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washingtonpost.com/local/lotterylotterIestHe DIstrICtFormer instructor
charged in abuse caseA onetime instructor at the
Duke Ellington School of the
Arts in Northwest Washington
has been charged with sexual
abuse of a minor after one of his
former students alleged the two
engaged in a sex act in 2018,
according to D.C. police and
court documents filed Tuesday.
Andrew P. Smith, 37, of
Northeast, was released on
personal recognizance and has a
hearing set for May 29 in D.C.
Superior Court. Smith could not
be reached for comment.
An arrest affidavit says Smith,
who worked with choir students,
in addition to other
responsibilities, was suspended
in October when the allegation
first surfaced. The school system
said Smith no longer works at
Duke Ellington.
Police said in the affidavit that
in January 2018, Smith, the
teenager and others from the
school’s choir performed at the
Kennedy Center. Police said the
sexual contact occurred as the
teenager and Smith shared an
Uber ride to their respective
homes.
— Peter Hermann and Perry SteinmArylAnDMan killed in
Pr. George’s crashA man died in a weekend
crash over the weekend in Prince
George’s County. Police said the
collision happened around
2:45 a.m. Saturday near
Pennsylvania Avenue and
Walters Lane in Forestville.
A vehicle driving on
Pennsylvania Avenue went off
the road and struck a pole.
Shortly after the crash, a second
car swerved to avoid the
collision but hit the victim in the
roadway.
Spencer Alexander Davis, 23,
of Forestville, died at the scene,
police said. The people in the
second car stayed on the scene
and were not injured.
— Dana HedgpethVIrgInIASecond teen charged
after Halifax slayingsA second teenager was
arrested in connection with the
killing of a young couple in
Halifax County last month.
The 17-year-old boy from
Danville is charged in juvenile
court with obstruction of justice
and accessory after the fact in
the killings of Ntombo Joel
Bianda, 21, of Alexandria, and
Ayanna Munne Maertens Griffin,
19, of Germantown, Md. Because
he was not charged as an adult,
police are not releasing his
name.
Mohamed Aly, an 18-year-old
student at T.C. Williams High
School in Alexandria, is in jail
facing murder charges.
Additional arrests are likely,
police say.
The bodies of Bianda and
Griffin were found near their car
on a rural road on Feb. 8.
— Rachel WeinerloCAl DIgest32 public schools to prevent
spread of the disease. D.C.
General restricted visitors to
patients’ immediate families but
said even they should think of
just calling or sending letters.
Financial columnist Sylvia
Porter warned retailers to
expect a poor Christmas season.
Families would be spending
more money on medical bills
and less on gifts.
The Asian flu tapered off in
1958, though there was the
expected blip of cases that fall.
The Evening Star’s Charles E.
Brooks wrote: “The epidemic
made history in more than one
way. It was the first time the
medical world had ever made
advance preparations before an
epidemic struck.”
The first, but not the last.
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Twitter: @johnkelly For previous columns, visit
washingtonpost.com/john-kelly.shots arrived in the District.
They were administered to
firefighters, police officers and
the staff of D.C. General
Hospital. A week after that, the
Naval Academy football team
got their shots. (“We can’t afford
to lose a game this season,” said
the director of athletics.)
Italy was hit hard. In Milan,
Maria Callas had the flu. Ingrid
Bergman was ill in her Rome
apartment. Noted tenor
Beniamino Gigli , 67, died two
days after showing Asian flu
symptoms, passing away so
quickly that he was unable to
receive last rites from a priest.
In Washington, dozens of
residents of Junior Village, a
juvenile detention facility at
Blue Plains, tested positive for
flu. (A new test involved
culturing throat washes on
monkey kidney tissue and
waiting several days for the
results.)
Fairfax County closedMeanwhile, it was reported
that Asian flu had hit U.S. air
bases in Britain, hospitalizing
500 airmen.
A newspaper humorist
quipped: “Fever is the second
part of Asian flu. The first part
is worse. That’s the shivers you
get from all the advance
warnings.”
Dwight Eisenhower
repeatedly declined the
opportunity to get vaccinated,
insisting he be treated like a
regular person and not get
special treatment. An
exasperated Public Health
Service put out a news release
recommending that older
people with chronic diseases
like heart trouble should be
among the first inoculated. A
White House source admitted
the release was aimed at one
person: Ike.
