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Some investors, though, had grown skeptical.

On March 9, Andrew Left of Citron Capital, which is shorting Inovios stock and stands to profit if it declines, began publicly questioning Inovios approach to devising a coronavirus vaccine and accusing it of engaging in serial stock promotion. He later issued a report comparing the company to Theranos, the disgraced blood-testing company, and cataloging Inovios history of promoting and then failing to produce vaccines.

Inovios stock price plunged 66 percent, though it would soon soar to new heights thanks to optimism about its potential vaccine.

Days later, shareholders sued Inovio in federal court in Pennsylvania. Citing Dr. Kims remarks at the White House and earlier comments he made on Fox Business Network about having created a vaccine, the suit claimed that the company had capitalized on widespread Covid-19 fears by falsely claiming that Inovio had developed a vaccine. In April, another group of shareholders filed a separate suit in the same court, accusing Dr. Kim and Inovios board of mismanagement and unjustly enriching themselves, among other things.

Inovio has disputed Mr. Lefts critiques, but the company publicly clarified that it had developed a vaccine construct essentially a road map not an actual vaccine. Inovio has not publicly responded to the pending shareholder lawsuits.

Over the past 10 years, insiders at Inovio have sold more than $25 million in stock, according to the financial data provider Equilar. Last year, Dr. Kim was forced to sell about half his Inovio shares causing the stock price to drop by more than a third after he used his shares as collateral to borrow money and was caught in a so-called margin call, requiring him to immediately repay his loan.

This year, following steep run-ups in Inovios stock price, insiders have sold $3.8 million in shares. (Earlier this year, Inovio banned executives from engaging in short-term or speculative transactions in the companys securities, including pledging and purchasing company securities on margin.)

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Were wearing masks. Were social distancing. Were avoiding large gatherings, especially inside. At least, most of us are. As officials endeavor to underline the importance of these and other measures in containing the coronavirus pandemic, how can we tell if our collective efforts are working?

Cases per 100k, positivity rate, hospital admittance and deaths are some of the commonly tracked stats. Health experts around the globe have varying interpretations of each one, and they mean different things amid different conditions.

Theres one more metric, and it focuses specifically on the rate of viral spread.

Referred to as R, it estimates how fast or slow the pathogen that causes COVID-19 is propagating among a community. In broad strokes, R can be thought of as measuring how many other people each infected person will go on to infect. Keeping this number down is what contact tracing aims to accomplish.

A variety of sites have popped up where you can track this curve for various nations or different U.S. states, but there werent any showing R for Philadelphia alone until now.

The chart above is calculated using data from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. It will stay updated on this page as researchers refresh their information online; this happens multiple times each week. Each point shows a 7-day average for a smoother approximation of trends.

Popularized by Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel in a viral video back in April, the statistic is complicated, and is less useful for predicting the future than for taking an assessment of current and past conditions.

The number epidemiologists call R provides a base-level approximation of how fast cases reproduce within any specific community, and it varies according to herd immunity and other factors. R whats shown in the graph above is what researchers call the statistic as it evolves over time during an active epidemic.

If R = 1, each positive case is causing one other case. Not great, but not horrible. Horrible is when R is greater than 1, because that means an infection is spreading exponentially exactly what happens to cause an epidemic, or in the case of COVID-19, a global pandemic. When R is less than 1, it means the infection is being contained.

If youre interested in a longer explanation, science journal Nature has a good piece on this here.

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health created a new division to build a contact tracing program, which Health Commissioner Dr. Tom Farley has called even more important as case counts go down.

As of late July, the city had hired about 110 people to work on the project, including interviewers, tracers and supervisors.

The group is ethnically diverse: 57% are African American, 25% are white, 6% are Latino/Latina and 11% are Asian, per Farley. Theres an entire Spanish-speaking team, and a quarter of the staff speaks two languages; a sixth were born outside the U.S.

Staffers were recruited from local communities with help from neighborhood associations, because trust is paramount in the job. These folks have to convince random strangers some of whom may know they were in contact with a COVID carrier, many of whom do not that a) its not a spam robocall and b) people should discuss their personal habits and specific whereabouts.

Privacy is a huge part of their training, and Farley said data is never shared outside the health department, not with law enforcement or anyone else.

Still, about a third of people called by Phillys contact tracers are not answering the phone or providing any information about their contacts. If you or anyone you know sees a call from 215-218-XXX, pick up. It can help keep R down and get the city closer to full reopening.

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A report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found that Black and Hispanic children are more likely to be hospitalized due to coronavirus than White children. The CDC examined hospitalization records from 14 states and found 576 Covid-19 cases among children who needed hospitalization from March through July 25.

The report found Hispanic children were hospitalized for coronavirus at the highest rate, 16.4 per 100,000 people, followed by Black children at 10.5 per 100,000. In contrast, White children were hospitalized at a rate of 2.1 per 100,000.

The CDC also reported higher rates of multisystem inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, in these populations. Of 570 cases of MIS-C reported to the CDC by July 29, more than 74% were in Black and Hispanic children.

A study released this week out of Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, found that coronavirus rates are similarly higher among Black and Hispanic children and those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

The study examined 1,000 patients tested at a Children's National Covid-19 testing site and found that just 7.3% of White children tested positive for coronavirus, in contrast to 30% of Black children and 46.4% of Hispanic children. Three times as many Black children as White children reported exposure to coronavirus.

Implications for reopening schools

Schools around the nation are currently making decisions about whether children will return to classrooms for in-person classes. A Georgia school district which reopened this week was forced to quarantine at least 260 students and eight teachers after multiple members of the school community tested positive for Covid-19.

