A national outbreak of COVID-19 cases continues when the United States recorded its 13 millionth case on Black Friday, a day marked by crowds of low-priced search engines. However, this year, many buyers across the country have turned to online offers, reducing crowds. .
Still, experts are concerned that interruptions in on-vacation checks will lead Americans to mistakenly think that the spread of the virus has slowed because checkpoints have fewer hours and fewer people deserve to be treated.
“I just hope other people don’t misunderstand the numbers and think there hasn’t been a big increase as a result of Thanksgiving, and then they’ll finish making plans for Christmas and Hanukkah and other projects,” dr. Leana Wen, a professor at George Washington University and an emergency physician, told The Associated Press.
In vaccine news, AstraZeneca suffered a setback when he revealed that a dosing error was to blame for a maximum efficacy rate among some participants in overseas trials.
???? Today’s figures: The United States has reported more than thirteen million cases and more than 264,000 deaths, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins University. This week, five states set death records and 23 states had a higher number of cases than last week. : more than 61 million instances and 1. 4 million deaths.
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Los Angeles County announced a new house maintenance order Friday as coronavirus instances disappear in the country’s most populous county.
The three-week order takes effect on Monday and occurs when the county has shown 24 new deaths and 4544 new instances of COVID-19. The five-day average for new instances is 4,751.
The ordinance advises citizens to stay in the house “as much as possible” and cover their faces when they faint.
It also prohibits others from meeting with others who are not in their homes, either in public or in private. Exceptions are made for devout facilities and demonstrations, “which are constitutional rights,” the county’s public fitness branch said in a statement. Shops and outdoor trails can also remain open.
Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new requirement that work, movement, and non-essential meetings be avoided between 10 p. m. and 5 a. m, for “red-level” counties, to which states are recently subject.
– Associated Press
Ohio State University football coach Ryan Day passed COVID-19, the school announced Friday afternoon.
Day, who guided the No. 3 Buckeyes to an undefeated start through 4 games and is the leading player in one of the nation’s highest-scoring offenses, will miss Saturday’s game at the University of Illinois.
The positive check puts him in danger of losing the Buckeyes’ next game at Michigan State on December 5. The top ten coaches who tested positive for COVID-19 will have to be absent for 10 days, in accordance with convention protocols.
OsU’s athletic director, Gene Smith, said in a statement that 41-year-old Day was “physically fine,” but did not say whether he had experienced symptoms since contracting the virus. Day is recently isolated.
– Joey Kaufman, Columbus (Ohio)
Lauren Boebert, a Republican congresswoman, has been criticized through the Democratic governor of Colorado for changing the name of her Thanksgiving by collecting an animal funeral to circumvent state social estre rules.
“Boebert, elected to Congress, calls it “Thanksgiving” turkey funeral and welcomes more than 30 people. My hope and prayer is that this will not become a funeral for any of the participants,” Gov. Jared Polis said on Facebook.
In maximum portions of the state, meetings are limited to 10 people, but funerals have less stringent rules.
On Wednesday, Boebert tweeted that he could accommodate 90 other people if he organized a funeral for a turkey, a pig and a duck. Previously, he had advised calling his Thanksgiving rally a “peaceful demonstration in honor of my deceased turkey. “
It’s early in the season, but wholesale tree planters and small cutting lots report requiring genuine Christmas trees, many of which open long before Thanksgiving.
Companies say they have caught the attention of more consumers before, as more and more Americans appear to be looking for a positive outcome amid worsening death toll from the virus.
“The season is six to seven days ahead of what was noted in the past. We’ve never noticed a call like we had this year,” said McKenzie Cook, who sends between 1. 8 million and 2 million trees a year from farms in Oregon and North Carolina.
Customers flocked to a few tree harvesting farms before Thanksgiving to mark the best tree to cut down once the business opened. As requested increases, large retail stores are for new trees for up to a week before last year. Loose home delivery for the first time.
– Associated Press
A Toronto barbecue restaurant has been accused of tresting, obstructing and violating COVID-19 after allegedly breaking into its own place to eat to serve food to its followers.
Adam Skelly arrested his own place to eat on Thursday, Adamson Barbecue, a report from CBC and CTV News, after his place to eat closed through city officials for violating lockout rules.
Skelly allowed a “back compartment” of his restaurant to enter, an agent told CTV News, but Skelly and a giant team of supporters allegedly broke drywall and locks posted in the city.
