The World Health Organization said yesterday that the number of new infections exceeded 160,000 every day during the past week, double the level seen at the peak of the European outbreak in March and April.
The Middle East is also at a critical threshold, says the WHO. The region saw more new cases only in June than in January and May. Almost 90% of all reported deaths in the region are in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan.
At least 23 states have pushed back or slowed reopening plans to some degree.
The WHO says the fastest way to get out of this crisis is to follow science. “We will never tire of saying that the best way to get out of this pandemic is to take a holistic approach … not do testing alone. Not just physical distancing. Not just contact tracing. No masks alone. Do it all,” he said. The OMS. said the boss yesterday.
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“Studies have shown that when you’re just talking, the bigger [respiratory] the drops really don’t travel more than three to six feet, “said Lindsey Marr, a Virginia Tech professor who has been studying the Covid-19 transmission.
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Americans who stayed at home before they were told to save lives, study finds
The study found that social distancing measures and the virus slowdown were primarily due to changes in individual behavior and local regulations, and that state and federal regulations were implemented too late or not implemented at all. In the 25 counties evaluated in the study, people moved less than six to 29 days before state orders to stay home were implemented.
Reopen bars now or schools this fall
There are a variety of models at play elsewhere, such as staggered schedules and strict distancing. In Denmark, for example, some schools have isolated each classroom into cohorts or protective bubbles, and do not mix outside of a class. In the United Kingdom, one of the worst affected countries, the government had to abandon a plan to reopen all schools.
The United States purchases almost the entire global supply of key drugs Covid-19
The Department of Health and Human Services said Monday it has secured 100% of Gilead’s projected production for July and 90% of its production for August and September, plus more for clinical trials. Gilead had donated a supply of 1.5 million doses of remdesivir to countries around the world, which he says is enough for around 140,000 courses of treatment. According to HHS, nearly a million doses have been reserved for the U.S., but supply is running low.
Pandemic threatens Xi’s legacy
China’s economy contracted 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the previous year, and for the first time in decades, Beijing did not set a GDP target. China has been trying to break out of its economic slump, and there are some signs of recovery, although the way forward remains slow and painful.
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- New Zealand’s health minister became the last official to resign after violating the blocking rules.
- The Covid-19 vaccine candidate developed by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the German biotechnology company BioNTech has yielded positive data in the first tests, the companies said.
- More than a dozen members of Xavante’s Brazilian population have recently died of coronavirus symptoms, raising fears that the virus will strongly affect the country’s indigenous populations.
- Nearly a third of Asian Americans say they have been the target of racist insults or jokes since the pandemic began.
- A 5-year-old boy with leg prostheses has raised $ 1 million for the UK health service by walking six miles.
- Prague celebrated the end of the running of the bulls with a massive dinner at a 1,600-foot table.
- A healthy 30-year-old man “really didn’t care about Covid” and went to a crowded bar. He ended up in a hospital with a breathing tube.
- The number of active duty US servicemen infected with the new coronavirus has more than doubled in the past three weeks.
- Yale University will open the campus with no sophomores in the fall and no freshmen in the spring.
- Jennifer Aniston and Tom Hanks really want everyone to “wear a damn mask.”
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“We have nurses and doctors in our ICU, [who are] Caring for these Covid patients, who have to use the same N95 respirator five days in a row because we have no others. We are so short. “
– Michael Osterholm, infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota.
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