California Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to release thousands of inmates by the end of the month in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus in state prisons.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced on Friday that the state intends to release roughly 8,000 inmates by the end of August, according to <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article244135772.html">The Sacramento Bee</a>. The announcement came one day after the CDCR <a href="https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/letter-to-all-incarcerated-people/">told</a> its inmates that most would receive a 12-week credit toward time served because of the pandemic.
The CDCR will release prisoners in three stages. The state will begin releasing prisoners with 180 days or fewer left on their sentences who have not been convicted of a violent crime or are registered or required to register as a sex offender.
In the second stage, inmates age 30 and older with less than a year left on their sentences will be eligible for release if they are being held in one of eight prisons with “large populations of high-risk patients.” For the third stage, prisoners deemed at high risk of the coronavirus will be released as long as they are not convicted of a violent crime, required to register as a sex offender, or serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Newsom, a Democrat, said releasing the inmates was necessary to reduce the chance of outbreaks in the state’s prison population and reduce stress on the prison system.
“This is serious stuff and requires a seriousness of purpose. People are just saying just release thousands and thousands of people,” Newsom said, according to the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-10/california-release-8000-prisoners-coronavirus-crisis-newsom">Los Angeles Times</a>. “Each and every one of these cases are sobering, challenging, and there’s a deep responsibility that comes with this job, but a sense of deep urgency as well to decompress the system in a judicious and thoughtful way.”
El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson criticized Newsom’s action, saying that the guidelines of who will be released are still unclear. Also, because of a series of early release programs and orders signed in recent years, the vast majority of inmates still left in the prison system should stay there for public safety.
“We don’t know what the actual impact of this is going to be. We do know that it’s a high likelihood there will be significant increases in crime,” Pierson said.
Early release programs have been approved by federal, state, and local officials since the outbreak of the coronavirus to reduce the chance of the virus spreading through lockups among inmates who usually don’t have enough room to properly socially distance. Attorney General William Barr <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/us/politics/barr-coronavirus-prisons-release.html">directed</a> the Bureau of Prisons to prioritize early release programs at institutions in several states back in April.
In some places, early release programs have resulted in the release of inmates who are recaptured and taken into custody again for new crimes. In New York City, dozens of inmates released on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s order ended up back in prison within a matter of weeks.
“I think it’s unconscionable just on a human level that folks were shown mercy and this is what some of them have done,” de Blasio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/de-blasio-learns-released-inmates-committed-new-crimes-somehow-he-is-surprised-by-this">said</a> in April.
The spate of new crimes following the mass release of prisoners was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-prosecutors-are-not-happy-with-bill-de-blasios-plan-to-free-high-risk-inmates">warned</a> about by New York City’s leading prosecutors in each of its five boroughs. The prosecutors warned that de Blasio’s administration was approving prisoners for release too quickly, and was resulting in many prisoners convicted of violent crimes being let back out onto the streets.
“We were assured that the release would not include those serving time for domestic violence or sex offenses, given the risks to victims,” the prosecutors said in a letter to de Blasio. “Unfortunately, we later learned that such individuals were indeed included in the ranks of those to be released.”
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Newsom Plans To Release Roughly 8,000 Inmates Back Into California Over Coronavirus

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Back in early June, reports swirled that New Zealand had beaten back the COVID-19 pandemic.
&#8220;New Zealand Hits Zero Active Coronavirus Cases,&#8221; <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-06-08/new-zealand-hits-zero-active-coronavirus-cases-here-are-5-measures-to-keep-it-that-way">U.S. News &amp; World Report</a> wrote June 8.
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&#8220;Today, for the first time since February 28, New Zealand has no active cases of COVID-19. According to our modeling, it is now very likely (well above a 95% chance) New Zealand has completely eliminated the virus,&#8221; wrote Michael Baker and Nick Wilson, described as &#8220;two of the key epidemiologists who worked on New Zealand&#8217;s elimination strategy.&#8221;
On Sunday, the <a href="https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">Johns Hopkins</a> Center for Systems Science and Engineering said the island nation had had just 1,544 confirmed cases and 22 deaths.
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But it turns out there&#8217;s something else going on in New Zealand.
&#8220;A leading epidemiologist says &#8216;thousands of people&#8217; will be quarantined in isolation facilities for months &#8212; and possibly years &#8212; into the future,&#8221; reported <a href="https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/07/new-zealand-to-quarantine-people-for-months-maybe-years-as-covid-19-rages-around-world-epidemiologist-michael-baker.html">NewsHub</a>, a New Zealand news site.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have thousands of people sitting in these facilities, quarantined in isolation facilities for months, maybe years ahead. Sensible risk management says when a mistake happens you figure out what went wrong, and you improve the system,&#8221; he told the site.
Baker&#8217;s remarks come amid reports that New Zealanders are breaking out of their facilities.
<blockquote>The latest escapee, a person in their 60s, broke the window of the Waipuna Hotel in Auckland on Friday and climbed out of the building. They then scaled the fence and began to knock on the doors of neighbouring homes.
Their escape is the fourth since last Saturday, when a woman scaled two fences to escape from Auckland&#8217;s Pullman Hotel. She was out of isolation for more than an hour.  On Tuesday, a 32-year-old man snuck through a gap in the Stamford Plaza fencing and visited an inner-city supermarket. The following day he tested positive for COVID-19.
The third person to have allegedly escaped from managed isolation was Martin James McVicar. He allegedly absconded from the Distinction Hotel in Hamilton on Thursday evening before entering a nearby liquor store and reportedly buying a four-pack of Leffe Blonde and a bottle of pinot noir.</blockquote>
All people entering New Zealand must stay remain in isolation or quarantine for at least 14 days after their arrival and test negative for coronavirus before they are allowed to return to public venues.
&#8220;In April, the country said it had &#8216;eliminated&#8217; the virus as case numbers stayed in single figures, and in June, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that almost all domestic coronavirus restrictions would be lifted,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/asia/man-escapes-quarantine-new-zealand-intl-scli/index.html">CNN</a> reported on Friday. &#8220;New Zealand has seen several cases since.&#8221;
In mid-June, New Zealand announced its military would step in to oversee the country’s quarantine facilities and strengthen border requirements following a slip-up that allowed two people with COVID-19 to move around the country.
Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter turned COVID-19 watchdog, took to Twitter to highlight the reality in New Zealand.
&#8220;Don’t think developed nations with a tradition of respecting individual rights will trash them for #COVID? I have two words for you: New Zealand. Where indefinite confinement is already real, and PEOPLE IN ISOLATION ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO BREAK FREE. Welcome to the occupation,&#8221; he wrote.
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Don’t think developed nations with a tradition of respecting individual rights will trash them for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Covid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Covid</a>? I have two words for you: New Zealand. Where indefinite confinement is already real, and PEOPLE IN ISOLATION ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO BREAK FREE. Welcome to the occupation. <a href="https://t.co/uq57e3MpNK">pic.twitter.com/uq57e3MpNK</a>
&mdash; Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1282059985288036358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) joined a chorus of Democrats praising President Donald Trump for wearing a mask on a visit to Walter Reed Army Hospital Saturday, calling the effort an &#8220;admission&#8221; that masks work to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/politics/nancy-pelosi-donald-trump-mask-wearing-cnntv/index.html">Speaking to CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash</a> on the network&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Sunday, Pelosi used the event to criticize the president for failing to recognize the utility of mask-wearing until months into the pandemic.
&#8220;I&#8217;m so glad that he obeyed the rules of the Walter Reed. You can&#8217;t go see our veterans who are there without wearing a mask. Now, he&#8217;s crossed a bridge,&#8221; Pelosi said.
She added,  &#8220;That&#8217;s an admission that if you&#8217;re going to see our soldiers, you have to wear a mask. If you&#8217;re going to be with our children, you have to wear a mask. If we want to stop the spread of the coronavirus, you have to wear a mask.&#8221;
Pelosi and other Democrats have been chastising those who fail to wear a mask as &#8220;right-wing&#8221; dissenters from a clear virus prevention policy and have used the measure &#8212; which only became part of serious efforts to control the virus in May, months after the pandemic began &#8212; as a way of demonstrating that their political opponents lack seriousness in their approach to the coronavirus.
Pelosi told CNN that she hoped the president&#8217;s actions Saturday would force Republicans to reconsider their stance on masking.
&#8220;So hopefully by his example, he will change his attitude, which will be helpful in stopping the spread of the coronavirus,&#8221; she said.
Pelosi, of course, is just the latest in a string of left-leaning political figures to issue backhanded praise for the president. Joe Biden&#8217;s used the Walter Reed event to attack the president Saturday night.
&#8220;Donald Trump spent months ignoring the advice of medical experts and politicizing wearing a mask, one of the most important things we can do to prevent the spread of the virus,&#8221; Andrew Bates said in a statement to media.
The president had, until Saturday, largely refused to wear a mask in public, despite reported &#8220;pleading&#8221; from his aides, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/politics/nancy-pelosi-donald-trump-mask-wearing-cnntv/index.html">according to CNN</a>.
&#8220;Even after the federal government recommended Americans wear masks in places where social distancing is impossible, Trump declared he was unlikely to ever wear one himself. And even as some of his aides gently encouraged him to be seen following his own government&#8217;s advice, Trump insisted wearing a mask would make him appear weak and give off the impression that he wasn&#8217;t controlling the pandemic,&#8221; the network noted.
But as many Americans have pointed out, directives on masking have changed considerably since the early days of the pandemic, when many of the country&#8217;s most vocal experts weighed on in the issue against the idea of covering up. Both the United States Surgeon General and Dr. Anthony Fauci, a respected member of the president&#8217;s coronavirus task force, initially said that masks were not required to prevent the spread of the virus and cautioned against purchasing masks.
Since then, the government&#8217;s directives have changed considerably, with the Surgeon General and others admitting that early recommendations against masking were designed to preserve stores of personal protective equipment for individuals on the front lines of fighting the virus.
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Nancy Pelosi: Trump Wearing A Mask Is ‘An Admission’ Measure Works To Stop Spread Of Coronavirus