Toronto Mayor John Tory told CNN that the congregation “likes a festival” to “celebrate some of its orthodox views,” adding anti-mask sentiments. The video of the scene showed few people in the crowd, besides the police, dressed in masks
More retail stores have closed on Thanksgiving than in recent years. Old Navy had the first opening hour, and some retail stores opened at midnight.
“In this Thanksgiving season, buyers are interested in two things: getting a deal for parts and feeling safe,” said Rod Sides, a retail, wholesale and distribution leader in the US. But it’s not the first time From consultancy Deloitte, in a statement.
It will be the first Black Friday where more shoppers get offers online than in a genuine store, says Deloitte, with 61% shopping with a single click and 54% venturing.
– Charisse Jones and Kelly Tyko
AstraZeneca has announced plans to conduct a new clinical trial to compare the efficacy of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The news comes after the company and the university identified a dosing error in rehearsals.
It is not known what effect, if any, those effects will have in a separate trial of another 30,000 people underway on the candidate vaccine in the United States.
The other 11,000 people who have participated in the trial in the United States have gained two equivalent doses of the vaccine, said Moncef Slaoui, co-director of Operation Warp Speed, Trump’s program to develop, manufacture and distribute COVID-19 vaccines.
AstraZeneca said an additional trial will not delay regulatory approval in Britain or the European Union, but the US Food and Drug Administration will not delay regulatory approval. But it’s not the first time It could take longer.
Unlike Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine does not want to be stored at below-zero temperatures, making it less difficult to distribute. AstraZeneca agreed not to take credit for her pandemic vaccine.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the execution of at least two people, banned fishing at sea, and blocked the capital, Pyongyang, as part of frantic efforts to oppose the coronavirus.
North Korea has unsuccessfully attempted to hack at least one South Korean pharmaceutical company seeking to expand a vaccine for coronavirus, according to the South Korean intelligence agency. Reuters reported Friday that AstraZeneca, a key company in the race to expand a coronavirus vaccine, the target of North Korean hackers.
UK leading medical officer Chris Whitty warned families during the holidays not to kiss their elderly parents “if they need to be hugged again” beyond the holidays.
The country granted its citizens permission to meet each other in a “Christmas bubble” with up to 3 families and 8 other people from December 23 to 27. However, lax holiday restrictions are likely to lead to a build-up of COVID-19 cases. in the UK.
Snow removal from roads and sidewalks is never easy in Vermont. This winter, the COVID-19 pandemic has left plow crews, and the public, more uncertain.
Forecasts are complicated for a new disease like COVID, said Dennis Lutz, director of public works in Essex, Vermont: “We’ve never been on this road before. “He explained that the three-tier alerts that his branch can simply consider if the COVID instances are higher: green, yellow, and red. Red reports delays of 24 to 48 hours, with some of the city’s authorized plow drivers who cannot work.
Lutz’s opponents in other communities have contingency plans. As usual, some plans will fail, Lutz said, “Ultimately, nothing is foolproof. “
– Joel Banner Baird, Burlington Free Press
Thanksgiving may be the beginning of a dark holiday season, as the coronavirus outbreak is likely to persist or even worsen until December, January, and February.
“If the outbreak continues to accumulate and you delight in more than 100,000 infections per day and 1,300 deaths per day and the count continues to increase, Array . . . I don’t see it being another Christmas and New Year’s vacation than Thanksgiving,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview with USA TODAY last week.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said the country was in a vulnerable position as the holiday season approaches because infections are too high for a winter outbreak most likely.
Ali Mokdad, professor of fitness measurement science at the Institute of Health Metrics and Assessments and director of population fitness strategy at the University of Washington, said, “We want to be very careful those additional weeks with pain and suffering. “
– Adrianna Rodríguez
Oregon officials fined Courthouse Club Fitness $90,000 for defying Governor Kate Brown’s COVID-19 order and remaining open for the state’s two-week “freeze. “
Occupational Health and Safety Administration officials, the firm guilty of enforcing COVID-19’s pandemic restrictions, said the penalty is the result of subpoenas against each of the four club institutions near Salem.
Last week, Gov. Kate Brown ordered a statewide “freeze” to restrict the organization’s activity and slow the spread of COVID-19 in Oregon, where cases have reached a record high. The freeze will last until December 3, with the exception of 21 counties. in the state that will still be subject to coronavirus restrictions.
– Whitney Woodworth, Salem’s Stateist’s Diary
Contributor: The Associated Press, Karen Weintraub