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The record for the number of new cases is being broken every few days, with infections rates in the south and west driving the surge. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 00:46 (about 10 hours ago)
Federal health officials won't revise their coronavirus guidelines for reopening schools despite criticism from President Donald Trump, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. ?Our guidelines are our guidelines,? Dr. Robert Redfield declared. In draft CDC documents obtained by The Associated Press, the agency says there are steps that schools can take to safely reopen but that it ?cannot provide one-size-fits-all criteria for opening and closing schools or changing the way schools are run.? #
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Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a virologist from Hong Kong, tells Fox News in an exclusive interview about the early research she says she conducted into COVID-19, and why she believes that research was withheld from the world. #
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Mexico is to seek the arrest and extradition from Canada of the former chief investigator in the murky disappearance of 43 students in 2014, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Friday. Tomas Zeron, who was head of the Criminal Investigation Agency, is in Canada and work is underway to extradite him, the minister said. "There is going to be no impunity, part of our function at the ministry of foreign affairs is to guarantee that, when there are cases of this nature, extradition occurs," Ebrard said. #
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Nevada governor Steve Sisolak on Thursday began to reverse the state's reopening amid a surge in coronavirus cases, ordering bars in the Las Vegas and Reno areas to close again to prevent spreading the infection.Bars that do not serve food in counties that are experiencing a spike in coronavirus cases, including Washoe and Clark counties, will be required to close indefinitely at 11:59 p.m. on Friday. Sisolak said he will release the full list of counties affected by the order on Friday. ?We know that COVID-19 can easily spread when people are congregating for long periods of time, like inside a bar,? Sisolak said. ?In states where we have seen significant spikes, such as Arizona, Texas, and Florida, they have all taken actions to roll back bars.?Sisolak also noted that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that fewer than half of bars properly observed social distancing and mask requirements.The new requirements will not prohibit indoor dining, but the governor is ?strongly encouraging? restaurants to ?promote outdoor dining as much as possible? and has set a six-person limit on parties at restaurants. Restaurants must also close their indoor bars, although there is no ban on serving alcohol.Sisolak said he made the decision to issue the mandate, which brings the counties back to Phase One of Nevada's reopening rules, after speaking with officials from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, who warned that Nevada was verging on a ?precarious condition where hospitals are overwhelmed with patients? without ?swift policy action? to stop the spread of the virus.Since bars and other businesses reopened in Nevada a month ago, the state has seen an increase in coronavirus cases, with more than 25,000 confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday. As of Wednesday, Nevada also has 935 hospitalizations from confirmed or suspected coronavirus, a higher number than the state experienced during the peak of the pandemic in April.?Across the country, we have seen far too many instances where hospital capacity appeared fine one day and then were overwhelmed the next with increased COVID-19 patients,? Sisolak said. ?We do not want this to happen here, so we will do what we must do make sure that our hospitals are able to provide the best positive care to all patients.?Several southern and western states also experienced a surge in virus cases after they reopened their economies, including Texas, where the governor ordered bars to close again last month and limited restaurant capacity. #
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio grabbed a roller Thursday to paint ?Black Lives Matter" in front of the namesake Manhattan tower of President Donald Trump, who tweeted last week that the street mural would be ?a symbol of hate.? De Blasio was flanked by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Rev. Al Sharpton as he helped paint the racial justice rallying cry in giant yellow letters on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. ?When we say ?Black Lives Matter,? there is no more American statement, there is no more patriotic statement because there is no America without Black America,? de Blasio said. #
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Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation?s top infectious disease expert, has not briefed President Donald Trump in the past two months about the coronavirus pandemic, as cases surge in parts of the US.Early on in the pandemic, the president would meet with Dr Fauci and the White House Coronavirus Task Force multiple times per week. #
