The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has replaced its COVID-19 control rules and now says that other people without symptoms “don’t necessarily want control,” even if they have been exposed to COVID-19.
The resolution comes a week after the CDC updates rules that no longer require a 14-day quarantine for anyone who has left their home in the state or country. Reviews to CDC rules have been greeted with fear by medical experts, who warn that less evidence can lead to more cases and obstruct contact search efforts.
House of Commons President Nancy Pelosi also condemned CDC’s revised test guidelines and said Wednesday that it “reinforces the inattention and we want to have to weigh this virus.”
Meanwhile, efforts to be more informed about the spread of the virus remain unwavering. Researchers in Massachusetts are tracking the number of cases similar to “widespread” occasions, such as weddings, parties, and meetings, that can help states make a decision about which occasions or activities are safe for the existing pandemic.
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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 in-person cancellation of fall semesters, academics take the issues into their own hands if their campus is forced to close.
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In reaction to CDC rules that other people exposed to the virus might not want to be tested, House of Commons president Nancy Pelosi said scientists are asking for more tests at 3 million a day to identify, track and treat the virus.
“The CDC rules they’ve introduced are terrifying and dangerous,” Pelosi said in a call to the Zoom Democratic National Conference. “Actually, it’s very unhappy and just reinforces the lack of attention and understanding that we want to have to control this virus.”
He said Democrats would investigate the updated rules on the Energy and Trade Committee and the election committee headed by Rep. James Clyburn, D.S.C.
“You have to resist, ” said Pelosi. “Once he’s back ignoring science and letting the virus make its way with our people. It wants to be addressed.”
– Bart Jansen
Gov. Tom Wolf is asking the Pennsylvania legislature to legalize marijuana for recreational use and use tax revenues for small businesses that have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The pandemic plunged Pennsylvania’s economy into recession. And while systems such as Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and the PayCheck Protection Program have helped some, Wolf said, much remains to be done.
“The legislature can act now to get us back on track as temporarily as possible,” Wolf said at a news convention Tuesday.
You need to see more cash for frontline staff and parent executives, as well as more subsidies created for small businesses. These efforts can be funded, he said, with the remaining $1.3 billion of federal relief from coronavirus stimulus and recreational marijuana legalization gains.
– Sam Ruland, York Daily Record
The biotechnology company Moderna has announced that a small examination of its possible vaccines shows that it is as safe and effective in the elderly as in the younger ones.
The company had published information on 15 young adults, showing that a dose of one hundred micrograms gave the impression and triggered an immune reaction similar to that of other people inflamed by coronavirus. New knowledge, which has not yet been scientifically published or examined, shows similar effects in 10 adults over the age of 56 to 70 and 10 over 71 years of age.
It questioned whether Moderna’s vaccine technology, which has never been used for an approved vaccine, would be so effective in older adults, who are much more vulnerable to severe COVID-19 cases.
The company is conducting larger trials to read about the protection and efficacy of its candidate vaccine, now called mRN-1273. In a phase 2 trial, the company evaluated three hundred young adults and 250 over the age of 50. He didn’t publish those results. Modern has also started a phase 3 trial, with the aim of giving another 15,000 people mNR-1273 and 15,000 a placebo.
– Karen Weintraub
Infectious disease experts are not only confused, but also concerned about the recent replacement in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention verification rules, which state that other people without symptoms “don’t necessarily want a check,” even if they’ve done so exposed to the coronavirus.
“Our paintings on ‘silent’ propagation have highlighted the importance of testing others who have been exposed to COVID-19 regardless of symptoms,” tweeted Alison Galvani, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis at Yale School of Medicine. “This replacement in politics is going to kill.”
The CDC estimates in its scenarios of COVID-19 pandemic development plans that 40% of infections are asymptomatic and 50% of transmission occurs before symptoms appear. Experts are concerned that asymptomatic carrier testing will only lead to more infections, but they also obstruct contact-seeking efforts.
“If being in close non-public contact with an inflamed person…” I don’t see any price in locating contacts,” said Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Public Interest Medicine.
Before adjustments were made On Monday, the CDC’s online page had stated in the past that the detection was “for all close contacts of others with SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
– Adrianna Rodriguez
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.
“That a reinfection doesn’t 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 arrived in Massachusetts, exploded at a hotel’s convention center, infiltrated 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-retransmission” took place at the end of February at a convention of the biotechnology company Biogen, specialized in the remedy of neurological diseases.
– Karen Weintraub
After the Food and Drug Administration presented dubious knowledge to justify its approval of blood plasma to treat COVID-19, some scientists are concerned that the company is trying to approve 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 stay at home while officials attempt 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 capital 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 have tested positive for coronavirus in recent days.
The suspensions of the motion will remain until prisons see “significant relief in active virus cases,” said State Department of Corrections spokeswoman Carolyn Bright.
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