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FDA Adds to List of Toxic Hand Sanitizers, Warns About Use of at Least 80
The list of hand sanitizers that have been recalled by the Food and Drug Administration is growing.
The FDA is now warning about the use of more toxic hand sanitizers.
There are four more hand sanitizers that have been made by La Loma, Tlalnepantla, Mexico, Real Clean Distribuciones SA de CV, which "...is voluntarily recalling all lots it manufactured within expiry of the following brand names of hand sanitizers."
According to the FDA website, these are the four brands:
Born Basic ANTI-BAC HAND SANITIZER,
Scent Theory KEEP CLEAN Moisturizing Hand Sanitizer,
Scent Theory KEEP IT CLEAN Moisturizing Hand Sanitizer, and
Lux Eoi Hand Sanitizing Gel to the consumer level.
The products are being recalled due to the potential presence of methanol (wood alcohol).
Last month, the list got longer - the FDA warned that there are hand sanitizers that have tested positive for methanol contamination, according to the FDA website.
There are at least 75 hand sanitizers that are being recalled and are also being sold at national retail locations including Walmart and Costco, according to an NBC story Wednesday.
"FDA is warning consumers and health care providers that the agency has seen a sharp increase in hand sanitizer products that are labeled to contain ethanol (also known as ethyl alcohol) but that have tested positive for methanol contamination. Methanol, or wood alcohol, is a substance that can be toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested and can be life-threatening when ingested," the FDA website says.
The FDA website says "Methanol is not an acceptable active ingredient for hand sanitizers and must not be used due to its toxic effects. FDA’s investigation of methanol in certain hand sanitizers is ongoing. The agency will provide additional information as it becomes available."
In the past, FDA expanded to 59 its list of sanitizers to steer clear of — some of which have already been recalled and some the FDA is recommending be recalled — for containing the potentially fatal substance, also known as wood alcohol.
"The agency is aware of adults and children ingesting hand sanitizer products contaminated with methanol that has led to recent adverse events including blindness, hospitalizations, and death," the FDA stated.
In a statement from the FDA, "substantial methanol exposure can result in nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system or death."
These are some of the brands that have been deemed harmful by the FDA.
4E Global's Blumen Clear Advanced Hand Sanitizer with 70% Alcohol4E Global's Blumen Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Clear Ethyl Alcohol 70%4E Global's Blumen Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Clear4E Global's Klar and Danver Instant Hand Sanitizer (labeled with Greenbrier International Inc.)4E Global's Modesa Instant Hand Sanitizer Moisturizers and Vitamin4E Global's Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer4E Global's Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer Aloe4E Global's Blumen Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Lavender4E Global's Blumen Clear Lear Advanced Hand Sanitizer4E Global's Blumen Clear Advanced Hand Sanitizer4E Global's The Honeykeeper Hand Sanitizer4E Global's Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer Clear4E Global's Blumen Clear Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer4E Global's Blumen Clear Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Aloe4E Global's Blumen Clear Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Lavender4E Global's Blumen Aloe Advanced Hand Sanitizer, with 70 Alcohol4E Global's Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer Lavender, with 70% alcohol4E Global's Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer Aloe, with 70% alcohol4E Global's Blumen Antibacterial Fresh Citrus Hand Sanitizer4E Global's Blumen Hand Sanitizer Fresh Citrus4E Global's Klar and Danver Instant Hand Sanitizer4E Global's Hello Kitty by Sanrio Hand Sanitizer4E Global's Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer (Vitamin E and Aloe)4E Global's Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer (Aloe and Moisturizers)4E Global's Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer Vitamin E and Aloe4E Global's Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer Aloe and Moisturizers4E Global's Blumen Instant Hand Sanitizer Fragrance Free4E Global's Blumen Instant Hand Sanitizer Aloe Vera4E Global's Assured AloeAAA Cosmetica's bio aaa Advance Hand SanitizerAAA Cosmetica's LumiSkin Advance Hand Sanitizer 4 ozAAA Cosmetica's LumiSkin Advance Hand Sanitizer 16 ozAAA Cosmetica's QualitaMed Hand SanitizerDDI Multinacional's Earths Amenities Instant Unscented