On Aug. 26, the president
finally got his jab.
A week later, the first 1,500 fluwarned that autumn would
bring a “sweeping and
widespread” outbreak in
America. “There will not be
enough time, of course, to
produce and administer
sufficient vaccine to immunize a
majority of the population
before the influenza season,”
Burney declared.
But the fact that there was a
vaccine was a reason for hope.
U.S. drug companies agreed to
turn out 8 million doses by mid-
September, with another
50 million by Feb. 1.
In those paranoid, Cold War
times, two questions were on
some people’s minds. The
surgeon general insisted the
new flu mutation had not been
caused by nuclear testing in the
Pacific. Asked if communists
had planted the germs, Burney
said: “No. I don’t believe that is
a possibility. We have epidemics
occasionally and have had them
in the past.”The president of
Brazil was
feverish with flu.
The president of
the United States
was refusing to
get vaccinated.
Oceanliners full
of sick passengers
were approaching
shore.
Coronavirus in 2020?
Nope. Asian flu in 1957.
“Epidemic Into Pandemic?”
asked a headline in the
Washington Evening Star on
June 16, 1957. The story noted
that two months earlier,
residents of a refugee camp in
Hong Kong had started
experiencing fever, lung
congestion, aching muscles and
sore throats.
“This is where air travel turns
up a new kind of health
problem,” the article noted. “The
flu virus requires about three
days to produce sickness. A
newly infected person can board
a plane in the Pacific area and
go halfway around the world
before he shows symptoms of
the disease. Meanwhile he can
exhale the bug in the presence
of fellow travelers and so
propagate the chain of
infection.”
The H2N2 virus would later
be traced back to mainland
China, with a stop in Singapore.
As public health officials
around the world girded for the
epidemic, Brazilian President
Juscelino Kubitschek took to
his bed with a high fever. (He
would survive and go on to build
Brasilia.) The American liner the
President Cleveland arrived in
San Francisco from Japan with
96 percent of its passengers and
crew either ill or convalescent.
And the U.S. president?
That was Dwight
Eisenhower. We’ll get to him.
Seasonal flu was not
uncommon, but this iteration
was more severe than previous
versions, though not as deadly
as the Spanish flu that had
killed 50 million 40 years
earlier. (The CDC estimates the
eventual death toll from the
195 7-1958 pandemic was
1.1 million worldwide, including
116,000 in the United States.)
As the summer of 1957 wore
on, newspapers ticked off the
countries reporting cases: Syria,
Iraq, Romania...
In August, U.S. surgeon
general Leroy E. Burney
As n ew flu hit in 1957, w orld watched and waited for it to spread
John
Kelly's
Washington
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Flu-struck students rest in the Naval Armory at Georgia Tech in 1957 after the school infirmary became too crowded with other patients.
Asian flu was more severe than previous outbreaks. T he Centers for Disease Control estimates it resulted in 1.1 million deaths worldwide.BY DARRAN SIMONBrittney Roberson, a manager
at Jack Rose Dining Saloon, was
also the bartender and server
Monday night.
“A nd security and the hostess,”
she s aid from behind the bar of the
restaurant in the Adams Morgan
neighborhood in Northwest
Washington.
Roberson walked to a booth to
take the order of the two lone
customers. A member o f the k itch-
en staff rested his c hin on his hand
and l ooked o ut at a n empty d ining
room.
It w as close t o 9:30 p.m. U sually,
the bar and dining room would be
full at t his time.
H ours earlier, D.C. officials or-
dered all restaurants and bars to
stop dine-in service at 10 p.m.
Monday to help reduce the spread
the novel coronavirus that causes
the disease covid-19. Only carry-
out and delivery services are al-
lowed through the end of the
month u nder the order.
As t he c utoff t ime neared, some
restaurants and bars in the Dis-
trict were empty, and the mood
was s ubdued.
“It’s scary. It’s completely un-
usual,” said Andy Plunket, a man-
ager at Lucky Buns, also in Adams
Morgan. “We’re taking it moment
by moment, h onestly.”
He added: “A n hour ago, we
would be full inside and outside,
and w e’re dealing with six t ables.”
Earlier, three customers sat in
Kelly’s Irish Times, a bar near
Union Station, about 9 p.m. A staff
member t here said t hey were c los-
ing within the h our.
