A total of 44 students and staff at eight K-12 schools and a college have been infected by coronavirus in new school-related outbreaks, according to data released Monday, Jan. 18, by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
That includes 14 cases involving students at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie and 10 cases involving students at Hastings High School.
There also were clusters involving four people or less at Benzie Central High School, Island City Academy in Eaton Rapids, St. Gerrard Elementary in Lansing, Woodbridge Elementary in Zeeland, Ridge Wood Elementary in Northville, and the public elementaries in Marlette and Deckerville.
A cumulative total of 6,427 have been sickened in ongoing outbreaks, the report says. Ongoing outbreaks include clusters identified earlier but that had at least one additional case in the past 28 days.
Mondays school outbreak report show there were 6,157 students and staff infected in ongoing outbreaks associated with college communities. Most of those outbreaks occurred outside classroom settings.
Among K-12 schools, there were 284 staff and students infected in ongoing outbreaks at 31 schools serving pre-K through high school. Seven of those outbreaks involved only administrative staff. The list includes buildings with at least one case in the past 28 days.
Outbreak data for K-12 schools includes only cases in which the student or staff was infected at school or at a school-related function. Those who caught the virus outside of school are not included.
A COVID-19 outbreak is defined as two or more cases with a link by place and time indicating a shared exposure outside of a household.
Mondays report is based on data collected Thursday, Jan. 14.
Below is an online database that allows readers to search outbreak data by school name or by county. The number of those infected is a cumulative total since the original outbreak, with the exception of University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, in which the number listed are cases in the past 28 days.
Below is an interactive map showing the outbreaks in the Monday, Jan. 11, report. You can put your cursor over a dot to see the underlying data.
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JUPITER, Fla. (WFLA) The state of Florida has expanded its vaccination partnership with Publix to Palm Beach, Martin and Monroe counties, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday.
The governor previously announced the state had partnered with the supermarket chain in an effort to get more seniors vaccinated. More than 100 Publix stores have begun offering doses to seniors 65 and older in Bay, Citrus, Collier, Escambia, Flagler, Hernando, Marion, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, St. Johns, Volusia and Walton counties.
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With nearly 100 million cases now reported worldwide, SARS-CoV-2 threatens to become an endemic virus in humans even after newly authorized vaccine curb its rampant spread. Little is known about how long the shots developed by Pfizer and BioNTech and Moderna can protect people from COVID-19 or whether they will continue to be effective as coronavirus mutations gather over time.
Before the pandemic, Gritstone's focus was on developing immunotherapies to combat cancer. As with a vaccine for viruses, its technology aims to stimulate an immune response from a type of white blood cell called a T cell to target specific proteins on a tumor and attack it. So-called cancer vaccines have been in development for years with limited success.
Gritstone is betting its coronavirus vaccine candidate can stimulate a broader T cell response than the authorized vaccines, which appear to primarily rely on antibodies to combat coronavirus infection. The company's focus is on a type of T cell called CD8+, which help clear viruses from infected cells. Moderna's vaccine stimulated low levels of CD8+ cells, while the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine led to a CD8+ T cell response in some patients.
"We started life focused in on oncology and the generation of ... CD8 T cells, which was obviously a daunting problem when we began," Gritstone CEO Andrew Allen said in a conference call Tuesday. "Our data suggests that we've overcome many of the challenges associated with that."
The company has signed a clinical trial agreement with the National Institutes of Health to support Phase 1 testing, which Allen said is set to begin in the first quarter of the year. Preclinical work has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Gritstone's vaccine combines two technologies in a prime-boost shot regimen. The first is a viral vector vaccine, using a chimp adenovirus to deliver genetic instructions for antigens that can stimulate an immune response. The boost is a self-amplifying messenger RNA that does a similar job through a different cellular mechanism.
Vaccines in development from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson rely on viral vectors. The authorized vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech and Moderna use mRNA.
Shares in Gritstone rose nearly 50% in Tuesday morning trading.
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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has had 36 employees who have died from COVID-19 during the pandemic.
Another employee with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has died from COVID-19, officials announced Tuesday.
Correctional Lt. Treva Preston, 57, worked with the state and prison system for more than 16 years.
