China is super-COVID-SAFE!! one case daily! Students & Teachers NO NEED TO WEAR MASKS @ CAMPUS out-door & PE Lessions!

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西安一小学开“透气课” 让学生摘掉口罩呼吸

2020年05月07日 19:37　来源：中国新闻网 参与互动

图为陕西师范大学实验小学开设的“透气课”。　党田野　摄

中新网西安5月7日电 (党田野)“‘透气课’是我比较喜欢的一门课，因为可以在室外摘掉口罩，自由呼吸新鲜空气。”陕西师范大学实验小学五年级学生陈嘉舜告诉记者，他希望疫情能早些结束，同学们不必再戴着口罩上课。
随着国内疫情形势向好，西安各小学部分年级正式开学复课。学生在室内上课时仍需戴着口罩，这让不少孩子感到呼吸“不畅”。近日，陕西师范大学实验小学在确保学生安全的前提下，根据学生需求开设了“透气课”，让孩子们每天都能在室外透透气。

图为学生在““透气课”上阅读书籍。　党田野 摄
记者在陕西师范大学实验小学操场一角看到，在老师的带领下，学生们以班级为单位来到树荫下席地而坐，在微风中摘掉口罩自由呼吸。在“透气课”上，孩子们可以阅读课内外书籍、玩游戏，甚至可以选择发呆来放松自己。
“平常戴口罩特别闷，有时候大量出汗会导致口罩粘到皮肤上，特别的难受。”陕西师范大学实验小学学生贺馨谊称，学校开设的“透气课”特别贴心，她平时喜欢看一些名著，这几天利用在室外的空余时间已将《西游记》看了大半。
据介绍，陕西师范大学实验小学共有52个教学班，学生2500余人。此次返校复课的为四至六年级，共有1111名学生参与了“透气课”。疫情防控期间，有160余名教职员工投入到学校的安全复课工作中。同时，学校还邀请家长委员会协助接送学生，“家校联手”共同守护好每一位孩子的安全。

图为陕西师范大学实验小学开设的“透气课”。　党田野 摄
记者了解到，在开设“透气课”前，学校进行了科学研判和实地推演，以确保师生安全。目前学校每天上午、下午都会上“透气课”，每节课时长在30分钟左右。在保证安全距离的情况下，让孩子们亲近自然、顺畅呼吸，是学校开设“透气课”初衷。
“我们的‘透气课’是将日常的碎片化时间整合起来，让孩子们走到户外，在老师的引导下进行娱乐、学习。”陕西师范大学实验小学校长罗坤称，孩子们可以在校园里面的树荫下、花园里自由地呼吸，相信他们的心情一定是愉悦的。
罗坤称，开设“透气课”是学校的一次尝试，目的是减少疫情给学生带来的种种压力，同时也能够为其学业打下一个良好的基础。希望疫情早点过去，让每一个孩子都能摘下口罩，自由的呼吸。(完)
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Xi'an No. 1 Elementary School opened a "breathable class" to let students take off their masks to breathe


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Xi'an No.1 Elementary School opened a "breathable class" for students to take off their masks to breathe


The picture shows the "breathable class" set up by the Experimental Primary School of Shaanxi Normal University. Party Fields



China News Service, Xi'an, May 7th (Dang Tianye) "The" breathable class "is a class I prefer, because I can take off my mask outdoors and breathe fresh air freely." Chen Jiashun, fifth grader of Shaanxi Normal University Experimental Primary School Tell the reporter that he hopes that the epidemic will end soon, and students will no longer have to wear masks to go to class.

