Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Thursday announced that “the game has changed” for how President Donald Trump’s administration deals with Iran, indicating a willingness to use pre-emptive strikes against militias tied to the Persian Gulf state—comments that provoked immediate pushback from progressives and anti-war advocates.

“We’re back to preemptive wars now!” tweeted Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft vice president Trita Parsi. “Dick Cheney might as well be president.”

“The war hawks must be celebrating,” Parsi added.

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According to Politico, Esper made the comments as a warning against the militant group Kataib Hezbollah, which he accused of attacking the 104-acre U.S. embassy in Iraq on Tuesday.

“There are some indications out there that they may be planning additional attacks,” Esper told Politico. “If we get word of attacks, we will take preemptive action as well to protect American forces, protect American lives. The game has changed.”

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As climate groups launched a new campaign targeting Wall Street’s funding of the dirty energy industry and school strikers took part in weekly #FridaysForFuture protests across the globe, Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and 20 fellow youth activists published an op-ed calling on world leaders to “abandon the fossil fuel economy.”

“History has not shown the corporate world’s willingness to hold themselves accountable. So it falls on us, the children, to do that.”
—youth climate activists

Business and government leaders will come together in Davos, Switzerland later this month for the 50th anniversary of the World Economic Forum. This year’s theme is “stakeholders for a cohesive and sustainable world.” Thunberg and her co-authors explain in the Guardian that “young climate activists and school strikers from around the world will be present to put pressure on these leaders.”

“We demand that at this year’s forum, participants from all companies, banks, institutions, and governments immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction, immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies, and immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels,” the op-ed declares. “We don’t want these things done by 2050, 2030 or even 2021, we want this done now—as in right now.”

The youth activists point out that despite the “climate and environmental emergency,” banks have collectively poured at least $1.9 trillion into the fossil fuel industry since global governments adopted the Paris climate agreement in December 2015, according to an analysis from the Rainforest Action Network and other advocacy groups.

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“The world of finance has a responsibility to the planet, the people, and all other species living on it. In fact, it ought to be in every company and stakeholder’s interest to make sure the planet they live on will thrive,” says the op-ed. “But history has not shown the corporate world’s willingness to hold themselves accountable. So it falls on us, the children, to do that.”

“Anything less than immediately ceasing these investments in the fossil fuel industry would be a betrayal of life itself,” the op-ed concludes. “Today’s business as usual is turning into a crime against humanity. We demand that leaders play their part in putting an end to this madness. Our future is at stake, let that be their investment.”

Thunberg’s co-authors are Jean Hinchliffe, Australia; Danielle Ferreira de Assis, Brazil; Joel Enrique Peña Panichine, Chile; Robin Jullian, France; Luisa Neubauer, Germany; Licipriya Kangujam, India; David Wicker, Italy; Julia Haddad, Lebanon; Oladosu Adenike, Nigeria; Iqbal Badruddin, Pakistan; Arshak Makichyan, Russia; Holly Gillibrand, Scotland; Alejandro Martínez, Spain; Isabelle Axelsson, Sweden; Sophia Axelsson, Sweden; Ell Jarl, Sweden; Mina Pohankova, Sweden; Linus Dolder, Switzerland; Vanessa Nakate, Uganda; and Tokata Iron Eyes, the United States.

The op-ed was welcomed as “incredible” and a “barnburner” by adult climate leaders.

“Brilliant article by youth strikers from around the world,” tweeted the U.K. grassroots movement Labour for a Green New Deal. “We need to ditch fossil fuels immediately and build a new economy for people and planet. The ruling classes will never do it, so it’s up to us.”

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Demonstrators filled the halls near a hearing room in the Ohio statehouse Wednesday to make their opposition to a bill criminalizing protest that ultimately passed through the state House Public Utilities Committee and is now headed to the floor.

