The Kitchen Table Monday November 30, 2020 T: 582-7800 www.arubatoday.com facebook.com/arubatoday instagram.com/arubatoday Page 8 Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper Fauci: US may see 'surge upon surge' of virus in weeks ahead By TAMARA LUSH director of the National In- The nation's top infectious stitute of Allergy and Infec- disease expert said Sunday tious Diseases, told ABC’s that the U.S. may see "surge “This Week” that the lev- upon a surge" of the coro- el of infection in the U.S. navirus in the weeks after would not “all of a sudden Thanksgiving, and he does turn around.” not expect current recom- “So clearly in the next few mendations around social weeks, we’re going to have distancing to be relaxed the same sort of thing. And before Christmas. perhaps even two or three Meanwhile, in a major re- weeks down the line ... we versal, New York City May- may see a surge upon a or Bill DeBlasio said the na- surge,” he said. tion's largest school system Fauci addressed the school will reopen to in-person issue, saying that spread learning and increase the “among children and number of days a week from children is not really many children attend class. very big at all, not like one The announcement came would have suspected. So just 11 days after the Dem- let’s try to get the kids back, ocratic mayor said schools but let’s try to mitigate the would shut down because things that maintain and of rising COVID-19 cases. just push the kind of com- "We feel confident that we munity spread that we’re can keep schools safe," he trying to avoid,” he said. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a news conference with the coronavirus task force at the White House in Washington, Thurs- said. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Continued on next page day, Nov. 19, 2020. Associated Press. A2 MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2020 UP FRONT remarks, adding that it's died. kindergarten programs "not too late" for people Fauci said the arrival of will resume classes Dec. traveling back home after vaccines offers a "light at 7, a week from Monday, Thanksgiving to help stop the end of the tunnel." This the mayor said. Others will the spread of the virus by coming week, the Advisory take longer to reopen their wearing masks, staying dis- Committee on Immuniza- doors. tant from others and avoid- tion Practices will meet with The plan for reopening mid- ing large groups of people. the Centers for Disease dle and high schools is still "So we know we can do Control and Prevention to being developed, de Blasio something about it, par- discuss a rollout of the vac- said. ticularly now as we get into cine, he said. About 190,000 students the colder season and as He added that President- will be eligible to return to we approach the Christ- elect Joe Biden should fo- classrooms in the first round mas holidays," he said. cus on distributing vaccines of reopening, just a fraction The number of new CO- in an "efficient and equita- of the more than 1 million VID-19 cases reported in ble way." Fauci also said he total pupils in the system. the United States topped planned to push the new The great majority of par- 200,000 for the first time Fri- administration for a rigor- ents have opted to have day. The highest previous ous testing program. their kids learn remotely by daily count was 196,000 on "We've got to go beyond computer. Nov. 20, according to data the symptomatic people De Blasio said that many from Johns Hopkins Univer- and get a better under- of those returning in person sity. standing of the asymptom- will be able to attend five Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy Since January, when the atic transmission," he said. days of class a week, up and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a news conference with the coronavirus task force at the White House in Washington, first infections were report- Health care workers will from one to three days pre- Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Associated Press. ed in the U.S., the nation's likely be among the first viously. total number of cases has to get the vaccine, with Elementary school students Continued from Front NBC's "Meet the Press," surpassed 13 million. More the first vaccinations hap- attending in person will be Fauci also appeared on where he made similar than 265,000 people have pening before the end of required to undergo fre- December, "and then as quent testing for the virus. we get into January and Previously, the city set a tar- February and March, more get of testing 20% of teach- and more," he said. ers and students in each "So if we can hang to- school building once a gether as a country and month. Now the testing will do these kinds of things to be weekly. blunt these surges until we The mayor said the city get a substantial proportion was doing away with its of the population vacci- previous trigger for closing nated, we can get through schools, which was when this," Fauci said. 3% or more of the virus tests Other experts agreed that conducted in the city over the coming weeks would a seven-day period came be difficult, especially since back positive. so many traveled over the New York exceeded that holiday and held in-person threshold early in Novem- dinners indoors. ber, and things have slightly Dr. Deborah Birx, the White worsened since then. More House coronavirus re- than 9,300 residents have sponse coordinator, said tested positive for the virus Sunday on CBS' "Face the over the past seven days Nation" that Americans .q who traveled this past week should try to avoid people over 65. She said that those who were around others for Thanksgiving "have to assume that you were ex- posed and you became in- fected and you really need to get tested in the next week." In New York, some ele- mentary schools and pre- A3 U.S. NEWS MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2020 Mother of slain Florida teen shot during burial service Associated Press undefined iff Wayne Ivey had said the COCOA, Fla. (AP) — An un- deputies thought the ve- known gunman fired into hicle might have been sto- a crowd gathered at a len, but the teens' families Saturday afternoon burial and lawyer, Natalie Jack- service of a teenager who son, said they had permis- was fatally shot by a Florida sion to use the car and sheriff's deputy earlier this called it a case of mistaken month, officials said. identity. The deceased teen's moth- Their deaths captured na- er was wounded by the bul- tional interest, with well- let, Florida Today reported. known civil rights attorney The shooting happened as Benjamin Crump working guests gathered at River- on behalf of the families in view Memorial Gardens what he called a bid for jus- to pay their respects to tice. Ivey has released dash 18-year-old Sincere Pierce. cam footage from the Nov. Pierce and 16-year-old An- 13 shooting that showed gelo Crooms were killed the teens pulling into a Nov. 13 by a Brevard Coun- driveway after being fol- ty Sheriff's deputy. lowed by two sheriff's cars The shot rang out as the without lights. Crooms, who pastor had just finished was driving, then backed his prayers and the teen's Spectators run from the scene after a shot was fired during the burial service of Sincere Pierce at out of the driveway and friends and loved ones Riverview Memorial Gardens in Cocoa, Fla., Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020. Associated Press. drove forward in the direc- were placing flowers on tion of a deputy, who, gun the casket, the newspa- slow to react before real- Deputies carrying rifles ar- mained at the cemetery drawn, repeatedly shouted per reported. The loud izing what had occurred. rived a short time later in re- throughout the afternoon at the teen to stop the car. popping sound was fol- They began rushing to sponse to multiple 911 calls. Saturday, the newspaper The sheriff said in a Face- lowed by stunned silence nearby cars and leaving The mother was taken to a reported. book post that the deputy before Quasheda Pierce the funeral quickly. hospital, but the severity of The teens were killed when "was then forced to fire his screamed that she'd been Friends and family mem- her injury was not immedi- Deputy Jafet Santiago-Mi- service weapon in an at- hit. bers helped Quasheda ately known. randa fired multiple shots tempt to stop the dead- The newspaper reported Pierce into a minivan be- Detectives and crime into their car when the ly threat of the car from that mourners were at first fore ambulances arrived. scene investigators re- teens didn't pull over. Sher- crashing into him."q NYC to reopen schools, even as virus spread intensifies By DAVID B. CARUSO and Dec. 10, de Blasio said. pandemic average of up KAREN MATTHEWS The plan for reopening mid- to 25 to 30 students. Associated Press dle and high schools is still About 190,000 students NEW YORK (AP) — New York being developed, de Blasio will be eligible to return to City will reopen its school said. classrooms in the first round system to in-person learn- "We feel confident that we of reopening, just a fraction ing, and increase the num- can keep schools safe," he of the more than 1 million ber of days a week many said.