Exclusive: Republicans, pressing forward with convention amid coronavirus, bring on medical adviser Republican Party officials, pressing forward with plans to hold an in-person national convention, have hired a senior medical adviser to help “pave a safe path” for the event in August amid the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News has learned. The Republican National Convention is expected to be held Aug. 24-27 in Charlotte, N.C.
Amid global scrutiny over China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, House Republicans on Thursday will launch a “China Task Force” to coordinate a strategy against the geopolitical threat from Beijing, sources confirmed to Fox News.
Nearly 3.17 million Americans filed for unemployment last week, the Labor Department reported on Thursday, deepening the economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic on the U.S. workforce. Meanwhile, Neiman Marcus Group Inc. filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, becoming the latest large retailer to seek a court restructuring during the pandemic. Earlier this week, J.Crew Group Inc. filed for bankruptcy.
Still, there may be optimism in the quest for a vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration has approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine candidate, allowing it to move to Phase II and bringing it one step closer to a potential treatment for the devastating disease.
If you’re flying to Los Angeles soon, make sure you have a face covering. Starting on Monday, any passengers or visitors to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) will need to wear a face covering in all terminals and will be prohibited from removing it unless consuming food or drink.
Also in Los Angeles, the city council has voted to identify hotels that are refusing to take in the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic and said they could possibly be “commandeered.” Only 1,582 people have been placed in hotels, far short of the city’s goal of housing 15,000, FOX 11 in Los Angeles reported.
And The World Health Organization has suggested that deliberately infecting healthy volunteers with coronavirus may help speed up the search for a potential vaccine.
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And there were several other developments: The boyfriend of a Dallas salon owner jailed for defying a court order to shut down her business said she is being held in isolation due to the coronavirus outbreak. The Ohio Department of Health announced it is hiring “disease detectives” — or contact tracers — to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. A recent analysis of smartphone location data showed that Georgia received an additional 62,440 daily visitors the week the state lifted some lockdown restrictions on businesses. As the weather warms and states across the country begin to open up in different phases in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, one study suggests that transmissions from outdoor environments are rare. A hospital in Bangkok dressed newborns with face shields in an effort to protect them against the novel coronavirus. In the U.S., however, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not recommend this, saying on its website that no data supports “the use of infant face shields for protection against COVID-19 or other respiratory illnesses.” |
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