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Rick Bright, an ousted HHS official, says he was targeted because he spoke out against President Donald Trump's push to use malaria drugs to treat COVID patients. But others in the agency say that some of Bright's own staff spent months raising concerns about his leadership, including a complaint filed by a person in Bright’s office last summer.
President Donald Trump made vague allegations to "Obamagate," which he says is so explosive it makes "Watergate look small time." The president also suggested that a talk-show host he has clashed with committed murder. The distraction tactics have proven successful with his base in the past. Meanwhile, Republican voters have undergone a shift on their stances about reopening, giving Trump and others cover to push for states to lift restrictions.
While other colleges and universities are weighing the decision about whether to bring students back, California State University said there was too much risk involved with reopening in the fall. California’s other four-year university system, the University of California, with nearly 300,000 students on 10 campuses, has not announced whether its fall classes will be held online yet.
A look at the data shows that in many places where state restrictions have been lifted, Americans are rushing out of their homes. But in others, there are many who are staying put. Meanwhile, new clusters around the world offer a grim snapshot of what America can expect as it relaxes social distancing measures. And The Associated Press offers a glimpse inside the CDC's shelved guidance to help states reopen.
“There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control, which, in fact, paradoxically, will set you back," Dr. Anthony Fauci warned senators on Tuesday. It was the first real chance for lawmakers to grill the public health officials overseeing the federal response to the outbreak. Despite high tensions, the hearing only rarely devolved into partisan anger so common during in-person hearings in recent years. The questions touched on testing failures, contact tracing, plans for schools to reopen and vaccines, among other things.
The differences between the models most commonly used to try to forecast virus fatalities are starting to narrow, with most agreeing that the U.S. will be hit by an additional 31,000 to 42,000 deaths through mid-June. But those figures rely on the current state of affairs, which is about to be upended as states lift social distancing restrictions.
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Republicans and hospital lobbyists are pushing to shield hospitals from what they say could be a barrage of lawsuits. But Democrats contend that widespread protections would hurt patients who actually should be compensated for negligent care. “I think this parade of lawsuits that the majority leader envisions is really an imaginary boogeyman,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). Meanwhile, hospitals are expected to lose billions because of delayed procedures and surgeries.
Federal agencies investigating purveyors of personal protective equipment have found many counterfeit or altered products that include COVID-19 tests, masks, sanitizers and treatments. Officials warn the public to also be on the look out for scams to buy products that don't exist or for so-called miracle cures that do not work.
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Intel are contributing the software to a massive project that will ultimately involve more than 15,000 patients in a first-time attempt to build a consensus model and help inform clinical decisions, Stat reports. Public health news is on schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease and fatty liver disease, as well.
The unemployment rate for older workers is higher even than the eye-popping national average, but the group is also at a much higher risk of severe complications from COVID-19. The double bind could hurt President Donald Trump in the November elections. In other news on the economic toll from the virus: delays in unemployment aid, a look at which business got help from the relief package, the worry that extreme poverty will lead to more deaths and more.
Media outlets report on news from Maryland, the District of Columbia, New York, Massachusetts, New York, Alaska, Maine, Ohio, Wisconsin, Louisiana and California,
Developments on the global pandemic are reported out of China, Iran, Nicaragua, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, South Korea, France, the Netherlands and India.
Hospitals postponed many kind of surgeries. Now researchers are trying to find out how to reboot organ transplants for patients who must take immune-suppressing medicines that put them at greater risk if they encounter COVID-19. Other public health news reports on Twitter's plans to label misinformation, ventilators needed for children, unsafe air travel, mental health, the opioid epidemic, living wills and Third World conditions in the United States.
While President Trump was telling farmers at the beginning of the year to expand operations because of new trade deals, the pandemic that would dash those dreams was just beginning in Wuhan. Now some farmers find themselves digging under crops and euthanizing animals no longer needed in the food supply chain stymied by restaurant and school closings. Other news on the food supply reports on small farmers making home deliveries and home chefs supplying neighbors.
Photojournalist Andrew Renneisen switched careers to become an EMT in New York just before the pandemic. He's been documenting what life is like for him and his colleagues. Meanwhile, dentists face widespread layoffs, New Hampshire takes steps to create its own supply chain for personal protective gear, workers humanize themselves for patients with pictures taped to their protective suits and more.
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