House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is asking House lawmakers to return this week to vote on an invoice that would block the Trump administration’s adjustments to the U.S. Postal Service.
Pelosi and other Democrats say the adjustments will slow down mailing and may jeopardize the November election. Pelosi’s request comes after a few difficult days in the postal service and whether an unprecedented number of ballots should be administered by mail this year due to increased eligibility for mail voting amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Meanwhile, public fitness officials are urging the public to get vaccinated against the flu, saying they are even more vital than ever because of COVID-19. The flu vaccine isn’t effective, but it’s much better than nothing. And it’s hard to know how the flu will interact with COVID-19.
In addition, a research organization at the University of Southern California followed the non-unusual order of progression of COVID-19 symptoms in a new study. Start with fever and then cough.
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? Figures today: The United States has 5.4 million people infected and more than 170,000 deaths. Worldwide, there have been more than 775,000 deaths and more than 21 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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Fever and cough, then discomfort and pain, followed by nausea and vomiting, then diarrhea. This is the maximum probable order of progression of COVID-19 symptoms, a University of Southern California researchers organization discovered in a new study.
“This order is critical to knowing when we have overlapping cycles of diseases like influenza that match COVID-19 infections,” one of the study’s authors, Peter Kuhn, said in a statement. “Doctors can know what steps to take to care for the patient and can prevent the patient’s condition from getting worse.”
The study, published in Frontiers in Public Health, was based on knowledge of more than 55,000 cases of coronavirus in China through February, as well as an additional set of knowledge of nearly 1,100 cases from December to January. Researchers also compared the effects of coronavirus to a set of influenza case knowledge from the 1990s.
A video shared on social media showed a large crowd of unmasked party-masking academics to mark the start of the new semester at a university in Georgia on Saturday night.
Sylvia Carson, a spokesman for the University of Northern Georgia in Dahlonega, told CNN that the organization was collecting off-campus housing, but that the school was still “disappointed that many of our academics chose to forget about COVID-19’s public fitness forums by collecting in an organization without giant social estrangement or facial coverage.”
The school calls for masks to be worn in its buildings and facilities, CNN reported, and there is no state protective order in Georgia.
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A month-old investigation through CalMatters and The Salinas Californian, a component of USA TODAY, revealed reports of six COVID-19 outbreaks among visiting farms in California, making more than 350 people sick.
Reports revealed that at least one user has died and companies have not notified local public gyms in connection with an outbreak.
The six outbreaks occurred in four counties in the state attic.
The farm staff is so close to the home that it is a short breath away from the infection. However, unlike other collective life institutions, such as retirement homes, neither the federal nor state government has issued express protection or reporting needs for the protection of guest personnel.
The epidemics involve seven other employers, adding 3 of California’s five largest guest employers.
“The big challenge is that you don’t know who’s infected,” said Dr. Max Cuevas, general manager of Salinas Valley Health Clinic, a central coast clinic chain serving low-income farmers. “The other people who worked in agriculture, is the complicated scenario and the environment in which they are located. They are exposed to other people who would possibly become infected.”
– Jackie Botts, CalMatters and Kate Cimini, The Salinas Californian
The French government has sent police to Marseille rule to assist in the implementation of the mask arrest warrants, as the country has noticed scattered cases of violence through other people refusing to cover their faces.
The new regulations came into force on Monday in more parts of the country requiring the mask to be used outdoors, following orders in Paris.
More than a hundred police officers have been sent to the Marseille area, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Monday. On Friday, the region expanded its masking needs to include farmers markets and more neighborhoods.
France has noticed an increase in the number of cases in recent days: on Sunday, there were 3015 new cases, one of the biggest jumps in a day since the lifting of the blocking orders in May.
The framework of evidence continues to grow, that mask not only to those around them, but also to the user who uses them. With so many options, what’s your most productive option?
In a recently published study, Duke University researchers evaluated the effectiveness of 14 other types of mask by estimating the number of droplets that pass through the general speech of the mask.
Forged dots are the effects of 10 tests for a mask through a speaker. Hollow circles are relative counts for 4 speakers.
– Karina Zaiets and Karl Gelles
The New York Times reported Sunday that scientists were beginning to see symptoms of lasting COVID-19 immunity, even after they showed only mild symptoms of the new disease.
The effects have been published in several new studies, some of which have still been peer-reviewed, but knowledge inspires the presence of antibodies and certain immune cells months after infection.
“Things are working out as planned,” Times Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunologist at the University of Arizona, told Times Deepta Bhattacharya.
Bitter negotiations for a new stimulus agreement for the coronavirus dissolved into a horrific blame game when lawmakers left Washington last week without agreement, with no progress to report and no plans to return until September. In the end, the two sides even refused to meet.
The crisis of these failed talks weighs on both sides, focusing on two weeks of national political conventions and pushing for an agreement long after Labor Day.
This means that as long as political leaders are gone, unemployed Americans will have to do without the enhanced benefits that have allowed them to make ends meet; State and local governments with a shortage of money will be left out; and uncertainty will continue to persist over a series of executive orders adopted by President Donald Trump that were meant to offer some relief.
