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Researchers and scientists are pushing for some restraint as county officials clear the way to reopen more businesses.

Speaker 1: 00:00 Restaurants and bars, hair, salons, gyms, places of worship, and many schools are reopening this week, inviting people back indoors as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. And that’s a really bad decision right now. According to 11 medical and scientific experts at UC San Diego, they sent a letter to public health officials and County supervisors on Monday, urging them to reconsider dr. Robert schooly distinguished professor of medicine at UC San Diego is one of the people who signed the letter and he joins me now welcome to the program. Thank you. We’ll start with a main concern. You and your colleagues have. Why do you want County leaders to hold off on reopening so many businesses and activities right now

Speaker 2: 00:43 We’ve made great progress. Over

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(RTTNews) – Stocks have moved modestly higher over the course of the trading session on Wednesday following the mixed performance seen in the previous session. With the upward move, the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 have reached new record intraday highs.

Currently, the major averages are off their best levels of the day but still in positive territory. The Dow is up 57.03 points or 0.2 percent at 27,835.10, the Nasdaq is up 31.80 points or 0.3 percent at 11,242.64 and the S&P 500 is up 6.32 points or 0.2 percent at 3,396.10.

The strength on Wall Street partly reflects positive sentiment generated by a notable advance by shares of Apple (AAPL).

Apple is currently up by 1.1 percent, with the tech giant becoming the first U.S. company to reach a market cap of $2 trillion.

Retail giant Target (TGT) is also posting a substantial gain on the day after

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