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Liberals have been deriding President Trump for months for his decision not to wear a mask amid the pandemic panic.
On Saturday, during a visit to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., Trump donned a mask &#8212; and everyone lost their minds.
&#8220;Trump finally put on a mask. Dear nutty right-wing people: It&#8217;s okay now for you to do it too,&#8221; wrote the Washington Post&#8217;s Karen Tumulty.
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Trump finally put on a mask. Dear nutty right-wing people: It&#39;s okay now for you to do it too.
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&#8220;Trump wearing a mask now is him admitting that everyone should’ve been wearing a mask since day one. It’s more proof he’s a criminal, a fraud and a liar,&#8221; Scott Dworkin, co-founder of TheDemCoalition, wrote on Twitter.
&#8220;Trump finally wearing a mask after 3.4 million cases, 135k deaths, and 70k new infections a day, is like putting on a rubber after she’s in labor!&#8221; wrote comedian D.L. Hughley.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Trump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Trump</a> finally wearing a mask after 3.4 million cases, 135k deaths, and 70k new infections a day, is like putting on a rubber after she’s in labor! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeamDl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TeamDl</a>
&mdash; DL Hughley (@RealDLHughley) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDLHughley/status/1282187171663720448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Trump wears a mask after more than 130,000 Americans died and the right wants to give him a f***ing medal. I’m glad he finally did the right thing—even if it was for a shameless photo op—but let’s not forget all these people made fun of Biden for wearing a mask for months,&#8221; another person on Twitter wrote.
&#8220;The White House praising Trump&#8217;s mask wearing is like a parent praising their potty training toddler. &#8216;Donny wore a mask. Now, can Donny make a boom boom in the potty?'&#8221; wrote Emily Brandwin, who decsribes herslef as a &#8220;Media Commentator&#8221; on Twitter.
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The White House praising Trump&#39;s mask wearing is like a parent praising their potty training toddler. &quot;Donny wore a mask&quot; &quot;Now, can Donny make a boom boom in the potty?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PGPt3wJGm5">pic.twitter.com/PGPt3wJGm5</a>
&mdash; Emily Brandwin (@CIAspygirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/CIAspygirl/status/1282199566339563522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Some day someone will do a study on how many lives might have been saved if this happened in February or March,&#8221; wrote CNN host Jake Tapper.
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Some day someone will do a study on how many lives might have been saved if this happened in February or March <a href="https://t.co/Y5iL9XFPC6">https://t.co/Y5iL9XFPC6</a>
&mdash; Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1282067091277983758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Conservatives slapped back at the liberals crowing on social media.
&#8220;Remember when Karen Tumulty was supposed to be a straight edge reporter for Wash Post and became incensed at any hint or insinuation that she was biased one way or the other?&#8221; wrote Stephen L. Miller.
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Remember when Karen Tumulty was supposed to be a straight edge reporter for Wash Post and became incensed at any hint or insinuation that she was biased one way or the other?
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1282121481271439362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Others pointed out that mainstream media &#8212; and its coronavirus heroes, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who serves on the White House Coronavirus Task Force &#8212; had long dismissed the wearing of masks.
One Twitterer posted a Fauci clip from March 8. &#8220;Right now, people should not be walking, there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask,&#8221; the doctor said on &#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221; Fauci said masks do not provide the &#8220;perfect protection&#8221; against contracting the virus that people think and adds, &#8220;When you think masks, you should think of healthcare providers needing them.&#8221;
Said the Twitter poster: &#8220;But yeah, this is probably on Trump for not listening to Fauci or something.&#8221;
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Dr. Fauci **MARCH 8th**
But yeah, this is probably on Trump for not listening to Fauci or something. <a href="https://t.co/k5PTc9I0eS">https://t.co/k5PTc9I0eS</a> <a href="https://t.co/KxkE8d84hx">pic.twitter.com/KxkE8d84hx</a>
&mdash; The Meturgeman (@HaMeturgeman) <a href="https://twitter.com/HaMeturgeman/status/1282149175371735041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Wrote another:
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Another pointed out the words of CNN host Chris Cuomo, who said in March: &#8220;[M]asks are not viewed as particularly effective in avoiding virus either.&#8221;
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And then there was this take: &#8220;Now that Trump finally wore a mask in public, is this the part where liberals CANCEL masks and make the case for how terrible they are??&#8221;
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Now that Trump finally wore a mask in public, is this the part where liberals CANCEL masks and make the case for how terrible they are??
&mdash; DeAnna Lorraine 🇺🇸 (@DeAnna4Congress) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAnna4Congress/status/1282103931007451185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Liberals Lose Their Minds After Trump Dons Mask For Hospital Visit

