CSi Weather…

..WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST THURSDAY… INCLUDES STUTSMAN & BARNES COUNTIES…

WHAT…Very cold wind chills expected. Wind chills as low as
30 below zero.

* WHERE…Bottineau, Rolette, McHenry, Pierce, Wells, Foster,Stutsman, LaMoure and Dickey counties  Portions of northeast and southeast North Dakota.

* WHEN…Until noon CST Thursday.

* IMPACTS…The dangerously cold wind chills could cause
frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

Wear appropriate clothing, a hat, and gloves.

 

Forecast

.TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Patchy blowing and drifting snow in the

evening. Lows around 5 below. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts

up to 35 mph in the evening. Wind chills around 25 below.

 

.THURSDAY…Sunny. Highs 10 to 15. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Lowest wind chills around 25 below in the morning.  Wind chills of 25 below to 35 below zero Thursday morning will moderate during the day.Wind chills around 25 to 30 below.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows zero to 5 above. Southwest

winds 5 to 10 mph.

.CHRISTMAS DAY…Sunny. Not as cold. Highs in the mid 30s.

Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows 10 to 15.

.SATURDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows 5 to 10 above.

.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs around 15.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 5 below.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 15.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows near zero.

.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 20s.

Jamestown City crews will begin clearing drifted snow in the Downtown district starting tonight, Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 11:00 p.m.
All vehicles should be removed from the downtown streets, avenues, and alleyways.
City Ordinance Section 25-10 requires that a property owner keep the sidewalk adjoining the property clear of snow and ice. Do not deposit snow or ice on the city street after the city plow has cleared the street. These violations are class B misdemeanors under the general penalty and will result in a fine.

The above schedule is contingent upon changing weather conditions and snow accumulation totals.

 

 

Jamestown  (JRMC Katie Ryan- Anderson) Jamestown Regional Medical Center offered its first day of COVID vaccines on Wednesday Dec 23, 2020.

More than 60 of the 350 or so employees received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine with three more days on the schedule.

The vaccine is not mandatory, though JRMC does recommend it.

Masking, hand washing, physical distancing and vaccinating are the best ways to protect ourselves and each other. Stopping a pandemic requires using all the tools we have available. We are in this together!

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota health officials say hospitalizations due to complications from the coronavirus took another sizable dip on in the last day, dropping from 135 to 118 in the last day. The number of people receiving treatment in medical centers has dropped steadily since rising to more than 300 for more than a week in mid-November. The state’s hospital tracker shows there are 27 staffed intensive care unit beds and 392 staffed inpatient beds available throughout North Dakota. The update showed 279 positive COVID-19 tests in the last day, for a total of 90,723 cases since the start of the pandemic.

ND Covid Stats:

Wed. Dec. 23, 2020

Barnes County

ONE NEW DEATH

TOTAL DEATHS 25

 

New Positives:  5

Total Positives: 1216

Active: 31

Recovered: 1160

 

Stutsman County

Antigen tests (BinaxNOW, etc.) were added to the website beginning Dec. 9.

New Positives:  31

Total Positives:  3025

Active: 134

Recovered: 2821

More information pending NDDoH

 

COVID-19 Test Results 
The results listed are from the previous day. Additional data can be found on the NDDoH website.

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Just a note that there will not be a daily news release or updated website/dashboard on Christmas Day – Friday, December 25. Everything will be updated as usual on Saturday. If you wish to find the daily breakout for Friday (Thursday’s results), you can find them on Saturday in the public data download found at the bottom of the website. Wishing you a happy and healthy holiday season. – Nicole Peske, NDDoH

 

BY THE NUMBERS

3,713 – Total Tests from Yesterday*

1,277,443 – Total tests completed since the pandemic began

279 – Positive Individuals from Yesterday*****

186 – PCR Tests | 93 antigen tests
90,723 – Total positive individuals since the pandemic began

5.63% – Daily Positivity Rate**

 

2,389 – Total Active Cases

-50 Individuals from Yesterday

315 – Individuals Recovered from Yesterday (265 with a recovery date of yesterday****)

87,091 – Total recovered since the pandemic began

118 – Currently Hospitalized

-17 – Individuals from yesterday

 

5 – New Deaths*** (1,243 total deaths since the pandemic began)

INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED WITH COVID-19

  • Woman in her 50s from Barnes County.
  • Man in his 80s from Burleigh County.
  • Man in his 80s from Cass County.
  • Man in his 70s from McLean County.
  • Woman in her 80s from Ward County.

 

COUNTIES WITH NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED TODAY

  • Barnes County – 5
  • Benson County – 10
  • Bottineau County – 4
  • Bowman County – 1
  • Burke County – 1
  • Burleigh County – 24
  • Cass County – 52
  • Cavalier County – 1
  • Dickey County – 4
  • Eddy County – 1
  • Emmons County – 2
  • Foster County – 4
  • Grand Forks County – 17
  • Griggs County – 2
  • LaMoure County – 1
  • McHenry County – 1
  • McKenzie County – 5
  • Mercer County – 4
  • Morton County – 10
  • Mountrail County – 1
  • Nelson County – 1
  • Oliver County – 2
  • Pembina County – 2
  • Pierce County – 2
  • Ramsey County – 6
  • Richland County – 10
  • Rolette County – 9
  • Sioux County – 5
  • Stark County – 13
  • Stutsman County – 31
  • Towner County – 1
  • Traill County – 2
  • Walsh County – 5
  • Ward County – 17
  • Wells County – 1
  • Williams County – 22

 

* Note that this includes PCR tests and does not include individuals from out of state.

