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8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD THuRSDAY, AuguST 13, 2020 COFFEE BREAK New husband’s moodiness may signal deeper trouble DEAR ABBY: I have a ques- tion about my daughter’s new husband, “Brad.” I haven’t inter- fered with their marriage and don’t want to, but he seems very moody and barely speaks to me. Just when I think I’ve found a common topic, on the next visit four or five weeks later, he doesn’t say a word. During my last visit, he got very upset with my daughter because a piece of chicken fell out of his wrap while she was tasting it. She apologized twice, but her eyes were watering when I walked into the room. I wanted so badly to just hug her and ask Brad “What’s wrong with you?” I have heard his tone before. Should I do anything? — QUESTIONING DEAR QUESTIONING: If Brad has behaved this way before when you were vis- DEAR iting, is it possible that your visit was ABBY inconvenient for him? Could they be having marital problems? I don’t think it would qualify as interference to ask your daughter how often her husband gets upset over things as trivial as a piece of chicken spilling out of his wrap. Exploding over some- thing so insignificant could be an indication that there is a larger problem that hasn’t been dealt with. It also would not be inter- fering to let your daughter know that if this happens often, it isn’t normal, and that you are — and always will be — there for her if she feels she needs it. DEAR ABBY: A friend died in a state that has restrictions on gathering for funerals because of the pandemic. Only those in the household, the mortuary staff and a pastor or other religious officiant can be present at the funeral. This was a good friend, Abby, someone I had known for 35 years. He and his wife, also a longtime friend, were in my wed- ding party. The sudden loss of this friend saddens me, and it grieves me that I cannot offer condo- lences in person or attend the funeral or support his widow in to check on her, lift her spirits and allow her to vent if she needs to, which may help her to feel less isolated and vulnerable. DEAR ABBY: I have a question about privacy. No matter when I am in the restroom, my husband feels the need to come in and hang out. Every single day. I have mentioned over and over that I would prefer some privacy, but he won’t listen. I mean, come on, is nothing sacred? What gives? — EXPOSED DEAR EXPOSED: You have my sympathy. Your husband either doesn’t respect your need for privacy or has an insatiable desire for a captive audience. The solution to your problem may be as simple as a sturdy lock on your bathroom door. person. Other readers may also be facing this quandary. Do you have any suggestions? — GRIEVING DEAR GRIEVING: Ask your friend’s widow if the funeral home can stream the funeral service to friends and extended family who are unable to attend in person. Call her, extend your condolences, and ask if she needs your help or if she is plan- ning to have a memorial you can attend once the quarantine is lifted. While you’re at it, ask if she would like a contribution in her late husband’s name made to a particular organization. Do NOT send flowers without first asking because she may be inundated. And, of course, continue calling Russia approves first coronavirus vaccine, but scientists uneasy By Vladimir Isachenkov and Daria Litvinova Associated Press MOSCOW — Russia on Tuesday, Aug. 11, became the first country to approve a coronavirus vac- cine, a move that was met with international skepti- cism and unease because the shots have only been studied in dozens of people. President Vladimir Putin announced the Health Ministry’s approval and said one of his two adult daughters already was inoculated. He said the vac- cine underwent the neces- sary tests and was shown to provide lasting immu- nity to the coronavirus, although Russian authori- ties have offered no proof to back up claims of safety or effectiveness. “I know it has proven efficient and forms a stable immunity,” Putin said. “We must be grateful to those who made that first step