When the United States took a dark step on Sunday, a ray of hope from New York: the Empire State Building reported its lowest positivity rate since the coronavirus pandemic began.
New York, for weeks the epicenter of the epidemic in the United States, reported that the rate, the average number of positive effects consistent with a hundred tests, reached a record 0.78% on Saturday. This figure used to be close to 47% in early April, testing was much more limited at the time. The rate was around 1% since the beginning of June.
Meanwhile, the United States has reached five million of coVID-19 instances shown, just 17 days after reaching four million instances; however, experts agree that the number of instances is much larger, potentially 10 times higher than reported, according to federal data. .
The United States remains the most inflamed country, with about 25% of the world’s cases.
Here are some developments:
? Figures today: The United States has recorded more than 162,000 deaths and five million cases of COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there have been more than 729,000 deaths and 19.7 million cases.
? What We Read: Without a national plan on how productive it is to allocate loads of thousands of COVID-19 tests every day, there is not enough capacity now to track down Americans who could accidentally transmit the virus to others.
At least 97,000 young people in the United States tested positive for coronavirus in the last two weeks of July alone, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.
In total, more than 338,000 young people have become inflamed since the onset of the pandemic, according to the report’s knowledge, which was based on the knowledge of 49 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam.
If President Donald
announced a decree Saturday that expands unemployment benefits to $400 according to the week. Congress had passed $600 bills consistent with the week at the start of the coronavirus outbreak, but the benefits expired on August 1 and Congress was unable to agree on an extension.
But Trump’s plan, the $400 a week requires a state to spend $100.
When asked at a news convention about the number of governors who had signed up to participate, Trump replied, “If they don’t, they don’t. It’s up to them.”
Trump adopted a different view on Sunday night, after a day in which state officials wondered how it’s possible that even $100 would be consistent with the user in additional weekly payments. He told reporters on their return to Washington that states can simply request that the federal government provide all or part of the $400 payments. Decisions will be made from state to state, he said.
USA TODAY reports have found little consistency in how schools and the fitness plan coordinate data and what they will say, if they will, to the general public.
Many of these custodians indicated that medical and educational privacy legislation were reasons for even the fundamental coronavirus case count. This is despite federal rules that those laws are not barriers.
Legal experts and government transparency advocates argue that schools generally have a long history of abuse of privacy legislation to keep data secret and force the public to initiate costly record prosecutions.
-Jayme Fraser, Joel Ebert, Sommer Brugal, CD Davidson-Hiers and Thomas B. Langhorne
New York took a major step in its recovery on Sunday when the state reported its lowest positivity rate since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the rate, the average number of positive effects consistent with a hundred tests, had reached a record 0.78% on Saturday. The state and New York have been in the final stages of reopening for at least 20 days, and Cuomo said the current number of critical care patients (131) is the lowest in the state since March 16.
The St. Louis Cardinals, who played five primary league games due to a coronavirus outbreak in their ranks, may not return to the box until at least Thursday.
MLB has postponed their three-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates, which was supposed to start Monday, meaning the Cardinals will go at least 15 days between games and will have just 46 days to play the remaining 55 games on the schedule.
The Cardinals had at least nine players and seven members tested positive for COVID-19, and manager Mike Shildt said that led to “some visits to the ER.” St. Louis had 15 games suspended.
– Jesse Yomtov
New Zealand marked 100 days on Sunday with a local COVID-19 broadcast on Sunday, the country’s ministry of fitness said.
“Achieving a hundred days without network transmission is a vital step, yet, as we all know, we can’t be complacent,” said Director General of Health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield.
“We have noticed how temporarily the virus can resurface and spread to places where it was in the past under control, and we will need to be able to temporarily remove any long-term instances in New Zealand,” he said.
There are still 23 active coVID-19 instances in controlled isolation centres, according to the ministry’s press release.
The U.S. hit five million CASES of COVID-19 on Sunday, 17 days after achieving four million cases. The country now accounts for about 2 to 5% of reported cases worldwide.
Last week, President Donald Trump said the U.S. had the virus “under control” and called his administration’s reaction to the pandemic “unbelievable” in an interview with Axios broadcast August 3 on HBO. This is despite an average number of deaths of around 1,000, with nearly 60,000 new cases reported. Alabama Array has just reached 100,000 cases. South Carolina is shy 540 and Virgina 811 races. Texas is about to approach 500, 000.
Trump’s recurring theme has been to blame the largest number of cases in the United States at the maximum rate of evidence. However, alarming hospitalization and mortality rates are not tested.
– Khrysgiana Pineda and Mike Stucka
Several atlanta-area academics and schools who caught attention to overcrowding and low wearing masks tested positive for coronavirus after the first week of school, and now one of those schools is online.
North Paudling High School west of Atlanta will move on to virtual learning at least Monday and Tuesday, as its amenities will be disinfected after nine students and tested positive for the virus in the first week of in-person categories. North Paulding made headlines shortly after students returned to school on August 3, when images posted on social media showed corridors full of students, many of whom were not dressed in masks.
And after just one week of school, more than 250 students and a Georgia school district will be asked to quarantine for two weeks after several students tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Cherokee County School District website.
– Doug Stanglin and Joel Shannon
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