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This year has been a roller coaster,  so many life changing events have happened, but the biggest one i do have to say its Covid19, it is now world wide, so many innocent people around the world have lost their lives due to covid19, that isn't the only thing covid has done, it created a huge impact in many lives,  such as people losing their jobs, or students having trouble with their education.
Another life changing event that happened this year are the wild fires,  the wildfires put both humans and animals in danger, many homes were lost a few people did die, and left the air quality poor, poor enough for the government was telling us to stay inside because of the air quality.
This year had so many life changing events, events that left big changes in peoples life's.

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I think the most important news of 2020 has to be the wildfires that happen a couple weeks ago cause of how poor it made the air quality. the second most important news thats been going on for majority of 2020 is the corona virus because of how many people have been infected and lost thier lifes to covid-19.

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IAN PADILLA                                                       I think a couple important events that happened this year has to be Covid-19 and the Wildfires. The air qualiry here a feew days ago was 400%. Everyone knows about Covid-19 and everything that has been held back cause of it, such as school and work.  

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IAN PADILLA                                                       I think a couple important events that happened this year has to be Covid-19 and the Wildfires. The air qualiry here a feew days ago was 400%. Everyone knows about Covid-19 and everything that has been held back cause of it, such as school and work.  

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I believe the most important news event of the year is COVID-19 because it has affected many people such as peoples jobs and learning environments.

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I think that the most important news event that is happening right now is the pandemic. This has affected a lot of people around the world.

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i think the most important  news event was covid cause it has affected a lot of things right now in life like people not being able to work and them not having money also it affects sports and schools another big one was black lives matter

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One of the most important new event that has happened in this year so far is the rise of human trafficking that is going on all over the U.S. right now.

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Daniella Duran                             I believe the important news event that is going on around us now is the protesting for many things. People have not been educated in a way many are. I chose this because there is days on days of protesting when there should be just equality some people are just not educated. 

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Daniella Duran                             I believe the important news event that is going on around us now is the protesting for many things. People have not been educated in a way many are. I chose this because there is days on days of protesting when there should be just equality some people are just not educated. 

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Huge peaceful rallies have taken place across the US against racism and police brutality on the 12th day of protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.

Tens of thousands of people marched in Washington DC, in the city's largest protest so far. Security forces blocked any approach to the White House.

Crowds also demonstrated in New York, Chicago, LA and San Francisco.

Meanwhile, people paid their respects to Mr Floyd in North Carolina, where he was born, before a memorial service.

Mr Floyd, an unarmed black man, died in police custody in Minneapolis on 25 May. Video showed a white police officer kneeling on his neck for almost nine minutes while he is pinned to the floor.

Officer Derek Chauvin has been dismissed and charged with murder. Three other officers who were at the scene have also been sacked and charged with aiding and abetting.

Large anti-racism protests also took place in a number of other countries. In the UK, Parliament Square in central London was filled with people despite calls by the government to avoid mass gatherings for fear of spreading the coronavirus.

In Australia, there were major protests in the cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany and Spain.

What happened at the protests?

The largest appeared to be in Washington DC, where protesters - many of them carrying placards saying "Black Lives Matter" - gathered peacefully near the Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial and outside Lafayette Park, next to the White House, at the newly renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza.

Mayor Muriel Bowser welcomed people, saying the crowds had sent a message to President Donald Trump. On Monday, federal law enforcement officers fired tear gas to clear a protest in the area ahead of a visit to a church by the president.

"If he can take over Washington DC, he can come for any state, and none of us will be safe," she said. "Our soldiers should not be treated that way, they should not be asked to move on American citizens."

Ms Bowser has requested the withdrawal of all federal law enforcement officers and National Guard troops from the city, saying their presence is "unnecessary".

One 35-year-old protester, Eric Wood, told the BBC: "I'm here because I really couldn't afford not to be here. Racism has long been a part of the US."

Crystal Ballinger, 46, said she felt hopeful about the movement this time. "I feel something different about this protest... I'm hopeful that the message of solidarity and equality is getting out."

Many of the city curfews imposed after initial unrest have now been lifted. With restrictions eased, arrests have plummeted.

However, late on Saturday police in Portland, Oregon, declared an "unlawful assembly and civil disturbance" after projectiles were thrown at officers near the Justice Center. Fifty arrests had been made by the early hours.

Seattle police also said projectiles had been thrown and several officers were hurt by "improvised explosives".

Earlier in New York, crowds crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, while in San Francisco demonstrators briefly shut the Golden Gate Bridge. In Chicago, about 30,000 people rallied in Union Park, and a Hollywood intersection was blocked by protesters in Los Angeles.

And in Richmond, Virginia, a statue of a Confederate general was pulled down from its pedestal.

There were also protests in Atlanta and Philadelphia, where crowds chanted, "We need justice, we need love".

Meanwhile, the top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer resigned after publishing a headline that equated property damage to the deaths of black people, which prompted public condemnation from many of the newspaper's staff.