As the domestic epidemic situation improves, some grades of primary schools in Xi'an officially start classes and resume classes. Students still need to wear masks when taking classes indoors, which makes many children feel "breathing". Recently, under the premise of ensuring the safety of students, the Experimental Primary School of Shaanxi Normal University has set up a "breathable class" according to the needs of students, so that children can be ventilated outdoors every day.
The picture shows students reading books in the "" Ventilation Class ". Dang Tianye Photo
The picture shows students reading books in the "" Ventilation Class ". Dang Tianye Photo

The reporter saw in the corner of the Experimental Primary School Playground of Shaanxi Normal University that under the leadership of the teacher, the students came to sit on the ground under the shade of the class and took off their masks in the breeze to breathe freely. In the "breathable class", children can read books in and out of class, play games, and even choose to daze to relax.

"Usually wearing a mask is particularly boring, sometimes a lot of sweating will cause the mask to stick to the skin, which is particularly uncomfortable." He Xinyi, a student of the Experimental Primary School of Shaanxi Normal University, said that the school's "breathable class" is particularly considerate. In the past few days, I have spent most of my free time outdoors reading Journey to the West.

According to reports, Shaanxi Normal University Experimental Primary School has 52 classes with more than 2,500 students. The students returned to school for the fourth to sixth grades. A total of 1111 students participated in the "breathable class". During the epidemic prevention and control period, more than 160 faculty and staff were involved in the safe resumption of school work. At the same time, the school also invites the parent committee to assist in picking up and dropping off students, and "home and school join hands" to protect the safety of every child.
The picture shows the "breathable class" set up by the Experimental Primary School of Shaanxi Normal University. Party field photo
The picture shows the "breathable class" set up by the Experimental Primary School of Shaanxi Normal University. Party field photo

The reporter learned that before setting up the "breathable course", the school conducted scientific research and field deductions to ensure the safety of teachers and students. At present, the school will take "breathable lessons" every morning and afternoon, and the duration of each lesson is about 30 minutes. Under the condition of ensuring a safe distance, let the children get close to nature and breathe smoothly, which is the original intention of the school to set up the "ventilation class".

"Our 'breathable class' is to integrate daily fragmented time, let the children go outdoors, entertain and learn under the guidance of the teacher." Luo Kun, principal of the Experimental Primary School of Shaanxi Normal University, said that children can be on campus Under the shade of the trees and breathing freely in the garden, I believe they must be in a happy mood.

Luo Kun said that setting up a "breathable class" was an attempt by the school to reduce the pressure on students caused by the epidemic and at the same time lay a good foundation for their studies. I hope the epidemic will pass sooner, so that every child can take off the mask and breathe freely. (Finish)
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COVID-19 hits White House staff close to the president and his inner circle

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The White House is in peril as it has not enforced strict social distancing guidelines for staffers after several staff members close to the president and his inner circle have got infected with COVID-19.
But it is rapidly increasing testing for those around President Donald Trump including his daughter Ivanka Trump, whose personal assistant has tested positive for coronavirus.
The assistant was not symptomatic and has reportedly not been around the first daughter in several weeks and has been working remotely, according to CNN. Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner made coronavirus testing a precaution and both tested negative on Friday.
Earlier this week, one of President Donald Trump's Oval Office valets tested positive for the virus. And on Friday, it surfaced that Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary and the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller, also tested positive.
The 73-year-old Trump is at higher risk for getting a more serious form of the new coronavirus and his job involves lots of meetings and air travel. The valet who assists the president and first family with a variety of personal tasks, including serving food and beverage to the president.
The WHO has stated that people over 60 is the most fragile group to the coronavirus and the most serious cases seem to be for seniors 80 years and older.

Vice President Mike Pence visits patients in a hospital without wearing a mask, Rochester, Minnesota, U.S., April 28, 2020. /Reuters

