| The US surpasses 6 million cases of Covid-19; rebel groups sign a peace deal in Sudan. Tonight's Sentences was written by Cameron Peters. | | | | | | | More than 183,000 are dead as the US passes 6 million cases | | | | | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images | | - In coronavirus news, the US surpassed the 6 million case mark on Sunday as Covid-19 infections remain high and the country closes in on 200,000 reported deaths from the virus. [New York Times]
- Currently, more than 183,000 Americans have died of the virus — tens of thousands more than the confirmed deaths in the UK, Italy, Mexico, and Canada combined. [Johns Hopkins University]
- Nationally, the pandemic has slowed down since its worst days earlier this summer, but a handful of states are bucking that trend. According to Reuters, four states — Iowa, the Dakotas, and Minnesota — have recently reported all-time high daily case numbers. [Reuters / Lisa Shumaker]
- Going forward, reopening efforts by K-12 schools and colleges could affect the pandemic's trajectory; already, several universities have reported large Covid-19 clusters as students return to campus. [NBC News / Doha Madani]
- According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the number of Covid-19 cases reported in children has increased precipitously since May, far more quickly than in the general public. Between May 21 and August 20, cases in children are up 720 percent. [NYT / Lauren Leatherby and Lisa Waananen Jones]
- Many months into the pandemic, the US response remains mired in denialism and dire policy failures. Many of those failures were on display just last week at the Republican National Convention, which did its best to gaslight Americans on Trump's Covid-19 response. [Vox / German Lopez]
- And a new Trump adviser, Scott Atlas, is reportedly pushing the White House to embrace "herd immunity" as a solution, which could lead to more than 2 million US deaths on the way to the threshold for immunity. [Washington Post / Yasmeen Abutaleb and Josh Dawsey]
- New CDC guidance on testing — suggesting that people without symptoms don't need a test, even after close contact with someone who does have the virus — also has many experts worried about Trump's politicization of public health. [CNBC / Will Feuer]
- According to The Verge's Adi Robertson, that change by the CDC isn't just wrong, it's dangerous. Many states, however — including California, Florida, and Texas — have announced that they will disregard the new plan. [The Verge / Adi Robertson]
| | | A cautious peace in Sudan | | - On Monday, the Sudanese government signed a peace deal with five major rebel factions that will give the groups a voice in Sudan's current power-sharing agreement. [Reuters / Denis Dumo]
- The agreement was signed in South Sudan, which split from the larger Sudan in 2011. Though not every rebel group came to the table, several of the signatories represent Sudan's western region, Darfur, which has been war-torn since a 2003 uprising. [Al Jazeera]
- Sudan's new government, a coalition of civilian and military officials, has been in power since last year, when longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir was ousted by a military coup after 30 years in power. [Bloomberg / Mohammed Alamin and Okech Francis]
- There have been failed peace deals before, but now that al-Bashir, who faces a genocide indictment by the International Criminal Court, is out of power, some are more optimistic that Monday's agreement could last. [NYT / Abdi Latif Dahir]
- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Sudan early last week for a different reason — to push for the country to follow in the footsteps of the UAE and normalize relations with Israel. However, the country's transitional government maintains that it doesn't have that authority. [AP / Samy Magdy]
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