Hand Sanitizer with Aloe Vera AdvancedDDI Multinacional's Hand Sanitizer Agavespa SkincareDDI Multinacional's Vidanos Easy Cleaning Rentals Hand Sanitizer Agavespa SkincareEskbiochem's All-Clean Hand SanitizerEskbiochem's Esk Biochem Hand SanitizerEskbiochem's Lavar 70 Gel Hand SanitizerEskbiochem's The Good Gel Antibacterial Gel Hand SanitizerEskbiochem's CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% AlcoholEskbiochem's CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% AlcoholEskbiochem's CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% AlcoholEskbiochem's Saniderm Advanced Hand SanitizerGrupo Insoma's Hand sanitizer Gel Unscented 70% AlcoholLimpo Quimicos' Andy's BestLimpo Quimicos' Andy'sLimpo Quimicos' GelclorLimpo Quimicos' NeoNaturalLimpo Quimicos' Plus AdvancedLiqesa Exportacion or Liq-E-S.A.'s Optimus Lubricants Instant Hand SanitizerMaquiladora Miniara's Shine and Clean Hand SanitizerMaquiladora Miniara's Selecto Hand SanitizerMystic International's Mystic Shield Protection hand sanitizerSoluciones Cosmeticas' Bersih Hand Sanitizer Gel Fragrance FreeSoluciones Cosmeticas' Antiseptic Alcohol 70% Topical Solution hand sanitizerSoluciones Cosmeticas' Hand sanitizer (labeled with Wet Look Janitorial and Gardening Corp.)Tropicosmeticos' Britz Hand Sanitizer Ethyl Alcohol 70%Yara Elena De La Garza Perez Nieto's Daesi hand sanitizer
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New Test Kit Lets You Swab Surfaces for Coronavirus
There’s now a way to easily detect if a surface has been contaminated by coronavirus.
Phylagen Surface is a new test kit developed by a biotech company to allow people to swab public spaces for the novel virus and get results within 48 hours, reported “Today.”
While COVID-19 is primarily transmitted by inhaling droplets, testing surfaces gives the capability of figuring out if infected individuals have been inside an office, school, or other building.
Many thanks to @VickyNguyenTV and @TODAYShow for sharing the news about the release of Phylagen Surface to test for Covid-19 #surfacetesting #covid19 https://t.co/IvRGu0gI5P— Phylagen (@phylagen) July 30, 2020The kits come with ten swabs, a paired phone app and instructions on how to use the test on various high and low-touch surfaces. The ten-pack kit is currently available for $400.
NBC News investigative and consumer correspondent Vicky Nguyen tried out Phylagen Surface and shared how the kit requires you to dip the swab in the provided solution and then swipe it along the desired surface. The end of the swab is then snapped off, put in a sample tube and sent to the company’s laboratory for analyses. Results are then given within 48 hours.
Nguyen and her associates swabbed surfaces in five states, including New York, Florida and California. They tested various surfaces such as door handles, handrails, and keypads in restrooms, coffee shops, grocery stores and other public spaces.
In all, they found 6% of indoor surfaces came back positive for coronavirus.
Among the surfaces that came up positive were an ATM, grocery cart handle and a restaurant tablecloth, the outlet noted.
Dr. Tista Ghosh, an epidemiologist and former chief medical officer of Colorado's state health department, advised how positive results may not give the entire picture of the situation.
"The limitations are that you really don't know how much of the virus is there," Ghosh told "Today." "And you don't know if it's dead or alive. So you don't know if it can actually infect somebody or not."
Dr. Harrison Dillon, co-founder of Phylagen Surface, believes the test kits are key for helping curtail transmission of the virus.
"A positive surface test in a business or school provides lead time to mitigate a spreading event,” Dillon added. “Phylagen Surface makes this critical technology available widely."
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Woman Thrown to Ground, Breaks Leg After Asking Fellow Customer to Wear Mask in Staples
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A 54-year-old New Jersey woman's leg was broken after she was thrown to the floor at a Hackensack Staples by another customer after asking her to properly wear her mask -- and a surveillance camera caught the entire incident.
Margot Kagan was using a fax/copy machine Wednesday afternoon at the Hackensack Avenue store when the suspect approached a nearby machine, but with her mask pulled down below her mouth.
After Kagan -- a Teaneck resident who had liver transplant surgery four months ago -- asked the other woman to properly wear her mask, the suspect became angry and started yelling.
Kagan, who was carrying a cane, raised it and pointed it at the suspect in an attempt to keep her distance from her -- that's when the suspect grabbed Kagan, threw her to the ground and ran off before collecting her documents.
