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1、* * * *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 VOL. CCLXXVI NO. 70WSJ.comHHHH $4.00 DJIA27147.70g509.72 1.8%NASDAQ10778.80g0.1%STOXX600356.82g3.2%10-YR.TREAS.7/32, yield 0.670%OIL$39.31g$1.80GOLD$1,901.20g$50.90EURO$1.1772YEN104.65 After months of maneu- vering over the future of TikTok, it took a pair of 11th-
2、 hour phone calls with two of America s most powerful ex- ecutives to persuade Presi- dent Trump to agree to a tentative deal. Key to getting the presi- dent on board with the idea, which involved Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. taking stakes in a new TikTok based in the U.S., was a thinly sketched-ou
3、t plan to create a $5 billion education fund, described by people involved as a gesture to placate Mr. Trump. The provision came By Michael C. Bender, Georgia Wells, Miriam Gottfried and Aaron Tilley Nikola Corp. founder and ExecutiveChairmanTrevor Milton is leaving the electric- truck startup in th
4、e wake of allegations from a short seller that he misled investors. The company said Mr. Milton would be succeeded by Stephen Girsky, a former General Motors Co. executive who already sits on the truck company s board. The Phoenix-based startup, which has ambitions to make electric and hydrogen-powe
5、red trucks, has come under scru- tiny since short seller Hinden- burg Research released a re- BYNATALIEANDREWS Court Pick Is Expected Over the Weekend Republicans largely line up behind Trumps push to fill vacancy at end of an election year Skip IKEA. Go Stooping For Furniture. iii Internet pinpoint
6、s treasures left behind on the curb BYRACHELWOLFE It was 9:59 on a Wednesday morning and Georgie Osgood was ready to pounce. In one minute,aresidentofthe Brooklyn street she had been pacing for over an hour would move a blue-tufted couch to the curb. But the 22-year-old student had company, she said
7、: Five ri- vals stationed along the street had told her they also saw the “StoopingNYC”Instagram post announcing the 10 a.m. furniture drop. Her guess was as good as theirs as to which front door hid the prize, as the listingidentifiedonlythe block. PleaseturntopageA8 3200 3300 3400 3500 3600 Sept.2
8、81421 Correctionterritory S a patient is swabbed for testing in Wellington, Fla., on Aug. 27; students wear masks for class at Harvest Best Academy in Minneapolis on Sept. 8; and a stylist cuts a customers hair outside a salon in San Francisco on Sept. 2. A3 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: CALLAGHAN OHARE/
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18、r the cost of administering any coro- navirus vaccine approved for emergency use, leaving Trump administration officials explor- ing options to quickly fix the government s plan to make the vaccine free for all Americans. Lawmakers in March passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and EconomicSecurityAct
19、,or Cares Act, which ensures free coronavirus vaccine coverage, includingnoout-of-pocket costs for people on Medicare. But Medicare doesn t cover costs for drugs approved under emergency-use designations. The Food and Drug Adminis- tration authorizes certain drugs for emergency use to provide speedy
20、 access to treatments for seriousdiseasesduringa health crisis. Standards for emergency-useauthorization aren t as high as they are for its typical drug approvals. Trump administration offi- cialsrecentlydecidedthat Medicare s exclusion of emer- gency-use drug costs could leave millions of people pa
21、ying out-of-pocket for vaccines the government intends to make free, according to three people familiar with the matter. About 44 million people, or about 15% of the U.S. population, are cov- ered by Medicare. The Department of Health and Human Services is explor- ing coverage options for a Covid-19
22、 vaccine approved un- der an emergency-use authori- zation, and any vaccine doses bought by the government will be provided at no cost, an HHS spokeswoman said. The White House is pushing to get a vaccine as early as next month that would be approved by the FDA under an emer- gency-use authorization
23、. The White House didn t respond to a request for comment. The White House and HHS may press Congress to change the language in the Cares Act so that it includes Medicare coverage for a vaccine ap- proved under an emergency- use authorization, according to a senior administration official. But admin
24、istration officials are worried about whether the changes can be accomplished in time for a possible October vac- cine rollout, the official said. The problem can t be fixed with an executive order, the of- ficial said, so HHS is also look- ing at whether any creative in- terpretationofexisting regu
25、lations could allow for Medicare coverage for adminis- tering the vaccine. “It s one more concern about trying to roll out a vaccine out- side the normal approval mech- anisms,” said Larry Levitt, ex- ecutive vice president at the KaiserFamilyFoundation. “People are already concerned about getting a
26、 vaccine before it s fully vetted, and if cost is a barrier as well, that could be one more stumbling block for broad acceptance.” GoingbacktoCongress could open a very divisive de- bate over the vaccine approval process since some Democrats are concerned about the fast pace, Mr. Levitt said. The di
27、scovery has officials questioning why no one in Con- gress realized the problem be- fore legislation ensuring free coverage was passed, according to a senior administration offi- cial familiar with the matter. Officials are especially con- cerned about the Medicare re- striction because seniors, who
28、 are at risk of severe disease from Covid-19, are among the highest-priority groups for get- ting a vaccine. “The clock is ticking,” the of- ficial said. BYSTEPHANIEARMOUR Coverage Of Vaccine Has a Big Loophole Covid-19 is spread. For months, many scientists have urged public health agencies to ac-
29、knowledge that Covid-19in addition to close-contact trans- missioncan be transmitted through tiny aerosols that can linger and travel for minutes to hours through the air. Some said Monday they feared the CDC s change could undercut the evidence scientists had pre- sented. “The tide had turned towar
