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Unemployment aid will be less than Trump promised: states are not required to contribute benefits

2020-08-12T15:09:58.354Z


When the president signed the order, he clarified that the states should contribute 25% of those funds, but the White House clarified on Tuesday that the executive order signed by Trump does not oblige them.


The United States has been facing a serious health crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic for months. The country has detected more than 5,150,000 confirmed infections and has registered more than 165,000 deaths from COVID-19, according to the most recent statistics.

These are the main news for this Wednesday, August 12  , 2020:

  • The unemployment aid will be less than what Trump promised. His order does not oblige states to contribute in profits
  • Companies are working on antibody treatments to combat COVID-19 amid uncertainty about a vaccine
  • The US Secretary of Health says four companies have already offered favorable test results on a vaccine 
  • Trini López, a Latin musician who established himself in the 1960s, dies of complications linked to the virus

The unemployment aid will be less than what Trump promised. His order does not oblige states to contribute in profits

The financial aid for those who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic will be less than those that President Donald Trump assured he would give by extending the benefit through an executive order.

When signing the extension of the benefits granted in the first aid package for the pandemic, the president affirmed that the weekly payment to the unemployed would be 400 dollars, which already represented a decrease compared to the 600 dollars that were initially delivered to more 25 million people.

When the president signed the order, he clarified that the states should contribute 25% of those funds. 

However, advisers to the president acknowledged on Tuesday that the order does not oblige the states to increase the benefits they already provide by that percentage, so the benefit signed by Trump only guarantees a maximum of $ 300.

The scope and legality of these actions has been called into question, causing confusion among the millions of Americans who are waiting for some form of economic relief to alleviate the effects of the pandemic.

Several Democratic governors have declared their intention to file lawsuits in court to overturn the measures, claiming that only Congress has the power to control the federal budget, not the president.

Even some Republican authorities reacted to the measure. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said he didn't know if his state could afford it.

Companies are working on antibody treatments to combat COVID-19 amid uncertainty about a vaccine

Despite politically charged announcements by some world leaders, it may still be months before a mass-scale effective vaccine against COVID-19 is available, or one with such characteristics will never be developed. 

Faced with such a scenario, several companies are rushing to try another option: drugs that release antibodies to fight the virus immediately, without having to train the immune system to produce them as occurs when a vaccine is injected, reports The Associated Press news agency.

Antibodies are proteins that the body makes when an infection occurs; they stick to a virus and help eliminate it. And vaccines work as a deception for the body: they make it believe that there is an infection and thus push it to generate antibodies. Plus, they remind you how to do it when a virus really strikes. 

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But a vaccine takes time to work properly and allow the body to make the most effective antibodies. Experimental antibody drugs, by contrast, shorten that process by providing concentrated versions of those that work best against coronavirus in laboratory and animal tests.

["I don't think it's a dream." Fauci is optimistic and cautious about developing a vaccine towards the end of the year]

These drugs are believed to last a month or more and could provide rapid and temporary immunity to people at high risk of infection, such as healthcare workers or people living with someone who is infected. They are also being tested as treatments to help the immune system to prevent more serious symptoms or death.

Eli Lilly, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Amgen, and Adaptive Biotechnologies are some of the companies most involved in this effort. 

"I am cautiously optimistic," the nation's leading infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said of these treatments. Dr. Janet Woodcock of the Food and Drug Administration called them "very promising" drugs, which, moreover, could be available "quite soon." 

Key studies are currently underway: Some answers should arrive in early fall, the AP reports. 

With information from The Associated Press. 

The US Secretary of Health says four companies have already offered favorable test results on a vaccine 

For the Secretary of Health of the United States, Alex Azar, the push to develop a vaccine against COVID-19 "is not a race to be first."

The comment, made this Wednesday during a visit to Taiwan, follows an announcement the day before by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said his country was the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine, raising doubts about the scientific soundness. and the security behind that supposed achievement.

Azar said the United States has established an advanced manufacturing contract for a vaccine being developed by Moderna and has supply agreements with five other companies that have vaccines in the pipeline.

Four of the six companies under contract have reported test results showing they produce more antibodies to the virus than people who have survived COVID-19, he added, without serious side effects.

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Azar also indicated that the candidate vaccines of two companies have entered the third phase of trials, while that of Russia has just embarked on that phase without information being disclosed.

In his view, the United States aims to produce a "standard, safe and effective vaccine" available in tens of millions of doses by the end of the year. 

With information from AP. 

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Trini López, a Latin musician who established himself in the 1960s, dies of complications linked to the virus

Trini López, a Latin singer and actor who became very popular in the 1960s for the song "If I Had A Hammer" and who participated in the film "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), died this Tuesday at the age of 83 for complications linked to the coronavirus, as confirmed by collaborators of this artist. 

Lopez's death occurred very shortly after directors P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes had finished filming a documentary on the life and work of the interpreter.

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Born Trinidad López III in Dallas, Texas, into a family of Mexican origin, Trini López began her musical career in the late 1950s with the group Big Beats.

With the support of Buddy Holly and Frank Sinatra, who were delighted to see him perform live, the Hispanic, who always carried his Latino roots with great pride, made his way solo in the following decade. 

Thanks to his triumphs as a singer, he also had the opportunity to work in some Hollywood movies. 

With information from EFE, AP and NBC News. 

Source: telemundo

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