COVID-19 has killed more than 75,000 people in the United States, with around 1.28 million confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Trump and Pence have both drawn sharp backlash for not following social protocols to wear masks when going out in public. The 61-year-old Pence made headlines last week for not wearing a mask while visiting patients at the hospital though the hospital had "informed" Pence the policy before his visit.
Trump, meanwhile, has never worn a mask in public and the Associated Press reported that the president doesn't want to wear a mask because he's afraid he'll look ridiculous and that it will harm his reelection chances.
The U.S. is currently the global epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, but Trump and several Republican lawmakers are already moving to loosen social distancing guidelines and reopen businesses.
More than a dozen states have nevertheless begun to relax coronavirus restrictions and reopen businesses, including West Virginia, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Indiana as protests against stay-at-home orders and other lockdowns erupted across the country.
Restaurants and retail in Florida, where nearly 40,000 people are infected with the coronavirus, are allowed to reopen at 25 percent capacity everywhere except for those in the heavily populated Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. And its stay-at-home order expired last week.
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Two White House Coronavirus Cases Raise Question of if Anyone Is Really Safe
If it is so hard to maintain a healthy environment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, then how can businesses across the country establish a safe space for their workers?

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WASHINGTON — In his eagerness to reopen the country, President Trump faces the challenge of convincing Americans that it would be safe to go back to the workplace. But the past few days have demonstrated that even his own workplace may not be safe from the coronavirus.
Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary tested positive for the virus on Friday, forcing a delay in the departure of Air Force Two while a half-dozen other members of his staff were taken off the plane for further testing. That came only a day after word that one of the president’s own military valets had been infected.
All of which raised an obvious question: If it is so hard to maintain a healthy environment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the most famous office address in the world, where staff members are tested regularly, some as often as every day, then how can businesses across the country without anywhere near as much access to the same resources establish a safe space for their workers?
“The virus is in the White House, any way you look at it,” said Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary of homeland security under President Barack Obama. “Whether it’s contained or not, we will know soon enough. But the fact that a place — secured, with access to the best means to mitigate harm — is not able to stop the virus has the potential of undermining confidence in any capacity to defeat it.”

The presence of the virus in both the West Wing and the residential floors of the White House brings home the dilemma facing the nation at a pivotal point in the pandemic. With more than 77,000 deaths in the United States so far and cases rising by the day, states and employers are wrestling with when and how to reopen without putting workers, customers and clients at risk.
But the federal government has not detailed the best way to minimize risk, much less avoid more deaths. Even as it has experienced positive tests of its own, the White House has so far blocked the release of a set of recommendations developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deeming them overly prescriptive. As a result, businesses have been left to make their best guesses with lives on the line.

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Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence are now tested daily, and both tested negative after the latest infections were discovered. Staff members in proximity to them are also tested daily, as are guests. Congressional Republicans who visited Mr. Trump on Friday were spaced out around the table.

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President Trump participating in a wreath-laying ceremony on Friday at the World War II Memorial.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times
Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, told reporters that “we’ve put in some additional protocols over the last 48 hours” to reduce the risk and expressed confidence that the president could be protected. “This is probably the safest place that you can come to,” he said.

But neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Pence regularly wears a mask, nor do most of their aides. The president hosted a wreath-laying ceremony at the World War II Memorial in Washington on Friday to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany by inviting several veterans aged 95 and over, even though they were in the most vulnerable age group.
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The latest positive test further rattled a White House already on edge after the president’s military valet came down with the virus. Katie Miller, the vice president’s press secretary and a top spokeswoman for the White House coronavirus efforts, had tested negative on Thursday but then tested positive on Friday morning.
The result forced Mr. Pence’s scheduled flight to Des Moines to be delayed for more than an hour, even though she was not traveling with him, so that six other aides who had been in contact with her could be escorted from the plane at Joint Base Andrews before its departure. All six later tested negative but were sent home out of caution, officials said. Ms. Miller is married to Stephen Miller, the president’s senior adviser, and he too was tested again on Friday and the results came back negative.
White House officials initially asked reporters not to identify Ms. Miller as the aide who tested positive, but Mr. Trump blew the secret when he identified her publicly during his meeting with the congressional Republicans as “Katie” and “the press person” for Mr. Pence.
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“She tested very good for a long period of time. And then all of a sudden today, she tested positive,” Mr. Trump said. “She hasn’t come into contact with me. She spends some time with the vice president.”
But Ms. Miller has been in the vicinity of the president in recent days, including during his Fox News appearance on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial and again on Thursday in the Rose Garden. Her husband is in meetings with the president even more frequently as the architect of his crackdown on immigration, although he and other aides have sat farther away than they have in the past.

