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 houses and fraternities were ordered to be quarantined after what the campus described as an “alarming increase” in COVID-19 cases in homes, CNN reported.
School officials told Greek houses to suspend all in-person activities until at least September 14, according to CNN.
“The team of UI public fitness experts is incredibly involved in Greek homes experiencing an out-of-control spread of COVID-19,” the university said in a statement. “This poses a significant threat to the nearly 2,600 academics who have been living in housing organizations lately. in Greece or other municipal housing organizations, as well as the other 42,000 IU fellows in Bloomington, the 12,000 teachers and workers on campus and the surrounding community.
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 Washington Post reported. Some of these games may not be invented or not invented until December at the latest, and additional postponements will be eliminated as schools continue to face spikes in coronavirus cases.
The COVID vaccine trial was stopped due to a disease
Final testing of a leading vaccine candidate opposing coronavirus was suspended Tuesday through drug manufacturer AstraZeneca after a trial volunteer had a severe adverse reaction.
The corporation has not published main points on the case, and it is not yet clear whether the reaction caused by the vaccine or a coincidence, the New York Times reported.
The disappointing news came as pharmaceutical corporations around the world rushed to expand a coronavirus vaccine that could wipe out a foreign pandemic that has claimed some 900,000 lives, the Times reported.
The AstraZeneca vaccine is a pioneer, 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 the giant trials, participants are in poor health because of the possibility “but [the cases] want to be independently evaluated 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, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, told the Times. “We want to evaluate the protection, and we may not know the efficacy component until much later. I think postponing the trial until the protection committee can know if it was directly similar to the vaccine is a good idea.
The news also came on the same day that nine pharmaceutical companies, adding AstraZeneca, jointly pledged to reaffirm that they would continue with vaccines before verifying their protection and effectiveness very well.
Second wave probably this fall
In a sobering representation of the number of victims of the coronavirus pandemic this summer, figures now show that the number of Americans who died from COVID-19 increased from just under 100,000 to more than 186,000 between Memorial Day and Labor Day, while cases quadrupled to more. 6. 2 million.
Despite how troubling these statistics are, public fitness experts warn that autumn and winter can be even worse, the Post reported.
A wave of COVID-19 cases in cold climates can cause a “second wave” of highly feared infections and deaths beginning well before Election Day in November, although scientists peaked at weeks later, the Post reported.
“I have a feeling a wave is coming, and it’s not so much if it happens, but how big it will be,” he told Eili Klein newspaper, epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Still, national numbers have slowly declined as a result of sudden increases in the solar belt in early summer, the Post reported.
A style developed through the University of Washington Institute of Health Assessment and Metrics (IHME) predicts a death toll of 1,907 on Election Day, roughly double the existing figure. December, achieving more than 2,800 deaths consistent with the day.
By the end of the year, more than 410,000 will have died in the maximum likely maximum situation of the model, more than double the existing total.
“I am firmly convinced that we will see waves of different moments, even in the put that ended their first waves. New York, I’m watching you,” said Andrew Noymer, epidemiologist at the University of California, Irvine.
“I expect the fall waves to start in mid-October and get worse as fall progresses into winter, and they will succeed in a crescendo after the election,” he told the newspaper. “Some options will hit their peak around Thanksgiving, some options will hit their peak around Christmas, others not before January and February. “
He keeps going up
On Thursday, the number of coronavirus cases in the United States approached 6. 4 million, while the death toll exceeded 190700, according to a Times count.
According to the same count, the five most sensitive states in Coronavirus cases on Thursday were: California with more than 749,000; Texas with more than 675,000; Florida with more than 652,000; New York with more than 445,800; Georgia with more than 270,600 inhabitants.
Stopping coronavirus in the rest of the world remains a challenge.
India outperded 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. 4 million; only the United States recorded more. More than 75,000 people in India have died of COVID-19, making it the most affected country in Asia.
Meanwhile, Brazil recorded nearly 4. 2 million cases and more than 128,500 deaths on Thursday, 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 world’s highest increases in instance since early August, the Post reported.
After creating the world’s largest blockade this spring, Jayaprakash Muliyil, a prominent Indian epidemiologist, predicted that instances in the country will continue to increase in the coming weeks and told the Post that the instances 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 Thursday, the death toll in Russia was 18,200.