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It is a horrid virus and it is getting closer to all those in the presidentâs inner circle.
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The Washington Post: Top Stories | Trump says U.S. has âmade a lot of progressâ controlling pandemic as country sets record for 26th day
Here are some significant developments:
Florida logged another daily high number of new cases. Hospitalizations in Arizona set a record. Intensive care unit capacity at the worldâs largest medical center, in Houston, was exceeded at one point in the day.
Several California municipalities dismissed requests from higher governments to forgo fireworks shows or close beach parking lots to promote social distancing, local news outlets in the state reported.
In tweets earlier in the day, Trump correctly said the number of virus deaths and the rate of those deaths are declining. He also said that âIf we didnât test so much and so successfully, we would have very few casesâ â a false statement that misleads because the rate of positive cases continues to rise in states showing a marked increase in infections.
Trump asserted in his speech at the White House that the country had âput out the flameâ of the virus. He added that progress was being made on development of a vaccine, which experts say is unlikely to be widely available until late this year or early next year at the earliest.
Public health experts warned that the virus showed little sign of slowing, partly because of people going to bars and restaurants. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said young adults make up a significant share of new infections but added that the virus will spread to others.
âItâs worse, will continue to get worse, and will take months to improve substantially,â he said on Twitter. âWe are going in the wrong direction, fast.â
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WtfâŚ
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/07/04/us/ap-us-virus-outbreak-kansas-holocaust-cartoon.html
Kansas Newspaperâs Post Equates Mask Mandate With Holocaust - The New York Times
A weekly Kansas newspaper whose publisher is a county Republican Party chairman posted a cartoon on its Facebook page likening the Democratic governorâs order requiring people to wear masks in public to the roundup and murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
The cartoon on the Anderson County Reviewâs Facebook page depicts Gov. Laura Kelly wearing a mask with a Jewish Star of David on it, next to a drawing of people being loaded onto train cars. Its caption is, âLockdown Laura says: Put on your mask ⌠and step onto the cattle car.â
The newspaper posted the cartoon on Friday, the day that Kellyâs mask order aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus took effect. Itâs drawn several hundred comments, many of them strongly critical. Dane Hicks, the paperâs owner and publisher, said in an email to The Associated Press that he plans to publish the cartoon in the newspaperâs next edition Thursday.
@anon95374541 @MissJava. Might you post this shocker in Coronavirus plz? Thx!
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Despite Rising Coronavirus Cases, Trumpâs Focus Appears To Be Elsewhere
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ âŚNow if ONLY his body would followâŚ
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Mayor of Atlanta - asymptomatic, and has Covid-19 
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Meanwhile,
Coronavirus in Florida: 10,059 new cases recorded on July 4
Sundayâs report from the Florida Department of Health showed the state received another 10,059 positive COVID-19 test results back from labs on July 4, pushing its overall total number of confirmed cases above 200,000.
The state has now had more confirmed cases than Germany, which has 83.02 million residents â more than 3.86 times Floridaâs population.
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This is really badâŚand it is the type of enormously impactful move, and huge DIVERSION.
Letâs call it one the most stupid and retaliatory moves heâs madeâŚthe problem âsinâ does not match the punishmentâŚso I think heâs doing because he is feeling VERY spiteful.
We are dealing with a childâŚtoddler move.
adding this insight -
âdoubles down on cruel actions to distract himself and others from otherâs cruel actions.â
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Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci are telling it like it isâŚand countering any notion that the pandemic is under control. Quite the contraryâŚ
âNone of us really anticipated the amount of community spread,â Birx said.
Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the Trump administrationâs coronavirus response coordinator, made an unusually candid admission in comments to a group of foreign diplomats Tuesday afternoon: She said that local and federal officials were not prepared for the kind of outbreaks spreading across the United States, which she said resulted from younger Americans feeling less inhibited.
âNone of us really anticipated the amount of community spread that began in really our 18-to-35-year-old age group,â she said in a brief appearance on an Atlantic Council panel. âThis is an age group that was so good and so disciplined through March and April. But when they saw people out and about on social media, they all went out and about.â
Separately, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nationâs top infectious disease expert, cautioned on Tuesday that it was a âfalse narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death,â something that Mr. Trump, top White House officials and several governors have stressed in recent days.
âBy allowing yourself to get infected because of risky behavior, you are part of the propagation of the outbreak,â Dr. Fauci said at an event with Senator Doug Jones, Democrat of Alabama. âThere are so many other things that are very dangerous and bad about this virus. Donât get yourself into false complacency.â
People under 40 have made up a significant portion of new cases recorded in states with recent outbreaks, a sign of how the virus has spread in bars, restaurants and offices that have reopened.
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The mask-wearing McConnell suggests that a relief bill will pass by the end of the month. Congress is off for the next two weeks however. Both sides (Râs and Dâs) are very far off in their negotiations. McConnell faces re-election soon and his posturing is showing less grim reaper and more helper.
McConnell Expects New Virus Relief Bill by End of Month
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Senate leader says U.S. needs âone last boostâ to economy
Public officials should set example on masks, McConnell says
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted Congress will pass one final coronavirus rescue package later this month and appealed to everyone in public life to urge people to wear masks to control the spread.
