Hospitalizations continued to rise and ICU beds were quickly filling as the nation reached the brink of 3 million coronavirus cases Wednesday.
In a memo to employees, Chicago-based United Airlines saidand more than a third of its overall workforce of 95,000, face layoffs on or around Oct. 1. The most affected groups: flight attendants and airport customer service and gate agents, which account for 26,000 of the 36,000.
, saying it could jeopardize the development of a COVID-19 vaccine and impair efforts to stop the global pandemic. "As we work with Congress on the next round of state support, we're going to be looking for ways to give states a strong incentive and encouragement to get kids back to school," Pence said at a news conference at the U.S. Department of Education.The National Institutes of Health launched the COVID-19 Prevention Trials Network, part of the effort to find volunteers to test possible COVID-19 vaccines.
"Like a runner coming from behind in a macabre race, it has surpassed the death toll of many diseases so many Americans consider important," says Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.New Jersey to require masks outside when social distancing not possibleunder an order expected to be signed Wednesday, Gov. Phil Murphy said.
"Unlike other major sporting events that are played in existing stadiums, we had to make a decision now about building facilities to host the 2020 Ryder Cup," said PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh in a statement."It became clear that as of today, our medical experts and the public authorities in Wisconsin could not give us certainty that conducting an event responsibly with thousands of spectators in September would be possible.
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