NBC medical expert Joseph Fair, who has appeared on the network nearly a dozen times since the COVID-19 pandemic began sweeping across the U.S., offered a horrific tale about the virus.
According to Fair, he caught the virus while on a commercial flight from New Orleans. “I had a mask on, I had gloves on, I did my normal wipes routine … but obviously, you can still get it through your eyes,” Fair in May told the &#8220;Today Show,&#8221; directly, via video link from his hospital bed. “And, of course, I wasn’t wearing goggles on the flight.”
In another appearance the next month, Fair told NBC’s Chuck Todd on &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; that the virus was “the worst I’ve ever felt. I probably spent 23 out of 24 hours in bed.”
“I don’t have any of those underlying conditions, I’m 42 years old. So you wouldn’t think, clinically, that I would be one of those people that would get so very ill,” Fair said, adding: “Those people that are young and think they’re invincible or people that just don’t think it’s going to affect them that greatly even if they do get it. I can say that my own experience was the complete opposite.”
&#8220;I was a very healthy person. I exercise five to six days a week,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If it can take me down, it can take down anybody.&#8221;
The only problem: Fair never had COVID-19, at least according to several test results.
&#8220;What Fair, Todd, and NBC News didn’t tell the audience is that before he made this claim, Fair had already tested negative for COVID-19 at least five times,&#8221; <a href="https://www.insidesources.com/nbc-news-contributor-never-had-covid-network-has-yet-to-issue-correction/">Inside Sources</a> reports. &#8220;Fair followed that up with an antibody test to detect if he’d ever had the virus. The results were negative.&#8221;
&#8220;And now we know Dr. Fair never had coronavirus, despite nearly a dozen appearances on NBC and MSNBC where he talked about having it or recovering from it,&#8221; media watchdog Steve Krakauer writes in his <a href="https://mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fourth-watch-jul-9">Fourth Watch</a> newsletter.
<blockquote>In the end, NBC&#8217;s viewers were left with two very alarming &#8212; and false &#8212; impressions. First, that an expert virologist can take every precaution but can still catch COVID-19 through his eyes. False. Second, that tests can be so untrustworthy that you can have multiple negative tests and still have coronavirus. [Today co-host] Craig Melvin described them as &#8216;false negative tests&#8217; in that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWRVXxTdgYs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">initial report</a> on May 14. Hoda Kotb said, &#8216;every time it came back negative, but clearly you have it.&#8217; False.</blockquote>
Fair took to Twitter last week to try to explain.
&#8220;My undiagnosed/suspected COVID illness from nearly 2 months ago remains an undiagnosed mystery as a recent antibody test was negative. I had myriad COVID symptoms, was hospitalized in a COVID ward &amp; treated for COVID-related co-morbidities, despite testing negative by nasal swab,&#8221; he wrote in a post.
&#8220;I was severely ill for 2 weeks, 4 days of it in critical condition, resulting in pneumonia, diffuse lung injury &amp; 18lbs of weight loss. My path forward is a 2nd AB test, &amp; follow-up with a pulmonologist &amp; tropical medicine specialist in an effort to diagnose what made me so ill,&#8221; he wrote.
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I was severely ill for 2 weeks, 4 days of it in critical condition, resulting in pneumonia, diffuse lung injury &amp; 18lbs of weight loss. My path forward is a 2nd AB test, &amp; follow-up with a pulmonologist &amp; tropical medicine specialist in an effort to diagnose what made me so ill.
&mdash; Dr. Joseph Fair (@curefinder) <a href="https://twitter.com/curefinder/status/1280555581334532096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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NBC Virus Expert Who Claimed He Had ‘Undiagnosed’ COVID-19 Reveals He Never Had Virus

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The pandemic remains a serious issue in America. It would be disingenuous to state otherwise. How serious, though, remains a bone of contention for many given the levels of obfuscation.
It seems much of the overarching narrative surrounding COVID-19 insists on either <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/832171895/coronavirus-panic-how-to-get-your-thinking-brain-back-online">sanctifying anxiety</a> or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/8-times-dr-fauci-revised-the-coronavirus-narrative">misleading us to some extent</a>, rather than providing clarity and responding with composure.
Recall Neil Ferguson’s <a href="https://idp.nature.com/transit?redirect_uri=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01003-6&amp;code=9c280baa-9238-40a3-b28d-5d59b626571d">Imperial College Model</a> that predicted the death of millions. Ferguson’s model compelled lockdowns all across the world. While they were certainly necessary for a spell, Ferguson’s model not only appears to have been inherently flawed, Ferguson himself <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/05/uk-coronavirus-adviser-prof-neil-ferguson-resigns-after-breaking-lockdown-rules">defied the very lockdown</a> he insisted upon.
As Kevin Dayaratna pointed out quite succinctly for <a href="https://www.heritage.org/public-health/commentary/failures-influential-covid-19-model-used-justify-lockdowns">The Heritage Foundation</a>:
<blockquote>It is fundamentally important for models used in policy to be made publicly available, have assumptions clearly stated, and have their robustness to changes to these assumptions tested. Models also need to be updated as time goes on in line with the best available evidence.
Bottom line: The Imperial College model didn’t meet any of these criteria. And sadly, its model was one of the inputs relied on as the basis for locking down two countries.</blockquote>
While there still remains a paucity of data, the pandemic is also being politicized to exhaustion. When the BLM protests erupted for weeks upon weeks, the pandemic all but disappeared from the headlines. A little more than a month later, tremendous COVID-19 surges began occurring all across the country. The media adamantly refused to make any kind of connection between the surge and the protests.
<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/24/883017035/what-contact-tracing-may-tell-about-cluster-spread-of-the-coronavirus">NPR</a> ran a piece insisting that parties and disdain for masks were the main culprits in the surge, not the protests. <a href="https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/06/30/black-lives-matter-protests-did-not-cause-an-uptick-in-covid-19-cases">The Economist</a> stated the same, even arguing that any concern over the possible spread of COVID-19 during the protests was tantamount to “scaremongering.”
The answer, unfortunately, is that we may never fully know how much massive nationwide protests contributed to the recent surges. According to <a href="https://www.thecity.nyc/coronavirus/2020/6/14/21290963/nyc-covid-19-trackers-skipping-floyd-protest-questions-even-amid-fears-of-new-wave">The City</a>, New York City mayor Bill DeBlasio explicitly instructed those conducting contact tracing to actively avoid asking anyone if they had attended a protest:
<blockquote>The hundreds of contact tracing workers hired by the city under de Blasio’s new “test and trace” campaign have been instructed not to ask anyone who’s tested positive for COVID-19 whether they recently attended a demonstration, City Hall confirmed…</blockquote>
It’s certainly not beyond the scope of reason to wonder if governors and mayors like Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, and Eric Garcetti instructed their own contact tracers to follow suit.
Even more perplexing, many of the very epidemiologists involved in battling the pandemic allowed their own political misgivings to color their analyses. They had no problem scolding conservative anti-lockdown protestors for large gatherings. However, when it came to the BLM protests that were infinitely larger in scale, they did not voice any concerns.
Catherine Troisi, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center, at the very least, admitted to her own inherently contradictory views. 
She told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/Epidemiologists-coronavirus-protests-quarantine.html">The New York Times</a>: “I certainly condemned the anti-lockdown protests at the time, and I’m not condemning the protests now, and I struggle with that…I have a hard time articulating why that is OK.”
The argument that protestors were maintaining social distancing, actively wearing masks, and using copious of amounts of hand sanitizer is woefully inaccurate. Even on the <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/blmgn-slider-now-we-transform-062220-2000x1125-01-1024x576.jpg">very front page of the BLM</a> site there’s a young man clearly not wearing a mask.
Finally, how COVID deaths are being counted seems as contentious as ever. In April, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, stated in a press conference that, regardless of any comorbidities, if someone tested positive for the virus and died, it would be counted as a COVID death, as reported by <a href="https://week.com/2020/04/20/idph-director-explains-how-covid-deaths-are-classified/">25 News</a>:
<blockquote>If you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means technically even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it&#8217;s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone who&#8217;s listed as a COVID death doesn&#8217;t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of the death.</blockquote>
While such a statement doesn’t necessarily prove that the numbers surrounding COVID-19 are inflated, as many claim, it rightfully gives many pause regarding the data and information we receive on a daily basis.
Regardless, it’s hopelessly unfortunate that there remains little to no open discussions about the pandemic and our continued response to it. Any counterpoint or question, no matter how <a href="https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/07/09/a-conversation-with-john-ioannidis/">reasoned or insightful</a>, is bludgeoned into silence online and elsewhere. One is simply forced to cede to the many dogmatic overtures presented to us or be vilified into silence.
This piece has been revised for clarity.
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KHAN: How Politicization, Anxiety And Misdirection Are Still Driving The Pandemic Narrative

