The tension from reopening the face-to-face school is developing with quarantines, viral epidemics and coronavirus-related deaths.
In Georgia, more than 800 academics from a school district were invited to quarantine one week after the start of the school year. In Florida, a third user connected to a school in Tallahassee that has yet reopened died after contracting COVID-19.
Meanwhile, in Texas, the state exceeded 500,000 coronavirus cases shown Tuesday as schools begin to reopen statewide. Gov. Greg Abbott suggests that the circle of family members and community meetings are to blame for the sharp increase in the rate of positive evidence.
“There’s an explanation for why this is happening, I think, and it’s because other people think that if they’re just with members of the family circle,” they can let their guard down,” Abbott told reporters. “And that’s not the case.”
Here are some developments:
? Figures today: The United States has recorded more than 164,000 deaths and 5.1 million COVID-19 cases, to Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there have been more than 738,000 deaths and 20 million cases.
? What We Read: Parents are separated because some schools in the same district face greater dangers of reopening than others. The virus has affected poorer school communities more severely than richer areas.
Three other people from the Fort Braden school network in Tallahassee, Florida, have now died after contracting COVID-19, leading to additional considerations about the reopening of the state-ordered school district, scheduled for the end of this month.
Jordan Byrd, a school principal who attended Fort Braden School as a child, died on July 18. Karen Bradwell, 53, who ran an extracurricular program at Fort Braden, died on July 25, a week after Jordan Byrd’s death.
And Jacqueline Byrd, a former Fort Braden school worker and mother of Jordan Byrd, died after her own fight with COVID-19, according to family members.
His death comes less than 3 weeks before the planned reopening of Leon County schools. All schools are scheduled to reopen on August 31; parents can send their children to physical study rooms or enroll them in virtual courses.
– Jeff Burlew, Democrat of Tallahassee
The Big Ten will play football in the fall due to physical condition disorders similar to the coronavirus pandemic, the convention announced Tuesday.
After a full dramatic days of meetings between coaches, sports administrators and college presidents, this surprising resolution marks a possible turning point for the Bowl Branch to play a season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“The physical and intellectual fitness and well-being of our student-athletes has been at the heart of all the decisions we’ve made regarding the ability to move forward,” Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said in a statement.
A Texas court has filed what the state says is the first virtual jury trial in a criminal case. The case began Tuesday morning, and prospective jurors appeared on screen in a Travis County virtual courtroom before being separated to answer surveys and learn about Zoom. The case of misdemeanor trafficking is broadcast live on YouTube and is the latest experiment on how to resume proceedings before a jury in a criminal justice formula paralyzed by the pandemic.
“You are here to serve as a jury otherwise, ” said Judge Nicholas Chu. “It’s Zoom’s jury duty.”
A week after the school year, more than 800 students and 42 from a Georgia school district were asked to be quarantined after several positive tests at COVID-19, according to the district’s website. The Cherokee County School District in northern Atlanta stores regular updates on coronavirus cases in its schools with the community. The district has 40 schools and centers, 4,800 workers and more than 42,200 schoolchildren.
“We have academics and staff reporting presumptive, waiting and positive COVID-19 tests every day, and this will continue while we administer a pandemic in schools,” Cherokee County School Principal Brian Hightower wrote in a letter to parents Friday, adding that the school’s formula was taking “additional steps for transparency.”
– Wyatte Grantham-Philips
Hairdressers across California piled up Tuesday at the state Capitol in Sacramento, urging lawmakers to allow their classrooms to reopen. The Peaceful Pro-Beauty Rally aims to complete state transitional regulations that require them to operate outdoors or not work at all. The rally organizer, Alicia Orabella, owner of a lounge in the Bay Area, told abc10.com that beauty salons deserve not to be with bars and restaurants.
“We’re just asking them to pay attention to us,” Orabella said of lawmakers. “The outdoors is not an environment. I see nail salons on the streets doing pedicures in front of a dumpster. It’s not hygienic at all.”
Arizona reported more than 1,200 new cases of COVID-19 and forty-five new known deaths Tuesday, and hospitalizations for the disease advanced 4 weeks of downward trend. The state has noticed symptoms of improvement after being an obvious hot spot in early summer. The number of known cases above 188,737 and known deaths amounted to 4,199, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services’ daily report. The forty-five new known deaths reported Tuesday are the new known deaths through the Arizona Department of Health Services that day, however, many occurred days and weeks earlier.
