On the day the United States reported the number of COVID-19-related deaths since May, elected leaders guilty of providing financial assistance to the country showed how far they were from doing so.
A bipartisan agreement for a new stimulus plan for the coronavirus gave the impression of a desperate failure on Thursday, with Democrats in Congress blaming Republicans, Republicans blaming Democrats and President Donald Trump suggesting the talks are doomed to failure.
A Report from the Department of Labor released Thursday on new applications for unemployment reflected the combination of virus data, with 963,000 new unemployment programs introduced. It is the lowest in months, but was thought to be a giant number before the recession caused by the virus.
The most recent daily death toll in the United States is 1,499, bringing the nation’s total above 166,000, Johns Hopkins’ briefing panel reported Thursday, when the United States exceeded 5.2 million cases shown. Iowa reported its case number 50,000 and Illinois exceeded 200,000 cases.
Meanwhile, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warns of a fatal fall if Americans do not adhere strictly to individual guidelines.
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? Figures today: Worldwide, there have been 750,000 deaths and more than 20.6 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
? What We Read: Critics that the economic recession will give public university donors more influence to quietly influence programs, hiring, and scholarships.
Parties negotiating a bill to alleviate the devastation of the coronavirus agree at one point: they are in a dead end.
“I need you to see the magnitude of our differences,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said at a news convention Thursday. He pointed to a giant blue poster detailing the big gap between what Republicans and Democrats must pay for priorities. “It’s not unexpected that we have a big difference because this administration, other Republicans in Congress, has never understood the gravity of this situation.”
On the other side of the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, condemned Democrats for clinging to a “completely unreal far-left proposal” and keeping negotiations as “hostages” over “COVID-like ideological problems.”
– Michael Collins, Christal Hayes and Nicholas Wu
At the same time it attacks the vote by mail and opposes the investment of the U.S. Postal Service. To manage a planned building in such votes amid the pandemic this fall, President Donald Trump has called for a mail-in vote in Palm Beach County. for this. number one of the month.
The application for him and the first Melania Trump came Wednesday, according to the Palm Beach County elections website. The next day, Trump told Fox Business Network that withholding cash from the U.S. Postal Service, sought through Democrats in a blocked aid program in Congress, would prevent mail-in voting, which he favors. Trump claimed without evidence that mail voting would lead to widespread voter fraud.
– Hannah Morse, Palm Beach Post
In addition to killing more than 166,000 Americans, the coronavirus pandemic has a significant adverse effect on much of the country’s intellectual state, according to a new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
More than 40% of respondents who responded to the polls in June reported on an adverse intellectual or behavioral fitness problem, and 11% said they had seriously committed suicide in the past 30 years. They examine well-known youth, racial and ethnic minorities, must-have staff, and adult caregivers. as more at risk.
– Alia E. Dastagir
The New Jersey electorate will vote this fall basically by mail to check and stop the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Friday. It would be the third vote by mail since the pandemic hit the state in March, but the November contest may pose more demanding situations because President Donald Trump refuses to provide more investment to the U.S. Postal Service. For an expected increase in the number of votes. . Training
Dustin Racioppi and Charles Stile, Bergen Record
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 killed approximately 50 million people worldwide, but in some tactics the COVID-19 pandemic worsened, according to a study published Thursday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.
The existing pandemic has been linked to less than one million deaths. But it compares the two months after the first recorded death of COVID-19 in New York, the epicenter of the U.S. epidemic for weeks, to the deadliest two months of the 1918 calamity.
“These are comparable occasions in terms of magnitude,” said Dr. Jeremy Faust, emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and lead author of the study. “What our numbers show is that what happened in New York was quite similar to what happened with the biggest fashion pandemic.”
– Jorge L. Ortiz
Florida’s formula for reporting COVID-19 cases, which is already a source of skepticism from past mistakes, exacerbated the crisis of confidence when state fitness officials said Wednesday that some or so 8,000 new cases in the daily update come from tests conducted for so long. like seven weeks ago.
