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“Bet you stay home now you hypokrits,” was spray painted near the Mississippi church. Tensions have been high across the country as churches and religious leaders push back against social distancing guidelines.
The holiday weekend could bring its own set of challenges as cooped up Americans start eyeing beaches, rural tourism and other activities.
The government made the deal with AstraZeneca as part of its "Operation Warp Speed" vaccine push. The drugmaker will begin late-stage clinical trials this summer with roughly 30,000 people for the potential vaccine developed at a Oxford University lab. The deal is the latest in a funding race that's quickly heating up as countries try to secure vaccines that haven't even been developed yet.
President Donald Trump has criticized scientists and research results in recent days, dismissing their findings by claiming they're political enemies. "If the president is politicizing science, if he’s discounting health experts, then the public is going to be fearful and confused,” said Larry Gostin, a Georgetown University law professor. In other news on Trump and his administration: scientists ask for a federal review as to why a coronavirus grant was canceled; Trump's claims of success against the virus could haunt him; Trump to lower flags in honor of virus victims; and more.
Surrounding his trip to Michigan, and election battleground, President Donald Trump was vocal about his opposition to mail-in-voting. But many states, even Republican-leaning ones, are mobilizing to make voting easier as experts predict a second virus wave in the fall. “Every once in a while you get the president of the United States popping up and screaming against vote-by-mail, but states and both political parties are organizing their people for it,” said Michael Waldman, the president of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. “It’s a bizarre cognitive dissonance.”
Whether President Donald Trump would follow Ford's strict mask policy was the focus of attention as the president traveled to the battleground state to tour a factory that makes ventilators. Trump said he wore a mask in some parts of the factory but not in front of cameras because "I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it." Meanwhile, the president won't support closing the country again if the predicted second wave comes.
In the United States there have been nearly 1.58 million confirmed infections so far, though experts say that the real number is likely much higher.
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Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
Editorial pages focus on these pandemic issues and others.
Although people could already sign up for coverage if they had an unexpected life event, California specifically created a special enrollment period to make it easier. In other health industry and insurer news: MLR rebates, accountable care organizations, and Medicare payments.
Stat reports on new studies underway on how COVID upsets the body's immune system. “It’s something I have never seen in my 20 years of” studying viruses, said virologist Benjamin tenOever. Science-backed news is on risk from low white blood cell counts, underlying illnesses, and microscopic images, as well.
Media outlets report on news from Georgia, California, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Hawaii, California, Illinois, Maine and Nevada.
“You cannot defeat a plague or a pandemic outside of prisons if you let it run free inside the prisons, which is basically what’s happening,” said Van Jones, head of a criminal justice advocacy group. News on prisons is from Maine, Nevada, Maryland, California, and New York, as well.
Virginia, Texas, Georgia, and Vermont have said they've been adding viral test results and antibody test results to their totals. The combination could overstate a state's ability to test and track active infections.
The question of whether patients can get sick again after fighting off the virus--or get sick in the first place after receiving a vaccine--has been one of the mysteries scientists have been trying to solve since the beginning. Two different studies in monkeys offer some hope that humans can develop immunity to this particular virus. But questions--like how long that immunity lasts--remain.
Despite encountering fraud in many corners, Bethenny Frankel’s BStrong charity and its partner organization, Global Empowerment Mission, donated more than two million masks and isolation gowns to hospitals and other groups in all 50 states. Other news related to personal protective equipment is on increasing U.S. manufacturing, a poll of health care workers on the shortages and complaints about New Yorkers not wearing masks.
Developments in the global pandemic are reported out of China, Brazil, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany, Colombia, Russia and other nations.
Scientists can't confirm if Russia or China are responsible for the bots on Twitter, but they say the strategy follows closely to the countries' known playbooks on sowing division in America. Researchers identified more than 100 false narratives about COVID-19 that are proliferating on Twitter by accounts controlled by bots. In other public health news, car fatalities, "artifacts" of the coronavirus era, PTSD in health workers, air travel and more.
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