Las autoridades anunciaron nuevos cargos contra cuatro jóvenes arrestados tras un tiroteo entre grupos rivales que dejó tres heridos en una celebración del fin del ayuno musulmán de Ramadán en Filadelfia.
Los jóvenes de 15 y 16 años arrestados tras el suceso el 10 de abril en la Plaza Clara Muhammad serán procesados como adultos bajo cargos de asalto con agravantes, conspiración, asalto simple y actitud irresponsable, además de los cargos de tenencia de armas que se les habían imputado antes, informaron autoridades el viernes.
Un hombre de 21 años también enfrenta cargos de tenencia de armas.
Las armas confiscadas a los acusados, según fiscales, se ajustan a solo 13 de los 33 cartuchos hallados en el lugar. Las autoridades pidieron a cualquier otra persona involucrada en el hecho entregarse a las autoridades, o de lo contrario serán arrestadas.
El festejo Eid al-Fitr, realizado cada año en el vecindario Parkside de Filadelfia, terminó abruptamente a eso de las 2:30 de la tarde cuando estallaron unos 30 disparos, dijo la policía. Un joven de 15 años fue herido en la pierna y el hombro al ser baleado por la policía, un hombre fue herido y un joven fue herido en una mano.
Las autoridades dicen que unas 1.000 personas, entre ellas muchas familias, asistían al evento. Testigos narraron cómo corrieron hacia carpas montadas cerca del parque, se escondieron detrás de árboles o se echaron al suelopara proteger a los niños.
Eid al-Fitr es un feriado musulmán que marca el fin del ayuno de Ramadán.
Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, Friday, April 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week’s arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University.
The students are calling for universities to separate themselves from any companies that are advancing Israel’s military efforts in Gaza — and in some cases from Israel itself.
Protests on many campuses have been orchestrated by coalitions of student groups. The groups largely act independently, though students say they’re inspired by peers at other universities.
A student protester stands in front of the statue of John Harvard, the first major benefactor of Harvard College, draped in the Palestinian flag, at an encampment of students protesting against the war in Gaza, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A look at protests on campuses in recent days:
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Pro-Palestinian student protesters set up a tent encampment at the Ivy League university in New York last week. Police first tried to clear the encampment on April 18, when they arrested more than 100 protesters. But the move backfired, inspiring students across the country and motivating protesters at Columbia to regroup.
Qais Dana stands by the statue of Ben Franklin during a pro-Palestinian protest on College Green in the heart of the University of Pennsylvania campus in the in Philadelphia on Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Elizabeth Robertson/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
Earlier this week, the Ivy League school, where Monday is set to be the last day of classes, switched to hybrid learning. Commencement is set for May 15.
Students said Friday afternoon that they had reached an impasse with administrators and intended to continue their encampment until their demands are met. Columbia officials had earlier said that negotiations were showing progress. Despite dozens of journalists on campus and scores of police officers outside the gates, an unassuming spring day unfolded Friday with students sitting on the library’s steps or grabbing a quick bite while soon-to-be-graduates posed for photos in their powder-blue gowns.
Columbia’s president, Minouche Shafik, faced a significant, but largely symbolic, rebuke from faculty Friday but retains the support of trustees, who have the power to hire or fire the president. A report by the university senate’s executive committee, which represents faculty, found Shafik and her administration took “many actions and decisions that have harmed Columbia University,» including calling in police. Following the report, the senate passed a resolution that included a task force to monitor how the administration would make changes going forward.
Hundreds of counterprotesters gathered on the streets outside Columbia on Friday morning, many holding Israeli flags and chanting for the hostages being held by Hamas and other militants to be released.
The university said in a statement Saturday night that students and administrators had engaged in negotiations.
“Dialogue between university officials and student organizers is ongoing. We want to be clear: There is no truth to claims of an impending lockdown or evictions on campus,” the Columbia administration’s statement said.
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Police in riot gear cleared an encampment on the campus of Northeastern University on Saturday. Massachusetts State Police said about 102 protesters were arrested and will be charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct. Protesters said they were given about 15 minutes to disperse before being arrested.
As workers pulled down tents and bagged up the debris from the encampment, several dozen people across from the encampment chanted, “Let the Kids Go,” and slogans against the war in Gaza. They also booed as police cars passed and taunted the officers who stood guard.
Northeastern said in a statement that the demonstration, which began two days ago, had become “infiltrated by professional organizers” with no affiliation to the university and antisemitic slurs, including “kill the Jews,” had been used.
“We cannot tolerate this kind of hate on our campus,” the statement posted on social media said.
The Huskies for a Free Palestine student group disputed the university’s account, saying in a statement that counterprotesters were to blame for the slurs and no student protesters “repeated the disgusting hate speech.”
Students at the protest said a counterprotester attempted to instigate hate speech but insisted their event was peaceful and, like many across the country, was aimed at drawing attention to what they described as the “genocide” in Gaza and their university’s complicity in the war.
Israel supporters show up at George Washington University where students protest, during a pro-Palestinian protest over the Israel-Hamas war, Friday, April 26, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
About 100 people were detained and students who produced a valid ID were released. They will face “disciplinary action» but not legal action, while people who refused to disclose their affiliation were arrested, the university said.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
The University of Southern California said on Saturday it had temporarily closed its University Park Campus to nonresidents, without providing details of the closure or possible enforcement measures.
Joel Curran, senior vice president of communications, said in a statement that USC property was vandalized by members of a group “that has continued to illegally camp on our campus,” as well as disrupting operations and harrassing students and others.
Students declined numerous attempts by university President Carol Folt to meet, and the administration hopes for “a more reasonable response Sunday before we are forced to take further action,” Curran said.
“While the university fully supports freedom of expression, these acts of vandalism and harassment are absolutely unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” Curran said.
The university canceled its main stage graduation ceremony set for May 10 after its campus was roiled by protests. The university already canceled a commencement speech by the school’s pro-Palestinian valedictorian, citing safety concerns.
The Los Angeles Police Department said more than 90 people were arrested Wednesday night on charges of trespassing during a protest at the university. One person was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. There were no reports of injuries.
The university said Wednesday that it had closed campus and police would arrest people who did not leave.
In her first public statement in nearly two weeks, President Carol Folt in a statement late Friday — the last day of classes — condemned the protests while imploring the campus community to find common ground and ways to support each other.