“You aren’t the people’s government! You’re the oil and gas industry’s government!”
—Ohio demonstrator

The legislation, Senate Bill 33, institutes stiff penalties for demonstrations that cause damage to infrastructure—a standard that the bill’s opponents say is aimed at stopping protests against pipelines and other fossil fuel projects.

“It’s meant to intimidate us into not using our voice,” Rev. Marian E. Stewart of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus told the Columbus Dispatch on Wednesday.

As the Dispatch reported, the legislation is part of a pattern in states looking to curtail the right to protest fossil fuel infrastructure:

Protesters in the hearing room voiced their disapproval.

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A new report released Tuesday at the World Economic Forum’s annual summit in Davos reveals humanity’s annual material consumption has now passed 100 billion tons per year, leading the study’s authors to urge world governments and communities to drastically reduce waste.

The global think tank Circle Economy showed in its study (pdf) that global consumption just in the last two years has risen by 8% while the reuse and recycling of materials has gone down by half a percentage point—the exact opposite of what needs to happen to build a sustainable global economy.

The group detailed the “circularity gap” on social media.

“The negative trend overall can be explained by three related, underlying trends: high rates of extraction; ongoing stock build-up; plus, low levels of end-of-use processing, and cycling,” Circle Economy says. “These trends are embedded deep within the ‘take-make-waste’ tradition of the linear economy—the problems are hardwired. As such, the outlook to close the circularity gap looks bleak under the dead hand of business as usual. We desperately need transformative and correctional solutions; change is a must.”

Circle Economy advocates for economies wherein the use of renewable energy allows materials that go to waste and pollution to be reduced to zero.

“Business as usual is dead. We must commit to taking action at scale to make the circular economy reality.”
—Peter Bakker, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

“A circular economy is…about retaining value and complexity of products as highly as possible, for as long as possible—ideally, without any degradation, or fallout,” reads the report. “At the same time, they also reduce the requirement for new inputs to produce new products for replacement.”

In 2017, the last year the group has data for, humans used 100.6 billion tons of materials.

While the global population has doubled since 1970, Circle Economy found consumption has quadrupled since then.

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Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) said Sunday that he does not believe Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE.

Ryan, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said he wanted to defer to the House Judiciary Committee’s assessment of special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) MuellerCNN’s Toobin warns McCabe is in ‘perilous condition’ with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill’s 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE’s report before Congress takes decisive action.

“This is very, very, very serious. I believe that the first step is to have Rep. Jerry NadlerJerrold (Jerry) Lewis NadlerPhilonise Floyd asks Congress to deliver justice for his brother Floyd’s brother to testify in front of House Judiciary Committee hearing on police brutality House Judiciary Committee to hold hearing on police brutality next week MORE (D-N.Y.) continue to open up this investigation to better understand this. We are just getting this document,” Ryan said on CNN.

“Let the Judiciary Committee look at this. There’s a process in place here. I trust Jerry Nadler, he’s one of the smartest guys in the United States Congress, I think that’s the natural next step and let’s see where that leads,” he added.

“So you do not support impeachment as of right now, but you want the … investigation process to begin?” CNN “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper asked.

“Let the process play itself out,” Ryan responded. “And let’s educate the American people, too. This is a very nuanced document, let the American people really see what’s going on here.”

Tapper pressed Ryan on whether he believed his colleagues in Congress who are pushing for impeachment “are making a mistake,” referencing an impeachment resolution introduced by Rep. Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibHow language is bringing down Donald Trump Defunding the police: Put it to a vote McEnany, Ocasio-Cortez tangle over ‘Biden adviser’ label MORE (D-Mich.) late last month.

“I personally think that there’s a lot of obstruction here, so I understand their move to try to impeach. I would just rather us take this next step, educate the American people, really get these details out, let the Judiciary Committee do its work … and let the country start functioning normally through these processes that we’ve established and then we’ll go from there. Everyone’s welcome to do what they want, and I feel the sentiment,” he added.