No one in the store -- customers or Staples staff -- immediately came to Kagan's aid. Kagan was transported to Hackensack University Medical Center with a broken leg.No arrests have been made.
The suspect is a Black woman, 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-8 and about 160 pounds, police said. Call the Hackensack Police Department with any tips at (201) 646-7777.
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Hispanic Residents Facing Highest COVID-19 Fatality Rates in America's Third-Largest County
By nature, the coronavirus is incapable of knowing the age or race or socioeconomic status of its victims. But as the COVID-19 pandemic has torn through the United States, leaving over 150,000 dead in its wake, one thing is clear: it has had a disproportionate effect on minority communities.
For Latinos in Texas, the coronavirus has resulted in devastating effects. Though Hispanic Texans make up 40 percent of the state’s population, 48 percent of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the Lone Star State were Hispanics, reports NBC News.
In Harris County, the largest county in the state and the third most populous county in the country, some weeks Hispanics have made up as much as 65 percent of the people requiring hospital care due to COVID-19 despite only 44 percent of the county population being Hispanic.
Officials believe that an influx of Hispanics in their 20s, 30s, and 40s to local emergency rooms is directly related to them waiting longer to get medical care compared to other ethnicities. More than two-thirds of patients that have died abruptly at home this summer from coronavirus have been Hispanic, says the Houston Fire Department.
The disproportionate impact is not isolated to the Houston area: in New York City, the Bronx has had more coronavirus cases and deaths than Manhattan, despite the fact that Manhattan’s population is 13 percent higher, reports Business Insider. 56.4 percent of the Bronx’s population is Hispanic, and an NIH study published in April at the height of the pandemic in New York found that the borough had higher rates of hospitalization and death related to coronavirus than the other boroughs. Manhattan, which is predominantly white, has a median income of $82,000 while the Bronx’s median income is $38,000.
The New York Times reports that patients at some community hospitals in the city were three times more likely to die from coronavirus compared to patients at medical centers in the wealthiest parts of the city. In interviews with workers across New York’s 47 general hospitals, worse equipment, less access to drug trials, and lower staffing were cited as some of the reasons for the disparity.
In a May panel organized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC doctors explained some of the reasons why Latinos in the United States are especially vulnerable to the coronavirus.
Almost one in four Latinos in the country live below the poverty line, and 41.5 percent don’t have health insurance. Compared with white Americans, Hispanics have a higher mortality rate associated with diabetes (+51%) and hypertension (+8%), two factors that health experts believe lead to a higher mortality rate for COVID-19 patients.
Financial factors compound the gravity of the situation. In April, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Joaquin Castro (D- TX) said "eighty-four percent of Hispanics in the United States don’t have jobs that allow them to stay home," reports NBC News.
Over half of Latino families in the United States are in a financial situation in which they could not cover basic expenses for more than three months in the face of an economic crisis, according to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
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Where Does Your State Fall on the COVID-19 Test Positivity List?
If you're curious about what your chances are of getting COVID-19 based on where you live in the U.S., here are the rates of positive coronavirus tests in each state, along with the number of new cases daily, and the number of tests conducted per 1,000 people.
This information is cited from the Johns Hopkins' Coronavirus Resource Center.
States are arranged in descending order of test positivity rates.
Arizona: 22 percent positive
New daily cases: 2,525Tests per 1,000: 1.6
Mississippi: 20.8 percent positive
New daily cases: 1,775Tests per 1,000: 2.2
A few things you probably make sure you have with you when you leave to go to the grocery store or out in public might include a face mask, hand sanitizer, gloves, and disinfectant wipes. Well, you may have to add goggles to that list soon, according to national medical expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The White House Coronavirus Task Force member suggested Wednesday that Americans should consider wearing goggles – or at least a face shield – "if you really want to be complete" in protecting yourself from COVID.
Florida: 19.4 percent positive
New daily cases: 9,956Tests per 1,000: 2.4
Alabama: 19.1 percent positive
New daily cases: 1,980Tests per 1,000: 1.8
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially announced that they've changed their COVID-19 guidance on how long patients need to self-isolate.
People who have experienced mild to moderate COVID-19 can come out of isolation after ten days, reported Today. New CDC guidelines added that the person does not need to be retested before going back to work.