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Police clashed with protesters at Ohio State University in Columbus, just hours after they gathered Thursday evening. Those who refused to leave after warnings were arrested and charged with criminal trespass, said university spokesperson Benjamin Johnson, citing rules barring overnight events. Of 36 people arrested, Johnson said Friday that 16 were students and 20 were not affiliated with the university. The school’s commencement is set for May 5.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
About 50 students at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., set up a tent encampment on the school’s University Yard on Thursday. Later in the day, a group of Georgetown University students and professors staged their own protest walkout and marched to the George Washington campus to join them. The protesters are demanding that the university divest from Israel and lift a suspension against a prominent pro-Palestinian student group.
The university’s last day of classes before final exams is set for Monday and commencement is scheduled for May 19. Because of the noise generated by the protests, the university said it would move law school finals to another building from the one where they had originally been scheduled.
The university said the protesters must remove tents and disperse by 7 p.m.
CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, HUMBOLDT
University officials extended the closure of the campus until May 10 — the end of the semester — saying instruction would continue to be remote, after protesters at the university in northern California used furniture, tents, chains and zip ties to block entrances to an academic and administrative building on Monday. Commencement is scheduled for May 11.
Officials said in a statement Tuesday that students had occupied a second building and three students had been arrested. On Wednesday, officials said some unidentified people who were not students were also inside one of the occupied buildings. On Thursday, the university said protesters continued to occupy the two buildings.
A dean at the school, Jeff Crane, suggested during the meeting that the university form a committee that would include students to do a deep dive into the school’s investments. Crane also suggested faculty and students continue meeting every 24 hours to keep an open line of communication. The sides have yet to announce an agreement.
The school’s senate of faculty and staff demanded the university’s president resign in a no-confidence vote Thursday, citing the decision to call police in to remove the barricaded students Monday.
On Friday, the university released a statement responding to questions from those occupying the buildings. The statement said there will be consequences for actions that violate policy or law, but officials would take into account actions by any students who choose to evacuate the occupied buildings and support efforts to clear them. It did not say the charges faced by those arrested would be dropped.
The administration also offered protesters a 5 p.m. deadline to leave and “not be immediately arrested.” But that deadline passed and local media reported that protesters remained on campus Saturday morning.
Officials on Saturday afternoon said a “hard closure” would be enforced going forward. “Individuals are prohibited from entering or being on campus without permission,” the university said in a statement.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
An encampment set up by students at NYU swelled to hundreds of protesters earlier this week. Police on Wednesday said that 133 protesters had been taken into custody. They said all were released with summonses to appear in court on disorderly conduct charges. Commencement is set for May 15.
EMORY UNIVERSITY
At Emory University in Atlanta, where Atlanta police and Georgia state troopers had dismantled a camp on the school’s quadrangle, the school president on Friday said in an email that some of the videos of a clash between police and people on the campus “are shocking” and that he is “horrified that members of our community had to experience and witness such interactions.”
School officials said 20 of the 28 people arrested were “Emory community members.»
Video circulated widely on social media shows two women who identified themselves as professors being detained, with one of them slammed to the ground by one officer as a second officer then pushes her chest and face onto a concrete sidewalk. In a separate incident Thursday evening, some protesters pinned police officers against the glass doors of the Candler School of Theology on the campus and threw objects at the officers, Emory’s president said.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Northwestern University changed its student code of conduct Thursday morning to bar tents on its suburban Chicago campus as student activists set up an encampment.
University President Michael Schill issued an email saying the university had enacted an “interim addendum” to its student code to bar tents, among other things, and warned of disciplinary actions including suspension, expulsion and criminal charges.
“The goal of this addendum is to balance the right to peacefully demonstrate with our goal to protect our community, to avoid disruptions to instruction and to ensure university operations can continue unabated,” Schilling said.
The university’s commencement is scheduled for June 9.
FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
A few dozen protesters set up tents and occupied a building Thursday at the Fashion Institute of Technology, part of the public State University of New York system. Protesters sat on the floor or milled around, many wearing face masks and kaffiyehs. Other protesters outside the building held signs and Palestinian flags. They refused to speak to a reporter. Around a dozen protesters spent the night in tents and sleeping bags inside a campus building. The institute’s museum, which is located in the building where the demonstrators set up camp, was closed Friday.
The school’s commencement was still scheduled for May 22 and May 23.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON
After an encampment was set up at Indiana University Bloomington, police with shields and batons shoved into a line of protesters linked arm-in-arm Thursday afternoon. Videos posted to social media appear to show the protest continuing after law enforcement stopped making arrests.
In an update Friday, the university police said 34 people were arrested. Public information officer Hannah Skibba said charges include trespassing, resisting law enforcement and battery on a public safety official. One officer sustained “minor injuries.» Protests continued Friday, one day before the last day of classes. The university’s commencement is scheduled for May 4.
Jeffrey Kehr, chief deputy prosecutor for Monroe County, said in an email that those arrested were released on their own recognizance and the office will “examine all the reports we receive and any relevant footage to determine what, if any, charges are appropriate.”
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
The University of Pennsylvania interim President J. Larry Jameson called late Friday for an encampment of protesters on the west Philadelphia campus to be disbanded, saying it violated the university’s facilities policies.
The “harassing and intimidating comments and actions” by some protesters violate the school’s open expression guidelines as well as state and federal law, Jameson said, and vandalism of a statue with antisemitic graffiti was “especially reprehensible and will be investigated as a hate crime.”
“I am deeply saddened and troubled that our many efforts to respectfully engage in discourse, support open expression, and create a community that is free of hate and inclusive for everyone have been ignored by those who choose to disrupt and intimidate,” he said.
Failure to disband the encampment immediately and to adhere to Penn’s policies will result in sanctions consistent with our due process procedures as they apply to students, faculty, and staff, Jameson said.
The university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors responded by urging the administration not to “escalate the situation” or “violate the rights of students and faculty.”
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
In Gainesville, Florida, home to the University of Florida, protesters were warned Friday that students could face suspension and banishment for three years, and employees could be fired, if they violated rules including camping, using bullhorns, protesting inside buildings or possessing weapons. Around 50 people have been protesting on campus since Wednesday.
Earlier this year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis directed the state’s universities to make it easier for out-of-state students facing antisemitism and other religious harassment in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war to transfer to Florida campuses.
The Republican governor’s administration last fall also ordered state universities to ban a pro-Palestinian student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine, from campuses, saying it illegally backs Hamas militants who attacked Israel. The group has challenged that decision in federal court.