Ryan’s comments came days after fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs chairman says he regrets participating in Trump photo-op | GOP senators back Joint Chiefs chairman who voiced regret over Trump photo-op | Senate panel approves 0B defense policy bill Trump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names MORE (Mass.) became the first major party candidate to call for the House to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump.

Warren cited a portion of Mueller’s report in which he wrote that Congress has the authority to conduct obstruction of justice investigations, saying that such probes can provide a check if a president is corrupt.

“Mueller put the next step in the hands of Congress: ‘Congress has authority to prohibit a President’s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.’ The correct process for exercising that authority is impeachment,” she said in an email announcing her position.

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European Commission reshuffle — as it happened

The reshuffle of the Commission’s top team was needed following the departure of Irish Commissioner Phil Hogan.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the make-up of her new-look team Tuesday following the resignation of the Irish commissioner, Phil Hogan.

She praised both people put forward by the Irish government as “excellent candidates” but as had been widely anticipated, she tapped European Parliament First Vice President Mairead McGuinness for a commissioner role.

Subject to hearings in the European Parliament, she will take the financial services, financial stability and capital markets union portfolios. Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis is set to take over the trade portfolio vacated by Hogan.

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Former Vice President Biden, who announced his presidential candidacy Thursday, said he told former President Obama not to endorse him in the race.

“I asked President Obama not to endorse,” Biden said of his former boss. “Whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merits.”

Obama on Thursday praised Biden following his campaign announcement, but stopped short of endorsing him.

“President Obama has long said that selecting Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Trump finalizing executive order calling on police to use ‘force with compassion’ The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook MORE as his running mate in 2008 was one of the best decisions he ever made,” Katie Hill, a spokeswoman for Obama, said in a statement.

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“He relied on the vice president’s knowledge, insight, and judgment throughout both campaigns and the entire presidency. The two forged a special bond over the last 10 years and remain close today.”

Obama and Biden were known for their close-knit relationship during their eight years on Pennsylvania Avenue. Obama awarded Biden, whom he has fondly referred to as his “brother,” the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2017.

Biden jumped into the crowded 2020 presidential race early Thursday, becoming the 21st candidate to announce his intentions for the Democratic Party’s nomination.

“If we give Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation — who we are — and I cannot stand by and watch that happen,” Biden said in an announcement video.

“Everything that has made America America is at stake,” he added. “That’s why today I’m announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.”

Even before his announcement, Biden led the field across a number of polls.

The gap between U.S. adults who see the coronavirus pandemic as more of a health crisis and those focusing on the economy has narrowed within the past two months, a poll released Tuesday found.

The poll, from NBC and SurveyMonkey, found that a slight majority of respondents — 52 percent — said they see the coronavirus mostly as a health crisis, compared to 47 percent who see the pandemic as more of an economic issue.

A poll released in early July determined that 56 percent of participants saw the pandemic as primarily a health crisis, while 43 percent identified it as mostly an economic mess.

Participants also are now more likely to consider business reopenings to be happening more slowly than in the July poll. A majority — 54 percent — said in the new poll they were worried businesses were reopening too quickly, while 42 percent said they were concerned they were opening too slowly.

In July, 63 percent of respondents said they worried businesses were reopening too quickly and 33 percent expressed concern about the delay in reopening.

The NBC|SurveyMonkey Weekly Tracking Poll surveyed 35,847 adults in a series of SurveyMonkey online polls conducted from Aug. 31 to Sept. 6. The margin of error amounted to 1 percentage point.

The poll results come as the U.S. has counted more than 6.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 189,226 related fatalities since the first case was identified in the country in January, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Unemployment in April surged to 14.7 percent — the highest rate since the Great Depression. Since then, it has fallen to 8.4 percent in August, which is still higher than pre-pandemic numbers, as reopenings occurred.

