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COVID UPDATE

 

 

Last updated on 31 August, 2020 (11:15 pm PST), John Hopkins Corona Virus Dashboard and Worldometer

Cases Worldwide

  

                    John Hopkins                                                       Worldometer

• TOTAL CASES      -  25,405,845                       TOTAL CASES       -  25,634,100

Recovered         -  16,745,442                        Recovered           -  17,939,174

• TOTAL DEATHS   -       849,389                       TOTAL DEATHS     -       854,762

 

Cases in the U.S.

            POPULATION      - 331,002,651, as of 30 July 2020 

• TOTAL CASES       -   6,029,695                     TOTAL CASES        -     6,211,796

Recovered          -   2,184,825                        Recovered          -     3,456,263

• TOTAL DEATHS     -      183,585                    TOTAL DEATHS       -       187,736

Unemployed - In the week ending August 22, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 1,006,000, a decrease of 98,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised down by 2,000 from 1,106,000 to 1,104,000. The 4-week moving average was 1,068,000, a decrease of 107,250 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised down by 500 from 1,175,750 to 1,175,250. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 9.9 percent for the week ending August 15, a decrease of 0.2 percentage point from the previous week's revised rate.

 

The State Employment and Unemployment data for August 2020 are scheduled to be released on September 18, 2020, at 10:00 A.M. Eastern Time.

 

Cases in California

• TOTAL CASES       -     705,951                        TOTAL CASES     -         712,351 

Recovered          -                                           Recovered        -         330,996

• TOTAL DEATHS     -      12,937                       TOTAL DEATHS     -          13,020

• Unemployed       - 2,591,000 or 13.7% statewide

 

8/9/2020                     Cases                           Deaths                 Recovered

• Texas            -   642,721                         12,908                          521,220
• Florida           -   623,471                         11,189                           78,829
• Georgia         -   570,471                           5,632                           49,120
• New York      -   466,118                         33,030                          371,339
• Arizona         -   201,835                          5,030                            30,682

Covid and children - United States:

The number and rate of coronavirus cases in children in the U.S. has "steadily increased" between March and July, according to new guidance released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The surge in cases comes as schools across the country struggle with returning to ‘in-person learning.’  There has been a 90% increase in the number of Covid-19 cases among children in the United States over the last four weeks, according to a new analysis by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association. 

Children make up about 22% of the nation's population and account for approximately 9% of all COVID-19 cases, as of August 20.  The CDC indicated at least 32% of children with the coronavirus are asymptomatic.  However, the CDC also cautioned that evidence suggests as many as 45% of these cases are asymptomatic. 

 

There were 179,990 new Covid-19 cases among U.S. children between July 9 and August 6.  At least 380,174 total Covid-19 cases and 90 deaths have been reported in children as of August 6. 

 

 

CORONA VIRUS / COVID 19 TIMELINE

December

•    8 - A patient in the city of Wuhan, China sought medical help for pneumonia-like

      symptoms of unknown etiology.”

January

•   3 - China officially notifies the WHO of an outbreak.
•   7 - The outbreak is identified as a new coronavirus
• 21 - United States confirms its first case in Washington State, a man who traveled to the

        Wuhan area.

• 24 - Europe confirms its first case.  The United States confirms its second case, a woman

        in her sixties in Chicago.

• 25 - United States confirms its third case, a man in his fifties in Orange County,

        California. 

• 28 - United Airlines suspends all flights to China from the United States. 
• 30 - WHO declared the outbreak a global public health emergency as more than 9,000

        cases were reported worldwide, including in 18 countries beyond China.

February

•   5 -  The Diamond Princess cruise ship was quarantined in Yokohama with about 3,700

        people, including passengers and crew, onboard.

•          CDC announces several planes carrying passengers from Wuhan, China, will arrive             in California, Texas, and Nebraska.

•   7 - 1st official Covid report

• Total Countries With Confirmed Cases: 25
• Total Cases Confirmed Globally: 31,484
• Total Deaths Worldwide: 638
• Deaths Outside of China: 2

•       The United States pledges $100 million USD to assist China and other countries fight           the coronavirus.