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Arizona State University said 69 people were arrested early Saturday on suspicion of criminal trespassing for setting up an unauthorized encampment on a lawn on its Tempe campus. The protesters were given chances to leave and those who refused were arrested.
“While the university will continue to be an environment that embraces freedom of speech, ASU’s first priority is to create a safe and secure environment that supports teaching and learning,” the university said in a statement.
Protesters pitched tents, including some that police dismantled, and at least three people were arrested Friday. A television news report put the number of protesters in the dozens and video showed people waving flags and holding signs reading “Free Palestine.»
University and Tempe city police representatives did not immediately answer emails asking about arrests, injuries or the size of the crowd.
A university spokesperson, Elena Bras, issued a statement that said “unapproved encampments” were prohibited on campus, and failure to comply would be grounds for arrest for trespassing.
Police tape cordons off the scene of a crime in Levittown, Pa., Saturday, March 16, 2024. Police departments reported a year-over-year increase in sworn officers in 2023 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began and since the 2020 police killing of George Floyd spurred nationwide protests and increased scrutiny of police, according to a survey released by the Police Executive Research Forum. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
PHILADELPHIA— Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows.
More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in any one of the previous four years, and fewer officers overall resigned or retired, according to the 214 law enforcement agencies that responded to a survey by the Police Executive Research Forum, or PERF.
Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers spurred nationwide protests against police brutality and heightened scrutiny of law enforcement.
As more and more officers left, many of the departments had to redeploy stretched resources by shifting officers away from investigative work or quality of life issues such as abandoned vehicles or noise violations to handle increases in crime and, in some cases, the shortages meant slower response times or limiting responses to emergencies only, police officials say.
“I just think that the past four years have been particularly challenging for American policing,» said Chuck Wexler, executive director of PERF, a nonprofit policing think tank based in Washington, D.C. «And our survey shows we’re finally starting to turn a corner.”
Individual departments are turning that corner at different rates, however, according to Wexler, who noted many are still struggling to attract and keep officers.
As a whole, the profession “isn’t out of the woods yet,” he said.
The Associated Press left phone and email messages with several unions and police departments to ask about increased hiring.
The survey shows that while small and medium departments had more sworn officers than they did in January 2020, large departments are still more than 5% below their staffing levels from that time, even with a year-over-year increase from 2022 to 2023.
The survey also showed smaller departments with fewer than 50 officers are still struggling with a higher rate of resignations and retirements.
The survey asked only for numbers, Wexler said, so it’s hard to say whether those officers are leaving for larger departments or leaving the profession altogether. He also said smaller departments, which account for 80% of agencies nationwide, were underrepresented in the responses PERF received.
Many larger departments have increased officer pay or started offering incentives such as signing bonuses for experienced officers who are willing to transfer, something smaller departments can’t really compete with. At least a dozen smaller departments have disbanded, leaving the municipalities they once served to rely on state or county help for policing.
But even some of the highest-paying large departments are still struggling to get new hires in the door.
“I don’t think it’s all about money. I think it’s about the way people perceive their job and feel they are going to be supported,” Wexler said. “You have West Coast departments that are paying six figures, but still seeing major challenges in hiring.”
In addition to pay and bonuses, many agencies are reexamining their application requirements and hiring processes.
Wexler believes some of those changes make sense, including allowing visible tattoos, reweighing the importance of past financial issues and processing applicants’ background checks faster. But he cautioned that PERF does not support lowering standards for training or for applicants.
Maria “Maki” Haberfeld, chair of the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says departments have been too focused on officer numbers. She worries some are lowering education requirements and other standards to bolster numbers instead of trying to find the best people to police their communities.
“Policing is a real profession that requires more skills and more education than people can understand,» she said. «It’s not about tattoos or running a mile in 15 minutes. It’s really more about emotional intelligence, maturity and making those split-second decisions that don’t use deadly force.”
Haberfeld also cautioned that any staffing gains made through incentives could easily be erased, especially as officers, including some in riot gear, have been seen breaking up protests against the Israel-Hamas war at universities across the country.
“In policing, it takes decades to move forward and a split second for the public attitude to deteriorate,” she said.
PERF’s survey showed a more than a 20% drop in resignations overall, from a high of almost 6,500 in 2022 to fewer than 5,100 in 2023. They are still up over early pandemic levels in 2020, however, when a few more than 4,000 officers resigned across all responding departments.
As with the hiring increases, the rate of decrease in retirements tended to depend on the size of the departments. There were fewer retirements in 2023 than in 2019 at large departments, slightly more retirements at medium departments and elevated retirements at small departments. The survey found a steep drop in resignations at large agencies with 250 or more officers and medium-size agencies with between 50 and 249 officers.
In addition to pay and benefit increases, the improved retention can be partly attributed to a shift in how some public officials view their public safety departments, Wexler says.
“We went from having public discourse about defunding the police just a few years ago to public officials waking up to the fact their workforce is leaving,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any question that there has been a sea change among political leaders.”
Philadelphia Eagles first round draft pick Quinyon Mitchell holds up his jersey at an NFL football news conference in Philadelphia, Friday, April 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Who needs to draft prospects from the Power Five to build a Super Bowl contender?
The Philadelphia Eagles might soon find out after taking an unconventional approach in the NFL draft. General manager Howie Roseman used a first-round pick on Toledo cornerback Quinyon Mitchell and a third-round selection on Houston Christian linebacker Jalyx Hunt.
Surely those two were on every Eagles fan’s mock draft board.
Only the most diehard college football fans in Philadelphia — of which there are few — and the most dogged Eagles scouts — of which there are many — had much of a report on Mitchell or Hunt. While the picks seemed outside the box, Roseman said it’s not out of the ordinary to find players of that caliber out of more than 400 scouting reports that he receives.
It may have been a surprise to some — it’s just not necessarily the new norm.
«They’re the best players,» Roseman said. “The SEC guys are still playing against great competition. I think these were kind of two extenuating circumstances because of the particular guys. Probably wouldn’t say it’s going to be a trend.”
The Eagles stuck to picks from more familiar football schools with 2023 All-America cornerback Cooper DeJean of Iowa in the second round and Clemson running back Will Shipley in the fourth.