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Public approval of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response has reached an <a href="https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2020-07/topline-abc-coronavirus-wave-15.pdf">all-time low</a>, according to a new <a href="https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/views-trumps-handling-covid-all-time-low">Ipsos/ABC News</a> poll.
“Thirty-three percent of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the response to the coronavirus, down from 41% three weeks ago,” writes Ipsos, which also notes that Trump’s coronavirus response approval among Republicans has dropped 12 points since the mid-June poll was taken.
Ipsos also adds about the poll: “Seventy-eight percent of Republicans approve of the president’s handling of the COVID-19 response, compared to 26% of Independents and just 7% of Democrats.”
While the poll has been conducted 11 times since March, the president’s slide in coronavirus-response favorability among Republican voters represents the largest drop — 90% to 78% — that has been seen from one poll to the next. The previous low among Republicans was 84%, which was reached back in both late-April and early-June.
Prior to the July poll, Trump’s lowest coronavirus response approval rating among all voters was 39%, also back in early-June. It is now 33%.
The poll’s margin of error is 4.1 points.
Trump’s overall coronavirus approval rating also seems to be aligned with how respondents view the president’s handling of race relations in the country — 67% of Americans disapprove of his handling of race relations, and 32% approve of it.
The poll, which contains a sample size of 711 participants, was conducted several days after the president’s Mt. Rushmore speech defending American principles and ideals, which some media outlets <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-outlets-describe-trumps-rushmore-speech-as-dark-and-divisive">referred</a> to as “dark” and “divisive.”
The mainstream media made this criticism of Trump, in purportedly straight news stories, even though he explicitly said at the time that Americans “embrace tolerance, not prejudice” and that “we believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed. Every child of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God.”
The Ipsos/ABC News poll also shows that “fifty-nine percent of Americans believe the U.S. is re-opening the economy too quickly, more than double the number that believe it is happening at the right pace (26%).”
“Views are similar to two weeks ago, when 56% said the reopening was happening too quickly,” writes Ipsos. “There is a nearly 60 percentage point difference between Democrats (84%) and Republicans (26%) on whether we are re-opening too quickly.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci told <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/506566-fauci-says-hard-hit-states-should-be-pausing-the">The Hill</a> in an interview on Thursday that some states should slow down the re-opening process, although he did not suggest shutdowns would be necessary as he did during a separate interview the day before.
&#8220;I would think we need to get the states pausing in their opening process, looking at what did not work well and try to mitigate that,&#8221; said Dr. Fauci. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we need to go back to an extreme of shutting down.&#8221;
&#8220;I would hope we don&#8217;t have to resort to shutdown,&#8221; Fauci said on Thursday, adding that such measures &#8220;would not be viewed very favorably.&#8221;
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Poll: Public Approval Of Trump’s Coronavirus Response Hits All-Time Low

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Noting the fact that the black community has been hit hard by the coronavirus, a state of Michigan task force titled the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities surmised that one of the reasons for the impact on black communities is implicit bias in the medical community. On Thursday, Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer released an <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MIEOG/2020/07/09/file_attachments/1491769/ED%202020-07.pdf">Executive Directive</a> stating, “I am calling on the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs to establish new rules requiring all health care professionals to receive training on implicit bias and the way it affects delivery of health care services.”
Michigan state officials report that the black population in the state, which comprises 14% of the state’s population, has experienced 30% of all coronavirus cases and 40% of coronavirus deaths, according to <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2020/07/09/gov-whitmer-mandates-implicit-bias-training-for-all-michigan-health-professionals/">ClickOnDetroit</a>.
Whitmer’s directive stated:
<blockquote>To be sure, the causes of these disparities are multiple and complex. Social determinants of health such as education, employment, and environmental factors—all of which correlate with race and ethnicity—are part of the explanation. Research also shows that disparities result in part because of differences in the delivery of medical services to people of different races. concluded that white patients received care of a higher quality than did Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, and Asian Americans. People of color face more barriers to accessing health care than do white people, and are generally less satisfied with their interactions with health care providers.</blockquote>
She continued, “These disparities can arise even when not intended because of the prevalence of what is sometimes called implicit bias: thoughts and feelings that, by definition, often exist outside of conscious awareness, and therefore are difficult to control.But they can shape behavior, including the behavior of health care professionals. One way to reduce disparities in health outcomes, therefore, is to seek to eliminate the unconscious biases, misconceptions, and stereotypes that can lead to disparities in how health care is provided.”
“The practical impact of Executive Directive 2020-7  means those looking to get a new license or wants to renew their medical license will have to undergo bias training,” ClickOnDetroit added.
The <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/racial-ethnic-minorities.html">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> attribute the severity of the coronavirus among racial and minority groups to systemic health and social inequities, writing: 
<blockquote>Long-standing systemic health and social inequities have put some members of racial and ethnic minority groups at increased risk of getting COVID-19 or experiencing severe illness, regardless of age. Among some racial and ethnic minority groups, including non-Hispanic black persons, Hispanics and Latinos, and American Indians/Alaska Natives, evidence points to higher rates of hospitalization or death from COVID-19 than among non-Hispanic white persons. As of June 12, 2020, age-adjusted hospitalization rates are highest among non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native and non-Hispanic black persons, followed by Hispanic or Latino persons.
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<li>Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native persons have a rate approximately 5 times that of non-Hispanic white persons,</li>
<li>non-Hispanic black persons have a rate approximately 5 times that of non-Hispanic white persons,</li>
<li>Hispanic or Latino persons have a rate approximately 4 times that of non-Hispanic white persons.</li>
</ul>
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Michigan Democrats Hold News Conference After Post-Primary Unity Rally

Michigan Governor Whitmer: Health Professionals Must Be Trained On Implicit Bias

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Amid data released on Thursday of a daily record of 63,247 new cases of the coronavirus nationwide, the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/us-reports-record-single-day-spike-of-60000-new-coronavirus-cases.html">second time this week</a> new infections reported in a 24-hour period had set a new record, doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center stated that the majority of new COVID-19 cases they are seeing have been in a less vulnerable demographic, young people, and their conditions have not proven to be as perilous.
Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, Dr. Graham Snyder, UPMC Medical Director of Infection Prevention, stated that the average age of new COVID-19 patients is under 30. “Our testing data indicates these cases are largely linked to younger people who contracted the virus while traveling or while socializing without masks or proper distance,” said Dr. Snyder, as <a href="https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/upmc-officials-say-data-indicates-its-younger-people-catching-spreading-covid-19/FMZDDSVM2JBXPNVRRQKXPAMUZ4/">WPXI</a> reported.
Senior Medical Director Dr. Donald Yealy added, “Despite more people testing positive, often younger people, we are not seeing the same pattern of increase in severe cases.”
Thursday featured the lowest COVID-19 case increase in Allegheny County of the week, with 158 new cases, 12 more hospitalizations and no one dying.
At the beginning of April, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine announced they had created a potential vaccine for the coronavirus.
Researchers gave the vaccine to mice through a patch in the skin, and said not only that the vaccine had proven effective, but that producing similar patches with a vaccine for humans was scalable and can be produced in large quantities, according to <a href="https://kdkaradio.radio.com/articles/potential-coronavirus-vaccine-developed-at-upmc">KDKA radio</a>, which noted, “It is the first study to be published after it was critiqued by other scientists ‘at outside institutions that describes a candidate vaccine for COVID-19.’”
Co-senior author Andrea Gambotto, M.D, who is an associate professor of surgery at the Pitt School of Medicine, stated, “We had previous experience on SARS-CoV in 2003 and MERS-CoV in 2014. These two viruses, which are closely related to SARS-CoV-2, teach us that a particular protein, called a spike protein, is important for inducing immunity against the virus. We knew exactly where to fight this new virus. That’s why it’s important to fund vaccine research. You never know where the next pandemic will come from.”
Co-senior author Louis Falo, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of dermatology at Pitt’s School of Medicine and UPMC, echoed, “Our ability to rapidly develop this vaccine was a result of scientists with expertise in diverse areas of research working together with a common goal.”
In the paper describing their work, the authors, who were waiting for approval from the FDA to quickly start human trials, <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/home">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>Genomic analyses indicated that SARS-CoV-2 shares genomic similarities with SARS-CoV within the receptor-binding motif that directly contacts the human receptor ACE2. This has important implications for vaccine design and for predicting pandemic potential. Human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has now been established, and the situation with SARS-CoV-2 is evolving rapidly with the numbers of verified cases growing into the thousands.
…Taken together, our studies demonstrate the speed at which vaccines against emerging infections can be designed and produced using the recent advances in recombinant DNA technology. Combining emerging biotechnology methods with bioengineering advances in vaccine delivery strategies, it may now be possible to rapidly produce clinically-translatable vaccines against novel pathogens for human testing and subsequent global distribution in time to significantly impact the spread of disease.</blockquote>
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University Of Pittsburgh Doctor On Virus: ‘We Are Not Seeing The Same Pattern Of Increase In Severe Cases’

