Infectious disease experts warn that more knowledge is needed before the widespread use of blood plasma healing as an imaginable remedy for COVID-19 after President Donald Trump announced his approval Sunday.
“It’s a tough therapy,” Trump said at a press conference, describing the authorization as “a very historic breakthrough.” It has already been used experimentally in 70,000 patients. The World Health Organization said it was still considered “experimental.”
As two primary storms turn toward the Gulf of Mexico, the risk of COVID-19 weighs heavily on the evacuation plans imaginable. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said he was running with the federal government to use hotels and motels if primary evacuations were necessary. The same is happening in California, while wildfires devastate the state.
Some developments this weekend:
? Figures today: The United States has 5.7 million infections and more than 176,000 deaths. Worldwide, there have been more than 809,000 deaths and 23.4 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
? What We Read: Delivering Millions of Vaccine Doses will be a daunting task, and the federal government needs a formula available until November 1. Freezing farms and UPS are a component of the plan.
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The World Health Organization states that the use of recovered plasma to treat COVID-19 is still an “experimental” treatment and that the initial effects that appear to be painted are still “unfinished”.
WHO Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan said the remedy was difficult to standardize because other people produce other degrees of antibodies and plasma will have to be taken separately from recovered patients.
Dr Bruce Aylward, Senior Adviser to the Director-General of WHO, warned of many imaginable side effects, ranging from mild fever and chills to more severe lung damage. U.S. infectious disease experts They echo WHO’s caution.
Trump convened a news convention Sunday to announce that his administration granted emergency use authorization for a remedy that uses blood plasma, although more than 70,000 patients have already earned it experimentally.
“This is a tough therapy,” Trump said, describing authorization as “a very historic breakthrough.”
– David Jackson, Adrianna Rodriguez, Associated Press
The Iowa Department of Public Health reported Sunday the first death of a child in COVID-19 state. The 5-year-old died in June and suffered from “significant underlying fitness problems,” he said in a press release.
The branch said the state medical examiner completed his investigation on August 6. The government conducted a series of tests that took months to complete, but found that COVID-19 was the cause of the child’s death.
The announcement comes a day before some schools prepare to start the new year on Monday. Gov. Kim Reynolds has ordered schools to reopen for at least 50% of face-to-face teaching, despite a pandemic that has already killed another 1,036 people and noticed infections erupted in recent days.
The number of coronavirus in Florida exceeded 600,000 on Sunday, as the number of new infections reported statewide continued to decline.
The State Department of Health reported that the number of COVID-19 cases in Florida has increased from 2,974 since Saturday to 600,571, an increase of 0.5%, one of the lowest recorded since the start of the pandemic in March.
While the Ministry of Health receives fewer positive viral tests from laboratories over the weekend, the number of new cases it has reported daily is higher across the state across less than 1% each day since August 16.
– Chris Persaud, Palm Beach Post
Thirteen other people were killed in a nightclub stampede in Peru after a police raid to impose a blockade of the country by the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said Sunday. The stampede occurred at the Thomas nightclub in Lima, where about 120 more people had accumulated for a party on Saturday night, the Interior Ministry said.
People tried to escape through the only door of the nightclub on the second floor, trampling on others and getting trapped in a confined space, the government said. After the stampede, the police had to leave through the door by force.
“Sorry for the enjoyed Array … but also anger and outrage towards the entrepreneurs who organized the occasion,” Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra said at a public event in the south of the country. He suggested that the judicial government punish those who had broken the law.
Another 23 people have been arrested and 15 of them tested positive for the new coronavirus and will be quarantined, Claudio Ramarez, a fitness ministry official, told reporters Claudio Ramarez.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has not undergone coronavirus testing and is confident he may not have been infected, he said his crusade on Sunday.
“It hasn’t been tested,” said Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy director of crusader, in ABC News’ “This Week.” He added that “if it were necessary to move on, it would be. But it hasn’t been proven yet.”
Bedingfield said Biden, 77, had followed “stricter protocols” to avoid exposure to the virus and was convinced that he had not been infected. He said everyone around Biden “is undergoing the right tests.”
“He didn’t have the virus, ” he said.
– William Cummings
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