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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration WeChat developer Tencent Holdings’ called the order will ban WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok from U.S. “We have some great options and maybe we can keep a lot of “unfortunate” but said it “will continue to discuss with app stores starting Sunday night, a move that will block people happy,” Trump told reporters. “We have to have the total the government and other stakeholders in the U.S. ways Americans from downloading the Chinese-owned plat- security from China.” to achieve a long-term solution.” forms over concerns they pose a national security threat. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Fox Business Network that The Commerce Department order bars Apple Inc’s app The bans, announced on Friday, affect only new “the basic TikTok will stay intact until Nov. 12.” store, Alphabet Inc’s Google Play and others from offer- downloads and updates and are less sweeping than expect- ing the apps on any platform “that can be reached from ed, particularly for TikTok, giving its parent group ByteD- The ban on new U.S. downloads of the widely popular app could within the United States,” a senior Commerce official ance some breathing space to clinch an agreement over the still be rescinded by President before it takes effect told Reuters. fate of its U.S. operations. if ByteDance seals a deal with Oracle that addresses concerns While the bans are less dramatic than some had about the security of its users’ data. feared, the Commerce Department said it could WeChat, an all-in-one messaging, social media and elec- issue additional orders if it finds “that WeChat’s or tronic payment app, faces more severe restrictions from “This is the right move - ratchet up the pressure on Beijing, pro- TikTok’s illicit behavior is being replicated by an- Sunday. Existing TikTok users, on the other hand, will see tect Americans,” said Republican Senator Josh Hawley on . other app somehow outside the scope of these executive little change until Nov. 12 when a ban on some technical orders.” transactions will kick in, which TikTok said would amount RELATED COVERAGE to an effective ban. For a Q&A on the real impact, click Oracle shares closed down 0.3% after initially dropping Trump says he sees no reason to delay TikTok decision 1.6% in pre-market trading. “We disagree with the decision from the Commerce De- What’s the real impact of Trump’s action against TikTok? partment, and are disappointed that it stands to block new The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to purge “un- The American Civil Liberties Union said the Commerce app downloads from Sunday and ban use of the TikTok trusted” Chinese apps from U.S. digital networks amid escalating order “violates the First Amendment rights of people in app in the U.S. from Nov. 12,” the company said in a state- tensions with Beijing on a range of issues from trade and human the United States by restricting their ability to communi- ment. “We will continue to challenge the unjust executive rights to the battle for tech supremacy. cate and conduct important transactions on the two social order.” media platforms.” The ban on WeChat, used by over 1 billion people worldwide, Trump on Friday did not indicate whether he would back a bars the transfer of funds or processing of payments to or from The order does not ban U.S. companies from doing TikTok deal. He said a deal “could go quickly.” people in the United States through it. Users could also start to businesses on WeChat outside the United States, which experience significantly slower service or sporadic outages from will be welcome news to U.S. firms like Walmart and Sunday night. Starbucks that use WeChat’s embedded ‘mini-app’ pro- grams to facilitate transactions and engage consumers in China, officials said.

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POPULAR APPS TikTok has 100 million users in the United States and is especially popular among younger Americans.

Many TikTok U.S. users did not express alarm over the new restrictions. “It’s kind of like the boy who cried wolf,” said Carter Kench, a 17-year old from Atlanta, Georgia with 2.4 million followers.

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WeChat has had an average of 19 million daily active users in the United States, analytics firms Apptopia said in early August. It is popular among Chinese students, ex-pats and some Americans who have personal or busi- ness relationships in China.

The Commerce Department will not seek to compel people in the United States to remove the apps or stop using them. “We are aiming at a top corporate level. We’re not going to go out after the individual users,” one Commerce official said.

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09/18/2020 CORONAVIRUS DIARY Dialogue With Sheriff Gonzales

Our old friend Sheriff Ed Gonzales met of us. After he graduated from the with a group of Asian Community University of Houston, he joined the leaders recently and talked about the Houston Police Department (HPD) and issues facing all of us. later became City of Houston councilman and later was elected to the Ed is a native-born Houstonian. He is position of Harris County Sheriff. Under from a Mexican immigrant family. As a his command, he led a police force of poor kid, his life is a success story for all five thousand with a $550 million budget.

social services to local residents. Ed urged the international and immigrant community to join his team in order to As a first generation of Latino descent, better serve our community. Sheriff Gonzales is our leader. His success story will pave the way for many Under his supervision Harris County also youth in the new generation. has opened a Women’s Center Medical Clinic and provided many other Hi Ed, we are so very proud of you.

