Thousands more will gather in rural South Dakota when the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally begins its final time and weekend.
In recent years, a million people attended the event. And despite forecasts that the crowd would halve this year, reports of early arrests remained at the pace of previous years.
Amid fears of this and other large-scale occasions that led to an outbreak of COVID-19, the South Dakota Department of Health reported this week that only other people with symptoms or exposure to the virus will be tested. This is despite the fact that some local government officials plan to conduct mass tests to help prevent epidemics. The resolution will ensure that those who take the test have a quick effect, said state epidemiologist Josh Clayton.
Meanwhile, the virus again caused an outbreak in Europe, leading leaders to reimposing restrictions on travelers, shutting down nightclubs, banning fireworks and accumulating mask orders even in hotel areas.
Here are some developments:
? Figures today: The United States has 5.3 million people infected and more than 168,000 deaths. Worldwide, there have been more than 766,000 deaths and more than a million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
? What We Read: Other people pay attention to fitness experts, while others forget about them. What does this mean for the long-term COVID-19 in the United States? Psychology explains the following rules.
A child who returns to school this fall may go through the following morning routine: their parents check them for COVID-19 symptoms, take a socially remote bus, and a college member, such as a school nurse, take a final exam at school. before letting them through the door.
As students return to classes, many school districts have incorporated regimen symptom screenings into their reopening plans. But its effectiveness and feasibility in preventing the spread of COVID-19 in schools remains uncertain.
Tests are limited for a variety of reasons, adding the fact that the new coronavirus has many symptoms with non-unusual diseases such as influenza and that everyone with COVID-19 will have symptoms, said Adam Karcz, director of infection prevention at Riley Children’s Hospital at Indiana University. . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention proposes universal aptitude tests or COVID-19 tests in schools because of these limitations.
—Tiana Woodard, star of Indianapolis
People who have had COVID-19 in the last 3 months and are in close contact with an actively inflamed user do not want to be quarantined, according to updated rules from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
”People who test positive for COVID-19 do not want to be quarantined or re-tested for up to 3 months as long as they no longer expand the symptoms’, the new directive states. “People who spread symptoms backwards within 3 months of their first episode of COVID-19 may want to re-test if there is no other known cause for their symptoms.”
But the antibodies would possibly start to decrease earlier than that. A June study in the journal Nature found that antibodies may begin to decrease within 2 to 3 months of infection.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have indicated that the blood plasma of COVID-19 survivors is helping other patients recover, however, this is evidence and some experts are involved that, in the midst of the treatment call, they will ever get a transparent response.
More than 64,000 patients in the United States have gained convalescent plasma, a centuries-old technique to fight influenza and measles before vaccines. It’s a selection tactic when new diseases appear, and history suggests it works against some infections, but all of them.
There is still no falsified evidence that it fights the coronavirus and, if so, how to use it. But the initial knowledge of 35,000 plasma-treated coronavirus patients will deliver what Mayo’s lead researcher, Dr. Michael Joyner, called Friday’s “signs of efficiency.”
After sour battles with municipalities over mandatory mask ordinances, Georgia’s governor, Brian Kemp, bowed to the demands of the local city. Kemp is expected to issue an executive order saturday allowing cities such as Savannah, Atlanta, Augusta and Athens to enforce the masked orders the governor had insisted on in the past that they had no strength.
Until Friday, Kemp had strongly encouraged others to wear masks. He had filed a lawsuit against Atlanta Mayor Kesha Lance Bottoms to resign from his local office, but this week, Kemp dropped the lawsuit.
According to the order, first informed through The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, trade orders will only apply if the owner consents. Kemp also said that others should be admonished before receiving a subpoena. Kemp did not turn the mask into a state mandate.
– Rana L. Cash, Savannah Morning News
Low-risk bowling alleys, gyms, museums and indoor cultural venues will soon be able to open in New York with strict COVID-19 rules, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.
Bowling alleys will be allowed to open on Monday, being limited to 50% occupancy and required to adhere to other rules, such as bowling players must have a face mask and all other tracks will remain closed. Food and alcohol service will also be limited to waiting service, the USA TODAY Network’s New York State team reports.
Museums, aquariums and other low-risk cultural sites will be able to open in New York on August 24 with COVID-19 restrictions, adding an occupancy capacity of 25%. In the northern communities, museums and other inland locations have been opened before.
The opening date and gym regulations will be released on Monday, Cuomo said.
– David Robinson, New York State team
The Canada-U.S. border will remain closed to non-essential travel for at least a month, Public Security Minister Bill Blair said Friday a day after Mexico announced a similar move for its U.S. border. Land border restrictions to control the coronavirus pandemic were first announced in March and renewed monthly.
Essential border crossings, such as fitness professionals, airline crews and truck drivers, can still cross. Americans and Canadians returning to their respective countries are exempt from the ultimate border.
The Associated Press
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