• 10 - The Trump administration releases a budget proposal for FY21 that would sharply

        cut funding for WHO and global health funding.

• 11 - WHO names the disease COVID-19, short for “coronavirus disease 2019.
• 13 - U.S. CDC Director says the coronavirus will likely become a community virus

        and remain beyond this season.

• 14 -  Japan confirms an additional sixty-seven cases aboard the Diamond Princess cruise

        ship, raising the total to 285.

• 17 - Evacuated U.S. passengers from the cruise ship Diamond Princess arrive in the

        United States, including fourteen with confirmed infections.

• 18 - The CDC issues a statement on the Diamond Princess quarantine, preventing all

        passengers and crew of the ship from returning to the United States for 14 days

• 24 - The U.S. stock market plummeted over coronavirus fears, after the Dow Jones

        Industrial Average experienced the worst day in two years.

• 25 - The CDC warns that spread to the United States is likely and to prepare.

• Late February - a widely publicized genomic analysis suggested that SARS-CoV-2 had

        been silently spreading in Washington State.  Analysis traced the outbreak origin to

        a traveler designated WA1, after his arrival from China on 15 January.  

March

•   1 - Florida declares a state of emergency.
•   4 - California declares state of emergency over coronavirus

•        House passes $8.3 billion emergency coronavirus bill

•   6 - CDC urges those over 60 to stay indoors

• Total Countries With Confirmed Cases: 90
• Total Cases Confirmed Globally: 100,481
• Total Deaths Worldwide: 3,408
• Deaths Outside of China: 366

•   7 - New York declares a state of emergency
• 10 - Coronavirus is reported in all 26 European Union member states
• 11 - WHO, deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and the

        levels of inaction made the assessment that COVID-19 be characterized a pandemic.

•        United States announces level 3 travel advisory and suspended entry to all foreign             nationals traveling from China, Iran, and certain European countries at any point               during the 14 days prior to their scheduled travel to the U.S.

• 13 - House reaches deal to pass Families First Coronavirus Response Act
• 15 - 29 States announce school closures. 

•      The number of confirmed cases in the U.S. surpassed 3,000,           with New York, 

 California and Washington recording the most confirmed cases. The national death

  toll rose to 61.

• 16 - CDC reports over 4,000 coronavirus cases in the United States.
• 19 - California issues a stay-at-home order for all of its 40 million residents.
• 22 - Global coronavirus cases double from last week, reaching almost 330,000 cases.

-  A vote to advance a massive coronavirus stimulus bill failed in the Senate.  

• 23 - Stocks plunged again, after an emergency fiscal stimulus package was twice

        rejected by the Senate and a new round of cash injection from the Federal Reserve

        failed to stem market declines.

• 24 - The FDA issued an Emergency Investigational New Drug (eIND) application for the

        use of convalescent plasma to treat people with COVID-19. 

•          United States reaches 50,000 coronavirus cases. 

• 25 - Nearly one third of the world’s population is affected by coronavirus lockdowns.

•         The WHO warned the U.S. could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus\

  Pandemic with 54,810 recorded coronavirus cases, including 781 deaths.

• 26 - United States death toll reaches one thousand.  

•        More than 3.2 million Americans filed unemployment claims, the highest

 number to date.  

•         The Senate unanimously passes a $2 trillion stimulus plan. 
•          New York City becomes the epicenter of the US outbreak. Reported coronavirus

 cases double every three days. 

• 28 -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the emergency use of a new,

        rapid coronavirus test that could give patients results in less than 15 minutes.

• 29 - The United States passes 140,000 coronavirus cases—more than any other country

        in the world. 

• 30 - Debilitated patients rally after dose of survivors’ blood.  Patients seriously ill with

        COVID-19 experienced improvement after receiving infusions of blood from

        disease survivors, according to two separate research teams.  Both teams

        extracted antibody-laden plasma, a component of blood,from people who’d

        recovered from COVID-19.

April

•   1 - Pennsylvania, 5,805 reported cases and Florida, 7,000, reported cases issue stay-a-

        home orders.

•         Mississippi and Georgia issue shelter in place orders
•         The youngest fatality, a 6 week old infant, dies from the corona virus.

