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Delta Air Lines has included another 240 people on a no-fly list for refusing to wear a mask on its planes and in the C.E.O. said in a letter to the staff.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the impression of backtracking on the agency’s advice to advise others not to take the test after exposure to the new coronavirus, saying that “the tests may be for all close Covid-19 contacts. or probable. Patients. “
Dr. Robert R. Redfield was delivered to some news organizations Wednesday night, and more broadly on Thursday morning, after a typhoon of complaints about the new C.D.C. rules, involving potentially asymptomatic Americans, who were the product of the White House Coronavirus Working Group and not the C.D.C. scientists themselves. Dr. Redfield made the effort to explain the new policy, one official said. However, the rules previously published this week remained in the C.D.C. online from Thursday morning, and it is unlikely that the company will replace them.
“The controls aim to take action and achieve express physical fitness goals,” Dr. Redfield wrote. “Anyone who wants a Covid-19 check can perform a check. Anyone who wants a verification does not necessarily want a verification; the key is to involve the public fitness network in the resolution with the appropriate follow-up measures.
The explanation is unusual. Public fitness experts say transparent and consistent communication is to combat an infectious disease epidemic, and Dr. Redfield’s comments can still be confusing.
In the rules published Monday, the firm said that close contacts of Covid-19 patients “don’t necessarily want a test” unless they are vulnerable or recommended by their doctor or a state or local public or physical fitness official. In a call to the convention with reporters on Wednesday, Admiral Brett M. Giroir, the administration’s coronavirus test czar, said the new policy reflected existing advice for physical care and other frontline workers, and that the working group only had to make it larger for the general population.
But the recommendation was met by protests from public fitness experts, who said the country needed more evidence, no less, and that it made no sense to advise anyone exposed not to get tested, especially because the virus is transmitted through asymptomatic people.
The clinician’s clinical director of the Association of American Medical College, Dr. Ross McKinney Jr., called it “irresponsible” and said the rules published Monday “disagree with the interests of other Americans and are a step backwards in the opposite fight. pandemic. Array »
Trump advised the country to do less evidence, arguing that managing more evidence increases the number of instances and misrepresents the United States. But experts say the genuine measure of the pandemic is the number of cases, but the positivity rates of the tests, the percentage of tests that test positive.
In an interview Wednesday, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a working group member and major government infectious disease specialist, said he was involved in this being misunderstood. Dr. Fauci had signed an initial edition of the rule, but underwent surgery to remove a polyp from his vocal cord when it ended last Thursday.
In the statement, Dr. Redfield said the firm “focuses on evaluating others with symptomatic diseases, others exposed to significant exposure, vulnerable populations, adding retirement homes or long-term care facilities, critical infrastructure staff, fitness staff, and lifeguards. Array or other people who would possibly be asymptomatic when prioritized through medical and fitness officials”.
Dr. Redfield also stated that anyone, even others with a negative check, exposed to an inflamed or most likely inflamed user, deserves to “strictly comply” with public fitness guidelines, such as social distance, dressing in a mask, avoiding congested interior spaces, and handwashing.
California President Nancy Pelosi and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows plan to speak Thursday afternoon for the first time since talks about one economic recovery plan collapsed this month, raising the possibility of starting negotiations on another. pandemic recovery cycle.
Since the talks failed weeks ago, most Democrats and senior management officials have spoken out slightly, even as the number of victims of the virus continues to rise in families, small businesses and schools. Meadows made the impression on Capitol Hill last weekend and stated that he had unsuccessfully sought to meet with Ms. Pelosi, supposedly looking to paint the speaker as if he were not going to talk to her.
The two were scheduled to talk on the phone at 2:30 p.m. On Thursday, according to a user familiar with the plans. But Pelosi downplayed the importance of the phone call and told reporters at his weekly news convention that she, Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, would be the lead negotiator.
“We … whatever your name is, what’s your name?” Meadows, Mr. Mnuchin, ” he said. If you are willing to meet with us in the middle, then we can sit down and talk. So here you are: you called me. I’ll return your call. »
After weeks of fruitless negotiations, Trump took a series of executive moves that he said would bring relief across the country, though officials declared the measures small-handed and had an effect without a new budget allocated through lawmakers. His plan to use a FEMA crisis fund to pay for aid to laid-off personnel is also under scrutiny when Hurricane Laura hits the Gulf Coast with some other typhoon in tow, raising the option that cash is needed for a primary recovery. Effort.
House Democrats passed a $3.4 trillion relief measure in May, but the Republican-led Senate refused to consider it, instead it urges a $1 trillion plan that would cut unemployment aid and lift out the cash of state and local governments whose budgets were devastated in the middle of the pandemic. As Senate Republicans wavered over higher federal spending and the White House proposed a much smaller package, Democrats narrowed his call for this month and asked Trump’s team to settle for a $2 trillion plan, a perception they also rejected.
“We’re moving, ” said Pelosi. She added: “We want a lot of cash for this, we have a pandemic. They come with a pipette.”
As the procedure stalled on the annual recess in August, many legislators and assistants concluded that any additional relief in the event of a pandemic deserves to be tied to a provisional final bill to fund the entire federal government. This measure will be followed at the end of September to avoid closure.
Over the past six months, some 1.5 billion international youth have been asked to stay home after school to help minimize coronavirus transmission. More than 30% of these academics, some 463 million, were unable to access distance learning opportunities when they closed their schools, according to a report published Wednesday through Unicef, the UN’s youth firm.
“The huge number of young people whose education has been absolutely disrupted for months is a global school emergency,” UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a statement. “The effect on can be felt in economies and societies over the coming decades.”
School-age youth in sub-Saharan Africa were the hardest hit, according to the report, as school systems were not successful in almost a part of all academics through television, radio, the Internet or other remote learning bureaucracy. Many young people in the region have been at a disadvantage in any category since March, according to a report released Wednesday through Human Rights Watch.
Partly to address this asymmetrical access, education officials in Kenya said last month that they were canceling the school year and forcing academics to repeat it.
Forty per cent of academics in the Middle East and North Africa, 38% from South Asia and 34% in Eastern Europe and Central Asia also could not be informed remotely, according to UNICEF’s report showing that young people in rural areas have been disproportionately affected.
Overall, academics from high-income families with more informed parents seem to be more successful at home, researchers from around the world have discovered. This has reinforced fears that school closures are still a way to exacerbate long-standing inequalities in the pandemic.
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