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A nurse takes a sample from an army officer for a COVID-19 test at a Public Health Ministry post where drivers wait their turn in a line of cars in Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

A nurse takes a sample from an army officer for a COVID-19 test at a Public Health Ministry post where drivers wait their turn in a line of cars in Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Aug. 11, 2020 02:55 PM EDT
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers a question during a roundtable meeting with transportation industry leaders at the Hilton Orlando-Bonnet Creek Resort in Orlando, Fla., Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. DeSantis addressed coronavirus and state transportation construction concerns. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers a question during a roundtable meeting with transportation industry leaders at the Hilton Orlando-Bonnet Creek Resort in Orlando, Fla., Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. DeSantis addressed coronavirus and state transportation construction concerns. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Aug. 07, 2020 03:34 PM EDT
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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., talks to reporters before leaving Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 27, 2020. The nation's fiercest fiscal conservatives are largely embracing the massive economic rescue package moving through Congress. In many cases, those conservatives who support the $2 trillion coronavirus spending bill are the very same who raged against the $800 billion economic stimulus package backed by the Obama administration after the 2008 financial crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., talks to reporters before leaving Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 27, 2020. The nation's fiercest fiscal conservatives are largely embracing the massive economic rescue package moving through Congress. In many cases, those conservatives who support the $2 trillion coronavirus spending bill are the very same who raged against the $800 billion economic stimulus package backed by the Obama administration after the 2008 financial crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Mar. 28, 2020 12:00 AM EDT
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FILE - In this July 31, 2020, file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks during a roundtable discussion with President Donald Trump on the coronavirus outbreak and storm preparedness at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Fla. When Azar arrives in Taiwan he’ll find a society that has managed to contain COVID-19 by doing things the U.S. has fumbled, such as having a national plan and citizens willing to wear masks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FILE - In this July 31, 2020, file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks during a roundtable discussion with President Donald Trump on the coronavirus outbreak and storm preparedness at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Fla. When Azar arrives in Taiwan he’ll find a society that has managed to contain COVID-19 by doing things the U.S. has fumbled, such as having a national plan and citizens willing to wear masks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Aug. 07, 2020 04:46 PM EDT
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Empty outdoor seating for a restaurant and closed hotels are shown, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Miami Beach, Florida's famed Ocean Drive on South Beach. Florida added 276 fatalities to its coronavirus death toll on Tuesday, a new state record. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Empty outdoor seating for a restaurant and closed hotels are shown, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Miami Beach, Florida's famed Ocean Drive on South Beach. Florida added 276 fatalities to its coronavirus death toll on Tuesday, a new state record. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Aug. 11, 2020 03:15 PM EDT
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FILE - In this June 4, 2019, file photo,  Minnesota Vikings chief operating officer Kevin Warren talks to reporters after being named Big Ten Conference Commissioner during a news conference in Rosemont, Ill. After the Power Five conference commissioners met Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, to discuss mounting concern about whether a college football season can be played in a pandemic, players took to social media to urge leaders to let them play.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

