Summary:
- Dr. Fauci: No reason we can’t have in-person voting
- Novartis CEO: Covid may never go away
- Houston metro area sees rate of transmission fall
- Florida cases continue to moderate
- Arizona reports latest infections
- China finds 2 more cases of “rare” COVID recurrence
- Germany sees new cases hit 3-month high
- 6% of England has been infected
- Rural Indians grow weary of wearing masks as domestic outbreak passes 2MN
- Philippines joins Brazil, UAE etc in planning Russian vaccine trials
- South Korea sees cases hit 1-month high
- Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine produces “immune response” in test subjects
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Updates (1520ET): In another win for Trump’s critics, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has generally resisted more stringent restrictions against the virus, warned of a surge of deaths in a nursing home and assisted-living facility.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has abandoned his lawsuit against Atlanta over its mandatory mask ruling enacted by Mayor Keisha Bottoms. Instead, Kemp threatened to rectify the issue in the next executive order.
“Unfortunately, the mayor has made it clear that she will not agree to a settlement that safeguards the rights of private property owners in Georgia,” Kemp was quoted as saying. “Given this stalemate in negotiations, we will address this issue in the next executive order. We will continue to protect the lives and livelihoods of all Georgians.”
Meanwhile, Texas has announced plans to investigate why the state’s positivity rate is climbing to record levels, while other metrics, like hospitalizations, indicate a slowdown.
A special “data team” has been assigned to examine state health department data analysis and calculations, Governor Greg Abbott said. One factor in the jump in the positivity rate may be that fewer Texans are seeking testing, he said…
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