One airline has banned former Navy SEAL team member from killing Osama bin Laden for endangering other passengers and equipment on the plane.
Robert O’Neill tweeted that he was forbidden to wear a mask on the plane, even though he had it on his lap. It’s one of the 130 Delta Air Lines says it has on its non-flight list.
The United States reported 175,000 deaths Friday due to the new coronavirus. But some parts of the country, in addition to the south, are undergoing improvements, said the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CDC Director Robert Redfield attributes masking and social estrangement measures to control the epidemic in the South in recent days, he told the editor of the JAMA newspaper Thursday. Redfield also said he expects the number of deaths in the U.S. due to COVID-19 to begin to decline next week.
And in more positive news: Marks from a potential vaccine candidate who oppose COVID-19 have reported counterfeit effects for an initial-level trial, it appears that the experimental compound could produce antibody levels high enough to save the disease or at least decrease severity. infection.
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? Figures today: Iowa, North Dakota, and Guam set new case records in a week, while Nevada, Tennessee and Puerto Rico recorded a record number of deaths in a week, according to a Johns Hopkins USA TODAY knowledge research through Thursday night. . Array Usa has 5.5 million infected people and more than 174,000 deaths. Worldwide, there have been more than 794,000 deaths and 22.7 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
? What We Read: A new study adds to the evidence that young people can play a more important role in the spread of COVID-19 in the network than in the past. The test found that some young people who tested positive had particularly higher levels of viruses on their airlines than adults hospitalized in intensive care units.
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A 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.
At the end of the day, the count 175.204. International death toll 796,095.
Thus, deaths are among the 5.6 million cases in the United States, or about a quarter of 22.8 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 FBI is investigating a knowledge violation that would possibly have compromised other people’s identity with the COVID-19 virus in South Dakota.
The director of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, Paul Niedringhaus, sent a letter to others who may have been affected by the June 19 violation, the Rapid City Journal reported Friday.
The letter, dated Monday, says the state’s fusion center used Netsential.com facilities to create a secure online portal this spring to help first responders identify others who tested positive for coronavirus so they can take precautions while responding to emergency calls.
The South Dakota letter indicated that state police had not yet made a call and could only call a dispatcher to check for positive cases. Netsentials, in Houston, added tags to files that may allow a third party to identify patients, according to the letter, and the violation may have compromised people’s calls, addresses, and viral status.
“This data may still be held on Internet sites that refer to Netsential fault files,” the letter reads.
– Associated Press
You can get to the blackjack table in Las Vegas, but you won’t be able to order a drink in the short term.
It will be at least two weeks before the nation’s gambling capital allows bars to reopen, on Thursday Nevada’s COVID-19 working group. The rule applies to the Las Vegas Strip, downtown, and the rest of Clark County.
The working group also imposed limits on the number of people who can eat in combination in restaurants.
Las Vegas dominance overall exceeded 1,000 COVID-19 deaths for the first time, while Nevada reported 38 more deaths from the virus on Thursday, the third day in a row that COVID deaths experienced a sharp increase in state figures.
“This is an incredible resolution, and I think we should take it very carefully,” said working group chairman Caleb Cage, pointing out the economic consequences for Las Vegas and Nevada. Casinos remain open.
The working group should work with officials on plans to strengthen compliance and implementation to stop the spread of COVID-19, Cage said.
–Ed Komenda, Reno Gazette
For those who have listened to Gov. Doug Ducey’s reports over the next month, his message on Thursday will be familiar to them.
Then the warning.
COVID-19 containment measures in Arizona are working, but it’s too early to do a “victory round,” Gov. Doug Ducey said Friday.
Your message to the people of Arizona: don’t let your guard down. The case count, from new infections to hospitalization rates, is moving in the right direction. But it’s too early for the Arizonians to let their guard down and take a “victory turn,” he said.
Others notice Arizona’s progress. Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, cited the Grand Canyon State for his efforts in an interview Thursday.
