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October 12, 2020
COVID-19 News from Around the Web
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October 12, 2020
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CNN -
October 12, 2020
The recent uptick in coronavirus cases across the United States has emergency physicians fearing it could represent the start of a "dreaded second wave." … A total of 57,420 new US cases were reported on Friday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That is the most cases reported in a single day since August 14, when there were 64,601 new cases.
AP -
October 12, 2020
Europe’s second wave of coronavirus infections has struck well before flu season even started, with intensive care wards filling up again and bars shutting down. Making matters worse, authorities say, is a widespread case of “COVID-fatigue.” Record high daily infections in several eastern European countries and sharp rebounds in the hard-hit west have made clear that Europe never really crushed the COVID-19 curve as hoped, after springtime lockdowns.
Reuters -
October 12, 2020
“I can’t imagine that anybody could be doing more,” the ad shows Fauci saying. But those remarks are from a March interview, where Fauci, who has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984, was discussing the broader effort, including by the White House coronavirus task force. “In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate,” Fauci said in a statement.
BBC -
October 12, 2020
The virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces such as banknotes, phone screens and stainless steel for 28 days, researchers say. The findings from Australia's national science agency suggest SARS-Cov-2 can survive for far longer than thought. However, the experiment was conducted in the dark. UV light has already been shown to kill the virus. Some experts have also thrown doubt on the actual threat posed by surface transmission in real life.
ABC News -
October 12, 2020
The Broadway League announced on its website Friday that theaters are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for any performances that had previously been scheduled up through that date. … According to The League, dates for new and returning Broadway shows will be announced as individual productions determine the performance schedules for their respective shows. Touring shows across North American are also affected.
USA Today -
October 12, 2020
One-third of teachers told Education Week in July they were somewhat or very likely to leave their job this year, compared with just 8% who leave the profession in a typical year. But while that survey might reflect teachers' feelings over the summer, a review of the retirement and staffing figures collected in some of the first states to resume classes this year suggests that fears of a mass exodus of retiring teachers may have been overblown.
American Heart Association -
October 12, 2020
Hispanics, who currently make up about 18% of the U.S. population, are disproportionally getting sick and dying compared to non-Latino white people, as the pandemic continues to highlight societal inequities that leave historically marginalized communities more at risk to be exposed to the virus. A recent study found that Latinos 65 years and older were two times more likely to die from the coronavirus than white non-Latinos of the same age group. … By the end of September, Hispanics made up 29% of nearly 2.7 million cases tracked by the CDC, and 16.6% of over 121,000 deaths in which they could determine race and ethnicity.
New York Post -
October 12, 2020
An open letter demanding governments pursue “herd immunity” in regards to COVID-19 has been found to contain fake names among the “experts” as well as the general public. “Experts” in the Great Barrington Declaration, which claimed to represent more than 15,000 scientists and medical practitioners as well as 150,000 members of the general public, included “Dr. I.P. Freely”, “Dr. Person Fakename” and “Dr. Johnny Bananas, who listed himself as a “Dr of Hard Sums,” according to an exposé in SkyNews.
TODAY -
October 12, 2020
We’re now about nine months into the pandemic, more than 200,000 people in the U.S. have died (the death toll around the world is already over a million). … but the pandemic isn’t our only problem. We’ve been dealing with many other additional ongoing stressors, including election stress, mass job loss, a strained health care system, civil unrest, a national reckoning with systemic racism and the ongoing debate on whether or not to kids should be attending school in person. It’s a lot to deal with — too much, even — and in many cases it’s resulting in what mental health experts call “crisis fatigue.”
CNN -
October 9, 2020
The US is averaging more than 45,000 new Covid-19 positive tests each day -- up 8% from the previous week and more than double what the country was seeing in June, as lockdown restrictions were easing. It's a case count experts warn is far too high ahead of what's forecast to be a challenging -- and deadly -- winter season. The latest US CDC ensemble forecast says US Covid-19 deaths could reach 233,000 by the end of this month.
AP -
October 9, 2020
A surge of coronavirus cases in Wisconsin and the Dakotas is forcing a scramble for hospital beds and raising political tensions, as the Upper Midwest and Plains emerge as one of the nation’s most troubling hot spots. The three states now lead all others in new cases per capita, after months in which many politicians and residents rejected mask requirements while downplaying the risks of the disease that has now killed over 210,000 Americans.