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Families and loved ones of veterans living demand answers as to why VA facilities, like the New Jersey Veterans Home at Paramus, are being so hard hit. “The whole place is sick now,” said Mitchell Haber, whose 91-year-old father, Arnold, an Army veteran, died last month.
Lifting social distancing restrictions aren't going to fix the economy with a flip of a switch. There will be businesses that won't be able to rebound from the closures, shifting dynamics between workers and employers and a general weariness from American consumers to engage with services again. Meanwhile, White House advisers warn unemployment numbers are likely to get worse before they get better.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democratic leaders are putting finishing touches on their next relief package, but Senate Republicans have not budged from their wait-and-see stance. While the White House begins informal talks with both sides, advisers say they are not in a rush to pass anything yet. Meanwhile, the previous stimulus efforts are having mixed results.
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When the government issues regulations it tends to consider the financial cost versus the human lives that could be impacted. For example in 1972, a member of a Nixon administration task force on regulating the auto industry valued a life’s worth at $885,000 in today’s dollars; in 1998 debate over safety bars on trucks, the Department of Transportation’s value of a life reached $2.5 million. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump tries to strike an optimistic tone, even as cases and deaths climb. And Americans struggle to adjust to this strange period of time.
The alert, from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, will likely increase tensions between the two countries already inflamed by the outbreak. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Beijing opposes all forms of cyberattack and cracks down on them.
On Tuesday, Drs. Anthony Fauci, Robert Redfield, Stephen Hahn and Brett Giroir will be grilled by the Senate’s main health committee. One missing voice, however, will be the administration’s top health care official, HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
One of President Donald Trump’s military valets and Katie Miller, the spokeswoman for Vice President Mike Pence and a wife of a top Trump adviser, both tested positive. White House staffers say it's "scary to go to work" in the small, crowded building now. Meanwhile, three top health officials announced they'll self-quarantine based on exposure risk to those cases.
A popular model once again adjusted its death total projections higher because more states are lifting their social distancing restrictions. The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation now says the country can expect at least 137,184 deaths through early August.
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In Brooklyn, the police arrested 40 people for social-distancing violations from March 17 through May 4. Of those arrested, 35 people were black, four were Hispanic and one was white. Meanwhile, low-income workers are having to take responsibility for enforcing social distancing, even as videos emerge of violent confrontations over the issue. And businesses try to imagine what the new normal will look like as the country slowly reopens.
Having antibodies is not the same as having immunity to the virus, but still scientists are hopeful about the results.
Ultraviolet light mangles the genetic material in pathogens preventing them from reproducing. Installing commercial-grade lights would be expensive for stores, but it could help keep them sanitized even beyond the current pandemic. In other news: Frontier will test consumers' temperatures, summer might not offer relief from virus, what you need to know about the mutations, and more.
As more research continues to emerge on how patients are affected by the virus, the scope of the damage that's done on the body is crystallizing. The virus goes after not only the lungs, but the heart, kidneys, skin and other organs. In other scientific news: virus found in semen, blood thinners show promise in treating severe patients, racial disparities found outside the U.S., and more.
“The industry behind mass incarceration is bigger than many appreciate," said Bianca Tylek, of the New York-based advocacy group Worth Rises. “They exploit and abuse people with devastating consequences." Meanwhile, two youths in a LA juvenile detention facility test positive for COVID-19.
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For a while, President Donald Trump and others talked about hydroxychloroquine like it was going to be a magic cure. But more extensive testing has dashed hopes that it can help in the fight against the coronavirus. Meanwhile, states now have to decide what to do with all the pills they ordered.
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