“Taking our youth into the classroom, locating those we enjoy, it’s all based on ongoing guilty behavior,” Ducey said, along with the director of the state fitness department, Dr. Cara Christ. “I urge everyone to stay on course.”
–Maria Polletta, Republic of Arizona
COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York State were reduced to 490, below 500 for the first time since March 16, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo reported Friday.
The number of coVID-19 intensive care patients fell to 119, the lowest since March 15.
This is a contrast on a few months ago, when New York was leading the country in terms of number of cases and coronavirus deaths.
Help keep hospitalizations low – a record number of tests, with 98,880 effects reported Thursday in New York State, Cuomo said. Only 0.72% of these tests were positive, remaining below 1% for the fourteenth consecutive day.
“Part of the explanation for why we were able to tame the beast in New York is due to our competitive testing strategy,” Cuomo said in a statement. “This is positive evidence that when the virus is contracted, more tests do not equate to more positive.”
CDC officials say they are encouraged through a new test that has discovered low rates of coronavirus transmission in day care centers.
According to the study, Rhode Island child care centers estimated that secondary transmission could have occurred in only 4 of the 666 systems that had been legal to reopen, over a two-week period at the end of July. With social protection and estrangement measures, such as the limited number of youth in any program, CDC officials point to the exam as a sign that more day care and schools can be reopened.
This will have to be done “from school to school, from network to network,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC. And “for schools to reopen, we want the trust of teachers.”
Daycare centres were limited to 12 young people, first and foremosted statewide, and were allowed to handle up to 20 young people. Adults should wear a mask and adults and young people were screened daily for symptoms. The installation has also undergone advanced cleaning and disinfection.
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
Long regarded as an urban treasure, food trucks are now stored in the suburbs of the coronavirus pandemic. They can no longer count on bustling urban centers, those small businesses on wheels venture where other people paint and spend most of their time: at home.
While food trucks are for consumers who came to them, they place a captive audience extremely happy to skip dinner, design new types of kitchens and mingle with neighbors in what looks like one night while staying safe close to home.
“It’s festival season, entertainment season. Everything we sometimes do as human beings, we can’t do anymore,” said Matt Geller, president of the National Food Truck Association. “Going to a food truck is a taste of normality and feels good.”
B.J. Lofback to move the truck from its place to eat and its place to eat in the Nashville domain away from Korean food that requires a lot of labor and was renamed Pinchy’s Lobster Co., which promotes lobster rolls.
Without his usual lunches and musical occasions in downtown Nashville, he and other truckers began arriving at homeowners associations in the primary subdivisions. “I hope even if a vaccine has fallen and the herd’s immunity has been received, I hope the neighborhoods still have us out,” Lofback said.
– Associated Press
Indicators of the monetary tension faced by hospitals across the country, Florida hospitals say they have collectively lost nearly $4 billion in the last 4 months due to coronavirus. Even with government funding, state hospitals said they were wasting cash due to higher staff costs, tests and other protective equipment, as well as loss of profits due to patients delaying care or canceling elective surgeries.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has financially surprised our fitness care system,” the interim president of the Florida Hospital Association, Crystal Stickle, said Friday.
The organization represents more than two hundred hospitals and has estimated projected losses up to August at $7.4 billion. The State Department of Health reported on Friday 4,684 new cases shown and 119 new deaths from the virus, hospitalizations due to COVID-19 also decreased in the following month.
– Associated Press
On Friday, the head of the U.S. Postal Service testified before the Senate as the company faced increased scrutiny by lawmakers because of operational adjustments and service cuts that they said could hinder the company’s ability to take over an expected wave of mail ballots on the November election.
President Donald Trump’s postal secretary, Louis DeJoy, declared the delays in delivering the mail Friday, but defended the changes. “We all feel bad about the decline in our service,” he told Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, who had delays in delivering prescriptions to veterans.
Despite criticism, DeJoy said adjustments had been made to the company to repair the company’s monetary suitability and called the postal service a “sacred duty” to deliver the mail in November.