Idaho: 18 percent positive
New daily cases: 568Tests per 1,000: 1.5
Kansas: 17 percent positive
New daily cases: 294Tests per 1,000: 0.8
South Carolina: 15 percent positive
New daily cases: 1,726Tests per 1,000: 2
As the debate whether or not to resume in-person classes this fall continues on, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have weighed in releasing new guidelines that are in favor of reopening education and child care centers.
“It is critically important for our public health to open schools this fall,” said CDC Director Dr. Robert R. Redfield.
“I know this has been a difficult time for our Nation’s families. School closures have disrupted normal ways of life for children and parents, and they have had negative health consequences on our youth. CDC is prepared to work with K-12 schools to safely reopen while protecting the most vulnerable,” he added.
Nevada: 13.9 percent positive
New daily cases: 1,018Tests per 1,000: 2.3
Georgia: 12.6 percent positive
New daily cases: 3,963Tests per 1,000: 2.8
Despite ongoing arguments and divergent theories over the use and effectiveness of face-coverings to stymie the transmission of COVID-19, Director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, made himself very clear when he said, "over the next six weeks we could drive (the virus)into the ground."
Texas: 11.5 percent positive
New daily cases: 9,234Tests per 1,000: 2.2
A week ago, a judge representing a Texas county on the U.S.-Mexico border said a local hospital has been forced to choose "who is sent home to die" as resources run thin due to the coronavirus pandemic. The county, which has a population of roughly 64,700 people, has just one hospital to treat what one official called "an exponential" spike in coronavirus cases.
Missouri: 10.9 percent positive
New daily cases: 2,197Tests per 1,000: 1.7
Iowa: 10.4 percent positive
New daily cases: 662Tests per 1,000: 1.5
Arkansas: 9.8 percent positive
New daily cases: 791Tests per 1,000: 2.7
Utah: 9.2 percent positive
New daily cases: 502Tests per 1,000: 1.7
Nebraska: 9.1 percent positive
New daily cases: 344Tests per 1,000: 1.6
Louisiana: 9 percent positive
New daily cases: 1,708Tests per 1,000: 4.4
Tennessee: 8.6 percent positive
New daily cases: 2,049Tests per 1,000: 3.9
Indiana: 8.1 percent positive
New daily cases: 954Tests per 1,000: 1.5
Kentucky: 7.8 percent positive
New daily cases: 659Tests per 1,000: 1.7
Oklahoma: 7.6 percent positive
New daily cases: 1,117Tests per 1,000: 3.7
Wyoming: 7.6 percent positive
New daily cases: 58Tests per 1,000: 1.1
Colorado: 7.6 percent positive
New daily cases: 408Tests per 1,000: 1.3
North Dakota: 7.3 percent positive
New daily cases: 74Tests per 1,000: 2.1
California: 7 percent positive
New daily cases: 8,021Tests per 1,000: 3.1
South Dakota: 6.9 percent positive
New daily cases: 44Tests per 1,000: 1.3
Wisconsin: 6.7 percent positive
New daily cases: 1,059Tests per 1,000: 2.3
North Carolina: 6.6 percent positive
New daily cases: 2,145Tests per 1,000: 2.7
Virginia: 6.2 percent positive
New daily cases: 911Tests per 1,000: 2.1
Maryland: 6 percent positive
New daily cases: 892Tests per 1,000: 2.5
Oregon: 6 percent positive
New daily cases: 410Tests per 1,000: 1.4
Pennsylvania: 5.9 percent positive
New daily cases: 868Tests per 1,000: 1.3
Washington: 5.6 percent positive
New daily cases: 818Tests per 1,000: 1.9
Rhode Island: 5.3 percent positive
New daily cases: 150Tests per 1,000: 2
Minnesota: 4.8 percent positive
New daily cases: 745Tests per 1,000: 2.6
Ohio: 4.7 percent positive
New daily cases: 1,733Tests per 1,000: 2.5
Delaware: 4.6 percent positive
New daily cases: 87Tests per 1,000: 2.4
Hawaii: 4.1 percent positive
New daily cases: 124Tests per 1,000: 1
New Mexico: 4.1 percent positive
New daily cases: 252Tests per 1,000: 4.2
Montana: 4 percent positive
New daily cases: 138Tests per 1,000: 3
Illinois: 3.8 percent positive
New daily cases: 1,772Tests per 1,000: 2.9
West Virginia: 3.3 percent positive
New daily cases: 98Tests per 1,000: 2.1
Massachusetts: 2.8 percent positive
New daily cases: 0Tests per 1,000: 2.1
Alaska: 2.5 percent positive
New daily cases: 81Tests per 1,000: 6.9
Michigan: 2.4 percent positive
New daily cases: 807Tests per 1,000: 3.2
Washington, D.C.: 2.3 percent positive
New daily cases: 58Tests per 1,000: 4.2
New Hampshire: 2.1 percent positive
New daily cases: 31Tests per 1,000: 1.1
Connecticut: 1.6 percent positive
New daily cases: 130Tests per 1,000: 3.6
New Jersey: 1.5 percent positive
New daily cases: 370Tests per 1,000: 3.2
New York: 1 percent positive
New daily cases: 777Tests per 1,000: 3.3
Maine: 0.9 percent positive
New daily cases: 22Tests per 1,000: 1.8
Vermont: 0.4 percent positive
New daily cases: 1Tests per 1,000: 1.5
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40 Test Positive for COVID-19 Amid Outbreak at University's Fraternity Row
The University of Southern California's (USC) fraternities are being hit hard by a significant number of the cases associated with four fraternity houses, the chief student health officer Sarah Van Orman tells KNX.
