ByThe Associated Press
October 9, 2020, 6:43 PM
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GENEVA -- The World Health Organization has announced a new daily record high in coronavirus cases confirmed worldwide, with more than 350,000 infections reported to the U.N. health agency on Friday.
The new daily high of 350,766 cases surpasses a record set earlier this week by nearly 12,000. That tally includes more than 109,000 cases from Europe alone.
In a press briefing on Friday, WHO emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan acknowledged that even as COVID-19 continues to surge across the world, there are no new answers.
He said that although the agency wants countries to avoid the punishing lockdowns that have devastated economies, governments must ensure the most vulnerable people are protected and numerous measures must be taken.
The majority of people in the world are still susceptible to this disease, Ryan warned. He said countries should focus not just on restrictive measures, but also on bolstering their surveillance systems, testing, contact tracing and ensuring populations are engaged.
As the virus continues to surge across Europe and elsewhere, Ryan acknowledged that restrictive measures might be warranted at some point. British scientists reported this week that the COVID-19 outbreak is doubling every few weeks, French hospitals are running out of ICU beds, Germany may enlist the army to help contain its outbreak and Spain declared a state of emergency in Madrid as coronavirus cases soar.
Ryan said lockdowns may be unavoidable where the disease has got out of control again, but we shouldnt accept that in every country, the return of cases should be seen with an immediate return of the need for lockdown restrictions.
Globally, more than 36 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported, including more than 1 million deaths.
Experts say the tally far underestimates the real number of cases and Ryan said on Monday that the WHOs best estimates were that one in 10 people worldwide or roughly 760 million people may have been infected.
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More than 190 U.S. Navy ships have suffered a COVID-19 outbreak this year, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said in a message to the fleet late last month.
If that tally is limited to the sea services 296 deployable ships, it would mean nearly 65 percent of the fleet has experienced some level of infection by the novel coronavirus.
Officials did not immediately clarify that point.
At the same time, aggressive early action to isolate, quarantine and contact trace has helped contain outbreaks, he added.
Precisely which ships have suffered outbreaks, and the extent of those outbreaks, remains unclear.
Following Pentagon regulations, the sea service stopped reporting COVID cases at local units this spring.
Navy spokeswoman Lt. Emily Wilkin told Navy Times this week that the 190 ships with at least one case onboard were a mix of ships at sea and in port.
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We have not had any [other] outbreaks like USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Kidd, she said in an email.
TR showcased the harrowing virality of COVID this spring, when an outbreak on the ship eventually infected roughly a quarter of its sailors and forced an emergency diversion to Guam.
Infections onboard the guided-missile destroyer Kidd afflicted at least 78 sailors, which was the last tally provided by the Navy before it stopped releasing updates.
Wilkin pointed to an outbreak onboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan earlier this year that was successfully contained, with a handful of COVID-positive sailors flown off and the carrier able to continue operations without any new cases.
The revelation regarding how many ships have suffered COVID infection came about in updated guidance to the fleet sent Sept. 30 by the CNO regarding the novel coronavirus, which had infected 10,585 sailors as of Wednesday.
Officials said Friday that Gilday has tested negative for COVID but continues to self-quarantine at home along with other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after the vice commandant of the Coast Guard tested positive earlier this week.
Roughly 35 percent of infected sailors have shown few to no symptoms, and Gilday wrote that testing is the best way to uncover asymptomatic service members.
At the same time, Gilday warned that testing resources are constantly strained and may become more strained during influenza season.
Sailor infection rates tend to mirror the local area, and three units have traced ship outbreaks to command dinners at a public restaurant, the CNO wrote.
As the country continues to re-open, individual sailors and commands must show resolve in practicing proper health protection measures and avoid unnecessary risk, Gilday wrote.
Wilkin declined to identify which ships had suffered outbreaks traced to restaurants, citing the Pentagon policy.
While offering a high-level view on how the pandemic has impacted the Navy and its sailors, Gildays recent guidance also offers more ground-level instructions for keeping everyone safe when a ship is on a cruise.
Sailors should alternate head/foot where berthing configuration allows to minimize close contact, he wrote. Where possible, spread out sleeping arrangements. In congested berthings, ensure sailors use personal pillows and linens are regularly laundered.
Gildays message again hammers home the effectiveness of the 14-day restriction of movement, or ROM, isolations that now precede a ship getting underway, what he called a key enabler of getting a ship to sea with a COVID-free crew.
Those ROMs often flow right into final at-sea training before a deployment begins.
