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Given a paragraph, generate a claim that is supported by the given paragraph. 1) The claim must contain information from within the paragraph. 2) A sentence within the paragraph can be used as a claim. 3) The claim should not have contradictions within the paragraph. 4) The claim should be at most one sentence long.
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"With the coronavirus pandemic sending automobile miles plummeting and with it, demand for gasoline Americans are finding prices at the pump to be lower than they've been in years. But New York state remains on the higher end of that range. That's what WKBW-TV, Buffalo's ABC affiliate, reported on April 27, citing the American Automobile Association. ""New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00, according to numbers provided by the AAA of Western and Central New York,"" the report said. Is that correct? Yes. We asked AAA for the gas price data for April 27, and they provided us with the full list of 50 states plus the District of Columbia. The data comes from surveys of up to 120,000 gas stations across the country. We looked at the price per gallon for unleaded regular. Here's the list of states, from most expensive to least expensive: According to this list, New York, at $2.18 a gallon, was the seventh most expensive state for gasoline, trailing Hawaii, California, Washington state, Oregon, Nevada, and the District of Columbia. (D.C. isn't a state, but we'll grant some leeway.) The other five states with gas prices above $2.00 were Arizona, Pennsylvania, Utah, Alaska, and New Jersey. That adds up to 12 states above $2.00, as the statement said, as long as you include D.C. as a state. Three states had gas below $1.40 a gallon: Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. AAA isn't the only source of this data. We also looked at data from the wesbite GasBuddy. GasBuddy sent us their own state-by-state prices from April 27 and it shows a similar pattern, but slightly different due to data sampling. New York, at $2.13, was one of eight states with gas prices above $2.00. In descending order, they were Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington state, Nevada, New York, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. That's fewer than the 12 states that AAA found with $2.00-plus gasoline, but four additional states on the GasBuddy list had prices just under $2.00. Utah, Alaska, the District of Columbia, and New Jersey all had gas prices at between $1.95 and $1.95. One reason why gas prices are relatively high in New York is the tax burden, according to an interactive map produced by the American Petroleum Institute. In 2018, New Yorkers paid more than 45 cents a gallon in state taxes and 18 cents a gallon in federal taxes, for a total of 63 cents a gallon. That's nearly twice what Ohio motorists pay in taxes. New York is one of just a handful of states where motorists pay more than 49 cents a gallon in gasoline taxes. Since the article appeared, the situation hasn't changed much. By the following week, only 10 states had average gas prices above $2.00 per gallon, and New York remained one of them. With some states beginning to re-open portions of their economies, gasoline prices have increased slightly in some states, according to AAA and GasBuddy data. But the average price per gallon in the United States had only risen a couple of cents per gallon, In New York, the changes were also minimal. AAA had New York's average price per gallon at $2.15, while GasBuddy had a slightly lower price, $2.12. A news report cited the American Automobile Association in saying that ""New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00."" AAA provided us the full data, confirming that the statement is correct, as long as the District of Columbia is counted as a state. Among the 50 states and D.C., New York ranked seventh highest in per-gallon prices for regular unleaded. Another gasoline price metric, from GasBuddy, had eight states above $2.00, with four additional states between $1.95 and $1.99."
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"New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00."

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In July 2020, social media posts and news reports claimed that a Missouri school district asked parents to sign COVID-19 "death" waivers in advance of the academic school year. The waiver went viral after a Twitter user shared it. The focus on the word "death" came from an article published by online tabloid Raw Story that extrapolated language from the waiver meant to release Hazelwood School District (HSD) in Missouri from legal liabilities in the event a child dies "in any way related to COVID-19." While it is true that HSD issued a waiver related to COVID-19, Anthony Kiekow, HSD director of communication and public relations, told Snopes that parents would only be required to sign if their child planned on participating in summer athletic programs. The waiver asked that a parent confirm their acknowledgment of the public health crisis "related to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 ('COVID-19')" and confirmed that they would not allow a child to participate in programs if they showed any symptoms of COVID-19 or had been exposed to anyone diagnosed with the disease or awaiting test results. It further notes: The undersigned agrees to release, discharge, hold harmless and indemnify the Hazelwood School District, it's agents, employees, officers, Board of Education members, insurers and others acting on the District's behalf (the Releasees"), of and from any and all claims, demands, causes of action and/or legal liabilities for injuries to or death of my child occurring during, or resulting from, or participation in the above-mentioned program or activity and related in any way to COVID-19, even if the cause, damages or injuries are alleged to be the fault of or alleged to be caused by the negligence or carelessness of the Releasees. Such verbiage is not uncommon in school athletic waivers and headlines referring to the document as a COVID-19 "death" waiver were "sensationalizing" and largely misleading, added Kiekow. The waiver was created by the Missouri United School Insurance Council (MUSIC), a non-profit program that provides insurance coverage for Missouri public