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CalVet officials characterize their efforts to keep residents safe as trench warfare, but the success suggests that such diligence may provide safety for other nursing homes that have been hit hard by the pandemic. In other news, efforts by some states to give employers a liability waiver raises concerns.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the state to receive federal assistance for COVID costs. DeSantis also stopped by Florida State's football practice to support the idea of playing this season.
The social media company has been under pressure to quash racism following George Floyd's death. Public health news is also on fear of missing out, fading unhealthy habits, Alzheimer's disease, insect repellents, green cleaners and more.
In a visit to hard hit areas along the Texas coast, Gov. Greg Abbott stresses that state officials realize the dangers of the virus and cannot fully reopen the economy yet.
Also in higher-ed news: college towns worry about the COVID risk that returning students bring to campus; UNC-Chapel Hill launches in-person classes; and campus workers across the UNC system file suit saying conditions are unsafe.
In other public health developments: the World Health Organization wants you to postpone that trip to the dentist; contact tracers are doing way more than just contact tracing; the Big Ten officially says fall football won't happen; and more. Also: Singer Trini Lopez, 83, dies of COVID complications.
Parents, frustrated with school districts' waffling, are taking matters into their own hands. The challenges are worse for students with disabilities. Also: What do students think of all this?
Other pediatric topics in the news include COVID symptoms in kids, pregnancy and stress.
Because of the country's tight restrictions, local transmissions were ruled out as the cause of four new cases. Puzzled public health officials are now surface testing imported freight.
A new study suggests that live virus from aerosols can be found as much as 16 feet from patients.
Peter Marks, a top Food and Drug Administration career official, is likely to decide in the next several months whether a coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective enough to be given to tens of millions of Americans.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will provide up to $2 million upfront to 15 rural communities to change how they deliver care to Medicare beneficiaries.
In other developments related to health care personnel: doctors who deal daily with racism; nurses and physicians pressured to work despite positive COVID-19 tests; practices rethink how they get paid; and more.
Governors from both parties pushed back against President Donald Trump's executive order, saying stretched state budgets cannot absorb the share assigned to them. Meanwhile, hope for progress on a legislative package fades further and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says it's time to start over.
The agreement is similar to ones made by the administration with other vaccine developers that will give the U.S. government access to large quantities of the preventives if they prove successful in ongoing trials.
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