The number of coVID-19 deaths in the United States approached 150,000 on Tuesday, as several states set weekly death records and Florida reported a record day of death. Further confirming Sunshine State’s disorders with coronavirus, the Miami Marlins season was temporarily discontinued after 15 players and two staff members tested positive.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, of the president’s work group on coronavirus, said the Marlins outbreak could jeopardize the major league season, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” show that he didn’t think the games deserved to end now.
The 186 deaths in Florida raised the death toll to more than 6,000. Governor Ron DeSantis, who three weeks ago ordered classroom learning when schools reopened next month, has softened his rhetoric in recent days. Now you need schools for parents to have “a selection between in-person learning and distance learning” for their children.
In Tennessee, Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, suggested Governor Bill Lee close bars and restrict food in indoor restaurants to stem an explosion of infections among young people. Lee said no.
Several states set seven days for deaths from the virus on Monday; others are preparing for new cases. Tennessee prepared for both of us.
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Nearly three hundred recent graduates of Florida’s top schools and visitors were invited to quarantine after fitness officials said a player in Saturday’s Bayside High School opening rite had COVID-19. Families were reported on the case Monday in a letter from the Florida County Department of Health.
The individual tested the virus “shortly after attending,” Anita Stremmel, the department’s county’s deputy director of fitness, said in an email to FLORIDA TODAY. “The Florida Department of Health has been informed of the case through Brevard Public Schools and we have shown the result in our laboratory reporting system,” Stremmel said.
“We advise everyone who attended the prom to quarantine and control their symptoms for 14 days,” he said. Brevard Public Schools spokeswoman Nicki Hensley said the accurate count of those affected is unavailable without delay. About three hundred academics and at least 30 staff members attended the rite, and each student was allowed to bring up to two guests, Hensley said.
– Eric Rogers, Florida today
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Tuesday that reopening schools on the user was “the preferred medical option,” but said he depended on temporarily isolating patients and questioning their close contacts. Lee implemented his plan to reopen K-12 school the same week the state warned through the White House that Tennessee is about to reach new levels of infection.
“Our state is doing everything in its power to work with local school districts and ensure that face-to-face learning is done in a way that protects the fitness and protection of our students and educators, and this plan is helping us achieve this goal,” Lee said in a statement.
According to Lee’s new school guidelines, anyone who tests positive for COVID-19 will have to isolate themselves for 10 days from the onset of their symptoms or isolate themselves 10 days from the date of the virus test. Those who were within 6 feet of anyone with COVID-19 for 10 minutes or more should also be quarantined for at least 14 days.
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Joe Biden, the alleged Democratic candidate to challenge President Donald Trump, proposed Tuesday to triple federal contracts for racial minorities until 2025 and reduce school prices for women and others of color to gain advantages from their economic recovery plans.
Biden noted that with 18 million unemployed, the economic crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic hit black and Latino communities very hard, with unemployment rates of 15.4% and 14.5% respectively. Biden said his purpose is to rebuild a more inclusive society.
“We want to make ambitious and practical investments to recover from the economic disaster we are in and rebuild the long economic lead that our country deserves,” Biden said at the William “Hicks” Anderson Community Center in Wilmington, Delaware. I’m here to see how the biggest reconstruction will address systemic racism and promote racial justice in our economy.
– Bart Jansen
A few days after the start of baseball’s truncated season, its viability was seriously questioned by an outbreak of COVID-19 cases between the Miami Marlins, which had 15 players and two staff members who tested positive.
Major League Baseball has postponed the Marlins’ season until Sunday, which almost in fact means they would not possibly play their 60 scheduled games, and perhaps neither would their games at war in the long run.
The Marlins outbreak had already led to a handful of postponements On Monday and Tuesday: two home games in Miami, the Baltimore Orioles and a couple of games between the Phillies and the New York Yankees in Philadelphia, where the Marlins had played a series of three games over the weekend. Now the Marlins have seven games to catch up on.
However, Commissioner Rob Manfred told MLB Network on Monday that positive evidence was expected at some point, which is why the lists have expanded and the Marlins’ case eruption is not enough for baseball to end the season. In a press release Tuesday, MLB said there had been no new positive effects among the 6,400 box staff tests conducted on the other 29 groups since Friday.
More than a third of Americans have missed cancer screening due to COVID-19, and fitness experts warn this may be the fatal result of the coronavirus pandemic. The Prevent Cancer Foundation published the effects of the survey of more than 1,000 respondents that found that about 35% of Americans did not undergo screening for cancer regimen due to fear of COVID-19. And 43% missed medical appointments.