Officials said she worked at the Hamilton Unit in Bryan and was hospitalized at a local hospital after testing positive for coronavirus.
Preston died in the hospital the morning of Jan. 15.
"She was known as Mama Bear for a reason," said Bobby Lumpkin, TDCJ Correctional Institutions Division Director. Treva Preston was always ready to serve. Years ago she transitioned into the correctional ranks from the Texas Youth Commission getting promotion after promotion. That shows her dedication not just to TDCJ but to the citizens of the state of Texas. She will be missed dearly.
Preston is the 36th prison employee to die of COVID-19 during the pandemic. According to TDCJ's dashboard, there are more than 1,400 active cases of coronavirus.
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No vaccines available Tuesday at Esports Stadium in Arlington
The Arlington Fire Department announced Monday on Facebook that they have not yet been resupplied with COVID-19 vaccines.
This means the department is unable to administer vaccinations Tuesday at Esports Stadium Arlington & Expo Center.
Fire officials said they will resume administering vaccines to residents who are in Phase 1A and 1B once they receive more doses.
After a 59-day break, indoor dining is back in Champaign, Douglas, Ford, Piatt, Vermilion and the 16 surrounding counties that make up Region 6.
With hospitalizations dropping for the seventh time in 10 days and its seven-day positivity rate continuing its downhill trend, Region 6 on Monday was given the all-clear to go directly from Tier 3 to Tier 1, bypassing Tier 2 of the state's mitigation plan altogether.
That means the immediate return of indoor dining with limitations. Among them: Restaurants and bars can serve the lesser of 25 guests or 25 percent capacity per room; tables are limited to four people and must be spaced six feet apart; and establishments must close by 11 p.m.
The new rules take effect immediately, IDPH spokeswoman Melaney Arnold told The News-Gazette.
It was a close call Monday. Region 6's hospitalization number dropped by just one, to 180, giving it the required seven days of decline in a 10-day period.
The other metric the region needed to go its way a seven-day positivity rate under 8 percent wasn't as close. Region 6's rate fell from 7.0 to 6.7 percent Monday, its seventh straight day in decline.
Here's a look at Region 6's seven-day positivity rates since Jan. 1 (with three-day lags):
Region 6 joins southern Illinois' Region 5 and north central Illinois' Region 2 in Tier 1. Both advanced over the weekend after spending less than 48 hours in Tier 2.
In reaching Tier 1, Region 6 isn't all the way back to where it was before Nov. 20, when Gov. J.B. Pritzker placed all 11 regions in Tier 3. The last remaining step is to move from Tier 1 to Phase 4.
Regions 3 and 5 both advanced to Phase 4 on Monday. To get there, regions must meet these criteria, similar to previous rounds with the exception of a lower seven-day positivity rate:
1. A seven-day positivity rate less than 6.5 percent for three consecutive days.
2. 20 percent available staffed ICU hospital beds for three consecutive days, on a 7-day rolling average.
3. No sustained increase in the number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 for seven out of 10 days, on a 7-day average.
Four more Champaign County residents have died with COVID-19.
The county's death toll from the disease now stands at 101, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Monday.
The latest deaths included two women in their 60s, a woman in her 70s and a man in his 80s, according to district Administrator Julie Pryde
The number of Champaign County residents hospitalized with COVID dropped by two, to 28.
New cases in the county were up in the past day by 85, to 15,428, with 721 of them currently active 39 fewer than the day before.
More to know in Champaign County:
Close contacts currently in quarantine declined by 80, to 1,006.
7,314 new tests were added in the past day, boosting the total to 1,339,864.
Recoveries were up by 122, to 14,608.
Heres an updated rundown of county ZIP codes with active cases, according to health district data:
Twelve of the 65 COVID patients at Carles hospital in Urbana are in intensive care, according to data updated Monday by Carle Health.
In all, 87 patients with COVID-19 were hospitalized Monday in Carle facilities, with 13 of those in ICU.
Carles BroMenn Medical Center in Bloomington had 18 COVID patients (one in ICU), while Richland Memorial Hospital in Olney had three (none in ICU).
Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center had one COVID patient.
Below is an overview of daily totals since Jan. 1 for Carles Urbana and Bloomington hospitals.
