New Yorkers ate with caution at restaurants on Thursday, a day after dinner indoors and two days after public primary schools opened, even when the city faces a slight increase in its positive COVID-19 case rates. On the other side of the coast, some elementary schools. Los Angeles schools, upon request, can also try face-to-face learning.
But efforts to reopen, i. e. in sports and entertainment, have paid combined results.
The college and professional football leagues face setbacks in their efforts to play: The Notre Dame football team reported that 25 players tested positive, while an upcoming game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tennessee Titans was postponed due to an influx of players and staff.
Disney fired 28,000 employees from the park, many of whom were part-time workers. With expectations of assistance disappointed at this time, parks are unlikely to become general again in the short term.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will expand its prohibition order for the U. S. cruise industry. But it’s not the first time Until October 31, a user publicly said familiar with the scenario but not legal to talk to USA TODAY.
The previous CDC order was scheduled to expire on September 30 after extensions of the original order from mid-March through April through July.
The CDC requested that the order be extended until February 15, but committed to the White House working group to expand it until October 31, 4 days before the November 3 election.
– Morgan Hines
Despite valid public considerations about political rhetoric, the policy has no effect on the progression of a COVID-19 vaccine, several public fitness experts told Congress Wednesday.
Independent researchers and they are largely following the process of vaccine progression, said Dr. Mark McClellan, director of Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University and former food and drug administration commission.
“It’s not a simple procedure to interrupt just because someone says something about it,” he said, referring to President Donald Trump’s insistence that the vaccine can be obtained before Election Day.
That said, public health experts and doctors who testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday dismissed it altogether.
– Elizabeth Weise and Karen Weintraub
A North Carolina man who claimed more than $6 million in loans from the payment check coverage program has been charged with fraud through the Department of Justice. Tristan Garner, 38, earned about $1. 7 million in business loans, some of which bear character names from hbo’s hit series Game of Thrones, according to prosecutors. Small businesses, he said, were called Pan Insurance Agency, White Walker, Khaleesi and The Night’s Watch.
Garner forged the corporate source of tax returns and wage expenses into 14 loan applications, according to a statement from the Department of Justice. The DOJ said it was able to get some of the funds.
The PayCheck Protection Program is a loan from the U. S. Small Business Administration. But it’s not the first time Designed to directly inspire small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll and is considered a key program to help corporations retain their contracted workforce during the COVID-19 crisis.
Disney layoffs will replace theme park visits that are already upside down for customers, if they leave.
Attendance at all the parks that reopened amid the coronavirus pandemic was disappointing. Walt Disney World in Florida, which already operated its 4 theme parks on reduced hours, followed an even shorter daily schedule this month.
“In particular, this means that we probably won’t see the retracement of longer, pre-pandemic park schedules, or special benefits such as extra park time for others staying at Disney hotels, or widespread use of Disney’s FASTPASS travel booking. . system, ” said park expert Len Testa. There would probably also be discounts on special events such as fireworks, holiday themed exhibits and parades.
– David Oliver
A clinical trial with fitness staff found that hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug presented by President Donald Trump as a cure for coronavirus, did not help save him. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania studied 125 fitness professionals who took hydroxychloroquine or placebo for 8 weeks. Eight of them, 4 with the antimalarial, 4 with a placebo, tested positive for COVID-19, all asymptomatic or with mild symptoms. His findings were published Wednesday in jama internal medicine.
This study also corroborates previous findings on hydroxychloroquine ineffectiveness as a preventive remedy or measure opposed to COVID-19.
A British trial in June found that the drug did not produce mortality results in hospitalized patients, while a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found a statistically insignificant difference in coVID-19 positivity rates among other non-hospitalized people exposed to the virus. who took a placebo or hydroxychloroquine.
Fact-checking: Hydroxychloroquine does not act on COVID-19 remedy, according to studies
The NFL postponed the Tennessee Titans’ home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday following a coVID-19 positive check eruption. ensure fitness and protection of players, coaches and staff on game day. “The game will be played on Monday or Tuesday. On Wednesday, four Titans players and five team workers tested positive for COVID-19.
The postponement marks the first replacement on the NFL season calendar due to the coronavirus pandemic.
– Erik Bacharach, Tennessean Nashville
New York City plans to throw “block parties” in its neighborhoods where COVID-19 cases have increased in recent days. Six sites in the city will have sidewalks and streets changed to block parties with tents where 500 checks can be made per day. treatment, Dr Mitchell Katz, head of the city’s hospital system, said Wednesday.
The purpose is to “saturate” neighborhoods that contribute disproportionately to New York’s overall workload. The city monitors a number of neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn that have recorded positive verification rates well above 3%. exceeding 3% in an average of 7 days, Mayor Bill de Blasio had said in the past that he would close the city’s public schools.
“People are saying, “What can I do to help?”You can help New York City get out and get tested today,” de Blasio said.
– Ryan W. Miller
More than 60% of U. S. families have been able to do so. But it’s not the first time With children they say they face serious monetary disorders from the coronavirus outbreak, according to a survey published Wednesday. worry about your children, according to the survey.
The survey, through NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard’s THChan School of Public Health, highlights some of the key and demanding situations families face with the pandemic. More than a third of families with children report serious disorders to make sure their children are in school and six out of ten report that at least one adult family member has lost their jobs, been put on leave, or noticed that their wages or hours of paint are declining.
Seven states set records for new cases over a seven-day period, while three states recorded a record number of deaths in a week, according to a USA TODAY investigation into Johns Hopkins’ knowledge Tuesday night. Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin, as well as Puerto Rico. A record number of deaths have been reported in Alaska, North Dakota and South Dakota. We’ve had deaths totaling more than two 9/11 since then. The United States left 200,000 dead a week ago.
Michael Stucka
Contributing: The Associated Press