What you need to know about coronavirus on Wednesday, August 19th

08/19/2020 Health, Science, World


The chancellor of the university blamed activities on campus for the outbreak, but the newspaper saw it differently. “We saw this all coming,” the Daily Tar Heel editorial wrote. “While these students are not mistaken, it was the University’s responsibility to disincentivize such meetings by considering their plans to serve them in person.”

UNC is just one of many universities in the US experiencing outbreaks, just days after students began returning to campuses. The University of Indiana’s Note Lady was forced to announce yesterday that all undergraduate classes will be at a distance for the next two weeks as it seeks to obtain its own recent spike in cases under control.

The World Health Organization said yesterday that young people are “riding more and more” the pandemic.

“Many are unaware that they are infected with very mild symptoms if at all. This can result in them passing on the unconscious unconsciously to others,” said WHO official Takeshi Kasai.

University of Kentucky, East Carolina University, Iowa State University, North Carolina State University and North Carolina State University also saw their experiments with a recap of backfire from personal classes.

The pandemic has changed higher education in principle. More than 75% of the country’s 5,000 colleges are expected to be fully online this fall, according to a count by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Stopping at home, many American students and their families begin to question whether the new one is normally worth the money. And while some universities have cut campus fees or reduced tuition fees, the majority of schools, from state institutions including Temple University and the University of Massachusetts, to elite universities such as Harvard and Stanford, hold teaching education as well.

Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at New York University who opposes high tuition fees, finds that students are right to be furious. “Universities have supported themselves in a corner,” he told CNN. “We’ve increased an average of 2 1/2 times over the last 20 years. I think Covid-19 was just the straw that broke the camel’s back, where families in America say, ‘Enough already. “We’re not going to pay $ 58,000 for Zoom classes.”

Students walk through the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Aug. 18.

YOU ASKED. WE ANSWERED

F: Should I get a flu in the fall?

A: Getting the vaccine for this year is especially important this year, experts at the World Health Organization said yesterday.

Covid-19 hit the northern hemisphere because many places came out of the flu season, according to Dr. Bruce Aylward, a senior adviser at WHO. Much of the overtraining capacity used to manage critically ill Covid-19 patients came primarily from resources available from dealing with the flu, he said.

“That marks the reason it’s so important to get the flu vaccination rate this year, even relative to previous years,” Aylward said. “We potentially need that capacity to manage Covid.”

You also want to avoid having a personal double whammy from getting both flu and Covid-19. And yes, it is possible to have both at the same time.

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What is IMPORTANT today

A historic crisis for mental health

More than 400,000 people have died from the coronavirus in North and South America, according to a Pan American Health Organization census. Americans now account for 64% of the world’s officially reported deaths from Covid-19, even though the region is home to only 13% of the world’s population.

The director of the organization Dr. Carissa Etienne said yesterday that the US and Brazil “count the biggest rulers of the cause” and warned that the pandemic is causing a historic crisis for mental health.

Strict lockdowns and restrictions have reduced the resources available to support mental health. Many people turn to alcohol and drugs to treat the pandemic, making them more envious of mental health issues, Etienne warned.

Data from somewhere else is worrying. Approximately one-fifth of British adults probably experienced some form of depression during the coronavirus pandemic, according to official figures released yesterday – twice as much as before the pandemic hit.

Vaccine tests need more minority volunteers

The first trial of a coronavirus vaccine in the U.S. is moving toward a good clip, but needs more members of minority groups to sign up than it is to succeed, officials told CNN’s Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.

While Black people and Latinos account for more than 50% of the Covid-19 cases in the U.S., so far they make up only about 15% of the participants in the nation’s first large-scale clinical trial for a vaccine for coronavirus testing, according to data obtained by CNN from a government official.

That discrepancy could potentially delay a vaccine from reaching the market. Federal law and National Institutes of Health policy mandate inclusion of minorities in clinical trials because vaccines and drugs may have a different impact on them than they do on White people.

Schools in Los Angeles launch huge Covid-19 test program

The second-largest school district in the U.S. will provide regular Covid-19 testing and contact tracing to all students and staff and to families of those who test positive – a move the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) described as “unusual” but “necessary.”
LAUSD, with more than 600,000 students, begins the new school year without classes in person, as Covid-19 spreads widely in California and the Los Angeles area.
Superintendent Austin Beutner told CNN the neighborhood is just following the science: “If we want to keep schools from becoming a petri dish and we all want to keep the school community safe, we need to test and trace in schools.” The hope, he said, is to build a foundation for when LAUSD schools are open to personal learning.

Australia beats vaccine attack, but jab will not be mandatory anyway

Australia has secured an agreement with UK-based pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for access to a potential Covid-19 vaccine if trials prove successful. Under the deal, Australians would get the vaccine for free.
Speaking to a local radio station, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia has a 95% vaccination target, which would allow people to reckon with health conditions that prevent them from being vaccinated. “I would expect it to be just as obligatory if you could make it possible,” he told Melbourne radio station 3AW. However, he later explained his remarks, telling a Sydney radio station that the government would not make vaccination compulsory. “No one will force anyone to do everything as a mandatory measure, but we will certainly encourage people to take this up,” he told the 2GB drive.

One solution for slow testing: Sewage

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not shy about looking at poop to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Studies have shown that the virus can be found in the feces of people who are sick and also of people who do not yet have Covid-19 symptoms. Since about 80% of American homes are associated with one type of municipal sewage, sewage can become a great tool to track the spread of the disease across the entire country.

The CDC hopes that its new sewage control programming will complement America’s inadequate testing and contact tracing, give a good idea of ​​how widespread the infection is and give communities a few extra days to prepare for power outlets in hospitals or to lockdown to make decision.

A similar program was tested in Germany earlier this year, but the idea of ​​looking at sewerage during epidemics is not even new in the US – it was used in polio outbreaks in the past.

ON RADAR

Former defender Russell Ledet is just two years away from adding MD to his name.
  • A Black medical student works the front lines of the pandemic in the same hospital where he was once a security guard.
  • France will make face covering mandatory in closed shared office routes from 1 September. Masks will not be required in individual offices “as long as only one person is present.”
  • New York police have launched a new Asian Hate Crime Task Force following an escalation of racist attacks against Asian Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Boeing plans more cuts to the top 16,000 announced this spring.
  • The South Korean capital Seoul will seek damage from the church in the center of a recent outbreak. The city says the church’s resources and complicated traces of efforts through “falsehood and noncompliance.”
  • The U.S. stock market just hit its first record since the pandemic began, meaning the 2020 bear market is officially over. The S&P 500 climbed higher on a combination of unusual fiscal and monetary stimulus in response to the pandemic, as well as hopes for a rapid economic rebound.

TOP TIPS

Take your vacation days before you regret it

Working all the time does not make you a hero. In fact, it is likely to make you less efficient and put you at a higher risk of outbreak. Some companies use bad manners in a bid to get workers to take time off.
Not convinced yet? So think of it this way: your paid time is not spent leaving money on the table.

TODAY’S PODCAST

However, the virus travels above six feet. But the greatest intensity of exposure will still happen near someone. – Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings program at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Can the coronavirus be spread through the air? And if so, what can we do to help keep the air in our homes and buildings as clean as possible? Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings program at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, about the science behind airborne transmission. Listen now.

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