The school is facing about 40 cases of COVID-19 involving students living on 28th Street, which is known as Fraternity Row.
“Unless all of us understand that right now our only tools are physical distancing and wearing masks, we’re going to continue to have devastation, not only in terms of the economy, our learning, our academics, our jobs, but people dying,” Van Orman tells The Los Angeles Times. “Each of us has to decide what we stand for. Frats need to do that as well.”
Two weeks ago, twenty-five more University of California Berkeley students have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases at the university to 95.
About three-fourths of the cases at UC Berkeley have been confirmed in the past two weeks, and the majority of those are connected to fraternity parties held at the beginning of the month, according to the university.
University of California San Francisco Epidemiology Professor Dr. George Rutherford told KCBS Radio it’s important that young adults recognize they are as susceptible to the coronavirus as anyone else.
“There is plenty of virus around and about, and you can very easily get infected,” Dr. Rutherford said. “The ways you get infected are by getting within close contact to people and not having masks on.”
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Dunkin' Will Require Customers to Wear Face Masks Starting August 5
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Dunkin' has announced that it will require customers to wear face coverings inside its outlets beginning Aug. 5.
"This simple step to wear a face covering will help to provide a safe environment for guests, franchisees and their restaurant employees," the company said in a statement.
Dunkin' employees are already required to wear a face mask.
The statement added, "For anyone who is unable to wear a face covering because of a medical condition or disability, we encourage you to utilize some of the other ways to grab your Dunkin’ favorites, including Dunkin’ delivery, curbside pickup or pick-up at our drive-thru. As more cities progress through their re-opening phases, we will continue to assess how we can continue reopening dining areas, following the guidance of public health officials across the country."
Last month Dunkin' unveiled a line of Dunkin'-branded face masks. Priced at $10, $3 of each mask purchased will be donated to the Dunkin' Joy in Childhood Foundation to support children in underserved communities.
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Woman Who Destroyed Target Face Mask Display Says Husband Filed for Divorce
A woman who posted a video of herself destroying a face mask display at a Target in Arizona is opening up about her regrets.
Melissa Rein Lively told USA Today that following the viral rant, she lost all the clients in her PR firm and her husband filed for divorce. She was also admitted for a week-long stay at a mental health facility.
"I think mental illness has been really something that has not been addressed as a result of this pandemic," she said.
"Because what happened to me was scary and it changed my life forever. I felt I had absolutely no control over my actions,” she said, noting that a "manic bipolar episode" brought on by stress contributed to her downward spiral.
The expletive-filled rant didn’t end at the store. Upon returning home, her husband called the police, which prompted Rein to capture the ordeal on Instagram Live.
Instead of getting arrested, she was taken for a psychiatric evaluation following comments that she worked for President Trump and was a spokesperson for QAnon.
"I can absolutely see that how I acted was unbelievably inappropriate, not to mention classless, and just completely out of character for how I conduct myself, professionally and personally," she told the outlet.
In the video, which went viral after it was shared by Twitter user @RexChapman [Warning: video contains profanity], Rein Lively offered to buy all the masks at the store and claimed she was getting called out because she is a blonde, white woman that's wearing a $40,000 Rolex.
