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The share of Americans who would be willing to get a coronavirus vaccine if it were available today has dropped significantly from a few months ago, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center.

A little over a month later, he and his wife contracted the virus and he has landed in the hospital’s intensive care unit struggling to breathe, he said in a statement this week.

The county health officer said in a statement: “There is an outbreak centered on Michigan State University, and it is quickly becoming a crisis.

The coronavirus pandemic has completely laid bare the contemptible nature of college athletics.

BERLIN — A German soccer team deliberately lost a match 37-0 after its players socially distanced amid concerns over the novel coronavirus.

The Trump administration convened a panel of nursing home operators and administrators, academics, and state health officials to recommend ways to step up protections for nursing home residents amid the covid-19 pandemic, and this week it received the advice: more money for testing, personal protective equipment, registered nurses, infection-control training and staff salary increases.

The report, commissioned by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), noted that nursing homes have borne the brunt of the pandemic — with more than 50,000 residents and staff dead so far — and argued that public resources to deal with the disease have been lacking.

The Dogs Trust, an animal welfare charity, said on its website that the stay-at-home order sparked a huge increase in people searching for a furry companion.

The trust estimates that the total street value of smuggled puppies saved since lockdown is almost $104,000 and that up to 40,000 dogs in the country may need help.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals warned that staff were being “stretched to their limit” amid the pandemic and expressed concern that with so many people now spending more time at home, dogs are likely to face behavioral issues such as separation anxiety when owners eventually return to work.

A survey conducted by the Dogs Trust found that 41 percent of owners reported their dog had displayed increased clingy behavior or following people around the house during lockdown, while more than 80 percent said their animals were whining or barking when someone was busy.

Several states that moved quickly to lift lockdown restrictions this summer — only to slam the brakes as coronavirus infections began surging — are once again moving ahead with reopening.

Halsey Beshears, the secretary of the state’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, said in a statement last week that he believed bars and breweries would do better the second time around.

DeSantis also said last week that he expects to soon lift a restriction limiting indoor dining to 50 percent capacity, according to Politico.

LONDON — Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Friday that the coronavirus was once again “accelerating” in Britain, and he did not rule out the possibility of another nationwide lockdown if cases continue to climb.

In an interview with Sky News, Hancock said hospitalization rates were increasing along with confirmed cases of the virus, and he called for unity to keep the risk of transmission down.

Asked repeatedly about how close the country was to another full-scale lockdown, Hancock said that a “national lockdown is the last line of defense” but one that he could not rule out despite a desire to avoid drastic measures.

More than 30 areas are under local restrictions, according to British media reports, with an estimated 10 million people already under lockdown and unable to see family or friends.

A new coronavirus test that takes just 90 minutes and that does not need to be processed at a laboratory was able to identify 94.4 percent of cases correctly, according to a study published Thursday in the medical journal Lancet.

Meanwhile, Britain is potentially facing a second lockdown amid a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations.

Johnson believes that a “moonshot” plan to drastically increase testing capacity to 10 million tests a day is the only way to avoid another lockdown before a vaccine is developed, according to leaked government documents obtained by the Guardian.

NEW YORK — Four days before students were set to arrive at school buildings, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he would again delay face-to-face instruction for nearly all students as the school system, which educates more than 1 million youths, scrambled to assuage growing fears among educators and parents.

The global count of coronavirus infections surpassed 30 million on Thursday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

The United States still has the largest share of infections — over 6.6 million, representing more than a fifth of all confirmed cases worldwide

But the most dramatic increases in recent weeks have occurred in India, which has repeatedly logged more than 90,000 infections a day and overtaken Brazil as the nation with the second-highest total of coronavirus cases

Brazil has reported nearly 4.5 million infections, including roughly 217,000 in the past week, an increase roughly on par with the United States