On Sunday, Congressional leaders and White House officials discussed the main points of a proposed $1 trillion package, with stimulus checks, unemployment benefits, and small business relief.
All parties agree that progress has been made in the talks on Saturday, but on Sunday no one spoke about an upcoming agreement. Among the main hotspots: this will update a weekly supplement of $600 in unemployment to gain advantages that expired last week. This premium more than doubled unemployment checks for tens of millions of unemployed Americans after months of recession caused by the pandemic.
“We have to balance,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday in ABC’s “This Week.” “Obviously there is a need for workers, of the economy. Matrix… On the other hand, we must be careful not to go into debt too much.”
Texas, one of several states that set death records in a week. One doctor regretted that he waged “an opposing war to COVID and a war opposed to stupidity.” South Dakota is not discouraged, it is preparing to receive 250,000 riders for the 10-day Sturgis motorcycle rally that begins on Friday.
Here are some developments:
Figures Figures today: The United States has recorded approximately 155,000 deaths and more than 4.6 million instances of COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. Globally, there have been more than 685,000 deaths and only about 18 million cases.
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More and more professional baseball and football players have chosen not to participate in their 2020 season due to the pandemic. On Sunday afternoon, New York Mets outfielder Yoenis Céspedes did not show up for a Sunday afternoon game. The team then announced that it had surrendered for the season. “We will make it in this decision,” New York Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen told reporters after the game. “It was amazing, no doubt.”
On Saturday, veteran New England Patriots ended with Matt LaCosse, the eighth player on the team to retire for the season. The Patriots had the biggest rotation in the NFL.
In school football, a Pac-12 athletes’ organization aired on a Sunday threatening to retire from the 2020 season. They said they were asked to play without “applied standards of fitness and protection, and without transparency about COVID instances in our equipment, the dangers to us, our families and our communities.”
Millions of unemployed Americans are in limbo without the accumulation of $600 now overdue in weekly unemployment benefits provided by the federal government. As lawmakers negotiate the next stimulus package, unemployment demands remain traditionally high and checks have fallen. Thomas Darnell, 48, of West Point, Mississippi, can raise a maximum of $235 according to his state’s week. He and his wife have diabetes and do not have fitness insurance.
“If we lose that extra money, it’ll be to survive,” Darnell said. “Do we buy insulin or groceries? It’s a difficult environment of juggling.”
– Jessica Menton
South Dakota will welcome more than 250,000 riders when the 80th edition of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally begins on Friday. The 10-day event, which may be the largest collection in the United States since the start of the pandemic, will offer local businesses the chance to compensate for coronavirus losses. In a survey of 7,000 Sturgis citizens, more than 60% said the merger would be postponed. Businesses are inspired to inspire social estrangement and other rules for tackling the pandemic. Many citizens say this is not enough.
“It’s a huge and stupid mistake to host this year’s demonstration,” Sturgis resident Lynelle Chapman told the councillors in June. “The Sturgis government will have to be at most concerned about its citizens.”
Payment Check Protection Program funds that helped restaurants succeed over the initial pandemic outbreak more often, leaving many restaurants in the same precarious position they were at the start of the epidemic. As Congress and the White House compete for the proposed new stimulus package, many restaurants are failing or on the brink. Before the epidemic, the Department of Labor had 12 million employees in restaurants and bars. By April, employment in restaurants and bars of all sizes had been almost halved.
John Pepper used a PPP loan to pay workers at some of his Massachusetts restaurants. But the cash disappeared and its 125 fell to 50. “At the moment, I don’t see all my payroll back,” he says.
The White House and Congressional Democrats blamed another Sunday for the stalemate in the deliberations on a new stimulus package to combat the effects of coronavirus. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, blamed the stalemate in the deliberations on President Donald Trump and Republican leaders.
“Talk to President Trump. He’s the one who opposes that,” Pelosi said on ABC’s “This Week” about the expiration of weekly federal unemployment benefits. “We were for the $600, they have a $200 proposal, which does not meet the wishes of American families.”
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who appeared on the same TV show, insisted before a recurring Republican party that the $600 weekly unemployment benefit bonus, paid in addition to government bills on average less than $400 per week, has created discouragement on returning to work.
