Amid promises this week from the president and pharmaceutical corporations that there could be a COVID-19 vaccine in a few months, the head of the World Health Organization said Friday that the company would not present any vaccine until after it ‘is not proven and effective.
A WHO spokesman told Reuters on Friday that the company expects widespread vaccination opposed to COVID-19 until mid-next year.
Meanwhile, two-thirds of the US electorate has been able to do so. But it’s not the first time They say they would possibly not retire to get a coronavirus vaccine as soon as it becomes available and one in 4 says they will never need to get it again, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk Survey.
And this Labor Day weekend, fitness experts worry about meetings of all sizes that can cause a wave of coronavirus.With predicted three-digit temperatures in California, beaches are expected to be crowded.Families and friends will gather for barbecues across the country.And, in South Dakota, the annual state fair will bring together thousands of other people to enjoy cotton candy and walks.
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? Today’s figures: The United States has 6.1 million cases shown and more than 186,000 deaths, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there are 26 million cases and more than 869,000 people have died. New case registries have been established in Montana. , North Dakota and West Virginia, according to a USA TODAY investigation into Johns Hopkins knowledge. A record number of deaths have been reported in Arkansas.
? What we’re reading: The coronavirus pandemic and social disturbances have a higher demand for color therapists.”COVID has explicitly explained some of the desires that communities of color have faced: unemployment, fitness conditions, lack of insurance, lack of intellectual fitness policies,” said Lucy Takagi, clinical specialist at Montclair State University.
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Several months after the coronavirus, Google is turning Friday into a paid “collective welfare” holiday and encouraging workers to take advantage of a four-day holiday weekend, according to workers at CNBC and Google.
Google did not respond to a request for comment.
The company announced in July that painters would continue to paint from home through the summer of 2021.
Thousands of African-Americans and Hispanic Americans may be included in the nation’s census this year because of the coronavirus pandemic and other interruptions that have discouraged families in poor neighborhoods and much of the minority from completing their forms.
In 63% of census spaces, fewer other people provided initial responses this year than in 2010, according to an analysis by USA TODAY. or low degrees of broadband Internet access.
People of color and handicapped families are underrated in every census, but COVID-19 delayed the delivery of census questionnaires for hard-hitting populations in the spring quarantine and has delayed operations ever since to be successful in families who they did not. answer.
– Theresa Diffendal
The U.S. economy has been in the middle of a nuclear economy. But it’s not the first time He added 1.4 million jobs in August as companies closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and continued to reopen and bring workers back, without counteracting a new wave of layoffs that have depleted their federal loans.
Unemployment fell sharply to 8.4% since 10.2% in July, the Ministry of Labour announced Friday.
August’s payroll rose healthily, but marks the back-to-back time for a monthly slowdown in hiring after employers added a record 4.8 million jobs in June and 1.8 million in July.22 million jobs lost in early spring when states close non-essential businesses such as restaurants, grocery stores and movie theaters.
– Paul Davidson
At least 7,000 natural people around the world have died after contracting COVID-19, the human rights organization Amnesty International said on Thursday.
“For more than seven thousand people who die seeking to save others, it is a crisis of astonishing magnitude.All fitness employees have the right to be at work, and it’s a scandal that so many others are paying the maximum price,” Steve CockburnArray, Amnesty International’s Head of Economic and Social Justice, he said in a statement.
At least 1,320 fitness personnel are shown to have died in Mexico alone, the figure known in any country, the organization said. The United States recorded the number of fitness personnel deaths at the time, Amnesty International said, with more than 1,000 deaths.
More than 410,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 until January 1, in a style cited through senior fitness and once used in the White House.
The Institute of Health Metrics and Assessment at the University of Washington School of Medicine predicts that this number may exceed 620,000 if the use of masks is maintained at existing rates and governments continue with social estating requirements.ended the year in the worst possible situation, with a “most likely” situation of 2.8 million.
Daily deaths in December can be successful at 30,000.
“Looking at the astonishing coVID-19 estimates, it’s easy to get lost in the enormity of numbers,” said IHME Director Dr Christopher Murray.”The death toll exceeds the capacity of the world’s 50 largest stadiums, a symbol that gives us a pause to get an idea of who has lost their lives and livelihoods.”
Murray said the numbers could save more lives if mask wear were near universal and governments implemented social distancing requirements.
Two-thirds of the US electorate But it’s not the first time They say they may not be retiring to receive a coronavirus vaccine as soon as it becomes available and one in 4 says they will never need to receive it again, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk ballot published the same week when the number of COVID-19 instances exceeded 6 million.