While children do experience severe illness from Covid-19 less often than adults, children who are hospitalized need the intensive care unit as often as adults do, at a rate of about one in three, according to the CDC.

Dr. Khalilah Gates, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital told CNN Saturday that the CDC research gives us new information about the virus' impact on children that can help us make informed decisions about opening schools. "We can't back off of testing, and we do have to have more rapid testing," Gates added.

The CDC report on MIS-C noted that 64% of the children with MIS-C required intensive care, and 10 children died.

Health experts have called for additional research into the impact of coronavirus on children, especially that which would help understand the factors driving stark racial inequities.

What's driving these disparities?

Experts say that social determinants of health have led to increased rates of underlying health conditions, like diabetes, heart disease and hypertension in minority communities, placing many at greater risk for coronavirus complications.

Structural conditions also play a role. Rashawn Ray, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow with the Brookings Institution, recently noted that social distancing is a privilege that people of color, who often live in densely populated areas, are not afforded. He said discrimination is "baked into" our society.

People of color are also less likely to have access to healthy food options, recreational spaces and health care.

Health experts have urged action toward addressing the disparities, while acknowledging that fixing them will require a decades-long commitment. A good place to start, says the nation's leading infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, is with increased testing and access to health care in minority communities.

In a Friday conversation with the Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute , Fauci said the disparities brought to light by the pandemic are "unacceptable," and may jolt our society into action.

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Testing has taken on a gigantic role in the story of this pandemic. Its the subject of genuine confusion and grandstanding claims, and because it provides the basis of our knowledge about the virus, its legitimately important. But its funny: despite how vital tests are, I dont think most people know how they work.

Lets address that. While were at it, lets also look at how long tests take in Utah, why testing numbers have changed in the state (its not a conspiracy), and what might be coming down the pipeline.

The vast majority of coronavirus tests administered in the United States are called RT-PCR tests. Basically, we want to know whether or not a person has the virus RNA in their upper respiratory tract. So we get a sample that could be saliva, cells from the nasopharyngeal tract (gathered with those long cotton swabs), or just from the nostril. From there, we use chemicals to break open the cells in the sample and filter it so we get just the bits that are the size of RNA.

To figure out what kind of RNA it is, we use a technique called polymerase chain reaction, or PCR. Weve known how to do PCR for only 35 years, but its become so important for so many applications that we did it in my high school chemistry class 12 years ago.

Basically, what PCR does is amplify the DNA in a sample from just a few copies to millions or billions of copies, simply by adding a number of ingredients into a test tube and changing its temperature.

For the coronavirus, we have to turn the RNA we sifted out of our sample into DNA by adding an enzyme called reverse transcriptase. Then, we add DNA polymerase to the soup, along with DNA building blocks, fluorescent probes and coronavirus-specific primers.

Then its all about the temperature.

We heat the mixture to 200 degrees to split open the DNA into strands, then cool it to 140 degrees. That temperature allows the primers to potentially bind to the open DNA, but only if they match the genetic code of the coronavirus. The probes attach too.

Then, we heat it up to 161 degrees. This is when the rest of our soup goes to work. The DNA polymerase assembles building blocks floating in the soup to recombine into that beautiful double-helix you picture when you think of DNA. The probes get knocked off the chain and begin to glow.

By repeating this cycle 25-35 times, we can turn one copy of this DNA into billions of copies. And at that point, the solution can fluoresce so much that it can be detected. But remember, it only will light up if the coronavirus RNA was there in the first place otherwise, the primers wont attach, and no copying will happen at all.

This is very impressive stuff, but PCR takes 2-4 hours and requires a specialized oven to quickly heat and cool this solution to the needed temperatures. It also requires a lot of specialized material: for example, the DNA polymerase has to be heat-resistant, so we get it from microorganisms that usually hang out near geothermal heat vents in the bottom of the ocean. Of course, we need those coronavirus-specific primers, too. This stuff can and has been subject to shortages in the pandemic.

How long does it take for people to get their test results back?

Of course, just because it takes less than a day to actually complete the test doesnt mean people get their results that quickly: samples have to be driven to labs, then prepared once they get there. Afterward, test results have to be recorded, sent to a medical provider, and then the patient has to be contacted.

Thanks to the Utah Legislative Auditor General, we now know how long this typically takes in Utah. On average, it takes 1.6 days from the time a sample is collected to when the lab notifies the medical provider.

While 1.6 days was the average, there was significant variation between labs. One lab got the results back within 1.3 days on average, but another major lab took 3.7 days to get the test results back. The labs werent identified in the audit, instead they were called lab A, lab B and so forth.

And there was tremendous variation in between individual tests, even at the fast labs. The quickest lab still took seven days on a few tests, and one of the labs that performed well even had a batch that took 21 days to process 21 days!

The audit found that testing times increased as labs dealt with more tests. It also found that tests outside of Salt Lake County were more likely to take longer, presumably because of the driving time required to get them to a lab.

We dont know how long it usually takes medical providers to tell people whether they are positive or negative. Sometimes, it seems people are contacted in a matter of minutes or hours. But sometimes, it takes longer than that: the audit notes that one major provider just stopped notifying patients who had tested negative in June and July when testing volumes increased.

Heres the issue: a coronavirus test that takes more than a few days to come back is nearly worthless from a public health standpoint. People who are tested are relying on the results to decide whether or not to quarantine themselves youd hope that anyone taking the test would quarantine, but the reality is that some will do the minimum until they hear the word positive.

Some businesses require a positive test before COVID-19 sick leave can begin, and nearly all businesses would wait until a positive test to inform close contacts. When theres a delay, all of those secondary interventions are delayed too, allowing times for the virus to spread.

