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New Jersey Orders All Students To Wear Masks
In other education news: classes begin in Mississippi; fewer parents in poll want full-time, in-person schooling; how other countries are dealing with education; and more.
Report: Life Expectancy Is Better In Blue States With Stringent Regulations
“States that have invested in their populations’ social and economic well-being by enacting more liberal policies over time tend to be the same states that have made considerable gains in life expectancy,” the study’s authors wrote. Other public health news on vaccinations, HIV and homelessness.
Recovery For People With Mild Cases Brings Freedom To Some, Anxiety To Others
Some people say they’re finally flying and eating inside restaurants again. Public health news is on children testing positive, dangers from not wearing masks, essential workers and more.
FDA Urged To Ban Music From Prescription Drug Ads
Advocacy groups argue that the music distracts from the side effects mentioned in advertisements. In other industry news: NIH tells drug and medical device makers to release all trial data; a remdesivir alternative?; the costs of medicine; and more hand sanitizer warnings.
Obituary Blaming Mask-Deniers Goes Viral
The wife of a man who died from COVID-19 blames President Trump, the governor of Texas and people who won’t wear masks for her husband’s death, while a man allegedly shoots a store employee who requests he don one.
Nursing Homes, Hospitals in New York Lose Immunity Over Non-COVID Care
President Donald Trump’s plan to provide nursing homes with a speedy COVID testing machine puts a limit on the number of test kits. Other nursing home news is out of Massachusetts and West Virginia.
Trump Signs Medicare Order Expanding Use Of Telehealth In Rural Areas
In other news, Missouri voters will decide Tuesday whether to expand Medicaid health care coverage to thousands more low-income adults.
Study: Despite PPE, Health Care Workers 3 Times More Likely Than Public To Get COVID
Other health industry news includes: Some rural communities have no ICU beds; Oklahoma gets its third lead epidemiologist of the pandemic. Also, news from Kindred, Dignity and Tenet.
Trump Threatens Mail-In Voting Executive Order
“I have the right to do it,” President Donald Trump said, though he did not say what such a measure would entail. As more states consider action to protect voters’ health, the administration takes Nevada to court over its move toward universal mail-in ballots.
Trump Again Promises An ACA Replacement
Though he has promised a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act many times before, and never delivered, President Trump re-upped the promise. This time, by the end of August, he says.
Slow Progress Claimed On Stimulus Bill While Trump Floats Executive Orders
President Donald Trump singled out evictions and payroll taxes as areas where he may attempt to take action, as a legislative deal on the next round of coronavirus relief is unlikely to be struck this week.
National Guard’s Pandemic Aid To States Extended But At Higher Cost
President Donald Trump reauthorized the mission of National Guard members deployed across the U.S. to help with coronavirus response efforts. He also reduced funding though, requiring state governments to contribute millions a month to the costs.
Trump Disputes Birx’s Assessment Of Outbreak’s Dangerous Phase
While characterizing the coronavirus pandemic as “receding” and “under control,” President Donald Trump reinforced a pattern of criticizing his own public health officials after Dr. Deborah Birx delivered a more dire warning.
Cases Swell In Midwest; Northeast Uptick Watched Carefully
And Mississippi is closing in on Florida to be the state with the most infections per capita. In one positive sign: the U.S. just reported the smallest daily case increase in over four weeks.
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial pages focus on these pandemic issues and others.
Opinion writers weigh in on opening schools, testing, sports and other pandemic issues.
And In Pan-Global Pandemic News . . .
Singapore makes visitors wear electronic tracking tags, Berliners wants to party and the minks in Spain get coronavirus and scientists study why. Other news, too, from around the globe.
How States Are Faring: Worst Week For Florida’s Deaths
With COVID cases and deaths up in many states, media reports come from Florida, Illinois, Arkansas, Michigan and parts of the West.
Study: Lockdown Slowed Spread In Rhode Island; Many Still At Risk, Though
State news from Rhode Island, Georgia, California, Texas and Louisiana.