very important for our country and the entire world.” However, scientists in Russia and other coun- tries sounded an alarm, saying that rushing to offer the vaccine before final- stage testing could back- fire. What’s called a Phase 3 trial — which involves tens of thousands of people and can take months — is the only way to prove if an experimental vaccine is safe and really works. By comparison, vaccines entering final-stage testing in the U.S. require studies of 30,000 people each. Two vaccine candidates already have begun those huge studies, with three more set to get underway by fall. “Fast-tracked approval will not make Russia the leader in the race, it will just expose consumers of the vaccine to unneces- sary danger,” said Rus- sia’s Association of Clinical Trials Organizations, in urging government officials to postpone approving the vaccine without completed advanced trials. While Russian offi- cials have said large-scale production of the vaccine wasn’t scheduled until Sep- tember, Deputy Prime Min- Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./Russian Direct Investment Fund via AP An employee works with a coronavirus vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Russia on Tuesday, Aug. 11, became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for use despite international skepticism about injections that have not completed clinical trials. ister Tatyana Golikova said vaccination of doctors could start as early as this month. Officials say they will be closely monitored after the injections. Mass vaccination may begin as early as October. “We expect tens of thou- sands of volunteers to be vaccinated within the next months,” Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive of the Rus- weather sian Direct Investment Fund that bankrolled the vaccine, told reporters. The vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow with assistance from Russia’s Defense Ministry uses a different virus — the common cold- causing adenovirus — that’s been modified to carry genes for the “spike” protein that coats the coro- AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION Astoria Longview 52/70 Kennewick 49/80 St. Helens 52/82 53/87 Condon 55/90 54/85 SUN MON Clear Sunny and pleasant Sunny and pleasant Very hot with some sun Very hot Baker City 40 85 42 Comfort Index™ La Grande 8 9 6 41 81 48 Comfort Index™ 10 3 97 60 98 64 5 3 3 TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High Tuesday Low Tuesday High: 116° Low: 30° Wettest: 3.23” 93° 43° 94° 46° 93° 45° PRECIPITATION (inches) 0.00 0.02 0.23 2.63 6.61 0.00 0.03 0.27 13.05 10.33 0.00 Trace 0.21 25.19 14.66 HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY 20% N at 4 to 8 mph 10.5 0.23 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir 29% of capacity 52% of capacity 58% of capacity 74% of capacity 37% of capacity 46% of capacity STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday) Grande Ronde at Troy Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder Burnt River near Unity Umatilla River near Gibbon Minam River at Minam Powder River near Richland OREGON Ontario Meacham Powers 51/87 SUN & MOON THU. 5:51 a.m. 8:02 p.m. 12:27 a.m. 3:59 p.m. FRI. 5:53 a.m. 8:01 p.m. 1:04 a.m. 5:01 p.m. MOON PHASES 594 cfs 105 cfs 123 cfs 48 cfs 170 cfs 30 cfs New Aug 18 First Aug 25 Full Sep 1 Grants Pass Last Sep 10 Jordan Valley 47/84 Paisley 47/90 49/90 Frenchglen 50/91 53/95 Brookings 57/99 Grand View Arock 56/92 49/93 53/95 Klamath Falls 47/90 Lakeview 46/90 McDermitt Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs. 49/91 RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY SAT. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Astoria 70/55/pc 81/58/s Bend 85/52/s 94/57/s Boise 91/59/s 95/66/s Brookings 79/59/s 75/57/pc Burns 90/46/s 95/53/s Coos Bay 71/54/s 75/57/s Corvallis 87/56/s 99/60/s Council 87/51/s 92/56/s Elgin 83/47/s 91/54/s Eugene 87/53/s 99/60/s Hermiston 88/56/s 97/59/s Hood River 87/59/s 97/62/s Imnaha 83/54/s 92/59/s John Day 86/53/s 94/60/s Joseph 81/49/s 87/54/s Kennewick 88/56/s 96/60/s Klamath Falls 90/52/s 94/56/s Lakeview 90/51/s 92/55/s Diamond 48/86 Fields Medford 55/79 Boise 57/91 Silver Lake Chiloquin FRI. Hurricane Connie dumped up to 9.85 inches of rain on eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey on Aug. 13, 1955. Hurricane Diane followed six days later with 10.75 inches of rain. