Updates: U.S.-Canada border closure to continue
- The Canada-U.S. border will remain closed to non-essential travel for at least another month, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said in a statement.
- Louisiana authorities have arrested three women accused of assaulting a teenage restaurant hostess because they were upset they couldn’t all be seated together due to coronavirus distancing rules.
- California's coronavirus testing system has buckled under the weight of supply shortages, the state's aggressive daily testing goals, and the federal government's nonexistent testing strategy, according to a Desert Sun investigation.
- Latinos are more likely than white, Black and Asian Americans to be worried about economic issues related to coronavirus, according to a new survey.
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| States | Confirmed | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| California | 593,141 | 10,808 |
| Florida | 557,137 | 9,047 |
| Texas | 513,575 | 9,289 |
| New York | 424,167 | 32,504 |
| Georgia | 228,668 | 4,538 |
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U.S. is making a coronavirus strain for human vaccine trials
U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to manufacture a strain of the coronavirus that could be used in human challenge trials of vaccines, a controversial type of study in which healthy volunteers would be vaccinated and then intentionally infected with the virus, Reuters has learned.
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