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Daily Bread for 3.20.21

Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 57.  Sunrise is 6:55 AM and sunset 7:08 PM, for 12h 12m 24s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing crescent with 39.2% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1815, after escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.

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Sarah Volpenhein reports Wisconsin reclassifies 1,000 past COVID-19 deaths, now reports 45% of all deaths were in long-term care facilities:

In the last two weeks, Wisconsin health officials have attributed nearly 1,000 more COVID-19 deaths to long-term care facilities, people that for months had been marked as having died in an “unknown” housing setting.

The state is now reporting 45% of the people who died from COVID-19 were in long-term care facilities, when for months the state had only linked between 26% and 30% of COVID-19 fatalities to long-term care.

Those earlier percentages were much lower than in most other states, including many neighboring ones, and the differences raised questions about the accuracy and timeliness of Wisconsin’s count of long-term care deaths.

Until recently, the state was missing information in about half of all COVID-19 deaths and could not say whether those people were long-term care residents. They were listed as COVID-19 deaths with an “unknown” housing setting.

Now, many of them have been reclassified as long-term care residents, a category that covers nursing homes and assisted living centers.

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David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School whose research focuses on long-term care, said the delay ended up making the situation in Wisconsin’s long-term care facilities appear less dire than it was.

“This is not something that you should have to go back and correct after the fact,” he said. “You can look at 40-some (other) states that seem to be able to do this in real-time.”

(Note well: When this pandemic began, a Whitewater publication obligingly and presumptively reported that a local senior home had no cases of COVID-19. This was never likely to last, and it did not. See from 5.26.20 Fairhaven Conducts 407 Resident and Staff COVID-19 Tests – Update: 100% negativeA mixture of obliging stories and amateur epidemiology serves no one.)

Alan Yuhas reports Man Says He Lived in Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium for Years:

Like other Vietnam veterans in the 1970s, Tom Garvey chased one job after another, fending off memories. Unlike other veterans, he says he turned a concession stand in a major American stadium into a place to crash for three years.

The venue was Veterans Stadium, capacity some 60,000, home to two professional teams and, partly, where Philadelphia fans earned an infamous reputation as either the best worst fans or the worst best fans in the United States.

For Mr. Garvey, now 78, it was also a home, a community and a kind of purgatory as he adapted to life after war. He has detailed his years as a secret stadium dweller, from 1979 into 1981, in a self-published book, “The Secret Apartment,” and The Philadelphia Inquirer reported his story last week.

In an interview at his home outside the city, in Ambler, Pa., Mr. Garvey, a retired real estate agent, said he took no photos of the room because he feared being caught by the authorities or, worse, the uncles who got him a job running the stadium’s parking lots. The concession stand, like the rest of Veterans Stadium, was demolished in 2004.

But four people — including Bill Bradley and Jerry Sisemore, former Philadelphia Eagles and members of the team’s hall of fame — said in interviews that they had visited the apartment. Three others said they knew of it at the time, including Vince Papale, a former Eagles receiver, and Skip Denenberg, a musician.

Russian man walks his pet geese:

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