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The days are getting shorter, the leaves are changing colour, and the average number of new Covid-xix cases being reported across the U.s.a. is now double what information technology was in June, the latest figures showed Fri.

The U.S. is logging an boilerplate of more than than 45,000 new infections per day and information technology's trending upward, according to statistics compiled by NBC News.

The worrisome development comes a month subsequently Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading good on infectious diseases, urged the nation to "crouch down" considering the number of new coronavirus cases was likely to rise equally summertime gave manner to autumn and the flu season started.

And this week, Fauci said he will be celebrating Thanksgiving via Zoom with his three daughters to avert infection.

"We would dearest for them to come home for Thanksgiving," Fauci, who lives in Washington, D.C., said during a webinar. "They have said themselves, 'Dad, you know you're a young, vigorous guy, but y'all're 79 years old."

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump alleged himself "healed" during a radio interview with Rush Limbaugh, and afterwards the White House announced he would be doing an in-person event Saturdayfrom the Truman balcony, fifty-fifty though information technology'southward been only a week since the president was diagnosed with Covid-19.

Before, a White Firm spokesman hedged on whether Trump would nourish a Sabbatum campaign rally in Florida.

Trump won't go unless "he's medically cleared that he will not be able to transmit the virus," deputy printing secretary Brian Morgenstern said Fri on MSNBC.

But later Friday, the Trump entrada announced the president would be heading to Sanford, Florida, on Monday for a campaign rally.

Sanford is where 17-year-former Blackness teenager Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012 past a neighborhood watchman named George Zimmerman, whose acquittal on murder charges sparked nationwide protests.

More than a dozen other Trump aides and allies have besides come downwards with infections, forth with four White House residence staffers. And many of these infections have been tied to a Sept. 26 event Trump held in the Rose Garden to introduce Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.

"We had a super spreader upshot in the White Firm and it was in a situation where people were crowded together and were non wearing masks," Fauci said Fri in a CBS Radio interview.

Dr. David Shulkin, Trump'south quondam secretarial assistant of Veterans Affairs, said nobody really knows how infectious Trump is because "there hasn't been plenty information out there."

"The recommendations are that it should be x days from the onset of the infection, only y'all accept to know whether someone's on symptom-relieving medication and whether they have symptoms when they're off those medications," Shulkin told MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle on Friday. "But Stephanie, I'yard more worried, not about the president, but more worried about him putting people at risk at these rallies. Nosotros know that these rallies consist of people who don't social altitude, who don't article of clothing masks."

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In other coronavirus news:

• There is no evidence that hydroxychloroquine is the Covid-19 "game changer" that Trump and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro touted, researchers at the University of Oxford have concluded.
• The lights on Broadway volition remain dimmed at least until May because of the pandemic, Charlotte St. Martin of the Broadway League said. "With nearly 97,000 workers who rely on Broadway for their livelihood and an annual economical impact of $14.eight billion to the city, our membership is committed to reopening as soon as weather condition permit united states to practice so," she said.
• Wellness officials in Italy, one time the world's coronavirus hot spot, reported 5,372 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours. That's the biggest daily number since March. Europe has been hit by a surge of new infections, the World Health Arrangement reported before.
• The pandemic didn't just wreck the U.S. economy. Extreme poverty is expected to rise this yr around the world for the starting time time in 20 years. "The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to push an additional 88 1000000 to 115 one thousand thousand people into extreme poverty this year, with the total ascent to equally many equally 150 million by 2021, depending on the severity of the economic contraction," the World Bank warned.
• The angry demonstrations by Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Covid-nineteen clampdown were fueled past "a robocall purporting to be at the behest of President Donald Trump's re-election campaign," The New York Daily News reported. Trump campaign spokeswoman Samantha Zager told the newspaper the campaign "had no involvement with this."
• Rocker Jack White will supersede state music star Morgan Wallen as the musical guest this weekend on "Saturday Dark Alive." Wallen got the hook after a TikTok video of the mask-less musician partying at an Alabama bar went viral, raising fears he could have been exposed to Covid-19. Wallen has since apologized.

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Since being sprung from the hospital, Trump has resumed downplaying the dangers of the virus that has killed 213,830 people and infected more than 7.6 million just in the U.Due south., and sowing dubiousness on the effectiveness of wearing masks and social distancing to slow the spread of the disease.

Trump besides offended the loved ones of many Covid-19 victims by cavalierly declaring upon his release from Walter Read Medical Center "Don't be afraid of Covid" and quickly removing his mask when he returned to the White House.

Wary of antagonizing the president, Fauci has been pushing back carefully.

"The examples of people non wanting to wear masks, or not assertive that if you just go in a crowd you lot're not going to get infected or if y'all do get infected it'due south going to be meaningless because it's a trivial outbreak," Fauci said Th at a virtual Academy of California, Berkeley, forum. "Well, how could it exist a trivial outbreak if it'south already killed 210,000 people in the United States and a million people worldwide?"

This was two days subsequently Fauci, director of the National Plant of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, contradicted Trump's resurrected faux claim that the coronavirus was as deadly equally the flu.

"You lot don't become a pandemic that kills a million people and it isn't even over yet with influenza," Fauci told NBC News' Kate Snow.

Fauci over the summer survived a White House effort to ignominy him subsequently he publicly countered Trump'southward fake claims about the progress of the pandemic.

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Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-cases-rise-again-u-s-summer-gives-way-fall-n1242739

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