The audit included several suggestions, all of which the Utah Department of Health agreed to work on. They want to set a goal for test processing times. They want to collect data on how long each test takes, and publish the results to coronavirus.utah.gov. They want the labs to share best practices and resources on how to get these tests done more quickly. And they want the labs to work together when theres a pileup at one lab and capacity at another.

Why has testing slowed in Utah?

Clearly, the number of tests performed has declined in Utah over the past month, as has the rate of positive cases.

This has led some to believe Utah is fiddling with the system intentionally reducing the number of tests taken in order to reduce case counts, making it look like the state is recovering when it isnt. This would be rather evil.

I dont see a lot of evidence for that theory, though.

Those who work at testing sites have noticed fewer cars driving through than before. It might be due to the heat, it might be because people are on summer vacations or because they are just less interested in getting tested. Those are all relevant theories covered by my colleagues Erin Alberty and Sean Means this week.

The biggest factor, though? I think fewer people are getting sick.

The past three weeks, the system has found pretty low levels of coronavirus in the sewers, much more comparable to the relative lull in mid-May.

I suppose its possible that the government is cooking the books on the numbers of tests performed, that they instruct random testing site employees to lie about drive-thru traffic and hospital administrators to lie about their tests gathered, and are feeding artificial data to the wastewater monitoring system. But that strikes me as exceptionally unlikely, the kind of conspiracy that would get exposed in 0.2 seconds flat by somebody somewhere with eyeballs and a brain.

In other words I think this good news is real. That doesnt mean were out of the woods. Were still experiencing high case numbers, so it isnt time to go to birthday parties and hug everyone you see again. But were trending in a positive direction.

Whats next in the world of testing?

The last time I wrote about testing, I looked at ways to make it easier for everyone involved. And most of those recommendations have been adopted. Were doing widespread sewage testing. Many test sites now get a saliva sample, and some just swab the shallow part of your nostril, not the part deep inside your skull. And many but not all businesses have incentivized their employees to stay home if theyre sick. Thats good!

I think we can still do better, though. In particular, I think we need to put more emphasis on rapid testing, an evolving field that has the potential to cut transmission of the disease to near-zero.

Our current testing setup doesnt do much to prevent the virus spread. People are most contagious in the day or two before and the day or two after they first exhibit symptoms, so testing them once they show symptoms and then giving them the results a couple days later doesnt mitigate the peak of the spread. Ideally, wed want to test even healthy people, especially in high-risk or high-importance areas.

The good news: we now have tests that can respond within minutes. These are antigen tests that are described as a lab on a swab. Essentially, you get a nasal swab or saliva sample, mix it with a buffer liquid, and then drop it on one end of a test strip. Capillary action the same force that causes your whole paper towel to get wet even if you only expose one corner to water drags the solution across the strip.

At the other end of the strip lay coronavirus antibodies. If the virus is present, the antibodies bind to the virus, just as they would inside of your body. And that binding triggers a marker that changes color. Essentially, it works almost like a pregnancy test: if you see the strip light up, you have coronavirus.

Now, this process takes minutes and is really easy to administer: sample, mix it, drop it on a test strip. These tests can cost about $1 or $2 each, where the PCR tests described earlier usually cost about $100.

Theyre also way less accurate.

Remember how PCR turns one coronavirus copy into millions or billions, making it easy to spot? The antigen tests dont do that, so theyre relying on some amount of chance to make sure the virus interacts with the antibodies on the strip. Antigen tests have a success rate of 50% to 90%. PCR, when done right, is about 98%. These rapid tests are going to tell a lot of people who really do have the disease that they dont, and that causes problems, to be sure.

But that downside is mitigated by how quick and cheap they are. Lets say you own a business that wants to test people every day, and your test has an 80% success rate. If each test is independent (and early indications say thats largely the case), the odds that someone with the coronavirus will test positive at least once after two tests is 96%. After three tests, its 99.2%. As Bettina Fries, chief of infectious diseases at Stony Brook University, told Science magazine, Even if the sensitivity [of antigen tests] is not perfect, if you test over and over you will pick up those cases.

Remember, this test will catch positives before symptoms occur, so even with three days of tests, youre likely going to get a result more quickly than someone waiting for their cough to get bad and drive to a testing facility, then wait for the PCR test to be processed and the results to be reported back.

There are plenty of situations in which youd want the higher accuracy of the PCR tests. But its also easy to imagine cases in which youd want the fast, cheap test. For the general public, catching 50% to 90% of coronavirus cases early would decimate the effective transmission rate, or Rt, and drive our case numbers way down. We need to let go of the notion that all the tests have to be perfect, Fries said.

Perfect can be the enemy of the good, and good repeated over time is enough to decimate the virus. Rapid tests are good.

Andy Larsen is a Salt Lake Tribune sports reporter who covers the Utah Jazz. During this crisis, he has been assigned to dig into the numbers surrounding the coronavirus. You can reach Andy at alarsen@sltrib.com or on Twitter at @andyblarsen.

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The West Virginia Department of Health andHuman Resources (DHHR) reports as of 10:00 a.m., on August 9,2020, there have been 322,914 total confirmatorylaboratory results received for COVID-19, with 7,694 totalcases and 139 deaths.

DHHRhas confirmed the deaths of eight individuals from Mercer County from thePrinceton Health Care Center. Thosewho died include an 80-year old female, an 87-year old female, an 86-year oldfemale, a 79-year old female, a 91-year old male, a 78-year old female, an 89-yearold female, and a 76-year old male. Weare deeply saddened by the passing of these eight West Virginians, said Bill J.Crouch, DHHR Cabinet Secretary. Our condolences are extended to these familiesduring their time of grief.

