A total of 27 people were killed in the state on Wednesday and 21 more by noon on Thursday.
Covid Tracking Project data shows that it reported the highest number of admissions to its Covid-19 hospital on Wednesday – more than double the number seen at the end of August, when they were as high as 200, according to Covid Tracking Project data.
More than half of Wisconsin’s coun૨ counties – 45 – are experiencing “very high” Covid-19 activity, with more than 350 cases per 100,000 people, Secretary of State Department of Health-Design, Almandrea Palm, said Thursday.
The seven-day average of Wisconsin’s new daily official cases reached a high of 2,334, above the 600 and 700s average seen at the end of Wednesday Gust.
State teachers’ unions are urging college students around Wisconsin to apply virtual learning to kindergarten, according to a report from the Milwaukee Key Teachers Education Association.
Elsewhere, leaders are sounding the alarm
State leaders across the country are sounding the alarm over the rising Kovid-19 cases, which experts say could offset the upcoming surge.
“Today’s infection could become a cluster tomorrow,” Kumo said.
“We’re still knee deep in the first wave of this,” Fawcett said in a Facebook and Twitter livestream.
In Kentucky, government Andy Bachere on Wednesday urged the state to halt the recent “growth” after more than 1,000 new infections were reported for the second day in a row.
The Governor said that today’s daily report is very low. “I need your help. It’s ours and we’ve got work to do.”
And in Illinois, governors are tightening restrictions in one part of the state after an increase in the positivity rate.
The New York City Teachers Union says some schools should close if the case does not come up
New York City officials are carefully looking at 10 city pin codes where cases of coronavirus are on the rise, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday, with more schools reopening for personal education.
The city’s health department on Thursday issued an order giving all agencies, including the police and fire department, the power to shut down businesses that repeatedly violate the city and state’s Covid-19 safety requirements.
The president of the New York City Teachers’ Union said Thursday that he would demand the school close if the case did not appear in the ZIP code.
“If that number doesn’t come down, this is where a little bit of fighting will end,” said Michael Merv Lagru, president of the United Federation of Teachers. “And if that means we have to go to court or do something else, we will.”
De Blasio said Thursday he would look into whether a school closure is necessary in the hotspot neighborhood, but added that schools have seen “relatively few” Covid-19 cases so far.
One building – a special education school with 262 students in Queens – has been closed for two weeks due to a case there. He said some other schools have been closed for a day.
Otherwise, “with a school system that will have as many as 100,000,000 children individually this week, and more than 100,000 teachers and staff in buildings, we are seeing relatively few cases every day,” the mayor said.
Researchers say that if you lose your sense of smell or taste, consider separating
According to research published on Thursday, a decrease in smell and taste is a strong indication that someone is infected with Covid-19 – and those who lose anything should consider separating, even if they have no other symptoms, according to research published on Thursday. According to.
“Our findings show that loss of smell and taste is a reliable indicator that someone is likely to have Covid-1, and if we are to reduce the spread of this epidemic, it should now be considered a self-assessment by governments globally.” Testing and contact tracing, ”said Rachel Betterham of University College London and University College London Hospitals, who helped lead the study team.
The team studied 590 volunteers who experienced a new loss of smell or taste. They tested them 567 for coronavirus.
Of the 567, more than 77% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. The team reported in the journal PLoS Medicine that, in total, 80.4% of participants who reported odor loss and 77.8% of those who reported loss of taste had a positive test result.
About 40% of those who tested positive for antibodies did not have a fever or cough.
Betterham and colleagues also found that participants with odor loss alone were nearly three times more likely to have tasting Covid-19 antibodies than patients, and participants with combined odor and taste loss were four times more likely. There are antibodies.
The study recruited its volunteers between April 23 and May 14, 2020, at the time of the Covid-19 outbreak in London. It does not include a comparison group of people who did not lose their sense of smell and / or taste.
CNN’s Naomi Thomas, Sheena Jones, Christina Sigglia, Anna Sturla, Betsy Klein, Claudia Dominguez, K. Jones and Gregory Lemos contributed to this report.
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