The puzzling Kawasaki-like inflammatory illness linked to the coronavirus is now affecting young adults — not just children, according to a report.
Doctors across the country are now reporting patients in their early and mid-20s, the Washington Post reports.
The new illness, recently dubbed multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, has impacted a 25-year-old at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a 20-year-old in San Diego and several patients in their 20s at NYU Langone in the Big Apple, according to the outlet.
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Speaking at the Yom Yerushalayim ceremony on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized the importance of a unified Yerushalayim under Israeli sovereignty for the vision of Israeli-Palestinian peace put forward by President Donald Trump.
“When I visited Washington at the beginning of the year for the presentation of President Trump’s vision for peace, he announced that according to his vision, Yerushalayim will remain the undivided capital of Israel,” Netanyahu said at the ceremony at the Ammunition Hill site marking the 53rd anniversary of the capital’s reunification following the Six-Day War.
“This is important for Yerushalayim. This is important for our people. This is important for the State of Israel,” the leader stressed.
 

Joe Biden tried to walk back racially inflammatory comments where he claimed anyone who would vote for President Trump “ain’t black,” telling African-American business leaders hours after the Friday morning interview that he’d acted like a “wiseguy.” the NY Post reports.
“I should not have been so cavalier. I’ve never, never, ever taken the African-American community for granted,” Biden told members of the U.S. Black Chamber, according to a report by CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe.

The fortunes of US billionaires rose 15 percent in the two months since the coronavirus pandemic hit, a study found, with Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg seeing massive gains.
The more than 600 billionaires in the United States became even richer as tech stocks rose during virus lockdowns, an analysis of data by two think-tanks published Thursday said.
Between March 18 and May 19, their total net worth increased by $434 billion while the coronavirus pandemic caused job losses and economic agony for tens of millions of Americans.

New Jersey is loosening restrictions on the number of people allowed at outdoor gatherings and certain outdoor activities, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Friday morning at his daily coronavirus briefing in Trenton.
Gatherings of up to 25 people will now be allowed outdoors, as well as for outdoor recreational businesses like charter and fishing boats, driving ranges, and outdoor batting cages, under an executive order Murphy said he’s signing. It takes effect immediately. Murphy also announced that public and private recreational campgrounds can immediately reopen under the order.
The governor added that this does not apply to outdoor dining or graduations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledged Thursday that it is combining the results from viral and antibody COVID-19 tests when reporting the country’s testing totals, despite marked differences between the tests.

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