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The Trump administration made a big push this week for the public to wear face masks after President Donald Trump resisted wearing them for months. Trump said wearing a mask is a "patriotic" action and urged Americans to wear them. An HHS official later told reporters that 90% of the public or more need to wear face coverings in order to curb the spread of the virus. We have more on the outbreak below.
| | CNBC looks at a second wave of countries as part of a series | As part of Chrissy Farr's ongoing series looking at how different countries around the world have tackled the coronavirus – some with very mixed success – she looked at Germany this week. Deutschland by no means had a perfect Covid-19 response, but it did a lot of things right. Germany's success stems in large part from its public communications strategy. It's run by a scientist – Chancellor Angela Merkel – and it communicated with the public via podcasts, children's shows and social media campaigns. Meanwhile, Brazil's Covid-19 response quickly turned political, much like the U.S. Its leaders minimized the virus, calling it the "little flu," even as vulnerable people died in the thousands. Now, it is continuing to spread and locals are particularly worried about the poorest communities that lack access to high quality health care.
-Chrissy Farr | | | | Hospitals scramble to adopt new HHS data reporting system | Some hospitals across the country are scrambling to adopt a new Covid-19 data reporting system hastily implemented by the Trump administration last week that's left some states in the dark about the severity of their local outbreaks. The new reporting system shifted control of crucial hospitalization data away from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and placed it under the Department of Health and Human Services. But the change also requested new kinds of data and tasked hospital administrators and local health officials with adjusting to a new system in the midst of a public health crisis, officials in Missouri, Idaho and Montana told us. "It would be an understatement to say our hospitals are scrambling," Brian Whitlock, CEO and president of the Idaho Hospital Association, told CNBC's Will Feuer. On a conference call with reporters, a senior HHS official downplayed the burden on hospitals, saying "the actual exercise of submitting data should not be significantly different."
-Will Feuer | | | | Former CDC director warns against mixing politics with science | Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. surgeon general and director of the Centers for Disease Control of Prevention, told CNBC's Noah Higgins-Dunn that the U.S. government's response to the coronavirus has been uncoordinated and its guidance has been unclear. If he were to grade the nation's leadership in the pandemic, Satcher said he would give them a C "at best." "I think we are mixing the politics and the science in a way that can be very dangerous," said Satcher, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton.
–Noah Higgins-Dunn | | | | The clock is ticking on $100B in Medicare loans | Hospitals are pushing Washington to forgive $100 billion in Medicare advanced payments issued to providers by the Trump administration during the Covid-19 shutdown. If Congress leaves for the August recess without a new stimulus bill, hospitals will have to start repaying the loans next month. Among those lobbying on Capitol Hill is Harrison Memorial Hospital, from Mitch McConnell's home state of Kentucky, which says it's running at -25% margins right now.
–Bertha Coombs | | | | Vaccine from Oxford and AstraZeneca shows positive results | A potential coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca produced a promising immune response in an early-stage human trial, according to new data this week. The researchers said the vaccine, called AZD1222, produced antibodies and killer T-cells to combat the infection that lasted at least two months. The effort by Oxford and AstraZeneca is one of several. There are at least 23 vaccines already in human trials, according to the World Health Organization.
–Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | | | | Cuomo cracks down on bars | New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn't playing games any more. The state liquor authority has suspended 27 bar and restaurant alcohol licenses for violations of social distancing rules as public officials try to keep the coronavirus outbreak under control. "I'm sorry it's come to this, but it's a dangerous situation, and I've said it many, many times," Cuomo told reporters this week. "We never opened bars. This was a violation by them from the beginning." In just New York City and Long Island, the state took action by suspending liquor licenses in four bars and restaurants. The governor listed three in Queens and one in Suffolk County. "We are quite serious about it," he said, adding that the state has filed 410 charges against New York eating and drinking establishments.
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