Trump Insists He Has Total Authority to Supersede Governors – The New York Times

Twenty-four low- and middle-income countries, including Mexico, Nigeria and Cambodia, have paused or postponed such programs, according to the Measles and Rubella Initiative.

In the United States and other wealthier countries, parents typically make appointments to follow a routine vaccine schedule at clinics or private pediatric offices. In poorer countries, however, large numbers of infants and children are inoculated in communal settings, like marketplaces, schools, churches and mosques.

There are also concerns about potential outbreaks in North America and Europe, which do not have national inoculation programs. Because of Covid-19 fears, American pediatric practices are beginning to report significant drops in well-child visits, including those for routine vaccines.

Even in resource-rich settings there is a danger of measles raising its ugly head in the not-too-distant future, said Dr. Beate Kampmann, director of the Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In 2019, the United States reported 1,282 measles cases, its highest in more than 25 years.

Conceding that its effort to count the nations population has been hamstrung by the pandemic, the Census Bureau said it would ask Congress for a four-month delay in delivering the population data used to reapportion the House of Representatives and political districts across the country.

In a news release, the bureau said the new deadline would mean that state legislatures would get final figures for drawing new district maps as late as July 31, 2021. Delivery of that data normally begins in February.

The bureau also said it would extend the deadline for collecting census data, now Aug. 15, to Oct. 31, and would begin reopening its field offices which have been shuttered since mid-March sometime after June 1.

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Trump Insists He Has Total Authority to Supersede Governors - The New York Times