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Stay Home! BUSINESS Wear Mask! The Trump administration its totals to 6,620,186 cas- on Wednesday outlined a Federal Officials Unveil Plan To Provide Free Coronavirus Vaccine es and 196,465 deaths, ac- strategy to deliver safe and cording to the Johns Hop- some experts have expressed con- HHS added that McKesson will effective COVID-19 vaccine doses to the American kins online dashboard. And in a breaking development cern that health agencies will rush use the CDC’s guidance, with lo- people as quickly as possible, for free. In a report to that came on the heels of today’s hearing, HHS today the authorization to aid his reelec- gistical support from the DOD, to Congress and a separate “playbook” for states, the De- announced that Caputo will be on medical leave for tion chances. Health officials have ship products to vaccine adminis- partment of Health and Human Services, in conjunc- the next 60 days and that Paul Alexander, an aide to been working hard to reassure the tration sites. tion with the Department of Defense and the Centers Caputo who was reportedly part of efforts to control public that a vaccine will only come In another development, the for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) laid out de- CDC’s COVID-19 messaging, including that involv- to market when it’s ready. CDC’s Redfield and two HHS tailed vaccination distribution plans for states, tribal, ing MMWR publications, will permanently leave the “We are working closely with our officials today testified about territorial and local public health programs. The play- agency, the Washington Post reported. state and local public health part- COVID-19 response efforts at a book warned that states have never needed a pandemic CDC unveils new tool for schools ners ... to ensure that Americans Senate appropriations subcom- response plan that is this complex. Among several other developments, the CDC yes- can receive the vaccine as soon as mittee hearing. Redfield told “Significant additional planning is needed to - opera terday unveiled indicators to help schools make de- possible and vaccinate with confi- legislators that COVID vaccine tionalize a vaccination response to COVID-19, which cisions about in-person learning amid changing local dence,” HHS Secretary probably won’t be widely avail- is much larger in scope and complexity than seasonal pandemic conditions. A color-coded chart shown in- said in a statement Wednesday. able until the spring or summer of influenza or other previous outbreak-related - vacci cluded core and secondary indicators to help gauge the “Americans should know that the 2021, NPR reported. He also said nation responses,” the agencies said. Health officials risk of COVID-19 spreading into and within schools, vaccine development process wearing a mask is still the most noted that the plan is flexible, because some variables Compiled And Edited By John T. Robbins, Southern Daily Editor weaving in local metrics. is being driven completely by powerful tool against the virus won’t be known until a vaccine is authorized or ap- In other US COVID-19 developments: science and the data.” that the nation has, and he raised eyebrows when he proved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Among a flurry of new COVID-19 developments • A new analysis based on data on 50 million peo- The Trump administration’s is suggested that wearing a face mask might offer more such as populations for whom a given vaccine is most coming out of Washington, DC, the Trump Adminis- ple from Epic Health Research and the Kaiser Fam- aimed at developing and delivering a COVID-19 vac- protection than a vaccine. President Donald Trump has appropriate, distribution and storage requirements, tration released new details about vaccine distribution, ily Foundation reveals that when compared to white cine to the public in record time through contracts with hinted that a COVID-19 vaccine might be deployed dosage requirements and other variables. as federal officials testified before Congress, and the patients, black, Hispanic, and Asian patients all had seven different drugmakers. While some of the leading ahead of the November election. “We’re dealing in a world of great uncertainty,” Paul Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) higher rates of COVID-19 , hospitalization, vaccine candidates have moved into large phase three Mango, deputy chief of staff for policy at HHS, said announced that two of its embattled communications and death. trials, it’s still not clear if any of the vaccines spon- during a call with reporters. “We don’t know the tim- officers will be sidelined. Meanwhile, the US Centers • Eli Lilly announced today that its