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Local fitness has asked the C.D.C. to replace the new recommendations that other people without symptoms don’t want to get tested. One study found that many inflamed children have no symptoms.
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Four other people who attended the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, two attendees and two other people who worked on the occasion tested positive for coronavirus.
California took some of its first steps on Friday to ease serious restrictions on coronaviruses imposed amid a buildup of cases in the summer. Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled what he described as a renewed plan that would allow some counties, in addition to San Diego and San Francisco, to reopen many inland businesses since Monday in limited circumstances, such as gyms and places of worship. as permission to eat inside. Bars will be closed at the maximum state.
“We’ve been informed a lot in the last few months,” Newsom said. “We are informed of what we have been informed of.”
Most citizens will see few replacements in California, which has recorded more than 695,000 cases and more than 12,000 deaths. The new plan ranks the state in points, and the maximum restriction applies to 38 counties, adding Los Angeles and Orange, which house more than 80% of the state’s population. This point keeps many types of business closed, unless they can operate outdoors, and prohibits food indoors. Beauty salons, beauty salons and grocery stores can be reopened indoors with modifications.
About a dozen more mostly smaller and more rural counties are also in less restrictive tiers that allow them to reopen bars and other indoor businesses at higher maximum capacities and with fewer restrictions.
Newsom under pressure that the new plan, which is explained through new case counts consistent with 100,000 inhabitants, as well as positivity rates, would be less difficult for everyone across the state.
In recent months, the state has gone from its initial reopening plan to one where restrictions are linked to those of a county on a “watch list” of places where the virus spreads rapidly. Critics have called the list too fragmented and confusing.
From now on, counties will not move to a less restrictive point if they have not met the criteria for at least two consecutive weeks.
They will move to a more restrictive point if their numbers for two consecutive weeks.
“Let’s be cursed this time, ” said Newsom.
The new formula also allows the state to re-impose emergency restrictions if hospitalizations are a concern.
The governor’s revelation of the new formula on Friday underscores the complexity of reopening the country’s most populous state, which was once noted as a style for controlling the spread of the virus based on data and science.
The steps taken by the state to reopen businesses had been criticized for being too hasty and motivated by the impatience of some businesses and some small counties, largely rural, than by evidence.
In July, as instances increased, the state restored many restrictions, ordered bar closures, and ordered maximum businesses to open outside.
Two high-level public relations experts advising the Food and Drug Administration were fired after President Trump and the head of the F.D.A. exaggerated the showing benefits of a blood plasma remedy for Covid-19.
Friday, the F.D.A. The Commissioner, Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, got rid of Emily Miller as the agency’s leading spokesman. The White House had installed her at the post just 11 days earlier. Miller had worked in the past on communications for Senator Ted Cruz’s re-election crusade and as a reporter for the conservative cable network One America News. You may not contact Ms. Miller for comment.
New York Times correspondents Sheila Kaplan and Katie Thomas report that Miller’s firing comes a day after the FDA’s parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, terminated the contract of another public relations consultant, Wayne L.Pines, who had pleaded with Dr. Hahn for his misleading comments on the benefits of blood plasma for Covid-19.
“I think he did the file right,” Pines said, adding that he hadn’t been told why his contract had been terminated. “If a federal official doesn’t say anything right and chooses to explain and say the complaint is justified, it’s comforting,” Pines said.
The Department of Health and Human Services denied that Mr. Pines’ contract ended because of his involvement in plasma messaging.
It was “a 100 percent coincidence,” said Brian Harrison, the department’s staff leader. “H.H.S. reviewed and canceled similar contracts, so I had it sent to our lawyers, who terminated it. It was a routine.
The F.D.A. he had thought of allowing the use of convalescent plasma as a remedy for Covid-19 as a matter of urgency, however, before this month, the Times reported that the resolution had been delayed after an organization of federal fitness officials, adding Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci intervened and expressed their fear that evidence of the effectiveness of the remedy was too weak, leading Mr. Trump to call the FDA. a deep state. Trump and Dr. Hahn exaggeratedly asked for the price of the remedy on Sunday, just before the Republican National Convention.
The announcement has been a rare victory for the FDA, which for months had rejected the report of his history of the pandemic, as well as the independence of Dr. Hahn, who in the past had been stressed through Trump to authorize malaria drugs. this has proven to be harmful.
Instead, he unleashed a week of recrimination, anger and mistrust among the F.D.A. and the H.H.S., which generated complaints from scientists and at least 3 former commissioners of the firm, who said that exaggerated statements undermined public confidence in the F.D.A.
“This is a low time for the F.D.A. in at least a generation,” said Daniel Carpenter, a Harvard University professor who is reading the agency. “It’s a self-inflicted primary injury.”
Two organizations that make up thousands of local public fitness facilities in the United States sent a letter Friday to senior Trump management officials asking them to “remove revised guidelines” on virus testing and re-establish recommendations for testing to others who have been exposed to the virus. . whether they have symptoms or not.
The letter, addressed to Dr. Robert R. Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Admiral Brett P. Giroir, Undersecretary of Health of the Department of Health and Social Services, sent through the leaders of the National Association of County and City Health Officials and Great City Health Coalition. Organization leaders wrote that their members were “extremely concerned” about the changes.
The C.D.C. He quietly replaced his coronavirus test rules this week to exclude others who don’t have Covid-19 symptoms, even if they’ve recently been exposed to the virus.
Experts questioned the review, emphasizing the importance of identifying infections in the small window before the onset of symptoms, when many other people appear to be the most contagious.
After a typhoon of criticism, Dr. Redfield tried to explain the agency’s advice and stated that “the evidence would possibly be for all close contacts of proven or probable Covid-19 patients.”
The letter sent on Friday read: “As public fitness professionals, we are involved about the lack of evidence cited to indicate this change. CDC’s own knowledge recommends that up to 40% of Covid-19 cases are due to asymptomatic transmission. Verification of change rules to recommend that close contact with showed positive effects without symptoms does not want to be reviewed is inconsistent with science and knowledge ».
The letter went on to say that while the new rules allow local or state health-conditioning officials to make exceptions, they will “make their ability to respond to the pandemic even more difficult,” allowing skeptical officials or members of the public to blame and question them. . “This review and its outcome have an effect on carrying some other impediment to public fitness practitioners fighting the pandemic well.”
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