Americans move around too much and take coronavirus with them, says expert

“Number one, wash your hands. Number two, look at your distance – which means you stay at least six feet from others and avoid over crowded places. And number three, wear a face mask,” Adams said.

Re-think the test

One key factor in reopening the U.S. while maintaining security is rethinking the national strategy for testing for the virus, said Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former USAID administrator.

At present, only symptomatic people are frequently tested, which means that 40% to 50% of all spreaders, those who have no symptoms, are not tested and told they can be contagious, he said.

“You need to know that as soon as possible, and then limit transmission from that node of contamination,” he said during an Aspen Ideas webinar on Friday. “That’s the whole ball game.”

But even tests of primarily symptomatic people have been affected by delays, many states report.

The Virginia Department of Health reported a sharp increase in cases on Friday, but that increase came from a technical problem and a delay of two days in advance, according to a statement.

And Miami-Dade County, the hotspot for cases in Florida, is struggling with a lag in test results, according to state data obtained by CNN.

One day in the past week, test tabs reported that 19.2% of test results took more than seven days to deliver. On another day, 45% of the test results took between four and seven days.

Precautions are also important for children

As schools reopen for the new school year, researchers are learning more about how the virus spreads among children.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supports the early belief that most cases of coronavirus in children seem asymptomatic or mild in children. But, the report said, when children are in the hospital, they need the intensive care unit as often as adults do.

To carry out the pandemic, the CDC said that children should be encouraged to wash their hands frequently, keep a good physical distance from others, and if they are 2 years or older, they should wear a mask when they are outside people outside their family members.

One rare but serious complication that children can develop from a coronavirus infection is known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome, known as MIS-C, and at least 570 cases have been reported, the CDC said.

As the pandemic continues, health care providers should be on the lookout for the syndrome that most commonly causes abdominal pain, vomiting and a skin rash.

More than 74% of the cases were among Spanish and Black children, the CDC said.

Pandemic marks racial differences

For color communities, Covid-19 has been a “double whammy” showing the work that the U.S. needs to do to correct differences in health and wellness, Drs. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on Friday.

For example, Black Americans are more likely to have jobs that are considered essential, Fauci said, leading to a much greater risk of them becoming infected.

“Then there’s the other thing that really is the chronic and decades – old dilemma of the social determinants of health. That’s why African Americans have a higher degree of diabetes, of hypertension, of obesity, of heart disease, of chronic lung disease, of kidney disease, “Fauci said. “That does not have to be the case. But to be corrected, you have to promise for decades to change that.”

Part of that commitment should include creating resources such as direct testing and results, such as access to health care concentrated in demographics at higher risk of infection.

Fax trials for Operation Warp Speed ​​will be inclusive and diverse, Chief Counsel Moncef Slaoui said Friday. And once it is complete, he said they will be widely distributed.

“We are very much aware of the importance of ensuring that the faxes, if and when they are available, are appropriately allocated to the population, based on data … and based on need,” he said.