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Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary, tested positive for the coronavirus.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
Multiple presidential aides are now tested daily, as are about 10 members of Mr. Pence’s staff, an official said. But tests are conducted less frequently on other White House officials who work next door in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and have regular contact with West Wing aides even if not the president himself.

The Secret Service has 11 active cases of the coronavirus and 23 employees who have recovered, current and former government officials said Friday, but it was unclear whether any were agents or served in the White House. The service, which has 150 offices across the country responsible for protecting a variety of dignitaries and investigating financial crimes, also has 60 others undergoing self-quarantine, Yahoo News reported. While tested regularly, agents in the president’s detail have not been wearing masks, and new faces have shown up in recent days.
The White House infections further inflamed the national debate about testing even as many states begin lifting restrictions on businesses and social gatherings. Mr. Trump has said testing is adequate for reopening even as public health experts said it must be much more robust to have a better map of the outbreak. The Harvard Global Health Institute estimated this week that the United States needs to do at least 900,000 tests a day by May 15, but is only doing about 250,000 now.
“One of the most important ways to protect our workers is by conducting more tests,” said Lorraine M. Martin, the president of the National Safety Council, a nonprofit advocacy group. “Increased access to Covid-19 testing for our work force will help flatten the curve by removing people with coronavirus from the workplace and better ensure the safety and health of employees who are maintaining operations during this pandemic.”
But on Friday, Mr. Trump cast doubt on testing as a panacea, saying Ms. Miller’s case at the White House demonstrated the limits of its utility.
“This is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great,” the president said. “The tests are perfect, but something can happen between a test where it’s good and then something happens and all of a sudden” it is not.
Some experts said he has a point. “People need to understand the limitations of testing,” said Nellie Brown, the director of workplace health and safety programs at the Worker Institute at Cornell University, who is advising businesses on how to reopen safely. “When you take a test you’re basically getting a slice in time. You know what is happening at that moment, but you don’t know what may happen even soon after that.”

Even so, she said, the president should be setting an example for the rest of the country, like by wearing a mask. “You need to model the behavior you want others to exhibit because you’re so powerful an example,” she said. “It’s so important for others to see we’re all doing this because we’re all in this together.”
No one in the White House seems to expect Mr. Trump to wear a mask anytime soon. His aides said it was not necessary because a mask is worn to protect others in case its wearer is infected, and the president is tested regularly. But privately they acknowledge that he has expressed concern that it would make him look bad.
Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, disputed the idea that the new cases in the White House reflected continuing risk to Americans who are being asked to return to work, with less testing and monitoring than the White House receives.
“The guidelines that our experts have put forward to keep this building safe — which means contact tracing, all of the recommended guidelines we have for businesses that have essential workers — we’re now putting in place here in the White House,” she said at a briefing.
Asked about the veterans in their 90s who joined Mr. Trump for the World War II anniversary, she said the men “made the choice to come here because they’ve chosen to put their nation first.” Asked why the president, who briefly addressed them from a distance of several feet, had not worn a mask, Ms. McEnany said, “This president will make the decision as to whether to wear a mask or not.”
Calling into “Fox & Friends” earlier in the day, Mr. Trump provided additional details about the White House valet who tested positive for the coronavirus. He said that the aide, who is in the Navy, had not worked for several days before Tuesday, when he was “in the room” with the president for an unspecified amount of time before discovering that he was carrying the virus. “I don’t think any contact,” Mr. Trump added of his interactions with the aide.
After some prompting, the president cheekily offered to send a test kit from the White House to his likely Democratic opponent in the general election, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. That, he said, would allow Mr. Biden to “get out of the basement so he can speak,” adding that “every time he talks, it’s, like, a good thing.”
Maggie Haberman contributed reporting from New York, and Michael D. Shear and Zolan Kanno-Youngs from Washington.
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White House defends coronavirus safety measures as Pence aide falls ill