Thedeaths occurred over the course of the last few weeks but were not reported inan official capacity due to personnel changes at the Mercer County HealthDepartment. A total of 11 individuals have died from the Princeton Health CareCenter; three of these deaths were previously reported by DHHR.

In alignment with updated definitions fromthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the dashboard includes probablecases which are individuals that have symptoms and either serologic (antibody)or epidemiologic (e.g., a link to a confirmed case) evidence of disease, but noconfirmatory test.

CASESPER COUNTY (Case confirmed by lab test/Probable case):Barbour (29/0), Berkeley (669/27), Boone(101/0), Braxton (8/0), Brooke (63/1), Cabell (391/9), Calhoun (6/0), Clay(18/0), Doddridge (6/0), Fayette (148/0), Gilmer (16/0), Grant (120/1),Greenbrier (93/0), Hampshire (76/0), Hancock (108/4), Hardy (57/1), Harrison(218/3), Jackson (162/0), Jefferson (287/7), Kanawha (922/13), Lewis (28/1),Lincoln (87/0), Logan (228/0), Marion (187/4), Marshall (127/4), Mason (56/0),McDowell (61/1), Mercer (196/0), Mineral (119/2), Mingo (171/2), Monongalia(922/17), Monroe (20/1), Morgan (27/1), Nicholas (36/1), Ohio (265/3),Pendleton (39/1), Pleasants (12/1), Pocahontas (40/1), Preston (104/21), Putnam(194/1), Raleigh (246/7), Randolph (205/5), Ritchie (3/0), Roane (15/0),Summers (11/0), Taylor (55/1), Tucker (10/0), Tyler (13/0), Upshur (37/3),Wayne (206/2), Webster (4/0), Wetzel (42/0), Wirt (6/0), Wood (235/12), Wyoming(31/0).

As case surveillance continues at thelocal health department level, it may reveal that those tested in a certaincounty may not be a resident of that county, or even the state as an individualin question may have crossed the state border to be tested.Such is the case of Lincoln County in this report.

Pleasenote that delays may be experienced with the reporting of information from thelocal health department to DHHR. Visitthe dashboard at http://www.coronavirus.wv.gov for more detailed information.

On July 24,2020, Gov. Jim Justice announced that DHHR, the agency in charge of reportingthe number of COVID-19 cases will transition from providing twice-daily updatesto one report every 24 hours. This becameeffective August 1, 2020.

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"Yes, we should listen to the government," Sato said. "But we all have our own situations, we cannot always swallow whatever the government says. We cannot survive without working, we cannot stop going out altogether."

This increasing sense of dissatisfaction with the government's response to the virus comes as Japan appears to be on the brink of another major Covid-19 outbreak. For the past 12 days, the Health Ministry has recorded more than 900 daily infections and Friday marked a new daily high of 1,601 new cases nationwide.

To date, the country has confirmed more than 46,000 cases since the pandemic began, more than half of which have been identified since July. At least 1,062 people have died.

Many of those cases are in Tokyo, the world's most populous city, where fears persist that an untraceable outbreak could quickly spiral out of control. For most of May and June, Tokyo managed to contain the number of new cases to fewer than 100 each day. But cases have steadily increased since then, hitting a single-day high of 472 new infections on August 1. To date, more than 15,000 cases of Covid-19 have been identified in the Japanese capital.

No new state of emergency

Authorities in Tokyo are convinced that many of the city's infections are happening when people go out at night, so they have requested restaurants and bars that serve alcohol to close at 10 p.m. to mitigate the risk of contracting the virus indoors.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday he would not call for a state of emergency despite the fact that more infections are being identified now than during the first state of emergency in April, which lasted for nearly seven weeks.

"The situation is very different from that time," he said. "We are not in a situation where a state of emergency needs to be issued immediately, but we will keep close eyes on it with a high sense of alert."

But critics like 21-year-old university student Soma IIzuka accuse Abe of shying away from leadership at a time when it's needed most.

"He should not think only about pushing the economy," Ilzuka said. "If he (Abe) wants to keep the infection low and kick start the economy, it is necessary to provide compensation (for people stuck at home)."

People like Sato and Ilzuka say leaders need to either do more to focus on people's livelihoods and personal happiness -- or abandon half-measures and go all-in on a lockdown.

Many also argue the government is incredibly out of touch, pointing to a plan to spend $16 billion on travel subsidies to revive the tourism industry -- at a time when cities across the country are struggling with a rising number of infections.

Business owners under pressure

Those in the hospitality industry now face a tough choice: buck the government's 10 p.m. closure request to stay alive -- a potential health risk to customers and staff -- or follow the official advice and eat the loss in sales, even if it proves fatal to the business.

Tokuharu Hirayama has kept his restaurant open throughout the pandemic. But the losses have been devastating. Sales slumped 95% in April compared to March, and though things bounced back slightly, business was down again in July. Hiryama was forced to furlough most of his employees, and some days he works the store alone, making deliveries on the side to help cover costs.

Hirayama is going to comply with the 10 p.m. request, he said, essentially due to peer pressure: neighboring restaurants and bars are doing so.

"Around here, people are very sensitive as to what others around them are thinking," he said. "I didn't think it would be worth it to put up a fight."

Kozo Hasegawa, however, isn't abiding.

Hasegawa is the founder and CEO of Global-Dining, which owns about 40 restaurants and stores in Japan. He's known in the industry as a risk-taking restauranteur and is widely admired for giving his employees a lot of freedom and autonomy -- and then encouraging then to go independent once they gain experience at his company.

