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Though U.S. intelligence officials have found that the virus wasn't man-made or genetically altered, the Trump administration continues to voice speculation that the virus may have escaped in some capacity from a lab in China. Democrats are demanding the proof. Meanwhile, the United States was behind on payments to WHO even before the decision was made to cut off funding.
“When I started talking about winding it down, I’d get calls from very respected people saying, ‘I think it would be better to keep it going,’” President Donald Trump said after a day filled of whiplash decisions on what to do with the task force. Trump said it might change its focus and personnel, but that the panel would continue to operate indefinitely.
The 17-page report was researched and written to help faith leaders, business owners, educators and state and local officials as they begin to ease restrictions. But the Trump administration wants to shift the responsibility of lifting shutdowns to governors' shoulders. President Donald Trump urged Americans to think of themselves as "warriors" as he continued to push the message that the country needs to reopen. He also dismissed the complaints of an ousted official Trump calls "disgruntled."
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments -- over the phone -- in a case to determine whether the changes made by the Trump administration to the health law's contraception mandate are allowed to stand. The justices appeared deeply divided along the usual lines on Wednesday. Meanwhile President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for the Supreme Court to overturn the health law even in the midst of a combined pandemic and recession.
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"If you look at how it's tracked across the globe, you'll see that this thing runs through a correctional facility like a brushfire, and it doesn't stop until it runs out of people, basically," Andy Potter, the executive director of the Michigan Corrections Organization.
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More than 600 tribes, some of whom have the highest rates of infection in the nation, were promised weeks ago a total of $8 billion. About 60% of that is now starting to flow into bank accounts. The delay is attributed to an argument about which tribes should receive funds. In other news on Native Americans, Ireland returns a favor.
Media outlets report on news from Colorado, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, California, and Ohio.
News on the global COVID-19 outbreak is reported from Iraq, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Eswatini, Gabon, Colombia, Eritrea, Namibia, Panama, Peru and North Korea.
A sample taken on December 27, 2019 from a French man presenting with pneumonia has since tested positive for COVID-19. That date is nearly a month before the disease was previously known to be circulating in France and a weeks earlier than Chinese authorities acknowledged the virus. In other news on mapping the outbreak, scientists debate if a more contagious strain of the disease exists.
The Los Angeles Times reports on how California food producers are scrambling to shore up the food supply at a time when many people are getting laid off and going hungry. More news on the food industry reports on the USDA's plans to buy surplus food, Wendy's removing some burgers from its menu and the toll on Tyson Foods' workers, as well.
Google and Apple developers say they are building these apps with privacy protections to keep stored data out of government and corporate hands and ease concerns about surveillance. In other tech news, Stat talked to industry execs about their revised plans to purchase health-tech services.
“The situation facing front-line physicians is dire,” three physician associations representing more than 260,000 doctors, wrote to HHS Secretary Alex Azar, at the end of April. Other news on health workers reports on a bill that would forgive student loans.
While several studies aren't definitive, researcher say it does appears children transmit the disease even when they don't seem ill -- and reopening schools would expose them to more people, making them more likely to spread infection. Other news on children's health reports on new symptoms puzzling doctors.
Doctors are struggling to understand this sudden downturn in health that seems to frequently occur around the second week, a scenario referred to as “the second week crash.” In other public health news: how black Americans are disproportionately hit, patients describe symptoms in their own words, the promise of herd immunity and more.
Manufacturing workers in Hazleton were exempted from Pennsylvania's stay-at-home order. And then they started getting sick. In other news on the economic toll of the outbreak: recovery is likely to be long and bumpy; why stimulus funds were sent to dead Americans; kids who are U.S. citizens with undocumented parents struggle to get help; and more.
Lawmakers note that a payroll tax cut helps only those gainfully employed at a time when record numbers of Americans are filing jobless claims. Instead Republicans focus their attention on protecting businesses whose workers may get sick on the job. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice begins taking action against fraud in the small-business relief program. And some lawmakers call on leaders to provide tests to members.
As states struggle not to collapse beneath the economic burden of the pandemic, they're eyeing their Medicaid programs -- often the largest budget item for a state -- as a way to stanch the bleeding. Meanwhile, states are also asking Congress for help to cover astronomical unemployment claims.
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