30、d science when the CDC” ac- knowledged aerosol transmis- sion, said Joseph Allen, a health scientist and director of Har- vard University s Healthy Build- ings program, which studies how buildings affect human health. “To backtrack instantly is devastating,” he said. Acknowledgingaerosol transmissio
31、n of the coronavirus would carry significant implica- tions for how businesses and schools proceed with re-open- ings. To reduce the risk of aerosol transmission, property owners and building managers would need to implement precautions suchasbetterventilation, proper social distancing and universal
32、 masking policies, ac- cording to scientists and re- searchers studying Covid-19. Studies of outbreaks have shown that the new coronavi- rus can spread even when close contactamongpeoplewas avoided. In almost all cases, the studies have found, people who contracted the virus had pro- longed exposure
33、 to the airborne particles and weren t wearing masks. In the now-removed guide- lines posted Friday, the CDC ac- knowledgedthatthereis “growing evidence that droplets and airborne particles can re- main suspended in the air and be breathed in by others, and travel distances beyond 6 feet.” Stephanie
34、 Armour contributed to this article. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulled new guidelines acknowledging the new coronavirus could be transmitted by tiny particles that linger in the air, saying a draftversionofproposed changes was posted in error on the agency s website. For mon
35、ths, the CDC said the new coronavirus is primar- ily transmitted between people in close contact through drop- letsthatcanlandinthe mouths or noses of people nearby. On Friday, however, it added that Covid-19 can also be spread by “droplets or small particles, such as those in aerosols” that can be
36、inhaled and cause infection. Then abruptly on Monday, the CDC reversed course and removed the additions. Much of the guidelinesearlier descrip- tion of Covid-19 transmission, emphasizing spread via close contact and droplets, was re- stored. “A draft version of pro- posed changes to these recom- men
37、dations was posted in error to the agency s official web- site,” a CDC spokesman said in an email. The CDC is still working on updating its recommendations regarding airborne transmis- sion of the coronavirus, the spokesman said. “Once this process has been completed, the update language will be pos
38、ted,” he said. The CDC wants to convey that aerosol transmission is possible, but not the primary way that coronavirus spreads, according to a person familiar with the matter. Another person familiar with the matter said that an internal pushamongsomepeople within the agency to better communicateinf
39、ormation about aerosol transmission led to the Friday change, but that the new guidelines didn t go through appropriate vetting. The agency is reviewing how that happened, the person said. The agency last week walked back a recommendation that close contacts of Covid-19 pa- tients don t need to get
40、tested if they don t have symptoms. The latest change, aerosol experts say, could further con- fuse the debate around how BYCAITLINMCCABE CDC Backtracks on Aerosol Transmission U.S. NEWS 61, up from 39 in early July. Confirmedinfectionsand death tolls across the world can vary, and the extent of the
41、 pan- demic is hard to gauge as coun- tries use different methodolo- gies for what constitutes a Covid-19 death, or they lack the capacity to accurately track the number of cases and deaths. As deaths have steadily accu- mulated, Dr. Russo said he was concerned that the public was growing weary of t
42、he health measures that might prevent the epidemic from worsening as winter approaches, especially the use of masks and social dis- tancing. Indeed, even as the out- breaks in some hot spots have started to come under control, case counts have risen in parts of the Midwest, with states in- cluding W
43、isconsin setting daily records in recent weeks. Many states are seeing new clusters tied to schools and uni- versities. Some colleges have al- ready sent students home, as outbreaks grew more severe. The Centers for Disease Con- trol and Prevention forecasts that a total of 207,000 to 218,000 Covid-
44、19 deaths will be reported by the week ending Oct. 10. More than 28,000 people in the U.S. were hospitalized with the virus as of Sunday, accord- ing to data from the Covid Tracking Project, down by more than 50% from July 20, when more than 58,000 were hospi- talized. Hospital data vary from state
45、to state, so the actual numbers could differ. The fall in hospitalizations comes amid a drop in newly re- ported cases. The seven-day av- erage of new cases reported across the U.S. has hovered near 40,000 for the past few days, remaining elevated from early June when the daily aver- age was closer
46、to 20,000 a day but still well below July highs, whentheaverageeclipsed 60,000. On Sunday, 39,844 new coro- navirus cases were reported na- tionwide. “What I m concerned about and what I ve seen is the coun- try is undergoing Covid fa- tigue,” Dr. Russo said. “We have become attenuated to these deat
47、hs. We ve become numb to this. And people have risk- creep.” World-wide, more than 31 million coronavirus cases have been reported, and more than 962,000 people have died. Some governments in Europe said they were hoping to avoid wide- spread lockdowns as the num- ber of new cases on the conti- nent
48、 has bounced back up, in part because of summer travel. Top officials in the U.K. warned they were on course to record 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day as the pandemic ex- pands. Chief Medical Adviser Chris Whitty said that citizens should prepare for a new round of restrictions over the next six
49、months. Officials in some countries have recently attempted more targetedrestrictionsrather than national shutdowns, in an effort to mitigate damage to their economies. Deaths in the U.S. attributed to the new coronavirus neared 200,000 Monday amid concerns from some health experts that the country was heading for an- other wave of infections. The U.S. continues to lead the world in both total con- firmed cases and deaths, ac- cording to data compiled by JohnsHopkinsUniversity, though the country doesn t have the highest percentage of fatal cases. “Twohundredthousand deaths is disturbin
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