Hasegawa said the pandemic has been a "catastrophe" for his business, which only survived because it was in good enough shape to receive a government loan to stay afloat.

Like many other business owners, Hasegawa said he has applied to several loan programs that state-affiliated and private financial institutions offered as part of the government's economic relief package.

He doesn't think the new government regulations to close at 10 p.m. are fair. The virus is not any more infectious from 10 p.m. to midnight, when the bar would have closed, Hasegawa said, so why not let customers decide?

"Luckily or unluckily, I was born a rebel," he said. "I don't like that in Japanese culture, they expect you to obey ... we have a brain to think (for ourselves)," said Hasegawa, who plans to keep his restaurant open until midnight.

Living with the virus

Hasegawa's comments on obedience refer to a Japanese cultural norm known as jishuku, which translates to self-restraint. The belief is that ostentatious behavior is in poor taste during a time of national crisis, and it's a mantra that was repeatedly used after the 2011 earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster.

While Japanese culture may have a reputation as rule-abiding to the point of inflexible, it's important not to paint the entire society with such a broad brush, according to Kyle Cleveland, the director of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at Temple University in Tokyo.

"We should be cautious about overgeneralizing from this, and kind of defining culture in an orientalist kind of way in which we're thinking that there's something really qualitatively different about Japan compared to other Asian countries," he said.

"If you look at countries like Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand they also have relatively low case rates, as does Japan. The common characteristic that these various societies have is that they follow the rules. The rules govern societies."

Cleveland doesn't believe that this apparent defiance and anger with the government proves that jishuku is suddenly losing its place in Japanese culture. Rather, he says it may just be that people are evolving to live with the virus and are more willing to accept the risks it poses.

"It's not like jishuku existed a month ago, now it doesn't," he said. "(People) are still practicing social distancing and they're wearing masks and things like this, but they're realizing that they have to have a balance between financial obligations and also just quality of life and so as a result they're starting to get out into the society."

CNN's Joshua Berlinger contributed to this report.

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Find developments on the COVID-19 pandemic and the plan for recovery in the U.S. and Washington state.

Where cases stand in Washington

Seizing the power of his podium and his pen, President Donald Trump on Saturday moved to bypass the nation's elected lawmakers as he claimed the authority to defer payroll taxes and extend an expired unemployment benefit after negotiations with Congress on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.

At his private country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump signed four executive orders to act where Congress hasn't, contending Washington's gridlock had compelled him to act as the pandemic undermined the country's economy and imperiled his November reelection hopes.

A person tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a wedding ceremony in Kittitas County earlier this month and now health officials are trying to notify everyone in attendance so they can get tested.

The wedding was held Sunday, August 2 at the Cattle Barn Ranch wedding venue in Cle Elum, according to a release from the Kittitas County Incident Management Team (IMT).

Racial disparities in the U.S. coronavirus epidemic extend to children, according to two sobering government reports released Friday.

One of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports looked at children with COVID-19 who needed hospitalization. Hispanic children were hospitalized at a rate eight times higher than white kids, and Black children were hospitalized at a rate five times higher, it found.

A male under the age of 20 is the youngest person to die from COVID-19 complications in Washington state, according to a release from Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department on Saturday.

Limited information was provided about the male, only that he was a South Hill resident with no reported underlying health conditions, health officials said. His exact age was not provided, only that he was under the age of 20.

Earlier this week KING 5 reported on the death of 19-year-old Eli Sevener who graduated from Puyallup High School. But the health department has not confirmed the name of the person who died.

New data from the University of Washington predicts the coronavirusdeath toll in the United States could hit nearly 300,000 by December.

The UW's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) said Thursday it is now projecting295,011 deaths by December.

However, if 95% of the country started consistently wearing masks when leaving their homes today, the latest projection for deaths drops by 49% to 228,271.

Tahoma High School students are butting heads with the Tahoma School Board, upset with the changes made to their class schedule as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Students in the Tahoma School District will start the school year learning online from home, but it's the way the classes are arranged that has students worried.

The City of Seattle will open a free walk-up COVID-19 testing site at Rainier Beach High School on Friday. It is the third free testing site the city has opened, with plans for a fourth site in southwest Seattle.

Starting August 7, the community testing site will operate from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Unlike other sites opened by the city, this testing site is a walk-up and not a drive-through.

For the first time in its 38-year history, today Taste Edmonds was canceled. This event was the saving grace for the Edmonds Chamber of Commerce.

Some of my best friends from growing up have dubbed it Kels-mas because its like Christmas for me, said Edmonds resident Kelsey Foster. She has gone to Taste Edmonds for 30 years.

The chamber canceled its 4th of July celebration this year. Now Taste Edmonds is the latest casualty in events stopped due to COVID-19 restrictions.

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The orders Trump signed would provide an extra $400 in unemployment benefits, suspend some student loan payments and protect renters from eviction. Wochit

After weeks of stalled congressional negotiations over a new coronavirus stimulus package,President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders Saturday evening as the U.S. was approaching 5 million cases of COVID-19.

Trump, repeatedly referring to the coronavirus as the "China virus," said the orders would provide an additional $400 per week in unemployment benefits, suspend payments on some student loans through the end of the year and protect renters from being evicted from their homes.

"We're coming back very strong. We're doing well with the virus," Trump said, even as the U.S. was leading nations worldwide in confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19 and confirmed an additional 50,000 new cases Friday.

Top Democrats criticized the move and unemployment experts were left confused about how it might be implemented, speculating it could take months for states to figure it out.

