Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested Wednesday that Americans should consider wearing goggles or a face shield in order to prevent spreading or catching COVID-19.
“If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it,” the nation’s top infectious disease expert told ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton during an Instagram Live conversation on ABC News. When asked if we’re going to get to a point where eye protection is recommended, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases responded, “It might, if you really want perfect protection of the mucosal surfaces.” “You have mucosa in the nose, mucosa in the mouth, but you also have mucosa in the eye,” he continued. “Theoretically, you should protect all the mucosal surfaces. So if you have goggles or an eye shield you should use it.”
He noted that goggles and eye or face shields are “not universally recommended” at this time, “but if you really want to be complete, you should probably use it if you can.”
The novel coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 662,000 people worldwide so far and more than 16.8 million people across the world have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University Currently, the United States is the worst-affected country, with more than 4.3 million diagnosed cases and over 150,000 deaths.
He said two circulating respiratory viruses really “confuses the situation” since symptoms of the novel coronavirus and flu are so similar. Nick Note: Do i hear foot steps or what! I recommend the P3 respirator with in hours they are sold out. I recommend eye protection as in cool girl googles and 3 days later Dr Fauci recommends eye protection…. I got your P3 respirator mask and eye protection if you are not already stocked up:
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The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic approached 150,000, as fatalities and hospitalizations rose in parts of the country, while new cases in some areas showed signs of leveling off. The U.S. reported more than 61,000 new cases, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, a slight increase after two consecutive days of tallies below 60,000. The total number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. surpassed 4.3 million, accounting for more than a quarter of all confirmed cases world-wide, according to Johns Hopkins. Several states are facing increased coronavirus-related hospitalizations and deaths. The Florida Department of Health reported 186 new coronavirus-related deaths among residents, its highest recorded increase over a 24-hour period. State reporting on coronavirus deaths varies, and it is possible that deaths reported on a particular day may not have occurred over the previous 24 hours.
North Carolina reported its highest number of hospitalizations during the pandemic so far, with 1,244 people in hospitals. But new cases and testing positivity rates were stabilizing in the state, said Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, attributing the decline to prevention measures like the state’s mandate. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced a statewide 11 p.m. curfew for the sale of alcohol at restaurants, saying some restaurants have “essentially turned into bars” late at night.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said there were early signs that coronavirus cases and hospitalizations were plateauing in his state, two weeks after the state implemented new restrictions. Mr. Edwards said Louisiana has the highest number of confirmed cases per capita of any state.
New analyses from a coalition of public-health experts and crisis-response specialists show the overwhelming majority of states don’t meet criteria from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for lifting coronavirus-related restrictions.
The group’s online dashboard, covidexitstrategy.org, tracks state-level data on the spread of the disease, using the CDC’s reopening criteria. The dashboard, as of Tuesday, listed only four states as trending well in controlling the spread of the virus: Connecticut, Maine, New York and Vermont. Uncontrolled spread was seen in 23 states.
Cases continued to rise sharply in some other countries.
Japan is battleling a surge in coronavirus cases, some areas may be running out of isolation facilities to monitor infected people. The health ministry reported 981 new cases Tuesday and three more deaths from COVID-19, raising the cumulative toll to 1,000 people. Most of the new cases were domestic, while 13 were found at airports from incoming flights, it said. Chief government spokesman Yoshihide Suga acknowledged some areas may be running out of room at places like hotels, where infected people can be housed and monitored away from other people and prevent the spread of the virus. The national government stood ready to help regional governments to make sure people can stay in such facilities, Suga said Wednesday.
China reported more than 100 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday as the country continues to battle an outbreak in Xinjiang. The 101 new cases was China’s highest daily increase in weeks. The northwestern region of Xinjiang accounted for 89, with another eight in the northeastern province of Liaoning and one in Beijing. Another three cases were brought from outside the country by returning Chinese citizens. Hospitals are treating 482 people for the disease, with another 274 in isolation while being monitored for showing signs of infection or for having tested positive for the virus without displaying symptoms. Xinjiang’s outbreak has centered on the region’s capital and largest city of Urumqi, where authorities have isolated some communities, restricted public transport and ordered widespread testing.
