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It's day 121 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.

Today's main story.

There's no doubt that classrooms from kindergarten to college will look different for students and teachers this fall.

But even as education systems struggle to reinvent themselves for a COVID world,

the issue of reopening schools has become a political football.

But first, here's what happened in virus news today.

The pandemic is killing record numbers of people in the American Sunbelt, overrunning hospitals and exhausting supplies.

But even as some leaders fall ill themselves, they have failed to take the stiff measures needed to contain the disease.

On Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis offered no new restrictions as Florida joined Texas and California in reporting record deaths.

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey promised more testing and limited restaurant capacity after the state announced the most cases in six days. In Mississippi, where many lawmakers

had resisted wearing masks in the Capitol, 26 of them tested positive, including the leaders

of both legislative chambers. New U.S.

virus cases topped 60,000 a day for the first time Thursday, with the national total above

3.1 million. Gilead Sciences said its remdesivir virus treatment could reduce the risk of death for patients with COVID-19

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