Meanwhile, South Dakota was hosting one of the largest events since the beginning of the pandemicthe Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, an event that is set toattract 250,000 people over the next 10 days, even as experts warn a spike in cases could overwhelm the rural health care system.

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Speaking from his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump said his orders would provide an additional $400 per week in unemployment benefits, which is $200 less than the supplemental benefit that expired at the end of July.

Trump said he also would suspend payments on some student loans through the end of the year, protect renters from being evicted from their homes, and instruct employers to defer certain payroll taxes through the end of the year for Americans who earn less than $100,000 annually.

Trump said he decided to act on his own and order the benefits after two weeks of negotiations with congressional Democrats collapsed without an agreement on a new coronavirus relief package.

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Although Trump signed an order to provideenhanced unemployment benefits to millions of out-of-work Americans, its unclear if he has the authority to do so by executive order while side-stepping Congress. And it could take months for states to implement.

He directed the use of funds from FEMAs Disaster Relief Fund, which would be capped at $44 billion, creating confusion among unemployment experts. The move could potentially bypass approval from Congress, some lawyers say, but it also leaves the door open to other challenges.

This is an administrative nightmare, saidMichele Evermore, a senior policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, a think tank that advocates for labor and employment legislation.

States are going to have to set up a new program aside from regular unemployment insurance. It could take months for states to implement this. ... This is just a false promise to the American people.

Read more about the challenges

Jessica Menton

Brazil surpassed a grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday night, and five months after the first reported case the country has not shown signs of crushing the disease.

The nation of 210 million people has been reporting an average of more than 1,000 daily deaths from the pandemic since late May and reported 905 for the latest 24-hour period.

The Health Ministry said there had been a total of 3,012,412 confirmed infections with the new coronavirus death and infection tolls second only to the United States. And as in many nations, experts believe that both numbers are severe undercounts due to insufficient testing.

After only one week of school, more than 250 students and teachers from one Georgia school district will be quarantined for two weeks after several teachers and students tested positive for COVID-19, according to the district's website.

Cherokee County School District,north of Atlanta, is sharing regularupdates on coronavirus cases in its schools on its website. The district has more than 42,000 students.

As of Friday, at least 11 students, ranging in age from first to 12th grade, and two staff members, from variouselementary, middle and high schools, have tested positive for coronavirus, prompting the quarantine order for almost 250 students and staff. The students will receive online instruction during the period.

In a letter to families on Friday, Superintendent Dr. BrianHightower said that the trend of students and staff testing positive every day "will continue as we operate schools during a pandemic." He called on students and staff to use face mask at school.

Doug Stanglin

The Mid-American Conference, facing significant financial losses without the ability to play more than a handful of non-conference games against Power Five opponents this season, became the first Football Bowl Subdivision conference to cancel its fall season on Saturday, a person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the league had not yet made an announcement.

MAC schools have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, as the majority of their revenues for athletics come from university subsidies and student fees. Central Michigan and Akron have dropped multiple sports already, and Bowling Green reversed its decision to shut down the baseball program only after a grassroots fundraising effort.

Besides a small slice ofTVrevenue, MAC schools depend on money fromfootball game guarantees, which amount to appearance fees to play big conference schools. MAC schools stood to make $10.5 million alone this season from non-conference games against the Big Ten.

But with the SEC and notably the Big Ten deciding to play only within their conference,MAC's only Power Five games were Buffalo at Kansas State, Ball State at Iowa State, Miami at Pitt, Ohio at Boston College and Western Michigan at Notre Dame.

Dan Wolken

Nearly five months after the coronavirus pandemic shut down the cruise industry, more than 12,000 crew members remainon ships in U.S. waters, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. That's down from more than 70,000 in May.

There are 57 cruise ships moored, at anchor or underway near or arriving at aU.S. port with about 12,084 crew members, said Lt. Cmdr.Brittany Panetta, a spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard.Thatincludes209 Americans who are spread out among 37 of the ships, the Coast Guard said.

But as of Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it knew of 53 U.S. crew members on 22 cruise ships in U.S. waters. Despite the discrepancy in numbers,it's unclear how many of those crew members are actually stuck vs. working.

Akash Dookhun, a Celebrity Cruises crew member from Mauritius, an island nation in southeastern Africa, told USA TODAY he has not set foot on dry land since he was on a port call in New Zealand in early March. And he doesn't know when he'll stand on solid ground again. Read more here.

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Prevalence of depression among college students increased since the pandemic caused the closure of campuses this spring compared to fall 2019, according to a survey of 18,000 college students published by the Healthy Minds Network on July 9. And of the nearly 42% of students who sought mental health care during the pandemic, 60% said it was either much more or somewhat more difficult to access care.

Mental health among young people has been worsening for years. A 2019 analysis of teens reported 13% of U.S. teens ages 12 to 17 said in 2017 they had experienced at least one major depressive episode in the past year, up from 8%in 2007.

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The federal government has allocated more than $9 billion to develop and manufacture candidate vaccines, and more than $2.5 billion more has been earmarked for vials to store the vaccines, syringes to deliver them, and on efforts to ramp up manufacturing and capacity.

The largest sums have gone to pharmaceutical giants Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and a collaboration between Sanofi and GSK, as well as biotech firms Moderna and Novavax all of which have candidate vaccines being tested in people.

To save time,the companies have been running trials simultaneously that they usually run in sequence.Moderna, for instance, hasn't yet published its Phase 2 trial results, but is already in larger-scale Phase 3 trials, beginning tests last week of its candidate vaccine in 15,000 volunteers. Phase 3 trials started this summer are expected to return results this fall, with the timing depending on how quickly they can find volunteers.