By blaming a Miami lab for spilling more than 4,000 positive tests in one day, the Florida Department of Health tweeted that the effects were “false,” especially in Miami-Dade County. Some of the tests were conducted since June 23, he said. This progression has led to accusations by those who claim that the state deliberately underestimates the positive effects of shielding the economy.
– Jane Musgrave, Palm Beach Post
More than 1,600 academics and staff are quarantined this week as cases continue to rise in Georgia, a state that has been criticized for its combined signals about the coronavirus pandemic.
Among the latest states that have instituted an on-site shelter ordinance and the first to reopen business, Georgia is now experiencing an increasing number of COVID-19-related deaths. The state reported 136 deaths on Tuesday, its highest number on a non-married day since the pandemic began, and another 109 deaths on Wednesday, according to the state fitness ministry.
“Georgia is an example of what happens when leaders adopt a practical technique for managing a pandemic,” said Dr. Harry Heiman, a professor at georgia State University’s School of Public Health.
– Grace Hauck
But time will tell whether this fun will ensure the protection of academics as well as visitors and hotel staff, or result in continuous headaches accompanying others who gather in larger groups.
Graduate Hotels owns 23 boutique hotels near universities in the United States and “seeks to create as general delight as you can imagine during a very general period,” said David Rochefort, president of Graduate Hotels. “We’re here just to offer a very viable option to parents and students returning this fall.”
– David Oliver
Indiana schools reopened prematurely, officially on July 1, and can serve as an indicator of what other states can expect when students return to in-person learning. Early effects raise questions about whether this can be done safely.
The Indianapolis Star has traced the number of school-related cases since its reopening and uncovered more than a hundred cases in dozens of Indiana school buildings. The state is in the process of creating a mechanism to monitor and report school-related cases, but has not yet made this data public. Public fitness officials have said they are doing so.
Arika Herron and MJ Slaby, Star of Indianapolis
Blacks and Latinos are 4 times more likely than whites to be hospitalized for COVID-19, and blacks are twice as likely as whites to die from the virus, according to a report published Thursday through the National Urban League.
These fitness scores stem from the fact that other people of color have a tendency to live in more overcrowded housing, making it less difficult to transmit the respiratory virus, and that other people of color are less likely to sit in the paintings in their home, according to the league’s annual report titled “State of Unmasked Black America.”
“This is a crisis,” said Marc Morial, executive director of the National Urban League. “Those with less for doctors and hospitals will be diagnosed much later. When diagnosed much later, they are more likely to be hospitalized, they are more likely to die.”
– Bart Jansen
Detroit-based Henry Ford Health Care System has implemented and been denied permission to continue treating COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug promoted through President Donald Trump whose emergency clearance has been revoked through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Studies have shown that the drug is useless in the treatment of patients inflamed with coronavirus and potentially harmful to those with the central disease.
The application came four days after Henry Ford’s formula published a controversial study in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases reporting that hydroxychloroquine had halved the COVID-19 mortality rate. The peer-reviewed observation examination contradicted other published reports and is described as “defective” through Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading expert on infectious diseases. The FDA rejected the application this week.
– Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press
A day after the reopening of in-person learning schools in Martin County, Florida, an elegance at SeaWind Elementary School was sent home after a student developed COVID-19 symptoms, district officials confirmed. The nine academics in the hall of elegance will have to be quarantined for 14 days, Jennifer DeShazo district spokeswoman said. The other academics were already enrolled in distance education.
The instructor, an essential employee, can return to elegance to bring live elegance, but will stay away from others, DeShazo said. The instructor will have to stay at home and quarantine himself if symptoms begin, he said.
– Sommer Brugal, Treasure Coast Newspapers
Americans will have to wear masks, distance themselves socially, wash their hands, and avoid crowds in the coming months to avoid an avalanche of illnesses and deaths, said Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I’m not asking some Americans to do that. We all have to do it,” Redfield told WebMD. “Or it may simply be the worst drop in public fitness ever.
