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A fitness adviser to Trump, without evidence, accused government scientists of “sedition. “He also warned of a leftist after the election. (Read the full story).
Several K-12 school districts in the northeastern United States have delayed the onset of face-to-face categories in recent days after school’s top academics attended primary parties, raising considerations about the spread of the virus.
After several weeks of student celebrations that complicated plans to reopen their schools, the best school academics are now creating the same disruption, highlighting the huge gap between politics and implementation, and the boundaries of any school to control youth behavior.
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury, Massachusetts, west of Boston, delayed the opening of the study rooms for two weeks, until September 29, after police dispersed a party involving between 50 and 60 students, local officials said.
The fitness board said the police had reported that academics were dressed in mask or social estating, and that many had fled when the police arrived or gave false names to the officers.
Although there were no known cases of viruses among academics at the party, the board stated that without full data on those present, “the threat to the school network will be adequately assessed. “
In nearby Dedham, Massachusetts, the school district also delayed face-to-face training after an increase in cases in the city, which local fitness officials attributed to two recent youth meetings, adding a party attended by the school’s top students.
In Pelham, New York, the school’s best academics who were partying and after Labor Day weekend led the school district to postpone the start of face-to-face learning for all students and require the school’s best students to undergo tests before they arrive at school or quarantine for 14 years. . Days.
The superintendent, Dr. Cheryl H. Champ, wrote in a letter to families that more than a hundred teenagers gave the impression of attending the festivities and that the video showed academics “behaving impromptuly, without practicing physical estcuation and without masks or faces. . coatings. “
Also in New York, the Carle Place Union Free School District on Long Island, delayed students return to school after last summer celebrations led to positive cases.
“As we are told in the difficult way, the movements of a few can have an effect on as many other people as possible,” Superintendent Christine A wrote. Finn, families.
An extensive initiative was launched to review and evaluate the 700,000 academics and 75,000 Los Angeles Public Schools workers in search of the virus, with five cases last week among more than 5,400 young people and controlled adults, the district director said.
They were all among the adults who paint for the district. Up to 20,000 more painters will be evaluated this week, said Austin Beutner, the superintendent, whose Los Angeles Unified School District is the largest in the country, New York City.
About 700 young children were also tested in the child care provided throughout the district, Beutner said, but none were infected.
With the exception of some students with special desires, who have recently been given the green softness to return to elegance for very limited teaching, elegance in the Los Angeles Unified District has distanced.
The $150 million program, announced last month amid national alarm for check deficiencies, is expected to be among the largest and highest comprehensive school projects in the country until Los Angeles study rooms fully reopen, depending on positivity rates.
Beutner said the district would rely on two companies: the Kansas Clinical Reference Laboratory for anchoring, and for nasal use, SummerBio, a small Bay Area start-up that specializes in automated handling. The neighborhood, he says, will be SummerBio’s first client.
Last week’s tests on Thursday and Friday were conducted with school principals, guards, and others in sanitized school buildings, as well as youth in the district’s child care program.
“The next circular will be for all employees, whether they’re in school or not, and then we’ll move on to student tests,” Mr. Beutner.
The positivity rate, about 0. 1% of tests performed, well below the overall rate of 3. 4% in Los Angeles County, said Beutner, who said it was predictable. Los Angeles Unified District tests are administered regardless of symptoms, while more than 11,000 Tests conducted every day in the county have tended to involve others who have requested the test due to symptoms or concern about exposure.
In New York, nearly 17,000 public schools were checked before the first day of school on September 21, with 55 positive checks, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday. Starting in October, the city will require random checks per month of 10 to 20% of academics and in all school buildings. “Some academics will test positive at some point in the year,” the mayor said.
The senior communications officer of the tough ministry guilty of fighting the coronavirus on Sunday accused the government’s career scientists of “sedition” in their management of the pandemic and warned that left-wing squadrons were in favor of an armed insurgency after the election.
Michael Caputo, 58, undersecretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, said without evidence that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosted a “resistance unit” that we decided to undermine President Trump. that he could personally be in danger.
“You sense you’re going to have to kill me, and unfortunately I think that’s where you’re going,” Caputo, a loyal Trump installed in the White House in April, said in a video he broadcast live. Facebook public page.
In a statement, the dismantling said Caputo “is an essential and integral component of the president’s reaction to coronavirus, which generates public messages. “
Caputo was open to scientists, media and Democrats after a series of weekend reports detailing his team’s systematic interference in the C. D. C. reports, pandemic, previous and current CDCO officials have described to Politico, the New York Times and other media how Caputo and a senior adviser asked the firm to review, delay, and even spoil major public fitness updates, CDC’s weekly morbidity and mortality reports. they said compromised. Trump’s message that the pandemic was under control.
Historically, these reports have been due to political interference that policymakers only see just before they are published.
Caputo complained on Facebook on Sunday that he was under siege through the media and said his fitness was in question and that his “mental fitness had definitely failed. “
In his Facebook video, Caputo used a series of conspiracy theories, which led to a prediction that Trump won re-election, but his Democratic opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr. , you’ll refuse to give in.
“And when Donald Trump refuses to retire at the inauguration, filming will begin,” he said. He added, “If you bring weapons, buy ammunition, and gentlemen, because it will be hard to get. “
While wildfires devastated Oregon’s giant spaces this week, inmates were thrown away from invading flames, not freedom yet, into a crowded state prison, where they slept from appearance to appearance in cots and, in some cases, on the ground. Showers and bathrooms were scarce and gang fights broke out.
