California has taken a melancholy step by claiming that it has more than 600,000 cases of coronavirus, the highest in the country.
The state reported a total of 603396 cases of coronavirus on Friday, according to the Los Angeles Times follow-up knowledge. The state also reported more than 11,000 deaths. However, there is evidence that the rate of transmission has stopped increasing. California’s average seven-day positive check rate remained solid at 6.7%, according to COVID’s Exit Strategy.
While California leads the country in coronavirus cases, the number of new daily cases is lower than in Florida, Texas, and other Sun Belt states. Texas showed 7,018 new instances on Friday, bringing the state’s total to 520,593. Florida showed 6,218 new instances on Friday, bringing the state’s total to 557,397, only California. Average positive check rates in Florida and Texas remain the highest at 17.7% and 16.1%, respectively.
With a total of 11,022 reported deaths, California now ranks third in the country, New York and New Jersey, with the highest number of deaths. Florida, meanwhile, surpassed 9,000 on Friday. The State Department of Health showed 228 new deaths, bringing the death toll statewide to 9,141.
Approximately 5.3 million COVID-19s have been shown in the United States, with more than 168,000 deaths.
New York, the former epicenter of coronavirus, is making more progress than other states in drastically reducing the number of daily cases and expanding testing. The average number of tests conducted in New York City over seven days ranged from 65,000 to 75,000 over more than two weeks, a average of less than 1,000 new weekly instances, COVID Tracking Project reported Friday.
“While states see genuine problems, we’re doing great,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.
Meanwhile, Texas and Florida have noticed a decrease in check rates in recent weeks. The number of checks conducted in Florida since August 1 is consistently less than 50,000. In Texas, the number of checks ranged from 87,000 on August 3 to 13,000 six days later.
U.S. government researchers will create a strain of coronavirus that can be used in imaginable trials of vaccines called human provocation experiments, a questionable type of test in which healthy volunteers are vaccinated and then deliberately inflamed with the virus, Reuters reported Friday.
The delight of the production of the virus for human trials would not update large-scale phase 3 vaccine trials such as those that are taking place lately. Researchers usually immunize others in trials with the candidate vaccine or placebo and wait to see who develops the symptoms of the disease in life. In this case, the researchers would intentionally infect healthy volunteers with a laboratory-produced coVID-19 strain.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently published updated self-quarantine rules that apply even to others who have already tested positive for COVID-19, indicating that immunity after positive control can only last 3 months. This is the agency’s first popularity that has caused other people to enjoy immunity during a time.
“People who tested positive for COVID-19 want to get quarantined or re-test for up to 3 months, as long as they no longer expand symptoms,” the CDC reported.
It is not known what the CDC relies on in this advice. Only two studies tested the duration of immunity for others who recovered from coronavirus infection.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s leading infectious disease specialist, told National Geographic that “there is no reason” not to vote for the user as long as other people wear a mask and practice social estrangement.
“I mean, obviously, if you’re a user who’s physically engaged or otherwise, you don’t need to take the risk,” Fauci said. Then there is no explanation for why we vote in user or otherwise.
President Trump announced Friday that the federal government will marry drug provider McKesson to distribute a coronavirus vaccine once it becomes available, the Washington Post reported. However, the federal government has not indicated that it has a plan to allocate the doses of the vaccine and who will get it first.
Retail sales increased by 1.2 percent in July, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday, a record but a slowdown in the most powerful recovery seen in recent months. The fall in sales from July to the last months came when several states experienced a build-up of new coronavirus infections, forcing several states to shut down much of their economies to curb the spread of the disease.
Friday’s findings did not meet economists’ expectations of a 2% increase. Sales had increased recently, especially from month to month, as stores began to plummet in purchases at the start of the pandemic.