The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has replaced its COVID-19 verification guidelines. Now, says the CDC, other people without symptoms “don’t necessarily want a checkup,” even if they’ve been exposed to COVID-19.
In Hawaii, its most populous island is returning to orders to remain at home in its fight against COVID-19, while Massachusetts learns of the unexpected history of the virus’s arrival through new genetic data.
Meanwhile, new studies that have not yet been reviewed by peers follow “mass circulation occasions” that can help states make a decision about which occasions or activities are safe for the existing pandemic.
Also on Tuesday, Los Angeles County, the county with the number of infections in the United States, reported fewer than 1,000 cases for the first time since early June.
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? Figures today: The United States has more than 5.7 million infections and 178,000 deaths. Worldwide, there have been more than 820,000 deaths and 23.9 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
? What We Read: University Administrators in the country welcome students to campus with strict masking rules and online course offerings. But as schools consider canceling fall semesters in person, academics take the issues into their own hands if their campus is forced to close.
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Two patients in Europe were re-infected with COVID-19, further emphasizing the need for a vaccine rather than dependence on collective immunity.
The two cases, one in the Netherlands and in Belgium, were reported through public broadcasters and turned out to be other strains of the virus, Reuters reported. The Dutchwoman, Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans told broadcasters, had a weakened immune system.
“The presenting of a reinfection does not make me nervous,” Koopmans said, through Reuters. “We have to see if that happens often.”
The news comes a few days after researchers at the University of Hong Kong announced that a 33-year-old man had been reinfected with another coVID-19 strain more than 4 months after his initial infection.
After a week of in-person teaching, the University of Alabama has amassed 531 cases, next fall semester “in grave danger,” according to Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox.
“As mayor, my first duty is the health, protection and well-being of this network and everyone who lives here, studies or works here.”
In order to curb business in the region, Maddox ordered the closure of the bars, either independent or in restaurants, which took effect on Monday. The university also limits student activities on campus to cope with campus hot spots.
– Gary Cosby Jr., The News of Tuscaloosa
New genetic knowledge is helping to tell how COVID-19 came to Massachusetts, exploded at a hotel’s convention center, made its way to a nursing home, hit a homeless shelter and helped spread the virus around the world.
Although some parts of the story have already been told and others remain elusive, genetic knowledge of many COVID-19 infections in the Boston domain in March and April fills some gaps.
The new studies also follow several “massive events” that can help officials determine which activities are safe and which are dangerous, said Dr. Jacob Lemieux, who helped lead the study, which was published online Tuesday and has not yet been peer-reviewed.
One of the occasions of “super-transmission” took place last February at a convention of the biotechnology company Biogen, which specializes in the remedy of neurological diseases.
– Karen Weintraub
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has replaced its COVID-19 verification guidelines. Now, says the CDC, other people without symptoms “don’t necessarily want a checkup,” even if they’ve been exposed to the coronavirus.
Some fitness experts say replacement can deter others from getting tested. “It turns out that these new rules actively discourage other people from testing, even if they have a known exposure,” Angela Rasmussen, a researcher at Columbia Public Health in New York, told NBC News. “We want more evidence, not less.”
The CDC also replaced its quarantine board on Friday. He says those returning from an outdoor vacation in the United States or their state no longer want to be quarantined for 14 days.
After the Food and Drug Administration submitted knowledge to justify its approval of blood plasma to treat COVID-19, some scientists are concerned that the company will bend to the need to pass a coronavirus vaccine before it is fully tested.
On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that the FDA had issued an emergency use authorization for blood plasma. The president, the secretary of health and human services and the head of the FDA said the remedy had reduced the number of deaths among COVID-19 patients by 35%.
This is not the case and scientists promptly questioned the FDA’s claims about the data.
“You saw the FDA being bullied by the president of the United States to approve anything it didn’t need to pass before, because he was looking for it,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Children’s Hospital’s Vaccine Education Center. in Philadelphia, in an online interview Monday with the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
– Elizabeth Weise
Hawaii’s most populous island is returning to an order to remain at home as government paintings to conduct 70,000 COVID-19 tests in two weeks amid a build-up of cases. Oahu, where Honolulu is found, has recorded positive three-digit instances in recent weeks, an alarming uptick after Hawaii experienced the lowest infection rates in the country, in line with the capita at the start of the pandemic.
With the federal government, Oahu officials will conduct massive checks across the island to control another 5,000 people a day for two weeks, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced Tuesday.
Tests will be loose and no symptoms, fitness insurance or the advice of a doctor will be required, Honolulu fire chief Manuel Neves said.
From Thursday, Oahu will be under a home stay order with gyms and restaurants that will be closed. The religious would possibly continue. So-called must-have businesses, such as grocery stores, banks and day care centers, can remain open. Most schools offer online education.
The county of the country with the number of COVID-19 infections is experiencing a decrease in the cases shown. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health showed 989 new infections on Tuesday, marking the first time it reports fewer than 1,000 cases a day since early June.
The number of instances showed daily from mid to July last year around 3,200, authorities said. However, Los Angeles County remains on the coronavirus watch list in California.
“Last week, we discussed that progress is emerging in achieving the state’s goals of getting off the watch list, and we are grateful for the sacrifices that have delayed the spread,” county director of public health Barbara Ferrer said in a statement.
“Because of the classes we learned from our instance explosion in July, I will have to ask us to continue making significant adjustments to our movements if we want to keep network transmission rates low,” Ferrer said.
California has the number of COVID-19 cases in any state with 673095 infections, according to the state Department of Public Health.
Montana suspends inmate transfers due to COVID-19 outbreaks
Montana said Tuesday that they had suspended the move of state inmates from three county jails due to COVID-19 outbreaks that inflamed more than 90 inmates and staff.
At least 34 inmates at the Yellowstone County Detention Center in Billings and 53 inmates out of two at the Cascade County Detention Center in Great Falls tested positive for coronavirus in recent days.
Suspensions will remain until prisons see “significant relief in active virus cases,” said State Department of Corrections spokeswoman Carolyn Bright.
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