The 1,000-vote vote follows similar votes last month showing that up to a third of Americans would reject a vaccine, fueled by mistrust in the Trump administration’s willingness to push its development, as well as in a significant part of the country. who opposes immunizations of any kind.
– Sarah Elbeshbishi and Ledyard King
Officer Down Memorial Page, a nonprofit organization committed to honoring fallen officials, reports that more than a hundred law enforcement officials have died from COVID-19.Deaths of service line officials in 2020 already exceeded the 2019 total, when vehicle gunfire and collisions accounted for two-thirds of the 147 deaths recorded through the Officer Down Memorial group.
Officers were thought to be an essential staff during the pandemic, which was ruthless to prison officers. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has had only at least 16 deaths shown in the line of duty as a result of COVID-19.
“At the end of this pandemic, it is highly likely that COVID will overtake 9/11 as the leading cause of death incidents for law enforcement officers,” said spokeswoman Jessica Rushing.
– John Bacon
South Dakota is one of the country’s hot spots for COVID-19 infections, which has not led to a large-scale opportunity since it began on Thursday.
The South Dakota State Rural Fair, which recorded an attendance of 205,000 people last year, will be positioned during Labor Day with more handwashing stations, social estating reminders and encouragement, although not a legal responsibility, for participants to wear masks.Follow the two most important occasions in the state: the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Sioux Empire Fair.
In the weeks following those events, South Dakota became a virus hotbed, according to knowledge analysis.State and country fitness experts say that sometimes accumulation is likely due to a combination of factors, such as the reopening of schools, small meetings, and primary events.
– Joel Shannon
President Donald Trump brushed off questions about his own physical care and mocked his Democratic opponent for donning a mask at a free rally Thursday in Pennsylvania, amid polls indicating an increasingly tight race.
For a moment, Trump brushed off questions about an unscheduled event he asked Walter Reed Medical Center in November, ignoring a report about it as a fabricated conspiracy through critics. At the same time, Trump raised unfounded questions about Joe Biden’s own physical condition and criticized his dress with a mask.
“They need verification to make me physically compatible with Biden,” Trump said at a rally in an airport hangar outside Pittsburgh.”I don’t like rumors like that. That’s not true.”
Trump was responding to a new e-book that claimed Vice President Mike Pence had been “on hold” to regain the powers of the presidency on Trump’s November vacation from Walter Reed. The White House said Trump visited as part of his annual physical.
– John Fritze and David Jackson
As millions of academics begin the semester online, several schools have resented contracts with an e-learning company after receiving reports that some classes had racist and sexually suggestive content.
The examples posted online through activists and displayed through Acellus, a Kansas City-based learning company that contracts with some 6,000 schools, come with suggestive language such as “warm lips” and a moot representation in a lesson. about Harriet Tubman.
At least 4 elementary schools in Hawaii were among the first to cancel contracts. In August, parents and network members posted photos and videos on social media and an online petition, claiming they appeared as examples of troubling content.
Aliamanu Elementary School at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam will eliminate Acellus after reports of “inappropriate and racist content” covering subjects and grade levels, Principal Sandra Yoshimi wrote in a letter to families.
– Elinor Aspegren
California’s occupational protection regulator has directed the San Quentin Prison Dental Clinic to avoid drilling and other paints due to harmful COVID-19 practices.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health said they were in danger of infection and banned dental care that sprays drops from the patient’s mouth until the criminal can meet a list of protective conditions, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The San Francisco Bay Area Jail is the California jail most affected by the coronavirus: more than 2,200 inmates, approximately two-thirds of the criminal population, were infected, as well as almost three hundred employees, twenty-six inmates, adding several. on death row – died of known or suspected infections.
New Zealand is extending its coronavirus cap until at least mid-September, Prime Minister Jacinda Arden announced on Friday. Authorities continue to impose face masks on public transport and limit giant gatherings across the country after the city of Auckland held an epidemic last month.
On Friday, the country reported five new COVID-19 infections.Three cases were similar to the Auckland outbreak, while the other two were returning travelers and quarantined.
California is making “a lot of progress” toward reopening Disneyland and theme parks, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday.
Still, Newsom told a news conference, “we still have work to do” to identify the rules that would allow the parks to reopen for the first time since they closed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’re still working on some details,” he said, giving details.
State officials have legal reopening of theme parks due to an increase in instances of coronavirus. California has more instances than any other state, and as of Thursday, they had nearly 707,800 instances, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. it also posted the highest number of new instances last week, with more than 34,700 reported.
– Curtis Tate
Contributor: Jorge Ortiz, USA TODAY; The Associated Press