Stan Wischnowski apologised for what he described as a "horribly wrong" decision to use the headline "Buildings Matter Too" on an article about civil unrest in the US.

In Buffalo, two policemen were charged with second-degree assault after they were filmed pushing a 75-year old protester to the ground, seriously injuring him.

In his overnight tweets, President Trump thanked the police, Secret Service and National Guard for doing a "fantastic job" and said that the Washington crowd was "much smaller than anticipated.

'We're just getting started'

By Helier Cheung, BBC News, Washington DC

The crowd was diverse - with people of different ethnicities, and families with children - and there was an upbeat, if determined, mood. Music was being played and food, water and hand sanitiser handed out, as protesters chanted "George Floyd", "Breonna Taylor" - who was shot by police in March - and "No justice, no peace".

The protest's movements appeared quite spontaneous. At one point, demonstrators did an impromptu march, walking down Pennsylvania Avenue before looping back towards the White House. At another, the entire street of demonstrators dropped on one knee at the same time, in a mark of solidarity.

Sisters Sarina Lecroy, 20, and Grace, 16, said they were protesting for the first time, and that they believed the extent of the public outrage and the nationwide nature of these protests could lead to police reforms. "We're just getting started this time, but it [the movement] does feel much more collective than in the past," said Sarina.

Many placards also reflected the growing debate about how white people should help the cause. One placard held by a demonstrator read: "I may never understand, but I will stand with you."

What do protesters want?

On social media and on the streets, those in support of the movement have called on elected officials to address longstanding systemic racism and inequalities, from police brutality to mass incarceration to healthcare.

Black Americans are jailed at five times the rate of white Americans and sentenced for drug offences six times more, often despite equal rates of drug use, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Black mothers die in childbirth at over twice the rate of white mothers, according to national health data. Decades of government-sanctioned segregation have also seen inequalities across school systems, housing and other public resources.

A 2019 Pew Research Center study found more than eight in 10 black adults say the legacy of slavery still affects black Americans' position today. Half say it is unlikely America will ever see true racial equality.

More on George Floyd's death

What happened at Floyd's memorial service?

Hundreds of people paid their respects to Mr Floyd in Raeford, North Carolina, laying flowers at a public viewing of his body in a church near where he was born.

A private memorial service was then held for members of his family.

Governor Roy Cooper ordered that flags be flown at half-mast from sunrise to sunset on Saturday in Mr Floyd's honour.

Mr Floyd's funeral is due to take place on Tuesday in Houston, where he lived before moving to Minneapolis.

US protests timeline

A CNN reporter&comma; Omar Jimenez&comma; is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media.

Derek Chauvin charged with murder

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin&comma; 44&comma; is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence.

As the US saw another weekend of protests&comma; with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC&comma; anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world.

In Australia&comma; there were major protests in Sydney&comma; Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France&comma; Germany&comma; Spain and the UK. In Bristol&comma; protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour.

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Major US cities see peaceful rallies on the 12th day of protests sparked by George Floyd's death.

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The most important news in COVID. Covid has affected everything around the world including sports and anything that has to do with social interaction.

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I think the most important news this year is the pandemic because it's affecting everybody's education and  most importantly jobs. Also a lot of people are getting sick because of covid-19. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/covid-19-coronavirus.html

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I think the biggest problem in the world right now is that a lot of people are not really educated on what is really going on with the pandemic, and how it has turned into something that has been taken advantage of, and used as a political thing.

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The most important news event so far would have to be Covid. COVID is a world wide virus that has affected so many people, states and even economys! It has spread so fast that even some hospitals were not able to handle all the cases at once, restaurants and schools have even shut down as well. That's how you know it's became something serious.

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Officials with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization have sounded an alarm about COVID-19, a virus that comes with a fever, cough, and shortness of breath.

Normally these seemingly benign symptoms don't cause an entire nation to shut down but it has. So here's why COVID-19 has become such a big deal.

Health officials have voiced concerns that the spread of the virus could mean larger numbers of people will need more medical care and public health services. But they also know the United States just doesn't have the capacity to deal with that kind of volume of patient care.

Read: 5 things to know about COVID-19

Hospitals not equipped to handle COVID-19 cases

According to a story by ProPublica, somewhere between 20 and 60 percent of adults will contract the virus and about a fifth of the people who get COVID-19 will need to be hospitalized.

In most scenarios, "vast communities in America are not prepared to take care of the COVID-19 patients showing up," said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, who led a team of researchers that developed the analysis.

The article highlighted that the best-case scenario would be that the cases of coronavirus spread out over 18 months, but that would mean American hospital beds would be about 95 percent full. This, however, assumes that area hospitals don't free up beds that are already occupied or add more beds.

According to the article:

"But in most other scenarios where the virus spreads faster or infects more people, hospitals would quickly fill their available beds with patients, and they would be forced to either expand capacity, limit elective surgeries and other non-necessary treatments, or make life-and-death decisions about care, similar to what has happened in the worst-hit regions of Italy, where some doctors have received guidance to only treat patients ' deemed worthy of intensive care.'"

