foxnews--2020-05-20--New Orleans jeweler designs American flag face-mask charm to raise money for homeless veterans

A New Orleans jeweler has designed an American flag face-mask charm to raise money for homeless veterans ahead of Memorial Day , in a patriotic tribute to servicemen and women and front-line coronavirus health care workers .
“ My family and I wanted to do something special for our veterans this year , so we came together and collaborated on a charm that would give back to them , ” Jose Balli New Orleans Jewelry wrote in a Facebook post that included the charm ’ s design .
The jewelry shop specializes in custom silver and pearl pieces , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and a “ quarantine kit ” consisting of a bracelet and charms depicting a surgical mask , a roll of toilet paper and a small house .
Other designs include cufflinks , belt buckles , necklaces , rings and more traditional symbols such as crosses and depictions of local wildlife .
The shop said its new patriotic charm will be available Friday , and pledged 50 percent of its Memorial Day weekend sales to go to the nonprofit Soldier ’ s Angels to be used toward food assistance for “ low-income , at-risk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immediately respond to a request for comment .
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues and unemployment numbers skyrocket , issues that the country is already struggling with have persisted or gotten worse -- including homelessness among veterans and food stability .
According to the Louisiana Department of Health , the state had seen more than 35,000 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Wednesday .
At least 2,485 people died from the illness there , and more than 26,000 are believed to have recovered .
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP The U.S. has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and more than 92,000 deaths .
Soldier ’ s Angels -- a charity for veterans , service members and their families -- is headquartered in San Antonio , Texas .
It has received high marks from the nonprofit review sites GuideStar and Charity Navigator .

A New Orleans jeweler has designed an American flag face-mask charm to raise money for homeless veterans ahead of Memorial Day, in a patriotic tribute to servicemen and women and front-line coronavirus health care workers.
“My family and I wanted to do something special for our veterans this year, so we came together and collaborated on a charm that would give back to them,” Jose Balli New Orleans Jewelry wrote in a Facebook post that included the charm’s design.
The jewelry shop specializes in custom silver and pearl pieces, and recent items have included a stethoscope charm and a “quarantine kit” consisting of a bracelet and charms depicting a surgical mask, a roll of toilet paper and a small house. Other designs include cufflinks, belt buckles, necklaces, rings and more traditional symbols such as crosses and depictions of local wildlife.
The shop said its new patriotic charm will be available Friday, and pledged 50 percent of its Memorial Day weekend sales to go to the nonprofit Soldier’s Angels to be used toward food assistance for “low-income, at-risk and homeless veterans.”
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Balli did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues and unemployment numbers skyrocket, issues that the country is already struggling with have persisted or gotten worse -- including homelessness among veterans and food stability.
According to the Louisiana Department of Health, the state had seen more than 35,000 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Wednesday. At least 2,485 people died from the illness there, and more than 26,000 are believed to have recovered.
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The U.S. has seen more than 1.5 million confirmed cases and more than 92,000 deaths.
Soldier’s Angels -- a charity for veterans, service members and their families -- is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It has received high marks from the nonprofit review sites GuideStar and Charity Navigator.


foxnews--2020-05-20--Resurfaced Susan Rice comments denying knowledge of Trump team surveillance raise new questions

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Here 's what you need to know as you start your day ... Susan Rice 's resurfaced 2017 comments denying knowledge of Trump team surveillance raise eyebrows A three-year-old interview clip of former National Security Adviser Susan Rice resurfaced Tuesday after the declassified email she sent to herself on the final day of the Obama administration was released .
It suggests Rice has lied about her knowledge about the Obama administration 's surveillance of President Trump 's transition team .
The clip comes from an April 2017 appearance on `` PBS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the then-breaking revelations about members of President Trump 's transition team having been surveilled before he took office .
`` In the last few hours , we 've been following a disclosure by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee , Devin Nunes , that in essence , during the final days of the Obama administration , during the transition after President Trump had been elected , that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals and their identities may have been disclosed .
Do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PBS anchor Judy Woodruff asked .
`` I know nothing about this , '' Rice said at the time .
`` I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today . ''
However , the newly released email on Tuesday appeared to indicate Rice had knowledge of the surveillance that took place that led to the `` unmasking '' of then-incoming National Security Adviser ( NSA ) Michael Flynn from his communications with the then-Russian ambassador .
The email , which was written on Jan. 20 , 2017 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with then-President Obama and others , during which he provided guidance on how law enforcement needed to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race .
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Other related developments : - Brit Hume says declassified Susan Rice email 'suspicious on many counts' - Sen. Ron Johnson : Declassified Rice email shows Obama officials 'sabotaging the incoming administration' - Hannity calls out FBI Director Wray after Rice email declassified Exclusive : Planned Parenthood affiliates improperly applied for and received $ 80 million in coronavirus stimulus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affiliates applied for and received a total of $ 80 million in loans from the Paycheck Protection Program ( PPP ) , Fox News ' `` Tucker Carlson Tonight '' has learned -- and now the federal government wants the money back , saying the affiliates should have known they were n't eligible for the coronavirus stimulus payouts .
The Small Business Administration ( SBA ) is reaching out to each involved Planned Parenthood affiliate explaining that affiliates of larger organizations with more than 500 employees are n't eligible for PPP distributions , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Parenthood Federation of America ( PFFA ) alone has had more than 600 employees .
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The abrupt reversal in China 's northeast region has once again cut off public transportation , closed schools and led to another round of quarantine .
Fan Pai , who works at a trading company in the nearby province of Liaoning , told Bloomberg News that people are starting to feel `` more cautious '' again .
`` Children playing outside are wearing masks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It 's frustrating because you do n't know when it will end . ''
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Susan Rice's resurfaced 2017 comments denying knowledge of Trump team surveillance raise eyebrows
A three-year-old interview clip of former National Security Adviser Susan Rice resurfaced Tuesday after the declassified email she sent to herself on the final day of the Obama administration was released. It suggests Rice has lied about her knowledge about the Obama administration's surveillance of President Trump's transition team.
The clip comes from an April 2017 appearance on "PBS NewsHour." Rice was asked about the then-breaking revelations about members of President Trump's transition team having been surveilled before he took office.
"In the last few hours, we've been following a disclosure by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, that in essence, during the final days of the Obama administration, during the transition after President Trump had been elected, that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals and their identities may have been disclosed. Do you know anything about this?" PBS anchor Judy Woodruff asked.
"I know nothing about this," Rice said at the time. "I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today."
However, the newly released email on Tuesday appeared to indicate Rice had knowledge of the surveillance that took place that led to the "unmasking" of then-incoming National Security Adviser (NSA) Michael Flynn from his communications with the then-Russian ambassador.
The email, which was written on Jan. 20, 2017, documented a Jan. 5 Oval Office meeting with then-President Obama and others, during which he provided guidance on how law enforcement needed to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race. Click here for more on our top story.
Other related developments:
- Brit Hume says declassified Susan Rice email 'suspicious on many counts'
- Sen. Ron Johnson: Declassified Rice email shows Obama officials 'sabotaging the incoming administration'
- Hannity calls out FBI Director Wray after Rice email declassified
Exclusive: Planned Parenthood affiliates improperly applied for and received $80 million in coronavirus stimulus funds, feds say
Thirty-seven Planned Parenthood affiliates applied for and received a total of $80 million in loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" has learned -- and now the federal government wants the money back, saying the affiliates should have known they weren't eligible for the coronavirus stimulus payouts.
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is reaching out to each involved Planned Parenthood affiliate explaining that affiliates of larger organizations with more than 500 employees aren't eligible for PPP distributions, Fox News is told. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PFFA) alone has had more than 600 employees. Click here for more.
Other related developments:
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- Texas man charged with coronavirus loan fraud topping $5 million
- 'Jane Roe' in Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case said she was paid to support pro-life movement
More than 100 million people in China face new lockdown as second wave of COVID-19 cases emerge
Nearly 108 million people in China's Jilin province could be forced back into lockdown after a growing group of new coronavirus infections triggered a backslide in the nation's push to return to normal.
The abrupt reversal in China's northeast region has once again cut off public transportation, closed schools and led to another round of quarantine. Fan Pai, who works at a trading company in the nearby province of Liaoning, told Bloomberg News that people are starting to feel "more cautious" again.
"Children playing outside are wearing masks again," she said. "It's frustrating because you don't know when it will end."
The new clusters of coronavirus cases have also ignited everyone's worst fear that a second wave of the deadly disease could be on the horizon. Click here for more.
Other related developments:
- Ex-WHO official says coronavirus not increasing in reopened spots: 'It's as though something has changed'
- Wearing a face mask can reduce coronavirus transmission by up to 75 percent, study says
- Southern California organizations seek weekly assistance for workers in state illegally: report
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Michigan Gov. Whitmer issued a state of emergency after 2 dams were breached.
Trump announces executive order aiming to make hundreds of deregulations amid coronavirus permanent.
Germany and France roll out multibillion-dollar proposal to aid EU countries stricken by coronavirus.
'CBS Evening News' fails to air on East Coast due to 'technical difficulties.'
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Reporters to no longer get an early look at some economic data.
CVS to return $43M in coronavirus stimulus payments.
University of California completes fossil fuel divestment.
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foxnews--2020-05-20--Gov. Ron DeSantis blasts media for pushing 'partisan narrative' amid positive virus response in FL

