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The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, reported 6,046 cases of COVID-19 for the week ending Dec. 3 and coronavirus-related deaths for the week ending Nov. 26.
The counts come with probable and shown cases of coronavirus and deaths.
Approximately 1. 75 million cases of coronavirus have been reported in South Carolina and more than 18,700 people have died from the virus since March 2020, according to state health officials.
According to the DHEC website, “a two-week delay in reporting COVID-19 deaths” recently began. The weekly reports will include the number of deaths that occurred two weeks ago. “
Data shows that COVID-19 cases have increased nearly one hundred percent compared to the same era last week, with hospitalizations up nearly 31%. As of Dec. 3, an average of another 287 people in the state were hospitalized with the coronavirus, adding up to 37 patients treated in intensive care and thirteen patients on ventilators, according to the most recent data.
The omicron BA. 5 subvariant accounted for 95% of known coronavirus strains in South Carolina during the week ending November 19, followed by the BA. 4 subvariant (2. 5%), according to the most recent data available. The lab is sequencing randomly chosen samples as part of national efforts to detect new virus strains, the agency’s online page says.
Nearly 54 percent of South Carolinians eligible for a coronavirus vaccine are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and only about 62 percent have received at least one dose, according to the state’s most recent fitness data.
The stress brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has had physical effects on teens’ brains, causing them to age faster, according to a new study.
The research, conducted through Stanford University, found that isolation, lockdowns, and COVID-19-like stressors were linked to noticeable effects on teens’ developing brains, McClatchy News reported.
The findings were published Dec. 1 in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science.
The brains of the teens that were studied gave the impression of being “several years older” as a result of the pandemic compared to the brains of the teens before the pandemic, according to the report. For the study, researchers evaluated brain MRIs of 81 teens and compared them to scans of 82 teens after going through COVID-19 lockdowns.
“This is the first demonstration that the intellectual fitness difficulties (for adolescents) of the pandemic are accompanied by what appear to be stress-related adjustments in brain structure,” Ian Gotlib, the study’s lead author and professor of psychology, told McClatchy News.
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