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The number of lives lost by the virus reaches one million, and new hot spots continue to appear. The United States, Brazil, India and Mexico account for more than part of the total.
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White House chief of staff Mark Meadows rejected reports that he emphasized that the Food and Drug Administration applied new and stricter rules that the company was preparing for emergency approval of coronavirus vaccines.
“Why would we do that?” Margaret Brennan in CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
Meadows said he was interested in rules only as a matter of quality: “My challenge to the F. D. A. it’s just making sure it’s based on clinical knowledge and real figures. “
The new rules in progress would identify more express criteria for clinical trial knowledge than existing rules, and propose that knowledge be audited through an independent panel of experts before the FDA authorizes any vaccine, according to several other people familiar with a project.
President Trump reported Wednesday that the new rules were a “political decision” and that the White House would not approve them.
That same day, Meadows called Stephen Hahn, the F. D. A. commissioner, and insisted that the company provide a detailed justification for the new direction, according to a Washington Post report.
Brennan asked why the White House would have compatibility with the F. D. A. process, raising considerations about political interference. “We have to make sure it’s safe,” Meadows responded. “We make sure that the recommendation we give is not an impediment to a quick exit, but neither is” take nothing away. “
In the end, he added, FDA guidelines indicate that everyone who gets the vaccine “can do so with some kind of assurance that the procedure is being developed correctly. “
Meadows’ reasoning echoed that of Michael Caputo, a former spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, when he responded to reports two weeks ago that he and one of his assistants had pressured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for their weekly publication. evidence of the disease.
The assistant “publicizes his position, and his position is not popular with career scientists,” Caputo told The Times on September 12, a day before making implausible statements against CDC scientists in an online video and a few days before continuing in poor health. “It’s called science. Disagreement is a science. “
Also in “Face the Nation,” Scott Gottlieb, who was commissioned by the FDA from May 2017 to April 2019, stated that the expected rules did not constitute “a review of firm criteria or any kind of top bar,” but a articulation of principles and criteria that the FDA has long been in use and communicates frankly with corporations developing vaccines.
Dr. Gottlieb, a physician who is now a board member of Pfizer, one of the corporations that is rushing to expand a coronavirus vaccine, said he believed there was broad consensus that guidelines, as discussed publicly, “were more commonly in line with everyone’s expectations. “
He said he would have the FDA issue the rules “because they would ensure greater transparency,” but in any case, “I think it will be the principles that will govern this process. “
The Florida Education Commissioner has demanded that the Miami-Dade formula abandon its plan to delay face-to-face training and open its doors to academics until next Monday.
“I am writing to you today with serious considerations about the recent vote of the Miami-Dade County School Board to revoke parents’ ability in physical schools to raise their children,” Commissioner Richard Corcoran said in a letter sent over the weekend.
The letter, addressed to the principal of the schools, Alberto M. Carvalho, and school board chairwoman Perla Tabares Hantman, is the latest outbreak among state officials and local school districts of the pandemic.
Florida has been greatly affected by the virus, but state officials eager to reopen the economy have been pushing for instructions in person. Some districts have hesitated to pass too quickly.
Commissioner Corcoran’s letter follows a unanimous vote through the Miami-Dade School Board to hold face-to-face training after a 29-hour virtual assembly in which many others intervened in the public commentary.
The board-approved plan requires a slow onset of face-to-face learning starting October 14. The full reopening was postponed until October 21 for all students wishing to attend in person.
Miami-Dade, the fourth largest school formula in the country, has 345,000 students, who have already started virtual learning and there has been a lively debate about when they will return to school.
Many teachers say it is unsafe, and when teachers’ unions sued Gov. Ron DeSantis and Commissioner Corcoran for the state’s attempt to force the opening of schools, a trial was issued in their favor.
On Sunday, Miami-Dade teachers’ union president Karla Hernandez-Mats defied the state’s tactics.
“It turns out that the basic essence of local control, which is to allow communities to do what is of interest to their citizens, only applies if local leadership is consistent with the non-public political agendas of Governor DeSantis and Commissioner Corcoran. “she said.
As the world moves towards some other morbid threshold in the pandemic, a number of deaths of one million coronavirus deaths, countries with the fastest increase in deaths remain scattered around the world, with new emerging hot spots.
The number of daily lives lost by the virus was higher during the peak of August and September, reaching an average of more than 5,000 in seven days. As of Monday morning, the overall total of 997,300, according to a New York Times database.
On Sunday, India, the world’s most populous country after China, continued to lead the death toll from the virus, with around 7,700 deaths in the beyond seven days. The United States is the time with more than 5,000, Brazil in third place with more than 4,800 and Mexico in fourth place with almost 3,000. These 4 countries account for more than part of the total number of virus deaths worldwide, according to the Times database.
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