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Republican Florida Gov .
Ron DeSantis pulled no punches against the media on Wednesday for its hostile coverage of his handling of the coronavirus in his state .
Speaking to reporters alongside Vice President Mike Pence , DeSantis touted Florida 's improving data , citing Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House coronavirus task force , who called it the `` absolutely best data '' among every state in the country .
`` So any insinuation otherwise is just typical , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part of the reason is that you 've got a lot of people in your profession who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks about how Florida was going to be just like New York , '' DeSantis scolded the reporters .
`` 'Wait two weeks , Florida is going to be next .
Just like Italy , wait two weeks . '
Well hell , we 're eight weeks away from that and it has n't happened ! ''
POLITICO KNOCKS MEDIA FOR INCORRECT PREDICTIONS OF DESANTIS ' FLORIDA REOPENING FOLLOWING POSITIVE ROLLOUT @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lower death rate '' than states up north , in the Midwest , and in the South , adding `` I was the No .
1 landing spot from tens of thousands of people leaving the No .
1 hot zone in the world to come to my state , '' referring to New York City .
`` And so we 've succeeded and I think that people just do n't want to recognize it because it challenges their narrative , it challenges their assumption , so they 've got to try and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that black helicopter circling the Department of Health .
If you believe that , then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I 'd like to sell ya , '' DeSantis said .
The Florida governor also addressed the reported firing of Rebekah Jones , an official from the state 's Health Department who alleged she was ousted for refusing to not censor negative data that would reflect poorly on the state 's reopening .
CNN 'S JAKE TAPPER CALLED OUT FOR HYPOCRISY AFTER SCOLDING TRUMP FOR LAUNCHING 'SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST RIVALS' '' One @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
She 's somebody that 's got a degree in journalism , communication and geography , '' DeSantis told a reporter .
`` She is not involved in collating any data .
She does not have the expertise to do that .
She 's not an epidemiologist .
She is not the chief architect of our web portal – that is another false statement .
And what she was doing – she was putting data on the portal , which the scientists did n't believe was valid data .
So she did n't @ @ @ @ @ @ @ superiors .
She had many people above her in the chain of command and so she was dismissed because of that and because of a bunch of different things about how she did . ''
DeSantis went on to detail how he had also discovered that Jones was under `` active criminal charges '' in the state of Florida for `` cyber stalking and cyber sexual harassment . ''
`` So I 've asked the Department of Health to explain to me how someone would be allowed to be charged with that and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ago , '' the governor continued .
`` I have a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment , so her supervisor dismissed her because of a lot of those reasons and it was a totally valid way , but she should have been dismissed long before that . ''
Last week , Politico had some choice words for the naysayers in the mainstream media who slammed DeSantis for reopening his state after its latest coronavirus data suggests a sunny outlook .
Politico reporters Marc Caputo and Renuka Rayasam began the coronavirus newsletter by noting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hellscape of coronavirus infection and cadavers stacked like cordwood . ''
`` Florida just doesn ’ t look nearly as bad as the national news media and sky-is-falling critics have been predicting for about two months now , '' they wrote .
`` But then , the national news media is mostly based in New York and loves to love its Democratic governor , Andrew Cuomo , about as much as it loves to hate Florida ’ s Republican Gov .
Ron DeSantis . ''
GOV .
ANDREW CUOMO GETS A PASS FROM @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Rayasam acknowledged that `` DeSantis looks more right than those who criticized '' his decision to slowly reopen the state , pointing to the fewer than 2,000 dead and the roughly 43,000 cases , which was `` a fraction of the dire predictions '' that were previously made , also noting that Florida 's coronavirus numbers are `` dwarfed '' by New York 's and that `` more people reportedly died in New York nursing homes than in all of Florida . ''
`` DeSantis is actually polling worse than Cuomo in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ press is wondering why , '' the newsletter continued .
`` Part of that is style .
Cuomo has a smooth delivery , a deep and calming voice and an attitude that projects he can answer any question .
DeSantis sometimes comes across as peevish and defensive , has made a misstatement or two and was mocked for struggling to put on a mask .
But most of the difference between DeSantis and Cuomo is due to politics .
DeSantis governs a politically divided state .
Cuomo is a scion of Democratic royalty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Politico reporters acknowledged that `` media bias '' is a major factor , noting how Cuomo has a press that `` defers to him '' and `` preferred to cover 'Florida Morons ' at the beach . ''
`` Maybe things would be different if DeSantis had a brother who worked in cable news and interviewed him for a 'sweet moment ' in primetime , '' the reporters wrote as an apparent knock towards CNN anchor Chris Cuomo 's softball interviews with his governor brother .
However , they noted that DeSantis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lap '' since he `` deferred to local leaders early on '' and how `` more than 1.4 million unique unemployment claims have been submitted , but only half have received compensation .
`` DeSantis is trying to get fixed quickly .
He knows that in a state he won by less than half a point two years ago , and one that President Donald Trump won by slightly more than a point in 2016 , it ’ s a political time bomb to have potentially hundreds of thousands of people blaming the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an election year , '' the newsletter concluded .

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pulled no punches against the media on Wednesday for its hostile coverage of his handling of the coronavirus in his state.
Speaking to reporters alongside Vice President Mike Pence, DeSantis touted Florida's improving data, citing Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House coronavirus task force, who called it the "absolutely best data" among every state in the country.
"So any insinuation otherwise is just typical, partisan narrative trying to be spun and part of the reason is that you've got a lot of people in your profession who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks about how Florida was going to be just like New York," DeSantis scolded the reporters. "'Wait two weeks, Florida is going to be next. Just like Italy, wait two weeks.' Well hell, we're eight weeks away from that and it hasn't happened!"
POLITICO KNOCKS MEDIA FOR INCORRECT PREDICTIONS OF DESANTIS' FLORIDA REOPENING FOLLOWING POSITIVE ROLLOUT
DeSantis then pointed to Florida's "lower death rate" than states up north, in the Midwest, and in the South, adding "I was the No. 1 landing spot from tens of thousands of people leaving the No. 1 hot zone in the world to come to my state," referring to New York City.
"And so we've succeeded and I think that people just don't want to recognize it because it challenges their narrative, it challenges their assumption, so they've got to try and find a boogeyman – maybe it's that black helicopter circling the Department of Health. If you believe that, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell ya," DeSantis said.
The Florida governor also addressed the reported firing of Rebekah Jones, an official from the state's Health Department who alleged she was ousted for refusing to not censor negative data that would reflect poorly on the state's reopening.
CNN'S JAKE TAPPER CALLED OUT FOR HYPOCRISY AFTER SCOLDING TRUMP FOR LAUNCHING 'SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST RIVALS'
"One, she's not a data scientist. She's somebody that's got a degree in journalism, communication and geography," DeSantis told a reporter. "She is not involved in collating any data. She does not have the expertise to do that. She's not an epidemiologist. She is not the chief architect of our web portal – that is another false statement. And what she was doing – she was putting data on the portal, which the scientists didn't believe was valid data. So she didn't listen to the people who were her superiors. She had many people above her in the chain of command and so she was dismissed because of that and because of a bunch of different things about how she did."
DeSantis went on to detail how he had also discovered that Jones was under "active criminal charges" in the state of Florida for "cyber stalking and cyber sexual harassment."
MSNBC'S STEPHANIE RUHLE SLAMMED FOR 'SOFTBALL INTERVIEW' WITH CUOMO AMID NURSING HOME CONTROVERSY
"So I've asked the Department of Health to explain to me how someone would be allowed to be charged with that and continue on because this was many months ago," the governor continued. "I have a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment, so her supervisor dismissed her because of a lot of those reasons and it was a totally valid way, but she should have been dismissed long before that."
Last week, Politico had some choice words for the naysayers in the mainstream media who slammed DeSantis for reopening his state after its latest coronavirus data suggests a sunny outlook.
Politico reporters Marc Caputo and Renuka Rayasam began the coronavirus newsletter by noting that Florida was "not a post-apocalyptic hellscape of coronavirus infection and cadavers stacked like cordwood."
"Florida just doesn’t look nearly as bad as the national news media and sky-is-falling critics have been predicting for about two months now," they wrote. "But then, the national news media is mostly based in New York and loves to love its Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, about as much as it loves to hate Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis."
GOV. ANDREW CUOMO GETS A PASS FROM CNN ON NURSING HOME POLICY CONTROVERSY
Caputo and Rayasam acknowledged that "DeSantis looks more right than those who criticized" his decision to slowly reopen the state, pointing to the fewer than 2,000 dead and the roughly 43,000 cases, which was "a fraction of the dire predictions" that were previously made, also noting that Florida's coronavirus numbers are "dwarfed" by New York's and that "more people reportedly died in New York nursing homes than in all of Florida."
"DeSantis is actually polling worse than Cuomo in their respective states, and the Florida press is wondering why," the newsletter continued. "Part of that is style. Cuomo has a smooth delivery, a deep and calming voice and an attitude that projects he can answer any question. DeSantis sometimes comes across as peevish and defensive, has made a misstatement or two and was mocked for struggling to put on a mask. But most of the difference between DeSantis and Cuomo is due to politics. DeSantis governs a politically divided state. Cuomo is a scion of Democratic royalty in a deeply Democratic state."
The Politico reporters acknowledged that "media bias" is a major factor, noting how Cuomo has a press that "defers to him" and "preferred to cover 'Florida Morons' at the beach."
"Maybe things would be different if DeSantis had a brother who worked in cable news and interviewed him for a 'sweet moment' in primetime," the reporters wrote as an apparent knock towards CNN anchor Chris Cuomo's softball interviews with his governor brother.
CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE
However, they noted that DeSantis "can't quite take a victory lap" since he "deferred to local leaders early on" and how "more than 1.4 million unique unemployment claims have been submitted, but only half have received compensation.
"DeSantis is trying to get fixed quickly. He knows that in a state he won by less than half a point two years ago, and one that President Donald Trump won by slightly more than a point in 2016, it’s a political time bomb to have potentially hundreds of thousands of people blaming the party in power for their woes in an election year," the newsletter concluded.