“Once you draft them, it’s what they do in the NFL,” Roseman said. “We bring them in here and we talk about it a lot, we got to develop the player and the person. We’re still talking about a young guy coming to Philadelphia, and I think at this point it’s all what he does from here. Whatever happened pre-draft, none of that matters. Wherever they’re picked, none of that matters.”
EXTENSION TIME
The biggest move of the draft had nothing to do with picks and rounds.
It had to do with an extension — the Eagles and wide receiver A.J. Brown agreed to a three-year extension that included $84 million guaranteed. Brown is set to become the highest-paid receiver in the NFL at $32 million a season.
He had 106 catches for 1,456 yards last season after he had 88 catches for 1,496 yards in 2022 in his first season with the Eagles.
“We try to be proactive to try to keep this team together,” Roseman said. “That starts with (owner) Jeffrey (Lurie) and his support (and) the benefits of trying to keep it together as much as we possibly can. The only way we can possibly do that is by doing deals early. We felt like it was an opportunity to do that here with A.J. Obviously we’ve done a bunch of deals with a bunch of our players, and want to add to that and keep this team together as much as we possibly can.”
DEJEAN COVETED
The Eagles liked DeJean. Like, really liked him.
The Eagles traded picks No. 50, No. 53, and No. 161 to the Washington Commanders in exchange for picks that landed them DeJean.
The 6-foot, 203-pound DeJean, who had seven interceptions in two seasons at Iowa, was considered a first-rounder by the Eagles. It was one reason they were willing to trade the picks to move up for their shot at drafting him.
The Eagles weren’t alone in the assessment of DeJean — he even thought he should have been a first-rounder.
“Obviously there’s a little frustration,” he said. “but I’m excited with where I’m at, being in Philadelphia, being able to play for a great organization.”
Lurie told Roseman it was “rare for us to be picking in the 20s and to get two first-round players.”
“Both those guys were first-round players for us,” Roseman said. “We didn’t have 32 first-round guys, so when you get that opportunity to get two first-round guys, especially picking where we were, we felt like it was an opportunity and it was obviously an area we wanted to address. We felt like we addressed a lot of the areas of our football team through free agency, but that was one area we could address.”
CORNERING THE MARKET
Mitchell might be talented enough to earn a starting spot in the NFL. But can he immediately crack the Eagles’ lineup?
He was widely considered the top cornerback in the draft — he ran a 4.33-second 40-yard dash at the combine. The Eagles have plenty of depth with Darius Slay and James Bradberry returning as starters, at least for now.
“We didn’t feel like we had to a take a corner in the first round but it was the highest-ranked player on our board at a position that we would like to get some younger players here,” Roseman said. “We got some younger players last year and we like those younger players. We wanted to add some competition at the corner position.”
FAMIILAR FACE
The Eagles traded up Saturday to pick at No. 155 and select Clemson linebacker Jeremiah Trotter Jr.
Yes, the son of that Jeremiah Trotter — an Eagles great, an All-Pro and a four-time Pro Bowl selection.
The younger Trotter wears his dad’s No. 54, plays the same position and celebrates sacks and big tackles with the same signature axe swing.
Trotter was a finalist last year at Clemson for the Dick Butkus Award given to the best linebacker in the country. Trotter was projected to be drafted as high as the second round and some draft analysts believed only his size — he’s 6-foot and 238 pounds — kept him out of the first round.
His father was drafted by the Eagles in the third round of the 1998 draft.
Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Ranger Suárez throws to a San Diego Padres batter during the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 27, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Brandon Sloter)
SAN DIEGO— Ranger Suárez’s scoreless streak ended at 32 innings but he was otherwise brilliant through eight innings and Alec Bohm homered and drove in four runs for the Philadelphia Phillies, who beat the San Diego Padres 5-1 Saturday night to win the weekend series.
Suárez’s scoreless streak, the longest in the majors this season and of his career, ended when he allowed Eguy Rosario’s two-out home run in the eighth inning. Suárez (5-0) allowed just three hits and struck out eight with no walks to win his fifth straight start.
Suárez threw 96 pitches. Jeff Hoffman struck out the side in the ninth and the game lasted just 2 hours, 9 minutes.
Suárez said he wasn’t concerned about his scoreless streak, which tied for fifth-longest in franchise history.
“If I did keep it going, then OK. But that was not my focus,” he said through an interpreter. «I was just focusing pitching good innings and helping the team win.»
Manager Rob Thomson said Suárez probably would have gone out for the ninth if he had the shutout intact.
“Soft contact, stuff was really good,” Thomson said. “He had it all going. He was getting ahead of hitters and staying ahead of hitters. No walks all night. But I thought he had all his pitches going.
“He’s just having fun playing baseball right now,” the manager said.
Bohm, the third baseman, said it’s “been fun” playing behind Suárez.
“It’s a quick pace. He fills up the zone. There’s a lot of action,” Bohm said. «He’s not a guy going up there and pitching for strikeouts. He got quite a few tonight. But he’s attacking hitters. He gets soft contact. The infielders are fully engaged when he’s pitching.”
The Padres have been punchless in the first two games of this series after blowing a 9-4 lead at Colorado on Thursday and losing 10-9. They’ve lost three straight for the second time in a span of 10 games.
“Surgical’s the best way of saying it,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said about losing to Aaron Nola and then Suárez. “Suárez was tremendous. I mean, he threw the ball very well. Up, down, in, out. You think about the disruption of hitters’ timing and getting guys off balance.”
Bohm extended his hitting streak to 11 games. He hit a two-run homer to left field with two outs in the first, his fourth, and added a two-run single in the three-run fifth. Both were off Dylan Cease.
It was the Phillies’ sixth homer in the first two games of this series.
Cease (3-2) loaded the bases with two outs in the fifth and walked Bryce Harper to make it 3-0. Bohm followed with a two-run single to right. Trea Turner had three hits and scored on both of Bohm’s big hits.
Cease allowed five runs and six hits in six innings, struck out five and walked three.
UP NEXT
Phillies RHP Taijuan Walker, on the injured list since spring training with right shoulder soreness, is scheduled to make his season debut in the series finale on Sunday opposite Padres RHP Michael King (2-2, 4.11 ERA).
Una creadora de contenidos de TikTok, sostiene un cartel "TikTok cambió mi vida para bien" frente al Capitolio de EE. UU., en Washington, el 23 de abril de 2024. (Foto: VOA)
Ya comenzó el plazo de nueve meses para una prohibición de TikTok en EE. UU. si la plataforma no se desprende de sus lazos en China. ¿Qué viene ahora y cuál ha sido la reacción tras la decisión del Congreso?
