PROVIDENCE, R.I.- The death toll from coronavirus in the United States exceeded 150,000 Wednesdays worldwide, according to a Johns Hopkins University count.
The milestone comes amid signs that the nation’s outbreak is beginning to stabilize in the Sun Belt but heating up in the Midwest, fueled largely by young adults who are hitting bars, restaurants and gyms again.
Brazil’s time in the world with more than 88,000 deaths, followed by Britain with approximately 46,000 people.
Johns Hopkins estimates that the number of infections shown in the country is 4.4 million, also the highest in the world, the actual figures in the United States and around the world are higher due to the limitations of the tests and the many mild cases that have not been detected or reported.
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As global struggles for a vaccine and a remedy for covid-19, it is said that there is no antidote to the sight of the nascent epidemic of coronavirus conspiracy theories, deceptions, anti-mask myths and false remedies.
The phenomenon, which is largely found on social media, intensified this week when President Donald Trump retwed a video showing that an antimalarial drug was a cure for the virus, and revealed that Russian intelligence agencies were spreading incorrect information about the crisis in English. based websites.
Experts say the torrent of mis reports and resistance to mask use and social estrangement are dangerously undermining efforts to curb the virus.
In Missouri, Branson will want to cover his face in maximum public places, despite the objections of many, adding the yakov Smirnoff comic.
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Smirnoff, who operates a successful theater in the city of tourism, told the councillors council Tuesday night that the mask ordinance would make his followed home look more like his home, Russia, Springfield News-Leader reported.
“I’m hoping that you can make this an island of freedom and choice in the sea of hatred and fear,” Smirnoff said, drawing applause from many in the crowd.
However, the board voted 4-1 to pass the ordinance, which requires a face mask for others who are thirteen years of age and older, with a few exceptions.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson has refused to consider a masking order at the state level, however, several jurisdictions across the state have followed his.
In Florida, the Wednesday most affected, 216 deaths were reported, breaking the state day record a day earlier. Texas showed 313 more deaths, with a total of 6,190, while the death toll in South Carolina exceeded 1,500 this week, more than double in the following month. In Georgia, hospitalizations have more than doubled since July 1.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday extended a state ordinance that required covering his face in public for another month and expanded it to come with sophomores and more, with schools near the reopening.
GOVERNOR’S DEMANDS
Separately, the head of a coronavirus oversight committee in Congress demanded Wednesday that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and three other Republican governors provide documents showing how their states are fighting the pandemic.
“I am writing to ask you for data about the personal recommendation that management has provided to Tennessee and if you plan to put those recommendations into effect and take other critical steps to stop the spread of coronavirus throughout the state,” the South Carolina representative wrote. James Clyburn, Democrat and chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee.
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Similar letters were sent to Governors Brian Kemp of Georgia, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, to the subcommittee’s spokeswoman.
According to the letter, Tennessee does not comply with at least five other recommendations provided through the White House Coronavirus Task Force, ranging from the non-adoption of a statewide masking order, which allows strict restrictions to indoor restaurants and that gyms remain open limitations in counties with a large amount of viruses
A spokesman for Lee said the governor’s workplace is reviewing the letter. The Florida governor’s workplace showed the receipt of the letter but did not have an immediate reaction. There’s no immediate reaction to Kemp’s workplace.
The Republican governor of Oklahoma questioned the state’s “red zones,” a classification we decided through the White House task council, because they had created their own covid-19 threat alert card that included the white house’s “initial methodology.”
The state “has not known a county in ‘red risk’ based on its 4 criteria for controlling the effect of covid-19 on Oklahoma’s physical care system,” Stitt said. “This is the right approach, and the state will continue to deploy transparent data, monitoring and support testing, PPE [individual protection team] and more resources to count and mitigate spaces of concern.”
According to the letter sent to Stitt, Oklahoma does not adhere to five recommendations from the White House working group. According to the task group, Oklahoma is in the red zone because it had more than a hundred new instances consisting of 100 citizens last week and has a verification positivity rate of more than 10%.
In Georgia, Clyburn observed six recommendations that he said the state did not follow. The letter stated that the state had not only failed to implement a statewide masking order, but also that Kemp had filed a lawsuit against Atlanta officials to avoid a masking requirement. Kemp and Atlanta are in mediation lately.
In Florida, the state reported that it did not follow 3 of the White House’s recommendations and partially complied with 3 others. The 12-member House oversight committee, with a 7-5 Democratic majority, has the strength to subpoena Trump’s management officials and make depositions.
Tennessee American Republican Mark Green criticized Clyburn and demanded that the Democrat rescind his application.
“The White House Crown Task Group report has 21 states indexed as “in the red zone.” But for some reason, only four of those states, all with Republican governors, were the recipients of his letter,” Green said. in a prayer.
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The four states have until Aug. 12 to respond.
REAL CHALLENGES
“It’s a real challenge in terms of seeking to get the message to the public about what they can really do to protect themselves and the facts of the problem,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota. Research and politics.