âThis is not over. We are seeing a resurgence in a lot of states,â McConnell said at one of three press conferences he held Monday in Kentucky. âI think the country needs one last boost.â
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McConnell said heâs âpretty sureâ that a bill will come together in the next couple of weeks. He said it will be crafted in his office with consultation from the administration and then negotiated with Democrats, who endorsed a $3.5 trillion package approved by the House in May. Senate Republicans have dismissed that plan and are discussing a package of as much as $1 trillion in total spending.Whatever the final number, McConnell said it will be harder to get the unanimous Senate support that accompanied the last bill, the $2.2 trillion Cares Act. âThe atmosphere has become a bit more political than it was in March,â he said.
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Tom Hanks gets blunt when discussing people who donât fear COVID
COVID-19 survivor Tom Hanks has a message for anyone unwilling to âdo their partâ to stop the spread of the respiratory illness.
COVID-19 survivor Tom Hanks has a message for anyone unwilling to âdo their partâ to stop the spread of the respiratory illness.
Appearing Tuesday on NBCâs âToday,â Hanks reflected on his own early bout with the coronavirus and questioned why some werenât taking the pandemic seriously. He also discussed his forthcoming World War II drama, âGreyhound,â which debuts Friday on Apple TV+.
âWe donât know whatâs going to happen with COVID-19. The idea of doing oneâs part, though, should be so simple: Wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands,â Hanks told host Hoda Kotb. âThat alone means you are contributing to the betterment of your house, your work, your town, your society as a whole. And itâs such a small thing. ⌠Itâs a mystery to me how somehow that has been wiped out of what should be ingrained in the behavior of us all.â
Though Hanks and his wife, actress Rita Wilson, were in âawfully good handsâ and not âafraidâ after testing positive for COVID-19, he didnât want to âdismissâ the severity of their symptoms. The pair became the first major stars to go public with diagnoses in March while visiting Australia for an upcoming Elvis Presley biopic starring Hanks as Presleyâs manager, Col. Tom Parker.
âWe felt rotten,â Hanks said. âI had body aches â crippling, cracking body aches. ⌠The Australian officials put us in the hospital, and they kept very strict attention on our fevers, because if they had spiked, we were going to be in trouble; our lungs, because if they had filled up or scarred we were going to be in trouble; and the levels of our oxygen.â
Although the screen icon believes the âvast majority of Americansâ understand the importance of protecting themselves and others from COVID-19, he didnât mince words when laying out the dangers some have chosen to ignore.
âLook, thereâs no law against ignorance. Itâs not illegal to have opinions that are wrong,â Hanks said. âBut there is a darkness on the edge of town here folks, and ⌠letâs not confuse the fact: Itâs killing people. ⌠Yeah, thatâs right. Itâs killing people.
âAnd you can say, âWell, traffic accidents kill an awful lot of people too.â A traffic accident happened because a lot of drivers arenât doing their part. ⌠I donât know how common sense has somehow been put in question.â
As for âGreyhound,â one of many films foregoing a theatrical release because of the public health crisis, Hanks is just happy people will have a chance to see the movie at all.
âIâm actually thrilled that Apple TV is making it possible for everybody to see it â not only worldwide, as long as you have Apple television â but also the day after my 64th birthday. ⌠Thank you very much,â he said.
âThere isnât anybody that doesnât like going to see a good movie with 800 other people and coming out with something in common. Barring that, Apple television has saved the day for us. We had a magnificent movie that was not going to be seen.â
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Televangelists, megachurches tied to Trump approved for millions in pandemic aid
Megachurches and other religious organizations with ties to vocal supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump were approved for millions of dollars in forgivable loans from a taxpayer-funded pandemic aid bailout, according to long-awaited government data released this week.
States Sue Education Department Over Allocation Of Pandemic Funds To Schools
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This is fucking infuriating. Carsyn Davis was a cancer survivor with a rare autoimmune disorder.
HER MOTHER WAS A NURSE! Her mother took her to a Church COVID party with over 100 children and treated her with hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, & oxygen at home.
She should be stripped of her license and jailed.
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More showdowns for the WH with CDC - Schools - NYC - public
Trump denounces the C.D.C. over guidelines for opening schools and threatens funding.
President Trump, openly flouting the advice of his own federal health experts, threatened to cut off federal aid to schools that refuse to fully reopen this fall.
He assailed guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that recommend a slew of costly preventive measures necessary to bring the nationâs children back to class.
In a pair of tweets on Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump ramped up pressure on state leaders to get children back in brick and mortar buildings, a crucial step to jump-starting the economy.
Mr. Trump has no control over the vast majority of school district budgets, which are raised by local property and sales taxes. And he has little control over federal funding already appropriated by Congress. But the Education Department can withhold emergency relief funding that school districts say they desperately need to fund staff, programming and the public health measures recommended by the C.D.C.segment_id=32892&user_id=2b7d479898d970bec0f899512bbc0cd5
N.Y.C. released its schools plan: Up to 3 days a week in the classroom.
Classroom attendance in New York City will be limited to only one to three days a week in an effort to continue to curb the coronavirus outbreak, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday, about four months after 1.1 million New York City children were forced into online learning.
Mr. de Blasioâs announcement of his plan for the system, the largest in the U.S., capped weeks of intense debate among elected officials, educators and public health experts.
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The new GOP battle cry of âSTOP GETTING TESTEDâ is not going over so well.
GOP State Lawmaker Demands Americans âSTOP GETTING TESTEDâ For Coronavirus
Nino Vitale railed against wearing masks and ranted about âliving in a dictatorshipâ in a Facebook post.
Trump wants tax breaks to lure baseball fans back, but incentive could misfire with attendance still barred
White House officials say tax incentives could help jumpstart travel and entertainment, but a disconnect exists as many industries remain in flux
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/08/trump-baseball-tax-breaks-coronavirus/
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