With Susannah Luthi, Alice Miranda Ollstein and Darius Tahir
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– Congress has little hope of reaching agreement on the coronavirus law before today’s self-imposed deadline.
– Pressure from Trump’s leadership to boost the production of immediate coronavirus testing already faces serious barriers.
– The VA is carrying out its $16 billion electronic fitness registration project, despite a number of persistent concerns.
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THE DISCUSSIONS ON THE HELP OF CORONAVIRUS ARE IN LIFE SOUTIEN – The White House and Democratic leaders face a deadline on Friday with little hope of reaching an agreement on the upcoming coronavirus program, reports John Bresnahan and Marianne LeVine of POLITICO.
The two sides made little progress in a three-hour assembly on Thursday, before ending the night with a series of things that pointed out that the White House and Democrats were no closer to an agreement on a variety of key issues, even though covid – 19 cases come for $5 million and the country’s economic crisis is getting worse.
– The deadlock brings attention back to Trump. The president has promised to include executive orders in the economic crisis if bipartisan talks fail, a resolution that could come as soon as today, senior management officials said.
These would require the resumption of federal unemployment payments, reinstate a federal moratorium on evictions, extend the suspension of student loan payments, and defer federal payroll taxes.
– Both sides say they can meet again today, but it is not known whether a face-to-face meeting will take place. And even with the Senate technically in session, top senators have already joined House members to get out of the city, a sign that it will be up to party leaders to locate a way forward in the coming days.
TRUMP TESTS DRIVE SUPPLY BARRERAS – The Trump administration’s new plan to engage the coronavirus faces an old problem: persistent scarcity, says David Lim and Rachel Roubein of POLITICO.
The federal government is looking to increase the production of immediate coronavirus tests that can reverse the effects in less than 30 minutes, that speed will help public fitness agencies isolate patients and recover their contacts more easily, even if so-called antigen tests are less accurate.
However, while administration officials point to at least 20 million immediate tests according to the month through September, the manufacturers of that tests say they are far from meeting demand.
– Quidel already warns investors to stay that way. The need will “far exceed what all antigen area brands can produce, at least over the coming quarters,” the company’s CEO warned last week. The only other manufacturer to offer antigen control on the market, BD, said it would produce only 10 million control kits between July and September.
Trump’s management has already pledged to send evidence to both a nursing home and both. But it may be months before those materials arrive. And once the initial federal deliveries are over, the infirmary will be alone to acquire more evidence.
Since then, several states have combined to buy fast evidence themselves, competing with the federal government and any other client for scarce resources.
MIKE DEWINE TEST POSITIFS AND PUIS NEGATIVES – The governor of Ohio announced Thursday night that he had tested negative for coronavirus, about nine hours after positive control had prevented him from attending Trump’s arrival in the state.
DeWine’s positive verification component of the White House’s immediate detection protocol for anyone believed to be in close contact with the president, a practice he revealed last week that Rep. Louie Gohmert had been infected.
But DeWine then did a slower diagnostic check that showed it was negative. In a series of tweets, DeWine’s workplace said he “trusted the results,” but the governor would accept another check Saturday.
– Uncertainty can simply serve as a high-profile example of the disadvantages of immediate testing. While public fitness experts say the commitment is valuable if it means tens of millions of tests are being published to the public, however, the episode may raise new questions about White House protocols and how it protects Trump from a possible infection.
THE VA EHR ADVANCES TECHNICAL RESEARCH – The va’s $16 billion electronic fitness records allocation is advancing, Darius Tahir reports of POLITICO. After months of delay, the branch office plans to deploy its Cerner archival software in October in Spokane, Washington.
– But there are reasons to worry. Sources that largely follow the task say that persistent disorders are further clouding their future.
On the one hand, VA has no company charge forecasts for the wiring, computers, and CVC systems needed to help the new software. The log-sharing software that was released in April has problems and sends erroneous or non-existent effects to many vendors. And a more complete edition of your SD, needed for giant medical centers, is not yet complete due to the pandemic.
– The deployment of the DSU is a must for the Trump administration. The Chief White House Adviser Jared Kushner led the contract. And the implementation of software for the expanding healthcare formula is to provide care to service members from enrollment to discharge.
THE WHITE HOUSE OF NATIONAL GUARD FINANCING – State leaders are the Trump administration’s reasoning to exempt Texas and Florida from cutting investment for Covid-19 relief efforts through National Guard troops, says Alice Miranda Ollstein of POLITICO.
The White House justified the exclusion by saying that the two states were the only ones directly seeking full funding from Trump. But several governors are now appealing to the administration on the issue, saying they have spent weeks calling for unconditional federal support.
The organization that is rejecting White House Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, whether Democrats, and West Virginia Republican Governor Jim Justice.
HEALTH – HEALTH WHAT THE WARNING – Health insurers are making big profits amid the pandemic, and House Democrats said Thursday they had taken note, Susannah Luthi reports of politico.
Energy and Commerce President Frank Pallone is researching the business practices of fitness plans and says he believes the industry deserves to do more to help Americans through premium refunds or by relinquishing money bills for coronavirus treatment.
The committee plans to ask health and dental insurers what are the main points of their compliance with the legislation requiring them to test Covid-19s on patients and “how they intend to use their earnings to help other Americans in this time of crisis.”
Some Democrats, such as Senator Patty Murray, are pushing for provisions on the upcoming coronavirus relief bill that would not apply Covid-19’s treatment policy.
– Context: Most primary fitness plans exceeded Wall Street expectations in the last quarter, and United Healthcare nearly doubled its earnings to it last year. This comes after Democrats have already denounced the Trump administration’s actions that exempt insurers from paying back to work or general coronavirus surveillance tests that corporations say are not part of the comprehensive policy mandate approved by Congress.
FIRST IN PULSO: THE HIGHEST DEFENDANTS WANT CDC TO HANDLE THE DISTRIBUTION OF VACUNAS – Two high-ranking Senate Democrats are asking that THE CDC be guilty of distributing an imaginable coronavirus vaccine, arguing that the company is only qualified for the position.
Murray and Jack Reed opposed plans to allow the Department of Defense to lead the distribution of vaccines in a letter to the Trump administration, calling the assignment “first and foremost a public company.”
Both added that the CDC, which has been criticized both internally and externally for the management at other times of the pandemic, maintains its historic role as a leader in the distribution of primary vaccines and already maintains relationships with state and local agencies to ensure that the procedure develops as smoothly as possible.
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FIRST IN PULSO: COVID-19 PERFORMS A DEEP POMPAGINA FOR STD PREVENTION WORK – The pandemic continues to have a negative effect on the fight against sexually transmitted diseases, according to a new survey of STD administrators in local fitness services, Alicia reports.
Coronavirus has wasted time, staff and resources on efforts to combat syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and HIV, and according to the survey, nearly 80% of national public fitness resources on STDs have been reallocated to combat Covid-19.
20% of respondents said their sexual fitness systems had been “completely disrupted,” and that the pandemic prevented and tracked the contracts needed for STDs.
– The United States had record STD RATES even before the pandemic. Public fitness is now involved that many infections will be detected and treated.
“People are so afraid of COVID-19 that they haven’t prioritized their sexual health, and this is going to have long-term accidental consequences,” said one respondent.
A publication in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that asymptomatic patients bring coronavirus in amounts similar to symptomatic symptoms.
The switch to telemedicine gives doctors new windows about the fitness of others who may not have noticed classic workplace visits, Marion Renault writes in The Atlantic.
Howard Markel, who coined the term “flatten the curve,” argues in the New Yorker that we are preparing to actively fight coronavirus for years, not months, to come.