States are starting to dip again into an space that proved profitable — however troublesome to implement — within the spring: curfews.
Massachusetts began Friday night time, asking all residents to stay house between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. except they had been touring for work or faculty. Violators in that state may be arrested. Denver will observe swimsuit, with a “House at 10” order that begins Sunday and is in impact till Dec. 7.
In the meantime, William Hanage, an epidemiologist on the Harvard T. H. Chan College of Public Well being, stated he is doubtful curfews will do a lot to curb infections. “Curbing the night for eating by an hour or so is not more likely to make a really giant influence,” stated Hanage. “I am unable to consider a single place the place additional motion was not needed.”
Here is the most recent headlines Saturday:
- Mark Meadows, President Donald Trump’s chief of workers, and marketing campaign official Nick Coach additionally examined constructive for the virus, in response to media experiences.
- Ten days after claiming their first World Sequence since 1988, 5 members of the Los Angeles Dodgers group have examined constructive.
- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has examined adverse for COVID-19 twice this week, his workplace introduced Saturday. Pritzker had been in isolation after his workplace was notified Friday of a latest publicity to somebody with COVID-19.
- And Rachel Maddow didn’t seem on MSNBC on Friday night time after an in depth contact examined constructive for COVID-19. The liberal pundit introduced on Twitter that, although she has examined adverse for the illness, she is going to nonetheless be quarantining at house to verify she doesn’t put anybody else in danger.
📈 At present’s numbers: The U.S. has reported greater than 9.8 million circumstances and greater than 236,000 deaths, in response to Johns Hopkins College knowledge. The worldwide totals: greater than 49.6 million circumstances and 1.2 million deaths.
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President Donald Trump’s chief of workers, Mark Meadows, has coronavirus
President Donald Trump’s chief of workers, Mark Meadows, has the coronavirus, in response to experiences Friday. It wasn’t clear when he examined constructive, however sources informed Bloomberg Information that Meadows knowledgeable a bunch of advisers of his analysis after Election Day.
ABC Information and CNN have additionally confirmed Meadows has the virus. Marketing campaign official Nick Coach additionally examined constructive for the virus, in response to The Wall Road Journal and NBC Information.
His constructive take a look at comes a month after Trump’s personal bout with the virus, which noticed him hospitalized at Walter Reed Nationwide Army Medical Middle in early October. Within the wake of Trump’s analysis, a number of White Home aides additionally examined constructive for the virus, together with press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and former counselor Kellyanne Conway. Melania and Barron Trump additionally had been constructive.
A minimum of 5 aides to Vice President Mike Pence, together with his chief of workers Marc Quick, examined constructive final month as properly, in response to experiences.
– Jeanine Santucci
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has COVID-19 antibodies
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz informed USA TODAY on Saturday morning that he has examined “constructive for antibodies,” indicating that he had the virus at one level.
He stated he has no plans to quarantine and doesn’t know the place he picked up the antibodies. “No signs. Really feel nice. Going paddle boarding at present,” he informed USA TODAY in a textual content message.
In March, Gaetz was accused of creating mild of the coronavirus outbreak when he wore a fuel masks in Congress after certainly one of his constituents died from COVID-19.
“Made mild?!?! I used to be fairly critical,” the Florida Republican tweeted in response to a Washington Put up headline that claimed he had been doing precisely that. “The menace to Congress is actual, as I defined primarily based on journey and habits like selfies and handshakes.”
– Ledyard King
Illinois governor assessments adverse for COVID-19, state experiences greater than 12,000 new day by day circumstances
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and workers who attended a gathering Monday the place they had been uncovered to somebody who examined constructive for COVID-19 have examined adverse, the governor’s workplace stated in an announcement Saturday.
The workplace carried out PCR assessments Friday afternoon – the second adverse take a look at outcome for the governor and workers after they underwent their weekly take a look at on Wednesday, the workplace stated.
The governor and workers who attended the assembly had been not thought of shut contacts as a result of they met with the one that was contaminated previous to 48 hours earlier than symptom onset, and per CDC steering, won’t be required to quarantine.
Illinois, in the meantime, reported greater than 12,000 new day by day circumstances Saturday – the identical week the state broke 10,000 day by day circumstances for the primary time.
– Grace Hauck
US sees day by day circumstances soar over 100,000 — once more
For the third day in a row, America set data for circumstances reported in a day, and all three days recorded greater than 100,000 new infections. By way of Friday, Johns Hopkins knowledge exhibits, America reported 126,480 circumstances per day. That works out to about 88 People testing constructive, on common, each minute.
Day by day since Oct. 25, America has set a file for circumstances reported in every week. Now we’re at 689,538.
Most American states once more set case data: A USA TODAY evaluation of Johns Hopkins knowledge by way of late Friday exhibits 26 states set data for brand spanking new circumstances in every week whereas 5 states had a file variety of deaths in every week.
New case data had been set in Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Document numbers of deaths had been reported in Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin.
– Mike Stucka
North Denmark in lockdown over mutated virus in mink farms
Greater than 1 / 4 million Danes went into lockdown Friday in a northern area of the nation the place a mutated variation of the coronavirus has contaminated minks being farmed for his or her fur, resulting in an order to kill thousands and thousands of the animals. In the meantime, Britain on Friday stated folks coming from Denmark should self-isolate for 14 days, including the nation to a listing of countries it deems dangerous.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stated the transfer was meant to comprise the virus, and it got here two days after the federal government ordered the cull of all 15 million minks bred at Denmark’s 1,139 mink farms. The coronavirus evolves continuously and, so far, there is no such thing as a proof that any of the mutations pose an elevated hazard to folks. However Danish authorities weren’t taking any probabilities.