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that the Trump administration is backing another round of stimulus checks to millions of Americans as part of another coronavirus relief package.
Congress has done nothing to directly help Americans since a first wave of stimulus checks went out in April, but Mnuchin said the administration is working “on a bipartisan basis with Republicans and Democrats&#8221; to get to an agreement. He said it’s a “priority” to have legislation passed by July 20.
“We do support another round of economic impact payments,” Mnuchin said in an interview with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mnuchin-white-house-backs-more-stimulus-payments">CNBC</a>. “We’re discussing the criteria with the Senate, and had a productive talk with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.”
Mnuchin did not provide specific details.
President Trump has expressed support for another round of stimulus checks, which he implied could be larger than the $1,200 per person that millions of Americans received this spring.
Trump late last month said the next stimulus package would be “very generous” and would be announced in “a couple of weeks.”
Trump spoke of a second stimulus during an interview with Joe St. George, Washington correspondent for <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimwang/2020/06/22/president-trump-next-stimulus-bill-will-be-very-generous-and-announced-in-a-couple-of-weeks/#4beb5f632b23">Scripps</a>:
<blockquote>ST. GEORGE: I have a lot of viewers in Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, who are still struggling economically, sir. They spent all of that first stimulus check. Are you going to get them a second stimulus check?
TRUMP: Yeah, we are. We are. Look we had this —
ST. GEORGE: When? When are you going to get it?
TRUMP: We had this going better than anybody’s ever seen before. We had the best job numbers, the best economics, the best economy we’ve ever had, and then we had the virus come in from China. Now we’re rebuilding it again. We will be doing another stimulus package. It’ll be very good; it’ll be very generous, and people—
ST. GEORGE: How much? People want to know.
TRUMP: You’ll find out about it. You’ll find out.</blockquote>
The House has already passed a bill that calls for a stimulus check similar to the one available in the Cares Act — a $1,200 check for adults and as many as three child dependents. That means a family of two adults and three children would qualify for a $6,000 stimulus check. But the price tag is a hefty $3 trillion.
The bill is unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled Senate, where McConnell is looking for a lower price tag, around $1 trillion. Both sides are expected to renew negotiations soon.
Under the Cares Act, individuals were eligible for payments of up to $1,200, but that amount declined for those with an adjusted gross income higher than $75,000 a year. The $1,200 payment dropped by 5% of every dollar above $75,000, or $50 for every $1,000.
The benefit didn’t apply for individuals with incomes over $99,000.
Married couples with combined incomes of up to $150,000 received $2,400, subject to the same phase-out that applied to individuals. The payments were phased out entirely for couples making $198,000 or more. Families also got $500 per dependent child under the age of 16.
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Treasury Secretary Backs ‘Another Round’ Of Coronavirus Stimulus Checks; When You Might See Some Cash

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With more than newly discovered 60,000 cases of the novel coronavirus in under 24 hours, the United States set a record for most new positives in a single day on Tuesday, raising fresh concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic may go on for much longer than previously anticipated.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and prominent member of the president&#8217;s coronavirus task force, noted earlier this week that the U.S. is not experiencing a second wave of the virus, but rather, in many cases, a peak of the first wave, particularly in states where the &#8220;curve&#8221; was flat or low when places like New York were experiencing major outbreaks.
&#8220;We are still knee-deep in the first wave of this. And I would say, this would not be considered a wave. It was a surge or a resurgence of infections superimposed upon a baseline,&#8221; Fauci said on a Facebook Live Monday, according to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/06/anthony-fauci-us-coronavirus-surge-really-not-good/5388472002/">USA Today</a>.
New cases of the virus had been holding steady at around 50,000 per day as the U.S. entered the pandemic&#8217;s fourth month &#8212; July &#8212; with around 3 million Americans affected by the coronavirus. Johns Hopkins, USA Today notes, says just under 130,000 people have died from COVID-19.
Tuesday&#8217;s uptick seems to be driven by states like California, Florida, and Texas that had previously experienced only a limited spread of the virus. CNBC reports that those states, including Arizona, and several others across the southwest, account for around half of all new cases.
Experts are, though, still trying to figure out whether the &#8220;record&#8221; day is, in fact, a mistake brought on by a lag in reporting time. Last week&#8217;s July Fourth holiday had offices empty on Friday and, in some cases, also on Monday.
&#8220;The record spike comes after daily new cases fell below 50,000 over the past few days, though some public health officials warned there could be a backlog of reporting due to the July Fourth holiday weekend,&#8221;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/us-reports-record-single-day-spike-of-60000-new-coronavirus-cases.html"> CNBC reported</a> Wednesday. &#8220;The U.S. has reported about 51,383 new cases on average over the past seven days, a record high seven-day average, up nearly 24.5% compared with a week ago, according to a CNBC analysis of data collected by Johns Hopkins.&#8221;
The uptick can also be attributed, at least in part, to an increase in testing.
&#8220;Nationally, the U.S. has ramped up testing from an average of just over 174,000 diagnostic tests per day through April to an average of more than 650,000 tests per day so far in July, CNBC noted. &#8220;However, the percent of tests coming back positive has also risen, which epidemiologists say is a sign of a virus that is spreading more rapidly.&#8221;
Regardless, it appears the United States is on an upswing. Hospitalizations, though, are up by only 5% across the board, likely because the average age of new coronavirus patients is much lower than it has been. In some states, like Indiana, the average age of COVID-19 patients is hovering around 23, not the mid-50s and 60s as it was in March, April, and May.
Cases in young people do seem to be less severe and require fewer ICU beds.
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United States Record More Than 60,000 New Coronavirus Cases In Daily Record

The risk of death to patients with the coronavirus drastically increases with age, according to a new study.
The study puts hard numbers to trends that have played out globally as governments and individuals attempt to protect the most vulnerable populations. The study found that the elderly, those with certain comorbidities, men, and people of black and South Asian ethnicities are at higher risk from the virus.
The science journal <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2521-4">Nature</a> published the <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2521-4_reference.pdf">study</a> on Wednesday, in which the authors analyzed troves of data from primary care records covering roughly 40% of Britain’s population. The researchers compiled a data base of 17,278,392 primary care records, including 10,926 patients that suffered COVID-19-related deaths.
“A lot of previous work has focused on patients that present at hospital,” Oxford researcher Dr. Ben Goldacre, one of the study’s authors, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/health/coronavirus-risk-factors.html">The New York Times</a>. “That’s useful and important, but we wanted to get a clear sense of the risks as an everyday person. Our starting pool is literally everybody.”
The study revealed a “jaw-dropping” connection between one’s chances of dying from the disease and their age, Goldacre said. People over age 80 are at least 20 times more likely to die from the disease than someone aged 50-59. The risk of dying from the coronavirus for adults under the age of 40 is close to zero.
“The overall cumulative incidence of death 90 days after study start was &lt;0.01% in those aged 18-39 years, rising to 0.67% and 0.44% in men and women respectively aged ≥80 years,” the study states. “Increasing age was strongly associated with risk, with those ≥80 years having more than 20-fold increased risk than 50-59 year olds.”
The study also highlighted that non-white ethnicities were more vulnerable than white ethnicities. Comorbidities such as obesity, asthma, and heart disease and others also contribute to increased risk. Also, men are about 60% more likely than women to die from the disease.
“This highlights a lot of what we already know about Covid-19,” University of Illinois at Chicago health professor Uchechi Mitchell, who was not an author of the study, told NYT. “But a lot of science is about repetition. The size of the study alone is a strength, and there is a need to continue documenting disparities.”
Many governors in the United States have paused or reversed their reopening plans as coronavirus case numbers begin to climb, especially in states in the southern and western parts of the U.S. Fatalities from the disease have continued to decline, however. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that the average number of deaths from COVID-19 has declined for 10 consecutive weeks.
Health experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-fauci-false-narrative-covid-death-rate">warned</a> that death numbers should begin to spike in the coming days and weeks as the fatality rate catches up with the infection rate.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others maintain that the increasing case numbers are almost entirely due to young people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-florida-not-going-into-lockdown-again">contracting</a> the disease, however. As long as vulnerable populations remain uninfected, states should aim to lessen restrictions, not reapply them.
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Study: Coronavirus Hundreds of Times Less Deadly To Younger People Than Those Aged 80+