— Vietnam’s government said Wednesday it is stepping up measures against the coronavirus as the country’s first domestic outbreak in more than three months continues to spread. Starting from a hospital in the popular beach city of Da Nang, 30 cases have been confirmed over the past five days, including an additional eight on Wednesday. “The outbreak this time has a high risk of spreading to other big cities and provinces around Da Nang,” Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at the government’s daily COVID-19 meeting. State media also reported suspected cases in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Initial tests of at least three people who returned from Da Nang were positive for the coronavirus, but still need to be confirmed. In Hanoi, health officials on Wednesday disinfected the residence and work place of a suspected case, a man who recently returned from Da Nang after a family vacation. The alley leading to his house and the pizza restaurant where he works were cordoned off and his contacts were quarantined and tested for the virus. The government estimates that tens of thousands of domestic tourists cut short their vacations and left Da Nang after the report of the outbreak there.
— South Korea reported 48 additional cases, maintaining an uptick in new infections. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday the additional figures took the country’s total to 14,251 with 300 deaths. Fourteen of the new patients were locally infected while the rest 34 came from overseas. South Korea has been reporting roughly 20-60 new cases every day since it eased its strict social distancing rules in early May.
— Australia’s hard-hit Victoria state recorded its lowest daily tally of COVID-19 cases in nine days while the state premier expressed hope it was the start of a downward trend. Victoria reported 295 new cases and nine deaths, seven of which were in aged care homes that are bearing the brunt of the pandemic. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said “trends are not made in one day” but that he hoped the decline continued. The outbreak has been concentrated in Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, which is halfway through a six-week lockdown.
— New Zealand’s government says it will rush through new laws to allow some people to be charged for their border quarantine costs. New Zealand hasn’t had any community transmission of the virus for three months, and everybody who enters the country is required to spend two weeks isolated at a hotel. The cost to taxpayers has already amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars. Under the new law, adults who leave or enter the country for short holidays or business trips will be required to pay about $2,100 toward their quarantine costs. But there will be many exceptions to the new fees, and officials acknowledge it will affect less than 10% of travelers. Nick Note: They all wear mask and practice global isolation. They had the coronavirus genie back in the bottle. Their back…… Out again. I believe its the mutated strain. Documented for a fact by electron microscope that the mutation has three times the receptors. Why are we denying science. Are we going to sacrifice children on stone alters next. It did not save the Incas.
July 28 (Reuters) – The Dow and Nasdaq were in decline on Tuesday while the S&P eked out a small gain as investors eyed weakening consumer confidence and disappointing business updates as well as a smaller than hoped for coronavirus aid plan from U.S. Senate Republicans. Weighing down the Dow, industrial conglomerate 3M Co MMM.N dropped 4.5% after reporting a second-quarter plunge in demand across its businesses and McDonald’s Corp MCD.N fell 2.2% after a surprisingly big drop in global same-store sales. Data released in the morning showed U.S. consumer confidence ebbed in July as coronavirus infections flared up across the country.”It’s a little bit of a lot of things,” said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia. He called the consumer survey “unsettling” evidence that “individuals are increasingly concerned about the recent surge in coronavirus impacting their finances and their mobility.” Luschini also worried about prospects for a U.S. pandemic aid package. The $1 trillion aid proposal announced on Monday by Senate Republicans, four days before millions of Americans lose unemployment benefits, met opposition by members of both parties. “There has be tremendous compromise from both parties to get to some agreement,” he said, noting a congressional recess scheduled for August adds deadline pressure. “It’s particularly critical at this time since the market is really feeding off the largess that’s been expended by fiscal and monetary authorities,” he said. At 2:18 p.m. ET (1818 GMT), the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 56.13 points, or 0.21%, to 26,528.64, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 1.11 points, or 0.03%, to 3,240.52 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 36.80 points, or 0.35%, to 10,499.46. Materials .SPLRCM and Energy .SPNY were the biggest percentage decliners of the S&P’s 11 major sectors. Defensive real estate .SPLRCR and utilities .SPLRCU sectors were the biggest gainers. The U.S. Federal Reserve was expected to reiterate its accommodative stance when it wraps up its two-day policy meeting on Wednesday afternoon. On Tuesday, the Fed said it would extend several lending facilities through year end, a sign the pandemic’s economic impact has been longer than expected. Of the S&P 500 companies that have reported earnings so far this quarter, about 80% surpassed significantly lowered forecasts for quarterly profit, according to Refinitiv IBES data, An average of 71% companies beat profit estimates over the past four quarters. A focus this week will be results from Wall Street’s trillion-dollar market value companies – Apple Inc AAPL.O, Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O and Alphabet Inc GOOGL.O – as well as Facebook Inc FB.O. Pfizer Inc PFE.N was up 4% after it raised its full-year forecast on strong demand for cancer drugs and blood thinners. Late on Monday, the drugmaker announced a pivotal global study to evaluate a COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.16-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.21-to-1 ratio favored decliners. The S&P 500 posted 24 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 52 new highs and 17 new lows. Nick Note: This rally is ignoring the dismal shape the economy is in and the fact they death count keeps climbing. And if we had real leadership the US would be/should be on lock down. It does not matter…. they can play all the games they want and po po the crises. Soon very soon their will be a day of reckoning. This is how empires crumble!
