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Abbott wins US approval for rapid COVID-19 test
It uses the same technology as some flu and pregnancy tests. Under the agreement, the Trump administration would purchase 150 million of the tests, which take only 15 minutes to deliver results. Abbott noted that it has developed multiple tests to help combat COVID-19, this latest one is its sixth. The United States has so far conducted 74 million coronavirus tests, according to the Covid Tr... [Full Article...]
COVID-19 contacts should be tested, regardless of symptoms
Across the country, public health experts called the change weird. Giroir defended the changed guidelines , saying the intent is to shift testing so it's driven more by public health officials around the country and less by individuals who want a test because they're anxious but not sick. [Full Article...]
COVID-19 Statistics | Aug. 27, 2020
That's the lowest seven-day average in two months. No new health-care facility outbreaks were reported or community outbreaks. At the peak of the virus in the spring, the state regularly reported well over 1,000 new cases on a daily basis. [Full Article...]
Coronavirus: Women are better at fighting the virus than men, study claims
In the United Kingdom, researchers studying 17 million adults found that men could face almost twice the risk of death from the virus as women. The team followed patients over time to observe how initial immune responses differ in those who recover from the disease compared to those who progress to worse stages. [Full Article...]
OHA: 222 new cases, 6 new deaths
Josephine County Public Health reported three new cases, bringing the total to 154, and Klamath County reported 4 new cases, bringing the total to 234. A 62-year-old man in Multnomah County who tested positive on August 16 and died on August 22 at Adventist Health Portland. From Aug. 20-26, the state administered 151,008 COVID-19 tests. [Full Article...]
Province continues to see increase in drug toxicity deaths
According to the Coroners Service, this is the third consecutive month with more than 170 suspected illicit drug deaths reported. That equates to nearly six people dying a day from illicit drug overdoses across B.C in July, and nearly 6,000 deaths since the province declared the overdose crisis a public health emergency in April of 2016, Lapointe stressed. [Full Article...]
Ohio State suspends more than 200 students for breaking COVID-19 policy
Local news site AL.com quoted university president Stuart Bell saying the problem did not stem from student behavior on campus but probably came from the community. The University of Southern California (USC), which resumed education nearly entirely online on August 17, on Monday said that more than 100 students at the University Park Campus in Los Angeles were in a 14-day quarantine after exposur... [Full Article...]
Africa Declared Free of Wild Polio Disease
There are still pockets of children have no access to the polio vaccine, leading to outbreaks of the cVDPV. Wild polio cases in Nigeria. The last region to eradicate wild polio was Southeast Asia. Polio once was a common virus. How did Africa eliminate wild polio? No country can be safe from this disease until the whole world is rid of it. [Full Article...]