La firma de una ley que prohibiría TikTok en Estados Unidos inició esta semana la cuenta regresiva para que la aplicación se desvincule de China si quiere permanecer en el país, al tiempo que avivó el debate sobre la libertad de expresión y causó indignación de miles de tiktokers que aseguran que la plataforma les ha cambiado la vida.
La popular aplicación, con más de 1.700 millones de usuarios en el mundo, es una de las redes sociales más populares del planeta. Inicialmente vista como un sitio para compartir videos cortos de coreografías y entretenimiento, ha evolucionado en una herramienta para nativos digitales, quienes aseguran recibir sus noticias, información útil y conectar con sus pares a través de TikTok.
Precisamente fue la popularidad de la app la que sonó las alarmas de legisladores y autoridades gubernamentales en EE. UU., preocupados por la posibilidad de que su empresa matriz ByteDance, localizada en China, pudiera tener acceso a los datos de 170 millones de usuarios estadounidenses.
Después de meses de debates en el Congreso e incluso audiencias con el director ejecutivo de TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, el presidente Joe Biden firmó el miércoles la ley de asistencia internacional que incluye la posible prohibición. Minutos después, Chew aseguró en un tiktok: «Tengan la seguridad: no iremos a ninguna parte».
¿Tik Tok unido a una ley sobre ayuda militar internacional?
La legislación que pone un plazo a ByteDance para que venda TikTok fue aprobada en marzo con gran apoyo en la Cámara de Representantes, pero no había llegado al Senado hasta ahora.
Para garantizar su avance, esta fue incluida en un paquete millonario de ayuda a Ucrania, Israel y Taiwán que languidecía en la Cámara de Representantes, controlada por republicanos, quienes exigían leyes migratorias más duras por parte de la administración del demócrata Biden para su aprobación.
Según los analistas, la adhesión de la legislación contra TikTok se produjo mientras líderes de las bancadas trabajaban para ganar votos para los proyectos de ley de asistencia internacional, y después de negociaciones con el Senado sobre el plazo que ByteDance tendría para vender su participación y garantizar que la aplicación continúe operando en EE. UU.
La amenaza que presenta TikTok contra la Seguridad Nacional es un elemento de rara unión bipartidista, en un momento en que la política estadounidense se encuentra extremadamente polarizada. «Esto es un recordatorio de lo que Estados Unidos puede hacer cuando nos unimos a pesar de nuestras diferencias», dijo el presidente de la Cámara, el republicano Mike Johnson.
Aunque su campaña de reelección tiene una cuenta oficial en la aplicación, Biden prohibió en 2022 el uso de TikTok en dispositivos del gobierno y su administración ha expresado preocupación sobre el hecho de que la app estaría legalmente obligada a reportar y compartir datos sobre sus usuarios con Beijing, que mantiene un control férreo sobre las compañías chinas. Esto es especialmente delicado en un año electoral.
«Estos datos pueden ser usados para desinformación y amplificación de mensajes que favorecen al régimen chino o, inclusive, candidatos que ellos quisieran, que saben que los van a ayudar o personajes que los van a ayudar», explicó a la Voz de América, el experto en seguridad cibernética, Rod Sotto.
TikTok insiste en que nunca ha compartido datos de EE. UU. y que nunca lo haría.
¿Qué viene ahora?
A partir de la firma de la ley, comenzó la cuenta regresiva de 270 días en los que ByteDance debe vender TikTok. Este plazo podría ser extendido, una decisión que recaería en el próximo presidente de EE. UU., debido a que el período inicial termina en enero de 2025, cuando toma posesión el mandatario elegido en noviembre.
Sin embargo, se espera que la aplicación presente una demanda para intentar detener el mandato. Además, podrían solicitar una orden judicial preliminar que congele temporalmente la aplicación de la ley mientras avanza el caso, como hizo la plataforma en 2023 ante una prohibición similar en el estado de Montana.
Si TikTok tiene éxito en los tribunales, el proceso de venta forzosa se detiene, lo que podría darle más tiempo a la aplicación para operar libremente en EE. UU.
Mientras tanto, los 170 millones de usuarios estadounidenses no deberían ver cambios en su aplicación hasta principios de 2025. Después de ese plazo, si ByteDance no vende su participación en la app, esta desaparecería de las tiendas de aplicaciones de Apple y Google. No se permitirán nuevas descargas y los tiktokers existentes, no podrán actualizar a versiones nuevas. No se sabe aún hasta que punto esto imposibilitaría el acceso.
Más allá de los usuarios casuales y sus molestias por no poder acceder a su app preferida, para miles de creadores de contenido como Nicole Tortolani, quien aseguró a la Voz de América que con TikTok desaparecería la mitad de sus ingresos mensuales.
«Siendo parte importante de mis ingresos, generaría un desbalance en lo que vienen siendo mis finanzas y estabilidad, al igual que la de muchísimos creadores. Mi contenido se enfoca principalmente en mi estilo de vida, comparto todo acerca de mí y me gusta muchísimo promover, promocionar campañas publicitarias sobre productos y servicios que recomiendo», agregó la influencer.
Alentados por TikTok, que ha gastado millones en campañas publicitarias favorables a su operación, tiktokers – mayormente jóvenes- han levantado los teléfonos por primera vez para llamar a sus representantes en el Congreso y protestar contra la decisión.
No obstante, la administración Biden asegura que no busca la desaparición de la app. «No queremos ver una prohibición», dijo el martes la secretaria de Prensa de la Casa Blanca, Karine Jean-Pierre. «Se trata de la propiedad (sobre TikTok) de la República Popular China», añadió.
¿Qué dice TikTok y por qué invoca la Primera Enmienda?
«No se equivoquen: esto es una prohibición de TikTok», enfatizó el director ejecutivo Chew, en el mensaje que publicó tras la firma de la ley el miércoles. También destacó que TikTok continuaría operando al tiempo que desafía las restricciones.
Los expertos especulan sobre si aparecerá algún comprador potencial con los recursos financieros para adquirir TikTok, y se preguntan si la operación de venta deberá estar sancionada por agencias gubernamentales de China y Estados Unidos.
Esta batalla legal contra TikTok en EE. UU. se ha librado en los últimos cuatro años como uno de los frentes principales en el diferendo entre Washington y Beijing sobre tecnología.
