United States strikes 5 thousand scenarios, New York possesses reduced positivity

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As the U.S. got to yet another grim landmark on Sunday, a shimmer of chance coming from New York: The Empire State disclosed its own most affordable positivity cost due to the fact that the starting point of the coronavirus pandemic.

New York, for full weeks the center of the U.S. episode, disclosed the cost — the typical variety of beneficial end results for each 100 examinations — reached a rock bottom 0.78% on Saturday. That body the moment got to virtually 47% in very early April, although screening was actually so much more restricted at the moment. The cost had actually been actually around 1% due to the fact that very early June.

Meanwhile, the U.S. reached 5 thousand validated scenarios of COVID-19, merely 17 times after getting to 4 thousand scenarios — yet pros concede the variety of scenarios is in fact considerably better – likely 10 opportunities greater than what is actually been actually disclosed, depending on to federal government information.

The U.S. continues to be the best contaminated nation, along with around 25% of the around the world scenarios.

Here are actually some considerable growths:

Despite federal government assistance, colleges mention personal privacy legislations to keep information regarding COVID-19 cases.The St. Louis Cardinals, that have actually participated in a primary league-low 5 activities as a result of a coronavirus episode in their positions, will not come back on the industry till at the very least Thursday.New Zealand significant 100 times without a brand-new scenario Sunday. The nation enforced a meticulous padlock down after 100 individuals were actually contaminated, which quit the spreading. Crowds of primarily maskless cyclists raided the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. Regular infection scenarios have actually been actually trending upwards in South Dakota, yet the seven-day standard is actually still just around 84, along with far fewer than 2 fatalities daily.

? Today’s amounts:  The U.S. has actually taped greater than 162,000 fatalities as well as 5 thousand scenarios of COVID-19, depending on to Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there have actually been actually greater than 729,000 fatalities as well as 19.7 thousand scenarios. 

? What our experts’re going through: Without a nationwide consider exactly how to absolute best allot dozens 1000s of COVID-19 examinations on a daily basis, there is actually inadequate ability right now to filter Americans that could unknowingly pass the infection to others.

Guam guv examinations beneficial for COVID-19

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero assessed beneficial for COVID-19, Guam’s federal government pointed out in a declaration Monday.

Leon Guerrero stated she had actually touched along with a shut family member that had actually assessed beneficial as well as she later on assessed beneficial after experiencing signs. “I stay healthy even with showing mild signs of the infection,” Leon Guerrero included.

– Pacific Daily News team

Inside Wuhan virology principle: ‘No means’ infection seeped coming from laboratory, Chinese representatives claim

Officials at the Wuhan Institute of Virology obliterated the case that the brand-new coronavirus came at their laboratory just before at some point spreading out around the planet as NBC News delivered a within take a look at the resource.

In the 1st record through an overseas wire service coming from inside the laboratory, NBC News met experts at the virology principle that stated they have actually been actually unjustly scapegoated as they remain to investigate the beginnings of the infection.

“Any individual will undoubtedly really feel really irritated or even misinterpreted going through ungrounded or even destructive accusations while carrying out research and related work in the fight against the virus,” Wang Yanyi, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, told NBC News.

President Donald Trump and other administration officials have claimed without evidence that the virus originated in the Wuhan facility. The lab is equipped to study coronaviruses and other dangerous diseases. Yuan Zhiming, vice director of the institute, told NBC News that it first received samples of the virus on Dec. 30, but the news outlet could not verify the claim.

Neck fleece masks offer little protection, study shows

Fitted N95 masks are the most effective at filtering respiratory droplets from the mask’s wearer while neck fleeces offer little protection compared to others, a team of Duke University researchers found.

Using 14 commonly available masks as well as a professional fit-tested N95 and a patch of mask material, the researchers set up an experiment using a laser light and camera to show how many respiratory droplets are emitted when a person wearing each kind of mask speaks for 10 seconds.

Each mask was tested 10 times, and the results show that in addition to fitted N95 masks, surgical and cotton masks are also most effective at filtering droplets. Knitted masks and bandannas, similar to neck fleeces, offered little protection.

College football leaders coming to grips with risks amid pandemic

After the Mid-American Conference canceled its football season, college football finds itself in a confusing place. In conversations with more than a dozen college sports officials over the weekend, the witching hour has brought to campuses and college presidents a more clear-eyed reality about what they don’t know related to COVID-19 and the potential liabilities surrounding a virus whose long-term impact on the body is unclear.

The problem is, nobody wants to be the one to say what the majority of college athletics now instinctively knows: Rushing to play football right now just isn’t a very good idea.

ESPN reported that the Power 5 conferences held an emergency meeting Sunday. While no decision was made, Big Ten presidents were ready to postpone their seasons and wanted to gauge whether top officials at schools in the other conferences would do the same, ESPN reported.

“The overriding piece of this is it’s just not clearing up like we all hoped,” said one athletics director, who spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity. “This is just too difficult for us to really believe that it’s right for us to go forward at the moment. It feels like we’re heading for a pause.”

– Dan Wolken

As states see record cases, some visit COVID-19 hot spots anyway

As three states set records for new cases in a week and three others had a record number of deaths, Americans are still searching for domestic vacation destinations that include places where COVID-19 case counts are rising, USA TODAY analyses show.

According to a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins data through late Sunday, new case records were set in Hawaii, Indiana and North Dakota while record numbers of deaths were reported in Arkansas, Nevada and West Virginia, and also Puerto Rico.