Rein Lively says that in addition to working on her mental health, she wants to rebuild her professional reputation.
"It's going to take a long time for me to rebuild the trust from people, you know as I get my life and career back on track," she said. "I love what I do and am passionate about what I do and I'm going to fight this."
She's sharing her story in hopes of helping others who are struggling and feel like "they are not alone in fighting mental illness."
Her husband, Jared Lively, told Arizona Republic he called the police because he was afraid that her behavior was an escalation of a “days-long decline” in her mental health, which manifested itself earlier in the year.
“There’s a lot of people that have a manic episode like this. They just don’t film it,” he said, explaining that he has also received death threats along with his wife.
Reid Lively says she now wears face masks when out in public.
"I certainly want to respect others in the community and follow whatever mandates," she explained.
"I understand you know that masks are necessary for business to continue to operate which for me was obviously you know, my biggest frustration all this."
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$600-a-Week Unemployment Benefits Expire With No New Stimulus Deal
Coronavirus relief for jobless workers officially expires today — but a new stimulus package is still a ways off.
The weekly $600 unemployment benefits passed in March’s CARES Act officially end on Friday, at a time of much uncertainty surrounding the particulars of a second COVID-19 stimulus deal.
Although the enhanced benefits terminate today, states sent out final payments last weekend, concluding the aid for millions of Americans.
A last-minute meeting on Thursday between lawmakers and officials ended fruitlessly before the Senate departed for the weekend.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., convened for a discussion with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, reports CNBC.
Pelosi and Schumer rejected an offer from the White House to extend the benefits for one week, in order to buy more time for negotiations on a new stimulus deal.
“What is a one-week extension good for? A one-week extension is good if you have a bill, and you’re working it out,” Pelosi said of the talks.
The GDP tanked in Q2 of 2020, falling by a record low of 32.9% amid coronavirus shutdowns.
On Wednesday, Trump hinted that Americans could end up receiving second stimulus checks worth more than $1,200.
"It may go higher than that actually," the president remarked in Texas. "I'd like to see it be very high because I love the people. I want the people to get it."
On Monday, Senate Republicans put forth the $1 trillion HEALS Act, two months after House Democrats introduced their own $3 trillion package.
The GOP bill includes a second $1,200 stimulus check, and temporarily reduces unemployment benefits to $200 per week until states can roll out a system that will pay jobless workers 70% of their former wages.
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Brad Pitt's Emmy Nomination for 'SNL' Impersonation Is 'Surrealistic,' Fauci Says
Brad Pitt’s impression of Dr. Anthony Fauci on “Saturday Night” was so good, it was worthy of an award… an Emmy to be exact.
Following the actor's nomination, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases congratulated him, but admitted that his priorities were focused on the pandemic.
"It doesn't go to my head," Fauci told the Associated Press, per the Hollywood Reporter, on Thursday.
"It's somewhat surrealistic," Fauci added. "I think it's interesting and a little bit strange.”
The White House adviser isn't allowing the fame to derail him from the task at hand: taming the coronavirus pandemic.
"I don't get distracted by that. I really have to focus like a laser beam on the things that I'm responsible for," he said.
The Oscar-winning actor channeled the doctor for “SNL”s second socially distanced episode in April, just a few weeks after Fauci admitted that he would want “Brad Pitt, of course,” to play him in a skit.
Pitt nailed Fauci’s signature raspy voice and hand gestures while addressing sex, his symbol status and debunking claims from President Trump.
“There’s been a lot of misinformation out there about the virus and yes the President has taken some liberties with our guidelines. So tonight, I would like to explain what the President was trying to say,” Pitt-as-Fauci began in his sketch.
Despite his dedication to taming COVID-19, Fauci commended Pitt on the performance after it aired and said he was a fan of how he was portrayed.
"I think he did great,” Fauci said. “I'm a great fan of Brad Pitt, and that's the reason why when people ask me who I would like to play me I mention Brad Pitt. He's one of my favorite actors. I think he did a great job."
Pitt broke character at the end of the cold read to thank all the frontline workers including the man who inspired his work.
“And to the real Dr. Fauci thank you for your calm and your clarity in this unnerving time and thank you to the medical workers, first responders and their families for being on the front line,” Pitt said.
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