C.D.C. Changes Testing Guidance to Exclude People Without Covid-19 Symptoms, Worrying Experts – The New York Times

The coffins are a better place to scream than at Japanese theme parks, which have encouraged visitors to keep their mouths shut on roller coasters to prevent virus transmission through droplets. (Please scream inside your heart, the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park suggested in June in a video demonstration by two of its executives, who inspired social media users to try the serious face challenge on their own roller coaster rides.)

Kenta Iwana, founder of Kowagarasetai, said he wanted to give people a way to express themselves without holding back.

There are no places to scream, Mr. Iwana, 25, told Agence France-Presse this summer as he introduced another one of his socially distanced productions, a drive-in haunted house. In addition to providing people with an emotional outlet, he said, his company creates job opportunities for performers who normally work at theme parks.

Japan, which has been fighting a resurgence of the virus in recent weeks, reported 740 new cases nationwide on Sunday, including 212 in Tokyo.

Reporting was contributed by Sarah Almukhtar, Gillian R. Brassil, Alexander Burns, Stephen Castle, Choe Sang-Hun, Abdi Latif Dahir, Richard Faussett, Sheri Fink, Michael Gold, Jenny Gross, Javier C. Hernndez, Shawn Hubler, Mike Ives, Annie Karni, Isabella Kwai, David Leonhardt, Apoorva Mandavilli, Jonathan Martin, Tiffany May, Patricia Mazzei, Claire Cain Miller, Heather Murphy, Eshe Nelson, Amelia Nierenberg, Adam Pasick, Elian Peltier, Monika Pronczuk, Dana Rubinstein, Eliza Shapiro, Mitch Smith, Eileen Sullivan, Katie Thomas, Tracey Tully, Katherine J. Wu and Elaine Yu, Carl Zimmer.

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