FILE - In this June 4, 2019, file photo, Minnesota Vikings chief operating officer Kevin Warren talks to reporters after being named Big Ten Conference Commissioner during a news conference in Rosemont, Ill. After the Power Five conference commissioners met Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, to discuss mounting concern about whether a college football season can be played in a pandemic, players took to social media to urge leaders to let them play.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Aug. 10, 2020 09:00 AM EDT
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announces the launch of a workforce training program for workers impacted by COVID-19, during his coronavirus press briefing, in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. The ReSkill Mississippi Initiative is designed to help the economic issues brought on by the pandemic, by providing Mississippians who lost their jobs the opportunity to go through skills training at Mississippi community colleges. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announces the launch of a workforce training program for workers impacted by COVID-19, during his coronavirus press briefing, in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. The ReSkill Mississippi Initiative is designed to help the economic issues brought on by the pandemic, by providing Mississippians who lost their jobs the opportunity to go through skills training at Mississippi community colleges. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Aug. 05, 2020 05:37 PM EDT
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Wearing a mask to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, Martha Gonzalez Reyes, 76, sells roses outside Metro Hidalgo in central Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. After four months at home, Gonzalez returned to selling on August 1, but said business hasn't fully rebounded. "People have less money to spend, and they don't want to go out and get infected," said Gonzalez. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Wearing a mask to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, Martha Gonzalez Reyes, 76, sells roses outside Metro Hidalgo in central Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. After four months at home, Gonzalez returned to selling on August 1, but said business hasn't fully rebounded. "People have less money to spend, and they don't want to go out and get infected," said Gonzalez. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Aug. 11, 2020 10:49 AM EDT
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A children walks in the courtyard of the Vaucanson school, in Paris, Thursday, May 14, 2020. The government has allowed parents to keep children at home amid fears prompted by the COVID-19, as France is one of the hardest-hit countries in the world. Authorities say 86% of preschools and primary schools are reopening this week. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

A children walks in the courtyard of the Vaucanson school, in Paris, Thursday, May 14, 2020. The government has allowed parents to keep children at home amid fears prompted by the COVID-19, as France is one of the hardest-hit countries in the world. Authorities say 86% of preschools and primary schools are reopening this week. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

May. 14, 2020 03:07 AM EDT
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Pedestrians and cars pass in front of the Palace of Fine Arts amidst the "new normal" of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in central Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Pedestrians and cars pass in front of the Palace of Fine Arts amidst the "new normal" of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in central Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Aug. 10, 2020 10:09 PM EDT
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Kids are led to Blue Ridge Elementary School for the first day of classes in Evans, Ga., Monday morning, Aug. 3, 2020. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)

Kids are led to Blue Ridge Elementary School for the first day of classes in Evans, Ga., Monday morning, Aug. 3, 2020. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)

Aug. 08, 2020 03:08 PM EDT
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Women wearing face masks to help protect against the coronavirus walks by an advertising board displaying an American flag and Statue of Liberty on a street in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. China's biggest recent outbreak of coronavirus has grown slightly. Hundreds people have developed COVID-19 in the far northwestern region of Xinjiang, with more than dozens of new cases reported Thursday in its capital and largest city, Urumqi. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Women wearing face masks to help protect against the coronavirus walks by an advertising board displaying an American flag and Statue of Liberty on a street in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. China's biggest recent outbreak of coronavirus has grown slightly. Hundreds people have developed COVID-19 in the far northwestern region of Xinjiang, with more than dozens of new cases reported Thursday in its capital and largest city, Urumqi. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Aug. 06, 2020 04:01 AM EDT
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Detained demonstrators sit in the bed pf a police pick-up truck during a protest against the postponement of the upcoming presidential election in El Alto, Bolivia, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Citing the ongoing new coronavirus pandemic, the nation's highest electoral authority delayed presidential elections from Sept. 6 to Oct. 18, the third time the vote has been delayed. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Detained demonstrators sit in the bed pf a police pick-up truck during a protest against the postponement of the upcoming presidential election in El Alto, Bolivia, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Citing the ongoing new coronavirus pandemic, the nation's highest electoral authority delayed presidential elections from Sept. 6 to Oct. 18, the third time the vote has been delayed. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Aug. 10, 2020 08:25 PM EDT
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Paul Adamus, 7, climbs the stairs of a bus before the fist day of school on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, in Dallas, Ga. Adamus is among tens of thousands of students in Georgia and across the nation who were set to resume in-person school Monday for the first time since March. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Paul Adamus, 7, climbs the stairs of a bus before the fist day of school on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, in Dallas, Ga. Adamus is among tens of thousands of students in Georgia and across the nation who were set to resume in-person school Monday for the first time since March. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Aug. 03, 2020 09:53 AM EDT
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Shanti Pandey, University of Southern Mississippi biology PhD student, and Ashley Thompson, Lead Medical Tech at the USM Accelerator Lab, place COVID-19 samples into a QIAsymphony system for the first part of the Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction molecular testing done at the USM Accelerator Lab in Hattiesburg, Miss., Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. (Cam Bonelli/Hattiesburg American via AP)

