With the United States reaching 175,000 deaths from the new coronavirus, the COVID-19 outbreak in the south is “starting to oppose the trend,” said the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CDC Director Robert Redfield attributes the masking and social estrangement measures to the epidemic in the South in recent days, he told the editor of the JAMA newspaper Thursday night. Redfield also said he expects the number of deaths in the U.S. due to COVID-19 to begin to decline next week.
And in more positive news: Marks from a potential vaccine candidate who oppose COVID-19 have reported counterfeit effects for an initial-level trial, and it appears that the experimental compound could produce antibody levels high enough to save the disease or at least decrease severity. infection.
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? Figures today: Iowa, North Dakota, and Guam set new case records in a week, while Nevada, Tennessee and Puerto Rico recorded a record number of deaths in a week, according to a Johns Hopkins USA TODAY knowledge research through Thursday night. . Array Usa has 5.5 million infected people and more than 174,000 deaths. Worldwide, there have been more than 794,000 deaths and 22.7 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
? What We Read: A new study adds to the evidence that young people can play a more important role in the spread of COVID-19 in the network than in the past. The test found that some young people who tested positive had particularly higher levels of viruses on their airlines than adults hospitalized in intensive care units.
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The head of the U.S. Postal Service testified before the Senate Friday as the firm faced increasing scrutiny by lawmakers due to operational adjustments and service cuts that they said could hinder the company’s ability to deal with an expected increase in mailing. votes for the November election.
President Donald Trump’s postal secretary, Louis DeJoy, declared the delays in delivering the mail Friday, but defended the changes. “We all feel bad about the decline in our service,” he told Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, who suffered delays in delivering prescriptions to veterans.
Despite criticism, DeJoy said adjustments had been made to the company to repair the company’s monetary suitability and called the postal service a “sacred duty” to deliver the mail in November.
Breaking up with Trump, who voiced his opposition to the mail vote, DeJoy said that he himself had voted by mail “for several years” and supported the practice.
– Nicolas Wu
Empty mailboxes, lost rent: U.S. Postal Service issues are having a real-world effect
Annie Gaughan was alone at the time on the University of Iowa campus when she tested positive for COVID-19 and was forced to move to Currier Hall, the campus’s quarantine dormitory. While the university claims to have spent months disinfecting buildings and college residences, Gaughan said the attention gave the impression that he was missing from the room he had been given. He saw rust in the sink and dust on the mattress. The next morning, he woke up with ants in his blankets.
While looking to move home, their parents, he says, are in a high-risk category identified through the CDC. So he booked a hotel room in Naperville, Illinois, via the bus, where he went last week.
“They tell academics and parents they’re in a position for COVID, but they lied. Not so,” Gaughan wrote. “I hope the university will pass online at this stage, as it is not prepared for academics who test positive in COVID.”
– Zachary Oren Smith, Iowa City Press citizen
Pfizer and BioNTech have achieved strong effects on an initial test of a COVID-19 candidate vaccine, corporations announced Thursday night. The companies had introduced clinical trials with two candidate vaccines, publishing information on each other before this month. Both gave the impression of belonging to the small number of healthy people who won the injections.
The new data, on a compound called BNT162b2, showed that this candidate is larger than the other to provoke an immune response.
In adults under 55, BNT162b2 produced nearly 4 times more neutralizing antibodies than an herbal infection. In older adults, who are more vulnerable to a severe COVID-19 infection and have a weaker immune system, the candidate vaccine produced 1.6 times more antibodies. These higher levels of antibodies recommend that the vaccine be effective in preventing disease or at least reducing the severity of infection.
Last month, corporations introduced a test of another 30,000 people to check the effectiveness of BNT162b2, as well as protection in a larger and more varied group. Thus, they have enrolled 11,000 volunteers in the trial, according to a corporate press release, and expect to have effects from October.
– Karen Weintraub
Hawaii Governor David Ige announced this week that the state would not reopen tourism until at least October, its mandatory 14-day quarantine for out-of-state and inter-island travelers (in Kauai, Hawaii, Maui, and Kalawao counties) remains. Intact. But since then, main points have emerged about a “resort bubble concept” for island travelers.
The state calls the program an “enhanced motion quarantine” that each county can expand to give citizens and visitors the opportunity to pass between islands without a 14-day quarantine.
Officials had discussed a concept that would allow tourists to move freely around resorts while their movements are tracked by a portable monitor to ensure they remain within the boundaries of facilities. The concept of the so-called “tourist bubble” would keep tourists in a “geographical barrier” that would remain in their movements, West Hawaii Today reported.
– David Oliver
Delta Air Lines banned the former Navy SEAL, which he says killed Osama bin Laden after the former SEAL got rid of his face mask on a flight.