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Nobody howled louder than Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick when Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner barred the state GOP from holding its convention there amid a COVID-19 explosion.?This is nothing but a political hack job by Mayor Turner,? Patrick told Laura Ingraham on Fox News.Patrick failed to mention that he and Gov. Greg Abbott and various other GOP elected officials had earlier opted out of actually joining the 6,000 party stalwarts who signed up for the July 16th gathering at the George R. Brown Convention center. They had instead planned to address the gathering via video.?All the elected officials are switching from a live, in-person speech to videos,? state GOP executive director Kyle Whatley said during a virtual town hall on Tuesday night. ?They?re doing that for us in order to focus all the attention on the business of the meeting and to get everybody in and out of here as quickly and as safely as possible.? Surely, virtual appearances would require as much attention as live. But video might in fact prompt everybody to leave quicker. Each virtual speech would carry the unstated message that the official was leery of actually being there. And those who did attend would be left with the question, ?Then what the heck am I doing here??Even such big and bright stars of the Texas conservative firmament as Rep. Dan Crenshaw approved of the mayor?s decision.?A prudent move for public health,? Crenshaw said.Patrick had already made a prudent move for his own health when he opted to go virtual. He nonetheless denounced Turner?s push for the entire GOP convention to go online, as the state Democratic convention already had with no difficulties and zero infections.Turner should have moved last month to stop the insanity of a large indoor gathering as COVID-19 continued to spike. The virus then became what he termed ?out of control.? He was reportedly further spurred into action when one of his sisters reminded him that the convention would also endanger hotel workers such as their mother, who had long been at the city?s Rice Hotel. He did not have to be told that your basic Texas Republican is not likely to worry about endangering a maid by failing to wear a mask in a hotel.Of course, scientific fact and common sense have not stopped the GOP from filing suit to stop the mayor from stopping their convention. Turner noted to the press that Harris County District Court is holding much of its business on Zoom.?It?s ironic they?re going to the courthouse, that in many cases is hearing and seeing cases virtually, to ask them to agree to allow 6,000 people to meet in person,? Turner said.In fact, the entire Texas court system went largely virtual in late March. Courthouse News reported Texas held more than 8,500 virtual proceedings with 113,000 participants in the first months. Not even emergency matters were held in person. ?Obviously even that would put participants at risk,? a spokesman for the Texas Office of Court Administration was quoted saying.District Court Judge Larry Weiman denied the GOP?s application. The GOP said that was only what it expected from such a liberal court and appealed to the Supreme Court of Texas.Who Are You Going to Trust?Dr. Fauci or Texas? Joke of a Lieutenant Governor?The state?s top court had also gone virtual, with oral arguments available for public viewing on YouTube. The GOP was now asking the nine justices to intercede and allow it to go ahead with an all too actual gathering. Never mind that the convention?s own organizers implicitly recognized it as so risky that the state's two top Republican officials were appearing only on video. A spokesman for the state Supreme Court said the justices had asked for a response from the city of Houston and from the Houston First Corporation, which operates the convention arena. The city?s response is due by 5 p.m. Saturday.?Too early to know whether oral arguments might be held,? the spokesman told The Daily Beast . ?If yes, would be on Zoom.?If it goes to oral arguments, anybody who so desires will be able to go on YouTube and witness irony that has become quite literally supreme. Maybe if the state Supreme Court finds in favor of the mayor, Patrick and his GOP crew will dare to appear live on Zoom. Either way, two words come back that Ingraham uttered when interviewing Patrick. They started out talking about reopening the schools. And Ingraham remarked that a teachers? union was holding a webinar.?How brave,? she said.The interview proceeded on to Turner?s decision to block the Texas state GOP convention. ?He didn?t say a word when 60,000 people protested in the streets of Houston,? Patrick said. ?Many of these people [are] now in the hospitals that are causing the spike.?Where most major cities that had protests have found little if any accompanying risk in infections, health officials in Harris County, which encompasses Houston, have discerned what seems to be a resulting uptick. But they are quick to add that the biggest factor was, in the words of Harris County Public Health Director Dr. Umair Shah, ?People interpreting reopening as back to normal.?And the experts agree that the risk is considerably heightened when people gather indoors. That would include the in-person convention where Patrick himself bravely planned to appear only from the safety of a screen. Apparently for him it?s only an afterthought that those at risk on the front lines of COVID include the people who clean the hospitals, hotels, transportation facilities, and gathering places such as the one where he wants to pack thousands. ?If People Die, People Die?: Texas COVID Hot Spots Keep Getting WorseRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more. #
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As the coronavirus crisis hits a new peak, Miami-Dade is preparing to scale back one of its most expensive and ambitious programs to protect residents from the virus and isolation: a $70 million delivery operation that dropped off more than 8 million meals to the homes of elderly residents. #
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Trump's reelection campaign, once expected to be a juggernaut, is adrift as it faces unexpected challenges unique to this extraordinary election year. #