foxnews--2020-05-20--Cuomo downplays calls for federal probe into nursing home coronavirus deaths: 'Ask President Trump'

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New York Gov .
Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday brushed off calls for the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the massive number of deaths in the state ’ s nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic – claiming he was only following guidelines from the Trump administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
While no formal probe has been announced , the speculation comes amid scrutiny of his March 25 directive that required nursing homes to take on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order stated that `` [ nursing homes ] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission . ''
Nursing homes in New York – which has been the epicenter of the public health crisis – have been particularly devastated by the pandemic , with the death toll in the facilities topping more than 5,000 as of earlier this week .
Cuomo recently issued a new directive stating that hospitals can not send patients back to nursing homes in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus .
CDC guidelines require any newly admitted and readmitted resident with a COVID-19 case to be placed in a designated COVID-19 care unit , while those who have met the criteria to have recovered can return to a regular unit in the nursing home .
New York – along with California and New Jersey – at the time had specific guidelines saying that nursing homes can not refuse to take patients from hospitals solely because they have the coronavirus .
When questioned about the deaths in nursing homes and a possible investigation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blame onto the Trump administration ’ s guidelines and suggested the calls for a probe are politically motivated .
“ This is a political season , I get it , ” Cuomo said .
“ I ’ m not going to get into the political back-and-forth , but anyone who wants to ask why did the state do that with COVID patients in nursing homes , it ’ s because the state followed President Trump ’ s CDC guidance.
” Cuomo added : “ They should ask President Trump .
I think that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governor went on to argue that CDC guidance at the time said nursing homes could not discriminate against patients with COVID-19 because of fears of overcrowding of patients in local hospitals .
“ Remember hospital capacity ?
” Cuomo said .
“ If a person doesn ’ t need an urgent care bed in a hospital because they are not urgently ill … is the best use of a hospital bed to have somebody sit there for two weeks in a hospital bed when they don ’ t need the hospital bed .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a patient who they are not qualified to handle , ” Cuomo added , noting that the homes needed to be able to quarantine a patient and have proper equipment and personal protective equipment to safely care for the person and prevent further infection .
There have been widespread reports across the nation of a dearth of personal protective equipment in nursing homes as those were funneled almost exclusively to critical care facilities .
CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP While allowing patients to return , Cuomo in March did restrict outside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state and , more recently , ordered that all nursing home staff be tested for COVID-19 twice a week -- saying , `` this rule is not optional — it ’ s mandatory . ''
Rep. Elise Stefanik , R-N.Y. , has been the leading voice calling for an investigation into the Democratic governor ’ s original March directive .
`` Today I joined my [ New York GOP ] colleagues in the House to call for a federal investigation of Cuomo 's failed nursing home policies , '' Stefanik tweeted Friday .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the way they report nursing home deaths .
An INEXCUSABLE tragedy for NY -- NEED ANSWERS . ''
In taking aim at the Cuomo , Stefanik linked to a Daily Caller report published Friday that said New York is under-reporting the number of nursing home patients who died from the virus .
Until April 28 , New York reported coronavirus deaths for all nursing home and adult-care facility residents .
But then around May 3 , the state changed how it reported statistics about nursing home deaths to exclude residents who died in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who died at their facility would be counted .
On Wednesday , when asked about the claims of underreporting deaths in nursing homes , Cuomo had a blunt answer : “ No numbers were changed.
” Fox News ’ Marisa Schultz and Gregg Re contributed to this report .

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday brushed off calls for the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the massive number of deaths in the state’s nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic – claiming he was only following guidelines from the Trump administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While no formal probe has been announced, the speculation comes amid scrutiny of his March 25 directive that required nursing homes to take on new patients infected with COVID-19. The order stated that "[nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission."
Nursing homes in New York – which has been the epicenter of the public health crisis – have been particularly devastated by the pandemic, with the death toll in the facilities topping more than 5,000 as of earlier this week. Cuomo recently issued a new directive stating that hospitals cannot send patients back to nursing homes in the state unless they test negative for the virus.
CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE
CDC guidelines require any newly admitted and readmitted resident with a COVID-19 case to be placed in a designated COVID-19 care unit, while those who have met the criteria to have recovered can return to a regular unit in the nursing home. New York – along with California and New Jersey – at the time had specific guidelines saying that nursing homes cannot refuse to take patients from hospitals solely because they have the coronavirus.
When questioned about the deaths in nursing homes and a possible investigation into his role, Cuomo deflected the blame onto the Trump administration’s guidelines and suggested the calls for a probe are politically motivated.
“This is a political season, I get it,” Cuomo said. “I’m not going to get into the political back-and-forth, but anyone who wants to ask why did the state do that with COVID patients in nursing homes, it’s because the state followed President Trump’s CDC guidance.”
Cuomo added: “They should ask President Trump. I think that will stop the conversation.”
The Democratic governor went on to argue that CDC guidance at the time said nursing homes could not discriminate against patients with COVID-19 because of fears of overcrowding of patients in local hospitals.
“Remember hospital capacity?” Cuomo said. “If a person doesn’t need an urgent care bed in a hospital because they are not urgently ill … is the best use of a hospital bed to have somebody sit there for two weeks in a hospital bed when they don’t need the hospital bed.
“A nursing home cannot accept a patient who they are not qualified to handle,” Cuomo added, noting that the homes needed to be able to quarantine a patient and have proper equipment and personal protective equipment to safely care for the person and prevent further infection.
There have been widespread reports across the nation of a dearth of personal protective equipment in nursing homes as those were funneled almost exclusively to critical care facilities.
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While allowing patients to return, Cuomo in March did restrict outside visitors from entering nursing homes in the state and, more recently, ordered that all nursing home staff be tested for COVID-19 twice a week -- saying, "this rule is not optional — it’s mandatory."
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., has been the leading voice calling for an investigation into the Democratic governor’s original March directive.
"Today I joined my [New York GOP] colleagues in the House to call for a federal investigation of Cuomo's failed nursing home policies," Stefanik tweeted Friday. "NOW they admit they unethically changed the way they report nursing home deaths. An INEXCUSABLE tragedy for NY -- NEED ANSWERS."
In taking aim at the Cuomo, Stefanik linked to a Daily Caller report published Friday that said New York is under-reporting the number of nursing home patients who died from the virus.
Until April 28, New York reported coronavirus deaths for all nursing home and adult-care facility residents. But then around May 3, the state changed how it reported statistics about nursing home deaths to exclude residents who died in a hospital. Only nursing home residents who died at their facility would be counted.
On Wednesday, when asked about the claims of underreporting deaths in nursing homes, Cuomo had a blunt answer: “No numbers were changed.”
Fox News’ Marisa Schultz and Gregg Re contributed to this report.


foxnews--2020-05-20--Cyclone Amphan, strongest storm in over a decade, slams coast of India, Bangladesh as millions flee