If you needed another reason to avoid coronavirus at all costs, here’s one. Skeptics of the disease and the necessity of shutting down the economy to stop its spread have focused on the fact that most coronavirus cases have been mild or even asymptomatic, mistakenly comparing COVID-19 to “just the flu.” But a recent study of 100 recovered coronavirus patients reveals 78 of them now have lasting cardiovascular damage even though a vast majority of them had mild cases of COVID-19 in the first place. The study published Monday in JAMA Cardiology details the results of cardiac MRI exams of 100 recovered coronavirus patients. Twenty-eight of them required oxygen supplementation while fighting the virus, while just two were on ventilators. But 78 of them still had cardiovascular abnormalities after recovery, with 60 of them showing “ongoing myocardial inflammation,” the study shows. These conditions appeared to be independent of case severity and pre-existing conditions, though JAMA researchers note these findings need a larger study. President Trump and his administration have tried to say America’s low coronavirus mortality rate proves the country is beating the virus. But not only is COVID-19’s mortality rate not as low as Trump has claimed; this study proves there are far more consequences of catching coronavirus than just dying of it. Nick Note: Is it not amazing how the first modern plague is being politicized. The coronavirus does not vote Republican or Democratic. It votes death. And it will not go away because politicians are hiding the fact they fucked up and the virus is out of control. Notice how no one is dealing with the lasting effects of all who catch this disease.
Prices of oil slid on Tuesday as the increasing number of coronavirus cases across the globe remained in investors’ focus. United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson saw “the signs of a second wave” of the pandemic hitting Europe, while Germany’s Robert Koch Institute said the epidemiological situation in the country is “very worrying.” According to the World Health Organization, the outbreak will have only one “big wave” that will “going to go up and down a bit” but it is not likely to be affected by seasons. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for deliveries in September dropped 1.08% to go for $41.15 per barrel at 9:26 am ET, while Brent for settlements in the same month slid 0.30% at the same time, selling for $43.28 per barrel.
Florida’s COVID-19 fatalities continue to surge, as officials said another 191 people died in the state from disease complications. That’s the most reported on any day so far in the coronavirus pandemic, topping the 173 deaths reported Thursday. The deaths reported Tuesday happened over several weeks, rather than over the past 24 hours. The additional deaths push the state’s death toll to 6,240 And there’s more bad news from the state Department of Health: 9,230 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19. That ends two days of declines, and could be a concern because reports on Tuesdays typically see fewer infections. Monday’s count of 8,892 was the lowest in nearly three weeks. The test results reported on a single day typically reflect tests taken over several days. On Saturday, Florida surpassed New York State in the total number of COVID-19 cases, leaving only California with more cases than Florida. The state’s total now stands at 441,977. South Florida, which accounts for 29% of Florida’s population, reported 4,550 new cases in the past day, or 49.3% of the daily total for the state, according to the state Department of Health.
Broward County: 873 new coronavirus cases were reported Tuesday, bringing the total to 51,657. A total of 632 people have died, which is unchanged since Monday.
Palm Beach County: 640 new cases were reported, bringing the total to 31,598. A total of 794 people have died, 21 more than reported Monday.
Miami-Dade County: 3,037 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the total to 110,352. A total of 1,441 people have died. That’s 21 more than reported Monday.
Florida says it has tested 3.49 million people since the pandemic began, and 12.7% have been positive.
Florida reported an 11.7% positivity rate for tests statewide in the previous 24-hour period, up slightly since Monday.
