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| Happy Monday Daily Briefing readers! And happy World Teachers' Day to the educators among you. It's Jane, bringing you today's news. |
| President Donald Trump could be released from the hospital as early as Monday after undergoing treatment for COVID-19 — and after venturing outside last night to wave at supporters, a move critics have slammed as "reckless." The Supreme Court begins its 2020 term — sans the late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. |
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President Trump's doctors say he could go home Monday |
| President Donald Trump, hospitalized with COVID-19, continues to improve and his doctors say he could be discharged as early as Monday , according to a White House physician. Trump's doctor, Navy Commander Sean Conley, said if the president continued to look and feel well, "our hope is that we can plan for a discharge as early as (Monday) to the White House, where he can continue his treatment course." At a news conference Sunday, physicians said the president had begun a course of the steroid dexamethasone on Saturday following a drop in his oxygen levels. Claiming progress in his personal fight against COVID-19, Trump ventured outside in an SUV on Sunday and waved at supporters who gathered at the hospital before then returning to the facility. Critics called the move "reckless" and said Trump endangered the Secret Service members riding in the vehicle with him. Dr. James P. Phillips, an attending physician at Walter Reed, tweeted that everybody in the vehicle with Trump should be quarantined for 14 days. |
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The Supreme Court begins 2020 term |
| The Supreme Court begins its 2020 term Monday. Shorthanded and still mourning the death last month of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the eight remaining justices will carry on their work amid a partisan firestorm over her likely successor, Amy Coney Barrett. At the same time, they will face a flurry of emergency petitions from Democrats and Republicans over the way mail-in ballots are distributed, delivered and counted. Barrett's nomination to the seat held for 27 years by Ginsburg marks a potential turning point for the nation's judicial system. |
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Patriots-Chiefs game rescheduled after positive COVID-19 tests |
| The New England Patriots will face the Kansas City Chiefs, reigning Super Bowl Champions on Monday after their matchup was postponed due to positive COVID-19 tests from both teams . The rescheduling creates a rare double-feature for Monday. The Patriots-Chiefs game, which will be broadcast by CBS, will precede the "Monday Night Football" game between the Atlanta Falcons and Green Bay Packers. ESPN's broadcast of Falcons-Packers has been moved to 8:50 p.m. ET. |
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Dr. Anthony Fauci audiobook released: 'FAUCI' explores doctor's life, science |
| It's hard not to know who Dr. Anthony Fauci is. The 79-year-old director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has extensively helped craft policy surrounding the United States' response to COVID-19. On Monday, America will get a deeper understanding of "America's Doctor" when "FAUCI" is released , an audiobook by New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter on the country's leading disease expert. Specter has been covering global health care and Fauci for more than 30 years, so he knows Tony – the name by which everyone calls Fauci, except President Donald Trump, according to the audiobook – well. The audiobook will focus on Fauci through the years and include bits in Fauci's own voice. |
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And finally: |
| Remember that guy who went viral for riding a skateboard to the soundtrack of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" while swigging on a bottle Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice? Well, he inspired none other than Mick Fleetwood himself to make his very first TikTok video. |
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