In a copy of remarks Vice Adm. Phillip Sawyer made earlier this month, the deputy chief of naval operations for operations, plans and strategy gave a nod to the struggles COVID policies place on sailors and families.
We know these mitigations are hard on Sailors and their families, adding extra family separation onto the beginning of a deployment and foregoing the chance to visit and enjoy foreign ports, Sawyer said. But its a critical piece of protecting our young women and women who have signed up to serve. All of this is about keeping our Sailors safe from this deadly virus.
VERMILLION, S.D. (KELO) In September, USD had a peak of 243 total active COVID-19 cases. Today, they only have 21.
Because theyve been able to flatten that curve, the schools COVID-19 Task Force has entered into a new phase of mitigating the spread of the virus on campus. That includes testing students, faculty and staff who may not even have symptoms.
For two weeks now, USD has been conducting surveillance testing on campus.
Were looking for the asymptomatic people. These are people that are sick with COVID-19 but dont know it because they dont have symptoms so they dont go get tested. So sentinel testing is a program in which we draw a random sampling from a population of asymptomatic people and send them to get tested, chair of the COVID-19 Task Force Kevin OKelley said.
If a person is randomly asked to get tested, it is up to them to decide if they want to or not.
The goal here is were trying to find the invisible illness in our community. If we found a cluster of people that are asymptomatic, but sick, then we might go to phase five, which is point prevalence testing, where we might swoop in on a particular cohort, particular population, that might be ready to have an outbreak, OKelley said.
Freshman Ashley Gustafson, says shes glad the university is taking this step.
Especially from the beginning of the year, the amount of people getting tested has gone down, you know, just because I feel like theyre nervous to get quarantined. So these randomized testing is a way to keep that rolling and maintain safety on campus, Gustafson said.
Sophomore Jacob Hotchkiss, says hes happy with how the school has handled the virus so far.
I firmly believe in, like, taking measures from COVID-19. So, Im happy that they required masks and when we had the big outbreak in cases I was happy that they restricted things in the MUC. I think theyve done a great job, Hotchkiss said.
And OKelley says hes proud of how well the whole campus is coming together to stay safe.
Were social people, particularly ages 18 to 24, were social and for them to voluntarily forgo some of things they might expect from a normal college year has been really great to see, OKelley said.
The surveillance testing is free at the Sanford Vermillion Medical Center because the program is being paid for by the South Dakota Department of Health. OKelley says the school also offers rides to the clinic for people getting tested.
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PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) Five new COVID-19 deaths were announced Friday as South Dakota surpassed 5,000 active cases in the latest update from the state department of public health.
The death toll is now at 277. There have been 29 new deaths in the past three days. The new deaths on Friday included three men and two women with three listed in the 80+ age range, one in the 70-79 age range and one in the 60-69 age range. Two new deaths were in Lincoln County (6), one new death was in Minnehaha County (87), one new death was in Grant County (1) and one new death was in Yankton County (4).
On Friday, 772 total new coronavirus cases were announced, bringing the states total case count to 27,215, up from Thursday (26,441). Total recovered cases are now at 21,750, up from Thursday (21,496).
Active cases went up to another daily record of 5,188, up from Thursday (4,673).
On Wednesday, the DOH added probable cases to case counts. A probable case includes persons with positive antigen test for SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. There were 24 probable cases announced with 748 new confirmed cases. Confirmed cases are people with positive RT-PCR tests. There are 27,215 total cases (26,711 confirmed cases and 504 probable cases).
Current hospitalizations is now at 267, down from Thursday (284). Total hospitalizations is now at 1,782, up from Thursday (1,717).
Total persons tested negative is now at 186,938, up from Thursday (184,850).
There were 2,862 new persons tested reported on Friday.
By Outer Banks Voice on October 9, 2020
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) reported 2,034 new cases of COVID-19 on Oct. 9, the fifth time in nine days that there have been more than 2,000 new cases. Part of the recent increase in daily cases is attributable to a decision by the NCDHHS to include antigen positive results in the total number of cases beginning on Sept. 25. Broken out separately, 6,466 of the 227,431 total cases reported in North Carolina have been antigen positive cases.
Also on Oct. 9, North Carolina reported 3,747 deaths attributable to COVID-19, while 1,065 individuals are currently hospitalized, a number that has steadily risen for five straight days.
Dare County has reported 2 new cases of COVID-19 on Oct. 9, with one county resident and one non-resident affected. That brings the total number of cases reported here since the beginning of the pandemic to 584. In addition, the Dare County Department of Health and Human Services (DCDHHS) reports that four residents and four non-residents who had recently been categorized as having active cases are now listed as recovered.
