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May 20, 2020 1,500 coronavirus deaths in the United States in the past 24 hours. This is what emerges from the data of John Hopkins University, according to which the total cases are 1.52 million with 91.845 deaths. The latter, however, could reach more than 113,000 - in the middle of next month - according to the projections of the Forecast Hub of the University of Massachusetts.

Trump: "Great Italian studies on hydroxychloroquine"
President Donald Trump defends the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus by claiming studies that question its effectiveness are "fake" and politically motivated "against the administration." The tycoon has announced that it will take one pill per day of the anti-malarial as a preventive anti-Covid treatment, defying the opinion of experts who report dangerous side effects. "There are great studies on hydroxychloroquine from Italy" and other European states, remarked Trump during a conference in the White House. It is an antimalarial drug that "does not hurt", assures the president, used for a long time and that "does not seem to have any impact on me, I feel like before".

I would like to "reopen the connections with the European Union but only if the American President has still said in safety, underlining the progress against the coronavirus pandemic," with the numbers that are falling across the United States. "Trump did not rule out the banned travel to and from Brazil and confirmed the closure of the US borders with Canada until June 21.

Trump signs order to cancel unnecessary rules
Trump has signed an executive order aimed at eliminating all unnecessary regulations to encourage the restart of the economy. I asked all federal agencies - he explained - "to use their authority to intervene, suspend and eliminate all the regulations that do not serve and that undermine the economic recovery".

Media: For Pentagon, pandemic risk up to by 2021
The Pentagon is preparing for the possibility that the coronavirus epidemic may persist until the summer of 2021. It emerges from a document from the US Defense viewed by "Task and Purpose" under which an anti-Covid vaccine is unlikely until summer next year. "We have a long way ahead of us - reads the document - with the real possibility of a resumption of Covid-19. Therefore we must refocus our attention in resuming crucial missions, increasing the level of activity and working on the necessary preparation in case it should there must be an important recovery of Covid-19 during the year ".

First cases in Florida of rare syndrome that affects children
A Miami children's hospital has reported what may be the first cases in Florida of a rare inflammatory syndrome that affects some children with coronavirus. Both patients are in pediatric ICU but show signs of improvement, the Jackson Health System said. Covid-19 is much less common in children than adults, and doctors say that most infected children develop only mild symptoms. But New York State has seen multiple cases of this mysterious syndrome, which affects blood vessels and organs and exhibits symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome.

Texas and Georgia, two churches forced to close for contagion
Two churches in the southern United States, Texas and Georgia, reopened to the public after the lockdown for the coronavirus, have been forced to close due to the contagion of religious leaders and faithful. The Christian Post reports it. In Texas, the diocese of Galveston decided to close the churches after the death of 79 year-old priest Donnell Kirchner, a Covid.