A pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed more than 819,000 people worldwide.
More than 23.9 million people internationally have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to knowledge collected through the Center for Science and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Diagnostic criteria, through clinical means or laboratory control, vary from country to country. However, the actual numbers are thought to be much higher due to lack of control, many unreported instances and suspicions that some national governments hide or minimize the scope of their epidemics.
Since the first cases were detected in China in December, the virus has spread to all continents except Antarctica. The United States has become the worst-affected country, with more than 5.7 million cases diagnosed and at least 178,524 deaths.
Nearly 170 COVID-19 vaccine applicants are being monitored through the World Health Organization, six of which are in 3 of the critical trials.
Arizona State University said it had 161 known COVID-19 cases among its academics and staff.
“Please note that this number includes academics and workers from our 4 metropolitan campuses and includes academics living on and off campus throughout the community,” said Arizona State University President Michael Crow on Tuesday night. “I know this figure has awakened and will continue to interest me. What I’m committed to is the normal updates to our COVID control strategy.”
Since August 1, The Public Research University has collected check effects from 32,729 academics and workers so far, according to Crow.
Crow has also published clarifications on school policies on coronavirus, adding a no-visit policy in living rooms, a requirement to cover your face in all university buildings and spaces at any time (except when eating) and a ban on social activities. meetings of academics on or off campus who do not adhere to public fitness protocols.
ABC News contacted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On Tuesday night to request information on updates to its COVID-19 verification guidelines, existing evidence to justify the changes and whether the company can address public considerations that this was done for political reasons to decrease the number of cases.
But the response that came here came from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC.
“The CDC recommends that the resolution to be tested be made in collaboration with public fitness officials or their fitness service provider in individual cases and the state of community spread,” an HHS spokesperson told ABC News in an email. “The Guide fully supports public fitness surveillance tests, conducted proactively through federal, state, and local public fitness authorities.
The HHS spokesman indexed the following issues about the intent of the updated CDC guidelines: “Ensure that the evidence is used and that Americans protect themselves and others; Focus on evaluating Americans for clinical and/or public fitness reasons, adding screening tests for Asymptomatic U.S. patients when directed through public fitness officials or fitness service providers; Emphasize how negative evidence deserves to be interpreted and how they deserve (and don’t deserve to) be applied.” The White House declined to say whether the president or any administrative staff member was concerned or had any communication with the CDC or HHS regarding the updated guidelines.
Anne Flaherty and Ben Gittleson of Abc News contributed to this report.
There were 38174 new cases of COVID-19 known in the United States on Tuesday, according to a Johns Hopkins University account.
Tuesday’s death toll is well below the country record on July 16, when 77,255 new cases were known over a 24-hour period. This is the third day in a row that the country has reported fewer than 40,000 new cases.
There were also 1,242 more coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday, nearly 3 times more than the previous day. The most recent death toll remains below the record for 2,666 new deaths on April 17.
A total of 5779371 more people in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and at least 178,524 of them have died, according to Johns Hopkins. The cases come with Americans from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C. and other U.S. territories, as well as repatriated citizens.
By May 20, all U.S. states They had begun to lift house orders and other restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Daily accumulation in instances in the country was around 20,000 for a few weeks before emerging and exceeding 70,000 for the first time in mid-July.
However, the number of new COVID-19 cases and new deaths in the United States has decreased substantially in weekly comparisons, according to an internal federal Emergency Management Agency memorandum received through ABC News on Tuesday night.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discreetly updated its COVID-19 online test rules on Monday to recommend that others probably don’t want a test, even if they have been in close contact with an inflamed user or have attended a meeting.
The new board directly hires what CDC Director Robert Redfield told ABC News last month: “Anyone who thinks it’s inflamed, regardless of symptoms, should be tested.”
Redfield’s comments came here when political protests erupted and President Donald Trump insisted on large indoor crusade rallies where most of the participants were not dressed in masks. The CDC updated its rules in July to, in particular, urge others without symptoms to take the test if they contact someone with COVID-19, for example, by running the same shift in a job.
But now the CDC says the verification isn’t until the individual shows symptoms. “You don’t necessarily want a check unless you’re a vulnerable user or your fitness service provider or the state or local public fitness government proposed that you do so,” the CDC says on its website.
ABC News contacted the CDC for feedback.
ABC News’s Anne Flaherty contributed to this report.