Seven of the nine states along the country’s southern and western coasts see decreases in 3 covid-19 indicators: new deaths, new instances, and the percentage of tests that test positive.
Alabama is the state of the region that records a three-digit increase.Deaths in Mississippi are on the rise, but positive rates and cases in general are declining.
Separate Tuesday, the Trump administration said it would use its quarantine authority to keep tenants in the pandemic home to prevent an eviction crisis that could aggravate economic tensions.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to temporarily avoid deportations of others earning less than $99,000 a year to prevent the spread of the virus, a senior management official said Tuesday.The policy will take effect immediately.
To get relief, tenants will have to say they can’t pay their rent or threaten the homeless if they are evicted from their homes, the management official said.
People who won a coronavirus stimulus check earlier this year are also eligible for coverage, as are couples who jointly file their tax returns and expect to earn less than $198,000.
In Florida, where deaths reported through covid-19 average about 114 per day, up from 185 in early August, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he would relax the state’s five-month ban on visits to retirement homes.
“To have a healthy society, you have to perceive that human beings seek affection,” deSantis said visibly excited, with a broken voice when asked aloud whether his movements contributed to suffering by separating the elderly from their enjoyed.
“Many other people perceive that they have enjoyed those who are at the last level of their lives.They’re not asking for a medical miracle. They have no unrealistic expectations.They’d just like to be there to say goodbye or kiss someone.”
The governor paused to recompose and silence the room for about 20 seconds.
DeSantis said he would ban visits in a decree later on Tuesday, following the recommendations of a functioning organization on retirement homes.
The governor’s order allows members of the family circle to stop at their relatives no more than two at a time, dressed in protective gear, adding masks. Institutions go 14 days without a new case of covid-19 among staff or citizens to allow stopovers in . Children under the age of 18 are not yet allowed.
The governor also said that the number of other people at the Florida hospital with covid-19 dropped by nearly 60% since its July peak, and that new instances on Monday fell below 2000, the lowest overall daily decline since mid-June.
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FLORIDA FACILITY
Nearly two-thirds of Florida’s establishments have had no new instances since August 11, said Mary Mayhew, who led an orientation working group that established a long set of regulations last week, giving retirement homes plenty of room to put them into effect.runs the State Agency for health care administration.
The biggest point of friction was physical contact, with discussions among the fitness experts of the runners’ organization and a circle of family advocates.The working group eventually advised that must-have caregivers be able to touch and kiss their loved ones.some members, adding to the state general surgeon, Dr. Scott Rivkees, have continually expressed serious considerations at the working group meetings.
“The more people there are, the greater the risk,” Rivkees said last week.
Mary Daniel, a member of the working group, begged on behalf of the hugs of the residents, who said they died of loneliness.Daniel took a part-time task as a dishwasher only for her husband, who has Alzheimer’s disease, to allow.
“I give my two-week ice today. I’m going to be a dishwasher anymore.I’m just fitting a wife back in,” Daniel said Tuesday.She represents the organization Caregivers for Compromise because Isolation Kills Too.
South Carolina took a similar step on Tuesday, when Gov. Henry McMaster ruled that nursing home visits can resume after about six months, but only outdoors and no hugs or kisses.
“Unsurprisingly, months of separation and isolation have caused loneliness, depression, tension and anxiety among residents. I care about them, like you, every day,” McMaster told Columbia.
INFECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
The United States leads the world in coronavirus deaths and showed infections after a New York City-centric spring outbreak, followed by the solar belt that rose during the summer.
As of Tuesday, there were more than 25.6 million cases shown and more than 853,000 deaths worldwide, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, and the United States has more than 6 million infections and 184,600 deaths.
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About 68,000 deaths in the United States have occurred since the beginning of summer, and the number of infections among Americans nearly tripled during the same period.
“It’s a summer of fire, not ice,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.”In fact, we have learned that this virus is even more unpleasant than we think in the spring.”
Texas amassed more than 10,000 deaths from the virus in July and August, Florida added more than 7,600 and California recorded about 7,000.Sun Belt also includes Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
States in the region have to advance their opposition to the virus after postponing or canceling the reopening of businesses and taking a more difficult line on the mask and social estrangement.