Robert O’Neill tweeted about the ban on Thursday and the airline showed the action. O’Neill posted a selfie of himself unmasked on a Delta flight from Minneapolis to Newark, New Jersey, which resulted in the ban.
Delta says more than a hundred passengers have been banned for violating their face mask rules. All major U.S. airlines want a mask to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.
One in five nursing homes in the United States experienced a severe shortage of non-public protective devices this summer, according to a new study, which also found that many amenities in the hardest-hit spaces were suffering to retain staff.
The federal knowledge analysis published in Health Affairs magazine also revealed that there were no improvements from May to July in terms of PPE shortages or personnel problems. COVID-19 cases in the south, west and midwest are higher in this period.
Terry Fulmer, president of the John A. Hartford Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the care of the elderly, called the study’s findings a “massive red flag.”
“We didn’t have a consistent federal response,” Fulmer said. The effects come despite promises of help from the Trump administration. “The federal government deserves to take over this issue,” writer David Grabowski said.
The 324 new cases of coronavirus reported across South Korea on Friday are the highest number of cases the country has noticed since March.
New instances of COVID-19 in South Korea are skyrocking around the Seoul metropolitan area, however, Friday’s new instances included positive testing in virtually every major city in the country. The government re-imposed some social estrangement measures earlier this week to curb the new spread.
On Friday, the eighth consecutive day South Korea reported a daily three-digit increase, for a total of 1,900 infections over 8 days.
Vegans and tourists will have to wait at least two weeks to check their favorite water spots. Nevada’s COVID-19 task group voted Thursday to close bars in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, with limits on the number of other people who can eat in combination at restaurants.
The working group needs to work with officials on plans to strengthen compliance and implementation to stop the spread of COVID-19, said working group chairman Caleb Cage. Bars closed statewide in March and remained closed for 48 days before being allowed to reopen on June 30. Gov. Steve Sisolak ordered the closure of bars in and around Las Vegas and Reno on July 27 after coronavirus cases were fired in the areas.
Las Vegas dominance overall exceeded 1,000 COVID-19 deaths for the first time, while Nevada reported 38 more deaths from the virus on Thursday, the third day in a row that COVID deaths experienced a sharp increase in state figures.
– Ed Komenda, Journal of Reno Gazette
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Thursday that eligible Mississippiers can get an additional $300 per week in federal aid, but not the $100 that will be provided across states, as President Donald Trump suggests.
“We’ll use our current payment as the state’s $100 game,” he said. “We’ll see how it works in the coming weeks. I need everyone in Mississippi to know that I’m grateful to President Trump for intervening.”
Reeves said the state might not make an additional weekly payment of $100 according to the payee.
– Lici Beveridge, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
Thousands of academics returned to Arizona State University Thursday for the first day of the fall semester despite considerations from the university and academics and a fragile record of universities in other states that returned to campus for the pandemic.
ASU officials say the campus has received fully hand sanitizer and many other precautions. On Thursday he was quiet on campus.
Several high-level outbreaks on campus and last-minute online announcements have occurred over the next week, a warning sign of what’s coming for other schools to reopen.
The University of Notre Dame suspended the categories in person for at least two weeks on Tuesday after campus saw a buildup of cases. And the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill switched to distance learning a week after its reopening, as several coVID-19 infection groups connected to student apartments, adding college apartments and fraternity homes.
– Rachel Leingang and Emily Wilder, Republic of Arizona
Thursday night’s game between the New York Met and the Miami Marlins was postponed after two Mets players tested positive for coronavirus, Major League Baseball announced.
The Mets on the tenth team with a postponement similar to COVID-19, meaning a third of the MLB groups had a postponed game.
Friday’s Mets game against the Yankees at Citi Field has been postponed, MLB said.
The Mets said they would return to New York Thursday night “with recommended protective precautions,” with all members of the organization being tested.
The team said the two members of the organization who tested positive would remain in Miami, as would those who decided to be in close contact with them.
– Lacas Gabe
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, said Thursday that he believes the outbreak in the South is control.
“We are against the trend of what I call the epidemic in the south of the country,” the editor of the JAMA newspaper told the editor on Thursday in a public interview.
He attributed face masks, social estrangement, hand washing, bar closure and food restriction inside restaurants for shift work. Although in the South, he cited Arizona as an example.
“Arizona put that on the line. Two to 4 weeks later, he sees that we can control this pandemic,” he said, noting that the outlets didn’t have to close or that other people were locking the property. “Be cautious in the face of crowds and we will be able to control this epidemic.”
However, it takes time, he noted, adding that he expects the number of deaths, which have reached 1,000 per day in weeks, to decrease next week, a month or more after the state announced the deaths. fitness measures.
– Karen Weintraub
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