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A city in Colorado has mandated that all residents wear face masks to battle COVID-19 and that repeat violators could face up to a year in jail and/or a $2,650 fine.
Englewood City Manager J. Shawn Lewis issued an <a href="https://www.englewoodco.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=26817&amp;fbclid=IwAR1nlqqpSRMPADoHvpcxorGs8n3oXqxdSNngWfzvh-DtRqmeSrnbSfEDe3o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">emergency order</a> that was approved by the city council on Monday requiring everyone over 6 years old to wear a mask that covers their noses and mouths while in any retail stores, commercial or government offices, as well as all health care facilities and even veterinary offices.
&#8220;All people taking public transportation are required to wear face masks. Drivers of public transportation services, like Uber and taxi services are required to wear a face mask unless members of their family are in the vehicle,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-city-to-mandate-coronavirus-face-coverings-threatening-up-to-a-year-in-jail-for-violators">Fox News</a> reports. &#8220;Face coverings are not required when in a personal office and individuals are more than six feet apart from one another.&#8221;
The fines start low, says the order, which will go into effect July 10 at 8 a.m. A first offense draws a $15 fine, the second a $25 fine. The order also notes that “[a]ny person charged with an offense under this Emergency Order may choose to enter a plea of not guilty and be entitled to a trial as authorized by the law.”
The order also sets a maximum penalty of a fine that cannot exceed $2,650, or up to 360 days in prison — or both. And the edict says this: &#8220;Enforcement actions are intended to be cumulative in nature and Englewood may pursue one of more civil, criminal, and administrative actions, fees, fines, sentences, penalties, judgments, and remedies and may do so simultaneously or in succession.&#8221;
The Colorado city&#8217;s order follows another in West Hollywood.
“The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department West Hollywood Station said Wednesday it would start citing people for not wearing face coverings,” effective immediately, <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/07/01/west-hollywood-sheriffs-station-to-start-citing-people-not-wearing-face-coverings/">CBS-LA</a> reported last week. “The department said it took the step after receiving a number of complaints about people not wearing face coverings in West Hollywood.”
The fines start out low but soar for repeat offenders. For a first offense, there’s a $250 fine plus $50 processing fee, the sheriff’s department said in a statement. The second offense brings a $1,000 fine, the third a $2,000 fine — and for a fourth offense, a whopping $5,000 fine.
The sheriff’s department said they simply had no other choice but to implement fines. “Our last option was to conduct enforcement by issuing an Administrative Citation, but the risk to community health is too great,” the statement said.
But <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/you-can-now-face-a-300-fine-for-not-wearing-a-mask-in-west-hollywood/#:~:text=Sheriff's%20deputies%20in%20West%20Hollywood,station%20said%20in%20a%20tweet.">KTLA-5</a> said local jurisdictions have been given &#8220;leeway to decide how — or if — they’ll enforce the statewide mask mandate issued June 18. The order allows for fines and other penalties, including possible misdemeanor charges.&#8221;
While face coverings have been required in Los Angeles County since May 14, KTLA notes, the orders &#8220;have largely gone unenforced with punitive measures.&#8221; Only the West Hollywood station has instituted a citation, the site says.
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Kanye West discussed his recent declaration that he will run for president in 2020, despite his close relationship and past support for President Donald Trump.
During an extensive interview with <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2020/07/08/kanye-west-says-hes-done-with-trump-opens-up-about-white-house-bid-damaging-biden-and-everything-in-between/#494a53e347aa">Forbes</a> magazine released Wednesday, West offered praise for Trump, claimed our nation is veering away from God, bashed abortion giant Planned Parenthood, and talked about his skepticism of vaccines.
Taking off his &#8220;red hat&#8221; for the interview to discuss a potential 2020 platform, the musician applauded Trump for allowing God to be part of the national discourse.
“Trump is the closest president we’ve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation,&#8221; he said.
West also staunchly supported the pro-life position, hammering Planned Parenthood as a part of a &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; agenda.
“I am pro-life because I’m following the word of the Bible,&#8221; West asserted, adding, &#8220;Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work.”
West also advocated for a more God-centered culture and for prayer to be back in schools.
“Reinstate in God’s state, in God’s country, the fear and love of God in all schools and organizations and you chill the fear and love of everything else. So that was a plan by the Devil to have our kids committing suicide at an all-time high by removing God, to have murders in Chicago at an all-time high because the human beings working for the Devil removed God and prayer from the schools,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That means more drugs, more murders, more suicide.”
West told the outlet that he suffered from COVID-19 back in February and is &#8220;extremely cautious&#8221; about vaccines, calling a potential coronavirus vaccine &#8220;the Mark of the Beast.&#8221;
“It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed… So when they say the way we’re going to fix COVID is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious. That&#8217;s the Mark of the Beast,&#8221; he said, referencing a symbolic passage in Revelation 13.
&#8220;They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can’t cross the gates of heaven,&#8221; West continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry when I say they, the humans that have the Devil inside them. And the sad thing is that, the saddest thing is that we all won’t make it to heaven, that there’ll be some of us that do not make it. Next question.”
When the fashion designer had COVID months ago, he said he suffered from &#8220;chills, shaking in the bed,&#8221; and resorted to &#8220;taking hot showers, looking at videos telling me what I&#8217;m supposed to do to get over it.&#8221;
&#8220;I remember someone had told me Drake had the coronavirus and my response was Drake can’t be sicker than me!&#8221; he joked.
“We pray,&#8221; said West on a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. &#8220;We pray for the freedom. It’s all about God. We need to stop doing things that make God mad.”
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Kanye West Praises Trump, Hammers Planned Parenthood, Likens COVID Vaccine To ‘Mark Of The Beast’

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A health expert at Johns Hopkins University is warning that mask-wearing and some social distancing measures may be part of life in the United States for years to come.
Eric Toner, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, specializes in pandemic preparedness and has met with government officials all over the world about viral outbreaks such as the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China.
Widespread vaccinations for the disease will not be available for years to come, and until then, Americans will have to adjust, Toner told <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/living-with-masks-for-years-covid-19-through-the-eyes-of-a-pandemic-expert/">CNET</a>.
“I think that mask wearing and some degree of social distancing, we will be living with &#8212; hopefully living with happily &#8212; for several years,” Toner said. “It&#8217;s actually pretty straightforward. If we cover our faces, and both you and anyone you&#8217;re interacting with are wearing a mask, the risk of transmission goes way down. Being outside, having distance between you and other people reduces the risk of transmission dramatically.”
“There are a lot of things you can do and maintain those conditions. If you spread out, if you maintain distance, if you avoid crowded places, you could go to a beach, you go to the mountains, you could go to a lake, you can do things outside without a problem,” Toner said.
States such as California, Texas, and Michigan that had begun to relax strict lockdown orders enacted after the outbreak of the coronavirus are putting some of those restrictions back in place as case numbers for those states begin to rise.
The rise in case numbers has not come with a corresponding rise in deaths, raising questions about whether rising case numbers justify a heavy-handed government response if vulnerable populations are not getting sick. In fact, deaths from the coronavirus have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amid-percentage-of-deaths-having-declined-cdc-admits-coronavirus-on-verge-of-non-epidemic-status">fallen</a> in the U.S. for 10 consecutive weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Toner, however, says that masks will be a part of life for the foreseeable future, and for those that refuse to wear coverings, “They will get over it … It&#8217;s just a question of how many people get sick and die before they get over it.”
Toner’s comments appear to challenge the optimistic scenario pushed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and who was instrumental in shaping the United States’ response to the virus early on. Fauci has said that the U.S. could have 100 million doses of vaccine by the end of the year.
“We are going to start manufacturing doses of the vaccine way before we even know if the vaccine works,” Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-u-s-on-track-to-have-close-to-100-million-doses-of-a-coronavirus-vaccine-by-december">said</a> in June. “The prediction of the statistical analysis and the projection of cases indicate that we may know whether it’s efficacious by maybe November, December … By that time, we hopefully would have close to 100 million doses.”
Later in the month, Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-coronavirus-vaccine-unlikely-to-achieve-herd-immunity-because-of-anti-vaxxers">blunted</a> the news and said that although the vaccine would be ready for widespread use by the start of next year, it may not inoculate enough people to reach herd immunity in the U.S. because of “a general anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccine feeling among some people in this country — an alarmingly large percentage of people, relatively speaking.”
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Health Expert: Mask Wearing, Some Social Distancing Will Continue For ‘Several Years’