TikTok ha dicho que está listo para invocar la Primera Enmienda de la Constitución estadounidense que garantiza la protección a la libertad de expresión. En noviembre, un juez estadounidense en Montana bloqueó la prohibición estatal de TikTok, bajo este motivo.
«Es desafortunado que la Cámara de Representantes esté utilizando la fachada de importante ayuda extranjera y humanitaria para avanzar una vez más un proyecto de ley de prohibición que pisotearía los derechos de libertad de expresión de 170 millones de estadounidenses», dijo TikTok en un comunicado.
Para Nicole Tortolani «expresarse libremente nunca debería ser motivo para la cancelación de una plataforma, que a pesar de tener sus desventajas como todas, hay muchísimas personas que la utilizan como fuente de entretenimiento, fuente de ingreso e inclusive una forma de aprendizaje».
«A mí me parece injusta la cancelación de la plataforma y considero que se pudieran buscar alternativas más factibles para el funcionamiento y la continuidad de TikTok», concluyó.
El experto de HackMiami, Rod Sotto, no lo ve tan claro. «Yo pienso que las personas que están diciendo eso no entienden que aquí no se está censurando TikTok. Aquí lo que se está pidiendo es que el régimen, un régimen que censura y que prohíbe aplicaciones americanas en China, sea dueño de una plataforma que obtiene datos y lo envía a China».
«Esto es un sentido común. Aquí no hay censura. Tiktok se puede vender y puede seguir siendo, inclusive, hasta mejor», insistió.
Desacuerdo en el Congreso
Gran parte de los legisladores coinciden en que TikTok plantea amenazas para la seguridad nacional.
«Muchos jóvenes en TikTok reciben noticias (de la aplicación), la idea de que le daríamos al Partido Comunista (chino) esta herramienta de propaganda, así como la capacidad de extraer datos personales de 170 millones de estadounidenses, es un riesgo para la seguridad nacional», dijo a CBS el senador demócrata Mark Warner, presidente del Comité de Inteligencia del Senado.
A pesar de la rara unidad en el tema, para un grupo de congresistas no tiene sentido una ley como esta, que podría no sobrevivir a una batalla legal en los tribunales.
«No creo que vaya a pasar el escrutinio de la Primera Enmienda», dijo el demócrata Ro Khanna a la cadena ABC.
Parlamentos en otros países también han expresado preocupación por la influencia de Beijing. En 2020, India prohibió TikTok junto con docenas de otras aplicaciones de desarrolladores chinos, alegando posibles brechas de seguridad y la integridad nacionales. Nepal estableció una prohibición similar en noviembre pasado.
Junto a EE . UU., Australia, Canadá y Nueva Zelanda desterraron TikTok de los dispositivos del gobierno.
Fotografía de archivo fechada el 16 de julio de 2022 que muestra al rapero puertorriqueño René Pérez, conocido como Residente, durante su actuación en el Festival Pirineos Sur, en Lanuza (España). (Foto: EFE/Javier Cebollada)
El cantante y compositor René Pérez «Residente» espera tener listo este próximo verano el guión de la película con la que debutará en el mundo del cine y que tendrá como punto de partida el año 1898, cuando Puerto Rico pasó de provincia de España a territorio de EE. UU, al final de la guerra Hispanoamericana.
René Pérez participó anoche en un evento en la Universidad de Nueva York (NYU) en el que habló sobre sus proyectos futuros, pero sobre todo se explayó en el tema de la guerra de Gaza, en el que dejó claro su apoyo a los palestinos, y en las protestas universitarias en Estados Unidos.
Pérez, que junto a su hermano Visitante conformaron el exitoso grupo Calle 13, y ahora está inmerso en sus propios proyectos, ha trabajado durante cuatro años en este proyecto junto al guionista Alexander Dinelaris, ganador del Oscar por «Birdam».
«Lo que me motiva ahora es terminar el guion, escribir la película que estoy haciendo», recalcó el artista, que se encuentra en un momento de su carrera cada vez más disconforme con la industria de la música, hasta el punto de ha pensado en dejarla, aunque agradece todo lo que le ha dado.
Residente está en medio de la gira «Las letras no importan» en el que promueve su más reciente disco, de igual título, que salió al mercado el pasado febrero, con varios invitados, al que se refiere como una transición en su carrera.
Pese al título del disco, a Residente las letras sí le importan, y mucho, y de hecho las ha utilizado de forma muy consciente en sus temas para denunciar la corrupción en el Gobierno o las injusticias sociales, o para reivindicar la identidad latinoamericana.
«El titulo hace un juego -explica-, con lo que está ocurriendo con la Inteligencia Artificial, es un poco como me siento yo con cosas que no son tan importantes como (antes) sentí que eran. Es todo lo contrario, para mi sí importan (las letras) y estoy siendo irónico con eso», señaló además a EFE.
Pero insiste en su cambio de rumbo artístico: «Me siento más incómodo, estoy haciendo cosas que me mantengan en esa incomodidad constante para hacer cosas nuevas porque cuando uno se siente cómodo es cuando uno hace lo mismo todo el tiempo. Estoy en esa búsqueda de la incomodidad», afirmó.
Solidario con las protestas universitarias
Pero el público que acudió a verlo en un conversatorio en la universidad, principalmente latino, quería escuchar sus opiniones sobre la guerra de Gaza.
«Lo que estoy viendo que está ocurriendo en las universidades es bien especial y hace falta. Hay que dar el mensaje, hacer presión para que cambien las cosas, que la gente analice lo que está pasando», indicó el artista.
Dijo a EFE que le sorprendió que estas protestas no ocurrieran antes, desde el mismo octubre, cuando comenzó la guerra de Israel-Hamas en la Franja de Gaza.
«Está pasando lo que tenía que pasar desde octubre, pero ahora me encanta que esté pasando y ojalá provoque presión en el Gobierno (de EE. UU.) para que dejen de auspiciar el genocidio», argumentó el artista.
Los admiradores de Pérez, todos latinos, hicieron preguntas al artista pero también le agradecieron por su activismo político y social, por dar voz a través de su música a los menos aventajados, por su solidaridad con Latinoamérica, en un evento que finalizó con un «¡Viva Palestina!» que surgió de entre el público, y que fue respondido por los asistentes de igual forma.