They were protected from one disaster, but delivered to another: the coronavirus pandemic, which has spread at an alarming rate in American prisons.
“From what we know about Covid-19, how fast it can spread and how fatal it can be, we want to prepare for the worst,” said Bobbin Singh, executive director of the Oregon Justice Resource Center, an inmate advocacy organization.
The two pandemic crises and a devastating season of forest chimneys have wreaked havoc on West Coast criminals. Virus outbreaks have spread through mobile blocks (Oregon’s criminal formula has had 1,600 infections in more than 3 months) and poor ventilation formulas have smoke from chimneys.
Kristina Boswell, an Oregon prisoner who moved in Friday night, described a chaotic evacuation on an audio recording her lawyer shared with The Times.
He said the prisoners were tied up in combination with zip lines and on buses in the middle of the night without their medicines or water. When they arrived, he said, there was a shortage of mattresses and there is no possibility of social estating.
“We’re all in dormitories,” said Ms. Boswell, one of more than 1,300 inmates transferred to the Deer Ridge Correctional Center in Madras, Oregon. “Everyone’s overcrowded. “
Wisconsin faces its highest point of new daily instances of the pandemic, with an average of more than 1,000 new instances consistent with last week’s day, with college towns driving this worrying increase.
On Sunday, the state reported a new record of 1,582 cases and a 20% positivity rate. Most of the cases concerned other people between the age of 20 and 29, a spokeswoman for the fitness branch said.
Wisconsin has reported more than 1,700 campus-like cases, according to a New York Times database, adding more than 1,000 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the school’s flagship campus. La Crosse County, home of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, has recorded one of the number of capital-consistent cases in the state for more than seven days, while some giant counties such as Milwaukee, Waukesha and Racine have not noticed a primary accumulation in cases and remain below the state average.
On Sunday afternoon, the rector of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse announced “on-site shelter” restrictions for all college apartments on campus. And in Madison, the Senate convened a special consultation scheduled for Monday afternoon to vote on reducing spring break. to a three-day weekend.
Wisconsin was not as beaten as other states at the beginning of the pandemic, but could not escape unscathed. Just over 1,200 people died from coronavirus, with some of the highest daily death reports last May.
Kenosha, the days of street protests against races and police that have attracted others from all over, has not reported an increase in new cases. In an email, Liane Blanck of the Kenosha County Health Division expressed more fear about the effect of restarting schools this month than the riots last August.
An arthritis drug that suppresses the immune formula would possibly have mild recovery times in critically ill patients with Covid-19, the drug’s markings announced Monday.
The drug, baricitinib, was tested in a giant clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. More than 1,000 hospitalized patients were randomly assigned to get the arthritis drug plus remdesivir, an antiviral with immediate curative capacity, or remdesivir. plus a placebo.
Those who took the mixture of two drugs recovered on average a day earlier than those who took remdesivir alone, said Eli Lilly and Incyte, the baricitinib brands, but corporations did not provide any data.
The N. I. A. I. D. showed that Eli Lilly’s announcement is accurate, but he would comment, as government investigators analyze the effects of the trial and prepare an article for publication.
“Their priority is to do some clinical rigor in the way knowledge is disseminated,” said Dr. Daniel Skovronsky, scientific director of Eli Lilly. “Ours is that when we have potential information, we share it with our percentages. “
Baricitinib is used to suppress the so-called cytokine storm, an overreaction of the immune formula that occurs in some critically covid-19 patients. During a cytokine storm, the immune formula itself can cause illness and death.
Citing the characteristics of the drug, Eli Lilly said he would seek an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, which would allow him to sell baricitinib at a dose of 40 milligrams before the company officially submits a marketing request.
The news is a challenge for doctors and hospitals. While the baricitinib trial was underway, British researchers reported that a reasonable generic steroid, dexamethasone, can recover and decrease mortality in Patients with Covid-19. This medicine also acts to decrease the overreaction of the immune system.
However, the studies are not entirely comparable. Doctors and patients knew who received the drug in the British study, but not in the US study. And the study populations were different. The mortality rate of patients in Britain was also 4 times higher than that of patients in the United States.
In addition, a six milligram pill of dexamethasone costs about $1. 30 in the United States, while 20 milligrams of baricitinib, part of the dose used in the trial, has a list value of $87. 50 per day.
President Trump held an indoor election rally sunday for the first time since last June, when he once gave the impression in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to which the past slept blamed the increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the region.
Sunday night’s demonstration, held at a Las Vegas outdoor production plant in defiance of a state directive that restricts indoor meetings to 50 people, amassed thousands of supporters, the vast majority of whom were not dressed in masks.
Steve Sisolak, Governor Democrat of Nevada, said on Twitter that Trump is “taking reckless and self-centered measures” that endanger the lives of state residents. “It is an insult to each and every single person of Nepal who has followed the instructions, sacrificed themselves and put their neighbors before them,” he said. It is also a direct risk to all the recent progress we have made and can potentially push us back. “
The Trump Crusade had reviewed several outdoor sites, but all had been blocked by the governor, according to a management official familiar with planning. Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the crusade, defended the inner stage, saying in a statement: “If you can sign up for tens of thousands of people protesting on the streets, gambling in a casino, or setting small business riots on fire, you can meet peacefully under the First Amendment to hear the president of the United States.
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