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Actor Tom Hanks once again scolded Americans who choose to go maskless in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he has &#8220;no respect&#8221; for such people. His comments come a week after he said not wearing a mask is a &#8220;p***y&#8221; move.
Speaking with The Associated Press, the &#8220;Forrest Gump&#8221; actor said he wouldn&#8217;t trust the mask avoiders with a driver&#8217;s license.
&#8220;I don’t get it. I simply do not get it. It is literally the least you can do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And if anybody wants to build up an argument about doing the least you can do, I wouldn’t trust them with a driver’s license. I mean when you drive a car you have to obey speed limits, you got to use your turn signals, you have to avoid hitting pedestrians.&#8221;
&#8220;If you can’t do those three things, then I get it. You shouldn’t be driving a car. If you can’t wear a mask and wash your hands and social distance, I got no respect for you, man. I don’t buy your argument,&#8221; he added.
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Speaking with &#8220;<a href="https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Tom-Hanks-delivers-a-blunt-message-coronavirus-15391483.php">Today</a>&#8221; while promoting his new World War II movie &#8220;Greyhound,&#8221; Tom Hanks likened the COVID-19 battle to WWII and called on Americans to do their part.
&#8220;There was a sensibility that permeated all of society, which was, do your part. We’re all in this together,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The idea of doing one’s part should be so simple: wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands. That alone means you’re contributing to the betterment of your house, your work, your town, society as a whole.&#8221;
“I don’t know how common sense has somehow been put in question with regards to this,&#8221; he added.
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The actor&#8217;s talking-points this week nearly echoed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-dont-be-a-py-wear-a-mask">what he said</a> during a press conference last week regarding masks.
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“There’s really only three things we can do in order to get to tomorrow: Wear a mask, social distance, wash our hands,” Hanks said while promoting his upcoming movie “Greyhound.”
“Those things are so simple, so easy. If anybody cannot find it in themselves to practice those three very basic things – I just think shame on you,” he added, as reported by <a href="https://people.com/movies/tom-hanks-says-shame-on-you-to-those-who-dont-wear-a-mask-and-social-distance-do-your-part/">People</a>. “Don’t be a p***y, get on with it, do your part. It’s very basic. If you’re driving a car, you don’t go too fast, you use your turn signal, and you avoid hitting pedestrians. My Lord, it’s common sense.”
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On July 4, actor Matthew McConaughey <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-matthew-mcconaughey-wear-the-damn-mask-lets-quit-messing-about">advised his followers</a> on social media to &#8220;wear the damn mask&#8221; in order to beat the pandemic.
“Happy 244th birthday, America,” said McConaughey. “We is going through some growing pains on this one, aren’t we? But growing pains are a good thing, because how the hell else are we going to grow up? I think we gotta look each other in the eye. I think we gotta look ourselves in the eye.”
“We gotta look in the mirror and ask ourselves, ‘How can I be better? How can I expect more of myself and others? How can I be more responsible? How can I have more compassion? How can I have more courage? How can I be more fair? How do I make sure I wear the damn mask?” he continued.
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Tom Hanks: ‘I Got No Respect’ For People Who Don’t Wear Masks

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said she will not be bullied into reopening her state if COVID-19 cases begin to increase, and she unpersuaded by any potential political fallout.
Speaking on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;New Day&#8221; on Tuesday, the Michigan governor said that she will listen to the experts before reopening her state.
“I want to re-engage this economy more than anyone, but I’m not going to do it if it is too risky to do so, and that&#8217;s why we’re staying focussed on the epidemiology,” Whitmer said, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/506207-whitmer-im-not-going-to-be-bullied-into-reopening-before-its-safe">The Hill</a>. “I’m not going to be bullied into moving before it&#8217;s safe, and if we have to move back, we&#8217;re going to.”
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Whitmer responded to criticism that she overstepped her authority when she &#8220;signed an order <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90499_90640-533436--,00.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">closing indoor service</a> at bars throughout much of lower Michigan to mitigate the disease&#8217;s spread ahead of the July 4 holiday weekend.&#8221; Whitmer told CNN that she is prepared to shut down hair salons if need be.
“I took a lot of heat when we brought that curve down, we saved thousands of lives. I’m prepared to take heat if that’s what is going to take to keep people safe,” she said.
“I would hate to think the sacrifices that we&#8217;ve made could be made in vain because some people are losing interest or dropping their guard. We&#8217;ve got to double down right now more than ever,” she continued. “It’s incumbent on every one of us to mask up. From the White House to the statehouse and everywhere in between. That&#8217;s the most important thing we can do right now.”
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said last week that his state will not be locking down again.
“We’re not going back, closing things,” DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-florida-not-going-into-lockdown-again">told reporters</a>. “I don’t think that that, really, is what’s driving it. People going to business is not what’s driving it. I think when you see the younger folks, I think a lot of it is more just social interactions, so that’s natural.”
“We’re open; we know who we need to protect. Most of the folks in those younger demographics, although we want them to be mindful of what’s going on, are just simply much, much less at risk than the folks who are in those older age groups,” DeSantis continued.
In a Facebook Live stream on Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that the United States is still &#8220;knee-deep&#8221; in the first wave of COVID-19.
&#8220;We are still knee-deep in the first wave of this,&#8221; Fauci said, as reported by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html">CNN</a>. &#8220;I would say, this would not be considered a wave. It was a surge or a resurgence of infections superimposed upon a baseline &#8230; that really never got down to where we wanted to go.&#8221;
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: ‘I’m Not Going To Be Bullied’ Into Reopening

