According to the report, researchers culled data from 149,760 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States between February 12 and April 2. Although children under age 18 make up 22% of the US population, they accounted for only 1.7% of the 149,082 confirmed COVID-19 cases for which the patient's age was known, researchers wrote in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report . [Full Article...]
A video from Apple CEO Tim Cook embedded in a tweet reveals that the tech giant is building something rather low tech but very much needed right now. Cook made the announcement Sunday on Twitter, saying his design, engineering, packaging and operations teams are working with suppliers to manufacture and ship the protector. [Full Article...]
Solving it could lead major progress in understanding how and why the virus sickens and kills those in other age groups, scientists say. Robert Redfield , the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday that he expects significantly fewer deaths from COVID-19 than the numbers predicted by models, ABC News reported. [Full Article...]
You can find those guidelines here. Warren County Public Schools tweeted "Per Governor Andy Beshear and KDE Commissioner Kevin Brown, Warren County Public Schools will be closed through May 1st". "My faith would never let me put someone else in that position". Characteristically optimistic in his Saturday evening news conference, Kentucky Gov. [Full Article...]
McConnell, R-Ky., said Congress should focus on correcting any shortcomings in the earlier $2. 2 trillion aid bill and rely on health care experts for solutions to "wipe out" the virus. Democrats largely support it as a component of a broader new aid package, but McConnell wants to swiftly jam it through Congress this week, even though the House and Senate all but shuttered. [Full Article...]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ( CDC ) analysis also found. That's less than 2% of total cases, even though that age group makes up 22% of the USA population. Of those sub-groups, 147 children were reported hospitalized, including 15 admitted to an ICU, the report said. "These findings must be interpreted with caution because of the high percentage of cases missing data on import... [Full Article...]
The study was shared to stress the importance of lockdown to India's containment strategy as cases topped 4,789 and deaths 124. "ICMR has done a study and based on that, if the social exposure is reduced by 75% then an infected person will only infect 2.5 others in a matter of 30 days, telling us about the effects of better implementation of the lockdown and social distancing ", Union Ministry ... [Full Article...]
The Epoch Times reported that on March 27, the first USA patient received the experimental convalescent plasma treatment in a hospital in Texas. Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center will soon collect plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to help newly diagnosed patients fight the disease as part of a new convalescent plasma therapy. [Full Article...]