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- ABC News
- May 3, 2020
China hid severity of COVID-19, US says
There are more than 1.1 million diagnosed cases in America.
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Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci will testify before the GOP-led Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on May 12, a committee spokesperson said.
\"Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander looks forward to hearing from Dr. Fauci and other administration officials at the Senate health committee's second hearing back, which will be on Tuesday, May 12,\" the spokesperson said.
The news comes after the White House's efforts to block Fauci from appearing before the Democratic-led House committee next week. The White House did not immediately respond to ABC News for comment.
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The NCAA released guidelines on Friday for how college sports will transition back campuses. Its plan closely follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Trump administration's Opening Up America Again strategy.
Once COVID-19 infection rates decrease for at least two weeks, the NCAA said \"resocialization of sport may be possible.\" In its plan, put together by the COVID-19 Advisory Panel, there are nine \"core principles\" that are a part of three phases for college sports to come back.
\"The core principles outlined below are offered as a premise for resuming practice and competition at the collegiate level,\" the NCAA said in a statement.
Some of the principles include that colleges must have a plan in place for students to come back, that there are adequate personal protective equipment and access to testing, there must be a surveillance program to trace and isolate new cases and more.
Phase one includes limiting gatherings to 10 people or less, keeping common areas like gyms and cafeterias closed and encouraging virtual-only meetings. Phase two includes a limit on gatherings of 50 people or more, but allows for nonessential travel to resume. After other safety benchmarks and coronavirus numbers are met, phase three allows vulnerable student-athlete to resume in-person activities, common areas open and most other restrictions are lifted.
The NCAA guidelines are all subject to federal, state and local regulations.
Since early March, all NCAA sports have been canceled, including the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournament.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said he was prepared to unveil the easing of state restrictions Friday. He said he knows the economy needs to be reopened and that residents of his state are ready to get back to work and see a normal way of life again. However, as he was set to announce those plans Friday during the state's task force briefing, the latest coronavirus data forced him to stop in his tracks.
Mississippi, he said, had just had its largest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases and its largest increase in deaths.
\"Every single day, I have come before you and been transparent. I was transparent when I made decisions that turned out to be right. And I believe I was transparent when I made decisions that turned out to be wrong,\" he said Friday.
\"This thing is not over, we are not out of the woods yet. Things can change quickly. We have to stay flexible,\" Reeves said during Friday's briefing. \"This was a large enough change to make me take a step back… and I have come to the conclusion that I must hold on for now.\"
Reeves said he hopes to announce more reopenings soon, but the timing is not right. Meanwhile, the governor is in a battle with the state legislature over federal COVID-19 stimulus funding.
The legislature voted Friday to prevent Reeves' office from spending federal coronavirus money, saying the executive branch shouldn't be the sole decider on how to spend the CARES money in the state.
Reeves said that decision only delays getting much-needed funds to residents.
\"Best case scenario, weeks from now, they start debating that budget. They over-estimate and we have to send a lot of your money back to the federal government when it goes unused,\" Reeves said in a statement Friday night. \"Worst case scenario, they underestimate and people die because we can't get them what they need.\"
Mississippi has more than 7,200 diagnosed coronavirus cases and at least 281 deaths.
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ABC News' Ben Siegel, Matt Foster, Ahmad Hemingway, Josh Hoyos, Greg Bradbury, Elizabeth Thomas and Scott Withers contributed to this report.
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