Effective July 6, 2021, the United States will no longer be a member nation of the World Health Organization, the White House announced Tuesday, ending the U.S.&#8217;s involvement in the global group, which President Donald Trump has claimed conspired with China to hide the true extent of the coronavirus pandemic.
The United States submitted its withdrawal to the United Nations Secretary-General on Tuesday, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/506214-trump-administration-formally-withdraws-us-from-WHO-">according to The Hill</a>, and the White House informed Congress of its intent to drop participation in the WHO early Tuesday morning.
The World Health Organization, concerned that a break might be coming, was adamant Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over and warned member nations to stay the course, participating wholly in the WHO&#8217;s global efforts at pandemic containment.
The pandemic is &#8220;accelerating, and we have clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic,&#8221; Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a briefing. &#8220;More than six months in, the case for national unity and global solidarity is undeniable. We cannot afford any divisions.&#8221;
The United States, however, has been reconsidering its membership in the WHO since early February, when suspicions arose among Trump administration officials that WHO administrations may have conspired with Chinese officials to hide the origin of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and may have helped the Chinese government conceal the extent of the pandemic within that country&#8217;s borders.
Later reports also seem to indicate that the WHO deliberately recast the novel coronavirus as largely harmless, tweeting in January that there was no proof the virus could be transmitted from human to human, although it was clear from the Chinese experience that the virus was highly contagious. In February, Dr. Ghebreyesus claimed that &#8220;the spread [of coronavirus] to other countries is minimal and slow,&#8221; and that Chinese efforts to contain the virus had been successful.
In recent days, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-quietly-alters-coronavirus-timeline-to-indicate-it-first-learned-of-coronavirus-from-the-internet-not-the-chinese-government">Fox News reports</a>, the WHO has been furiously recasting its narrative about the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, even going so far as to alter its official timeline on the matter, claiming now that it learned of the coronavirus from the Internet and not from health officials in Wuhan, where the global pandemic began.
The White House announced in April that it was looking to pull funding from the WHO, pending an investigation into the body&#8217;s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The move triggered panic within the WHO&#8217;s ranks, particularly given that the United States supplies a significant percentage &#8212; more than $400 million &#8212; of the group&#8217;s operating budget. At one point, members of the WHO accused Taiwan of orchestrating an uprising among member nations based on racism &#8212; a claim Taiwan quickly and forcefully disputed.
In late May, the U.S. officially announced that it would cut ties with the WHO but did not set a timeline for withdrawal.
Tuesday&#8217;s announcement fulfills the Trump administration&#8217;s threat.
Democrats quickly fired back at the administration. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) tweeted that &#8220;to call Trump’s response to COVID chaotic &amp; incoherent doesn&#8217;t do it justice. This won&#8217;t protect American lives or interests — it leaves Americans sick &amp; America alone.&#8221;
Correction: An earlier version of this article said the withdrawal from WHO would take place next Monday. It will actually take place July 6, 2021.
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A special investigation, commissioned by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s administration, claims that health care workers, who cared for patients in adult care and nursing facilities, are to blame for hundreds of COVID-19 deaths and not the governor&#8217;s own policy forcing such facilities to accept coronavirus-positive patients.
&#8220;New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes during the height of the pandemic under a controversial, now-scrapped policy,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/b29d0a5eb51a5aed21d5efe132c33374?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP">The Associated Press reported late Monday</a>, quoting an official report from the governor&#8217;s office.
But the office says it&#8217;s not to blame for the hundreds of deaths that resulted when patients who were still contagious were shifted into nursing and adult care facilities. Instead, it said that those deaths were the fault of &#8220;more than 20,000 infected home staffers, many of whom kept going to work unaware they had the virus in March and April.&#8221;
“Facts matter. And those are the facts,” a New York health commissioner told media Monday.
The Cuomo administration has been desperate to shift the blame for what The Associated Press says is more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths that occurred in nursing homes after the governor&#8217;s office ordered nearly 6,500 recovering COVID-19 patients released into such care facilities.
Cuomo&#8217;s office was clear, under the policy, that adult care and nursing facilities were required to take the COVID-19 patients and those that refused would face state consequences. Although the orders also specified that coronavirus-positive individuals were to be separated from the general population, many facilities &#8212; and, in particular, facilities that cared for low-income and minority populations &#8212; did not have the resources to fully sequester recovering COVID-19 patients from others.
The New York governor&#8217;s office eventually rescinded the policy, but not before hundreds of elderly and compromised New York residents had died from coronavirus. Nearly half of all New York pandemic deaths were in adult and nursing care facilities.
Since rescinding the policy, Andrew Cuomo has relied on a number of excuses to explain away the deaths, from blaming President Donald Trump to shifting focus to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (both of whom said the &#8220;directive&#8221; to send coronavirus patients to nursing homes was not an official requirement), and now, the state is directly targeting those who cared for many of the sickest patients in their dying days.
&#8220;The 33-page review released Monday by the state Health Department instead blamed COVID-19-positive staff and visitors who unknowingly infected the vulnerable population of nursing home patients, at least more than 6,000 of whom died in numbers that are not yet complete,&#8221; <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/cuomo-agency-report-cuomo-policy-not-to-blame-for-nursing-home-deaths/article_208e37ba-bfbd-11ea-bad2-e343863b6186.html">Buffalo News reported</a>.
&#8220;The state report says the number of residents dying at nursing homes peaked on April 8 — around the same time as COVID-19 deaths statewide, but nearly a week before the peak of COVID-19 patients from hospitals — a sequence of events the report casts as &#8216;suggesting the policy was not the cause,'&#8221; The Associated Press added.
The Cuomo administration&#8217;s report also suggests that many nursing homes that accepted coronavirus-positive patients already had suspected cases of the virus.
Nursing home administrators took umbrage at the governor&#8217;s suggestion that health care workers caused the outbreaks and, by extension, deaths among their own patients.
&#8220;The policy tied the hands of nursing home leaders who were afraid of residents becoming infected from new patients, or who wanted to require symptomatic patients be tested for COVID-19 so nursing homes could place them in the right unit,&#8221; one administrator told the AP.
Health care workers took care of their patients at &#8220;great physical and emotional cost, in many cases without adequate personal protective equipment and while being denied needed paid sick time,” one union head added.
Cuomo later backed his administration&#8217;s findings, saying that nursing home deaths from the virus were inevitable.
“You had this political conspiracy that the deaths in nursing homes were preventable,&#8221; he said.
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Cuomo Administration’s Investigation Blames Health Care Workers For Nursing Home COVID Deaths, Not Governor’s Order

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Monday was the first day in three months that the state of Virginia reported no know coronavirus-related deaths. It was also the smallest daily increase in the number of cases in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-reports-no-daily-coronavirus-deaths-as-region-sees-smallest-case-increase-since-april/2020/07/06/4f5e8c64-bfab-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html?outputType=amp">reported</a> that the DMV area “reported 659 new known coronavirus cases Monday, bringing the regional total to more than 146,000 since the start of the pandemic.” Monday’s report, however, is the smallest daily increase in the area since April 3.
“The region recorded five new fatalities Monday, with no daily deaths reported in Virginia for the first time since March 28. It is also the lowest regional number of deaths since that date,” the outlet reported. “Mondays typically have some of the lowest daily numbers following the weekend, with this Monday also coming after a holiday.”
While Virginia had no new reported deaths, it did have the highest reported increase in new cases with 354. Maryland reported 272 new cases and three deaths, while D.C. reported 33 new cases and two deaths.
“Several key measures of the virus have been improving in the Washington region, experts say, and the daily average caseload has plateaued after weeks of decline. Officials have cautioned that the gradual lifting of restrictions could increase the rate of transmission as more people interact in public places,” the Post added. “Officials also cautioned that the region could have an increase in cases after celebrations tied to the Fourth of July holiday. The number of new cases on a seven-day average has generally hovered below 1,000 since mid-June.”
Virginia and Maryland each have been steadily reopening over the past month, though reopening has been slower in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland – the regions nearest Washington, D.C. Even the regions that have been slower to open are allowing residents to get haircuts and eat at restaurants.
&#8220;As of Sunday, the District had measured eight days of declining spread, starting June 12 with about 40 new cases. But the city reset that clock to five days on Monday after identifying another 40 patients or so who developed symptoms about a week later,&#8221; the Post reported.
As The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-governor-ralph-northam-joins-holiday-weekend-revelers-doesnt-wear-mask">reported</a>, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) refused to wear a mask or follow his own social distancing guidelines during the Memorial Day weekend holiday.
“Northam reportedly visited the beach with Mayor Bobby Dye on the second day of the beach’s reopening, according to local news outlet 13News Now. Virginia Beach’s reopening is considered a test to see if people can safely follow social distancing rules before other beaches in Virginia reopen,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-gov-northam-criticized-after-not-wearing-mask-or-social-distancing-on-beach">Fox News reported</a> at the time. “But Northam, who previously served as an Army doctor, came under fire when images of him surfaced on social media not wearing a face mask and apparently in close contact with other community members.”
Just days before, Northam had encouraged Virginians to wear face coverings.
“Face coverings are an important part of the next steps. We’ll have more on that next week,” Northam said, before insisting residents obtain “face coverings for themselves and their families over the weekend.”
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Newsom Plans To Release Roughly 8,000 Inmates Back Into California Over Coronavirus

New Zealand To Quarantine People In Isolation ‘For Months, Maybe Years,’ Epidemiologist Says

Nancy Pelosi: Trump Wearing A Mask Is ‘An Admission’ Measure Works To Stop Spread Of Coronavirus

Liberals Lose Their Minds After Trump Dons Mask For Hospital Visit

NBC Virus Expert Who Claimed He Had ‘Undiagnosed’ COVID-19 Reveals He Never Had Virus

KHAN: How Politicization, Anxiety And Misdirection Are Still Driving The Pandemic Narrative

Poll: Public Approval Of Trump’s Coronavirus Response Hits All-Time Low

Michigan Governor Whitmer: Health Professionals Must Be Trained On Implicit Bias

University Of Pittsburgh Doctor On Virus: ‘We Are Not Seeing The Same Pattern Of Increase In Severe Cases’

Treasury Secretary Backs ‘Another Round’ Of Coronavirus Stimulus Checks; When You Might See Some Cash

United States Record More Than 60,000 New Coronavirus Cases In Daily Record

Study: Coronavirus Hundreds of Times Less Deadly To Younger People Than Those Aged 80+

City Mandates Masks, Threatens Up To A Year In Jail For Repeat Violators

Kanye West Praises Trump, Hammers Planned Parenthood, Likens COVID Vaccine To ‘Mark Of The Beast’

Health Expert: Mask Wearing, Some Social Distancing Will Continue For ‘Several Years’

Tom Hanks: ‘I Got No Respect’ For People Who Don’t Wear Masks

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: ‘I’m Not Going To Be Bullied’ Into Reopening

United States Will Withdraw From The World Health Organization

Cuomo Administration’s Investigation Blames Health Care Workers For Nursing Home COVID Deaths, Not Governor’s Order

Virginia Reports No Single-Day Coronavirus-Related Deaths For The First Time In Three Months

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