaks Christian and was ecstatic. I couldn't wait to make new friends and try out for the dance team. A week later we had gotten an email saying that school was shut down until further notice and that we would take our classes via zoom. As expected I was bummed out because I was starting my eighth-grade year in a new school online. I couldn't make any connections and had/ still have to stare at my computer for 80 minute periods 4 times a day. Overall, COVID-19 had made my eight grade year very different than I had hoped it would be.
• March 27, 2020

  COVID Share Your Story #RITtigers #18, Physics and Psychology Major's Point of view

  The REU programs are likely going to be cancelled, which is very upsetting. My volunteer trip to Puerto Rico was cancelled, a journalism conference we were supposed to go to in Long Island was cancelled, and I'm out of a job for the most part. I'm concerned about the future, but if there's one positive thing that has come of COVID-19, it's spending more time with my emotional support rabbit, Rocket. If I could give a message to myself at the start of this semester, what would I say? If the question is asking: "What would you tell your past self regarding this semester if you could?", then I would say: You'll get to bring Rocket to class one day soon :)
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  2020-06-16

  Adapt and Overcome - Army Classroom Instruction in the age of the Coronavirus

  Strict social distancing being practiced at this BLC (Basic Leadership Course) at Camp Santiago, Puerto Rico on June 16, 2020.
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  2020-06-13

  Training During a Pandemic

  This US Army explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technician keeps up with qualifications, while the supervising officer dons a regulation anti-virus mask to limit the spread of COVID-19 on base.
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  2020-06-04

  Masked Up and Ready to Roll

  This soldier in the Army's 1015th Engineer Detachment at Camp Santiago, Puerto Rico, operates what appears to be a M977 HEMTT (Heavily Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) while sporting a camouflaged mask; a feature more and more common on US military bases as it seeks to balance operational readiness with COVID-19 safety precautions.
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  2020-06-16

  Social Distancing in Action at Camp Santiago

  Given the enclosed nature of US military bases, the Department of Defense ordered the same COVID-19 mitigation measures taking root in the civilian world to be enacted on installations across the globe. These soldiers at the US Army's Joint Training Center maintain social distancing during an evaluation of some sort at Camp Santiago, Puerto Rico.
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  2020-04-18

  Signs From Around: #3, Carolina, Puerto Rico

  "Signs From Around: #3, Carolina, Puerto Rico" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world The National Guard drives around spreading the word to stay in your home or QUEDATE EN TU CASA! #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignsFromAroundSeries