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Trump And Other Top Officials All Vote By Mail. But There’s A Reason You’d Never Know That.
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Did you know that Donald Trump votes by mail? You’d be forgiven if you didn’t, especially if you’ve read any of his error-ridden tweets or watched his unhinged briefings trashing the practice.
CO Restaurant That Defied State, Hosted Huge Mother’s Day Crowd Ordered Closed
Local health authorities ordered closed a Colorado restaurant that opened for eat-in dining in violation of the governor’s COVID-19 orders.
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Fauci Warns Coronavirus ‘Very Well Might’ Return In Cycles
President Trump and the White House coronavirus task force held their first briefing since the Senate struck a $2 trillion bipartisan deal in response to the coronavirus crisis.
Trump, who is eager to reopen the U.S. economy as soon as Easter, said he will sign the Senate’s emergency package “immediately” when it passes the House.
“I encourage the House to pass this vital legislation and send the bill to my desk for a signature without delay,” Trump said.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said that Americans who qualify for direct payments under the stimulus bill will get their direct deposits or checks within the next three weeks. Although he was mum on details of the package, Mnuchin added that he expects a vote tonight in the Senate.
Later into the briefing, coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that the coronavirus “very well might” become a seasonal cycle.
“It will be inevitable that we need to be prepared that we will get a cycle around,” Fauci said.
Fauci explained that the possibility of the coronavirus coming back in “cycles” means that “it emphasizes the need to do what we are doing,” referring to the administration’s efforts in developing a vaccine as quickly as possible so that it will be available “for that next cycle.”
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US Death Toll From COVID Passes 80,000 Mark
More than 80,000 people in the U.S. have now died from the novel coronavirus, according to statistics compiled by the John Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
A significant plurality of those deaths are in the Northeast — 26,988, by John Hopkins’ count, in New York state, and 9,340 more in New Jersey.
Increasingly, the virus is moving to smaller cities and rural areas. And though President Trump has touted falling rates across the country, a White House task force report obtained by NBC news and published Monday shows virus rates spiking in the heartland.
John Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center dashboard here »
India Resumes Limited Train Service As It Eases Lockdown
NEW DELHI (AP) — India reopened parts of its huge rail network on Tuesday, running a limited number of trains as it looks at easing a nearly seven-week lockdown despite a continuing rise in coronavirus infections.
Special trains departed from several large cities, including New Delhi and Mumbai. Passengers were allowed to enter the stations only if they were asymptomatic and cleared thermal screening. They are required to maintain social distancing on board and are given hand sanitizers when they enter and leave.
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US Donates 1,000 Ventilators To South Africa To Combat Coronavirus
JOHANNESBURG — The U.S. government has donated 1,000 ventilators to South Africa to help the country respond to COVID-19.
South Africa has the most confirmed cases of the disease in Africa with more than 10,600, including 206 deaths.
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How The Coronavirus Will Change Office Life Forever
LONDON (AP) — Office jobs are never going to be the same.
When workers around the world eventually return to their desks, they’ll find many changes due to the pandemic. For a start, fewer people will go back to their offices as the coronavirus crisis makes working from home more accepted, health concerns linger and companies weigh up rent savings and productivity benefits.
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More Than 8,000 People Died In British Nursing Homes Over Past Two Months
LONDON — More than 8,000 people died with the coronavirus in British nursing homes since the first recorded death from March 2 to May 1.
The U.K.’s Office for National Statistics says in the two-month period there were 8,312 recorded deaths in care homes in England and Wales that mentioned COVID-19 on the death certificate. The figure doesn’t include deaths in Scotland or Northern Ireland, which would add several hundred to the total.
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Putin’s Spokesman Hospitalized For COVID-19
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman says he is hospitalized with the coronavirus.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Interfax news agency on Tuesday, “Yes, I’ve gotten sick. I’m being treated.”
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