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset 55/91 49/92 42/89 REGIONAL CITIES WEATHER HISTORY AGRICULTURAL INFO. Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration Death Valley, Calif. Yellowstone N.P., Wyo. Pensacola, Fla. High: 97° Low: 41° Wettest: none Beaver Marsh Juntura 38/90 43/83 40/86 Roseburg Ontario 55/92 Burns Brothers 48/85 Coos Bay Huntington 44/82 46/85 Oakridge 49/87 57/90 Seneca Bend Elkton TUESDAY EXTREMES ALMANAC Tuesday Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date Florence Council 40/85 47/86 44/87 48/71 Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable. 42/79 John Day 44/89 Sisters 53/85 88 52 9 Eugene 49/87 2 46/89 Baker City Redmond 50/68 Halfway Granite 50/87 Newport 3 4 44/86 43/85 45/64 91 53 100 60 102 58 8 Salem Enterprise 41/81 45/84 Monument 50/86 Idanha 49/85 Corvallis 99 57 100 56 5 45 84 48 Comfort Index™ Enterprise 9 91 49 Elgin 42/83 La Grande 49/80 Maupin SAT 56/85 Pendleton The Dalles Portland Newberg 48/84 Lewiston 52/87 Hood River 49/86 46/73 FRI Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020 Walla Walla 54/88 Vancouver 50/82 TIllamook TONIGHT istry has not responded to a request for comment. Putin said one of his daughters has received two doses, and had minor side effects such as slight fever, and is now “feeling well and has a high number of antibodies.” It wasn’t clear if she was one of the study volunteers. The Health Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that the vaccine is expected to provide immunity from the coronavirus for up to two years, citing its expe- rience with vaccines made with similar technology. However, scientists around the world have been cautioning that even if vac- cine candidates are proven to work, it will take even more time to tell how long the protection will last. “The collateral damage from release of any vac- cine that was less than safe and effective would exac- erbate our current prob- lems insurmountably,” Imperial College London immunology professor Danny Altmann said in a statement Tuesday. navirus, as a way to prime the body to recognize if a real COVID-19 infection comes along. That’s a similar tech- nology as vaccines being developed by China’s Can- Sino Biologics and Brit- ain’s Oxford University and AstraZeneca — but unlike those companies, Russian scientists haven’t published any scientific information about how the vaccine has performed in animal tests or in early-stage human studies. Dmitriev said even as Russian doctors and teachers start getting vac- cinated, advanced trials are set to start Wednesday that will involve “sev- eral thousand people” and span several countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and pos- sibly Brazil. The Associated Press couldn’t find documenta- tion in the Russian Health Ministry’s records indi- cating that permission to start the advanced trials was granted. The min- City Lewiston Longview Meacham Medford Newport Olympia Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Powers Redmond Roseburg Salem Spokane The Dalles Ukiah Walla Walla FRI. SAT. Hi/Lo/W 87/58/s 80/57/pc 81/46/s 99/62/s 64/49/s 79/50/pc 92/56/s 90/55/s 86/55/s 85/59/s 87/56/s 89/48/s 91/59/s 85/57/s 80/54/s 90/61/s 81/45/s 85/60/s Hi/Lo/W 93/62/s 91/60/s 89/50/s 107/70/s 69/53/s 88/55/s 96/62/s 96/59/s 95/59/s 97/66/s 99/65/s 98/54/s 105/65/s 99/62/s 88/57/s 100/66/s 90/52/s 93/63/s Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice ANTHONY LAKES PHILLIPS LAKE Plenty of sunshine Sunny and pleasant 63 44 82 46 MT. EMILY REC. BROWNLEE RES. Mostly sunny Sunny and nice 71 49 87 52 EAGLE CAP WILD. EMIGRANT ST. PARK Plenty of sunshine Mostly sunny; nice 69 40 76 43 WALLOWA LAKE MCKAY RESERVOIR Sunny and nice Mostly sunny 81 49 84 55 THIEF VALLEY RES. RED BRIDGE ST. PARK Sunny and pleasant Sunny and pleasant 85 42 84 48