Since March, 1,073 COVID patients have been discharged from Carle facilities and 236 hospitalized patients have died.
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) As the pressure mounts to get more people vaccinated against the Coronavirus, many people are wondering how long they are going to have to wait.
Dr. Brian Lamb, an internist with Allegheny Health Network says doctors are getting an earful.
All day long. Were getting calls were getting text messages. You know everyones reaching out to see when they can get their vaccine. Everyone wants their vaccine, and everyone wants it as soon as they possibly can.
Adding to patients, frustration comes after seeing the scenes from around the country where people are lining up for their shots in other states.
Dr. Lamb says, Unfortunately because there was no federally set guidelines, every state is doing it on their own. And so every state has different sets of guidelines that theyre doing. People dont really know where they fall on the list, to get your covid shot.
Pennsylvania is still working to get health care providers, front line workers, and the elderly in long term care vaccinated.
Once thats accomplished the vaccination process will move on to the next group and Dr. Lamb says there is a misconception about getting vaccinated.
You know, even if you do get your shot now you have to remember your lifes not going to change. You know, were still under social distancing protocols, were still under wearing masks.
Still people want to get their name on the list. Unfortunately right now there really isnt a list, says Dr. Lamb,
Were not were not writing down peoples names were not telling them, you know as soon as we find out well let you know, were still waiting to hear from the government and were waiting to hear from the state.
And doctors are hearing every reason in the book from patients as they make their case to be next.
And we understand that and we understand the frustration and we understand people wanting to get the shot. Were asking people to please be patient. We are trying to get it out as soon as we possibly can. But until theres unlimited resources. We still have to look at how we can make the most effect on in general health, how can we protect the people who are highest risk of getting the disease, and having complications from the disease. So this isnt just us, you know, just coming up with a list of people who we think should get this. It is based on science and its how do we keep the population as healthy as we possibly can. As we work towards getting everyone vaccinated.
And Dr. Lamb says social media isnt helping as more and more people post, I got my shot! Were asking people, be respectful of other people. Theres a lot of people who want the shot havent been able to get it yet. Its not really something to brag about.
Again he emphasizes, Your life isnt going to suddenly open up. Youre not going to be the only person who can go out on the street and not wear a mask and go into stores. Youre still gonna have to follow the same rules that everyone else has to and you still have to keep, you know, with the same social protocols to keep everyone else safe.
As for how long the mitigation measures will be with us Dr. Lamb says, Probably months, we are looking at this point, hopefully, by summer will begin to see enough of the population is being vaccinated, that well be able to roll back some of the restrictions. You know it is a matter of just waiting to see how soon we can get enough people vaccinated.
That depends on how quickly the vaccine gets to the doctors and clinics and so far the supply chain has proven unpredictable.
From first shot to being protected Dr. Lamb says it takes about five to six weeks depending on which vaccine you receive.
Some health care workers who received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine will receive their second dose today.
Hartford HealthCare will today administer the second and final dose of the Moderna vaccine to a group of front-line health care workers.
Connecticut began vaccinations for COVID-19 in mid-December with the first doses going to front-line healthcare workers.
The second phase, phase 1b has begun. Residents who are 75 and over can sign up to get vaccinated and signs up will begin soon for front line essential workers, individuals between the ages of 65 and 74, people between the ages of 16 and 64 with comorbidities and Connecticut residents and staff in congregate settings.
Early data released form phase one and two trials of Johnson & Johnsons COVID-19 vaccine show that it appears to be safe and generates an immune response
Phase 1b will include around 1.3 million Connecticut residents and several primary groups will be eligible for the vaccine in Phase 1b, which is expected to begin this month:
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The state said key factors in determining who is next with be based on risk for severe illness or death and fighting health disparities and inequities, according to Department of Public Health Acting Commissioner Deirdre Gifford. Gifford said patience is required as the state rolls out Phase 1b.
During his press briefing Thursday afternoon, Governor Ned Lamont unveiled additional details about how residents ages 75 and older can schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments.
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According to the state's vaccination website, the following groups are eligible for vaccination in Phase 1a:
Not included in Phase 1a are health care workers who do not come into contact with patients or infectious materials, such as telehealth service providers.