He said the concern is that “people are putting the population at risk because they don’t have the virus, it’s something they have to deal with.”
Instead of fading in the face of new evidence, claims have blossomed, fueled through combined messages from officials, handed down on social media, amplified through leaders like Trump and mutated when faced with conflicting events.
Claims include those of Dr. Stella Immanuel.
“You don’t want masks. There’s a cure,” Emmanuel promised in a video that sells hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug. “You don’t want other people locked up.”
Last month, federal regulators revoked their approval of the drug as an emergency remedy amid growing evidence that it is not running and can have fatal effects. Even if this were effective, experts say it would not negate the need for a mask and other measures to involve the epidemic.
Twitter and Facebook began deleting the video Monday for violating disinformation policies on Covid-19, however, it had already been viewed more than 20 million times.
Other theories have alleged that the virus isn’t real or that it’s a bioweapon created by the U.S. or its adversaries. One claims that new 5G towers are spreading the virus through microwaves. Another popular story holds that Microsoft founder Bill Gates plans to use covid-19 vaccines to implant microchips in all 7 billion people on the planet.
Then there are the political theories: that doctors, newspapers and feds conspire to lie about the risk of the virus of political harm to Trump.
The avalanche of incorrect information posed a challenge for Facebook, Twitter and other platforms, which were found to be accused of censorship for getting rid of incorrect virus information.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was questioned about the video with Immanuel during a congressional hearing Wednesday.
“We got rid of him because he violated our policies,” Zuckerberg said.
U.S. Rep. David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat who led the hearing, responded by noting that another 20 million people had noticed the video before Facebook acted.
“Doesn’t that mean that your platform is so big, that even with the right policies, it can’t involve fatal content?” Cicillin asked Zuckerberg.
MASK RELUCTANCE
He claims that the mask is among the tenacious highs.
The sceptics of the mask are a vocal minority and have combined to create social media pages where many false statements about the protection of the mask are shared. Facebook has removed some pages, such as the Unmasking America !organization, which had only about 10,000 members, and there are still others.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the medical government itself caused a great deal of confusion about the mask. In February, officials like the U.S. surgeon general suggested americans not to buy masks because they were mandatory for the workers’ medical corps and possibly would not be effective in situations.
Public fitness officials replaced their minds when it was transparent that the virus can spread among other people without symptoms.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stated in an interview with NPR this month that the combined signals hurt.
“The message early on became confusing,” he said.
Many claims about the mask allege adverse effects, such as blocked oxygen or even a superior threat of infection. The claims were widely denied by doctors.
Dr. Maitiu O Tuathail of Ireland grew so concerned about mask misinformation that he posted an online video of himself comfortably wearing a mask while measuring his oxygen levels. The video has been viewed more than 20 million times.
“While face masks don’t lower your oxygen levels. Covid definitely does,” he warned.
Yet, trusted medical authorities are often being dismissed by those who say requiring people to wear masks is a step toward authoritarianism.
“Unless you make a stand, you will be wearing a mask for the rest of your life,” tweeted Simon Dolan, a British businessman who has sued the government over its covid-19 restrictions.
CASE REMEDY
Elsewhere, countries that had suppressed their outbreaks are helping to stimulate the relentless expansion of the global pandemic.
Japan, Israel, Lebanon and Hong Kong are among dozens of countries that have reported a record number of new instances in days, weeks after crushing the infection curve, reopening their economies, and moving forward.
And in some countries that have reduced their numbers, especially in Europe, the reopening of borders, bars and nightclubs is attributed to a slight but significant accumulation in cases.
In Belgium and Spain, the number of daily infections has reached levels not seen since early May, prompting authorities to reimpose some recently lifted restrictions.
The United States, Brazil and India are still fueling the bulk of the pandemic’s growth, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the new cases reported globally over the past week. Many other countries, including in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, have not yet reached a peak in infections, officials at the World Health Organization say.
In Australia and some other places such as Hong Kong and Israel, all of which had appeared to defeat the virus, infections are growing twice as quickly as in the United States.
A million new infections are now being reported every four days worldwide, pushing the total to nearly 17 million cases.
Meanwhile, Russia plans to register a coronavirus vaccine by Aug. 10-12, clearing the way for what its backers say would be the world’s first official approval of an inoculation against the epidemic.
The Gamaleya Institute and the Russian Direct Investment Fund vaccine is expected to get conditional registration in August, meaning it will still need to conduct trials on another 1,600 people, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said in a televised meeting of officials with President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. Production should begin in September, she said.
Information for this article was contributed by David Klepper, Kimberlee Kruesi, Jim Salter, Kim Chandler, Beatrice Dupuy, Eric Tucker and Amy Forliti of The Associated Press; by Liz Sly, Simon Denyer and Ruth Eglash of The Washington Post; and by Jake Rudnitsky and Stepan Kravchenko of Bloomberg News.