She’s 14.
She’s from Louisiana. (❤️)
She’s got 3 Guinness world records.
She’s the National spelling bee winner.
She’s FOURTEEEN.
Did I mention her last name is Avant garde? (Her father changed her name to that in honor of Jazz great John Coltrane)
ALSO: She is “the first African American winner in the 96-year history of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.” npr.org/2021/07/08/101…
We’re in Little Rock, Arkansas because of a sharp rise in COVID19 infections
•90.5% of all active Covid cases in AR. involve ppl not fully vaccinated
•Of the Covid patient hospitalized: 98.3% are not immunized
•99.6% of Covid related deaths involve ppl who aren’t vaccinated
.@drcampatterson: “If your concern is that the vaccine will cause problems for you, compare 319 COVID-19 positive patients in our hospitals versus ZERO patients in our hospital is because of complications from the vaccine...”
Tomorrow on @CBSThisMorning you’ll hear from Ashton Reed, a 25yo Arkansas mother who didn’t believe in getting the Covid vaccine. Neither did her husband. She got sick.
Then hospitalized.
She was pregnant.
She deteriorated rapidly.
She & the baby were in danger of dying.
This was one of the last sermons Pastor Joel Seda Colón gave at his church in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico before a Covid 19 outbreak claimed his life & 3 of his followers.
Seda Colón described the vaccination as "blackmail" & “cheating for the church”
“FEMA's own analyses show that low-income survivors are less likely than more affluent people to get crucial federal emergency assistance, according to internal documents NPR obtained through a public records request…” according to an NPR investigation. npr.org/2021/06/29/100…
“FEMA analyzed 4.8 million aid registrations submitted by disaster survivors between 2014 and 2018 and compared applicants' income. The findings include:
▪The poorest renters were 23% less likely than higher-income renters to get housing help…” npr.org/2021/06/29/100…
“The poorest homeowners received about half as much to rebuild their homes compared with higher-income homeowners — disparities that researchers say cannot be explained by relative repair costs…”npr.org/2021/06/29/100…
!!!Alexis Hernandez’ 1.7 million dollar medical bill is now 0.
He’s the Puerto Rican, studying medicine in Mexico, who was injured in an explosion.
As a U.S. citizen, he was flown to a U.S. army burn center for care. His insurance didn’t pay.
The U.S. govt has cancelled his debt