The Latest: New US virus cases top 100K, 1st time in months

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The seven-day mean for caller regular COVID-19 infections has surpassed 100,000 successful the U.S., returning to levels not seen since the wintertime surge.

Cases and hospitalizations person skyrocketed successful the past month, driven by the highly contagious delta variant. The state was averaging astir 11,000 cases a time successful precocious June. Now the fig is 107,143.

The microorganism is spreading rapidly done unvaccinated populations, particularly successful the Deep South. Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi person had hospitals overrun with patients.

The U.S. archetypal crossed the 100,000 mean fig successful November and peaked astatine astir 250,000 successful aboriginal January earlier bottoming retired successful precocious June.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

— Study: Vaccines springiness COVID-19 survivors big immune boost

— Vaccination signifier for national workers adds penalties for lies

— Some US schools reopen with premix of masks successful classrooms

— United Airlines will necessitate US employees to beryllium vaccinated

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— Find much AP sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic and https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut has go the latest authorities to mandate that workers successful nursing homes beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19.

Gov. Ned Lamont connected Friday directed an enforcement bid that requires each employees of semipermanent attraction facilities to person astatine slightest the archetypal dose of a vaccine by Sept. 7.

In a statement, helium said it would “absolutely irresponsible” for staffers not to beryllium vaccinated, fixed the vulnerability of the radical successful their care.

According to Lamont’s release, much than fractional of each nursing homes successful Connecticut person a unit vaccination complaint little than 75%. Connecticut joins astatine slightest 5 different states that person issued akin mandates.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California has announced different circular of coronavirus vaccine incentives.

The California Department of Health Care Services connected Friday said it would walk $350 cardinal to vaccinate much radical connected the state’s Medicaid program. Medicaid is the associated authorities and national wellness security programme for radical who are disabled oregon person debased incomes.

About 76% of California residents 12 and implicit person received astatine slightest 1 dose of the coronavirus vaccine. But lone 45% of the state’s Medicaid colonisation has been vaccinated.

The caller incentives see up to $50 market store acquisition cards. About 13.8 cardinal radical are enrolled successful California’s Medicaid program.

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LANSING, Michigan — Hundreds of radical gathered extracurricular the Michigan State Capitol connected Friday to protestation COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Carrying signs with slogans specified arsenic “Jab oregon Job? Wrong!” and “Let maine telephone my shots,” the demonstrators heard speakers knock authorities officials and and impulse their assemblage to interaction elected representatives to explicit their opposition.

Ron Armstrong, president for Stand Up Michigan, 1 of the organizers of the rally, said they were warring “for individuals’ rights to take — that’s each — successful the employment area, successful the pupil area, successful the schools, successful the universities ... oregon wherever other it is mandated.”

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HOUSTON — Houston country officials accidental the latest question of COVID-19 cases is pushing the section wellness attraction strategy to astir “a breaking point,” resulting successful immoderate patients having to beryllium transferred retired of the metropolis to get aesculapian care, including 1 who had to beryllium taken to North Dakota.

Dr. David Persse, who is wellness authorization for the Houston Health Department and EMS aesculapian director, said immoderate ambulances were waiting hours to offload patients astatine Houston country hospitals due to the fact that nary beds were available. Persse said helium feared this would pb to prolonged respond times to 911 aesculapian calls.

“The wellness attraction strategy close present is astir astatine a breaking constituent ... For the adjacent 3 weeks oregon so, I spot nary alleviation connected what’s happening successful exigency departments,” Persse said Thursday.

Last weekend, a diligent successful Houston had to beryllium transferred to North Dakota to get aesculapian care. An 11-month-old miss with COVID-19 and who was having seizures had to beryllium transported connected Thursday from Houston to a infirmary 170 miles distant successful Temple.

The rising hospitalization and positivity complaint successful the Houston country prompted Houston Independent School District Superintendent Millard House II connected Thursday to denote that helium plans to inquire the schoolhouse committee during its gathering adjacent week to o.k. a mandate requiring each students, teachers and unit to deterioration masks. Classes successful the Houston schoolhouse district, the state’s largest, statesman Aug. 23.

“We cognize that we’re going to get pushback for this,” House said. If approved, the disguise mandate would spell against an enforcement bid Gov. Greg Abbott repeated past period banning specified mandates by immoderate state, region oregon section authorities entity.

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LAS VEGAS — More than 6,000 radical successful Nevada person died of COVID-19, a grim milestone the authorities surpassed Friday arsenic officials conflict to respond to different surge of the coronavirus.

Gov. Steve Sisolak called it “another important and heartbreaking milestone” for the authorities and issued different plea for radical to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Nevada reported 26 caller deaths Friday and 1,299 caller cases of COVID-19.

Since the pandemic began, the authorities has reported 363,574 COVID-19 cases and 6,005 deaths.

Sisolak and authorities wellness officials person been struggling to mitigate different resurgence of the microorganism successful Nevada driven by the highly contagious delta variant and a still-lagging complaint of vaccinations.

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NEW YORK — Even radical who person recovered from COVID-19 are urged to get vaccinated, and a caller survey shows survivors who ignored that proposal had doubly the hazard of getting reinfected.

The study Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention comes arsenic scientists impulse radical to get vaccinated due to the fact that of the highly contagious delta variant. That includes radical who had a anterior infection.

The study retired of Kentucky adds to increasing laboratory grounds that vaccines connection an important boost to earthy immunity, including broader extortion against caller variants.

“If you person had COVID-19 before, delight inactive get vaccinated,” said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. “Getting the vaccine is the champion mode to support yourself and others astir you, particularly arsenic the much contagious delta variant spreads astir the country.”

There’s small accusation yet connected reinfections with the newer delta variant. But U.S. wellness officials constituent to aboriginal information from Britain that the reinfection hazard appears greater with delta than with the communal alpha variant, erstwhile radical are six months past their anterior infection.

“There’s nary doubt” that vaccinating a COVID-19 subsister enhances some the magnitude and breadth of immunity “so that you screen not lone the archetypal (virus) but the variants,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the apical infectious illness expert, said astatine a caller White House briefing.

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WASHINGTON -- Federal employees who request to certify their vaccination presumption nether a caller argumentation instituted by President Joe Biden intended to promote COVID-19 shots volition look disciplinary enactment and perchance transgression prosecution if they prevarication connected the form.

The Biden medication connected Friday unveiled the attestation signifier that employees volition request to capable retired astir whether they person been afloat vaccinated against the virus, adding ineligible teeth to the president’s mandate.

Federal employees won’t beryllium pursuing the “honor system” but volition alternatively beryllium required to admit that making a “knowing and willful mendacious connection connected this signifier tin beryllium punished by good oregon imprisonment oregon both.”

The Associated Press obtained a transcript of the form, which was distributed Friday to bureau leadership.

— By Zeke Miller

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