Well being officers warn that conventional uncooked beef sandwiches (served with uncooked onions) pose a menace of meals poisoning. Different information dwindling sources for folks with developmental difficulties, and celeb COVID deaths.
USA Today:
Wisconsin Raw Meat Sandwich: Officials Warn About Cannibal Sandwiches
The Wisconsin Division of Well being Providers is urging residents to place down their cannibal sandwiches, also referred to as uncooked meat sandwiches, tiger meat or steak tartare. “Many Wisconsin households contemplate them to be a vacation custom, however consuming them poses a menace for Salmonella, E. coli O157:H7, Campylobacter and Listeria micro organism that may make you sick,” the division wrote in a Fb put up Saturday, which it referred to as its annual reminder. “Bear in mind, floor beef ought to ALWAYS be cooked to an inner temperature of 160° F.” (Tyko, 12/13)
In information about developmental disabilities —
ProPublica:
They Made A Revolutionary System To Protect People With Developmental Disabilities. Now It’s Falling Apart.
Greater than 40 years in the past, Arizona arrange a revolutionary system to guard the security of residents with developmental disabilities like Down syndrome, autism and cerebral palsy. … However immediately, the Unbiased Oversight Committees are falling aside, with members accusing the state Division of Developmental Disabilities, or DDD, of neglecting to offer the knowledge and sources they should do their job, based on interviews, official paperwork and a assessment of confidential incident studies by the Arizona Each day Star and ProPublica. (Silverman, 12/12)
In obituaries —
CNN:
Actress Carol Sutton Dies Of Covid-19
Actress Carol Sutton died Friday at age 76 of Covid-19 problems, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell stated. The New Orleans native constructed an intensive checklist of credit, together with “Metal Magnolias,” “Queen Sugar,” and “Lovecraft Nation,” based on her IMDb web page. (McCleary, 12/13)
The Washington Post:
Charley Pride, First Major Black Star In Country Music, Dies At 86 Of Covid-19
Within the early Nineteen Sixties, a younger minor league baseball pitcher and aspiring nation singer named Charley Satisfaction had settled right into a discouraging routine. His days had been spent toiling in Helena, Mont., at a smelter operated by the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., and he spent his free time enjoying for its semipro baseball group, the East Helena Smelterites. He stood out as an African American working in a musical style that seldom welcomed black voices. However he developed a small however enthusiastic fan base singing in Montana honky tonks, which in 1962 led to his invitation to carry out earlier than a present headlined by nation singers Crimson Sovine and Crimson Foley. (McArdle, 12/12)
The New York Times:
John Le Carré, Best-Selling Author Of Cold War Thrillers, Dies At 89
John le Carré, whose exquisitely nuanced, intricately plotted Chilly Battle thrillers elevated the spy novel to excessive artwork by presenting each Western and Soviet spies as morally compromised cogs in a rotten system stuffed with treachery, betrayal and private tragedy, died on Saturday in Cornwall, England. He was 89. The trigger was pneumonia, his writer, Penguin Random Home, stated on Sunday. (Lyall, 12/13)
KHN:
In COVID Hot Zones, Firefighters Now ‘Pump More Oxygen Than Water’
As a boy, Robert Weber chased the blazing lights and roaring sirens of fireside engines down the streets of Brooklyn, New York. He frolicked on the Engine 247 firehouse, consuming ham heroes with further mayonnaise, and “studying every thing about every thing to be the very best firefighter on this planet,” stated his spouse, Daniellle Weber, who grew up subsequent door. (Cahan, 12/14)
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