Days after President Donald Trump defended his administration’s “incredible” handling of the coronavirus outbreak in a widely noted interview, the country’s most sensible fitness officer called the country’s reaction “disparate” and “not so well adapted” to the dynamics of the pandemic.
“What happened when rubber hit the road about it, and we were hit, we had the kind of reaction that didn’t adapt so well to the dynamics of this epidemic,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Forum on Wednesday. “What happened was that we had an uneven reaction.”
The country’s reaction allowed the number of COVID-19 instances to be limited to an “unacceptable level,” Fauci said, warning that the United States will continue to “burn” without a unified effort to prevent the virus.
Here are some developments:
Figures Figures today: The United States has recorded more than 158,000 deaths and 4.8 million COVID-19 cases at Johns Hopkins University. Globally, there have been more than 706,000 deaths and 18.7 million instances.
? What we read: children are less likely to die of coronavirus. But some experts say that the lack of data on how COVID-19 contracts and transmits will leave the country unprepared when schools are reopened.
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No NBA player tested positive for COVID-19 for the third consecutive weekly control period, the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association said in a joint press Wednesday.
In the most recent circular of precautionary measures, 343 players were tested in the NBA bubble-shaped surroundings on the Disney campus near Orlando, Florida.
No player has tested positive for the bubble since the first tests between July 7 and 13.
Jeff Zillgitt
As many school districts prepare to reopen campuses, some experts are concerned that study rooms are the next incubators for primary coronavirus outbreaks.
Supporters of consistently resuming school, adding to President Donald Trump, have consistently said that young people are less likely to broadcast COVID-19 and that the benefits outweigh the risks. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 6 out of 100,000 school-age youth are hospitalized with COVID-19, compared to an overall rate of another 130 people in line with another 100,000 people. However, a recent review estimated that the closure of schools in March reduced the rate of new COVID-19 instances by 66%.
“We show that it has made a difference in cases and deaths,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Katherine Auger, an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine. “It was a very vital thing the company did.”
In an interview with Fox and his friends Wednesday morning, Trump said young people return to school because they are “almost immune” or “practically immune” to the disease.
The interview was posted on Trump’s non-public Facebook page and then deleted; the first time Facebook deleted a message from the president for violating his COVID-19 disinformation policies.
Twitter hid the post of the crusade interview and told USA TODAY in a statement that “the account owner will have to delete the tweet before it can tweet again.”
– Jayme Fraser, Dan Keemahill and Jessica Guynn
The NCAA on Wednesday launched a set of needs for all schools wishing to complete an upcoming sporting competition. Although the NCAA left the resolve to organize fall sports to individual divisions, he said the divisions will have the prestige of the fall championships through August 21.
“The Board of Directors has expressed serious considerations about the continued high degrees of COVID-19 infection in many parts of the country,” NCAA said. “The Board of Directors has made the decision that it will only help the progress of the fall championships and other postseason games if they are met and meet strict situations.”
Two of the needs include coverage for players who choose to retire. First, the school is required to honor the scholarship of any retiring athlete, and each department will have to make a decision until August 14 on how the withdrawal or shortened season would be eligible and inform players of that decision.
– Aria Gerson
A large and fatal explosion that shook the Lebanese capital, Beirut, put more pressure on the country’s fitness system, which was already lacking a non-public protective apparatus and suffered from more than 5,200 cases of COVID-19.
The explosion exploded in several hospitals, which killed at least 135 other people and wounded thousands, and those still running were beaten with patients, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a series of tweets.
“After months of spiral economic crisis and the opposite fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Lebanon is already in a fragile state,” the ICRC said. “The fitness care formula is already suffering to meet fitness development needs. Today, he’s totally overwhelmed.
At The Hotel Dieu, a university hospital in Beirut, oncologist Hampig Kourieh had just finished his shift when the explosion occurred. He described “hundreds of other blood-covered people who arrived on foot, by car and by bike Array … the apocalyptic scene.”
The smell of blood, Kourieh said, was so strong that “iron covered the emergency room.”
– Nadia Al Faour, USA TODAY special
Two suburban Atlanta school districts that started Monday’s face-to-face categories with optional mask policies face more questions about COVID-19 safety protocols after on-campus footage showed academics shoulder to shoulder.
In Cherokee County, dozens of seniors joined two of the district’s top six schools to take classic first-day photographs, with academics grouped in black suits. In Paulding County, photographs of students taken Monday and Tuesday show crowded hallways at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia. Less than part of the scholars represented wear masks.
In Columbia County, the School District has already showed its first COVID-19 case.
– Miguel Legoas, The Augusta Chronicle; The Associated Press
Virginia became wednesday the first state to implement a smartphone app to automatically inform others if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus. The new generation of pandemic, created through Apple and Google, will be held at Apple and Android app outlets starting Wednesday. The app relies on wireless Bluetooth generation to stumble when a user who downloaded the app spent time near some other user of the app who tested positive for the virus. State officials said the app did not track the user’s location or collect non-public information.
“We are employing every single technique imaginable to combat this virus and keep Virginians healthy,” Virginia Governor Northam said in a statement.
When Milwaukee landed the 2020 Democratic National Convention more than a year ago, city leaders hoped 50,000 people would flood into town for four non-stop days and nights of politics. Now even the party’s nominee isn’t going.