antibody treatment sored by the administration will be successful. The ing of when we’ll have a vaccine, we don’t know the for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed for COVID-19, called LYCoV555, cut the hospitaliza- federal government has contracted with McKesson, quantities, we don’t know the efficacy of those vac- more about the risk of severe disease in pregnant tion rate by 72% compared to placebo. The company the country’s largest drug distribution company, to en- cines ... so this is a really, quite extraordinary, logisti- women and detailed a new tool to help schools make described the phase 2 trial findings, which haven’t sure states will receive vaccines as quickly as possible. cally complex undertaking.” COVID-19 decisions. been peer reviewed, in a press release. The administration is anticipating the FDA will grant But, Mango said, “we are prepared for all of those un- Fast-moving developments in Washington • In a reversal, the Big 10 today announced that the the initial vaccine an emergency authorization, which certainties.” HHS and the Department of Defense (DoD) on college football season can resume the weekend of requires less data than a complete approval. The goal In addition, the initial doses of the vaccine will be free Wednesday released a pair of documents that outline Oct 23 with strict medical protocols in place, which of Operation Warp Speed is to have vaccines moving Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Dis- of charge for patients. The administration’s Provider administration steps to deliver vaccine, which the two include daily antigen testing and enhanced cardiac to administration sites within 24 hours after an emer- ease Control and Prevention, speaking at a Senate Relief Fund contains over a billion dollars of taxpay- groups developed with the CDC. In a statement, HHS screening. Each team must have a chief infection offi- gency authorization. Initially, there may be a limited Appropriations subcommittee hearing on a “Re- er money that will be used to reimburse providers for said it provides an overview of the strategy and an in- cer to collect data and make decisions about continu- supply of vaccines available, and the focus will be on view of Coronavirus Response Efforts” on Capitol uninsured patients. terim playbook for state, tribal, territorial, and local ing practice and competition. (Courtesy https://www. protecting health workers, other essential employees Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Washington. public health departments. HHS Secretary Alex Azar cidrap.umn.edu/) and people in vulnerable groups. (Courtesy the hill. Redfield also rejected recent accusations yesterday said as part of Operation Warp Speed, a massive effort com) by HHS spokesperson Michael Caputo that the CDC to speed vaccine development, federal officials have Related has a “resistance unit” that works against the Trump been laying the groundwork for vaccine delivery. The Administration, and he denied media reports late last Feds’ COVID Vaccine Distribution agency said in August it signed a contract with McK- week that said the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality plans Unveiled amid HHS shakeup esson, which also distributed vaccine during 2009 Weekly Report (MMWR) had been altered to align with H1N1 flu pandemic. President Trump’s talking points, under pressure from In Wednesday’s statement, CDC Director Robert Red- Caputo. Officials said they are working to iron out some “com- field, MD, said the CDC’s Advisory Committee on , MD, assistant secretary for health at plications” with Medicare, but the worst-case scenario Immunization Practices will play a vital role in decid- HHS, told the committee that cases, hospitalizations, is Medicare beneficiaries will have to pay $3.50 out of ing how initial limited doses will be allocated, looking and deaths in the United States have declined since pocket. The detailed assessment comes amid growing at a goal of having more than 100 million doses by post-Memorial Day peaks, but it warned that progress skepticism from the public about the politicization of January. As part of a three-phase plan, the first doses could lose traction if people stop wearing masks and the administration’s entire vaccination plan. President would go to healthcare workers in high-risk settings, avoiding crowds. The United States yesterday report- Trump has routinely said a vaccine will be available (Photo/kiattisakch / iStock) then to other essential workers and those at higher risk ed 39,617 new cases and 1,293 more deaths, raising before the November election, and the public and of severe disease, such as people age 65 and older. Saturday, September 19, 2020 C3 Editor’s Choice

