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Hospitals in Wisconsin have been forced to waitlist or transfer patients to other facilities as COVID-19 cases surge. The state recently had 17 COVID-19 deaths in one day, the most since May. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin State Journal)
Nevertheless, President Trump has yet to cancel campaign rallies scheduled in Wisconsin this weekend, despite recommendations from his coronavirus task force against holding the large gatherings. (Washington Post)
As of 8:00 a.m. ET Thursday, an unofficial U.S. COVID-19 toll included 7,234,257 cases and 206,963 deaths — up 42,908 and 958, respectively, from this time a day ago.
In Florida, Miami-Dade County’s chief executive vowed to maintain infection control measures such as limiting restaurant capacity, despite Gov. Ron DeSantis’s move to lift them statewide. (NPR)
The pandemic has worsened food insecurity in Puerto Rico, as nearly half of the island stands to lose nutrition assistance and unemployment rates skyrocket. (NBC News)
The White House blocked a CDC order to keep cruise ships docked until February. The “no-sail policy” thus expired yesterday, and ships will be permitted to leave the dock at the end of the month. (New York Times)
The NIH awarded more than $230 million to improve rapid testing access for vulnerable communities, including Black people, Latin Americans, Native Americans, and Alaskan Natives, Hawaiians, the elderly, pregnant women and people who are homeless or incarcerated.
The chair of the FDA’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee criticized the agency’s lack of a transparent, scientific process in approval of therapies to treat COVID-19, stating that “the trust the FDA has built and maintained over the past century is eroding.” (New England Journal of Medicine)
The NFL postponed this Sunday’s game between the Tennessee Titans and the Pittsburgh Steelers following a slew of positive COVID-19 tests from Titans players and staff. (ESPN)
Is Sweden’s “success” beginning to crumble? (Reuters)
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