In other covid-19 news Wednesday:
- In a special to the Courier Journal, Dana McMahan reports on how to stay safe in bars during the pandemic. Kentucky bars were allowed to open at half capacity on Monday. Beshear suggested Tuesday that one way to ensure social distancing in a bar would be to make sure everyone allowed in is assigned an appropriately distanced chair and stays in it except to use a rest room.
- Athletic-team workouts that are not part of an official start of practice have stopped in three Kentucky school districts due to coronavirus infections, Valarie Honeycutt Spears and Jared Peck report for the Lexington Herald-Leader.
- Lexington will reopen city playgrounds and individual basketball courts July 4, Beth Musgrave reports for the Herald-Leader. “Children will need to wear masks and be encouraged to keep their distance from other children,” said Monica Conrad, director of parks and recreation. “Parents should keep their children out of the playground if it is crowded.” Musgrave reports that the city will open its four spraygrounds later in July, with required reservations.
- The Herald-Leader reports on what to do if you get a call from a contact tracer, with a warning about possible scammers who may try to steal money or get personal information. “You may receive a call, email, text or visit from a contact tracer, and you should not hesitate to talk with them,” said Andrew Smith of the Federal Trade Commission. “Beware if they ask you for money, bank account information, your Social Security number, or to click on a link, as those are sure signs of a scam.”
- The state Department of Education advisory group offers feedback on the "Healthy at School" guidance that was released last week.
- Two Kentucky health department officials talked with Kaiser Health News about the challenges their departments face during the pandemic, amid an overall system that an investigation found is "underfunded and under threat, unable to protect the nation's health." Scott Lockard, public health director for the Kentucky River District Health Department, said he is battling the pandemic with 3G cell service, paper records and one-third of the employees the department had 20 years ago.
- New guidance from the Food and Drug Administration urges vaccine sponsors to include diverse populations in all stages of their clinical trials, especially minorities, the elderly, pregnant women and people with underlying medical conditions. It also calls for a plan that shows the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine in children, according to a FDA news release.
- "While the FDA is committed to expediting this work, we will not cut corners in our decisions and are making clear through this guidance what data should be submitted to meet our regulatory standards. This is particularly important, as we know that some people are skeptical of vaccine development efforts,” said FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, a physician. “We have not lost sight of our responsibility to the American people to maintain our regulatory independence and ensure our decisions related to all medical products, including covid-19 vaccines, are based on science and the available data. This is a commitment that the American public can have confidence in and one that I will continue to uphold.”
- "The American testing supply chain is stretched to the limit, and the ongoing outbreak in the South and West could overwhelm it, according to epidemiologists and testing-company executives," The Atlantic reports. "While the country’s laboratories have added tremendous capacity in the past few months—the U.S. now tests about 550,000 people each day, a five-fold increase from early April—demand for viral tests is again outpacing supply."
- The Washington Post reports on what coronavirus autopsies have revealed.
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