Welcome to health care overnight Friday.
Congress on coronavirus talks has collapsed, Trump administration health officials are trying to show the public that a vaccination approval is not affected by politics and schools in New York may open in person this fall.
We begin with the talks of the Congress:
Negotiations do not look good … Trump takes executive action after talks collapse
Top officials said Friday they will recommend it President Trump
Donald John TrumpJoe Arpaio loses bid for his old position as Sheriff Trump blames opinion that Russia denigrates Biden: ‘No one is harder on Russia than I am’ Trump truncates executive orders over economy but will not yet report go ahead with executive orders to address the economic fallout from the coronavirus as negotiations over Capitol Hill collapse.
“In the meantime, we will take executive orders to try to alleviate some of the pain people are experiencing,” said White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
Mark Randall MeadowsTrump completes executive orders on economics but will not sign on yet On The Money: Five July takeaways from jobs report Overight Health Care: Trump will take executive action after coronavirus talks collapse | Fax official says he would resign if politics pressed MORE told reporters.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
Steven Terner MnuchinTrump completes executive orders on economics but will not sign yet Overnight health care: Trump will take executive action after colonial virus talks crash | Fax official says he would resign if political pressure on Coronavirus talks collapses if negotiators can no longer reach said he and Meadows “will recommend to the president based on our lack of activity today to move forward with some executive assignments.”
“Again, we agree with the Speaker, this is not the first choice,” he added.
Mnuchin said administration officials would recommend executive orders to deal with unemployment after the $ 600-a-week federal benefit expired last week. They will also recommend that Trump sign orders regarding rentals and student loans.
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Trump fax official: “I would resign immediately” as political pressure
Afternoon concerns about President Trump applying political pressure for a vaccine against coronavirus, an official from the top vaccine tried to offer some confidence this week.
Moncef Slaoui, the chief scientist of the Trump administration’s attempt to develop a coronavirus vaccine, said in a new interview that he would resign “immediately” if he was forced to expedite a vaccine for political reasons.
“The data will dictate, the facts will dictate,” said Slaoui, the administration’s top scientist for Operation Warp Speed. said in an appearance on a podcast Thursday hosted by the American Enterprise Institute.
“We can have the end point in October. We may have it on Nov. 4, who knows? We may have it on Dec. 15th. That’s the answer, and to be honest, on a personal basis, I would immediately resign if I was forced to do something I thought was inappropriate. “
Trump on Thursday added fuel to the fire over the issue when he said on Geraldo Rivera’s radio program that he thinks it is possible to have a fax machine around the time of the election.
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Trump lowers COVID-19 mortality rate in US
President Trump has repeatedly claimed that the US has one of the lowest COVID-19 mortality rates anywhere in the world, even though the nation has recorded more coronavirus deaths than any other country.
The US has a mortality rate per 100,000 people that is about twice that of Canada. While the US rate is lower than Spain, the United Kingdom and Italy per 100,000 people, it is higher than such countries as Germany, France and the Netherlands.
But Trump is not focused on those numbers.
Rather than mortality, Trump is fixating on the percentage of people who die after contracting COVID-19, a figure called the death toll from case.
In addition, he downplayed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in the US and the extremely high percentage of deaths as part of the population.
By not specifying the figures he uses, Trump has also likely confused many people about how the U.S. is stacking up with other countries.
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Cuomo says schools in New York may reopen in-person this fall
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Andrew CuomoOvernight Health Care: Trump Takes Executive Action After Colonavirus Talks | Fax official says he would resign if political pressure Cuomo says schools in New York could reopen in person this fall. Cuomo calls on Rich to return to New York City: “You must return!” MORE (D) announced Friday that schools may reopen this fall, citing low infection rates he said students and teachers can safely return to classes.
“It’s just great news,” Cuomo told reporters. “We are probably in the best situation in the country at the moment.”
When and how open schools will be left to individual school districts. Cuomo warned, however, that if the seven-day rolling average of positive return tests is 9 percent greater in a given region, schools in that area should close.
The percentage of tests returning positive in New York is about 1 percent – one of the lowest levels in the country.
Public health experts have stressed that reopening decisions should depend on the transmission levels of individual communities; it will be harder for schools to open safely in communities where there are high levels of COVID-19 transmission.
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Gates Foundation invests in $ 3 COVID-19 vaccine for poorer countries
A coronavirus vaccine will be available to poorer countries for less than $ 3 per dose under a new partnership between the Gates Foundation and the Serum Institute of India, the largest vaccine maker in the world.
The collaboration is intended to ensure up to 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine will be available for rapid distribution to low- and middle-income countries. The scheme also offers an option to secure additional doses as needed.
The goal is that once a vaccine, if vaccine, receives regulatory approval, doses can be produced on a scale for distribution to low-income countries only in the first half of 2021. Serum Institute of India is the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world per volume. It has already developed contracts with vaccine candidates through Novavax and Oxford University, in collaboration with AstraZeneca.
Cost comparison: $ 3 per dose is the lowest end of the scale. Oxford-AstraZeneca has promised that its vaccine will be “available” worldwide for about $ 3 per dose, while Johnson & Johnson predicted that the vaccine will cost about $ 10 a dose for 100 million doses. Moderna said this week that it will price a two-dose regimen up to as much as $ 74 for small batch customers. The US agreed to pay Pfizer and German BioNTech $ 1.95 billion for 100 million doses, which is about $ 19.50 a dose, $ 39 for a two-dose regimen.
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What we read
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciOvernight Health Care: Trump to Take Executive Action After Crashing Coronavirus Talks | Fax official says he would resign if politicians put pressure on Fauci’s DC neighbors put ‘tank’ signs on their yard Cuomo says schools in New York could reopen this fall MORE says that chance of coronavirus vaccine is highly effective ‘not great’ (CNBC)
German health officials warn of 2nd Coronavirus Wave (NPR)
Gilead says it can produce enough inhibitory virus to meet global demand for coronavirus in October (CNBC)
State by state
Texas to allow limited visits to nursing homes without active cases of coronavirus (Texas Tribune)
Coronavirus outbreak at nursing home in Houston area kills 17 residents (Texas Tribune)
Health directors told to keep quiet as Fla. leaders pressure to open classes (Palm Beach Post)
One of Florida’s Biggest Differences: How Coronavirus Spreads in Pinellas’ Black Community (Frontline)
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