Residente se presentará en Nueva York en el Radio City Music Hall en septiembre como parte de su gira «Las letras no importan».
PID continues to monitor the impacts of Change Healthcare’s cyber-attack on insurers and consumers
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Insurance Department is reminding Pennsylvanians to exercise caution and urging consumers take action to protect their personal information from identity theft, especially consumers who may be affected by the February cyber-attack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group.
“One of PID’s priorities is consumer protection, and we want to make sure Pennsylvanians are aware of resources and steps to best protect themselves, especially when they are victims to unfortunate events like a cyber-attack and data breach that are out of their control,” said Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Humphreys. “Taking steps to protect your personal and financial information is always a smart decision whether you’ve been affected by a data breach or you just proactively want to safeguard your accounts if a data breach occurs. As we continue to learn more about the breach, we are glad to help assist any Pennsylvanians that have questions about how best to protect their data or to effectively respond in the unfortunate circumstance that their personal information has been breached.”
Consumers can visit UnitedHealth Group’s dedicated website to obtain information and details on resources available to them if they are impacted by the data breach. A dedicated call center is also available to offer free credit monitoring and identity theft protections for two years to anyone impacted. The call center includes trained clinicians to provide support services, however the call center does not provide any specifics on individual data impact at this time. The call center can be reached at 1-866-262-5342 and further details can be found on their website.
Pennsylvanians who are impacted by a data breach should also follow these steps to best protect their information and reduce the risk of identity theft.
Check your affected accounts. Review the accounts compromised in the security breach and identify any suspicious activity. If your credit or debit card number is involved in the breach, you should request a new card with a different number and change your associated passwords.
Monitor your financial accounts and credit reports. Identity thieves might not use your compromised information right away. Continue to monitor your credit report for signs of suspicious activity.
Sign up for free credit monitoring. Some businesses or government agencies offer free credit monitoring services. Remember, never provide private information without verifying that the service is legitimate.
Request a fraud alert from one of the credit bureaus. A fraud alert notifies banks and other creditors to take extra steps to verify your identity before issuing credit in your name. A fraud alert is free and will last 90 days. You can request a fraud alert with one of the three nationwide credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian, or TransUnion.
Avoid using the same password across various accounts. If your username and password are compromised in a breach, using the same password on other accounts could help a criminal gain more access to other personal information.
Consider a security freeze. A credit freeze or security freeze blocks an identity thief from opening new accounts or accessing credit in your name.
In March, PID called on health insurance companies to provide flexibility in administering healthcare benefits in response to a February cyber-attack on Change Healthcare and to update their websites to provide helpful information to their provider partners regarding reimbursement processes. UnitedHealth Group, of which Change Healthcare is a subsidiary, has over 150 million customers. Millions of Americans are potentially impacted by this cyber breach.
PID also encourages Pennsylvanians experiencing healthcare service delays, pharmacy challenges, eligibility or payment issues, or consumers with general questions, to contact PID’s Bureau of Consumer Services at 1-877-881-6388 or online. Pennsylvanians should also submit a complaint with Office of the Attorney General.
PID continues to monitor the impacts of the cyber-attack and communicates with insurers to encourage responsiveness and continued dialogue among affected parties.
Act 2 of 2023, effective December 11, 2023, requires insurance licensees to take specific actions to safeguard consumers’ information. The Act defines the requirements applicable to a licensee and establishes standards for data security, cybersecurity investigations, and notification to the Commissioner of cybersecurity events.
Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid reacts during the second half of Game 3 in an NBA basketball first-round playoff series against the New York Knicks, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Philadelphia. (Photo: AP/Matt Slocum)
Philadelphia 76ers All-Star center Joel Embiid has been diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, a condition that can strike out of the blue and cause muscles on one side of a person’s face to become weak or paralyzed, distorting expression.
Here’s what to know about the mostly temporary condition:
WHAT IS IT?
Bell’s palsy occurs when something inflames or injures a nerve that controls facial muscles. Symptoms come on rapidly over two to three days. They can include difficulty closing an eyelid, a drooping eye or mouth or paralysis of an entire half of the face.
Cases can be mild or severe.
It can affect anyone but is most likely to occur between the ages of 15 and 45, according to the National Institutes of Health.
WHAT CAUSES IT?
No one knows. But people more at risk include those who have high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity or are pregnant.
It’s been associated with infections such as the herpes simplex virus and Epstein-Barr virus, as well as Lyme disease and autoimmune disorders. The NIH says other possible triggers may include impaired immune reactions to minor illnesses or injury.
HOW IS IT DIAGNOSED AND TREATED?
There isn’t a single test to diagnose Bell’s palsy but doctors start by physically examining facial muscles. It’s important to seek care to rule out more serious conditions such as a stroke.
Treatment depends on the person’s symptoms and severity. Doctors may prescribe steroidal medications to reduce the nerve inflammation or antivirals. If there’s any involvement of the eyelid, patients receive care to protect the eye from dryness, such as an eyepatch or eye drops or ointments.
Fortunately, Bell’s palsy is temporary for the vast majority of patients. The NIH says most recover some or all facial function within a few weeks to six months.
Marsella Elie, de la organización comunitaria Philly Counts, entrega Narcan, un medicamento que puede revertir una sobredosis de opioides, a un residente del norte de Filadelfia como parte de la campaña de visitas puerta a puerta en vecindarios muy afectados por la crisis de opioides. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
En una estrecha calle de townhouses y un taller mecánico en el vecindario Kensington, en el norte de Filadelfia, Marsella Elie subió los escalones y golpeó fuerte las puertas de las casas.
Un hombre de mediana edad abre, con mirada cautelosa.
“Hola, señor, ¿cómo está hoy?», le preguntó Elie, que tenía puesta una chaqueta con el logo de la Campana de la Libertad, del gobierno de la ciudad. «Mi nombre es Marsella. Estoy trabajando con la ciudad. ¿Ha oído hablar de las sobredosis que están ocurriendo en el vecindario, verdad?».
El hombre asintió con cautela. Elie señaló los folletos que tenía sobre sobredosis de drogas y programas de tratamiento para la adicción. Levantó una caja de Narcan, una marca de naloxona, que puede revertir una sobredosis de opioides.
«Lo que estamos tratando de hacer es que esto llegue a todos los hogares. ¿Alguna vez ha oído hablar de esto antes?», preguntó Elie antes de entregarle al hombre una bolsa de tela llena de folletos, tiras de prueba de fentanilo y la caja de Narcan.