•  2  - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment claims, bringing the number to over

        10 million.  

•              New York cases top 92,381, with more than 2000 deaths.
•             Coronavirus deaths in the U.S. topped 5,000, as confirmed cases nationwide rose               to 232,837.
•  3  - Masks could cut spread of COVID-19 virus.  Surgical face masks effectively block the

     spread of seasonal coronaviruses in respiratory droplets, suggesting that masks

     could prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2.  Scientists detected coronavirus RNA in

     coarse droplets and finer ‘aerosol’ droplets emitted by those not wearing masks.

     Masks reduced detection of viral RNA in both types of droplet.  Larger particles are

     carried by sneezes and coughs, whereas exhaled breath can spread aerosol

     droplets.  Surgical masks reduce transmission of coronaviruses and also influenza.

•        The United States confirms 32,000 new cases in one day,

• 4   - New York sets single day record of 10,841 new covid cases.

•        More than 150 crew members of the aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt,  

 tested positive for corona virus.  Captain Brett Crozier was relieved of duty for  

 voicing concern.  

•        The total number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. exceeds 300,000, as deaths

 nationwide topped 8,000.

• 9  -  Absent antibodies suggest mystery immune response.  After recovering from

      infection with SARS-Cov-2, many have high levels of antibodies against the virus.  A

      recent study finds some recovered patients, antibodies are present at very low

      levels and in some cases are undetectable.  30% of the volunteers and

      those under the age of 40, never developed high levels of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies,

      suggesting that other immune responses helped rid them of their infections.

 

•        6.6 million American workers filed unemployment claim, bringing the total to 16                 million over the past three weeks.

• 10 - Apple and Google announce partnership to use smartphone technology to trace

        the spread of the coronavirus.   

•        The World Health Organization warns “a premature lifting of lockdown restrictions by           countries fighting the coronavirus could spark a ‘deadly resurgence.’"

• 11 - The United States surpassed Italy in the number of coronavirus deaths, becoming

        the worst-hit country in the world. Deaths in the U.S. totaled 18,860.

• 13 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that about 80 million Americans

      will begin to receive their coronavirus payments.

•        The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the first saliva test to diagnose                   COVID-19. The test initially will be available through hospitals and clinics affiliated             with Rutgers University in New Jersey.

• 14 - Hydroxychloroquine is deemed ineffective as a treatment against the coronavirus. 
• 16 - 5.2 million Americans file for unemployment, bringing the total to 22 million

     Americans

• 18 - More than 700,000 people in the United States tested positive for coronavirus.

      The U.S. leads all countries in reported deaths with 36,734.

• 19 - Europe reached a somber marker, surpassing 100,000 coronavirus deaths across

      the continent.

• 20 - The Navajo Nation, sprawling across three states, reported 1,197 positive

      coronavirus cases, a per capita infection rate 10 times higher than Arizona and the

      third-highest infection rate in the country behind New York and New Jersey.

Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina announce “reopening.”

• 22 - Devastated by a growing coronavirus outbreak, Tyson Foods suspends operations at

      an Iowa plant critical to the nation's pork supply.

• 23 - President erroneously recommends ingesting disinfectants to fight coronavirus. 

      Lysol and other companies warn against this practice.  

•        The House passed a nearly $500 billion interim coronavirus bill that includes

additional money for the small-business loan program, as well as for hospitals and

testing.

•        4.4 million Americans filed unemployment claims, bringing the total to 26 million. 

• 24 - The number of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. topped 50,000.

•         In a virtual event co-hosted by WHO, President Emmanuel Macron of France,

President Ursula Von der Leyen of the European Commission and the Bill & Melinda

Gates Foundation, the Director-General launched the Access to COVID-19 Tools

Accelerator, or ACT-Accelerator, a collaboration to accelerate the development,

production and equitable access to vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics for

COVID-19.

• 25 - Over a quarter of the world’s coronavirus deaths are in the United States.
• 28 - The United States records over one million coronavirus cases and 57,071 reported

     deaths. 

• 29 - The results of a large study hinted at the potential benefit of an experimental

      COVID-19 drug called remdesivir. 

•        The number of U.S. coronavirus deaths surpassed 60,000.