“People perceive that they are more likely to die of cancer than they have progressed when they stay home to save COVID-19 … who die from COVID-19,” said Dr. Therese Bevers, the university’s medical director. MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas.
– Adrianna Rodriguez
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, whose state set a record with nearly 1,250 hospitalizations due to the coronavirus, said he reduced hours of alcohol sales at restaurants to discourage evening meetings.
Starting Friday, restaurants and other restaurants offering glass drinks, such as distilleries and breweries, will have to stop sales until 11 p.m. State law allows sales until 2 a.m. Autonomous bars have been closed since March.
“We know that the ‘bar scene’ is a position where we saw a larger broadcast,” Cooper said.
— The Associated Press
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who first downplayed the considerations of coronavirus and ended up spending a week in a London hospital fighting COVID-19, warned of a momentary wave of the virus in Europe while protecting his country’s 14-day quarantine for Spanish travellers. .
“We are probably transparent about what’s happening in Europe, among some of our European friends, I’m afraid they’re starting to see symptoms of a momentary pandemic wave in some places,” Johnson said Tuesday.
Spain, one of the most affected European countries, has noticed an uptick in cases. This led the Uk to remove Spain from its list of countries unless it is quarantined and advise that it is not essential for its continent or islands, a resolution considered “unfair” through Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Germany also warned against Spain, but limited its recommendation to the regions of Catalonia, Aragon and Navarre.
— BBC news
Twitter deleted a post that President Donald Trump retwored in which a doctor proclaims, without evidence, that “there is a cure” for coronavirus. The president’s re-tuit “in violation of our COVID-19 disinformation policy,” Twitter said in a statement. The social media giant also limited Donald Trump Jr.’s account after erasing a message in which doctors promoted the purported benefits of “hydroxychloroquine” in the fight against coronavirus. The president’s son was prevented from tweeting for 12 hours.
“Big Tech intends to end loose speeches online and is an example of those acts of election interference to quell Republican voices,” Trump Jr. spokesman Andrew Surabian said Tuesday.
– David Jackson
Parents and academics facing repeated cancellations of the ACT University’s frontal exam due to coronavirus discovered more frustration on Monday and Tuesday when they tried the long-running tests.
ACT opened records Monday for the September and October controls, but closed its registration site shortly after it opened “due to high demand,” according to an organization report posted on Twitter. The verification organization said it would have an update on Tuesday, only to move the ad to Wednesday at midday.
The parents were not satisfied. “The tests were canceled in April, June and July; they didn’t work on the day of enrollment for the fall tests,” Deidre Appel tweeted on the ACT account. “You’re disturbing the lives of children!”
– Elinor Aspegren
The record number of new weekly coronavirus cases experienced by Arizona, Florida, Texas and California a month ago is now played as a record number of deaths in those states. The death toll in Texas continues and the state recorded 1,607 deaths in the week ending Monday, according to a Johns Hopkins University knowledge research through USA TODAY.
This results in a Texan who dies every 6 minutes, 16 seconds and no sign of relief. The weekly death toll in Texas is more than seven times its worst week until April.
Arizona is now more than five times worse than its worst spring week, while Florida is well above twice as much. California is about 24% ahead of its worst spring record.
Johns Hopkins’ knowledge research published last Monday shows that 8 states have set records for new coronavirus counts, and 8 have set death records. Many states that saw higher instances several weeks ago have stopped breaking records for new instances, adding Alabama, Georgia, Nevada and South Carolina. But all states broke death records on Monday night.
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JetBlue revealed Tuesday that two members of its staff in Florida died of COVID-19 headaches on July 16, bringing to 8 the number of known airlines that died from the disease.
“The loss of two dear members of our JetBlue family circle on the same day is a painful reminder of the scope and severity of this pandemic,” CEO Robin Hayes said at the start of the JetBlue convention call with Wall Street analysts and reporters. .
Hayes paid tribute to Brittney Jones, an airport operations clerk, and Orlando Tavarez, a quality inspector. Both were recently founded in Fort Lauderdale. In a similar call in May, Hayes asked for a minute’s silence for the six JetBlue employees who died from the virus. Most airlines have not publicly disclosed the names of the staff who died as a result of COVID-19, and Hayes’ movements have received praise.
– Dawn Gilbertson
Some families will pay several hundred dollars a month to rent teachers and tutors for small organization learning “modules” while waiting for an end to the pandemic that has shaken their youth’s schools. Parents hope to create a solid design for their children, fearing that a wave of COVID-19 will lead to more school closures. The capsules also allow their children to socialize with a small peer organization and provide parents with more solid paint schedules.
