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August 12, 2020

Florida, Georgia Record Record Coronavirus Deaths as U.S. Colleges Delay Fall Sports Season
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Florida and Georgia have reported their highest daily death tolls since
the start of the coronavirus pandemic, as the U.S. recorded nearly 1,300
new deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday. Texas and California reported
near-record rates of infections, and Wisconsin passed the 1,000-death
mark.

The Big Ten and Pac-12 college athletic conferences each voted to
postpone their fall sports seasons, including football games - a
multibillion-dollar industry and major source of revenue to
universities. President Trump lashed out against the moves, telling Fox
Sports Radio in an interview it would be a "tragic mistake" to cancel
football in the fall.

Meanwhile, in southwestern Georgia, a second prisoner at the Stewart
Detention Center, a for-profit immigration jail, has died of COVID-19.
The 70-year-old Costa Rican national, whose name hasn't been released,
is the third asylum seeker to die in ICE custody in the last week alone.


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