In recent months, state governments have loosened coronavirus restrictions, and a sense of normal has returned in parts of the U.S. with the resumption of some sports and schools, some virtually and some in-person.

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India reached 4.2 million coronavirus cases over the weekend, putting it second only to the U.S. for total cases.

The nation recorded 90,802 new cases in the past 24 hours, The Associated Press reported. That brought the nation’s total number of cases past that of Brazil, which previously had the second-highest caseload. The U.S. still has the most cases, with more than 6.2 million.

The Indian Health Ministry also reported 1,016 additional deaths on Monday. With a total of 71,642 deaths, India has the third-highest death toll.

Despite the increases, the world’s second most-populous country has continued steadily unwinding its lockdown measures to avoid a further economic downturn. The Delhi Metro resumed operations after a five-month shutdown Monday, only allowing asymptomatic, masked passengers aboard.

Security enforced social distancing while frisking passengers at stations, using metal detectors attached to rods, the AP reported. Commuters were required to sanitize their hands before entering.

In New Delhi, bars are set to reopen Wednesday. The country saw its economy shrink more rapidly than any other major nation’s during the pandemic, nearly 24 percent in the first quarter.

“While lives are important, livelihoods are equally important,” Rajesh Bhushan, the nation’s top health minister, said in a news briefing last week.

The majority of the cases are from a handful of Indian states, including Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and the most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. However, several other states where rates were on the decline are also seeing increases.

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New Delhi, for example, implemented aggressive screening protocols that seemed to mitigate the spread. However, as reopening has progressed, cases and fatalities have surged, the AP reported. Experts are concerned the reopening of the metro will only exacerbate the increase.

The country has relied heavily on rapid antigen tests, which deliver results in minutes but are also less precise and prone to false negatives.

Welcome to Thursday’s Overnight Health Care.

Anthony FauciAnthony FauciOvernight Health Care: White House denies Trump has embraced ‘herd immunity’ strategy on COVID-19 | Penn State doctor: About a third of tested athletes with COVID-19 had heart inflammation | Fauci says Midwestern states should be on alert this Labor Day Scott Atlas is a needed voice of wisdom and reason on the Coronavirus Taskforce Fauci says Midwestern states should be on alert this Labor Day MORE vouched for the independence of vaccine trials and potential authorization process, and also had a warning for the Midwest. The White House again denied that President TrumpDonald John TrumpNetanyahu privately condoned US arms sale plan with UAE: report Trump denies report he called U.S. service members buried in France ‘losers’, ‘suckers’ Jim Carrey pens op-ed comparing Trump to Michael Corleone in ‘The Godfather’ MORE believes in a strategy of herd immunity, and Penn State doctors found a heart inflammation in football players with COVID.

We’ll start at the White House:

White House denies Trump has embraced ‘herd immunity’ strategy to COVID-19

The White House on Thursday again denied the administration has ever considered a policy of “herd immunity” for COVID-19 infections.

“The herd immunity so-called theory was something made up in the fanciful minds of the media. That was never something that was ever considered here at the White House,” press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters during a briefing.

McEnany was responding to reports that new White House pandemic adviser Scott Atlas, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution who is not an epidemiologist or infectious diseases expert, had advocated for the Trump administration to lift all restrictions aimed at stopping infections from spreading.

Check the tape: White House officials have spent the week denying The Washington Post’s report that Atlas has been pushing herd immunity — and that President Trump has been listening.

Trump seemingly referred to herd immunity during an interview with Fox News on Monday.

“Once you get to a certain number, you know — we use the word herd, right?” Trump told Laura IngrahamLaura Anne IngrahamOvernight Health Care: White House denies Trump has embraced ‘herd immunity’ strategy on COVID-19 | Penn State doctor: About a third of tested athletes with COVID-19 had heart inflammation | Fauci says Midwestern states should be on alert this Labor Day White House denies Trump has embraced ‘herd immunity’ strategy to COVID-19 Trump reiterates call for drug test before debates, claims Biden ‘is on some kind of an enhancement’ MORE. “Once you get to a certain number, it’s going to go away.”