Shauna Hill, 42, a single mother of 7-year-old twins in Burlington, Vermont, is in talks with other parents about installing a capsule. The goal, he says, “is to build a small village.”
– Aimée Picchi
The extensive care leader who worked on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic at a Baltimore hospital died of the virus he helped fight. Dr. Joseph Costa, Head of the Intensive Care Division at Mercy Medical Center, died at the age of 56. The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun reported that Costa died Saturday of COVID-19, the disease through coronavirus.
“I have deep admiration and respect for Joe as a doctor, colleague and friend,” the hospital’s president and chief executive, Dr. David Maine, said in a statement. “Mercy Medical Center and Mercy’s circle of relatives have benefited greatly from Joe’s wisdom, compassion, insight and reflection, his moral technique for his paintings, and the families he served.
– Jordan Culver
Dr. Deborah Birx, a White House adviser who is among the most sensitive people guilty of coronavirus in the country, said Monday that Tennessee closes bars and restricts indoor restaurants to prevent an imminent escalation of the epidemic among young people. Moments later, Gov. Bill Lee said he “appreciated his recommendations” but would not stick to them and would not give county mayors the strength to do so locally.
“I’ve said from the beginning of this pandemic that there’s nothing on the table,” Lee said. “I also said we’re not going to close the economy and we’re not going to do it.”
Tennessee broke records for new coronavirus cases and deaths over a seven-day period on Monday, according to a USA TODAY research on Johns Hopkins data. The week’s new cases increased to 16735, more than five times the worst week observed in the spring. And the deaths rose to 131, more than double the worst spring week.
– Brett Kelman and Mike Stucka
The director of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention said an experimental coronavirus vaccine was injected to convince the public to do the same when it was approved.
“I’m going to reveal covertly: I’m being injected with one of the vaccines,” Gao Fu said at a Sunday webinar organized through Alibaba Health, a branch of The Chinese e-commerce giant, and Cell Press, an American publisher. from clinical journals. “I hope it works.”
The Associated Press reported earlier this month that a Chinese state-owned company injected its workers with experimental injections in March, even before government-approved tests on others, a resolution that has raised moral considerations among some experts. Gao did not say when or how he took the candidate vaccine, so it was unclear whether he had injected himself as a component of a government-approved human trial.
Las Vegas casinos informed them that if they were not withdrawn from their license until August 31, they would be fired. Under the Federal Worker Training and Adjustment Notices Act (WARN Act), major employers must notify their staff when mass layoffs are expected. MGM Resorts, Wynn Resorts, Tropicana and other casino operators have sent such notices.
MGM told its workers that, first, he hoped that casino closures would be brief and that all operations could simply be restored. But the pandemic has progressed and, based on existing data, it does not seem “prudent to restart emissions by 31 August 2020.” This means that the “vast majority” of the workers in the entertainment and sports department will be fired on that date.
– Rich Duprey, the sloped madman
The Food and Drug Administration issued another warning Monday not to use certain hand sanitizers that may involve methanol or wood alcohol, a poisonous substance when absorbed through the skin or swallowed. The FDA continues to update its “unused hand sanitizer list,” which includes 87 types of hand sanitizers to avoid, some of which have already been withdrawn from the market, and it is recommended to remove other products from the market, as they would possibly involve the deadly potential. Ingredient.
“Practicing smart hand hygiene, including the use of an alcohol-based hand sanitizer if soap and water are not available, is a vital public fitness tool that all Americans deserve to use,” FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn said in a statement. . “Consumers also deserve to be attentive to the hand sanitizers they use, and for their fitness and safety, we urge consumers to avoid all hand sanitizers on the FDA’s list of dangerous hand sanitizers without delay.
– Kelly Tyko
Negotiations for a pandemic aid plan began with the two remote sides when Senate Republicans unveiled a $1 trillion-$2 trillion less package than the proposal announced through House Democrats in May.
Almost immediately, the Republican package was criticized through conservative lawmakers for wrong and costly and through Democrats as a late effort that failed to meet the nation’s desire to deal with the economic damage inflicted through a virus that ignited nearly 4.3 million Americans and killed more than 147,000.
The bill would come with some other set of $1,200 direct checks for millions of Americans, more for small businesses and cash to reopen schools, but it would also reduce the $600 unemployment surcharge that expires at the end of the month.
– Ledyard King and Nicholas Wu
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