The existing pandemic and restrictions on social distance once complicated the crisis’s relief efforts, as more than 100,000 Californians are fleeing wildfires.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state’s evacuation centers had established protocols, such as spaces marked for physical distance in shelters, indoor tents, temperature controls, and individual meals, for organization meals.
“COVID-19 complicates everything,” Pastor Peter Shaw of Crosswalk Community Church in Napa County wrote in an email. The church has turned its sanctuary and gym into an evacuation shelter. “Socially remote camp beds, particularly our ability,” Shaw wrote.
Further north, schools in a California county were forced to close this week when state officials said their coronavirus cases were higher than reported in the past and several hundred academics were sent home to school. This is a component of a national viral knowledge challenge that is complicating efforts to reopen schools.
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? Figures today: The United States has 5.6 million infected people and more than 175,000 deaths. Worldwide, there have been more than 799,000 deaths and 22.9 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
What we read: Experts say it’s very important to get a flu shot this year. It is unclear how COVID-19 will be combined with this year’s flu season; any virus can wreak havoc in the country as some schools reopen for face-to-face learning.
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Operation Warp Speed, the White House-led association for COVID-19 responses, is pressuring its partners to be able to start distributing the coronavirus vaccine until November 1.
There has been a hypothesis that President Donald Trump could launch an “October surprise,” depending on the release of a coronavirus vaccine to increase his chances at the polls on November 3.
The Food and Drug Administration and other high-level government scientists have said that science and knowledge will be taken into account when deciding whether to accept a vaccine.
– Elizabeth Weise
California Pastor Rob McCoy and the church he runs were convicted Friday of contempt of court for failing to comply with a restraining order prohibiting indoor worship in an effort to curb COVID-19.
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Vincent O’Neill Jr. issued the opposing ruling to McCoy and Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park, northwest of Los Angeles, after a two-hour hearing in Ventura. Fine the chapel with $3,000, but fine McCoy.
That was part of the $6,000 that Ventura County officials had advised against the church, founded on a $1,000 fine for each of the six held indoors during the next two Sundays. County officials also did not file a fine against McCoy.
– Kathleen Wilson, Ventura County star
The United States has bent a dark corner in the war against coronavirus when the death toll surpassed the mark of 175,000 on Friday, for Johns Hopkins University.
Thus, deaths are among the 5.6 million cases in the United States, or about a quarter of 22.9 million cases worldwide.
The last milestone 150,000 at the end of July and before that, 100,000 at the end of May.
The United States ranks first in terms of deaths. It is followed by Brazil, Mexico, India, the United Kingdom and Italy.
The former Navy SEAL claiming to have fired at Osama bin Laden in 2011 is now back in the news for one reason: banning flying with Delta Air Lines.
Delta showed USA TODAY Friday that he had banned Robert O’Neill from long-haul flights after tweeting a photo of himself without a mask on a flight, he said he had it on his lap.
“I just got kicked out of @Delta for posting a photo. Oh, wow, ” tweeted O’Neill. It is part of an organization of about 130 other people who have been banned for the same reason.
– Jayme Deerwester
One in five nursing homes in the United States experienced a severe shortage of non-public protective devices this summer, according to a new study, which also found that many amenities in the hardest-hit spaces were suffering to retain staff.
The federal knowledge analysis published in Health Affairs magazine also revealed that there were no improvements from May to July in terms of PPE shortages or personnel problems. COVID-19 cases in the south, west and midwest are higher in this period.
Terry Fulmer, president of the John A. Hartford Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the care of the elderly, called the study’s findings a “massive red flag.”
“We didn’t have a consistent federal response,” Fulmer said. The effects come despite promises of help from the Trump administration. “The federal government deserves to take over this issue,” writer David Grabowski said.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, said Thursday that he believes the outbreak in the South is control.
“We are beginning to understand what I call the epidemic in the south of the country,” he told the editor of the JAMA newspaper on Thursday in a public interview.
He attributed face masks, social estrangement, hand washing, bar closures and food restriction inside restaurants for shift work. Although in the South, he cited Arizona as an example.
“Arizona put that on the line. Two to 4 weeks later, he sees that we can control this pandemic,” he said, noting that the outlets didn’t have to close or that other people were locking the property. “Be cautious in front of the crowd and we will be able to control this epidemic.”
However, it takes time, he noted, adding that he expects the number of deaths, which have reached 1,000 per day in weeks, to decrease next week, a month or more after the state announced the deaths. fitness measures.
– Karen Weintraub
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