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President Donald Trump, his administration and other Republicans are going all-in on the anti-China messaging. In other news from the administration: the Pentagon charts its own course on "reopening," Trump urges schools to reopen as soon as possible and the White House task force members implore people to be smart about social distancing.
President Donald Trump says that he wants to move the Republican National Convention if North Carolina's Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper can't guarantee that the event will be allowed to proceed as normal. The gathering could draw thousands, which is currently prohibited by the state's lock-down rules. While some Republicans quietly consider a pared down convention, Trump insists that it will continue as planned despite the crisis.
Developments in the global pandemic are reported out of Germany, Sweden, Japan, Spain, Italy, China and other nations.
Indian Health Services found that 247,000 of the masks supplied by the company of Zach Fuentes -- President Donald Trump’s former deputy chief of staff -- are unusable while thousands more are not the correct type. The Navajo Nation has been extremely hard hit by the pandemic.
Reuters reports on a doctor navigating her pregnancy while working in a downtown Los Angeles hospital that mostly serves lower-income Hispanic and African-American populations. News on health care workers reports on New York's decision to extend death benefits to families and on more people who have lost their lives, as well.
Patients with cancer, heart disease and strokes, among other illnesses, are delaying or forgoing critical procedures that could keep them alive. In other public health news: are face shields the new masks?; cities start launching anti-discrimination campaigns; what parents should know about hiring babysitters; Americans talk about how the crisis affected their lives; and more.
California's economic strengths have now become the state's weaknesses as it tries to game out a recovery plan. In other news on the economic toll: racial and gender disparities in business and job losses; hard-hit families that were stretched to near-breaking point before the crisis; and paid sick leave is moving to front of mind during pandemic.
For weeks, local officials received conflicting signals from state leaders and meatpacking companies about how much information to release Now as areas start to reopen, some worry that lack of transparency hides a worrying outbreak. Other industry news reports on worker shortages and soaring prices.
The industry is vigorously seeking protection from lawsuits that will likely stem from the wave of deaths in nursing homes across the country. But advocates urge lawmakers not to protect nursing homes were neglect and understaffing were big problems even before the pandemic. In other news: how warnings about overrun hospitals put nursing home patients at risk; the White House fails to meet its goal on nursing home testing; a veterans' home that had chronic issues to begin with; and a national reckoning.
Negotiations are likely to ramp up when lawmakers come back from recess, but what will their offers look like?
The death rates in the small study were 12.8% among those who got the antibodies, compared with 24.4% among the patients who did not get this treatment, but analyses like this are fraught with difficulties when it's impossible to meet the gold-standard of clinical trials. In other scientific news: infection risk, obesity and what exactly R0 means.
The testing strategy in use involves using a modified virus to carry genetic instructions to a human cell. The method isn't among the most successful in terms of vaccine development. Meanwhile, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb predicts the United States will have a better vaccine sooner than China.
Previous studies have found negative side effects of hydroxychloroquine while so far it has not been proven to be an effective coronavirus treatment. President Donald Trump pushed for doctors to prescribe the drug and said he was taking a regime himself as a preventive measure.
“Today’s action will help ensure foreign nationals who have been in Brazil do not become a source of additional infections in our country,” said the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany. The country with the highest total is the United States.
Some states have set guidelines to watch out for if reopening triggers another spike that could overwhelm the health system. But others are reopening without any plans to shut down again. The upcoming summer will likely hint at what's coming in the fall. Meanwhile, a look back at past pandemics shows the dangers of reopening too soon.
“For months, it was a tennis game, it was going back and forth between the feds and the states, and it’s now landed with the states,” said Scott Becker, executive director of the Association of Public Health Laboratories.
President Donald Trump played golf over the weekend and attended Memorial Day events unmasked, in line with his messaging the country should open. Meanwhile, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, donned black masks as they appeared outside for the first time in months. In other election news: Trump might be losing older voters' support; voter registration could plummet amid the pandemic; mail-in-voting advocates are getting antsy; and more.
Despite warnings from state leaders and public health experts, many Americans ventured out to beaches, boardwalks and other entertainment venues during the warm holiday weekend. In spots, the numbers often made physical distancing impossible. Meanwhile the pandemic also impacted the ways Memorial Day observances were conducted.
The New York Times offers a glimpse of the Americans behind the grim death toll as the country nears 100,000 deaths. The confirmed cases in the country stands at 1,637,456, as of Monday. Meanwhile, WHO warns of coming spikes and that the first wave has not yet passed.
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