Authorization. The moderna vaccine is expected to be fully approved in the fall. Experts believe full approval will make a difference in convincing some people to get vaccinated. But perhaps more importantly, it could lead to a surge in vaccine mandates. Today, the cdc reported 135,494 new cases of coronavirus today in the united states. Across the nation, the weekly average for covid hospitalizations is 11,521. That s an increase of 14. 2% from the week before. In six states, alabama, florida, louisiana, mississippi, oregon, and washington, new admissions of patients with coronavirus are currently at their highest level since the start of the pandemic. Hospitalization and infection rates for children are also on the rise. Nbc news reporting as of wednesday, u. S. Hospitals were tending to an average of more than 1,200 children a day, twice the number from the end of july. Alabama admitted nearly 260 kids between august 10 and 16, an average of 37 per day and an increase of more than 3
From the week before. In six states, alabama, florida, louisiana, mississippi, oregon and washington, new admissions of patients with coronavirus are currently at their highest levels since the start of the pandemic. Hospitalizations and infection rates for children are also on the rise. Nbc news reporting, as of wednesday, u. S. Hospitals were attending to an average of more than 1200 children a day. Twice the number from the end of july. Alabama admitted nearly 260 kids between august 10th and 16th. An average of 37 per day. And an increase of more than 300% from the previous week. Florida leads the nation entrails children hospitalized with covid19, averaging 54 new admissions a day over the past week, according to the cdc. Of course, florida s republican governor, along with a number of other republican governors across the country, are still banning mask mandates in schools. But parents and school boards, they are fighting back. Millions of students in florida, texas and arizona a
They re also apparently closing the u. S. Embassy there. Haiti has a land border with one country, dominican republic, crossings between hideous and the dominican republic are now closed. Nobody is quite sure what will happen next, chaos does seem a good bet after the assassination of the president. Haiti is a country with close ties to the united states. Through the huge haitian american diaspora in the united states. Hi heavy is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. We are the largest donor in terms of the system of all kinds. Haiti has been in more than its usual share of chaos, recently, including political chaos. The president who was just assassinated late last night, arguably, his term in office as president came to an end this past february, but he stayed on nevertheless, and declared that efforts to remove him were cool attempt, and he had his political opponents arrested. Haiti has multiple sources of authority in the government, a president, a prime minister, also a
Ignorance, or as democrats say, proof of republicans , quote, fear to donald trump. A short time ago gop senators blocked the bill to create that independent bipartisan commission that would have tried to find the truth behind the january 6th attack on the u. S. Capitol. The final senate vote was 5435. With these republican senators voting in favor of that bipartisan commission. These are the same senators, except for rob portman, who voted to convict donald trump in his second impeachment for inciting the insurrection. Ten republican votes were needed to create the bipartisan commission. They didn t get it. Cnn s jessica dean is on capitol hill, has been following all of this. So, we showed the republicans who voted for it, but there were 11 senators, mostly republicans, who did not cast a vote at all. Are they explaining why? reporter: well, the explanations are kind of trickling in this afternoon, victor and alisyn. We have heard from a number of people who said they had family memb
once again, police reform in america in sharp focus. in hopes of triggering change demonstrators are still taking to the city. the city of chicago bracing for another night of protests, demanding accountability in the police-involved shooting death of 13-year-old adam toledo. video of the march shows toledo was unarmed with his hands in the air as the officer fired his weapon. it comes after weeks of watching the murder trial of derek chauvin play out in realtime from minneapolis. the former officer is accused of killing george floyd last summer the jury expected to begin deliberating in the coming days. the nation on edge ahead of the verdict as the new york times reports since testimony began on march 29th at least 64 people have died at the hands of law enforcement nationwide with black and latino people representing more than half of the dead. breaking tonight in the city of brooklyn center, minnesota, the city s mayor just issued a citywide curfew until tomorrow mornin