The FDA has granted an emergency use authorization for blood plasma as an imaginable remedy for COVID-19.
“This is a tough therapy,” President Donald Trump said at a press conference, calling the authorization a “very historic breakthrough” even though it has already been used experimentally in 70,000 patients. Some fitness experts have stated that it has not been effective to oppose COVID-19.
As two major storms head toward the Gulf of Mexico, the risk of COVID-19 weighs heavily on evacuation plans if necessary. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said he’s running with the federal government to use hotels and motels if primary evacuations have become necessary. The same is happening in California, while wildfires devastate the state.
Meanwhile, as Iowa schools prepare to reopen with 50% in-person teaching, the state reported Sunday the death of its first child due to coronavirus. The Iowa state medical examiner closed his investigation after extensive testing on August 6, two months after the death of the 5-year-old boy.
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 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, but found that COVID-19 is 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 ordered schools to reopen at least 50% of face-to-face teaching, despite a pandemic that has already killed 1,036 other people and noticed infections erupted in recent days.
A day before Republicans meet to nominate him for a temporary period, President Donald Trump spent Sunday selling a possible remedy for COVID-19 using blood plasma. Trump convened a news convention 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.”
Trump and his aides presented the news as a step forward in primary healing, some medical analysts said this was already declining and that Trump’s demands to rush some kind of cure for COVID-19 can only lead to harmful remedies for some patients.
“President Trump, once again, his political advances in public health,” said Benjamin Corb, director of public affairs at the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Trump is expected to use this week’s GOP conference in pursuit of his administration of a vaccine to prevent the coronavirus that has killed more than 176,000 Americans and devastated the U.S. economy. The conference, which will be online due to the spread of COVID-19, opens on Monday.
– David Jackson
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 stampede at a nightclub in Peru after a police raid to enforce the 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, at ABC News”. 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.”
“I didn’t have the virus, ” he said.
– William Cummings
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