– Michael Collins, Christal Hayes and Nicholas Wu
Getting the flu shot this year is further due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The flu vaccine isn’t effective, but it’s much bigger than anything, said Dr. Sheila Doron, an infectious disease doctor and epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
Vaccination can also reduce strain in hospitals.
“The worst case scenario is that we have a very active flu season that spreads over the COVID-19 respiratory infection,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a recent verbal exchange with cardiology magazine. “The worst-case scenario, because it would complicate things from the point of view of diagnosis, from the point of view of healing and from the point of view of putting a lot of pressure on the fitness system.”
– Karen Weintraub
Axios reported Sunday that President Donald Trump needs the Food and Drug Administration to approve an extract from the pink laurel plant to advertise as a nutritional supplement or be approved as COVID-19 despite any evidence of the effectiveness of the extract.
The report says Trump expressed himself for approving the excerpt at an Oval Office assembly in July. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell also showed interest in the extract, Axios reported, and Lindell recently invested in a company that manufactures the product.
Lindell is a staunch Trump supporter and helped the White House meeting, Axios reported.
Universities reopening their campuses this fall know they are expanding the threat of coronavirus in their community. The questions are not whether or when, but how serious epidemics can be.
With so many problems at stake, other people wonder: why take the risk? And in many cases, it’s about money.
For months, schools and experts have warned that remote six-month courses can have disastrous effects on student enrollment and school budgets.
Universities have already lost billions of dollars when they switched to virtual education in the spring, in the form of room and food refunds and expensive technologies for online courses. Another semester, or year, of online courses can be even worse, especially for universities without giant funds.
– Chris Quintana
While the United States reported 170,000 deaths, several states reached significant numbers about five months after the start of the pandemic, according to research into Johns Hopkins’ knowledge through USA TODAY.
Maryland reported its 100,000th case and Hawaii reported its 5000th case, according to the data. Hawaii and the Virgin Islands set record new cases in one week, while North Dakota and Puerto Rico reported a record number of deaths in a week.
Michigan also quietly surpassed 100,000 cases, while proven and likely cases totaled 100,724 on Friday.
Meanwhile, the number of cases shown in Ohio fell to their lowest point in weeks on Sunday. Only 613 cases were reported on Sunday afternoon, with two deaths.
– Mike Stucka, USA TODAY; Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press; Patrick Cooley, The Columbus Dispatch
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on the House to return to the consultation later this week to vote on a bill that would prevent the Trump administration’s adjustments to the postal service, Democrats say adjustments will slow mail and potentially jeopardize the November election.
Pelosi, on a Sunday, said that “the life, livelihoods, and life of our American democracy” are threatened by President Donald Trump, who said last week that he would oppose giving more cash to the postal service while acknowledging that a lack of investment can damage the office’s ability to process ballots by mail.
Pelosi, the House to vote later this week on Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s Delivering for America bill, which prohibits adjustments to postal service operations in its position on January 1, 2020.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer suggested Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell re-convene the Republican-controlled Senate to act on Maloney’s bill. Pelosi specified when the House would return, however, a top Democratic adviser said lawmakers are likely to vote Saturday.
– William Cummings
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest school district, is launching an extensive COVID-19 screening and detection program Monday for all staff, students, and their families “to help prepare for an imaginable return to school campuses. “Officials said. announced on Sunday.
“The purpose is for students to return to school as soon as possible while protecting the health and protection of everyone in the school community,” superintendent Austin Buetner wrote in an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times.
The announcement occurs two days before students begin the school year.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern decided Monday to delay New Zealand’s national elections by 4 weeks as the country faces a new coronavirus outbreak in its largest city. The election scheduled for September 19, however, will now take place on October 17.
Under New Zealand law, Ardern had the option of postponing elections for about two months. Opposition parties had called for a suspension after the virus outbreak in Auckland last week led the government to shut down the city for two weeks and halted the election campaign.
Ardern said he would never delay the election again, no matter what happened in the cause of a virus outbreak. Opinion polls imply that the Liberal Labour Party of Ardern is favored for a moment.
Arizona schools are open almost this month. But Gov. Doug Ducey demanded that schools physically open up to some extent from Monday for students who have no other position to attend. The criteria for academics who qualify for in-person facility merit are broad, and many districts and autonomous school operators will open their campuses to any student who wants a position.
But the area is limited, and districts and autonomous school operators prioritize students with disabilities, students learning English, students who are entitled to a loose and reduced lunch, foster children, students without reliable access to technology, and students whose parents are essential workers.
The aid is intended to provide students with an area to study, a reliable Internet connection to access their virtual courses, and adult supervision during general school hours. Programs are expected to continue until schools open for in-person learning.
Lorraine Longhi, Republic of Arizona
Smaller pizzerias across the country are reporting higher costs for pepperoni, according to Bloomberg, who discovered that a South Dakota store pays $4.12 a pound compared to $2.87 in January 2019.
Emily, a New York pizzeria, will pay $6 a pound, compared to $4 this year, chef and co-owner Matthew Hyland told Bloomberg. “It’s an American right to have pepperoni on pizza,” Hyland told Bloomberg.
Smaller pizzerias said they are transferring higher prices to consumers right now. According to Bloomberg, major pizzeria chains such as Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Little Caesars and Papa John’s have experienced scarcity or value increases because they buy ingredients with long-term contracts.
– Kelly Tyko
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