In a bulletin issued on Oct. 9, the DCDHHS provided information on two new testing clinic events. One is on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at Cape Hatteras Elementary School. Another is at the Soundside Event Site in Nags Head during the first week of November. Details about the testing event in Nags Head will be released by Oct. 21. To schedule an appointment for the Oct. 20 testing event, please call 252-475-5008.
Hyde County is reporting a total of 146 COVID-19 cases as of Oct. 8. Of this total, 18 are active cases, 123 have recovered, and there have been 5 deaths. Hyde County has no COVID-19 clusters at this time. It is reporting an outbreak in a local correctional facility, but are pleased to report that the local nursing home has been COVID-free for 28 days or more, which removes them from the outbreak status.
Note:Every morning, the NC Department of Health and Human Services posts updates o number of reported cases of coronavirus. That numberreflects positive results from all tests, including the NC State Laboratory of Public Health and all hospital and commercial labs.There may be other reports, from the media and elsewhere, that will include different numbers during a given day, but this is an effective way of tracking numbers from the same source on a day-to-day basis.
SOURCE: NC DEPARTMENT OFHEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Link to COVID-19 North Carolina Dashboard
FRIDAYMAP UPDATEAdditionally Friday, Gov. Justice provided a look at West Virginias latest mid-week County Alert System map update, which featured an increase in the number of Orange an Gold counties across the state.
Redcounties: 0Orangecounties: 5 (Cabell, Doddridge, Harrison, Logan, Mingo)Goldcounties: 8 (Barbour, Berkeley, Boone, Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Randolph, Upshur)Yellowcounties: 3 (Morgan, Nicholas, Wirt)Greencounties: 39 (All others)
We have got to stay on our game in all of these counties all across our state, Gov. Justice said. If you'll look predominantly through the north and the central parts of our state, as well as the Eastern Panhandle, and even certain areas of the south, we have big areas of our state that are dadgum good. But we do have some problems. We know where they are and weve just got to everyone in those spots focused so we can slow down the spread.
The map is updated live on theDHHRs COVID-19 Dashboard(Click "County Alert System" tab)throughout the week for informational purposes and to provide an indication of how each county is trending ahead of each Saturday at 5 p.m.; the time when each county is assigned its official color designation for the next week, which determines the level of scholastic, athletic, and extracurricular activities permitted in each county for that particular week.
The total number of active COVID-19 cases in McKinney is 109 as of Oct. 9. (Community Impact staff)
City-level reports from Collin County show McKinney added 352 new COVID-19 cases this week, with 285 new cases reported Oct. 3.
The total number of active COVID-19 cases in McKinney is 109 as of Oct. 9.
As of Oct. 9 in McKinney, there have been 2,473 confirmed total cases of COVID-19 and 2,364 recoveries, for a 95.6% recovery rate.
There have been 36 total deaths in McKinney related to COVID-19, a rate of 1.45%.
A group of dedicated investigators launched by the Texas Department of State Health Services was expected to begin working through the backlog of Collin County's COVID-19 active cases Aug. 25, according to Hill.
Of McKinney ZIP codes, the 75071 ZIP code had the highest number of total cases, with 934, from March to Oct. 9, according to Collin County data.
As of Oct. 9, 75069 has a total of 850 cases, 75070 has 652 cases and 75072 has 312 cases.
Among the key indicators being watched by experts is the number of hospitalizations. Collin County reported 109 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized as of Oct. 9. That number has fluctuated over the last two weeks.
The rate of confirmed cases takes into account population differences. In Texas, there were 26.34 confirmed cases per 1,000 people as of Oct. 8. Here are the rates per 1,000 people for the four North Texas counties as of Oct. 8.
Braden Boyce and Elizabeth Darrington. | Courtesy Liz Peebles
RIGBY A Rigby couple had to put their dream wedding festivities on pause after the bride tested positive for COVID-19.
Two days before Braden Boyce, 23, and Elizabeth Darrington, 19, were supposed to tie the knot, Darrington found out she had caught the virus. With the wedding set for Oct. 9, and assuming Boyce had been exposed to COVID-19 too, the couple was left with a choice to make.
We were like, We have to cancel everything,' Darrington recalls thinking after finding out her test results. Nobodys going to come to the wedding if we still host it and tell people we have COVID.
The reception including the food and flowers that was booked at a venue in Rexburg had to be postponed to a later date and their over week-long honeymoon was canceled.