Shanti Pandey, University of Southern Mississippi biology PhD student, and Ashley Thompson, Lead Medical Tech at the USM Accelerator Lab, place COVID-19 samples into a QIAsymphony system for the first part of the Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction molecular testing done at the USM Accelerator Lab in Hattiesburg, Miss., Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. (Cam Bonelli/Hattiesburg American via AP)

Aug. 06, 2020 09:15 PM EDT
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People wearing face masks to protect against the coronavirus ride an escalator past a sign of a nail salon at a shopping and office complex in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. Mainland China and semi-autonomous Hong Kong saw declines in their recent outbreaks Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

People wearing face masks to protect against the coronavirus ride an escalator past a sign of a nail salon at a shopping and office complex in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. Mainland China and semi-autonomous Hong Kong saw declines in their recent outbreaks Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Aug. 11, 2020 01:59 AM EDT
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A medical staff checks the temperature of a patient during lockdown due to the continuing spread of the coronavirus in Melbourne, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. Victoria state, Australia's coronavirus hot spot, announced on Monday that businesses will be closed and scaled down in a bid to curb the spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)

A medical staff checks the temperature of a patient during lockdown due to the continuing spread of the coronavirus in Melbourne, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. Victoria state, Australia's coronavirus hot spot, announced on Monday that businesses will be closed and scaled down in a bid to curb the spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)

Aug. 05, 2020 11:39 PM EDT
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Kevin Kregel, interim provost and executive vice president, wears a face mask while speaking during a news conference amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, at the Iowa Memorial Union on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City, Iowa. (Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP)

Kevin Kregel, interim provost and executive vice president, wears a face mask while speaking during a news conference amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, at the Iowa Memorial Union on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City, Iowa. (Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP)

Aug. 10, 2020 02:55 PM EDT
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Fifth grade math teacher Jymeka Johnson logs into a Zoom session at Poplar Springs Elementary School in Meridian, Miss., Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Schools are reopening this week under new guidelines after being closed in March as the COVID-19 pandemic spread. Meridian Public School District students are starting the year using online learning, with plans to return to campus in September. (Bill Graham/The Meridian Star via AP)

Fifth grade math teacher Jymeka Johnson logs into a Zoom session at Poplar Springs Elementary School in Meridian, Miss., Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Schools are reopening this week under new guidelines after being closed in March as the COVID-19 pandemic spread. Meridian Public School District students are starting the year using online learning, with plans to return to campus in September. (Bill Graham/The Meridian Star via AP)

Aug. 10, 2020 02:03 PM EDT
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FILE - In this July 9, 2020 file photo, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt speaks during a news conference in Oklahoma City. Stitt, the first governor in the nation to test positive for the coronavirus, says he has donated plasma to help other virus patients recover. Stitt said in a statement Tuesday, Aug. 11th that he made the donation recently at an Oklahoma Blood Institute center in Enid. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

FILE - In this July 9, 2020 file photo, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt speaks during a news conference in Oklahoma City. Stitt, the first governor in the nation to test positive for the coronavirus, says he has donated plasma to help other virus patients recover. Stitt said in a statement Tuesday, Aug. 11th that he made the donation recently at an Oklahoma Blood Institute center in Enid. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Aug. 11, 2020 11:42 AM EDT
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A clown joins a protest outside the Fine Arts Palace to demand financial aid amid the economic slowdown brought by partial lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. The National Artistic Resistance (RAN) organization is asking the government for artists to be included in rescue budgets and given social support. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A clown joins a protest outside the Fine Arts Palace to demand financial aid amid the economic slowdown brought by partial lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. The National Artistic Resistance (RAN) organization is asking the government for artists to be included in rescue budgets and given social support. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Aug. 11, 2020 12:39 PM EDT
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