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Penn State doctor: About a third of tested athletes with COVID-19 had heart inflammation

Some unsettling news from the Big 10, though the full implications are not yet clear.

About a third of student athletes in the Big Ten Conference with the coronavirus who were given cardiac MRI’s had heart inflammation known as myocarditis, according to a Penn State doctor, raising concerns about potentially dangerous complications from the virus even among young athletes.

“What we have seen when people have been studied, with cardiac MRI scans, symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID infections, is a level of inflammation in cardiac muscle that just is alarming,” Sebastianelli said. “And we don’t know why it happens, we don’t know who it’s happening in, but some of the testing that has occurred across the Big Ten has revealed roughly 30 percent of the athletes reveal this inflammation.”

Caveats: Sebastianelli said it is not clear to him or cardiologists who have been consulted exactly how concerning this finding is, and he suggested some cardiologists do not think it is a major problem.

But the findings mark a concerning unknown that illustrates that there are potential complications from the coronavirus that are not fully understood.

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Fauci says Midwestern states should be on alert this Labor Day

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The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, said Midwestern states in particular should be vigilant during the upcoming Labor Day holiday.

“There are several states that are at risk for surging, namely North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview with Bloomberg published Thursday.

Fauci has previously warned that past holiday weekends led to spikes in cases as people gather and let down their guard.

Cases rose dramatically following the holiday weekends of Memorial Day and July Fourth, and officials do not want a repeat. Memorial Day marked the beginning of when many states decided to reopen, despite not having contained the spread of the coronavirus. Cases peaked shortly after the July Fourth holiday.

The Midwest region was spared from the initial wave of infection that decimated the Northeast, and then again missed the spikes that hit the Sun Belt.

But while case numbers in the hot spots in Florida, Texas, Arizona and California have started to fall, coronavirus cases in the Midwest are rising. Since Aug. 23, six Midwest states saw single-day records for new cases, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

It’s unclear what specifically is behind the rise in cases, but some of the largest outbreaks have been tied to students returning to colleges.

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More from Fauci:

Fauci says he ‘would not hesitate for a moment’ to take coronavirus vaccine

Amid growing concerns that the White House will force the Food and Drug Administration to authorize a vaccine for distribution before one is actually safe, Fauci attempted to give the process a vote of confidence.

“I mean I will look at the data and I would assume and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be the case that a vaccine would not be approved for the American public unless it was indeed both safe and effective. And I keep emphasizing both safe and effective. If that’s the case, Jim, I would not hesitate for a moment to take the vaccine myself and recommend it for my family,” he told CNN anchor Jim Sciutto on Thursday.

Fauci, a high-profile member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, said a possible vaccine for the coronavirus could be approved as soon as November or December, but said it is “unlikely, not impossible” that one could come out in October.

Fauci dismissed concerns that the FDA was being pressured to roll out a vaccine too quickly, saying trials are being independently conducted and the agency has been clear it will make its determinations solely based on available data.

“I mean the FDA has been very explicit that they are going to make a decision based on the data as it comes in. These trials have these independent data and safety monitoring boards that intermittently look at the data,” he said. “So I think that we can have some confidence and have faith in what the FDA is saying. They’re saying very explicitly that they’re going to be making the decision based on the scientific data. And we hope that that’s going to be the case.”

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Justice Dept. stokes fears of political probe of nursing home COVID rules

The Justice Department is coming under fire for what critics see as a politically motivated investigation into coronavirus deaths in state-run nursing homes.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is weighing whether to investigate if four Democratic-led states violated the civil rights of nursing home residents by requiring that homes not turn away other residents for readmission who had COVID-19.

The four states had issued rules to ensure that nursing home residents with COVID-19 who were not sick enough to have to stay in hospitals were readmitted to their homes.