We already have an apartment and stuff that we can go move in, so were just going to honeymoon in our apartment, I guess, she said.
Courtesy Liz Peebles
Countless hours were spent getting ready for their big day, and even though the current circumstances arent ideal, the couple has decided to make the best of the situation. They are planning to hold a small ceremony, mostly made up of family members who they believe have been exposed to the virus over the last few days, on a ridge that overlooks Heise on Friday.
Darringtons uncle, who is a judge and has already had COVID-19, is going to be performing the ceremony.
We knew there was a risk, but we never thought it was going to happen to us, Darrington explained.
In some ways, Boyce regrets that Darrington got tested in the first place because of all the changes that have since taken place with the wedding, but he recognizes the importance of letting people who are considered high risk know they might have been exposed to COVID-19.
Its sad because this seems like the most important event of your life. The one you always dream and think of, Boyce mentioned. Its unfortunate, but I think for the best with the circumstances we were given.
Darrington said on a positive note, they got refunded for everything they had originally planned, plus shes always wanted a small wedding with close family in attendance and it to be held outside.
It does suck, but as long as you can see something positive in it, I think your wedding can still be a blast, Darrington said with a smile.
Darrington has had a headache, body aches, runny nose and sore throat but is feeling pretty good and is looking forward to what should be an unforgettable wedding day.
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Outdoor dining in Bonn, Germany. Indoor dining is riskier than outdoor meals, experts say. Outdoor air can disrupt viral particles that have been expelled. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images hide caption
Outdoor dining in Bonn, Germany. Indoor dining is riskier than outdoor meals, experts say. Outdoor air can disrupt viral particles that have been expelled.
Each week, we answer "frequently asked questions" about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have a question you'd like us to consider for a future post, email us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the subject line: "Weekly Coronavirus Questions."
How long do you need to be exposed to someone with COVID-19 before you are at risk for being infected?
The question was brought to the forefront this week after the White House announced it would only perform contact tracing for people who had spent more than 15 minutes within 6 feet of President Trump, who tested positive for the coronavirus on Oct. 1. That "15-minute rule" is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guideline for defining a close contact of an infected person.
But experts say the risk of infection is a lot more nuanced than that guidance might imply.
The 15-minute rule does not necessarily put you at zero risk if your exposure to an infected person was of a shorter duration. "It doesn't mean that you're getting off scot-free, nor does the '6-foot rule,' " says Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious disease specialist at Boston University School of Medicine.
"There is no magic number when it comes to distance or duration," says Emily Gurley, an epidemiologist and contact-tracing expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The coronavirus spreads when an infected person releases infectious particles while talking, coughing, singing, sneezing or even just breathing. Some of these particles are released as droplets, which generally fall to the ground within a few feet of the person who exhaled them. That's where the 6-foot guideline comes from though it's just a guideline, not a shield of impenetrability.
A person can also expel infectious droplets in smaller particles that linger in the air for minutes or even hours and travel farther than 6 feet in a room, Barocas notes. In a poorly ventilated, enclosed space, these smaller particles can build up over time. If you're in a crowded room with lots of unmasked people talking, "whether you're [in contact for] 15 minutes or within 6 feet, it may not actually be that important anymore because there's so much virus in the air," Barocas says.
Gurley says in some jurisdictions, contact tracers also look for so-called proximate contacts people who were in an enclosed room with an infected person at greater than 6 feet from the infected person though they aren't considered close contacts under CDC guidance.
So where did that 15-minute part of the guideline come from? Gurley says it's based on earlier data from China on who was being infected and how infections occurred. "Even when they found lots and lots of very casual, quick contacts, that's not where they saw evidence of transmission," she says.
Instead, she says, infections were occurring when people had "meaningful" amounts of close contact such as traveling, dining or living together that had a higher probability of resulting in transmission. She says the 15-minute guideline is a way to help contact tracers quantify which types of interactions were long enough to be meaningful in this context.
But again, it's just a guideline, not a hard and fast rule. "We don't have strong evidence for exactly what the right distance or the right duration is, or else we'd use that," Gurley says.
And lots of variables can affect the risk of infection from close interactions, experts say.
"Certainly, if you're in very close contact with somebody who's shedding a lot of virus, and you happen to get a droplet on your hand and then wipe your nose, that could take far less than 15 minutes" to infect you, says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
How you interacted also matters a great deal, Barocas says. For example, was the infected person coughing? Was the person wearing a mask, which can help contain a lot of the infectious particles someone might be breathing out? Were you indoors or outdoors, where airflow would quickly disperse any infectious particles the person might have exhaled? How infectious was the person at the time of interaction? (Studies have shown that people with the coronavirus are most infectious just before and in the first few days after they start to show symptoms.) If an infected person were to cough on you while walking past, that would constitute a high-risk interaction even if it was brief, he says.