Breaking with Trump, who has voiced his opposition to the vote by mail, DeJoy said that he himself had voted by mail “for several years” and supported the practice.
– Nicolas Wu
Empty mailboxes, lost rent: U.S. Postal Service issues are having a real-world effect
Annie Gaughan was alone at the time on the University of Iowa campus when she tested positive for COVID-19 and was forced to move to Currier Hall, the campus’s quarantine dormitory. While the university claims to have spent months disinfecting buildings and college residences, Gaughan said the attention gave the impression that he was missing from the room he had been given. He saw rust in the sink and dust on the mattress. The next morning, he woke up with ants in his blankets.
While looking to move home, their parents, he says, are in a high-risk category identified through the CDC. So he booked a hotel room in Naperville, Illinois, via the bus, where he went last week.
“They tell academics and parents they’re in a position for COVID, but they lied. Not so,” Gaughan wrote. “I hope the university will pass online at this stage, because it is not prepared for academics who test positive for COVID.”
– Zachary Oren Smith, Iowa City Press citizen
Pfizer and BioNTech have achieved strong effects on an initial test of a COVID-19 candidate vaccine, corporations announced Thursday night. The companies had introduced clinical trials with two candidate vaccines, publishing information on each other before this month. Both gave the impression of belonging to the small number of healthy people who won the injections.
The new data, on a compound called BNT162b2, showed that this candidate is larger than the other to provoke an immune response.
In adults under 55, BNT162b2 produced nearly 4 times more neutralizing antibodies than an herbal infection. In older adults, who are more vulnerable to a severe COVID-19 infection and have a weaker immune system, the candidate vaccine produced 1.6 times more antibodies. These higher levels of antibodies recommend that the vaccine be effective in preventing disease or at least reducing the severity of infection.
Last month, corporations introduced a test of another 30,000 people to check the effectiveness of BNT162b2, as well as protection in a larger and more varied group. Thus, they have enrolled 11,000 volunteers in the trial, according to a corporate press release, and expect to have effects from October.
– Karen Weintraub
Hawaii Governor David Ige announced this week that the state would not reopen tourism until at least October, its mandatory 14-day quarantine for out-of-state and inter-island travelers (in Kauai, Hawaii, Maui, and Kalawao counties) remains. Intact. But since then, main points have emerged about a “resort bubble concept” for island travelers.
The state calls the program an “enhanced motion quarantine” that each county can expand to give citizens and visitors the opportunity to pass between islands without a 14-day quarantine.
Officials had discussed a concept that would allow tourists to move freely around resorts while their movements are tracked by a portable monitor to ensure they remain within the boundaries of facilities. The concept of the so-called “tourist bubble” would keep tourists in a “geographical barrier” that would remain in their movements, West Hawaii Today reported.
– David Oliver
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 324 new cases of coronavirus reported across South Korea on Friday are the highest number of cases the country has noticed since March.
New instances of COVID-19 in South Korea are increasing around the Seoul metropolitan area, however, Friday’s new instances included positive testing in virtually every major city in the country. The government re-imposed some social estrangement measures earlier this week to curb the new spread.
On Friday, the eighth consecutive day South Korea reported a daily three-digit increase, for a total of 1,900 infections over 8 days.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Thursday that eligible Mississippiers can get an additional $300 per week in federal aid, but not the $100 that will be provided across states, as President Donald Trump suggests.
“We’ll use our current payment as the state’s $100 game,” he said. “We’ll see how it works in the coming weeks. I need everyone in Mississippi to know that I’m grateful to President Trump for intervening.”
Reeves said the state might simply not make an additional weekly payment of $100 according to the payee.
– Lici Beveridge, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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 against the trend of what I call the epidemic in the south of the country,” the editor of the JAMA newspaper told the editor 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 four weeks later, he sees that we can control this pandemic,” he said, emphasizing that the outlets didn’t want to close or that other people were locking the property in their homes. “Be cautious in the face of crowds 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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