Authorities announced that Joe Biden would settle for the party’s nod from his home in Delaware, and the other speakers at the conference would not either in Wisconsin. Organizers cited “the worsening of the coronavirus pandemic.”
“This conference will be another of any past conference in history,” said Joe Solmonese, general manager of the conference. “It will succeed in more people than ever before and, in fact, it will be a conference across the United States for all Americans, regardless of the party they belong to. Who they voted for in the last election.”
– Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Florida is the right time to verify more than 500,000 COVID-19 instances. The State Department of Health reported 5,409 new instances on Wednesday, bringing the state total to 502,739. California leads the country with more than 526,000 instances, according to knowledge collected through Johns Hopkins University.
Florida also announced 225 more deaths, bringing the state’s seven-day moving average for reported deaths to a record 184.86. The death toll in the state is now 7627.
– Cheryl McCloud, Treasure Coast newspapers
Chicago public schools are joining a long line of giant school systems that will begin the school year completely online. The district, which had originally planned to launch a hybrid style online and for users starting September 8, said Wednesday that the continued increase in coronavirus instances and parental considerations suggested they adjust the plan.
Tens of thousands of families said in a district survey that they did not aim to send their children to school. And the city’s teachers’ union has threatened to pass a strike because of considerations about the face-to-face classes. The district said it would move to a hybrid learning style in the quarter, which will begin on November 9.
Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Miami are among the other major cities that started the online school year.
The cruise industry has voluntarily extended its hiatus in operations in U.S. waters to “at least” on October 31, one month after the expiration date of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s non-navigation order. CLIA member lines bring 95% of the world’s ocean cruises. The new order will apply to all CLIA member ships capable of carrying 250 or more passengers.
“At this time, it is prudent to voluntarily extend the suspension of U.S. ocean cruise operations. Until October 31,” the International Cruise Line Association, the industry’s leading ocean cruise line organization, said in a statement.
– Morgan Hines
The University of Connecticut football team is the first bowl point program to cancel its 2020 season on Wednesday, posing an “unacceptable risk point” faced by student-athletes.
UConn, who plays as an independent, has had games opposed to those in Illinois, Indiana, Maine and Mississippi that were removed from the calendar due to “conference-only” schedules played in schools. Games opposed to North Carolina and Virginia may have suffered the same fate. Players issued a joint statement through the school to provide “total resolution assistance not to compete in 2020.”
Several in the minor divisions of school football, adding up the entire Ivy League, have also cancelled their seasons.
Chris Bumbaca
One of the first cruises to resume night sailing in U.S. waters since the end of the pandemic, the cruise industry reported a case of COVID-19. Passengers are quarantined aboard the UnCruise Adventures Wild Adventurer “until the state of Alaska deems it safe to return home,” according to an alert posted on the cruise line website. The ship was able to circumvent the federal order not to board because its capacity is less than 250 passengers and team members.
“The guest has no symptoms and no other visitor or team member has external symptoms of any kind,” the cruise line said. “All visitors have been informed and will be quarantined until the state of Alaska believes they should return to their homes.”
– Hannah Yasharoff and Morgan Hines
Johnson-Johnson has announced an agreement with the U.S. government. For one hundred million doses of your SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate, Ad26.COV2.S, for use in the United States, as long as the vaccine gets approval from Food and Drug Administration. The government can also buy another two hundred million doses, the company said in delivering the $1 billion deal. A clinical trial is underway and the company has stated that it is comparing one- and two-dose regimens. The plan is to supply more than one billion international non-profit doses by 2021.
“We are expanding production in the United States and around the world to supply a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for emergency use,” said Dr. Paul Stoffels, Chief Scientific Officer of Johnson and Johnson.
More than 500 inmates in the Tucson Whetstone Unit in the state of Arizona have tested positive for COVID-19, the government said. The 517 inmates, nearly a portion of the unit’s 1,066-unit population, are accommodated in a combination in separate spaces and receive medical care, according to a statement from the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation.
The branch did not answer the questions, adding when the tests were performed and whether all the inmates were evaluated there. Tests took place after inmates in the Whetstone unit conducted a nonviolent march last week due to virus problems.
– Audrey Jensen, Republic of Arizona
The modern biotechnology giant said Wednesday that it plans to fully recruit 30,000 volunteers on the Phase 3 exam of its COVID-19 vaccine next month. Last week, Moderna’s vaccine candidate, subsidized by nearly $1 billion in federal funds, became the first in the country to begin such a giant trial. It is being tested at many sites in the United States, and effects are expected in early October.
“We have started talks with several countries for agreements for (vaccine candidate) mNR-1273 and as of July 31, we have earned approximately $400 million in visitor deposits for a potential matrix,” Moderna said in a statement.
The announcement came a day after Novavax launched the promising effects of a small initial trial. AstraZeneca, Pfizer and an organization of Chinese researchers have published the first effects of promising trials, and China has begun offering its candidate vaccine to members of its armed forces.
A USA TODAY research into Johns Hopkins’s knowledge through Tuesday night shows that a state set records for new instances in a week, while three states recorded a record number of deaths in a week. New case records have been established in Hawaii as well as Puerto Rico. A record number of deaths have been reported in California, Florida and Georgia. The United States reported 4,771,080 cases and 156,801 deaths.
Mike Stucka
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