"All of those [factors] go into what I would think of as a combined likelihood or combined probability" of getting infected, Barocas says.
Conversely, not every type of lengthy interaction is equally risky, he says. Talking outdoors on the beach on a windy day for longer than 15 minutes with someone who is asymptomatic at the time is going to be less of a risk, he says.
While indoor settings are generally higher risk than outdoor ones, the context is key, Rasmussen says. An indoor bar where people are drinking, which requires unmasking, and possibly shouting to be heard over loud music (thus emitting more particles as they talk) is going to be riskier than a trip to a hair salon where everyone is masked and only a limited number of clients are in the room at the same time.
"I finally got my first pandemic haircut a couple of weeks ago," Rasmussen notes. "And I was there for two hours." But she wouldn't dine indoors, she says, because you can't eat while wearing a mask.
Rasmussen says because so many variables can influence the risk of transmission, it's important to focus on doing all the things we know can reduce our risk of infection wearing a mask, washing your hands, keeping your distance, trying to keep interactions outdoors as much as possible, avoiding crowds and poorly ventilated spaces. You might not always be able to do all of these things all of the time, she says but the more of them you can do at once, the more you'll reduce your risk of infection.
TheWest Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of 10:00 a.m., October 9,2020, there have been 617,045 total confirmatorylaboratory results received for COVID-19, with 17,707 totalcases and 376 deaths.
DHHR has confirmed the deaths of a 74-yearold female from Kanawha County, a 64-year old male from Cabell County, a 70-yearold female from Logan County, a 65-year old male from Wayne County, a 68-yearold female from Jackson County, and a 61-year old female from Fayette County. Wecontinue to grieve the loss of more West Virginians today, said Bill J.Crouch, DHHR Cabinet Secretary. Our deepest sympathies are expressed to theirfamilies.
CASESPER COUNTY: Barbour(130), Berkeley (1,187), Boone (267), Braxton (16), Brooke (128), Cabell (978),Calhoun (29), Clay (48), Doddridge (40), Fayette (678), Gilmer (50), Grant(169), Greenbrier (142), Hampshire (115), Hancock (165), Hardy (98), Harrison(498), Jackson (311), Jefferson (470), Kanawha (3,054), Lewis (47), Lincoln(195), Logan (688), Marion (318), Marshall (196), Mason (154), McDowell (96),Mercer (450), Mineral (181), Mingo (427), Monongalia (2,135), Monroe (166),Morgan (73), Nicholas (136), Ohio (408), Pendleton (55), Pleasants (20),Pocahontas (60), Preston (168), Putnam (675), Raleigh (596), Randolph (303),Ritchie (18), Roane (65), Summers (62), Taylor (151), Tucker (44), Tyler (20),Upshur (168), Wayne (428), Webster (9), Wetzel (67), Wirt (19), Wood (401),Wyoming (135).
Please note that delaysmay be experienced with the reporting of information from the local healthdepartment to DHHR. As case surveillance continues at the local healthdepartment level, it may reveal that those tested in a certain county may notbe a resident of that county, or even the state as an individual in questionmay have crossed the state border to be tested.
Please visit the dashboard located at www.coronavirus.wv.gov for more information.
Free COVID-19 testing locations are available today in Mingo, Nicholas, Taylor, and Wood counties, and Saturday in Wood County:
Mingo County, October 9, 10:00AM 2:00 PM, Delbarton Volunteer Fire Department, County Highway 65/12, Delbarton,WV
Nicholas County, October9, 1:00 PM 4 PM, Nazarene Camp, 6461 Webster Road, Summersville, WV
Taylor County, October 9,12:00 PM 2:00 PM, First Baptist Church of Grafton, 2034 Webster Pike (US Rt.119 South), Grafton, WV
Wood County, October 9:10:00 AM 6:00 PM, South Parkersburg Baptist Church, 1655 Blizzard Drive, Parkersburg,WV
Wood County, October 10:9:00 AM 4:00 PM, South Parkersburg Baptist Church, 1655 Blizzard Drive, Parkersburg,WV
Testing is available to everyone,including asymptomatic individuals. For upcoming testing locations, pleasevisit https://dhhr.wv.gov/COVID-19/pages/testing.aspx.
