‘You’re too fat for this’: Flight attendant attacked mid-air by Florida man shouting racist slur
A Florida man was arrested after a racist and fat-shaming meltdown aboard an American Airlines flight, the News-Press reports.
George Alexander, 82, was charged with battery and interference with aircraft operations.
He was arrested at Southwest Florida International Airport after a flight home from Philadelphia.
During the flight, Alexander allegedly accosted a flight attending during beverage service, calling her a racial slur and telling her she was “too big for this job; you’re too fat for this, overweight.”
He also allegedly poked her in the back while demanding she move.
Alexander was released after posting $1,000 bond with a court date scheduled for June 26.
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French hospital halts trials of Trump-promoted COVID-19 drug due to worries about heart failure
President Donald Trump's promotion of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 has drawn criticism from medical experts who say much more work needs to be done before anyone can say it's effective at stopping the disease.
And now one hospital in France has stopped its testing of hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19 patients over worries that the drug poses a "toxic risk" to people's hearts when taken in combination with other drugs.
French newspaper Nice Matin reports that Nice University Hospital "immediately stopped" its use of hydroxychloroquine in patients who exhibit "major risks" of suffering heart failure due to the drug.
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Economist who hoped for ‘V-shaped’ recovery now predicting a prolonged downturn even worse than the Great Recession
Tim Bartik is among the economists who has described the type of “V-shaped” economic recovery he would like to see in the United States following the coronavirus pandemic. Ideally, Bartik has asserted, all the businesses that have been shut down by the pandemic would reopen quickly when it’s safe to do so and put millions of Americans back to work. But journalist Andy Balaskovitz, in an article published in MiBiz on April 8, explains why Bartik (a senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Michigan) now believes that predictions of a “V-shaped recovery” are wishful thinking — and why Americans are in for a lot of economic pain in the months ahead.
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‘Recipe for disaster’: Officials in Florida city say they face ‘unimaginable’ potential death from COVID-19
Officials in the Florida city of Hialeah are warning that they are uniquely vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic and face the possibility of "unimaginable" death from the disease.
In interviews with The Daily Beast, the officials explained how their large population of senior citizens is at grave risk if Hialeah erupts as a major COVID-19 hotspot.
"I think it is going to get a lot worse," Hialeah Councilman Jesus Tundidor tells The Daily Beast. “The experts have been telling us to expect a peak [in Florida] near the end of the month. As we get more testing sites up and running, the more positive cases we will see. And that will create more fear."
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