• 30 - Young children are not immune to COVID-19.  Children are as likely as adults to

      become infected with SARS-CoV-2 after close contact with an infected person.

•        3.8 million workers filed for employment benefits, bringing the total to 30 million or           approximately 18 % of the workforce!
•        The World Health Organization is “urgently” investigating a potential link between the         coronavirus and Kawasaki syndrome, an illness of unknown cause that primarily                 affects children under 5.

May

•  1 - Immune system shows abnormal response to COVID-19.  The immune response to

      SARS-CoV-2 differs from the response prompted by other respiratory viruses. 

-  The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for remdesivir, the drug that has shown promise in early clinical trials to help people with severe COVID-19.

   -  Davide Robbiani,Rockefeller University in New York Cit,y found patients had

      generated varying amounts of antibodies against the virus.  A fraction of these antibodies strongly blocked the coronavirus from invading human cells.

•         Scientists baffled by decision to stop a pioneering coronavirus testing project.                    Researchers found infectivity that decreases from the upper to the lower respiratory            tract.  The most easily infected cells are in the nasal cavity, with the least easily               infected, deep in the lungs.  The virus gets a foothold in the nose, then down the               respiratory tract when breathed into the airways.
•        Chloroquine hype is derailing the search for coronavirus treatments.
•        New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced all schools and colleges in the state will                remain closed for the remainder of the academic year.

•  4 - Swiss drugmaker Roche, won emergency approval from the U.S. Food and Drug

     Administration for an antibody test to determine whether people have ever been

     infected with the coronavirus.

•        4 million Italians returned to work after Italy eased some conditions of the country’s           eight-week lockdown.
•        Experts from around the globe announced Monday a case definition for a new                     inflammatory disorder in children, dubbed ‘pediatric multisystem inflammatory                   syndrome,’ that is likely linked to COVID-19.  Cases had been reported in the New             York area and in the U.K.

•   5 - Trump administration considers phasing out coronavirus task force. 
•  7 - 3 million more filed for unemployment benefits.
•  8 - Department of Labor showed that the U.S. economy lost an unprecedented 20.5

       million jobs in April, and the unemployment rate soared to 14.7 percent.

•       The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first test that uses saliva,                 rather than an uncomfortable nasal swab, to diagnose COVID-19.
•       New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state has 73 cases of children developing                symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease, a rare but potentially dangerous complication          thought to be linked to the coronavirus.

•   9 - The nose could be the body’s entry point to infection.

•        Three children in New York die of a mysterious toxic-shock inflammation syndrome             linked to the coronavirus. Another 73 are infected. 

• 10 - Coronavirus cases around the world surpassed 4 million, according to John Hopkins

     University data. The global death toll reached nearly 280,000.

•        Coronavirus fatalities in the U.S. surpassed 80,000. Among the states hardest hit by           coronavirus deaths:   New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Louisiana,         Michigan, Connecticut and California.

• 11 - High risk of COVID-19 death for minority ethnic groups is a troubling mystery.

     People who are not white face a substantially higher risk of dying from COVID-19

     than do whites.  Pre-existing health conditions and socioeconomic factors explain

     a small part of the higher risk.   Researchers indicate an urgent need for better

     measures to protect minority ethnic groups from the disease.

• 12 - Los Angeles County’s public health director said that stay-at-home orders would be

       extended for another three months beyond the existing May 15 deadline.

• 13 - New York City’s infection hotspots have high numbers of commuters.  New York City

     neighborhoods that were COVID-19 hotspots, between March and May, correlate

     with those that were home to the highest number of commuters over the past

     three months.

•        The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity agency issued         an unusual warning asserting China's efforts to hack health care and pharmaceutical           companies pose a "significant threat" to the nation's response to the coronavirus               pandemic.
•        A United Nations report forecasted that the coronavirus pandemic will shrink the                 world economy by 3.2 percent this year, the sharpest contraction since the Great               Depression in the 1930s.

• 15 - WHO released a Scientific Brief on ‘multisystem inflammatory syndrome’ in children

      and adolescents, temporally related to COVID-19.