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One of the strongest storms in more than a decade roared ashore in eastern India and Bangladesh Wednesday , packing heavy rain and wind as millions fled to shelters in an evacuation complicated by the coronavirus pandemic .
Cyclone Amphan , the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane , brought winds of up to 105 miles per hour and maximum gusts of 118 mph as it approached the coast .
“ The next 24 hours are very crucial .
This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s meteorological chief Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said Wednesday .
SUPER CYCLONE AMPHAN SPURS EVACUATION OF MILLIONS IN INDIA , BANGLADESH AHEAD OF 'DISASTROUS ' STORM The storm weakened from a super cyclone of Category 5 strength earlier this week to an “ extremely severe cyclonic storm . ''
Amphan made landfall between Digha , a seaside resort in West Bengal , and the Hatiya Islands in Bangladesh .
The eye of the storm was likely to pass through the Sunderbans , one of the largest mangrove forests in the world , India 's meteorological @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kolkata , electric poles were scattered on the roads and trees were downed as rain pounded fishing villages and rivers surged .
Footage from the Indian port city of Paradepp showed damage from fierce winds .
In Bangladesh , a junior minister for disaster management , Enamur Rahman , told Reuters that about 2.4 million people in the most vulnerable districts had shifted to more than 15,000 storm shelters .
“ It has been challenging to evacuate people while maintaining distancing , '' Rahman told the news agency .
`` We have doubled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ensure safe distancing and hygiene . ''
In refugee camps in Cox 's Bazar , where the first 10 coronavirus cases were confirmed last week , authorities and U.N. workers prepared 50 shelters and assigned 256 volunteer units .
CLIMATE CHANGE IS INFLUENCING WHERE TROPICAL CYCLONES HAPPEN MOST FREQUENTLY , STUDY SAYS Areas at risk of landslides were stabilized with bamboo and concrete walls .
But the combination of the virus and the cyclone could lead to a “ new humanitarian crisis , ” according to Manuel Pereira , deputy chief of mission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bangladesh .
“ We know that if people are forced to seek communal shelter , they ’ ll be unable to maintain physical distancing and run the risk of contracting or transmitting the virus , '' Pereira told The Associated Press .
Authorities in India reported that it was difficult to find places for thousands of evacuees because shelters were being used as coronavirus quarantine centers .
CLICK HERE FOR MORE WEATHER COVERAGE FROM FOX NEWS Police in West Bengal told Reuters that some people were unwilling to go to the shelters because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 .
“ We have literally had to force people out of their homes , make them wear masks and put them in government buildings , ” a senior police official in Kolkata told the news agency .
Officials feared the storm will turn out to be the most powerful to strike the region since a cyclone killed 3,500 people in 2007 .
CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP Most of the deaths in that storm were due to storm surge , according to the BBC .
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One of the strongest storms in more than a decade roared ashore in eastern India and Bangladesh Wednesday, packing heavy rain and wind as millions fled to shelters in an evacuation complicated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Cyclone Amphan, the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane, brought winds of up to 105 miles per hour and maximum gusts of 118 mph as it approached the coast.
“The next 24 hours are very crucial. This is a long haul," India’s meteorological chief Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said Wednesday.
SUPER CYCLONE AMPHAN SPURS EVACUATION OF MILLIONS IN INDIA, BANGLADESH AHEAD OF 'DISASTROUS' STORM
The storm weakened from a super cyclone of Category 5 strength earlier this week to an “extremely severe cyclonic storm."
Amphan made landfall between Digha, a seaside resort in West Bengal, and the Hatiya Islands in Bangladesh. The eye of the storm was likely to pass through the Sunderbans, one of the largest mangrove forests in the world, India's meteorological department said.
In the city of Kolkata, electric poles were scattered on the roads and trees were downed as rain pounded fishing villages and rivers surged.
Footage from the Indian port city of Paradepp showed damage from fierce winds.
In Bangladesh, a junior minister for disaster management, Enamur Rahman, told Reuters that about 2.4 million people in the most vulnerable districts had shifted to more than 15,000 storm shelters.
“It has been challenging to evacuate people while maintaining distancing," Rahman told the news agency. "We have doubled the number of the cyclone centers to ensure safe distancing and hygiene."
In refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, where the first 10 coronavirus cases were confirmed last week, authorities and U.N. workers prepared 50 shelters and assigned 256 volunteer units.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS INFLUENCING WHERE TROPICAL CYCLONES HAPPEN MOST FREQUENTLY, STUDY SAYS
Areas at risk of landslides were stabilized with bamboo and concrete walls. But the combination of the virus and the cyclone could lead to a “new humanitarian crisis,” according to Manuel Pereira, deputy chief of mission for the International Organization for Migration in Bangladesh.
“We know that if people are forced to seek communal shelter, they’ll be unable to maintain physical distancing and run the risk of contracting or transmitting the virus," Pereira told The Associated Press.
Authorities in India reported that it was difficult to find places for thousands of evacuees because shelters were being used as coronavirus quarantine centers.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE WEATHER COVERAGE FROM FOX NEWS
Police in West Bengal told Reuters that some people were unwilling to go to the shelters because they were afraid of being infected with COVID-19.
“We have literally had to force people out of their homes, make them wear masks and put them in government buildings,” a senior police official in Kolkata told the news agency.
Officials feared the storm will turn out to be the most powerful to strike the region since a cyclone killed 3,500 people in 2007.
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Most of the deaths in that storm were due to storm surge, according to the BBC.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


foxnews--2020-05-20--Doctors raise alarm about health effects of continued coronavirus shutdown: 'Mass casualty incident'