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump looks at an assembly line during a tour of Honeywell's facility manufacturing protective face masks for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo

08 May 2020 11:00PM (Updated: 09 May 2020 07:35AM)

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WASHINGTON: US Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary, the wife of one of President Donald Trump's senior advisors, has tested positive for the coronavirus, raising alarm about the virus' potential spread within the White House's inner most circle.
The diagnosis of Katie Miller, who is married to White House immigration adviser Stephen Miller, was revealed by Trump in a meeting with Republican lawmakers on Friday (May 8), a day after news that Trump's personal valet had tested positive for the virus.


"Katie, she tested very good for a long period of time and then all of a sudden today she tested positive," Trump said, noting he himself had not been in contact with her but that she had spent time with the vice president. "I understand Mike has been tested ... and he tested negative."
Despite Trump's comments, the two cases in quick succession heightened fears of contagion for the president and vice president, who are leading the US response to the pandemic, and who have both resumed robust travel and business schedules even as the US death toll from the virus has topped 75,000.

Katie Miller, press secretary for US ‪Vice President Mike Pence‬, helps prepare for the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, US, on Mar 10, 2020.. (Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)


White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday sought to defend administration efforts to protect Trump and Pence, pointing to new measures taken by the White House including contact tracing and putting in place all guidelines recommended for essential workers.


"We've taken every single precaution to protect the president," McEnany insisted to reporters at a White House news briefing. She also noted regular cleanings and adherence to distancing guidelines of six feet between individuals that are not always followed at crowded White House events.
"We've done every single thing that Dr (Deborah) Birx and Dr (Anthony) Fauci have asked us to do," she added, referring to highly respected physicians on the White House coronavirus task force.
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Earlier on Friday, Trump was asked in a Fox News interview whether those who serve him food would now cover their faces. "They've already started," he said on the network's "Fox and Friends" morning program.
The White House has also instituted daily, as opposed to weekly, coronavirus tests of Trump and Pence. Both men tested negative for the virus and were feeling well after the valet, a military service member who works as a White House assistant - came down with the virus.
Trump told Fox News he has not yet been tested for antibodies to the coronavirus but probably would be soon. Such a test could confirm previous exposure to the virus.
Trump and Pence maintain busy public schedules. The vice president, who has led the coronavirus task force, flew to Iowa on Friday to meet with faith leaders about holding "responsible" gatherings and to discuss the food supply at Midwestern grocery chain Hy-Vee Inc's headquarters.
According to a senior administration official cited in the media pool report, news of the positive test for Pence's aide prompted staff to deplane Air Force 2 on Friday morning and briefly delayed the takeoff.
"Out of abundance of caution we went back and looked into all the person's contacts most recently," the official said, adding that six individuals who may have been in contact with the infected aide were removed from the flight and later tested negative. Two of the individuals were members of Pence's press office, according to a pool report.
Trump on Friday attended a public event at the World War Two memorial with elderly veterans where neither Trump, first lady Melania Trump, the veterans nor military officials seen at the ceremony wore masks.
Trump later met face-to-face with Republican members of Congress at the White House where no face masks appeared to be worn.
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Protective facial coverings have been a hard sell for Trump and Pence despite a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control that people wear masks or alternatives.
Both Trump and Pence have drawn fire for not donning masks, with critics arguing they are setting a bad example for Americans.
Trump himself has said he would not wear a mask and has not publicly worn one to any of his events amid the pandemic, but told reporters this week he tried some on behind the scenes during his visit to a Honeywell face mask factory in Arizona.
The virus, which first surfaced in Wuhan, China late last year, has infected more than a million Americans and driven millions into unemployment due to lockdown measures to curb a rise in infections.
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They probably renamed the disease to flu and life goes on.

That is DOTARD LAND not China.