If any of these approaches prove safe and effective, it could transform vaccine development worldwide, allowing faster attack strategies against dangerous viruses that may emerge in the future, as well as those that mutate rapidly, like the flu.

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A 21-year-old from Florida is warning of potential long-term virus complications after his mild case turned nearly fatal.Two weeks afterSpencer Rollyson tested negativeand returned to work, he started suffering from an array of symptoms.His fever eventually reached 103.4 degrees and Rollyson fell unconscious in the middle of a June 15 telehealth appointment.

Doctors diagnosed Rollyson with multi-organ failure withheart failure, acute respiratory failure, and severe sepsis with septic shock. "I thought I was going to die. I was literally sitting in the hospital like, Im going to die,' " Rollyson recalled.

It's yet another puzzling example of how the virus can damage the body in unpredictable ways. For example, two German studiespublished last week found heart abnormalities in COVID-19 patients months after they had recovered from the disease

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One of the largest events since the beginning of the pandemic has begun in South Dakota:More than 250,000 people are expected at the iconic Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.That's scaled down from previous years, where about half a million people have descended on the city ofabout 7,000 for an eventthathas developed a reputation asan anything-goes festival.

While the 80-year tradition isn't as raucous as it once was, festivalgoers will be largely free of social distancing restrictions common elsewhere in the country during this year's 10-day festival. Masks are encouraged, but not required.

About 54% of Americans fear they may lose their job due to the coronavirus outbreak, Harris Poll data shows. Overall, nearly half expect their personal finances to be generally worse off in the coming months.

There are two economies in the pandemic, Gerzema said. In general, older, wealthy Americans who are white are typically more confident that theyll prosper. But the ones really feeling the pain are younger, lower income Americans and minorities.

The labor-market recovery has reached a critical juncture, economists say, with millions of workers at risk of prolonged unemployment just as emergency unemployment benefits expire.

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The Crow Tribe in Montana has ordered its members to lock down for two weeks as tribal leaders moved to slow a sharp spike in coronavirus cases and deaths on yet another reservation in the country.

Native Americans have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 across the country, with major outbreaks from Arizona to South Dakota triggering similar lockdowns. The Navajo Nation that covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah has tallied 468 confirmed deaths from the virus and has ordered another lockdown this weekend.In Montana, Native Americans make up 7% of residents but have seen 15% of confirmed virus cases and 36% of deaths as of July 26, the state says.

Crow Tribe Chairman Alvin Not Afraid said the lockdown, which began Friday, is necessary because a stay-at-home order in effect since mid-March has been ineffective.

Big Horn County, where the 3,500-square-mile reservation is located, is on pace to record more confirmed virus cases in August than the previous two months combined. The county reported 85 new cases during the first week of August, compared to 249 in July and 44 in June. Seven of its 12 confirmed virus deaths have been recorded in the past 10 days. The figures include cases on the reservation but the tribe doesnt publicly release case counts.

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Two sobering government reports released Friday showed that racial disparities inthe U.S. coronavirus epidemic extend to children.

One of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports looked at children with COVID-19 who needed hospitalization. Hispanic children were hospitalized at a rate eight times higher than white kids, and Black children were hospitalized at a rate five times higher, it found.

The second report examined cases of a rare virus-associated syndrome in kids. It found that nearly three-quarters of the children with the syndrome were either Hispanic or Black, well above their representation in the general population.

The hospitalization rate for Hispanic children was about 16.4 per 100,000. The rate for Black children was 10.5 per 100,000, and for white kids it was 2.1 per 100,000.

As with adults, many of the hospitalized children had existing health problems, including obesity, chronic lung conditions and in the case of infants preterm birth.

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A Georgia high school dropped its five-daysuspension forat least onestudent who posteda photo of crowded hallways showing students without face masks.

Hannah Watters, 15,tweeted Fridaythat she was no longer suspended fromNorth Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia. She told the Associated Press that her principal called her mother, apologized, and completely removed her punishment, leaving her surprised and very grateful.

The 30,000-student suburban Atlantaschool district resumed classes Monday with 70% of students returning for in-person instruction five days a week. It receivednational attention this week when the images of the crowded hallways showed students in clusters without face coverings. She said that shewas then suspended for five days for violating rules on students posting school images on social media.BuzzFeed News reportedthat asecond, unnamed, studentwas also suspended.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced FridaythatNew York schools will be able to open for in-person instruction this fall, leaving the ultimate decision on reopening up to local authorities.

Cuomo said the infection ratesdue to COVID-19 are low enough so the districts can begin to reopen next month.Friday's decision is meant to be a preliminary one, as the first day of school is still a month away.Each district had to submit their own plans to reopen that are being reviewed by the state Health Department.

The nation's largest school district, New York City, is expected to start classes Sept. 10. The district plans to allowstudents to choose either online learning or a hybrid plan with as many as three days of in-person instruction.

Sophie Grosserode and Joseph Spector, New York State Team

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Weather: Showers and possibly heavy thunderstorms, with a high in the upper 70s. Scattered storms Saturday afternoon, but Sunday should be mostly sunny.

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As fall looms, New York is continuing to stem its coronavirus outbreak. This week, only about 1 percent of tests each day in the city were positive. Statewide, hospitalizations for the virus have hit new lows.

Still, New York City and its suburbs are grappling with how to head off a potential second wave when the weather turns colder and people retreat indoors. And just days ago, Dr. Oxiris Barbot resigned as the citys health commissioner, citing her disappointment with Mayor Bill de Blasios handling of the virus crisis.