Savannah Behrmann
The United States is in a new, much more widespread phase of its coronavirus combat than when the pandemic first hit the country in the spring, the coordinator of the White House Working Group on Coronavirus on Sunday said. Dr. Deborah Birx, speaking about CNN’s “State of the Union,” warned that rural America deserves not to feel immune to the virus, which has so far been more damaging in urban areas. She said the death toll in the country, which some experts say can double to more than 300,000, depends on how mitigation efforts in the southern and western states.
“It’s incredibly Array,” Birx said. “This epidemic right now is another and more rural and urban.”
Florida reported fewer than 7,200 new cases of coronavirus and 62 deaths on Sunday, both figures decreased particularly than in recent days. The effect on the state closure of many verification sites and the arrangements for Tropical Storm Isaias in the reports was unclear. The state has averaged more than 9,000 new instances consistent with the day in recent weeks. Florida also reported more than a hundred deaths over several days last week, adding 257 deaths on Friday. However, daily death totals do not reflect the exact number of deaths that day, but rather the number of recorded and reported deaths.
Three states set weekly records for new instances, while 8 states had a record number of deaths in a week, a USA TODAY investigation of Johns Hopkins’ knowledge until last Saturday. New case records have been established in Alaska, Hawaii and Tennessee, as well as in Puerto Rico. A record number of deaths have been reported in Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina and Texas.
Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis lobbied for classroom features as schools begin opening next week, reached a new record with 1,245 deaths despite a break in the reported number on Sunday.
Mike Stucka
Texas, which is suffering from an increase in coronavirus cases, set a state death record in a week with 1875. At least one of the state’s most sensitive doctors is disappointed by the public’s refusal to wear masks, practice social estrangement, and sign up for war. to end the pandemic.
“I’m fighting in almost two wars,” Dr. Joseph Varon told NBC News in Houston. “A war opposed to COVID and a war opposed to stupidity. And the challenge is the first, I have a little hope of winning. But the moment you’re getting and Array”
Varon, a leading medical officer at United Memorial Medical Center, said that while science and non-unusual meaning dictate some of the measures, “people just don’t pay attention across the country.”
“What bothers me the most is that we continue to do our best to save those other people, and then we get the organization of other people who do exactly what we tell them not to do,” Varon said.
The Australian state of Victoria declared a “state of disaster” on Sunday and instituted strict restrictions to curb the coVID-19 instance outbreak. A night curfew has been established in Melbourne from 8 p.m. At five a.m., the government also announced that 671 new cases of coronavirus had been detected since Saturday, adding seven deaths. Residents of Melbourne, a city of approximately five million people, will be allowed to buy and train within five km of their home. All academics in the state will return to the learning centers and day care centers will be closed.
“We cannot allow this to happen forever. And I’m sure everyone prefers to master it as temporally and resolutely as possible,” Victoria’s Prime Minister Dan Andrews said. “And the only way to do that is to rip the bandage, go over stronger and do it now.”
Major League Baseball, who suffers from continuing his shortened season amid coronavirus outbreaks, was hit again when the Boston Red Sox announced that pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez had finished the season. Rodriguez, 27, had tested positive for coronavirus before starting Boston summer camp. He was allowed to return to team education on July 18, but was not activated because he had developed myocarditis, a central disease, after recovering from COVID-19. The team says Rodriguez is fully recovering. Rodriguez said on July 19 that his war against coronavirus had left him feeling “100 years.”
“I’ve never been so unhealthy in my life and I don’t need to be unhealthy anymore,” he said.
– Diary of Providence
The Food and Drug Administration’s list of hand sanitizers to avoid because they may contain methanol continues to grow. The FDA’s “do-not-use list of dangerous hand sanitizer products” now includes 101 varieties of hand sanitizer that should be avoided – some that have already been recalled and other products being recommended for recalls. Methanol is a toxic substance when absorbed through skin or ingested.
The FDA says it has noticed a buildup of “adverse events, adding blindness, central effects, effects on the central nervous system, hospitalizations and deaths, basically reported to poisoning centers and state fitness departments.”
– Kelly Tyko
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