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