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Thursday US COVID News

“Trump puts pressure on FDA for coronavirus silver bullet ahead of Election Day. Administration officials said the President appeared intent on being able to deliver at least the solid promise of an vaccine by the time he faces reelection.

‘It really might even be delivered before the end of October,’ Trump said about a vaccine at a Pennsylvania rally Thursday night. ‘How do you like that? Wouldn't that be nice?’

On calendars peppered with early voting deadlines and presidential debates, some of Trump's advisers have circled October 22, when a once obscure panel of academics and researchers convened by the FDA will weigh ‘the development, authorization and/or licensure’ of a coronavirus vaccine.” CNN

Concern by many scientists and health officials is that an unproved vaccine, being released too soon, could be harmful to the American public. Fauci is among them. Meanwhile, Trump is willing to use any means possible to boost his chances of reelection; including putting a virus weary public in harm’s way.

He again today also insisted that America’s death toll is only 9,000 Americans; not 189,000. “In the past week, President Donald Trump has repeatedly spread a false claim that COVID-19 is not as deadly as his own public health agencies have reported.” Politifact.

Anything to make his mishandling of the pandemic look better. Trump’s comments are a horrible insult to all those American families who have lost loved ones to COVID.

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Missouri Thursday COVID NEWS

“Top Hospital Doctors Warn Kansas City Is On The Verge Of Uncontrolled Coronavirus Spread”: https://www.kcur.org/health/2020-09-02/top-hospital-doctors-warn-kansas-city-is-on-the-verge-of-uncontrolled-coronavirus-spread KCUR News


Sep. 3, 2020 at 3:22 PM CDT| “More than 7,000 college-age people in Missouri have tested positive for the coronavirus since classes resumed in mid-August, fueling spikes in confirmed cases in the state’s college towns. Recent single-day positive test rates in some college towns have been as high as 45% for people in the 18-24 age group. That’s more than eight times the national positivity rate of 5.5% for people of all ages.” Associated Press

“White House coronavirus task force report recommends mask mandate for Missouri”

Missouri Governor says a mask mandate isn’t right for his state & refuses to do so.
“All of the states that do not have some form of statewide mask mandates are led by Republican governors. They include Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming.” St Louis Dispatch.

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Most of today’s photos were of deer and geese. However, the above, little girl added some variety to the day. She’s one of the babies born this Summer & now totally independent of her mom. Some of her litter mates were lost to the hawk.