Eligible in Phase 1a:
Phase 1a eligible individuals in health care should talk to their organization leadership to get details on how to access the vaccine.
Some health systems have set up appointment scheduling sites for 1a eligible health care workers in their systems as well as community health workers:
More information expected soon.
COVID-19 vaccinations will be available to eligible members of the general public starting this summer, according to the state. At that time you should expect to have access to the vaccine at the same locations where you would normally get vaccinated: pharmacies, doctors offices, community health clinics, local health clinics, as well as through other providers.
An NYC ER doctor who has seen the devastating impact of COVID-19 on his patients is now working to fight misinformation about the vaccine. Dr. Steven McDonald of Columbia University's Irving Medical Center joined LX News to explain why communities of color are less likely to trust medical authorities and why it's so important to reduce those doubts.
On Tuesday, the states vaccine allocation subcommittee followed the federal government guidance, recommending people over 65, as well as those over 16 who have certain health conditions, be included in phase 1B. That decision would need to be approved by the governor's vaccine advisory group.
For all individuals aged 75 and older, information on scheduling a vaccination is available now on the state's COVID vaccine website.
People 75 and over can make appointments. Everyone else in Phase 1b should not call or try to schedule an appointment yet.
Through a Provider:People who are 75 years old and up can schedule through a provider ready for public distribution of vaccine to eligible residents.
The state says more than 100 healthcare providers across the state are offering COVID vaccines. All locations require pre-scheduling and registration no walk-ins will be allowed.
Online:People who are 75 years old and up who have an email address and the ability toschedule an appointment online can schedule through the online Vaccine Administration Management System (VAMS).
Family members can also submit information online for their loved ones.
Many providers can be accessed through the VAMS scheduling system including:
By Phone:Those without internet access can call Connecticuts COVID Vaccine Appointment Assistance Line at 877-918-2224. The phone system was created in partnership with the Department of Public Health and United Way of Connecticut and is specifically targeted to provide support for eligible vaccine recipients who have limited technology access, or who have language, disability, or other barriers that could prevent them from using existing self-scheduling options successfully. The line will take calls on Mondays through Fridays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and will offer a call-back option when all contact specialists are busy serving other callers. The team will aim to return calls as soon as possible, with the goal of same-day response, but should be prepared that it could take several days.
A vaccine is not expected to be widely available to the general public until late summer or the fall of 2021.
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Learn more about the phases and eligibility here.
Visit the state's main Vaccination Portalregularly for all the latest updates.
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Pasadena has joined Long Beach as Los Angeles County cities that have expanded coronavirus vaccinations to senior citizens who are not living in nursing facilities.
Pasadena on Saturday offered sign-ups to city residents age 75 and older who had filled out a form expressing interest in getting the vaccine. Reservations filled up within two hours for the roughly 800 doses that will be available Tuesday and an additional 1,000 to be administered on Thursday at Victory Park.
City officials said they confirmed on Saturday that they would receive enough doses this week to finish the remainder of their top-priority medical workers and begin inoculating seniors. Additional help from local hospitals and area pharmacies, which have been receiving their own shipments of the vaccine, has relieved some of the pressure.
Officials have also been reaching out to elder care facilities and older residents who might not be familiar with the online registration process. Theyre working on establishing a larger mass-vaccination site, perhaps at the Rose Bowl, and hope to extend the age range to people 65 and older as soon as possible.
Its all contingent upon how much vaccine we get from the state, city spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said. We have the infrastructure to support the rollout. We just need the vaccine.
In most of L.A. County, the vaccine is still available only to healthcare workers, first responders, and residents and staff in skilled nursing facilities. But Pasadena and Long Beach have their own health departments and have been taking their own actions.
On Friday, Long Beach announced it had moved on to its next phase of vaccinations, with Mayor Robert Garcia and other critical city employees being inoculated.
Police officers in Long Beach and city residents 65 and older are now also eligible for the vaccine. The city expanded its rollout after vaccinating roughly 15,000 healthcare workers and residents of long-term-care facilities, Garcia said in a news release.
Long Beach will also begin opening vaccine clinics to grocery workers and educators this week.