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More than 600 doctors signed onto a letter sent to President Trump Tuesday pushing him to end the `` national shutdown '' aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus , calling the widespread state orders keeping businesses closed and kids home from school a `` mass casualty incident '' with `` exponentially growing health consequences . ''
The letter outlines a variety of consequences that the doctors have observed resulting from the coronavirus shutdowns , including patients missing routine checkups @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or cancer , increases in substance and alcohol abuse , and increases in financial instability that could lead to `` [ p ] overty and financial uncertainty , '' which `` is closely linked to poor health . ''
`` We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients , '' the doctors say in their letter .
`` The downstream health effects ... are being massively under-estimated and under-reported .
This is an order of magnitude error . ''
The letter continues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight , but they will be called alcoholism , homelessness , suicide , heart attack , stroke , or kidney failure .
In youths it will be called financial instability , unemployment , despair , drug addiction , unplanned pregnancies , poverty , and abuse .
`` Because the harm is diffuse , there are those who hold that it does not exist .
We , the undersigned , know otherwise . ''
The letter comes as the battle over when and how to lift @ @ @ @ @ @ @ television , in the courts , in protests and among government officials .
Those for lifting the restrictions have warned about the economic consequences of keeping the shutdowns in effect .
Those advocating a more cautious approach say that having more people out and about will necessarily end with more people becoming infected , causing what National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci warned in a Senate hearing last week would be preventable `` suffering and death . ''
But these doctors point to others that are suffering , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but simply from not being able to leave home .
The doctors ' letter lists a handful of patients by their initials and details their experiences .
`` Patient E.S .
is a mother with two children whose office job was reduced to part-time and whose husband was furloughed , '' the letter reads .
`` The father is drinking more , the mother is depressed and not managing her diabetes well , and the children are barely doing any schoolwork . ''
`` Patient A.F .
has chronic but previously stable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` Her elective hip replacement was delayed , which caused her to become nearly sedentary , resulting in a pulmonary embolism in April . ''
CAN I GET CORONAVIRUS OUTSIDE ?
EXPERTS TALK WIND DISPERSAL , PROVIDE SAFETY TIPS Dr. Mark McDonald , a psychiatrist , noted in a conversation with Fox News that a 31-year-old patient of his with a history of depression who was attending school to get a master 's degree in psychology died about two weeks ago of a fentanyl overdose .
He blames the government-imposed shutdown .
`` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , essentially in house arrest as most people here in [ Los Angeles ] were for weeks and weeks , she could not see her therapist -- she could speak to the therapist over the phone but she could n't see her in person .
She could not attend any of her group meetings , which were helping to maintain her abstinence from opiates ... and she relapsed into depression .
`` She was just too withdrawn to ask for help , '' McDonald continued before noting that due to regulations only six @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` She was simply trying to escape from her pain ...
I do blame these actions by the government for her death . ''
Fox News asked McDonald , as well as three other doctors who were involved with the letter , if they thought the indirect effects of the shutdowns outweighed the likely direct consequences of lifting them -- the preventable `` suffering and death '' Fauci referred to in last week 's Senate hearing .
All four said that they believe they do .
`` The very initial argument ... which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that in order to limit the overwhelmed patient flux into hospitals that would prevent adequate care , we needed to spread out the infections and thus the deaths in specific locales that could become hotspots , particularly New York City ...
It was a valid argument at the beginning based on the models that were given , '' McDonald said .
`` What we 've seen now over the last three months is that no city -- none , zero -- outside of New York has even been significantly stressed . ''
McDonald @ @ @ @ @ @ @ closures and stay-at-home orders aimed at `` flattening the curve '' are meant to reduce the total number of people who will fall ill because of the coronavirus .
Rather , these curve-flattening measures are meant largely to reduce the number of people who are sick at any given time , thus avoiding a surge in cases that overwhelms the health care system and causes otherwise preventable deaths because not all patients are able to access lifesaving critical care .
CDC NOW SAYS CORONAVIRUS 'DOES NOT SPREAD EASILY ' VIA CONTAMINATED SURFACES McDonald @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not overwhelmed , they 're actually being shut down . ''
He noted that at one hospital in the Los Angeles area where Dr. Simone Gold , the head organizer of the letter , works `` the technicians in the ER have been cut by 50 percent . ''
Gold also said the effects of the shutdown are more serious for the vast majority of people than the potential virus spread if it is quickly lifted .
`` When you look at the data of the deaths and the critically ill , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ begin with , '' she said , `` There 's always exceptions .
...
But when you look at the pure numbers , it 's overwhelmingly patients who are in nursing homes and patients with serious underlying conditions .
Meaning , that that 's where our resources should be spent .
I think it 's terribly unethical ... part of the reason why we let [ the virus ] fly through the nursing homes is because we 're diverting resources across society at large .
We have limited resources we should put them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ People of all ages , of course , have been shown to be able to catch the coronavirus .
And there have been reported health complications in children that could potentially be linked to the disease .
Fauci also warned about assuming that children are largely protected from the effects of the virus .
“ We do n't know everything about this virus … especially when it comes to children , ” Fauci said in a Senate hearing last week .
“ We ought to be careful and not cavalier.
” Newport Beach @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Barke , who led the letter effort with Gold , also put an emphasis on the disparity in who the virus effects .
`` There are thousands of us out there that do n't agree with the perspective of Dr. Fauci and [ White House coronavirus response coordinator ] Dr. [ Deborah ] Birx that believe , yes , this virus is deadly , it 's dangerous , and it 's contagious , but only to a select group of Americans , '' he said .
`` The path forward is to allow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ herd , to be exposed and to develop a degree of antibodies that both now is protective to them and also prevents the virus from spreading to the most vulnerable . ''
Dr. Scott Barbour , an orthopedic surgeon in Atlanta , reflected the comments the other doctors made about how the medical system has been able to handle the coronavirus without being overwhelmed , but also noted that the reported mortality rates from the coronavirus might be off .
`` The vast majority of the people that contract this disease are asymptomatic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not even aware that they 're sick .
And so the denominator in our calculation of mortality rate is far greater than we think , '' he said .
`` The risk of dying from COVID is relatively small when we consider these facts . ''
Gold , an emergency medicine specialist based in Los Angeles , led the letter on behalf of a new organization called A Doctor a Day .
A Doctor a Day has not yet formally launched but sent the letter , with hundreds of signatures from physicians nationwide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Gold and the group 's co-founder , Barke , said they began the organization to advocate for patients against the government-imposed coronavirus shutdowns by elevating the voices of doctors who felt that the negative externalities of the shutdowns outweigh the potential downside of letting people resume their normal business .
CONNECTICUT RESTAURANTS 'EAGER ' TO REOPEN AS STATE STARTS LIFTING RESTRICTIONS -- AND BRACES FOR INFLUX FROM NEW YORK To gather signatures for the letter , Gold and Barke partnered with the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons ( AAPS ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less government interference in the relationship between doctors and patients , and notably has taken part in legal challenges against the Affordable Care Act and advocated to allow doctors to use hydroxychloroquine on themselves and their patients .
Gold , in a conversation with Fox News , lamented that the debate around hydroxychloroquine has become politicized , noting that it is taken as a preventative measure for other diseases and that the potentially harmful effects of the drug mainly affect people with heart issues .
The drug is approved to treat malaria , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Food and Drug Administration has said that `` [ h ] ydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have not been shown to be safe and effective for treating or preventing COVID-19 . ''
The FDA has also warned health professionals that the drug should not be used to treat COVID-19 outside of hospital or research settings .
Gold said she has direct knowledge of physicians who are taking hydroxychloroquine and said that although `` we will see '' about its efficacy as it is studied more , there have been some indicators that it could be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she could therefore understand why doctors might take the drug themselves or prescribe it to their patients .
There is also other research that appears to indicate hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for the coronavirus , which has largely informed the consensus that the risks of the drug outweigh the potential benefits .
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Gold , who is a member of the national leadership council for the Save Our Country Coalition -- an assortment of conservative groups that aim `` to bring about a quick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society '' -- also said she was concerned that her message about the harms of shutdowns is becoming politicized .
She said that she agreed with the general principles of the coalition and decided to sign on when asked , but has n't done much work with it and is considering asking to have her name removed because people are largely associating her message on reopening the country with a conservative political point of view .
`` I have n't done anything other than that , '' she said .
`` It 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 'm doing so I actually think I 'm just going to take my name off because it 's not really supposed to be political . ''
Gold also said she is not associated with the Trump reelection campaign in any way , referring to her inclusion in an Associated Press story about the Trump campaign 's efforts to recruit doctors to support the president 's message on lifting coronavirus restrictions .
The AP story details a call organized CNP Action , also part of the Save Our Country Coalition , which involved a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at recruiting `` extremely pro-Trump '' doctors to make television appearances calling for the reopening of the economy as quickly as possible .
Fox News ' Andrew O'Reilly and the Associated Press contributed to this report .