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They are in many ways good problems studies with the companies,” he said. to have. “The FDA will look at that data, and • “Wouldn’t it be great if we’re in a posi- on a science-based decision, will make tion if we have, say, 2-5 safe and effective a determination as to the safety and vaccines?” said Dan Barouch, the director of efficacy and whether or not it will be What they’re saying: One of the most important Harvard’s Center for Virology and Vaccine approved.” He added: “Historically, things regulators and vaccine developers can do Research. “If more than one vaccine shows the FDA has based their decisions right now, experts said, is to generate as much data safety and efficacy, then we actually would on science. They will do it this as possible while clinical trials are still under way. welcome that result.” (Courtesy axios.com) time, also, I’m certain.” Getting • They won’t have another chance to run more Related a safe and effective vaccine to clinical trials just to study how the vaccines work Americans by 2021 will require for narrower groups of people. So whatever ques- Fauci Addresses Concerns condensing a process that takes 10 tions we need to answer in the future, they’ll have That Vaccines Are Moving Too years into a little over a year, which to be answered with today’s data. Fast to Be Safe i s n o e a s y f e a t . • “This is our chance to learn whether something , MD, White House coronavi- Rep. Carolyn Maloney asked: “Is works,” Dean said. “You can’t go backwards.” rus task force expert and head of the National it dreaming?” “It’s reality,” said Pfizer and Moderna, which are developing two of Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci. “I believe it will occur.” the leading candidates, have each signed up some testified in front of a House subcommittee in Acknowledging that, to some 30,000 people for their trials, but have said they’ll Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios July on the Trump administration’s response people, the process is moving so do interim analyses with results from fewer than to the coronavirus. He answered many fast that it seems like there might be Compiled And Edited By John T. Robbins, Southern Daily Editor 50 people. questions on vaccines — specifically, whether compromises to safety or scientific • If those results are strong enough, the trials could the rapid speed at which the U.S. is pursuing integrity, he said: “I can tell you The scientific race for a coronavirus harder to come by. end early. them might compromise the safety of the end that is absolutely not the case.” vaccine is moving at record-shattering • “My concern is that you want to get it • And once there’s a single effective vaccine, product. Vaccines typically take up to a de- The U.S. is able to move so fast, speed. Making the most of that work — right the first time, whatever you [authorize] it’s harder to maintain other placebo-controlled cade to develop, but Operation Warp Speed, he explained, because of the “very translating a successful clinical product first, because it’s really going to change the studies. Researchers will face an ethical dilemma the White House’s effort to fast-track vaccine different technologies” deployed into real-world progress — will require landscape,” said Natalie Dean, a biostat- about whether to keep giving people a placebo, production, aims to make one available to over the course of the pandemic, some patience. istician at the University of who Dean said, and people are less likely to sign up for Americans by January 2021.In his response starting with the moment the patho- Why it matters: If we get a vaccine rela- specializes in the design of clinical trials for a trial, and risk a placebo, if they think they can to questions from Rep. Jackie Walorski about gen was identified and moving from tively soon, the next big challenge will be vaccines. just get a vaccine from their doctor. when the vaccine would be available to Phase 1 trials to Phase 3 trials. The balancing the need to get it into people’s How it works: We know the coronavirus The other side: The regulatory process, along everyone and whether it would be safe, Fauci biotech company Moderna, which hands with the need to keep working on affects different people in different ways. with some of the logistical hurdles that make vac- maintained that the U.S. will have a vaccine has received almost $1 billion in other solutions that might prove more ef- So, ideally, we’d want to know how well cine distribution so difficult, can help with some by the end of 2020 and that it will become support from the U.S. government, fective. Where it stands: Eight potential each vaccine works in people with the most of this. available to Americans in 2021. He said that launched its Phase 3 trial on July vaccines are in late-stage clinical trials. significant risk factors. • Only a handful of doses will be ready once the no safety measures would be skipped in the 27. The White House has deals The first one could be submitted for FDA • “We may not have a lot of that coming first vaccine is authorized. If the second vaccine vaccine development process, emphasizing with several other drugmakers to review as early as October or November, out of these trials. They’re certainly not comes through a short time later and turns out the role of scientific data in determining a find and create doses of a vaccine, and several more could follow within just powered to address these subgroup-specific to be wildly more effective, there will be time to vaccine’s safety. including a contract with Sanofi a few months. effects,” Dean said. adjust. and GlaxoSmithKline for up to • The FDA has already laid out its stan- • “If we don’t have adequate data in the • Several of the leading candidates require two $ 2 . 1 b i l l i o n , a n n o u n c e d t o d a y . dards for potential vaccines: They have greater-than-65-year-old group, then the shots, and some must be stored at temperatures “That is not reckless rushing. That to be safe, and they have to reduce the greater-than-65-year-old person shouldn’t as low as -20 degrees Fahrenheit. A vaccine that’s was technology and doing things chance of moderate to severe infection by get this vaccine, which would be a shame moderately less effective but also less fussy might be in a way that does not compromise at least 50%. because they’re the ones who are most like- worth the trade-off, at least for some patients. • That’s a relatively modest bar, but ly to die from this infection,” vaccine expert any of the steps,” he said. “So I experts say it’s an appropriate one, espe- Paul Offit said in a recent conversation with don’t think it’s dreaming, Con- cially in an emergency. scientist Eric Topol. gresswoman, I believe it’s a reality. But the fear is that the understandable • The FDA will be looking for evidence of And will be shown to be a reality.” desire to get a safe, effective vaccine into how well each vaccine works in the overall (Courtesy https://coronavirus.medi- people’s veins as fast as possible could population, so that’s the question their clini- um.com/ blog) Anthony Fauci, MD, White House coro- make a better or more targeted vaccine cal trials are set up to answer. navirus task force expert and head of the