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"We have more cases than anybody in the world,” President Donald Trump said. “But why? Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.” Meanwhile, whereas scientists had been prominent players in the early days of the administration's response efforts, they're now being sidelined more and more.
Global pandemic developments are reported out of Sweden, Brazil, Iraq, Somalia, Greece, Canada, Spain, Germany, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, Egypt, India, Bangladesh, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Operators of shelters say they're getting more calls in some states as stay-at-home orders continue, but worries about offering refuge to infected women is prompting advocates to look for alternate solutions. More public health news stories report on antibiotic resistance, racial disparities and pregnancies, doulas, mannequins in restaurants, parents of special needs children, airport safety measures, big drop in cancer diagnoses, new etiquette to writing emails and a look at how mail carriers cope, as well.
The trend of young people getting strokes from the virus is just one of the baffling aspects of the disease that doctors are trying to understand. In other scientific news on the virus: transmission via talking, rare symptoms in children, plasma from the recovered, lessons learned from previous pandemics and more.
Republican state officials are taking a hard look at their own rhetoric around voter fraud in the midst of the pandemic. "It's partly on me because I talked about it in my campaign," said Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams. "But it's my job now to calm people's fears." In other election news: the national conventions, an ad battle over relationships with China and in-person fundraisers in the coronavirus era.
New York now says hospitals can send patients to nursing homes only if they have tested negative for the virus, but the policy had been in place for weeks, possibly endangering the lives of some of the most vulnerable. Meanwhile, the Department of Labor finally issues workplace guidance for nursing home staff.
The FBI seized Sen. Richard Burr's (R-N.C.) phone in a sign that the senator may be in legal jeopardy. Burr came under scrutiny after ProPublica reported in March that he sold off a significant percentage of his stocks shortly after receiving a coronavirus briefing and just before the pandemic wrecked the global markets. Investigators have also looked into stock trades by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), who all deny doing anything wrong.
Even some Democratic members have voiced opposition to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) sweeping plan, but it is expected to pass the lower chamber on Friday. Republicans, who have been taking a wait-and-see approach to offering another round of emergency relief, widely panned the legislation.
Gilead has a reputation for placing astronomical prices on breakthrough drugs. But with the whole world's eyes on the drugmaker, what will it charge for remdesivir, the only drug that everyone wants right now? Stat talks to experts to get a sense of what to expect. In other pharmaceutical news: President Donald Trump wants essential drugs to be manufactured in U.S. instead of China; scientists eye a cocktail of medications to best treat COVID patients; and the search for an elusive cure has researchers thinking outside the box.
Fears that the United States will trample other countries to secure a vaccine prompted more than 140 world leaders to sign an open letter to all governments demanding that COVID-19 vaccines be considered a “global good” to be shared equitably. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said he would mobilize the military to help distribute a vaccine once it's ready, with a focus on nursing homes and the elderly.
Reuters looks at where the development stands for apps meant to help public health officials track the virus. In other health tech news: policing misinformation, drone-based enforcement of social distancing and software that lets bosses watch their employees work.
The agency is launching an investigation into Abbott's 15-minute test, which has been touted and used by the White House. A preliminary study released this week found that it can miss nearly half of positive coronavirus cases.
Confusion abounds as Wisconsin bars, restaurants and other businesses as owners try to figure out the new rules after the state's Supreme Court overturned Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order.
Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are all electoral battleground states that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 and will again be crucial in the 2020 presidential election. The fight over reopening in those particular states, which can swing both blue and red, is particularly heated because of those underlying politics. But leaders across the country are struggling to strike a balance as they start to lift restrictions.
The flow charts and check lists that are geared toward helping restaurants and business reopen focus mainly on basic tips like social distancing and hand washing.
Speaking in Allentown, Pa., at an Owens & Minor distribution center for medical supplies, President Donald Trump said he is "determined that America will be fully prepared for any of the future outbreaks, of which we hope there’s going to be none."
Dr. Rick Bright painted a grim, chaotic picture of the White House's COVID-19 response efforts for the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, testifying that the U.S. still lacks a comprehensive plan for ensuring a supply of basic supplies like swabs needed to administer coronavirus tests. HHS Secretary Alex Azar dismissed Bright's testimony. “This is like someone who was in choir trying to say he was a soloist back then,” Azar said. “His allegations do not hold water."
Because of the short supply, body bags are sometimes reused two or three times. Meanwhile, the global death toll surpasses a staggering 300,000 people.
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