June 29, 2020
The worldwide toll is continuing to rise, with over 10 million confirmed cases. More than a quarter of deaths have been in the United States.
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The city of Jacksonville, Fla., which is hosting the Republican National Convention in August, will require masks indoors in public places and where social distancing is not possible beginning at 5 p.m. on Monday.
Here’s what you need to know:
- Pence was more vocal about mask wearing over the weekend, despite Trump’s reticence.
- Gilead to charge up to $3,120 per treatment course of remdesivir, which has shown modest benefits in some patients.
- 43 percent of U.S. virus deaths are tied to nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
- China imposes a broad lockdown near Beijing to halt a second wave of infections.
- Half a million people are dead as confirmed virus cases top 10 million.
- At a Houston hospital bracing for a virus peak, new patients are often young.
- The virus is battering Africa’s growing middle class.
