Month: July 2020

Ohio's hospitals saw highest number of COVID-19 patients this week since pandemic began Updated: 3:05 PM EDT Jul 29, 2020 Hide Transcript Show Transcript >> GOOD AFTERNOON. WE START WITH SOME HAPPY NEWS. JEFF REDDICK AND HIS WIFE LINDSAY WELCOMED BABY FRANCIS INTO THE WORLD THURSDAY, JULY 9. CONGRATULATIONS. FRANCIS WAS BORN AT 4:57 P.M. THURSDAY, JULY 9. TODAY IS JEFF’S FIRST DAY BACK TO THE BRIEFING. JEFF, WELCOME BACK AND CONGRATULATIONS. I’M WEARING A TIE TODAY FROM SOUTHERN STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE. FOUR CAMPUSES -- HILLSBOROUGH, WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE AND WILMINGTON. TO ALL THOSE THAT HAVE GRADU...

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) – The coronavirus continues to spread in Wisconsin as local governments and businesses are trying to slow it down with mask orders. The state reports 870 new cases, or almost 6% (5.92%) of the 14,694 test results it received in the last 24-hour period. Fifty-six of Wisconsin’s 72 counties reported new cases. Wisconsin now has a total 51,049 people who’ve tested positive. There are 9,704 cases still active, which is 19% of the confirmed cases. That’s notable, because the percentage of active cases was rising. It’s back below 20% for the first time since early this month. The state says 40,416 people are considered recovered. Six more people died. Overall, the death toll rose by 5 to 911 after the death count in Fond du Lac County was revised on further review. The dea...

Man’s best friend could soon be man’s best chance at ever setting foot in a stadium again. Dogs can sniff out the coronavirus with a striking 94 percent accuracy rate — raising the possibility of instant tests at sporting events and airports, according to a new study. Canine handlers trained eight dogs from Germany’s Armed Forces to discern human saliva infected with COVID-19 from healthy saliva, according to the study, which was lead by the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover and the Hanover Medical School. Researchers then set up samples from 1,000 people at random, ordered the dogs to pinpoint the infected ones — and found the animals were accurate 94 percent of the time, according to the study. The pooches were able to make the potentially life-saving distinction...

People over six feet tall are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with the coronavirus, the results of a new survey reveal. The global team of researchers, including experts from the University of Manchester and Open University, surveyed 2,000 people in the country, as well as the US, to determine whether their personal attributes, work and living practices might play a role in transmission, The Telegraph reported. The results found that taller people are at a higher risk, which researchers say suggests that the contagion is spreading through the air — because height would not be a factor if the virus was only contractible through droplets, according to the report. “The results of this survey in terms of associations between height and diagnosis suggest downward drople...

Health officials announced Wednesday that the University of Kansas Medical Center and Children's Mercy Kansas City will be bringing a COVID-19 vaccine trial to the Kansas City area.Officials said the two hospitals will lead the trial of an AstraZeneca vaccine in the region as part of the COVID-19 Prevention Network. The network, known as CoVPN, was created by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in response to the pandemic.The specific vaccine is AZD1222, it was originally developed by Oxford University before being purchased by AstraZeneca. “This vaccine is very exciting,” said Dr. Mario Castro on Monday's University of Kansas Health System Panel. Castro is the vice chair for Clinical and Transitional Research and a pulmonologist at the University of Kansas School of Medicine Dep...