The 2020 U.S. Open begins Monday, without enthusiast, as the country approaches the 6 million reported cases of coronavirus. However, on the eve of the tournament, a French tennis player tested positive for COVID-19 and was kicked off the field.
Meanwhile, global bodies exceeded 25 million on Sunday, and India recorded the world’s worst peak. India, which has reported more than 75,000 cases shown over 4 consecutive days, has the third highest number of infections after the United States and Brazil.
FDA leader Stephen Hahn said his company could authorize the use of a vaccine before phase 3 trials that are being conducted lately through several pharmaceutical companies are completed.
“Our emergency use authorization is the same as full approval,” Hahn said, adding that “this will be a scientific, medical and knowledge decision. It will be a political decision.”
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? Figures today: Six states set record new cases in one week, while 3 states recorded a record number of deaths in a week, according to Johns Hopkins’ USA TODAY knowledge research. New case records have been established in Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. A record number of deaths were reported in Hawaii, Idaho and Oklahoma, as well as in Guam. The death toll in the United States exceeded 183,000, while cases approached 6 million. Worldwide, more than 846,000 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.
? What We Read: A Michigan nursing home told its staff not to wear a mask or other non-public protective equipment. According to the State Department of Health, 19 citizens died from COVID-19 at their home. Now, a circle of relatives members of a victim are suing the nursing home.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration He is in a position to provide an “emergency use authorization” for the use of a vaccine before phase three clinical trials are completed, SAID FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn. Hahn told the Financial Times that if a vaccine developer requests before completing the testing phase, involving tens of thousands of patients, the FDA can place the authorization as “appropriate.”
Several pharmaceutical companies have started phase 3 testing, but effects are expected until October or November. Former FDA leader Scott Gottlieb said Sunday in CBS’ “Face the Nation” program that authorization could allow the vaccine to be used in high-risk populations.
“Total approval for the general population, where other people can move to CVS and get vaccinated, is a 2021 event,” Gottlieb said. “Perhaps in the first quarter of 2021, probably more likely the first half.”
Universal Orlando Resort hotels have announced that more than 800 workers will lose their jobs because Florida’s theme park industry continues to be devastated by the pandemic.
Employees of the Hard Rock Hotel, Loews Portofino Bay Hotel and Cabana Bay Beach Resort have been ignored indefinitely or permanently, according to a statement filed last week through Loews Hotels and Co.
A corporate director said in a letter to the state that the increase in cases shown in June and July expired and decisions by other states to order Florida travelers to be quarantined had caused “a sudden, dramatic and unforeseen reversal of reserves.”
The University of Virginia has announced plans to offer face-to-face courses for the fall semester, starting with the apartment opening on Thursday. UVA officials in Charlottesville said they first delayed the start of in-person undergraduate courses for two weeks to assess the spread of COVID-19 and see how other schools have behaved since opening.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that UVA has reported a total of 67 positive COVID cases since August 17 between academics, the university and the parent company. Of these, 23 were academics who reported a positive check on Thursday, the highest overall for the school in one day. Twenty-five academics, professors or members were hospitalized.
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In its efforts to return Grand Slam tennis safely after its seven-month virus-induced break, the American Tennis Association (USTA) has followed strict, habit-covering protocols that cover most of the duration of runways near LaGuardia Airport.
Everything is going well until Sunday morning, the day before the start of the biggest American tennis tournament, when Benoit Paire, a 31-year-old Frenchman, became the first player to test positive, according to a tournament official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak publicly on the subject.
Paire, seeded No. 17, scheduled to start his Open on Tuesday against Poland’s Kamil Majchrzak, will be replaced in the draw through Spaniard Marcel Granollers. August 15; a non-player tested positive several days after the tests began.
– Wayne Coffey, USA TODAY Sports Special
Images of crowded beaches, lakes and bars have been circulating on social and classic media for much of the summer, causing contempt for those involved in the COVID-19 epidemic.
But experts also say that the developing instances of instance groups resulting from small meetings are also a cause for concern. Social purposes of other sizes among parents, friends and colleagues are under scrutiny as public fitness experts sound the alarm before Labor Day weekend.
“People don’t think about it the same way as the Trump rally in Tulsa, an organization of other people on the beach or in bars, but those small occasions carry a lot,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco. “It’s just invisible.”
– Jorge L. Ortiz
India is rapidly adapting to a pandemic hot spot, recording a record 78,761 new cases of coronavirus in the more than 24 hours. It is the worst day-long peak in the world, the Ministry of Health noted that the country had also set a record with more than 10 million tests.
India has reported 3.5 million cases, more than all other countries, the United States and Brazil. The boom in India comes amid government efforts to ease national restrictions. On Sunday, the Ministry of Health also reported 948 deaths in more than 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 63,498.
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