Redfield said on ABC's " Good Morning America ". With the possibility of another outbreak, Redfield is urging the government to increase testing capacity now as well as taking more action, like contact tracing, in order to prepare for a second wave of cases. [Full Article...]
Reference: "COVID-19 in Children in the United States: Intensive Care Admissions, Estimated Total Infected, and Projected Numbers of Severe Pediatric Cases in 2020" by Elizabeth Barnett Pathak, PhD, MSPH; Jason L. Appealing for people to stick to the social distancing measures, she added: "We are not out of the woods, we are still in the middle of our surge, and we are on a knife-edge". [Full Article...]
Eatonville Care Centre has the highest death toll among the 42 long-term care homes in the city with COVID-19 cases. Speaking in a live webinar last night, NHS England medical director for primary care Dr Nikki Kanani told GPs: 'Now all regions have some sort of testing set up in place and we're building on that rapidly, so you should be able to access testing very rapidly. [Full Article...]
One of the key recommendations for the first phase is the avoidance of groups of more than 10 people where appropriate social distancing is impossible. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told NPR's Morning Edition that the federal guidelines resemble the plan the state adopted the day before. "America wants to open and Americans want to be open", Trump said during the afternoon coronavirus press ... [Full Article...]
Households with connections to the Cargill plant in High River - about 60 kilometres south of Calgary - now represent 358 cases, Dr. Deena Hinshaw said. There have been 239 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Alberta over the past 24 hours, Kenney added. Hinshaw urged Albertans to remember the human toll behind daily case numbers. [Full Article...]
The Chinese Clinical Trial Registry - a database of clinical trials in China - shows that the vaccine passed ethical review, and is now within the "prospective registration" phase for both the first and second phases of the clinical trials, to be randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled experiments. [Full Article...]
Critical care beds in the province are at 45.7-per-cent capacity on average, with Interior Health at 66.3-per-cent capacity with both COVID-19 and non-virus patients. Looking forward, travel is not going to be the same as it was pre-COVID-19 for some time, perhaps a year to 18 months Henry estimated, and restrictions on travel and distancing measures will continue until a vaccine is developed to p... [Full Article...]
The governor said state regulators will soon offer guidance about how to conduct graduation ceremonies. "It is time to allow those doctors and nurses to return to work", Abbott said during a Friday press conference. Bush Foundation; Kathy Britton, the CEO of Perry Homes; Richard Fisher, senior adviser at Barclays; and businessman Ross Perot Jr. "We have shown that Texas can continue our effort... [Full Article...]