Redfield also said the flu vaccine would be to prevent hospitals from being hit with cases of influenza and COVID-19. He said he expects a COVID-19 vaccine until the end of the year, but did not detail how temporarily it could be widely distributed and curb what he described as “the biggest public fitness crisis that has hit this country in a century.”
“We weren’t prepared, ” he said. “We owe it to our young people and grandchildren that this country will never come back unprepared.”
He is accused of beating an American Airlines boarding agent after being denied boarding Wednesday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport for refusing to wear a mask.
The woman was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 2027 from Los Angeles, which she planned to board in Las Vegas. After refusing to wear a mask on the first flight, team members reported that their itinerary denied service in accordance with U.S. masking policy.
Phoenix Police Sergeant. Mercedes Fortune, in an email statement, said the victim told police that “the suspect hit him with his hand in the face.” Fortune said authorities arrested Yolanda Yarbrough, 47, for assault.
– Melissa Yeager, Republic of Arizona
Some 963,000 more people have been implemented for unemployment, a rough measure of layoffs, the Ministry of Labour said Thursday. This is the first time weekly claims have fallen below 1 million in months. But the newer program still means that nearly 56 million Americans have implemented unemployment assistance in just over five months.
The report comes when unemployed Americans are fine without the $600 in additional weekly federal benefits that started the pandemic and ended the last day of July. Unemployment fell to 10.2% in July since 11.1% in June, but the economic recovery has been uneven, with re-treatments on the rise in some industries and stagnant in others.
– Charisse Jones
While the coronavirus pandemic still affects local communities, teachers are forced to think of much more than their lesson plans— their own mortality. Teachers across the country are writing their wills as part of preparing for the new school year. Some march to cemeteries in protest. Others invite officials to their next funeral services.
“There’s a massive increase, like a thousand percent,” said Teddy Rivera, a teacher’s union attorney in Jacksonville, Florida. “Literally, all I do now are wills, wills, wills.”
– Emily Bloch, Florida Times-Union
A Rhode Island guy sentenced in 2017 to 15 years for conspiring to behead a conservative blogger and other terrorist activities on behalf of the Islamic State is released on parole early due to the threat of coronavirus exposure at a federal in Danbury, Connecticut.
Judge William G. Young reviewed Nicholas Rovinski’s sentence on time and 10 years of supervised release. Rovinski’s lawyer, William Fick, said 29-year-old Rovinski “medically vulnerable” due to cerebral palsy, cognitive limitations, high blood pressure and depression.
– Tom Mooney, Providence Journal
The first known network outbreak in New Zealand in more than 3 months increased to 17 cases on Thursday. Health officials are still running to hint at the origin of the virus and the blockade imposed in Auckland may be extended. Before the cluster was detected this week, no cases of local transmission had been reported in New Zealand within 102 days. All of his other cases were quarantined travelers after arriving from abroad.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned that Auckland’s cluster “gets worse before it gets better.”
The United Nations estimates that 43% of schools worldwide do not have access to water and soap for hand washing. The new report is presented as countries on when and how to open safe schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization and UNICEF report indicates that more than a third of the world’s 818 million young people who did not have basic hand-washing services in their schools last year are in sub-Saharan Africa.
“We want to prioritize children’s learning,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
Florida will begin offering coronavirus controls for Disney World cast members this week, ending a nearly two-month dispute with a union representing the park’s actors. According to Disney, the verification site will be controlled through the Florida Emergency Management Division and will be located on Disney’s property, but not in the park. Checks will be given to Disney workers and visitors, as well as Florida residents.
According to Kate Shindle, chairwoman of the Actors’ Equity Association, the union signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Disney to allow many actors to return to work. The union began lobbying Disney World to offer evidence to its members last June, before the park reopened in July.
– Curtis Tate
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