Nursing home advocates and former DOJ officials have slammed the investigation as a nakedly partisan attack on Democratic governors.

What’s going on: The DOJ said it was considering an investigation under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, a 40-year-old federal statute meant to protect Americans in government-run institutions such as jails, prisons, mental health facilities and state-owned nursing homes. The agency sent letters to four Democrats, Govs. Andrew CuomoAndrew CuomoScarborough calls on Cuomo to walk back statement he made about Trump: ‘Out of bounds’ EPA chief, pushing for second Trump term, outlines vision for agency Overnight Health Care: White House denies Trump has embraced ‘herd immunity’ strategy on COVID-19 | Penn State doctor: About a third of tested athletes with COVID-19 had heart inflammation | Fauci says Midwestern states should be on alert this Labor Day MORE of New York, Phil Murphy of New Jersey, Tom WolfTom WolfTrump skewers Biden, suggests again supporters vote twice in Pennsylvania Overnight Health Care: White House denies Trump has embraced ‘herd immunity’ strategy on COVID-19 | Penn State doctor: About a third of tested athletes with COVID-19 had heart inflammation | Fauci says Midwestern states should be on alert this Labor Day Justice Dept. probe of state nursing home COVID-19 rules draws criticism MORE of Pennsylvania and Gretchen WhitmerGretchen WhitmerOvernight Health Care: White House denies Trump has embraced ‘herd immunity’ strategy on COVID-19 | Penn State doctor: About a third of tested athletes with COVID-19 had heart inflammation | Fauci says Midwestern states should be on alert this Labor Day Justice Dept. probe of state nursing home COVID-19 rules draws criticism Why governors shouldn’t have unchecked emergency powers MORE of Michigan.

Notably, DOJ said it was “evaluating whether to initiate investigations,” meaning that it had not actually launched a probe.

However, just 6 percent of all nursing homes in the country are publicly run, raising questions about the scope of any potential investigation.

The timing of the announcement, which came in the middle of the Republican National Convention and just over two months before Election Day, also raised concerns that the DOJ was being weaponized for political purposes.

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Mexico, US have had most front-line worker deaths from COVID-19

Mexico and the United States account for nearly a third of all health care workers who have died from COVID-19, according to a new report by Amnesty International.

Mexico alone has registered 1,320 health worker deaths during the pandemic, about a fifth of the worldwide total. U.S. deaths among front-line workers have hit 1,077.

The two North American countries were followed by the United Kingdom with 649 health worker deaths, Brazil with 634, and Russia with 631, the Amnesty report said.

“For over seven thousand people to die while trying to save others is a crisis on a staggering scale. Every health worker has the right to be safe at work, and it is a scandal that so many are paying the ultimate price,” said Steve Cockburn, head of economic and social justice at Amnesty International, in a statement.

Read more here.

What we’re reading

Iceland has very good news about coronavirus immunity (Bloomberg)

GOP senators urge the FDA to ban the abortion pill (HuffPost)

Dozens of U.S. hospitals poised to defy FDA’s directive on COVID plasma (Kaiser Health News)

State by state

University of South Carolina records 1,026 COVID cases (NBC News)

Ron DeSantisRon DeSantisOvernight Health Care: White House denies Trump has embraced ‘herd immunity’ strategy on COVID-19 | Penn State doctor: About a third of tested athletes with COVID-19 had heart inflammation | Fauci says Midwestern states should be on alert this Labor Day The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Markey defeats Kennedy; Trump lauds America’s enforcers in Wisconsin Florida lifting ban on nursing home visits MORE wanted the Bucs to allow fans for home opener (Tampa Bay Times)

Despite mass testing, University of Illinois sees coronavirus cases rise (NPR)

Governor Kim Reynolds doesn’t rule out raising the drinking age as COVID-19 cases surge among young people (KWWL)

Op-eds in The Hill

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European Commission reshuffle — as it happened

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