•        The World Health Organization’s regional office for Africa predicted, via a model, that         approximately 22 percent of Africa's one billion population, approximately 220 million         people will be infected in the first year of the coronavirus epidemic.

• 17 - Coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 90,000. Confirmed cases in the

      country also rose to nearly 1.5 million.

• 18 - The 73rd World Health Assembly, the first held virtually, adopted a

      landmark resolution to bring the world together to fight the COVID-19 pandemic,

      co-sponsored by more than 130 countries and adopted by consensus. Fourteen                heads of state participated. 

• 19 - An antibody blocks the new coronavirus and an older relative.  An antibody

      discovered in the blood of a person who survived SARS could help others to fight

      COVID-19.

• 20 - The virus ravages organs from heart to brain.  Autopsies have found the new

      coronavirus not only in the lungs, but in the kidneys, heart, brain and other

      organs.

•        The number of COVID-19 cases around the world passed 5 million, according to Johns         Hopkins University data.

• 21 - Potent human antibodies could inspire a vaccine.  A vaccine typically triggers the

      body’s immune response, which generates antibodies that fend off a particula virus.

      Some viruses do not stimulate an antibody response, which means there’s no

      guarantee a vaccine can be developed for every disease or how long protection

      lasts. 

•        2.44 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits, bringing the total to almost           40 million.

• 23 - Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that New York saw the lowest number of daily

                 coronavirus deaths since the state became the epicenter of the virus.

• 26 - The CDC reported more than 62,000 doctors, nurses and other health care providers

     on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis had been infected, at least 291 have died.

•        The World Health Organization said the Americas have emerged as the new epicenter         of the coronavirus pandemic.

• 27 - A large federal trial of remdesivir entered its next phase to test the effects of

     combining the antiviral drug with a pill to bring down inflammation.

•        Superspread in Israel caused a high portion of infections.  An “extremely high level”

                 of viral superspread helped to seed the new coronavirus across Israel.  Analysis

                 found travelers from the United States and Europe carried the virus to Israel, but US

                 travelers were responsible for a disproportionate share of viral spread!

• 28 - A lost opportunity to stop viral spread in the United States.  Genomic analysis has

      contradicted a high-profile finding about the origins of the first community spread of

      the new coronavirus in the United States.

•        2.1 million more Americans filed for unemployment benefits, the 10th straight week           jobless claims have been in the millions.
•        New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he is signing an executive order authorizing         businesses to deny entry to people who do not wear a mask or face covering.
•        Global death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 500,000 and the number of confirmed               cases worldwide topped 10 million.

• 29 - The CDC reported the coronavirus began quietly spreading in the U.S. in late

     January, prior to President Trump blocking air travel from China and a full month

     before community spread was first detected in the country.

•       Gilead Sciences, the maker of a drug shown to shorten recovery time for severely ill            COVID-19 patients, said it will charge $2,340 for a typical treatment course for people        covered by government health programs in the United States and other developed              countries. The price for remdesivir would be $3,120 for patients with private insurance!

• 30 - The European Union called on the U.S. to reconsider the decision to sever ties with

     the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

•       The European Union barred most travelers from the United States because the                  coronavirus is still too prevalent in the country.

• 31 - Global coronavirus cases surpassed 6 million, according to Johns Hopkins University

     data, as the death toll worldwide neared 370,000.

June

•        India expands use of controversial drug for coronavirus despite safety concerns. 

     About 12% of people given hydroxychloroquine developed COVID-19 within 2

     weeks.  Those taking the drug reported more side effects than those taking the

     placebo.