Of the results of last week’s checks, 8% yielded positive results, according to the state. A 5% positivity rate is a smart benchmark for the differential to be under control. Tuesday also:
– Alison Steinbach, Republic of Arizona; Mike Stucka, USA TODAY
An outbreak of viruses among Vermont criminals arrested in a Mississippi criminal highlights the potential danger of loading and exporting a global pandemic to prisoners.
Vermont has one of the lowest virus rates in the country, however, six inmates brought from Mississippi came back positive. Prison officials ordered Mississippi personal facilities to check the rest of Vermont’s inmates, and about two-thirds of Vermont’s 219 vermont inmates imprisoned outdoors in the state tested positive for the virus.
Interim Vermont corrections commissioner Jim Baker assumed a duty to ask more questions about Mississippi protocols, a hot spot for the virus. “Obviously, where we are now with the number of positive tests, something went wrong,” Baker said.
– Elizabeth Murray, Tom Mooney and Karen Dandurant
Children account for less than 10% of all COVID-19 cases in the United States, however, the total number of youth cases nearly doubled last month, according to a new report.
Nearly 180,000 new youth cases were reported between July 9 and August 6, bringing the total to 380,174, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported in a new survey. Building occurs when the country’s schools begin to open their doors to students. The news is that knowledge implies that COVID-1nine-related hospitalizations and deaths are rare in young people.
“At present, serious illnesses from COVID-19 appear to be rare in children,” the survey said. “However, states continue to provide detailed case reports, tests, hospitalizations, and age mortality of COVID-19 so that the effects of COVID-19 on children’s fitness can continue to be documented and monitored.”
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Tuesday’s record of the Trump administration that China did not adequately warn about coronavirus after its first detection in Wuhan. China’s ruling Communist Party chose not to “warn the global and the global paintings to fight the virus,” Azar said, adding that the prices of this selection were rising every day. Trump’s management has continually accused China of not disclosing data to the United Nations World Health Organization, citing this statement in pronouncing the U.S. withdrawal from WHO.
Azar is found in Taiwan, the highest-ranking U.S. official on the separatist island since the breakdown of official relations between Taiwan and mainland China in 1979.
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway expressed skepticism about evidence confirming Russia’s claim that she developed a COVID-19 vaccine. President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that his daughter is among those receiving the vaccine.
“America’s criteria are much stricter,” Conway said Tuesday in “Fox and Friends.” “Our FDA in our country sets the criteria and what I perceive from the Russia announcement is that we are from where we are from.”
Putin under pressure that the vaccine had undergone mandatory testing and had proven effective, offering lasting immunity against coronavirus. However, national and foreign scientists have sounded the alarm that the rush to start the vaccine before phase 3 trials, which usually last months and involve thousands of people, can be counterproductive.
A USA TODAY investigation into COVID-19 infection rates at the zip code level found that neighborhoods most affected by coronavirus and others affected exist to look, and in the same district where officials seek to find out if schools deserve to open. The figures also show that, for the vast majority, the maximum spaces threatened are also the maximums that can be lost by delaying face-to-face teaching. These commonly non-white maximum zip codes are disproportionately poor, so academics may not have the devices or Internet access they want to succeed with distance education.
“When you have the strain to leave to satisfy everyone’s wishes and fail, there is no liability insurance that you can do in the event of death,” said Kristi Wilson, president of the American Association of School Administrators.
– Suzanne Hirt, Mark Nichols and Sommer Brugal
Alyssa Milano says she still suffers from chest pain, hair loss and symptoms after being “severely ill” with COVID-19 in April. In a video shared on social media, Milano, 47, placed a de-energizing brush over her head several times, holding the giant locks of hair coming out.
“I just wanted to show you how much hair is coming out of my head for COVID,” the actress and activist said, imploring her supporters to “take this seriously” and “wear a damn mask.”
– Hannah Yasharoff and Cydney Henderson
Illinois passed a law that provides more difficult consequences for attacks on a retail employee that “promotes public advice on fitness,” for example, requiring consumers to cover their faces or fostering social estrangement. The law aggravates the attacks and sends the message that it is vitally important that staff have a good reputation and are on the front line, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said. Aggravated violence can result in up to five years in prison. The law also increases disability allocation for emergency personnel affected by COVID-19.
“This law allows frontline personnel who have been affected by COVID-19 to focus on recovery while sending a transparent message to all of our essential staff that we are them and we will do our best to protect their protection and well-being. being.” state rep. Jay Hoffman said.
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