The rate was 17.5% for Miami-Dade, 10.8% for Broward and 10.9% for Palm Beach County. Broward’s rate was the lowest since June 27, and Miami-Dade’s rate was the lowest since July 21, but the rate for Palm Beach County increased by two percentage points since Monday.
The daily positivity rate is a key figure, since it’s one of the numbers that indicates the prevalence of the disease in the population. In May, Florida’s positivity rate was about 5%.
Hospitalizations
The number of people being treated for COVID-19 at hospitals on Tuesday decreased slightly statewide, but increased in South Florida. The total stood at 8,976, as of noon Tuesday, according to the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration. About 24 hours earlier, the same report listed 9,035 patients. Miami-Dade County has the most people hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of the new coronavirus: 2,016 patients, an increase of 53 since Monday. Next is Broward with 1,285, up by nine since Monday. Palm Beach County has 598 patients, a decrease of 21. A different report, from the state health department, shows 24,917 Florida residents have been hospitalized since the start of the pandemic. That’s an increase of 10,092 patients since July 1, when the total was 14,825 hospitalizations.
Deaths
Statewide: The official COVID-19 death total for Florida reached 6,240 on Tuesday. That figure includes 123 people who were not residents. The three South Florida counties account for 2,867 deaths, which is 45.9% of the state total.
Nationwide: Florida’s death rate is near the middle compared with other states. Florida’s death rate per 100,000 people was 27.3 as of Monday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The death rate is much higher in New York City with 279.8 deaths per 100,000. California has reported 21.3 deaths per 100,000, and Texas has had 17.6 deaths per 100,000.
Senior care: At least 2,760 deaths have occurred in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, a figure that represents 45.1% of the state total for coronavirus deaths of residents. Miami-Dade County has the highest number of long-term care facility deaths, with 596, or 21.6% of the total. Palm Beach County had 315 deaths, or 11.4%, and Broward accounted for 201 deaths, or 7.3%.
COVID-19 is the state’s deadliest infectious disease, killing three times more Floridians a day than flu/pneumonia, AIDS and viral hepatitis combined, records show. The most vulnerable to death and hospitalization are people older than 65 or those who have underlying health concerns such as weakened immune systems, diabetes or obesity.
U.S.: The coronavirus death toll in the United States reached 148,298 as of 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University. Nick Note: talk about sleeping at the switch. We are days away from 150,000 dead. This is literally the slaughter of the innocent. Two thing if America had real leadership this number would have been contained at 30,000. Doing nothing is the option and you could see 500,000 dead by the end of the year…
Dr Birx urges regions with rising infections to close bars, cut back on indoor dining and to mandate face masks
COVID-19 infections are now spiking, based on a seven-day average, in more than a dozen states, including Oklahoma, Missouri and Mississippi
The number of cases in the current hard hit states of Texas, California, Arizona and Florida are now showing signs of plateauing, health officials say
Dr Deborah Birx, head of the White House taskforce, said the new surge is a sign that the virus is now spreading North
The states with rising cases should be closing bars, cutting back on indoor restaurant capacity and limiting social gatherings to 10 people, Dr Birx warned
She also said all Americans should be wearing masks when out in public or around other people
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says the leveling off of cases in the hotspot states is because people are social distancing and wearing masks
He warned, however, that the United States wasn’t ‘out of the woods yet’ with the pandemic
Florida on Sunday became the second state after California to overtake New York, the original epicenter of the US outbreak
There has now been more than 4.2 million infections recorded across the United States and nearly 147,000 Americans have died from COVID-19
New COVID-19 cases have hitting record highs in more than a dozen states while Texas, Florida, Arizona and California show signs of a plateau – as Dr Deborah Birx urged regions with rising infections to close bars, cut back on indoor dining and to mandate face masks.
There has now been more than 4.2 million infections recorded across the United States and nearly 147,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.
The number of cases in the current hard hit states of Texas, California, Arizona and Florida are now showing signs of plateauing after a month of record surges, according to Dr Birx. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says the leveling off of cases in the hotspot states is because people are social distancing and wearing masks but warned the US wasn’t ‘out of the woods yet’. As cases appear to plateau in those hard hit states, the number of infections are now spiking, based on a seven-day average, in more than a dozen states, including Oklahoma, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii and Wyoming. Nevada, Texas and South Carolina have seen record highs in the number of deaths based on a seven-day average. Dr Birx, who is the head of the White House COVID-19 taskforce, said the surge in cases that has plagued Sunbelt states since Memorial Day is now being seen elsewhere, which is a sign that the virus is now spreading North.