•         Virus conscripts a pair of human proteins to invade cells.  Researchers have found a           second protein that SARS-CoV-2 uses to enter human cells, potentially offering a new         target for vaccines and drugs.  The SARS-CoV-2 protein called Spike is known to                 attach to a human protein called ACE2, which allows the virus to enter cells.   Two             teams of researchers have now found that the human protein neuropilin-1 (NRP1)               also aids viral invasion.
•        Eli Lilly started the first COVID-19 antibody treatment trials in humans. The                       treatment uses what are known as monoclonal antibodies made from people who               were sick with the coronavirus. They are meant to work as natural antibodies do in             the body by blocking the virus.
•       The Congressional Budget Office said that the U.S. economy could be $15.7 trillion              smaller over the next decade than it otherwise would have been if Congress does not          mitigate the economic damage from the coronavirus.
•       The discovery of host genes that aid viral activity could aid the development of new            therapies and reveal why some people are more susceptible to COVID-19 than others.        Numerous studies have suggested that the immune system contributes to the organ          damage seen in some severe cases of COVID-19.  The survey of 37 anatomical sites,          including the lungs, found little correlation between levels of the virus and                          inflammation.  Some tissues harbored the virus but were not inflamed, whereas others        were damaged but did not contain high levels of SARS-CoV-2.

•  1 - Gilead Sciences Inc. said its antiviral drug remdesivir showed improvement in

    patients with moderate COVID-19 in a late-stage study

•  3 -  Drug hailed for its potency fails to prevent infection.  A large clinical trial has found

      no evidence that the drug hydroxychloroquine protects people from COVID-19.

•  4 - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a contribution of $1.6 billion to

     Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, an organization that helps provide vaccines to developing

     countries.

•        Department of Labor showed 1.8 million Americans filed jobless benefits, hinting the           worst could be over for the labor market.

• 5 -  WHO published updated guidance on the use of masks for the control of COVID-19,

     which provided updated advice on who should wear a mask, when it should be worn

     and what it should be made of.

•        The Bureau of Labor Statistics released new figures:  the U.S. economy gained 2.5             million jobs in May, unemployment dropped to 13.3 %, down from 14.7 %in April.             Black unemployment rose to 16.8 %, up slightly from 16.7 last month, white                     unemployment was at 12.4 %, down from 14.9 %.

•  6 - Greta Thunberg helped to launch a crowdfunding campaign to buy medical supplies

     and provide telemedicine services to residents in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, where a

     lack of robust health services has made the coronavirus outbreak particularly

     devastating.

•        North Carolina reported 1,370 new cases of coronavirus, the third straight day the             state has set a record for new cases.
•        Florida reported more than 1,000 confirmed cases, the fourth straight day of cases             hitting that threshold as the state continues with its reopening plan.
•        Coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 110,000.

•  7  - The global coronavirus death toll surpassed 400,000, according to data from Johns

      Hopkins University. More than a quarter of these were in the U.S.

•  8  - Lockdowns are a powerful tool against the pandemic.  In each country, actions taken

     were enough to halt the epidemic.  Lockdowns such as stay-at-home orders and

     policies that restrict face-to-face contact — were especially effective, reducing

     transmission by 81%!  The combination of policies aimed at slowing the virus’s

     spread prevented more than 3 million deaths from the epidemic’s start to early May.

•        New York City began the first phase of reopening after nearly three months of                     coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
•        Lockdown measures are estimated to have prevented 500 million COVID-19 related

deaths worldwide. 

•       The National Bureau of Economic Research found the U.S. was officially in a recession         in February, bringing an end to a historic 128 months of economic growth. 

•  9 - People who feel fine can unknowingly spread the virus.  A massive coronavirus

     testing campaign in Vietnam found that infected people who never show symptoms

     can pass the virus to others.  Early in the global COVID-19 outbreak, Vietnam began

     to repeatedly test people at high risk of infection. Those who tested positive were

     admitted to a hospital until they either recovered or tested negative.

•       Since Memorial Day in the United States, nine states report increase in

hospitalizations due to coronavirus. 

• 10 - The United States sees rises in confirmed cases across 19 states, 24 states trend

      downward, 7 remain the same.

•       Confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. surpassed 2 million.
•       The virus crisis triggered the most severe recession in nearly a century and is causing        enormous damage to people’s health, jobs and well-being, according to an analysis of        global economic data by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
•       Hawaii Gov. David Ige extended the state's 14-day quarantine for travelers arriving            from out of state through the end of July.

• 11 - As the United States exceeds 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, new model

     model suggests spikes in death tolls in September and later months.

•        U.S. farms and packing plants report an increase in cases among workers.
•        Department of Labor data showed more than 1.5 million people filed for                             unemployment, slightly below economists' expectations of 1.6 million.
•        U.S. stocks dropped sharply as investors weighed sobering economic forecasts and             new data, along with indications that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from subsiding.