Final month, Denmark began culling thousands and thousands of minks within the north of the nation after COVID-19 infections had been reported among the many inventory there. Nationwide, no less than 216 out of the 1,139 fur farms in Denmark have now been contaminated.
What does a Biden presidency imply for one more stimulus package deal?
President-elect Joe Biden has voiced help for a sturdy reduction measure that features one other federal bonus to weekly unemployment advantages, extra help for struggling small companies and financially distressed states, and one other spherical of stimulus checks to most households.
The large query: Which get together has the bulk within the Senate? Final month, the Democratic Home handed a $2.2 trillion package deal whereas the Republican Senate has favored a $500 billion plan.
If Republicans maintain management, lawmakers possible would approve a $1.5 trillion stimulus, probably late this yr, in response to Moody’s Analytics and Oxford Economics. If the Democrats wrest management, Mark Zandi of Moody’s expects a $2 trillion package deal that would match the $600 jobless help supplied to unemployed People earlier this yr as an alternative of a lowered quantity.
However economist Nancy Vanden Houten of Oxford Economics believes even a Democratic Senate would go for a $1.5 trillion measure to protect house for different spending initiatives. Learn extra right here.
– Paul Davidson
States expanded voting entry for the pandemic. Will these adjustments stick?
The recognition of mail-in voting this election might put strain on state lawmakers to make many COVID-19 adjustments everlasting.
“Election officers, lawmakers and voters have actually modified the best way they consider voting in a number of locations across the nation,” stated Sean Morales-Doyle, deputy director of the Democracy Program on the Brennan Middle for Justice, a voting rights group at New York College Legislation College.
“There have been a number of voters that by no means had the choice (earlier than this yr) to mail in ballots and I believe they had been inspired. It is going to change folks’s views and demand on lawmakers.”
Voters of each events, Morales-Doyle stated, benefited from having extra choices to forged their ballots. Think about the polling place traces, he stated, if most voters this yr as an alternative needed to vote on Election Day whereas additionally abiding by social distancing guidelines. The traces “would have been amazingly lengthy.”
However some native election officers have expressed frustration with what they are saying is a scarcity of readability in voting legal guidelines that make the counting course of longer. The U.S. Supreme Court docket final week declined to overturn a choice by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket to increase the mail-in poll deadline. Nevertheless, the U.S. Supreme Court docket nonetheless might act associated to the case. Learn extra right here.
– Matt Vasilogambros and Lindsey Van Ness, Stateline
5 members of Los Angeles Dodgers group take a look at constructive for COVID-19
5 members of the Los Angeles Dodgers group and a member of the family have examined constructive for COVID-19, in response to the Los Angeles County Division of Public Well being. The disclosure comes 10 days after Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner was notified throughout Recreation 6 of the World Sequence that he had examined constructive for COVID-19.
It’s unclear if Turner or some other gamers are among the many 5 folks. In accordance with an individual with information of the scenario, the general public who examined constructive had been outdoors the so-called bubble on the World Sequence in Arlington, Texas. The particular person requested anonymity due to privateness points.
“The Dodgers group continues to work with us throughout this ongoing outbreak investigation,’’ the Los Angeles County Division of Public Well being stated Friday in an announcement to USA TODAY Sports activities.
The information broke simply hours after Main League Baseball accepted a part of the blame for Turner’s actions throughout the World Sequence celebration when he returned to the sphere after his constructive COVID-19 take a look at, saying there was miscommunication, and decided that he won’t be disciplined.
He was proven on the sphere hugging teammates, kissing his spouse, holding the World Sequence trophy, and posing for group footage together with his masks off, sitting subsequent to Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts, a most cancers survivor.
— Bob Nightengale and Josh Peter
Nevada state jail has 100 constructive circumstances, goes on lockdown
State jail officers have ordered a lockdown at a medium-security facility in northern Nevada after 93 inmates and 7 workers members examined constructive for the coronavirus.
The Nevada Division of Corrections stated Friday that extra sanitation measures have been deployed and all meals are being delivered to particular person items throughout the lockdown on the Heat Springs Correctional Middle in Carson Metropolis.
Division Director Charles Daniels stated the rest of the ability’s 525 offenders and all workers could be examined once more Friday and Saturday.
He didn’t disclose when the constructive outcomes had been confirmed. Workers routinely are examined each two weeks and offenders each three weeks.
Massachusetts units new curfew; Denver enacts stay-at-home order
Beginning Friday night time, Massachusetts residents shall be breaking the legislation in the event that they’re out between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., except on the best way to or from work or faculty. The state was hard-hit within the spring however loved a low an infection price in the summertime and early fall. However within the final week, has routinely seen day by day caseloads above 1,200. And it is more likely to worsen.
The transfer is aimed toward closing eating places and bars earlier within the night time, earlier than folks lose their inhibitions and get careless about COVID-19 safeguards. But it surely stays to be seen whether or not criminalizing such on a regular basis actions as a late-night stroll is a good suggestion – or could have any impact on the virus case rely.
In an analogous effort, Denver introduced Friday it’s going to start a nightly “House By 10” order, requiring residents to stay of their houses from 10 p.m. till 5 a.m. The order goes into impact Sunday and runs till Dec. 7. It will likely be briefly suspended on Thanksgiving Day.
An infection charges and hospitalizations are rising, with Denver’s seven-day transferring common of latest circumstances at 419 on Thursday, up from 290 on Oct. 29.
— Karen Weintraub
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