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More than 600 doctors signed onto a letter sent to President Trump Tuesday pushing him to end the "national shutdown" aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, calling the widespread state orders keeping businesses closed and kids home from school a "mass casualty incident" with "exponentially growing health consequences."
The letter outlines a variety of consequences that the doctors have observed resulting from the coronavirus shutdowns, including patients missing routine checkups that could detect things like heart problems or cancer, increases in substance and alcohol abuse, and increases in financial instability that could lead to "[p]overty and financial uncertainty," which "is closely linked to poor health."
"We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients," the doctors say in their letter. "The downstream health effects ... are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error."
CLICK HERE FOR FULL CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE
FLORIDA BAR OWNERS PLAN PROTESTS TO REOPEN BUSINESSES AMID CORONAVIRUS SHUTDOWN
The letter continues: "The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure. In youths it will be called financial instability, unemployment, despair, drug addiction, unplanned pregnancies, poverty, and abuse.
"Because the harm is diffuse, there are those who hold that it does not exist. We, the undersigned, know otherwise."
The letter comes as the battle over when and how to lift coronavirus restrictions continues to rage on cable television, in the courts, in protests and among government officials. Those for lifting the restrictions have warned about the economic consequences of keeping the shutdowns in effect. Those advocating a more cautious approach say that having more people out and about will necessarily end with more people becoming infected, causing what National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci warned in a Senate hearing last week would be preventable "suffering and death."
But these doctors point to others that are suffering, not from the economy or the virus, but simply from not being able to leave home. The doctors' letter lists a handful of patients by their initials and details their experiences.
"Patient E.S. is a mother with two children whose office job was reduced to part-time and whose husband was furloughed," the letter reads. "The father is drinking more, the mother is depressed and not managing her diabetes well, and the children are barely doing any schoolwork."
"Patient A.F. has chronic but previously stable health conditions," it continues. "Her elective hip replacement was delayed, which caused her to become nearly sedentary, resulting in a pulmonary embolism in April."
CAN I GET CORONAVIRUS OUTSIDE? EXPERTS TALK WIND DISPERSAL, PROVIDE SAFETY TIPS
Dr. Mark McDonald, a psychiatrist, noted in a conversation with Fox News that a 31-year-old patient of his with a history of depression who was attending school to get a master's degree in psychology died about two weeks ago of a fentanyl overdose. He blames the government-imposed shutdown.
"She had to stay in her apartment, essentially in house arrest as most people here in [Los Angeles] were for weeks and weeks, she could not see her therapist -- she could speak to the therapist over the phone but she couldn't see her in person. She could not attend any of her group meetings, which were helping to maintain her abstinence from opiates ... and she relapsed into depression.
"She was just too withdrawn to ask for help," McDonald continued before noting that due to regulations only six people could be at her funeral. "She was simply trying to escape from her pain... I do blame these actions by the government for her death."
Fox News asked McDonald, as well as three other doctors who were involved with the letter, if they thought the indirect effects of the shutdowns outweighed the likely direct consequences of lifting them -- the preventable "suffering and death" Fauci referred to in last week's Senate hearing. All four said that they believe they do.
"The very initial argument ... which sounded reasonable three months ago, is that in order to limit the overwhelmed patient flux into hospitals that would prevent adequate care, we needed to spread out the infections and thus the deaths in specific locales that could become hotspots, particularly New York City... It was a valid argument at the beginning based on the models that were given," McDonald said. "What we've seen now over the last three months is that no city -- none, zero -- outside of New York has even been significantly stressed."
McDonald is referring to the misconception that business closures and stay-at-home orders aimed at "flattening the curve" are meant to reduce the total number of people who will fall ill because of the coronavirus. Rather, these curve-flattening measures are meant largely to reduce the number of people who are sick at any given time, thus avoiding a surge in cases that overwhelms the health care system and causes otherwise preventable deaths because not all patients are able to access lifesaving critical care.
CDC NOW SAYS CORONAVIRUS 'DOES NOT SPREAD EASILY' VIA CONTAMINATED SURFACES
McDonald said that "hospitals are not only not overwhelmed, they're actually being shut down." He noted that at one hospital in the Los Angeles area where Dr. Simone Gold, the head organizer of the letter, works "the technicians in the ER have been cut by 50 percent."
Gold also said the effects of the shutdown are more serious for the vast majority of people than the potential virus spread if it is quickly lifted.
"When you look at the data of the deaths and the critically ill, they are patients who were very sick to begin with," she said, "There's always exceptions. ... But when you look at the pure numbers, it's overwhelmingly patients who are in nursing homes and patients with serious underlying conditions. Meaning, that that's where our resources should be spent. I think it's terribly unethical... part of the reason why we let [the virus] fly through the nursing homes is because we're diverting resources across society at large. We have limited resources we should put them where it's killed people."
People of all ages, of course, have been shown to be able to catch the coronavirus. And there have been reported health complications in children that could potentially be linked to the disease. Fauci also warned about assuming that children are largely protected from the effects of the virus.
“We don't know everything about this virus … especially when it comes to children,” Fauci said in a Senate hearing last week. “We ought to be careful and not cavalier.”
Newport Beach, Calif., concierge doctor Dr. Jeffrey Barke, who led the letter effort with Gold, also put an emphasis on the disparity in who the virus effects.
"There are thousands of us out there that don't agree with the perspective of Dr. Fauci and [White House coronavirus response coordinator] Dr. [Deborah] Birx that believe, yes, this virus is deadly, it's dangerous, and it's contagious, but only to a select group of Americans," he said. "The path forward is to allow the young and healthy, the so-called herd, to be exposed and to develop a degree of antibodies that both now is protective to them and also prevents the virus from spreading to the most vulnerable."
HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES CIRCULATE PETITION AGAINST VIRTUAL FALL SEMESTER AMID CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Dr. Scott Barbour, an orthopedic surgeon in Atlanta, reflected the comments the other doctors made about how the medical system has been able to handle the coronavirus without being overwhelmed, but also noted that the reported mortality rates from the coronavirus might be off.
"The vast majority of the people that contract this disease are asymptomatic or so minimally symptomatic that they're not even aware that they're sick. And so the denominator in our calculation of mortality rate is far greater than we think," he said. "The risk of dying from COVID is relatively small when we consider these facts."
Gold, an emergency medicine specialist based in Los Angeles, led the letter on behalf of a new organization called A Doctor a Day.
A Doctor a Day has not yet formally launched but sent the letter, with hundreds of signatures from physicians nationwide, to the White House on Tuesday. Gold and the group's co-founder, Barke, said they began the organization to advocate for patients against the government-imposed coronavirus shutdowns by elevating the voices of doctors who felt that the negative externalities of the shutdowns outweigh the potential downside of letting people resume their normal business.
CONNECTICUT RESTAURANTS 'EAGER' TO REOPEN AS STATE STARTS LIFTING RESTRICTIONS -- AND BRACES FOR INFLUX FROM NEW YORK
To gather signatures for the letter, Gold and Barke partnered with the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a doctors' group that advocates for less government interference in the relationship between doctors and patients, and notably has taken part in legal challenges against the Affordable Care Act and advocated to allow doctors to use hydroxychloroquine on themselves and their patients.
Gold, in a conversation with Fox News, lamented that the debate around hydroxychloroquine has become politicized, noting that it is taken as a preventative measure for other diseases and that the potentially harmful effects of the drug mainly affect people with heart issues.
The drug is approved to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, but the Food and Drug Administration has said that "[h]ydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have not been shown to be safe and effective for treating or preventing COVID-19."
The FDA has also warned health professionals that the drug should not be used to treat COVID-19 outside of hospital or research settings.
Gold said she has direct knowledge of physicians who are taking hydroxychloroquine and said that although "we will see" about its efficacy as it is studied more, there have been some indicators that it could be effective at preventing or mitigating COVID-19 and she could therefore understand why doctors might take the drug themselves or prescribe it to their patients.
There is also other research that appears to indicate hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for the coronavirus, which has largely informed the consensus that the risks of the drug outweigh the potential benefits.
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Gold, who is a member of the national leadership council for the Save Our Country Coalition -- an assortment of conservative groups that aim "to bring about a quick, safe and responsible reopening of US society" -- also said she was concerned that her message about the harms of shutdowns is becoming politicized. She said that she agreed with the general principles of the coalition and decided to sign on when asked, but hasn't done much work with it and is considering asking to have her name removed because people are largely associating her message on reopening the country with a conservative political point of view.
"I haven't done anything other than that," she said. "It's causing a big misunderstanding about what I'm doing so I actually think I'm just going to take my name off because it's not really supposed to be political."
Gold also said she is not associated with the Trump reelection campaign in any way, referring to her inclusion in an Associated Press story about the Trump campaign's efforts to recruit doctors to support the president's message on lifting coronavirus restrictions. The AP story details a call organized CNP Action, also part of the Save Our Country Coalition, which involved a senior Trump campaign staffer and was aimed at recruiting "extremely pro-Trump" doctors to make television appearances calling for the reopening of the economy as quickly as possible.
Fox News' Andrew O'Reilly and the Associated Press contributed to this report.


foxnews--2020-05-20--Kentucky convenience store under investigation after posting 'no face masks allowed' sign, report sa

Kentucky convenience store under investigation after posting 'no face masks allowed' sign, report says

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A Kentucky convenience store and gas station that posted a sign on its front door telling customers to take off their face masks inside or “ go somewhere else ” is under investigation , according to a report .
Alvin ’ s , a business in Manchester , was called out on social media this week after posting in bold red and blue lettering a sign that read : `` No Face Masks in store , lower your mask or go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gov .
Andy ] Beshear .
He is a dumba -- . ''
While the store has said the sign was meant as a joke , WYMT-TV reported that it attracted the attention of the Cumberland Valley District Health Department .
The department has reached out to the store and is sending an agent to check whether or not the sign is still posted .
Some Facebook users called the person who posted the photo a “ tattletale ” and vowed to make a trip to Manchester just to shop at the store @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Alvin ’ s responded early Tuesday to clarify that the sign was meant as a joke and apologized .
“ We would never deny any customer access inside our store , that is wearing a mask or not wearing a mask .
We are not telling you to not wear a mask , what we are saying is , its [ sic ] your choice to wear one or not , not our governments [ sic ] choice for us .
While some got the meaning behind it , alot [ sic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ sic ] mean to offend anyone , but we will not apologize for our beliefs in our freedom to make our own decisions , that our government wants to make for us .
We strive to keep our customers safe , and our employees.
” The store has previously posted images to its social media that promote social distancing inside the store , as well as masks it 's selling with a Trump 2020 logo .
Beshear began reopening businesses on May 11 and asked all Kentucky residents to start wearing masks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He said those who did not wear masks would not be arrested or cited .
CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP Kentucky reported at least 8,069 confirmed coronavirus cases and 366 deaths as of Tuesday , according to state health department data .

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A Kentucky convenience store and gas station that posted a sign on its front door telling customers to take off their face masks inside or “go somewhere else” is under investigation, according to a report.
Alvin’s, a business in Manchester, was called out on social media this week after posting in bold red and blue lettering a sign that read: "No Face Masks in store, lower your mask or go somewhere else. Stop listening to [Gov. Andy] Beshear. He is a dumba--."
CLICK HERE FOR FULL CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE
While the store has said the sign was meant as a joke, WYMT-TV reported that it attracted the attention of the Cumberland Valley District Health Department. The department has reached out to the store and is sending an agent to check whether or not the sign is still posted.
Some Facebook users called the person who posted the photo a “tattletale” and vowed to make a trip to Manchester just to shop at the store, while others complained about the sign.
Alvin’s responded early Tuesday to clarify that the sign was meant as a joke and apologized.
“We would never deny any customer access inside our store, that is wearing a mask or not wearing a mask. We are not telling you to not wear a mask, what we are saying is, its [sic] your choice to wear one or not, not our governments [sic] choice for us. While some got the meaning behind it, alot [sic] did not.”
FLORIDA BAR OWNERS PLAN PROTESTS TO REOPEN BUSINESSES AMID CORONAVIRUS SHUTDOWN
“We didnt [sic] mean to offend anyone, but we will not apologize for our beliefs in our freedom to make our own decisions, that our government wants to make for us. We strive to keep our customers safe, and our employees.”
The store has previously posted images to its social media that promote social distancing inside the store, as well as masks it's selling with a Trump 2020 logo.
Beshear began reopening businesses on May 11 and asked all Kentucky residents to start wearing masks to protect against the spread of coronavirus. He said those who did not wear masks would not be arrested or cited.
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Kentucky reported at least 8,069 confirmed coronavirus cases and 366 deaths as of Tuesday, according to state health department data.