• 15 - The FDA revokes emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine.

•        The United States surpasses 115,000 coronavirus deaths as new cases increase

 across more than 12 states.

•        Bars, karaoke and gyms can aid ‘superspread.’  Clusters of coronavirus infections

 are often linked to events where many people breathe heavily while packed

 together, such as karaoke parties and gym sessions, according to a survey in Japan.

 Identified ‘superspreading’ incidents occurred in hospitals, nursing homes and other

 care facilities, but more than half took place at musical events, restaurants and

 workplaces.

• 16 - WHO welcomed initial clinical trial results from the UK that showed dexamethasone,

      a corticosteroid, could be lifesaving for patients critically ill with COVID-19. The news

      built off the Global Research and Innovation Forum

• 17 - More than one billion people face increased risk of severe COVID-19.  A host of

                 common health problems boost a person’s risk of becoming seriously ill if infected

                 by the new coronavirus. 

•          Cases in Arizona, South Carolina and Florida soar. States that rushed to reopen their               economies saw subsequent rises in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

• 19 - Fight against Misinformation, ‘Youth is a shield against infection by close contacts.

     People under the age of 20 are much less likely than their elders to catch the new

     coronavirus from an infected household member.  Public-health officials instituted

     isolation of infected individuals and quarantine of their contacts.  People under the

     age of 20 had a 5.2% risk of being infected by a member of their household,

     compared with a 14.8% risk for people aged 20–59 and an 18.4% risk for people

     60 and above.

• 20 - Florida and South Carolina report sharp spikes in new cases, breaking single-day

     records for third day in a row.

• 22 - More than 20 public health officials in the United States have resigned or left their

     posts in recent weeks.

• 23 - FDA warns against the use of hand sanitizers containing methanol, a toxic

     substance. 

• 24 - NY, NJ, Conn., require 14-day quarantine for travelers from 'hot-spot' states to self-

     quarantine for fourteen days. 

• 25 - U.S. CDC estimates that more than 20 million individuals may have had coronavirus

      in the United States

• 29 - Global coronavirus death toll surpasses 500,000.
• 30 - The United States acquires over 500,000 doses of remdesivir from Gilead, all of its

      production for the month of July and 90 percent of August and September.

•           EU says it will reopen borders to 14 countries, but not the US

July

•   3 - The United States reports over 55,000 new coronavirus cases, a new daily global

     record.

• 5 - Scientists from over thirty countries call on WHO to direct attention to evidence

  suggesting airborne spread of coronavirus.

•      Florida surpassed 200,000 confirmed coronavirus cases as the state reported more             than 10,000 new positives for four straight days.

•  7 - Autopsies links immune response to death from COVID-19.  An autopsy-based study

    of 11 patients who died from COVID-19, shows a mismatch between viral hotspots

    in the body and sites of inflammation and organ damage, suggesting that immune

    responses, rather than the virus itself, are responsible for death.

•      The number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. surpassed three million.

•  8 - One nation shows wildly disparate local infection rates.  Europe’s effort to

     identify people infected by the coronavirus found that one-third did not show

     symptoms.  Nationwide, 5% of people tested positive, one in three were

     asymptomatic!  Researchers estimate one million people previously

     infected have gone undetected in Spain because they did not show symptoms.

     Nasal swabbing showed infected but asymptomatic participants had lower levels

     of viral RNA than infected people who felt ill. 

•        Intensive care units in hospitals across Florida and Arizona reach full capacity due to

 surges in coronavirus cases.

•  9 - University infections could soar even if students were tested weekly.  To safely

     reopen residential campuses, universities may need to test students for COVID-19

     every two days.  David Paltiel, the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven,

     Connecticut also stressed, that preventive measures such as social distancing

     will remain essential.

• 10 - Massive contact-tracing effort finds hundreds of cases linked to nightclubs.  Mobile

      phone and credit card data helped to identify 250 coronavirus infections linked to an

      outbreak that began in a nightclub in Seoul after South Korean nightclubs reopened. 

