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- ‘Superspreader’ leaves seven dead
- Fresh curbs in the EU
A wedding in rural Maine turned into a coronavirus “super spread” event that left seven people dead and 177 infected, renewing fear of the disease in the northeastern US state that expected the worst of the pandemic was behind. The nuptials in early August were attended by 65 people, breaking the official limit of 50 allowed in a meeting. Ten days later, two dozen people associated with the wedding tested positive for COVID-19 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Maine opened an investigation. None of the seven people who died had attended the wedding. Contact trackers linked the wedding to several virus hotspots across the state, including more than 80 cases in a prison 370 kilometers away, where one of the guards had attended the ceremony. Another 10 probable cases were found in a Baptist church in the same area, while 39 infections, and six of the deaths, occurred in a nursing home 100 miles from Millinocket.
Moderna and Pfizer publish plans for the vaccine study
The American biotechnology firm Moderna, one of nine companies in the final stages of clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine, became the first to publish full plans for its study following calls for greater transparency. Pfizer, the other American company currently conducting phase 3 testing in the US, did the same shortly after and now there is additional pressure for the rest to do the same. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said her company would know if its vaccine works in November. October is possible but unlikely, he told CNBC.
The EU imposes new limits as cases exceed 30 million worldwide
Much of Europe prepared on Friday to implement new and sweeping restrictions to stop the coronavirus, after infections worldwide surpassed 30 million and the World Health Organization warned of “alarming transmission rates.” Britain is limiting meetings and France is poised to implement new restrictions for major cities as governments across the continent battle new outbreaks of the disease. WHO’s regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, said an increase seen this month “should serve as a wake-up call” after the continent recorded 54,000 infections in a single day last week, a new record.
COVID-19 patients report ‘persistent fatigue’
More than half of the Covid-19 patients and staff monitored by an Irish hospital suffered persistent fatigue as a result of the initial illness, according to a new study on Friday highlighting the “significant burden” of persistent symptoms. “While the presenting characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been well characterized, the medium and long-term consequences of the infection remain unexplored,” said Liam Townsend, St James’s Hospital and Trinity Translational Medicine Institute. from Trinity College Dublin. The study, which followed 128 participants at St James’s Hospital, found that 52 percent reported persistent fatigue when assessed an average of 10 weeks after “clinical recovery” from infection, regardless of the severity of the initial infection. .
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