At Jack Rose, 10 to 15 customers
had trickled since dinner time,
Roberson said. A notice on the
restaurant’s website told custom-ers that Monday would be its last
night of dinner service. “Our full
dinner menu is also available for
carryout, delivery options coming
soon,” t he notice said.
Roberson said Jack Rose will
combine m enus w ith its sister res-
taurant, the Imperial, to offer op-
tions.
On Sunday, D.C. officials or-
dered restaurants to stop bar s eat-
ing, sit no more than six people at
tables and place tables six feet
apart to comply with emergency
rules prohibiting gatherings of
250 o r more.
The new restrictions an-
nounced Monday comply with
stricter guidance f rom the C enters
for Disease Control and Preven-
tion, which has urged a nation-
wide halt to gatherings of more
than 50 p eople.
Roberson said the customers
who came in over the past twodays said they wanted to support
restaurant workers. She appreci-
ated t he support, she s aid.
“The people that came out yes-
terday and that have come out
today have been very generous
with tips,” s he said.
Across t he s treet a t Lucky Buns,
Rachel Tullia, 30, sipped a Jame-
son a nd s oda.
She said she drove 45 minutes
from Montgomery Village, Md.,
for one last drink at her favorite
bar a nd t o see the s taff.
She would usually sit on a stool
on one side of the bar, because it
was “perfect for watching the TV
and b othering the b artenders.” O n
Monday, she sat at a table inches
from the bar where stools would
normally be.
Plunket said the bar had re-
moved bar s tools and a bout half of
the dining room tables. “We got
tape measures out, and we weremeasuring s ix feet,” h e said.
On the wall behind Tullia, a
chalkboard l isted t he beer choices.
The Monday special was $5 beer
and c ider, a ll n ight.
Tullia s aid the mood was “ super
calm and dead.”
“People around don’t engage
like they [did] before,” she said.
“They don’t have the normal bar
seats. S o it’s a completely d ifferent
feel.”
As it neared 10 p.m., six other
patrons were in the bar beside
Tullia, including two bartenders.
Tullia leaned toward the bar to
check on Bryan Tobar, the bar-
tender. She asked him what his
plans were.
To bar, 22, said he would stay
home, apply for unemployment
and r ead a book.
“If they need me, I’ll come in,”
he told a reporter.
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Just before bars and restaurants close, it’s a very lonely last call
BY PERRY STEINThe Virginia Department of E d-
ucation said Tuesday that it is
working t o ensure that the extend-
ed closure of schools does not af-
fect seniors who are scheduled to
graduate in June.
James F. Lane, the common-
wealth’s superintendent of public
instruction, said Tuesday that Vir-
ginia Education Department is re-
viewing regulations governing
graduation requirements to deter-
mine what it must do so seniors stay
on track to r eceive their d iplomas.
“I want s tudents and p arents t o
know that [Virginia Gov. Ralph
Northam] and I are committed to
taking every step possible t o mini-
mize the i mpact o f coronavirus on
students and to ensure that our
seniors a re able to graduate,” L ane
said in a statement. “This includes
exploring exemptions from re-
quirements unrelated to course-
work for students due to graduate
this spring.”
Northam (D) announced last
week that all of Virginia’s publicschools would close for at l east two
weeks as the nation attempts to
contain the spread of the corona-
virus.
Virginia had already instructed
school systems that they had the
flexibility to postpone federally
mandated standardized testing
until June. But it’s unclear how
long schools will be closed, and
Lane said Virginia wants the fed-
eral government to grant the en-
tire state a waiver from these fed-
eral r equirements.
Other states, including Michi-gan, have made similar requests.
Under the federal Every Stu-
dent Succeeds Act, schools are re-
quired to test their students in
math and reading every year be-
tween third and eighth grade.
They must also test high school
students once.
The U.S. Education Depart-
ment has said it would consider-
ing issuing waivers for some
schools.
“Given what we are now h earing
about the potential duration of the
coronavirus pandemic, we nowhave t o seek further flexibility relat-
ed to state testing,” Lane said. “To
do this, the commonwealth must
have relief from the annual testing
requirements under the federal Ev-
ery Student Succeeds Act.”
Virginia Board of Education
President Daniel Gecker said in a
statement that t he state board will
review its regulations to deter-
mine what i t can d o to dampen t he
effects that the coronavirus could
have on school accreditation rat-
ings.
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State superintendent aims to have seniors graduate on time
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