      Public-health officials noted a cluster of COVID-19 cases identifying more than

      60,000 people who had spent time in or near Itaewon clubs in late April or early

      May.

•        The United States reports 63,247 new coronavirus cases, its highest single-day

 increase to date.

• 12 - Florida logs 15,300 new COVID-19 cases in a single day, surpassing New York's one-

      day record of 12,000 in April.

• 15 - Severe COVID-19 has a telltale immune profile.  Scientists identified an immune-

     system signature in people with serious COVID-19.  Compared to the individuals

     with mild or moderate symptoms, those with severe disease produced fewer

     antiviral proteins called interferons and more inflammatory molecules.

•        Single-day tallies for cases, hospitalizations, and deaths reach highs across several             states including Florida, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.
•        Researchers take gamble with antibody tests for coronavirus.  Katie Doores, King’s            College, London, monitored the concentration of neutralizing antibodies against SARS-        CoV-2 in 65 infected people for up to 94 days.  Antibody levels began to fall a month          after symptoms appeared, raising questions about the durability of vaccines designed          to promote the production of neutralizing antibodies.

• 16 - Antiviral antibodies peter out within weeks after infection.  Key antibodies that

     neutralize the effects of the coronavirus, fall to low levels within months of SARS-

     CoV-2 infection.  Neutralizing antibodies can block a pathogen from infecting cells,

     but often wane after just a few weeks.

•        U.S., British, and Canadian officials say that Russian hackers targeted academic                 institutions and laboratories working on coronavirus vaccine research.
•        Nineteen antibodies proved highly effective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection of cell          samples. The 19 antibodies attach to a variety of locations on the coronavirus spike           protein.  A therapy made from antibodies that fasten onto the spike protein at                   multiple sites could be difficult for the virus to evade through mutation

• 17 - A record number of cases, 237,743 is reported to the World Health Organization.
• 18 - A new record number of cases, 259,848 is reported to the World Health

     Organization.

• 22 - Severely ill people yield diverse trove of powerful antibodies.  Scientists identified a

     diverse group of antibodies that block the coronavirus’s ability to infect cells, even

     when applied in low doses.  The immune-system proteins, neutralizing antibodies,

     interfere with hostile microbes trying to enter target cells.

     (L. Liu et al. Nature http://doi.org/d4md; 2020).

 

• - ​      The United States charges two Chinese hackers accused of targeting institutions              working on vaccine research in the U.S., Germany, UK, and Japan, among other                nations. 
• -       ​Global coronavirus cases surpass 15 million; the United States remains the nation with       the highest number of cases worldwide.
• 24 - Scientists found mutations in SARS-CoV-2 samples in low frequencies from infected

     people around the world.  Treatment ‘cocktails’ of multiple neutralizing antibodies,

     each recognizing a different part of the spike protein, could stop the virus from

     evolving resistance to these molecules. 

• 26 - Florida's 423,855 known COVID-19 cases now exceed cases in New York state.   
• 28 - Mutations allow virus to elude antibodies.  Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 may help the

      virus thwart potent immune molecules.  The blood of patients who recover from

      COVID-19 contains immune-system molecules called neutralizing antibodies that

      disable particles of the new coronavirus.  Most antibodies recognize the new

      coronavirus’s spike protein, which the virus uses to infect cells.

August

•   1 - Mississippi has the highest COVID-19 positivity rate in the United States.

• 11 - Russia becomes the first country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine, 'Sputnik V.'

      Scientists worldwide condemn the vaccine over safety concerns.

• 13 - Presidential candidate Joe Biden calls for a three-month national mask mandate. 
• 17 - New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo announces COVID-19 infection rate below one

       percent for the tenth consecutive day. 

• 23 - The FDA issues an emergency authorization for convalescent plasma treatment

        against COVID-19. 

• 24 - First case of COVID-19 reinfection reported in Hong Kong. 
• 28 - New York announces its lowest rate of COVID-19 infection since the pandemic

        began, marking three consecutive weeks of an infection rate below one percent. 

•         The FDA expands emergency authorization of remdesivir for hospitalized COVID-19            patients. 

 

ALWAYS CONSULT YOUR PERSONAL HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL

 

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