Harvard University doctors tested more than 3200 cases of coronavirus in which adults between the age of 18 and 34 had to be hospitalized; 21% had to be admitted into intensive care and 10% wanted a respirator to breathe. young hospitalized patients died. Another 3% want care in a post-gumious treatment center even after removing the virus from your body.
The proportion of young people with the virus has increased in recent months, while cities and states have eased restrictions on businesses and some others have returned to work. Last month, the World Health Organization warned that young adults are the main promoters. virus in many countries, the Washington Post reported.
In the new report, published on September 9 as a study letter in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers found that certain pre-existing conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, were more common in young patients who had serious problems. consequences of fitness or that he died of viruses.
As in older patients with COVID-19, men were also more likely than women to spread serious or life-threatening diseases, and more than part of the hospitalized patients were black or Hispanic, according to the study.
“Given the sharp increase in COVID-19 infection rates in young adults, these effects underscore the importance of infection prevention measures in this age group,” wrote Dr. Scott Solomon’s team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Cardiovascular Division. in Boston.
Another discovery, reported Thursday, questions when COVID-19 began to spread in the United States. Researchers showed that the number of patients complaining of coughing and respiratory diseases was higher in an expanding Los Angeles medical formula since last December. , reported the Post.
The authors of the report, published Thursday in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, recommend that coronavirus infections could possibly have caused this spike weeks before US officials began warning the public about an outbreak.
“This is consistent with the developing knowledge framework that suggests that a network has spread much earlier than we expected,” said researcher Joann Elmore, epidemiologist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Publish.
Paintings from universities to engage COVIDs on campus
Just a few weeks after the fall semester, colleges and universities in all 50 states are now suffering from involving coronavirus on their campuses.
More than 40,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported among students, staff and teachers in the country, CNN reported, probably higher due to a lag compared to schools that update their knowledge every few days.
Many epidemics erupt after rallies in women’s fraternities and sororities: an organization of COVID-19 instances dates back to a fraternity party held at the University of New Hampshire. More than a hundred people attended the August 29 party and few wore masks, CNN reported.
At Indiana University in Bloomington, 30 sorority and fraternity houses were ordered to be quarantined after what the campus described as an “alarming increase” in COVID-19 cases in homes, CNN reported.
Meanwhile, the University of Wisconsin-Madison told all undergraduate academics that they would limit their movements over the next two weeks in an attempt to oppose the accumulation of COVID-19 cases, CNN reported. The university also ordered nine fraternities and sororities on campus with off-campus apartments to quarantine them for at least 14 days.
“We have reached the point where we will have to temporarily flatten the infection curve, in a different way we will miss the opportunity to open the campus to academics this semester, which we know many academics really want,” Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in a statement.
Some of the maximum instances are at the University of Miami, the University of South Carolina, Ohio State University and the University of East Carolina, all of which have more than 1,000 instances shown, CNN reported. The University of Missouri has 862 instances shown, while Missouri State University has 791, according to CNN’s account.
Even what’s left of the school football season is on volatile ground: several groups have postponed their opening games this weekend because of the pandemic, the Post reported. Some of these games may not be invented or not invented until December. and additional deferrals will be eliminated as schools continue to face spikes in coronavirus cases.
COVID vaccine trial stopped due to illness
Final testing of a leading coronavirus-fighting candidate vaccine was suspended Tuesday through drug maker AstraZeneca after a test volunteer had a serious adverse reaction.
The disappointing news came when pharmaceutical corporations around the world rushed to expand a coronavirus vaccine that could end with a foreign pandemic that has claimed nearly 900,000 lives, the New York Times reported.
The AstraZeneca vaccine is one of the pioneers, with complex clinical trials underway in other countries. If the cause of the reaction turns out to be similar to the vaccine, efforts to prepare it until the end of the year may be delayed, the Times reported.
In a statement, AstraZeneca described the interruption of the trial, which was performed voluntarily, as a “routine action that will have to happen whenever there is a potentially unexplained disease in one of the trials, while it is being studied, making sure that the integrity of the trials is maintained. “
The company added that in giant trials, participants are in poor health due to the possibility “but [cases] want to be evaluated independently to determine this carefully. “
A user familiar with the situation, who spoke under anonymity, told The Times that the player who had suspected adverse reaction had volunteered for a trial in the UK. The volunteer was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, an inflammatory syndrome that affects the spinal cord and is triggered by viral infections.
“It’s about doing those Phase 2, Phase 3 trials,” Dr. Phyllis Tien, PhD in Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. “We want to evaluate protection, and we may not know an effective component until much later. I think postponing the trial until the protection committee can tell if it was directly similar to the vaccine is a good idea.
He keeps going up
On Friday, the number of coronavirus cases in the United States approached 6. 4 million, while the death toll exceeded 191600, according to a Times count.
According to the same count, the five most sensitive states in Friday’s coronavirus cases were: California with more than 753,000; Texas with more than 677,800; Florida with more than 654,700; New York with more than 446,600; Georgia with more than 272,500 inhabitants.
Stopping coronavirus in the rest of the world remains a challenge.
India has outperformed Brazil in the country with the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world, according to the Times count. The number of cases in the country now exceeds 4. 5 million; only the United States recorded more. More than 76,000 people in India have died of COVID-19, making it the most affected country in Asia.
Meanwhile, Brazil recorded more than 4. 2 million cases and more than 129,500 deaths on Friday, according to the Times count.
Unlike the United States and Brazil, where the number of new instances has fallen in recent weeks, India has reported the largest increases in instances in the world since early August, the Post reported.
After creating the world’s largest blockade last spring, Jayaprakash Muliyil, a prominent Indian epidemiologist, predicted that cases in the country would continue to increase in the coming weeks, and told the Post that cases could double over the next month before retiring.
Cases are also expanding in Russia: the number of coronavirus cases in the country has exceeded one million, the Times reported. On Friday, the death toll in Russia was 18,300.