The pandemic onslaught is taking its toll on health care workers and other front line responders, the World Health Organization warns.
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? Figures today: The death toll in the United States reaches 183,000. Worldwide, more than 843,000 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.
? What We Read: Families have moved away from airlines, hotels, cruise ships and other crowded festive features this summer. Instead, they opted for more non-public transport options, adding boats, masses of boats.
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Images of crowded beaches, lakes and bars have been circulating on social and classic media for much of the summer, causing contempt for those involved in the COVID-19 epidemic. But experts also say that the developing instances of instance groups resulting from small meetings are also worrying. Social purposes of various sizes among parents, friends and colleagues are under scrutiny as public fitness experts sound the alarm before Labor Day weekend.
“People don’t think about it the same way as the Trump rally in Tulsa, an organization of other people on the beach or in bars, but those small occasions carry a lot,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco. “It’s just invisible.”
Six months after the United States declared a state of emergency for the coronavirus pandemic, millions of remote Americans are out of breath, exhausted by taking an endless series of protection and fitness resolutions for themselves and their loved ones. Researchers call it phenomenon resolution fatigue. As you get tired, you may be susceptible to new resolutions, stick to the prestige quo or base a resolution on a single criterion, experts say.
“It’s a low-will state that affects the effort invested to make possible options,” said Roy Baumeister, a psychology professor at Florida State University. “This leads to less effort to make other possible options, so possible options have been avoided or made in a very superficial way.”
– Grace Hauck
India is rapidly adapting to a pandemic hot spot, recording a record 78,761 new cases of coronavirus in the more than 24 hours. It is the worst day-long peak in the world, the Ministry of Health noted that the country had also set a record with more than 10 million tests. India has now reported 3.5 million cases, more than all other countries except the United States and Brazil. The boom in India comes amid government efforts to ease national restrictions. On Sunday, the Ministry of Health also reported 948 deaths in more than 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 63,498.
The University of Virginia has announced plans to offer face-to-face courses for the fall semester, starting with the apartment opening on Thursday. UVA officials in Charlottesville said that, first, delayed the start of in-person undergraduate courses for two weeks to assess the spread of COVID-19 and see how other schools have behaved since opening.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that UVA has reported a total of 67 positive COVID cases since August 17 between academics, the university and the parent company. Of these, 23 were academics who reported a positive check on Thursday, the highest overall for the school in one day. Twenty-five academics, professors or members were hospitalized.
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On Friday night, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration legalized the use of remdesivir in all patients hospitalized by COVID-19; no published study supports such widespread use. Approval allows doctors to prescribe the antiviral earlier. But that comes less than a week after the firm approved the use of convalescent plasma without published clinical backing, fueling considerations that the firm is giving in to political pressure.
“This seems to be a style of approval of science, knowledge, evidence,” said Dr. Eric Topol, vice president of studies at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California and a national expert on the use of knowledge in medical studies.
In May, the FDA legalized the use of remdesivir in hospitalized adults who require oxygen, but not those with enough health problems to require ventilation. A government study published that month in the New England Journal of Medicine found that these patients recovered faster than those who did not, there was no evidence that it was storing lives.
Earlier this month, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study of hospitalized adults with less serious illnesses, and it appeared that five days of re remdesivir treatment were greater than popular care, although “the difference is of dubious clinical significance.” Find out more here.
– Karen Weintraub
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