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In the headlines:
– Japan has confirmed the country’s first five cases of a new type of coronavirus known in the United Kingdom. Health Minister Norihisa Tamura said the five arrived in Britain between December 18 and 21. Four out of five were asymptomatic, but one person developed fatigue in the 60s.
Operation Pope Francis argued for Christmas, urging that “vaccines for everyone, especially the most vulnerable and needy,” should be first in line. Francis commented -f-the-cuff during his traditional “bi rbi at orby” blessing.
Italy has entered a holiday lockdown until January 6 with the aim of restricting get-goers. Worldwide, holiday celebrations have been scaled back or canceled altogether.
– The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s influential COVID-19M model Dale warned this week that following the current spread of the virus in the U.S., states could see daily deaths reach imp, 000 by mid-September. Briefing projects on Wednesday, February.
Ep Republicans on Thursday blocked an attempt to increase direct payments to Americans in the latest stimulus package from 600 600 to $ 2,000. Democrats said they told President Donald Trump this week that they were sending a big direct check.
– The Transportation Security Administration said it recorded an epidemic of 1,191,123 people at airports across the country on Wednesday. While Wednesday’s average was still 38% lower than the day of the same week a year earlier, which was the fourth day during the Christmas holiday rush, the number of passengers peaked at 1 million.
– The federal government is close to delivering 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as promised in December, but states will take longer than expected to take those doses into people’s arms. Here is what officials say about vaccinations.
📈 Today’s number: U.S. There are more than 18.6 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 329,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Global average: over one million million cases and 1.7 million deaths.
Here’s a look around at today’s top stories:
U.K. For travelers traveling from U.S. Negative COVID-19 testing is required
Air travelers traveling to the United States will be required to provide a negative coronavirus test within 72 hours of departure, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late Thursday night.
The move comes as a growing number of countries banning British tourists are on the rise as new strains of the coronavirus spread rapidly in London and elsewhere.
Earlier this week, Canada and dozens of other counties told British Prime Minister Boris Jones that the coronavirus variant could be 70% more transmissible and that it was spreading the infection alarmingly in London and surrounding areas.
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said preliminary analysis in the UK indicated that while the new type was “significantly more transmissible”, there was no indication that the infection was more severe. Experts warn, however, that even if this type is not more lethal, it can lead to an increase in infections, hospitalizations and virus-related deaths.
The order, which President Donald Trump is expected to sign on Friday, will take effect on December 28, according to the CDC.
How will you be told when it is time to vaccinate Kovid-19? It’s complicated.
According to public health and policy experts and state vaccination plans, the Covid-1 vaccine, rolled into limited groups of people in the United States, will not be clear on how people learn that they are eligible to receive their shots when supply is limited. According to public health and policy experts and state vaccination plans.
The vaccine rollout is largely left to the states, and people do not know when they are eligible to receive their vaccine. And can be proactive in finding out where they meet and proving that they meet the criteria for being ahead in line.
“I think it’s going to be a little vague,” said Katie Green, a visiting policy associate at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if thousands of individuals were left out because of the information gap,” added Tinglong Dae, a professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, which studies operations management and business analytics in healthcare.
COVID-19 antibodies can protect against the virus for six months or more, studies show
Evidence from two new studies suggests that getting antibodies to COVID-19 may protect against future infections.
According to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute have found that people with antibodies to a natural infection are less likely to test positive again for six months and perhaps longer. The research looked at 12,500 health workers from Oxford University Hospitals in the UK.
The second study, still peer-reviewed, involved more than a million people who underwent antibody testing from two private labs in the United States. Only .03% of people who initially had antibodies later tested positive for coronavirus, compared to 3% who had a lack of such antibodies.
Joshua Wolfe, an infectious disease specialist at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, who was not involved in the research, said the findings were not surprising. “But it’s really reassuring because it tells people that immunity to the virus is normal.”
– Adriana Rodriguez
40 million Americans could be left homeless after federal evacuation deadline in January
Millions of Americans are on the verge of being evicted with the Federal Equity Mortuary ending in late January, with advocates saying it could be a historic historic housing disaster: without federal intervention, they fear, nearly 40 million people displaced amid an ongoing and even worse epidemic. Can happen.
“We are facing the worst housing and homelessness crisis in our country’s history,” said DN Yentel, chairman and CEO of the National Law Income Housing Coalition in Washington DC.
CDC The original term of dismissal approved by Rs. The deadline is December 3 and will be extended to January by Congress under the 900 900 billion Covid-19 relief package, which includes 25 25 billion in emergency rental assistance.
But critics say the vague wording of the order has led to inconsistent execution and allowed designated homeowners to find loopholes. Moreover, tenants are often unaware of the order, and without a legal representation, many are not equipped to walk to court. Read more here.
– Mark Ramirez, Sarah Taddeo and Tiffany Cusack-Smith
Contributing: The Associated Press
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