What will America look like after the coronavirus? When will there be a vaccine? These questions and more still need answers.
announced changes to its screening process to include social distancing measures, relaxed carry-on liquid requirements and boarding pass etiquette. Restaurants were forced to think creatively as they reopened.
Some are allowing customers to sit outside on their deck or patio at 50% occupancy. Cities in Florida, Nevada and Maine temporarily closed their streets to allow diners to eat comfortably and safely on the street."It's like a bumper boat, but it's actually a table," owner Shawn Harmon said. .The health care landscape has drastically changed since the pandemic arrived in the United States. Doctors restructured office waiting rooms and now greet patients who are daring enough to keep regular visits wearing masks. Hospitals cut elective surgeries, limited visitors and scrambled to provide protection for workers. Tests and annual checkups have been postponed or converted to virtual visits. Precautions affecting the way most Americans access basic health care are expected to last. Without a vaccine – not expected even optimistically until sometime next year – the risk of transmitting the virus that causes COVID-19 remains high.So what will the future of medicine look like as the U.S. adapts to the new pandemic landscape? Expect more remote doctor visits, tenuous hospital care in rural areas and increased preparedness. “For years, we’ve talked about the promise of telemedicine and its opportunities,” said Mark Holmes, professor at University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. “But what the last two months has shown us is that it could really be a game-changer.”Elections are still being held throughout the country even as the threat of infection looms over the heads of voters.overturned the state's stay-at-home orders, and April's primary resumed; some voters stood in line for hours in the midst of a pandemic. Thousands of absentee ballots either weren’t sent out or ended up lost in the mail, and others were returned too late to be counted. Five states allow voters to cast their ballots from home in all of their elections: Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah. Those states send registered voters a ballot at least seven days before an election to fill it out at their convenience, and voters either mail it back or drop it off at any center that's closest to them. While a vote-at-home system may be more efficient overall, the startup costs of implementing it could be substantial. But experts say they may be cheaper over time as the cost of poll workers are much lower., 21 out of 29 counties conducted general elections by mail. Voter turnout in that 2016 election was 8.7 points higher in the counties that implemented vote-at-home than in those that had not.– and just this week threatened to cut off federal funding to two states, Michigan and Nevada – over mail voting. Trump and other Republicans have argued that a vote-at-home system has “tremendous potential for voter fraud.” But advocacy groups such as the National Vote at Home Institute and the Brennan Center for Justice strongly dispute such claims.Before the outbreak, the U.S. Census Bureau had planned to hire as many as 500,000 workers to knock on doors and get households that didn't respond to answer the survey. While those hiring efforts are underway online, the agency was forced to suspend field operations in March and only recently restarted those operations in phases. As of May 18,Agency officials continued to urge people to respond to the Census online, by mail or by phone. Invitations to respond started arriving in households last week. "We recognize that many people plan to access the 2020 Census through other response modes, such as phone or paper, which is why the 2020 Census has such a nimble design,'' the agency said in a statement. Plans for the nationwide count have been underway for years. The population survey is key to apportioning Congressional districts and determining the distribution of billions in federal funds for schools, infrastructure and health systems.Elizabeth Weise, William Cummings, Kevin McCoy, David Heath, Joel Shannon, Lorenzo Reyes and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY; and Patricia McKnight, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Follow Adrianna Rodriguez on Twitter: @AdriannaUSAT.
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