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The controversial 23-miletraffic loop could be enforced inMyrtle Beach if the city can’thandle the thousands of touristsanticipated to pile in for Memo-rial Day weekend.While Atlantic Beach Bike

Fest, also known as Black BikeWeek, has been postponed toLabor Day weekend due to the

coronavirus pandemic, officialsare expecting large crowds andheavily congested roadwaysover the holiday, a scene similarto last weekend when the cityreopened to tourism but lackedthe appropriate enforcement.This weekend, however, they

want to be prepared.Despite the annual bike event

being postponed, the MyrtleBeach Police Department hasdiscussed implementing trafficplans to ensure the safety ofboth residents and tourists. Thatplan includes erecting ped-

estrian barricades along thesidewalks to keep people off thestreet and having traffic flowone way on Ocean Boulevard.Traffic will be directed to

travel southbound on OceanBoulevard, with the northboundlane reserved for emergencytraffic, City Spokesperson MarkKruea said.“We will use the one way

traffic lanes on Ocean Boule-

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Groups cross Ocean Boulevard on May 16 in Myrtle Beach. With hotels, beaches, shopping and restaurants reopening along the Grand Strand,tourist season kicked off this weekend despite coronavirus concerns.

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Safety patterns include pedestrianbarricades, some one-way traffic

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A prototype vaccine hasprotected monkeys from thecoronavirus, researchers re-ported Wednesday, a findingthat offers new hope for ef-fective human vaccines.Scientists are already test-

ing coronavirus vaccines inpeople, but the initial trialsare designed to determinesafety, not how well a vaccineworks. The research pub-lished Wednesday offersinsight into what a vaccinemust do to be effective andhow to measure that.“To me, this is convincing

that a vaccine is possible,”said Dr. Nelson Michael,director of the Center forInfectious Diseases Researchat Walter Reed Army Instituteof Research.Scientists are engaged in a

worldwide scramble to createa vaccine against the newcoronavirus. Over a hundredresearch projects have beenlaunched. Early safety trialsin humans have been startedor completed in nine of them.Next to come are larger

trials to determine whetherthese candidate vaccines arenot just safe, but effective.But those results won’t arrivefor months.In the meantime, Dr. Dan

Barouch, a virologist at BethIsrael Deaconess MedicalCenter in Boston, and hiscolleagues have started aseries of experiments onmonkeys to get a broader lookat how coronaviruses affectmonkeys – and whether vac-cines might fight the patho-gens. Their report was pub-lished in Science.The scientists started by

studying whether the mon-keys become immune to thevirus after getting sick. Theteam infected nine unvacci-nated rhesus macaques withthe new coronavirus.The monkeys developed

symptoms that resembled amoderate case of COVID-19,including inflammation intheir lungs that led to pneu-monia. The monkeys reco-vered after a few days, andBarouch and his colleaguesfound that the animals hadbegun making antibodies tothe coronavirus.

Prototypevaccineprotectsmonkeysfrom virusBY CARL ZIMMERNew York Times

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WASHINGTONPresident Donald Trump on

Wednesday escalated his assaultagainst mail voting, falselyclaiming that Michigan andNevada were engaged in voterfraud and had acted illegally,and threatening to withhold

federal funds to those states ifthey proceed in expanding vote-by-mail efforts.The president inaccurately

accused Michigan of sendingmail ballots to its residents. Infact, the secretary of state inMichigan sent applications formail ballots, as election officialshave done in other states, in-

Trump steps up attackagainst vote-by-mailBY REID J. EPSTEIN, NICKCORASANITI AND ANNIE KARNINew York Times

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President Donald Trump, photographed Tuesday, threatened viaTwitter on Wednesday to withhold federal funds to Michigan andNevada if the states proceed in expanding vote-by-mail efforts.SEE VOTING, 5A