Yet an analysis of data from Trivago, a platform for searching and booking hotels, shows Americans’ intention to travel is beginning to tick up again.

Trivago measures hotel search volume, which reflects travel requests and booking queries based on users’ link clicks. Last month’s volume was off 73% from the same time in 2019. And while it’s been up and down for months, Florida remained the country’s most-searched domestic travel destination, followed by California and Nevada.

– Dian Zhang, David Oliver and Mike Stucka

Report: 97,000 children tested positive in the last two weeks of July

At least 97,000 children in the United States tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July alone, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. 

All told, more than 338,000 children have been infected since the pandemic began, according to data from the report, which relied on data from 49 states along with Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam. 

States on hook for billions under Trump’s unemployment plan

Whether President Donald

announced an executive order Saturday that extends additional unemployment payments of up to $400 a week. Congress had approved payments of $600 a week at the outset of the coronavirus outbreak, but those benefits expired Aug. 1 and Congress has been unable to agree on an extension.

But under Trump’s plan, the $400 a week requires a state to commit to providing $100.

Asked at a news conference how many governors had signed on to participate, Trump answered: “If they don’t, they don’t. That’s up to them.”

Trump expressed a different view on Sunday night, following a day of state officials questioning how they could afford even $100 per person in additional weekly payments. He told reporters as he returned to Washington that states could make application to have the federal government provide all or even part of the $400 payments. Decisions would be made state by state, he said.

‘I can’t afford tuition’: College students face strains ahead of fall semester

Brittany Goddard’s final semester at Howard University isn’t the dream ending she imagined in Washington, D.C. 

When the coronavirus pandemic shut down the U.S. economy in March, she scrambled to pack up her belongings, lost her part-time job as well as had her study abroad plans upended. And with just weeks to go before the fall semester begins, she’s worried about how she’ll pay the remaining balance of her tuition and fees – roughly $9,000 – since her financial aid won’t cover it at the private school.

“It’s heartbreaking. I’m a low-income student. I can’t afford tuition,” says Goddard, who created a GoFundMe page to raise money since her mother doesn’t have the means to take out another Parent PLUS Loan, a federal student loan available to parents of dependent undergraduate students.

Millions of students across the country, like Goddard, face financial strains and health fears as they decide whether to return to colleges and universities this fall.

– Jessica Menton

New York state registers lowest COVID-19 positivity rate

New York took another major step in its recovery Sunday when the state reported its lowest positivity rate since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the rate — the average number of positive results for every 100 tests — hit a record low 0.78% on Saturday. Both the state and New York City have been at some version of the final stage of reopening for at least 20 days, and Cuomo said the current number of ICU patients — 131 — was the state’s lowest since March 16.

MLB’s St. Louis Cardinals’ hiatus extended at least 3 more days

The St. Louis Cardinals, who have played a major league-low five games because of a coronavirus outbreak in their ranks, won’t get back on the field until at least Thursday.

MLB has postponed their three-game series versus the Pittsburgh Pirates, which was supposed to start Monday, meaning the Cardinals will go at least 15 days between games and will have just 46 days to play the remaining 55 games on the schedule.

The Cardinals have had at least nine players and seven staff members test positive for COVID-19, and manager Mike Shildt said that has led to a “few visits to the ER.” St. Louis has had 15 games suspended.

– Jesse Yomtov

New Zealand marks 100 days without new COVID-19 infections

New Zealand marked 100 days with a local transmission of COVID-19 on Sunday, the country’s Ministry of Health said.

“Achieving 100 days without community transmission is a significant milestone, however, as we all know, we can’t afford to be complacent,” Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said.

“We have seen overseas how quickly the infection can re-emerge as well as spread in places where it was previously under control, and we need to be prepared to quickly stamp out any future cases in New Zealand,” he said.

There are still 23 active cases of COVID-19 in managed isolation facilities, the Ministry’s news release said.

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US surpasses 5 million cases

The U.S. hit 5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 Sunday, just 17 days after reaching 4 million cases. The nation now has about 25% of cases reported worldwide.

Last week, President Donald Trump once again said the U.S. has the virus “under control,” describing his management’s response to the pandemic as “incredible” in an interview with Axios aired Aug. 3 on HBO. This despite an average daily death toll hovering around 1,000, with almost 60,000 new cases being reported daily. Alabama has just hit 100,000 cases. South Carolina is 540 shy and Virgina is 811 short. Texas is about closing in on 500,000.

Trump’s recurring theme has been to blame the high number of cases in the U.S. on the high rate of testing. Ominous hospitalization and death rates, however, are not a function of testing.

– Khrysgiana Pineda and Mike Stucka

Georgia school in viral photo to go remote after students, staff test positive

Several students and staff members at Atlanta-area schools that drew attention for crowding and scarce use of masks have actually tested positive for the coronavirus after the first week of classes, and now one of those schools is going online. 

North Paudling High School west of Atlanta will switch to digital learning at least for Monday and Tuesday as its facilities are sanitized after nine students and staff members tested positive for the infection the first week of in-person classes. North Paulding had made headlines soon after students returned to school Aug. 3 when photos posted on social media showed hallways crowded with students, many of them not wearing masks.

And after only one week of school, more than 250 students as well as teachers from one Georgia school district will be asked to quarantine for two weeks after several teachers and students tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Cherokee County School District’s website.

– Doug Stanglin and Joel Shannon

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