foxnews--2020-05-20--Ex-CDC director Tom Frieden: Coronavirus outbreak at Arkansas church shows 'what you do affects othe

Ex-CDC director Tom Frieden: Coronavirus outbreak at Arkansas church shows 'what you do affects others'

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Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) director Tom Frieden joined `` Your World with Neil Cavuto '' Wednesday to discuss a CDC report that detailed the spread of coronavirus among members of a church in rural Arkansas .
`` We stayed home so the virus quieted down and stopped spreading widely where it was spreading widely , but it 's still out there , '' Frieden told host Neil Cavuto .
`` So anytime you have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ space and one of them is infectious , you can have a lot of cases . ''
`` This is a very infectious virus , '' Frieden added , `` but it is n't the end of the world . ''
The CDC report released Tuesday showed that two symptomatic people who later tested positive for COVID-19 attended church events in early March .
At least 35 of 92 attendees at the events contracted the virus and three of them died .
Twenty-six other people in the community with links to the church @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one person dying .
Frieden also voiced his frustration with the ongoing controversy about when to reopen for business .
`` We were never completely closed , '' he said .
`` And unfortunately , until we have a vaccine , we 're never going to be completely open .
It 's a level of gradations .
That 's why we [ Resolve to Save Lives ] released a report to look at a risk alert level from red , orange to yellow to green .
`` We 're recommending that communities and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
`` So you can advise people and they can decide for themselves what they 're going to do . ''
Frieden warned that the Arkansas case shows that people 's decisions impact others .
`` But keep in mind , what you do also affects others because it is highly infectious , '' Frieden said .
`` And we think a level like this can empower people , can hold governments accountable and help us all make progress so that we can restart without rekindling the epidemic . ''

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Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Tom Frieden joined "Your World with Neil Cavuto" Wednesday to discuss a CDC report that detailed the spread of coronavirus among members of a church in rural Arkansas.
"We stayed home so the virus quieted down and stopped spreading widely where it was spreading widely, but it's still out there," Frieden told host Neil Cavuto. "So anytime you have a lot of people together in an indoor space and one of them is infectious, you can have a lot of cases."
DOZENS IN CHURCH INFECTED WITH COVID-19
"This is a very infectious virus," Frieden added, "but it isn't the end of the world."
The CDC report released Tuesday showed that two symptomatic people who later tested positive for COVID-19 attended church events in early March. At least 35 of 92 attendees at the events contracted the virus and three of them died. Twenty-six other people in the community with links to the church have also contracted the virus, with one person dying.
Frieden also voiced his frustration with the ongoing controversy about when to reopen for business.
"We were never completely closed," he said. "And unfortunately, until we have a vaccine, we're never going to be completely open. It's a level of gradations. That's why we [Resolve to Save Lives] released a report to look at a risk alert level from red, orange to yellow to green.
"We're recommending that communities and states consider this," Frieden said. "So you can advise people and they can decide for themselves what they're going to do."
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Frieden warned that the Arkansas case shows that people's decisions impact others.
"But keep in mind, what you do also affects others because it is highly infectious," Frieden said. "And we think a level like this can empower people, can hold governments accountable and help us all make progress so that we can restart without rekindling the epidemic."


foxnews--2020-05-20--Jerry Falwell Jr. describes how Liberty University 'became the model' for colleges in age of coronav

Jerry Falwell Jr. describes how Liberty University 'became the model' for colleges in age of coronavirus

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Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. took the mainstream media to task on `` The Ingraham Angle '' Tuesday after he received heavy criticism for keeping the Lynchburg , Va. campus open in March , at the height of the coronavirus pandemic .
`` Well , if you 're a conservative college president , be careful because they 'll come after you , '' Fallwell told host Laura Ingraham .
`` It 's totally political .
It was totally political .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ they did it .
They spent days on campus .
The New York Times reporter and the other reporter [ from ] ProPublica .
And even though there were 'No Trespassing ' signs everywhere , [ they ] never called to ask us for any comment .
Never talked to our on-campus doctor . ''
WILLIAM MCGURN : CORONAVIRUS EDUCATION - JERRY FALWELL JR. GOT IT RIGHT Instead , Falwell claimed , the reporters spoke to a doctor across town and contacted the university on a Sunday , one day before publishing .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ pull everybody together on a Sunday .
But that shows their intent , '' Falwell said .
`` Their intent was to create this false impression . ''
Falwell said the school focused on online classes in the final weeks of this semester , while keeping regular on-campus hours for the approximately 1,200 students who returned to the dorms after the university 's spring break .
`` We have a campus built for 16,000 , '' he said .
`` Twelve hundred students came back to stay in the dorms for seven weeks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't have high-speed internet , had elderly relatives living at home or were international students , '' Falwell said .
`` And so they had no place else to go . ''
Falwell said he disagreed with plans by other academic institutions to cancel on-campus instruction in the fall , saying they have an obligation to their students .
`` I think colleges have an obligation to do whatever they can to continue the student 's education .
That 's what we did , '' Falwell said .
`` We do it in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the model .
We had all takeout at our restaurants .
We had social distancing .
All the academic buildings were open so they could spread out .
And ... it worked perfectly . ''
As of Tuesday , the Virginia Department of Health had confirmed just 75 cases of COVID-19 in Lynchburg , a city of more than 75,000 people .
Liberty 's residence halls closed for summer break earlier this month , with Falwell declaring that `` nobody who lived in a campus residence hall or who worked in a campus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ''

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Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. took the mainstream media to task on "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday after he received heavy criticism for keeping the Lynchburg, Va. campus open in March, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
"Well, if you're a conservative college president, be careful because they'll come after you," Fallwell told host Laura Ingraham. "It's totally political. It was totally political. And it was just so reprehensible how they did it. They spent days on campus. The New York Times reporter and the other reporter [from] ProPublica. And even though there were 'No Trespassing' signs everywhere, [they] never called to ask us for any comment. Never talked to our on-campus doctor."
WILLIAM MCGURN: CORONAVIRUS EDUCATION - JERRY FALWELL JR. GOT IT RIGHT
Instead, Falwell claimed, the reporters spoke to a doctor across town and contacted the university on a Sunday, one day before publishing.
"We were scrambling, trying to pull everybody together on a Sunday. But that shows their intent," Falwell said. "Their intent was to create this false impression."
Falwell said the school focused on online classes in the final weeks of this semester, while keeping regular on-campus hours for the approximately 1,200 students who returned to the dorms after the university's spring break.
"We have a campus built for 16,000," he said. "Twelve hundred students came back to stay in the dorms for seven weeks and they were students who either didn't have high-speed internet, had elderly relatives living at home or were international students," Falwell said. "And so they had no place else to go."
Falwell said he disagreed with plans by other academic institutions to cancel on-campus instruction in the fall, saying they have an obligation to their students.
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"I think colleges have an obligation to do whatever they can to continue the student's education. That's what we did," Falwell said. "We do it in a safe manner. We really became the model. We had all takeout at our restaurants. We had social distancing. All the academic buildings were open so they could spread out. And ... it worked perfectly."
As of Tuesday, the Virginia Department of Health had confirmed just 75 cases of COVID-19 in Lynchburg, a city of more than 75,000 people. Liberty's residence halls closed for summer break earlier this month, with Falwell declaring that "nobody who lived in a campus residence hall or who worked in a campus office tested positive for the virus."


foxnews--2020-05-20--Ex-WHO official says coronavirus not increasing in reopened spots: 'It's as though something has cha

Ex-WHO official says coronavirus not increasing in reopened spots: 'It's as though something has changed'

Dr. Karol Sikora , an oncologist and former chief of the World Health Organization 's Cancer Program , told `` The Ingraham Angle '' Tuesday that locations that have lifted coronavirus-induced restrictions on economic and other activities are not seeing the feared spike in case rates .
`` It strikes me , as you look at all of the data all around the world where people have come out of lockdowns , things are actually going along quite nicely on the whole , and it 's strange , '' he said .
`` it 's as though something has changed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why .
`` We need to make a vaccine , of course , '' Sikora added .
`` We need ... to try to get one .
Let 's hope that we do n't need to wait until ... 60 percent of the community [ are infected ] because that could certainly take until next year . ''
Sikora , the chief medical director at U.K.-based Rutherford Health , went on to suggest that the `` fear factor '' surrounding the virus has prevented people from making themselves available for crucial screenings and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ risk .
`` There are ... three factors that end a pandemic , '' he said .
`` The first , our behavior ... how humanity reacts to it : social distancing , avoiding crowds , that sort of thing , the very fear [ of ] this virus changes our behavior pattern .
`` The second thing is the virus itself : how it deals with the fact that [ there are ] increasing immunities out there in its host .
And it 's changing ; the summer weather has come to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are moving on .
`` The third thing , of course , is what actually happens in terms of the fear factor and how we go into the autumn and [ if we ] see another wave , '' Sikora added .
`` I 've heard all of the doom-laden theories .
I 'm an oncologist , I ca n't treat cancer patients properly because they 're not coming forward for diagnostic service at the moment , so I am incentivized to get things moving . ''
Sikora also questioned the prevailing view @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a vengeance sometime in the future , noting that past outbreaks dating back to Biblical times have been wound down by one `` immune mechanism '' or another .
`` Every pandemic , from the plagues in Venice , from the plague in Egypt way back in the times of Christ , we 've seen them just peter out and we do n't understand this petering out .
Despite the very sophisticated computer mathematical models we 've seen , we just do n't know what is going to happen , '' he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be optimistic , otherwise more people will die from cancer than have died from COVID . ''

