JUST IN: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe has now topped 21 million, according to Johns Hopkins University. At more than 5.2 million, the U.S. leads with the most cases.
3:01 p.m.: Global cases top 21 million
Military personnel belonging to the Joint Command East disinfect the Sanctuary where the statue of Christ the Redeemer is located on Aug. 13, 2020, in Rio de Janeiro.1:53 p.m.: McKesson to be 'central distributor' for future vaccines, HHS says The CDC is executing an existing contract with McKesson, which distributed the H1N1 vaccine during the pandemic in 2009-2010, to support vaccine distribution for the coronavirus, according to the HHS.
While the numbers were comparable among racial groups, Black and Hispanic people are much more likely than white people to know someone who has died from coronavirus. Moreover, 74% of Americans favor a national face mask mandate. On Friday, President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, told CBS News"This Morning" that Trump does not want to tell people to wear masks.
A replica of the head of the Statue of Liberty sits in the closed entrance Madame Tussauds museum along New York City's iconic 42nd Street on Aug. 6, 2020 in New York City. "Having the testing positive of the placenta, the most likely explanation was the transmission of infection was when the baby was in the mother's womb,” Jaleel told WFAA.
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