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The city said it was aiming to safely reopen schools this fall because New York has maintained a low infection rate.

But a torrent of logistical issues and political problems could upend that plan.

Mr. de Blasios proposal includes safety measures such as having children report to school one to three days a week with masks and social distancing required. But that hasnt quelled the fears of some parents who saw their neighborhoods ravaged by the virus, and some teachers are threatening a sickout.

Many large districts in the country are starting their school years fully remote. In finalizing plans for New York City, officials are weighing factors including the past failures of online learning; examples of the virus rapidly coming through school doors; and the potential for a child care crisis.

The mayor said he was using the citys sheriffs office to inform travelers about the states mandatory quarantine rules.

Mr. de Blasio announced this week that drivers would be stopped at traveler registration checkpoints at bridges and tunnels, and that people from places on New York States required quarantine list would be asked to fill out forms detailing their travel.

But the authorities wont be stopping every car. They also most likely wont be at the same locations on any given day. And the sheriffs office cant force travelers to comply with the 14-day quarantine.

Some elected officials have criticized the plan, saying they do not believe that checkpoints would be effective. Others have raised concerns about privacy risks.

The delay in counting votes for New Yorks primary raised concerns about conducting elections during the pandemic.

It took six weeks for Representative Carolyn B. Maloney and Councilman Ritchie Torres to be declared the winners in their races.

After Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ordered a wide expansion of absentee voting this year because of the coronavirus, New York City received a deluge of 400,000 mail-in ballots. Nearly a month and a half after the June primary, some of those votes were still being counted.

Officials cited several problems with the primary. Thousands of ballots were mailed out only a few days before the election, not giving voters time to return them. There werent enough staff members to tally the votes. Also, the Postal Service apparently had trouble processing the ballots prepaid return envelopes, which may have caused an unknown number of votes to be wrongfully disqualified.

Now, some candidates and political analysts fear that what occurred in New York could happen nationally in November, creating a nightmare situation.

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What were watching: The Times Metro reporters J. David Goodman and Matthew Haag discuss New Yorks road to economic recovery on The New York Times Close Up With Sam Roberts. The show airs on Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and Sunday at 12:30 p.m. [CUNY TV]

The Timess Melissa Guerrero writes:

Although most performance spaces, museums and community centers are closed, people are finding creative ways to connect through virtual events and programs. Here are suggestions for maintaining a New York social life this weekend while keeping a safe distance from other people.

On Friday at 5 p.m., as part of the Strong Like a Mama summit, a panel of obstetrician-gynecologists and other experts, including Dr. Taraneh Shirazian from N.Y.U. Langone Health, will hold a discussion about maternal mortality rate and access to quality maternal care.

Register on the event page.

On Saturday at noon, the author and historian Jason Antos will lead a virtual outing highlighting religious diversity in Flushing, Queens. The tour will start at the Quaker Meeting House and end at the Hindu Temple (Hindu Temple Society of North America).

R.S.V.P. on the event page to watch the livestream.

On Saturday at 12:30 p.m., learn about two of the most-used commuter rail systems in the United States without leaving your couch. Sam Angelillo, a New York Transit Museum educator, will host a talk about the history of the railways and their importance in connecting the city to its suburbs.

To attend the livestream, register on the event page.

Its Friday T.G.I.F.

Dear Diary:

My wife and I came to New York in November 2002 for my second New York City Marathon. We splurged and booked a room at a boutique hotel near the New York Public Library, where runners board early morning buses that take them to where the race starts on Staten Island.

We registered at the desk with an assistant manager, who struck us as the type of well-mannered, middle-age gentleman one might encounter at a traditional European hotel.

I made conversation by mentioning the huge number of international runners I had seen. He volunteered that he was from what had been known as Czechoslovakia. We fell into an easy, extended chat about distance running.

Eventually, he insisted on personally showing us to the room we had booked on a lower floor. He seemed intent on continuing our conversation.

As he pulled our luggage trolley onto the elevator, a twinkle came to his eyes.

I bet you dont know the name of the greatest Czech distance runner of all time, he said.

Somehow, my usually unreliable memory jumped to life.

Um, yeah, Emil Zatopek, I stammered.

His face lit up, and he beamed with pride.

After a moments reflection, he spoke again.

The room you reserved just isnt right for you, he said. Allow me to upgrade you to a larger suite on an upper floor.

Geoffrey Vincent

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Wisconsin health officials reported anadditional 1,165 people have tested positive for COVID-19, another single-day record.

Those positive casesmade up 8.9% of the 13,162 test results reported by the Department of Health Services on Saturday. The seven-day average for positive tests stands at 6.1% as of Saturday.

The state health departmentalso reported Saturday that six more people have died, bringing the state's total number of deaths to 996. Those who have died as a result of COVID-19 make up 1.7% of all those diagnosed, according to DHS. The majority of deaths are among those 70 and older.

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In total, 59,933 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Wisconsin. According to the state health department, around 16% of those cases remain active. DHS defines an active case as someone who is still alive, has been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the last 30 days, and still has symptoms or has not beenreleased from isolation.

Recent research from those studying the virus have found that even after someone has recovered from COVID-19 and no longer has symptoms,it's possible for the virus to flare up again in some patients andsymptoms can return.

As of Saturday morning, 311 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized, 96 of them in intensive care. An additional 152 patients were hospitalized awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test.

The department of health's weekly ratings of county COVID-19 activitywhich are based on a combination of total new cases per 100,000 people over the past two weeks and the percent change in new cases between the past seven days and the seven days before that are as follows:

DHS updates this list every Wednesday.

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