Elie y otros trabajadores de medio tiempo de la ciudad y voluntarios forman parte de una campaña puerta a puerta a gran escala en Filadelfia que tiene como objetivo equipar los hogares con naloxona y otros suministros para prevenir sobredosis de drogas.
Los funcionarios de la ciudad esperan que este enfoque proactivo transforme a la naloxona en un artículo que esté en los botiquines, para evitar que las personas mueran por sobredosis, especialmente los residentes negros.
En Filadelfia, en 2022, según datos de la ciudad, un récord de 1,413 personas murieron por sobredosis de drogas. Entre los residentes negros, las muertes aumentaron un 20% respecto al año anterior, y muchas ocurrieron en casas.
Un kit de recursos sobre la crisis de los opioides contiene Narcan, tiras de prueba de fentanilo e información sobre cómo obtener tratamiento para la adicción y otros recursos de reducción de daños. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
«Lo mejor que podemos hacer para que estos productos sean más accesibles es simplemente dárselos a las personas», dijo Keli McLoyd, subdirectora de la Unidad de Respuesta a Opioides de la ciudad, hablando sobre la bolsa de tela con naloxona y otros suministros.
«No le estamos preguntando si está usando drogas. El objetivo aquí es realmente construir una responsabilidad colectiva. Como personas de comunidades minoritarias, como vimos durante la epidemia de covid, nadie viene a salvarnos. Para nosotros, esta es una herramienta que podemos usar para salvarnos a nosotros mismos».
Esta iniciativa de distribución tiene como objetivo llevar suministros de prevención directamente a personas que de otro modo no los buscarían por sí mismas, y concientizar sobre las sobredosis más allá de Kensington, el epicentro de la epidemia de adicción de la ciudad.
Los encuestadores planean golpear más de 100,000 puertas en los «puntos calientes» de Filadelfia, códigos postales con tasas crecientes de sobredosis de opioides, muchos en comunidades minoritarias.
El aumento de las disparidades raciales en las muertes por sobredosis es una de las consecuencias a largo plazo de la guerra contra las drogas, dijo McLoyd. Las políticas de esa campaña nacional llevaron a décadas de tácticas policiales agresivas, perfil racial y largas condenas de prisión, afectando de manera desproporcionada a personas de color y a sus comunidades.
La investigación muestra que los afroamericanos siguen representando un número desproporcionado de arrestos por drogas y servicios de protección infantil.
«Por eso, está muy claro por qué las personas de minorías podrían ser reacias a levantar la mano y decir: ‘Soy una persona que usa drogas, necesito esos recursos'», dijo McLoyd.
Otras comunidades han distribuido naloxona y otros suministros, aunque en menor escala que Filadelfia. Lo que está haciendo Filadelfia podría convertirse en un modelo para otros lugares densamente poblados, dijo Daliah Heller, vicepresidenta de iniciativas sobre el uso de drogas en Vital Strategies, una organización de salud pública que trabaja con gobiernos locales en siete estados para abordar la epidemia de opioides.
«Hay algo intensamente personal en un compromiso humano», dijo Heller. «Y que alguien toque a tu puerta para hablar sobre el uso de drogas y el riesgo de sobredosis y que haya algo que se pueda hacer, creo que es realmente poderoso».
A lo largo de los años, la naloxona se ha vuelto más accesible que nunca, apuntó Heller. Ahora se puede pedir por internet y se puede recibir por correo, está disponible en máquinas expendedoras especializadas y algunas farmacias ahora venden el spray nasal de Narcan sin receta.
Pero decenas de miles de estadounidenses siguen muriendo por sobredosis de opioides cada año.
Eso significa que los esfuerzos de prevención y los mensajes sobre la crisis aún no llegan a algunas personas, dijo Heller. Y para Heller, llegar a las personas significa ir donde están. «Tenemos que pensar así cuando pensamos en la distribución de naloxona».
El proyecto de divulgación en Filadelfia está financiado en parte por los pagos de acuerdos de demandas nacionales contra fabricantes y distribuidores de opioides, parte de los cuales recibió la ciudad.
Se espera que la ciudad reciba alrededor de $200 millones en aproximadamente 18 años de acuerdos con AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, McKesson y Johnson & Johnson.
De la iniciativa forman parte muchas de las mismas personas que comenzaron a hacer divulgación como parte del censo de 2020.
Mitchell Bormack (izq.) y Marsella Elie, de la organización comunitaria Philly Counts, utilizan una aplicación para determinar dónde entregar kits de crisis de opioides en el norte de Filadelfia. La ciudad está tratando de colocar recursos de reducción de daños en hogares de vecindarios que han sido profundamente afectados por la crisis de los opioides. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
No todos responden a la puerta. Algunos no están en casa. En esos casos, los trabajadores dejan un volante en el picaporte de la puerta que ofrece información sobre los riesgos de las sobredosis, y contactos para obtener más recursos.
Los equipos de encuestadores, a menudo con intérpretes de idiomas, hacen una segunda ronda de visitas en el vecindario para llegar a las personas que no vieron la primera vez.
En un jueves reciente, los encuestadores de Filadelfia estaban tocando puertas en los vecindarios de Franklinville y Hunting Park. Según datos de la ciudad, en este código postal, aproximadamente 85 personas murieron por sobredosis de drogas en 2022. Eso es menos que las 193 personas que murieron por sobredosis en Kensington el mismo año, pero mucho más que las pocas muertes vistas en los vecindarios más ricos de la ciudad.
Los encuestadores se acercaron a una residente, Katherine Camacho, en la acera, cuando salía de su garage. Camacho les dijo que estaba al tanto del problema de las sobredosis en su comunidad y luego aceptó con entusiasmo una caja de Narcan. «Voy a llevar esto conmigo, porque, como dije, a veces estás en la calle conduciendo a algún lugar y podrías salvar una vida», les dijo Camacho.
En cuanto al esfuerzo de divulgación de Filadelfia, Camacho dijo que cree que «Dios está poniendo a estas personas para ayudar». Mientras entraba en su casa llevando la caja de Narcan, agregó que quería hacer su parte para ayudar.
Esta historia fue producida por KFF Health News, una redacción nacional enfocada en el tratamiento en profundidad de temas de salud, que es uno de los principales programas de KFF, la fuente independiente de investigación de políticas de salud, encuestas y periodismo.