So it's not as much about a high percentage of people getting the disease and dying as it is having a large number of people getting sick at the same time, needing resources that aren't available and then dying.

The sick and the sickest

Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said in a teleconference on Thursday that risk can be viewed in two ways: getting sick and getting "very sick or dying from illness with the virus."

The virus spreads easily. But people don't have an immunity against the virus because it's new. With that said, most people will experience mild symptoms but some will have severe symptoms. Without social distancing, however, the number of people getting sick could spike.

"Based on this, it's fair to say that as the trajectory of the outbreak continues, many people in the United States will at some point in time either this year or next, be exposed to this virus," Messonnier said. "And there's a good chance many will become sick. But again, based on what we know about this virus, we do not expect most people to develop serious illness,"

Of the 70,000 COVID-19 cases reported in China, about 80 percent of those people experienced mild symptoms. The rest developed serious illnesses. The disease affects older adults disproportionately than younger people. Those who are age 60 or older have an increased risk of getting the disease. The population that gets hit the hardest, people older than 80-years-old and those with certain illnesses.

"People with serious underlying health conditions also are more likely to develop serious outcomes including death," Messonnier said. "The people who are at greatest risk are those older and who also have serious long-term health conditions like diabetes, heart disease, or lung disease."

The number of people getting tested in Wisconsin is growing. As of Thursday, over 2,300 people have been tested for COVID-19 and 155 tested postive, a 46 percent increase in one day.

Testing, testing, testing

So it's important to get tested if you think you have the virus so that those people that have been exposed can take steps to isolate themselves. But the cumulative testing capacity for the 78 state and local public health labs across the United States is 75,000. With that said, a number of test kits will become commercially available and that number is expected to much larger.

"Our expectation within the next couple weeks is more and more commercial entities become - come onboard is the majority of the available testing will actually be from the commercial sector," Messonnier said.

Richard A. Bright, director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) said Americans need to have access to a rapid diagnostic test.

"The sooner clinicians, patients, and public health officials know whether someone is infected with the novel coronavirus, the sooner they can take action to mitigate the spread of COVID-19," Bright said. "Rapid diagnostic tests are critical in this public health response. We are working with the private sector at an urgent pace to make these tests available on as many diagnostic platforms as we can in the coming weeks."

As hospitals and clinics ramp up in Wisconsin, state officials noted capacity issues with lab testing and a shortage in the supply of ingredients for the tests.

Healthcare officials were notified Tuesday that testing should be done in the clinic setting or outpatient setting, then sent out for testing to two testing sites: the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and the Milwaukee Health Department Laboratory. However, a memo from Ryan Westergaard, chief medical officer, and state epidemiologist for communicable diseases noted capacity issues.

The memo noted that while both labs have "significantly increased their capacity" the number of specimens received this week "far exceeded their daily capacity" as the testing site received 1,800 samples since Monday.

The capacity of processing tests at both labs: 550.

"With the increased number of cases of COVID-19 reported nationally and the growing likelihood of widespread community transmission in all areas of the country, the number of people requiring testing for COVID-19 is increasing significantly," Westergaard said. "Priority should, therefore, be given to the testing of specimens from patients for whom a timely diagnosis is most urgent."

Mitigating the spread of COVID-19

One of the ways to combat that is for people to use telehealth visits. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expanded coverage for telehealth visits Tuesday.

"The Trump Administration is taking swift and bold action to give patients greater access to care through telehealth during the COVID-19 outbreak," said Administrator Seema Verma. "These changes allow seniors to communicate with their doctors without having to travel to a healthcare facility so that they can limit the risk of exposure and the spread of this virus. Clinicians on the frontlines will now have greater flexibility to safely treat our beneficiaries."

Racine County offers guidance

Those experiencing symptoms consistent with COVID-19 are requested to call their health care
provider for guidance. Racine County health departments do not have tests or testing capacity.

Residents in Racine County should

DHS Emergency Order #5 prohibits all public and private gatherings of more than 10 people with few exceptions.

Practice social distancing!

Stay home when you are sick.

Wash your hands often.

Cover your coughs and sneezes.

Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily.

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I believe the biggest and most important news to be COVID-19 and quarantine. I believe this is the most important news of the year because it has affected everyone around the globe. Social distancing, masks, staying inside are all the result of COVID-19. The very reason why we aren't in school right now because of quarantine.

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there has been so many other things worst then covid but this year from our generation its been a big deal for us because they never had to actually do online school and for us this is a big deal since we are not used to it but 2020 has been a big deal with so many things from covid to saving lives to lives matter but we will get through it

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It is hard to say what is the biggest news story over the last few months, I can agree that Covid is of course a huge matter that has changed many lives. Also the black lives matter movement is a very big deal, and has changed the world in countless ways. Another thing that I think is very important in todays news is the SaveOurChildren act, to end human trafficing.

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Covid. This has to be the most important news I've heard. It"s just harder to do the things you used to be able to do and be able enjoy, since things are constantly getting re-opened then closed. The virus has made it to where students can't attend school, which is unfortunate.