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Scientists are finding surprising damage, including reports that young, healthy patients with no history of heart disease showed signs that COVID-19 had taken a hefty toll on the heart.
Hospital systems warn against a "second health crisis" if people don't return. In other industry news: Who's paying for COVID tests?; grandfathered plans in the ACA; Sutter's antitrust deal; and more.
The use of Gilead Sciences's antiviral drug expands worldwide as more results from testing are announced. High hopes for the drug are tempered by shortages.
Daniel Lee, 47, is scheduled to die at a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., this afternoon. He was convicted of the 1996 murder of a gun dealer and his family in Arkansas. Other federal executions are scheduled this month. The Justice Department announced last year that the government would resume executions, ending an informal moratorium.
Though "there’s not going to be a one-size-fits-all approach to everything,” Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urges educators to make plans based on current CDC guidelines for safely reopening schools. “There’s nothing in the data that suggests that kids being in school is in any way dangerous," DeVos said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to face problem from within the agency as well as from outside, specifically the White House.
In a rosy prediction, Surgeon General Jerome Adams says that the country can reverse the current rapid escalation in coronavirus cases if all Americans follow social-distancing guidelines.
The memo obtained by media outlets says, in part, that "several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr. [Anthony] Fauci has been wrong on things." President Donald Trump and other members of the Trump administration have recently said they don't always agree with Fauci's blunt assessments of the pandemic.
Adm. Brett Giroir, an assistant secretary with the Department of Health and Human Services, also said: “We do expect deaths to go up.”
President Donald Trump has sent mixed messages about his view of face coverings and previously balked at allowing himself to be photographed wearing a mask.
Confirmed fatalities in New York City have slowly receded since the daily peak of 597 reported on April 7.
Florida's Sunday report of 15,299 new coronavirus cases broke the largest single-day increase of any state. The previous mark of 12,274 came from New York on April 4.
Public health experts had warned that the big surge in cases in the South and West would reverse the downward trend in U.S. mortality rates. Total cases in the nation now top 3.3 million.
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Other states in the news include Montana, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona.
Global pandemic developments are also reported out of Serbia, France, Greece, Japan, New Zealand, India and other countries.
On recent nights, about 100 homeless people have typically slept in tents and on the ground in the NYC park, organizers said. They're getting free meals and other care as protests wane. Other news on the medically vulnerable is on racial disparities, prison inmates, foster children and more, as well.
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