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Live updates: U.S. may not return to pre-coronavirus life until late 2021, Fauci says

Live updates: U.S. may not return to pre-coronavirus life until late 2021, Fauci says

Live updates: U.S. may not return to pre-coronavirus life until late 2021, Fauci says
Sep 11, 2020 4 mins, 24 secs

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Fauci said Friday that he disagrees with President Trump’s claim that the United States has “rounded the final turn” of the coronavirus crisis, calling the country’s latest virus statistics “disturbing.”.

Fauci said Friday that he disagrees with President Trump’s claim that the United States has “rounded the final turn” of the coronavirus crisis, calling the country’s latest virus statistics “disturbing.”.

“Well, you know, I’m sorry but I have to disagree with that,” responded Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force and longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Public health officials have also expressed worry about the novel coronavirus colliding with flu season.

The baseline of infections should be brought down, Fauci said, “so when you go into a more precarious situation like the fall and the winter, you won’t have a situation where you really are a at a disadvantage right from the beginning.”.

Speaking Thursday at a White House press briefing, Trump had insisted that “we have rounded the final turn” and are “going have vaccines very soon, maybe much sooner than you think.” The president came under renewed fire this week for downplaying the virus to the public, amid revelations that Trump told journalist Bob Woodward months ago that he intentionally minimized the crisis.

In February, the president told Woodward that the coronavirus was “more deadly than even your strenuous flus,” even as he was telling Americans it was no worse than seasonal flu.

During an appearance on CNN, Collins was shown images of a largely maskless crowd at a rally for President Trump in Michigan.

Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease specialist, said Friday that only when the majority or more of the American population is vaccinated can society reasonably expect a semblance of “normalcy” that “resembles where we were prior to covid.”.

Mitchell asked Fauci about the revelation made by President Trump to journalist Bob Woodward that he intentionally downplayed the seriousness of the novel coronavirus.

Fauci, who remarked on past and current disagreements with the president, said, “When you downplay something that is really a threat, that’s not a good thing.”.

The emergency unemployment benefits approved by President Trump in August are already running out, leaving millions of Americans without extra support as prospects dim for a congressional deal to provide more relief for jobless Americans.

The Trump administration has begun telling states that the federal government will stop providing them the temporary $300 weekly jobless benefit, which had been a part of a White House executive directive in the weeks after the enhanced federal unemployment benefit of $600 ran out.

In recent days, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which was funding the unemployment aid program, said the benefit was scheduled to last for a maximum of six weeks from the beginning of August.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that prospects for a new coronavirus relief bill before the election are not looking good.

“I wish I could tell you we were going to get another package but it doesn’t look that good right now,” McConnell said, offering his most pessimistic assessment to date about the state of play.

“I can’t predict that we’re going to get together here in the last two months before the election,” McConnell said.

While academic journals thrive on equivocality, trying to answer queries that are sometimes unsolvable, disapproval of President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic was put bluntly in a recent editorial by Science magazine.

In an editor’s letter published Friday in the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Trump was panned after a recorded conversation with Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward made waves.

“It’s not common for a journal to do that ⁠ — but the scientific community is getting increasingly concerned with the dangerous politicization of science during this pandemic crisis,” said Benjamin Corb, public affairs director for the nonprofit American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

The op-ed comes at a time when the agency is facing intense scrutiny related to its role in regulating coronavirus treatments and a possible vaccine.

22, President Trump accused the FDA of being part of a “deep state” that was slowing development of vaccines and treatments until after the election.

In the first week, there were 31 clusters, amounting to 150 cases, of the novel coronavirus in schools, according to Germany’s Robert Koch Institute.

Compliance with the face covering rule is at 90 percent, MTA President Patrick Foye said during the briefing with Cuomo, but the union representing transit workers calculated that about 60 percent of riders earlier this summer wore masks.

Foye said the agency has distributed more than 4 million masks to travelers.

“Achieving universal mask compliance is our goal,” Foye said.

After the transfer, dozens of the new arrivals tested positive for the novel coronavirus, fueling an outbreak at the Farmville, Va., immigration jail that infected more than 300 inmates, one of whom died

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the agency moved the detainees on “ICE Air” charter flights to avoid overcrowding at detention facilities in Arizona and Florida, a precaution they said was taken because of the pandemic

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