At Indiana University Bloomington, county health officials last week ordered the evacuation of 30 sorority and comrades’ homes, prompting campus officials to call a “worrying increase” in in-house Cozid-19 tests.
The school instructed Greek homes to suspend all personal activities until at least Monday. It also recommends that students living in the homes of sorority and comrades evaluate their living conditions, due to the cluster eruption.
“The IU team of public health experts is very concerned that Greek homes are witnessing an uncontrolled spread of Covid-19,” the university said in a statement. “This is a significant risk to the approximately 2,600 students currently living in Greek or other sectarian housing organizations, as well as another 42,000 IU Bloomington students, 12,000 faculty and staff on campus, and surrounding communities.”
“We’ve reached a stage where we need to quickly flatten the curve of infection, or we’ll miss the opportunity to open campus for students this semester, which we know a lot of students really want,” Blanke wrote.
Some have the highest number of cases at the University of Miami, the University of South Carolina, Ohio State University and the University of East Carolina, all of which have more than 1,000 confirmed cases. The University of Missouri has 862 confirmed cases while Missouri State University receives CNN at 791.
While most students are likely to recover, health experts have expressed concern that young people are more susceptible to spreading the virus in their communities.
U.S. Cases of 6.4M coronavirus may occur in April
Across the country, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has been greatly reduced, largely due to a lack of testing, a new study shows.
U.S. In this case “does not capture the total burden of the epidemic” because testing is limited to people with moderate to severe symptoms due to limited availability, according to researchers at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
“We know that in the U.S., at the onset of the epidemic, people who were screened had moderate to severe symptoms,” said Jade Benjamin-Chung, co-author of the study and professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Berkeley Public. Health. “And we know that since then, we have had a number of asymptomatic people who are affecting the total number of infections but may not be included in the confirmed case count.”
These findings corroborate previous statements by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that the number of cases in the country is much higher than considered. In June, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said 90% or more cases are missing in the test.
The doctor expressed outrage at the ‘misinformation’
In a series of interviews, Trump told investigator reporter Bob Woodward that he reduced the fear because he didn’t want people to panic.
The director of global health at ER Medicine at NY-Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center, frontline worker Dr. Craig Spencer expressed his anger over the revelation.
“I’m angry because you want to talk about panic and reduce panic – every family I call on FaceTime thinks about panic so they know their family member is dying or dying,” Spencer said. Cooper told CNN’s Anderson. “And I think about that about 190,000 times around this country.”
Spencer, an Ebola survivor, was working in a trench in New York City last spring when about 800 people were dying a day from covid-19 in the city.
“As a frontline provider, I’m angry because if we had taken the first step and prepared like us, we wouldn’t have had to take so many of them, and the president clearly knew what we needed to do,” Spenter said. “As a public health official, I am angry because this is another incident from the very beginning that the president has undermined public health professionals, which has contradicted our messaging.”
He said it was almost “impossible” for health professionals to continue and correct the president’s misinformation.
CNN’s Shelby Lynn Erdman and Jason Hanna contributed to this report.
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