President Donald Trump is expected to announce Sunday that the Food and Drug Administration will authorize the use of blood plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 as a remedy for the disease.
The STAT fitness news, among several media outlets that reported the expected announcement, quoted a user familiar with the plans.
The hope is that antibody-rich plasma infusions from cured patients may be patients’ immune formula. The decision, which the Trump team called a “great breakthrough in healing,” can generate controversy in the clinical community.
Dr. Len Horovitz, a pneumologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, warned that plasma “has yet been shown to be effective in COVID-19.”
Some developments this weekend:
? Figures today: The United States has 5.6 million infected people and more than 176,000 deaths. Worldwide, there have been more than 805,000 deaths and 23 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
What we’re reading: Delivering millions of doses of vaccines will be a daunting task, and the federal government needs a formula in a position until November 1. Freezing farms and UPS are components of the plan.
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President Donald Trump’s statement that the Food and Drug Administration is trying to slow COVID-19 vaccines until the end of November’s presidential election is heavily criticized.
“The deep state, or the FDA, makes it very difficult for pharmaceutical corporations to get other people to check for vaccines and therapies,” Trump tweeted Saturday. “Clearly, they hope to delay the reaction after November 3.”
The FDA did not promptly respond to a US TODAY comment request. Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, speaking Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” ignored the complaint and said the vaccination effort is advancing at a “historic pace.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat for California, accused Trump of undermining public protection to help his re-election.
“The FDA will have to approve drugs or vaccines based on their protection and effectiveness, NOT the political tension of the White House,” Pelosi tweeted. “The president’s damaging attempt to inject himself into @US_FDA’s clinical decisions jeopardizes the fitness and well-being of all Americans.”
The NFL said Sunday that it is investigating a number of positive effects of COVID-19 control, all from a New Jersey lab as season-ready education camps in less than 3 weeks. Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane said he thought 10 or 11 groups were affected by the irregularities. Many control effects have already been considered false positives.
“Saturday’s daily COVID checks yielded several positive club checks served through the same New Jersey lab,” the NFL said in a statement. “We are working with our verification partner, BioReference, to investigate those results, while clubs paint to verify or rule out positive checks.
– Lorenzo Reyes
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has abandoned its advice to have travelers quarantined for 14 days after visiting destinations abroad or reaching spaces with the highest number of cases shown with coronavirus. The CDC’s online page now states that arriving travelers will have to stay six feet away from others, wear a mask and wash their hands, the same advice for others who haven’t traveled. The online page states that travelers deserve to stick to restrictions imposed by state, local and territorial governments, which may require arrivals to “stay in their homes for up to 14 days.”
As COVID-19 cases in Mexico increase and the death toll soars (Mexico is only behind Brazil and the United States in terms of deaths due to a general pandemic), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has increasingly connected Mexico’s pandemic disorders with his bad eating habits. Soft drinking has been a priority. Mexicans drink more sodas in proportion to the capita than any other country: about 163 liters a year. And bottlers, such as Coca-Cola, deliver their products to remote corners of the country where drinking water is scarce and soft drinks are sold for less than water.
The Mexican beverage industry responded that Mexicans consume less than 6% of their calories from sugary drinks. The attacks, the industry said, “show a desire to track down a public enemy to blame for the fitness crisis.”
– David Agren
According to a new study, among the points that contribute to poorer physical state and increased vulnerability to COVID-19 deaths among African Americans and Hispanics, there is a significant difference with predominantly white populations in access to recreational parks. The report through the land advocacy nonprofit Trust for Public Land found that parks serving mainly non-white populations nationwide are twice as small as parks that serve mainly white populations and are five times more populous.
Experts say that lack of access to parks means that other people living in dense urban spaces have more difficulty exercising and miss equally vital opportunities for intellectual physical well-being. African Americans and Hispanics also tend to have higher rates of diabetes, obesity, and central disease because they are less likely to pass to the doctor or have physical fitness insurance, and their overall fitness is worse because of systemic poverty.
– Trevor Hughes
Georgia on Saturday was the tenth state of the country to report that it has surpassed 5,000 deaths caused by COVID-19. Georgia’s Ministry of Public Health said there had been at least 5092 deaths in the state caused by coronavirus and more than 252,000 showed cases of COVID-19.
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who was among the first governors to ease previous restrictions this spring, noted last week’s downward trends. He used social media to remind citizens to wear a mask, their social distance and follow the fitness department’s recommendations.
Dozens of aging American veterans will gather on a battleship at Pearl Harbor next month to mark the 75th anniversary of Japan’s surrender, even if that means the vulnerable organization faces a life threat amid the coronavirus pandemic. The 75th anniversary was meant to be a successful event, and veterans had been waiting for it for years. There will have to be thousands of people watching in Hawaii the parades that parade in Waikiki, old planes flying and gala dinners in honor of the veterans.
Now, most face-to-face celebrations have been canceled for fear that the virus may infect veterans, ranging from 90 to 101. But about two hundred people, mostly veterans, their families, and government officials, still will. Commemorate the milestone at the USS Missouri, which hosted on September 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay.
A federal appeals court has approved New York’s attempts to prevent their marriages from having more than 50 people, allowing the legal war to continue. The resolution thwarted the efforts of at least one couple to organize a big wedding this weekend and leaves doubt to any other wedding that exceeds 50 participants. One couple planned to marry Saturday in Erie County and another 175 people were expected, according to court documents.
The couple’s lawyer, Anthony Rupp, told the Times Union that the wedding would be postponed by a later date. “We had won all stages of this, however, the 2st circuit’s opinion simply put it off arrogantly by Tuesday,” Rupp said. “We are very dissatisfied with this decision.”
– Joseph Spector, New York State team
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