schools and community colleges. Snopes spoke with MUSIC Executive Director Mark Stockwell who said that the organization supplied all member school districts with two waiver templates recommended for summer athletic programs and not necessarily for those that take place during the academic school year. Kiekow confirmed that the waiver was sent in late June 2020 and was intended for parents whose students typically participate in summer athletics. He noted that required athletic waivers and documents from the previous school year were "very different from this waiver," but that language related to COVID-19 is likely to be the "new norm for sports." For the 2020-21 school year, the district announced that it would be offering families the option of selecting "100% virtual school" or a blended option that includes both virtual and in-person learning. A statement issued by HSD further reads that: Parents who want their child to participate in athletics are asked to sign a waiver. This year's waiver includes language about COVID-19 to ensure that parents can make an informed decision Our district has implemented unprecedented safety precautions in all of our buildings; however, it is important for parents to understand that school districts can only mitigate the risk of COVID-19. No district, organization, or business can offer 100% protection against exposure to a global pandemic. Visit the Centers for Disease Control website for more information about COVID-19. Parents of HSD students who choose to allow their children to attend in-person class would not be required to sign a COVID-19 waiver. When asked why HSD adopted this policy, Keikow replied via text message that "athletics are optional" and that a waiver for in-person instruction is "just not something that we're requiring." EdCounsel, a Missouri-based law firm that represents over 200 public school districts, wrote in a blog post that state "law is not clear" on whether school districts can require that families sign a COVID-19 waiver for students attending in-person instruction, but liability waivers for extracurricular activities are largely exempt.
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A Missouri school district asked parents to sign a COVID-19 liability waiver in advance of the 2020-2021 school year.

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The clarification, which some moral theologians called "groundbreaking," was the latest step in what is already seen as a significant shift in Catholic Church policy. It came at a news conference to launch the pope's new book, "Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Sign of the Times." In the book, a long interview with German Catholic journalist Peter Seewald, the pope made clear he was not changing the Catholic ban on contraception, but, using the example of a male prostitute, said there were cases where using a condom to avoid transmitting the HIV virus could be justified. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi made the clarification because the German, English and French versions of the book used the male article when referring to a prostitute, but the Italian version used the female form. "I asked the pope personally if there was a serious distinction in the choice of male instead of female and he said 'No'," Lombardi said. "The point is it (condom use) should be a first step toward responsibility in being aware of the risk of the life of the other person one has relations with," he said. "If it is a man, a woman or a transsexual who does it, we are always at the same point, which is the first step in responsibly avoiding passing on a grave risk to the other." Theologians, AIDS activists and liberal Catholics said the latest developments marked a highly significant, perhaps even historic, change in the Church's attitude to condoms. "The pope's statement ... is a startling and welcome shift by the Vatican that has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives," said Dr. Paul Zeitz, executive director of the Washington-based Global AIDS Alliance (GAA). "The pope has created the possibility of rapid change in the way the Catholic Church views HIV/AIDS and how it can preserve the sanctity of human life," Zeitz said. Lombardi appeared to take the debate beyond the confines of prostitution in the context of fighting the transmission of AIDS, although the church prefers measures such as abstinence. "The fact that an official Vatican spokesperson seems to be extending the possibility of use clearly is groundbreaking," said Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, a professor of social ethics at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. "The real question is whether this papal statement will impact pastoral activity on the ground, particularly in AIDS-affected regions of the world," he told Reuters. The church had been saying for decades that condoms were not even part of the solution to fighting AIDS, even though no formal policy on this existed in a Vatican document. The late Cardinal John O'Connor of New York famously branded the use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS as "The Big Lie." "The Vatican's acknowledgement that Pope Benedict's acceptance of condom use to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections relates to everybody shows how significant the pope's comments are," said Jon O'Brien, president of the U.S.-based Catholics for Choice group. In the book, the pope says the use of condoms could be seen as "a first step toward moralization," even though condoms are "not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection." Through the book and Lombardi's comments, the pope seemed to be giving a cautious, qualified endorsement of the "ABC principle" (Abstinence-Be faithful-Condom) espoused by many governments and health organizations in preventing AIDS. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, a Vatican official who presented the book, said Catholics had to "respect" the pope's words even though they were not made in an official papal pronouncement. "For the first time, the use of condoms in special circumstances was endorsed by the Vatican, and this is good news and a good beginning for us," said Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization.
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Vatican broadens case for condoms to fight AIDS.