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MISSOURI: There are currently 41,927 cases in Missouri and 1,197 deaths. Cases have been steadily increasing across the state since mid-June but deaths have not yet spiked
MISSISSIPPI: Cases have been rising steadily in Mississippi with the state now having 52,304 cases. There have been 1,495 deaths and the fatality rate is now showing signs of an uptick
OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma currently has 31,285 cases and 496 deaths. Both cases and deaths have been surging this month.
The long-staid world of HVAC is suddenly in the spotlight. With research showing the coronavirus may spread through shared air, property managers are rushing to upgrade heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems before reopening buildings. That’s leading to costly upgrades for equipment that armies of professionals used to take for granted. Building specialists are poring over how well heavy-duty filters block microbes and considering whether to install systems that use ultraviolet light or electrically charged particles in the ductwork to kill the virus. Companies including Honeywell International Inc., Carrier Global Corp. and Trane Technologies Plc are benefiting from the surge in demand, offering everything from air-monitoring sensors to portable filter machines to help make up for deficiencies in ventilation. “Every building is going to have some kind of solution. Is it going to be 100%? No,” said Hani Salama, head of the New York chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association. “But it’s going to be better than what they have now, and will help mitigate some of these airborne transmission issues that everybody is afraid of.” Much of the concern for buildings has been centered on whether the virus can spread through surfaces, prompting remedies such as new cleaning procedures, gallons of hand sanitizer and touchless doors and bathroom fixtures. However, more than 200 researchers have urged the World Health Organization to recognize the disease can spread through air currents.
A study this spring led by researchers at the University of Oregon found the presence of the virus in a quarter of HVAC systems in hospitals that treated Covid-19 patients. The findings suggest the potential for transmission from shared air from locations separate from the infected person, the authors said.
For building owners, the trade-offs abound. It’s best to let in more fresh air, but that puts a strain on cooling or heating. Dense filters that trap more microbes are coveted, yet can choke off airflow and worsen ventilation if a building’s fans aren’t powerful enough. And most solutions require more energy consumption. Building-safety products are proving to be a bright spot for sales at companies like Honeywell, which has technology for “frictionless entry,” automatic temperature-taking and sensors that monitor air quality. Air conditioning upgrades are a top priority for landlords, said Salama of the New York association, even as it’s unclear when office workers will return. His company, Capital Properties, is swapping out 900 air conditioning filters at its two Manhattan office buildings for double the price it would normally pay. Many of the methods to reduce pathogens have been around for years, such as UV light and bipolar ionization, which releases electrically charged atoms that attach to and neutralize viruses and bacteria. Those technologies were geared more to hospitals than commercial buildings, which put more of an emphasis on saving energy than killing germs. That’s changing now. A study showing the system kills as much as 99% of pathogens won Reagan over, and Flix Brewhouse opened in San Antonio to the public for two weeks to try the system. He said the venue had about 700 visitors, including 50 employees, and he hasn’t heard of any Covid cases that arose. All of Flix’s theaters are closed for now, mainly because of a lack of new films from Hollywood, he said. Fredric Lubit, a dentist with two offices in New Jersey, purchased four Carrier OptiClean air scrubbers at $4,500 each. The machine, which looks similar to a tall filing cabinet, sucks air though a high-efficiency particulate air, or HEPA, filter. He also purchased a $10,000 machine for each office that saturates a room with UV light for two minutes to destroy microbes.Carrier began designing the OptiClean in March by hot-rodding the inside portion of a residential HVAC system with a bigger fan and motor, along with other parts. The product was initially aimed at hospitals, but demand is now coming from schools and small offices, said Chris Nelson, president of Carrier’s HVAC unit, who declined to provide sales numbers. HEPA filters can block particles as small as 0.1 micron, tiny enough for the coronavirus particles that can float on air, the rating on the heavy-duty filters is only for particles the size of 0.3 microns, according to a July 9 paper by consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Nick Note: you should avoid recirculating the air. you should have charcoal and HEPTA filters AND a electrostatic filter on ASS your HVAC systems.
