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Fiji to open embassy in Jerusalem in 2024

Fiji to open embassy in Jerusalem in 2024

By Etgar Lefkovits, TPS The South Pacific island nation of Fiji will inaugurate an embassy in Jerusalem next year, the countryā€™s deputy prime minister said on Monday, as faith-based diplomacy continues to flourish. The remarks come as hundreds of pilgrims from Fiji...

Israel Under Fire

Israel Under Fire

UPDATE :Direct Hits On Buildings In Ashdod, Ashkelon, Hundreds Of Rockets Fired Tuesday, 2 Killed, 84 Hospitalized (VINnews)Ā ā€” Rocket salvos continued to slam into Israel Tuesday morning after a night of attacks on the Western Negev, Ashdod and Ashkelon. In one of the...

Tu Bā€™Av, the Jewish Day of Love

Tu Bā€™Av, the Jewish Day of Love

Tu Bā€™AvĀ , the 15th Day of Av, is both an ancient and modern holiday. Originally a post-biblical day of joy, it served as a matchmaking day for unmarried women in theĀ Second TempleĀ period (before the fall of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.). Tu Bā€™Av was almost unnoticed in...

Coronavirus

Texas Admits COVID Overcount in Deaths, Revises Procedures

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By Brian TrusdellĀ  (NEWSMAX)

The Texas Department of State Health Services has admitted it overcounted deaths caused by coronavirus disease-19, or COVID-19, by 225 last week and has changed its procedures to use death certificates to calculate fatalities for the flu-like affliction more accurately.

The new procedures, however, have some critics charging that also could lead to inflated numbers because they claim hospitals are being incentivized to list COVID-19 as the cause of death.

The Texas DSHS announced in a Twitter post Thursday an ā€œautomation error caused 225 fatalities to be included even though COVID-19 was not listed as a direct cause of death on the death certificate.ā€

It caught the error via a ā€œmanual quality checkā€ Wednesday and corrected the death toll for Thursdayā€™s update on the DSHS website.

Texas began using death certificates to calculate COVID-19 deaths as of July 27. According to the DSHS website, Texas has had 6,837 people die from the disease as of late afternoon Monday. Previously, Texas had been counting deaths through reporting from local or regional health departments.

Worldometers.infoĀ lists the stateā€™s death toll as 7,341, sixth-most in the country. It lists eight states with more than 7,000 deaths, including Texas.

Texasā€™ number of new daily infections has been trending lower on a seven-day moving average since reaching a peak of 10,136 on July 15 to just above 8,000.

The discrepancy in death tolls has led some to believe some numbers are inflated. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., last Friday during a hearing of the House Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, referred to ā€œperverse incentivesā€ of hospitals receiving more funding for reporting COVID-related deaths. He did not say who was paying the bonuses.

ā€œI think youā€™re correct in that weā€™ve seen this in other disease processes, too,ā€ the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Robert Redfield said in response. ā€œReally, in the HIV epidemic, somebody may have a heart attack but also have HIV ā€” the hospital would prefer the (classification) for HIV because thereā€™s greater reimbursement.ā€

Yale study in early July said the U.S. death toll was a ā€œsubstantial undercountā€ while White House task force member Dr. Deborah Birx suggested in May the CDCā€™s death county was 25% high.

Additionally, anecdotal reports have shown some deaths have occurred where individuals were infected with COVID but actually died of gunshot wounds, falls, Parkinsonā€™s disease, and motorcycle accidents.

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Fire Caused By A Hezbollah Rocket in Northern Israel

A fire in Northern Israel was caused by a Hezbollah rocket. One by seriously injured after Hezbollah 200 rockets, 20 UAVs towards northern Israel For over an hour and a half, Hezbollah launched UAVs and rockets towards northern Israel, in response to Israel's...

New UAV Squadron Opened in the Israeli Air Force

Last night (Sunday), a new UAV Squadron was opened at the Palmachim Air Force base. The 147th "Battering Ram" Squadron will operate the "Star" unmanned aerial vehicle. The squadron was opened as part of the expansion of the "Star" UAV forces in combat and changes in...

Fiji to open embassy in Jerusalem in 2024

By Etgar Lefkovits, TPS The South Pacific island nation of Fiji will inaugurate an embassy in Jerusalem next year, the countryā€™s deputy prime minister said on Monday, as faith-based diplomacy continues to flourish. The remarks come as hundreds of pilgrims from Fiji...

Israel Under Fire

UPDATE :Direct Hits On Buildings In Ashdod, Ashkelon, Hundreds Of Rockets Fired Tuesday, 2 Killed, 84 Hospitalized (VINnews)Ā ā€” Rocket salvos continued to slam into Israel Tuesday morning after a night of attacks on the Western Negev, Ashdod and Ashkelon. In one of the...