Dr. Karol Sikora, an oncologist and former chief of the World Health Organization's Cancer Program, told "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday that locations that have lifted coronavirus-induced restrictions on economic and other activities are not seeing the feared spike in case rates.
"It strikes me, as you look at all of the data all around the world where people have come out of lockdowns, things are actually going along quite nicely on the whole, and it's strange," he said. "it's as though something has changed, and none of us can explain why.
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"We need to make a vaccine, of course," Sikora added. "We need ... to try to get one. Let's hope that we don't need to wait until ... 60 percent of the community [are infected] because that could certainly take until next year."
Sikora, the chief medical director at U.K.-based Rutherford Health, went on to suggest that the "fear factor" surrounding the virus has prevented people from making themselves available for crucial screenings and other procedures, putting them at greater risk.
"There are... three factors that end a pandemic," he said. "The first, our behavior ... how humanity reacts to it: social distancing, avoiding crowds, that sort of thing, the very fear [of] this virus changes our behavior pattern.
"The second thing is the virus itself: how it deals with the fact that [there are] increasing immunities out there in its host. And it's changing; the summer weather has come to Europe and North America, and things are moving on.
"The third thing, of course, is what actually happens in terms of the fear factor and how we go into the autumn and [if we] see another wave," Sikora added. "I've heard all of the doom-laden theories. I'm an oncologist, I can't treat cancer patients properly because they're not coming forward for diagnostic service at the moment, so I am incentivized to get things moving."
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Sikora also questioned the prevailing view that the virus will almost certainly return with a vengeance sometime in the future, noting that past outbreaks dating back to Biblical times have been wound down by one "immune mechanism" or another.
"Every pandemic, from the plagues in Venice, from the plague in Egypt way back in the times of Christ, we've seen them just peter out and we don't understand this petering out. Despite the very sophisticated computer mathematical models we've seen, we just don't know what is going to happen," he said.
"But I need to be optimistic, otherwise more people will die from cancer than have died from COVID."


foxnews--2020-05-20--Zoey Deutch 'lucky to be healthy' after battling coronavirus for a month, pleads for people to wear

Zoey Deutch 'lucky to be healthy' after battling coronavirus for a month, pleads for people to wear masks

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In an impassioned plea for people to wear masks in public , Zoey Deutch revealed that she battled the coronavirus for more than a month .
“ The Politician ” actress penned a lengthy essay for Vulture in which she described how she ’ s been using cooking , TV and video games to pass the time while isolating due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
However , she opened the post by revealing that she recently got healthy after testing positive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ I had the coronavirus early on , before the shutdown , and a group of my friends also got it .
People keep asking me , ‘ Where did you get it ?
’ and I wish I knew .
I feel like I could have spoken in a more eloquent way about my experience had I known , ” she wrote .
“ I continued testing positive for a month , which is longer than they ’ re saying you ’ re supposed to .
I ’ m okay now .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ health and I also feel guilty , in a way , for making it out okay.
” CORONAVIRUS VACCINE DEVELOPMENT : WHERE DOES IT STAND ?
She went on to thank her own “ neuroses ” for causing her to stay inside before stay-at-home orders were put in place .
She explained that the ordeal of catching the virus alongside several of her friends gave her a clear picture of just how diverse people ’ s experience with COVID-19 can be .
As a result , she called on readers to abide by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in public .
“ The reason I want to talk about it now is because it ’ s so important to wear masks .
So many people don ’ t show symptoms , and my experience was that me and my friends who got it all had such drastically different symptoms , ” she explained .
“ I had a sore throat and felt totally delirious , like I was losing my mind .
It was different than the normal ‘ me feeling like I ’ m losing my mind.
’ One of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
One went to the hospital with the ‘ normal ’ symptoms , but another friend had absolutely no symptoms at all .
I stayed inside for almost two months , and I still very minimally go out , with a mask.
” The 25-year-old star added : “ I hate to sound like I ’ m trying to be preachy , but it ’ s so important to wear a mask when you go out , even if you think you ’ re okay and think you don ’ t have it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ You just don ’ t know if you have it or not.
” WHAT COUNTRIES HAVE NOT DECLARED ANY KNOWN CASES OF CORONAVIRUS ?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic people can still transmit COVID-19 to others .
As a result , it recommends wearing a face covering at all times in public in order for people who may be unaware that they have the coronavirus to avoid transmitting it to someone that could show more dangerous symptoms .
As of Wednesday morning , the novel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ across 188 countries and territories , resulting in over 323,637 deaths .
In the U.S. , all 50 states plus the District of Columbia have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19 , tallying over 1,528,661 illnesses and at least 91,938 deaths .
Deutch concluded her statement about her COVID-19 experience by noting that , although she wants to do more to help people during this time , she knows that she now poses a risk of transmitting what she had to others .
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “ I really @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and get groceries for people who haven ’ t had it and be more of service than I have been able to , ” she explained .
“ I am so lucky to be healthy , that I ’ m safe and not immunocompromised and have access to doctors ; I am incredibly privileged .
But not everyone shares that privilege — so we need to be extra careful for those who don ’ t by wearing masks .
”

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In an impassioned plea for people to wear masks in public, Zoey Deutch revealed that she battled the coronavirus for more than a month.
“The Politician” actress penned a lengthy essay for Vulture in which she described how she’s been using cooking, TV and video games to pass the time while isolating due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, she opened the post by revealing that she recently got healthy after testing positive for the virus for a month.
“I had the coronavirus early on, before the shutdown, and a group of my friends also got it. People keep asking me, ‘Where did you get it?’ and I wish I knew. I feel like I could have spoken in a more eloquent way about my experience had I known,” she wrote. “I continued testing positive for a month, which is longer than they’re saying you’re supposed to. I’m okay now. I’m so grateful for my health and I also feel guilty, in a way, for making it out okay.”
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE DEVELOPMENT: WHERE DOES IT STAND?
She went on to thank her own “neuroses” for causing her to stay inside before stay-at-home orders were put in place. She explained that the ordeal of catching the virus alongside several of her friends gave her a clear picture of just how diverse people’s experience with COVID-19 can be. As a result, she called on readers to abide by the CDC's guidelines and wear masks in public.
“The reason I want to talk about it now is because it’s so important to wear masks. So many people don’t show symptoms, and my experience was that me and my friends who got it all had such drastically different symptoms,” she explained. “I had a sore throat and felt totally delirious, like I was losing my mind. It was different than the normal ‘me feeling like I’m losing my mind.’ One of my friends only lost taste and smell. One went to the hospital with the ‘normal’ symptoms, but another friend had absolutely no symptoms at all. I stayed inside for almost two months, and I still very minimally go out, with a mask.”
The 25-year-old star added: “I hate to sound like I’m trying to be preachy, but it’s so important to wear a mask when you go out, even if you think you’re okay and think you don’t have it or think it’s allergies. You just don’t know if you have it or not.”
WHAT COUNTRIES HAVE NOT DECLARED ANY KNOWN CASES OF CORONAVIRUS?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic people can still transmit COVID-19 to others. As a result, it recommends wearing a face covering at all times in public in order for people who may be unaware that they have the coronavirus to avoid transmitting it to someone that could show more dangerous symptoms.
As of Wednesday morning, the novel coronavirus has infected more than 4,913,761 people across 188 countries and territories, resulting in over 323,637 deaths. In the U.S., all 50 states plus the District of Columbia have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, tallying over 1,528,661 illnesses and at least 91,938 deaths.
Deutch concluded her statement about her COVID-19 experience by noting that, although she wants to do more to help people during this time, she knows that she now poses a risk of transmitting what she had to others.
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“I really want to be able to donate blood and get groceries for people who haven’t had it and be more of service than I have been able to,” she explained. “I am so lucky to be healthy, that I’m safe and not immunocompromised and have access to doctors; I am incredibly privileged. But not everyone shares that privilege — so we need to be extra careful for those who don’t by wearing masks.”