Americans now head to Labor Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer, knowing that the risk has disappeared because fall brings a return to school, school, and sports.
“We’re going to have trouble with Covid.No I know if he’s going to make a leap in the winter, but he’s going to stay,” Schaffner said.
Health experts blamed some of the culprits for the summer outbreak on the day of the fallen and the four rallies in July, and now fear that Labor Day may contribute to the spread of the virus.
Fear of work
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and state epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers held a news convention Monday in which they implored others to major Labor Day festivities.
“Everything we are is at a time when we all forget and are tired of doing the things that have brought us here,” Byers said.
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In other parts of the South, Alabama recorded more than 1,200 deaths in July and August.Deaths have dropped since their peak at the end of July, but are rising again, on average around 23 depending on the day.
Dr. Donald Williamson, president of the Alabama Hospital Association, said the state has noticed several symptoms of caution since students returned to schools and schools and resumed football in the best schools.in hospitals.
“If we saw the same effect of Labor Day, we would be in a worse scenario than after the Fourth of July,” Williamson said.”It’s a top baseline.”
Diego Lozano, 28, of Phoenix, is one of those who has had his summer plans replaced by the epidemic; Every year, he joins his parents and grandfather to make a stopover on his relatives in the Mexican state of Morelos, but for his grandfather, Lorenzo Lomas Pérez, 75, it was his last trip.
Pérez died last July in a Phoenix hospital due to Covid-19 headaches and his circle of family members took his remains to Mexico.
Due to the restrictions of the coronavirus, there was no classic open-casket rite inside a church, the rites were held outdoors in the cemetery, only parents could attend, while the entire village was destined for the funeral.
“We put it in an urn, then we buried the urn,” Lozano said.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
Among the advances of the coronavirus on Tuesday:
New York City, with 1.1 million public school students, has delayed the start of face-to-face training for a week and a component through September 21 to give teachers more time to prepare, as part of an agreement with the union.
This time will be spent completing the antivirus security steps that were already planned and creating new layouts, adding random tests of 10% to 20% of all academics and staff according to the month.The purpose is to determine whether other people without symptoms can be reported and potentially infectious.
The teachers’ union, the United Federation of Teachers, said Monday that it was negotiating with the city but could allow a strike vote if no deal is reached Tuesday afternoon, New York State prohibits teachers and other officials from striking.
On Tuesday morning, leaders of teachers’ unions and other school unions joined New York Mayor Bill de Blasio in delivering the new agreement, who said it was a reaction to the “real considerations that have been raised about how to do things the right way.”, how to do it in a healthy way.”
Public visits to the White House, which were suspended just six months ago, are scheduled to resume on September 12.
The state of Oklahoma will not impose a mandate to wear a mask to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Kevin Stitt said Tuesday, despite the White House’s Crownvirus Working Group’s advice for such a rule.
“We think you wear masks,” Stitt said at a press convention in Stillwater, asking citizens to also respect social distance recommendations and wash their hands frequently.
“A mask order is anything that I think we deserve to leave to the local communities …I think it’s a local decision, and I’m not going to demand anything at the state level,” Stitt said.”Every network is different.”
Apple and Google announced Tuesday that they are expanding coronavirus alert software so that public fitness agencies can participate without having to create traditional apps.
The new option, called ‘express exposure notifications’, removes one of the main barriers to adoption that has led to a slow start to the software, which can alert others when they come into close contact with who has been diagnosed with coronavirus. So far, only six US states have created apps that are compatible with Apple and Google software.
The software, integrated into the operating systems of Google’s Android phones and Apple iPhones, uses Bluetooth to locate whether other people have spent a lot of time close to others.If a player in the exposure notification program is positive for the coronavirus, that the person’s close contact would possibly get a notification.
Information for this article provided through Matt Sedensky, Terry Tang, Emily Wagster Pettus, Kelli Kennedy, Bobthrough Caina Calvan, Karen Matthews, Jennifer Peltz, Ted Shaffrey, Deepti Hajela, Ken Miller and Nicky Forster of the Associated Press; through Jennifer Jacobs and Justin Sink of Bloomberg News; and through Reed Albergotti from The Washington Post.