**Individuals who tested positive divided by the total number of people tested who have not previously tested positive (susceptible encounters). Antigen tests (positive or negative) are not included in the calculation.

*** Number of individuals who tested positive with a PCR or antigen test and died from any cause while infected with COVID-19. Please remember that deaths are reported as they’re reported to us by the facility or through the official death record (up to 10-day delay).

 

**** The actual date individuals are officially out of isolation and no longer contagious.

*****Daily positive numbers include people who tested with a PCR or antigen test. Totals may be adjusted as individuals are found to live out of state, in another county, or as other information is found during investigation.

For descriptions of these categories, visit the NDDoH dashboard.

For the most updated and timely information and updates related to COVID-19, visit the NDDoH website at www.health.nd.gov/coronavirus, follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and visit the CDC website at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus.

 

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A Minot man is accused in the death of a woman who was reported missing earlier this week. Shawnee Krall is charged with murder in the death of Alice Queirolo, whose family and coworkers reported her disappearance on Monday. Police say Krall and Queirolo were roommates. Authorities said in a release that Queirolo’s body was found in a “secondary location,” but were not specific. Krall was arrested without incident Tuesday night. He is in custody at the Ward County Jail awaiting his first court appearance, which has not been scheduled. Court documents do not list an attorney for Krall.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Federal and local authorities were investigating a fiery oil car train derailment north of Seattle near where two people were arrested last month and accused of attempting a terrorist attack on train tracks to disrupt plans for a natural gas pipeline. Seven train cars carrying crude oil derailed and five caught fire Tuesday, sending a large plume of black smoke into the sky. There were no injuries in the derailment about 100 miles (161 kilometers) north of Seattle. Officials were asked about recent attempts to sabotage oil trains, but said the investigation was just beginning. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board along with the FBI and other federal, state and local agencies were on the scene.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has vetoed the annual defense policy bill, following through on threats to veto a measure that has broad bipartisan support in Congress and potentially setting up the first override vote of his presidency. The bill affirms 3% pay raises for U.S. troops and authorizes more than $740 billion in military programs and construction. Trump has offered a series of rationales for vetoing the bill. He has called for lawmakers to include limits on social media companies he claimed are biased against him.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Millions of Americans are traveling ahead of Christmas and New Year’s, despite pleas from public health experts that they stay home to avoid fueling the raging coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 320,000 nationwide. Many people at airports this week thought long and hard about whether to go anywhere and found a way to rationalize it. Some are elderly and figure they don’t have many Christmases left. Others are trying to keep long-distance romance alive. Some just yearn for the human connection that’s been absent for the past nine months.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer and BioNTech will supply the U.S. with an additional 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine under a new agreement. The drugmakers said Wednesday that they expect to deliver all the doses by July 31. To aid vaccine production, the government said it is using its authority under a Cold War-era law that allows it to direct private manufacturing. The additional doses are on top of 100 million doses Pfizer already was under contract to supply to the government. Two doses are needed for the vaccine to be fully effective. Pfizer’s vaccine was the first to gain emergency authorization. It has now been joined by a vaccine from Moderna.

 

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s health regulator has authorized a second COVID-19 vaccine. Health Canada said Wednesday that the vaccine from U.S. biotech firm Moderna is safe for use in the country and Moderna said it anticipates starting shipments to Canada within 48 hours. It follows the Dec. 9 approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Up to 168,000 doses of the Moderna shot are set to arrive by the end of December. Overall, Canada is to get 40 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine in 2021. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also says Canada will extend the temporary suspension of passenger flights from the UK until Jan. 6.

 

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union and British negotiators are closing in on a trade deal with only a disagreement over fishing rights in U.K. waters remaining, After resolving a few remaining fair competition issues, negotiators were down to dealing with fishing quotas and transition terms Wednesday as they worked to secure a deal for a post-Brexit relationship by an end-of-year deadline. Two EU sources say there is hope a chaotic break on New Year’s Day could be averted as soon as Wednesday night. Britain withdrew from the EU on Jan. 31, and an economic transition period expires on Dec. 31. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted the U.K. would “prosper mightily” even if no deal were reached.

 

DETROIT (AP) — A woman has been charged with making threats against a Detroit-area Republican election official. The FBI says Monica Palmer received photos of a mutilated body, a day after after she had initially refused to certify local results in favor of Joe Biden. A criminal complaint was filed against Katelyn Jones. Monica Palmer chaired a raucous meeting of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers on Nov. 17. Palmer and a fellow Republican on the board initially refused to certify local election results, typically a routine step. They later changed their position. The FBI says Jones sent threats the next day from New Hampshire where she was staying with her mother.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 89,000 last week to a still-elevated 803,000, evidence that the job market remains under stress nine months after the coronavirus outbreak sent the U.S. economy into recession and caused millions of layoffs. The latest figure shows that many employers are still cutting jobs as the pandemic tightens business restrictions and leads many consumers to stay home. Before the virus struck, applications typically numbered around 225,000 a week before shooting up to 6.9 million in early spring when the virus — and efforts to contain it — flattened the economy. It has since come down but remains at historically high levels.