Month: August 2020

At least five people were infected with coronavirus after attending a non-school-sanctioned "mini-prom" in southeastern Illinois, officials said Friday. Wabash County health officials want to find anyone who attended the Aug. 4 event in Mount Carmel, which is about 150 miles east of St. Louis and 130 miles west of Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to the five infected so far, another 40 people with close contact to them have gone into quarantine, Wabash County Health Department Administrator Judy Wissel told NBC News on Friday. So far, none of them have been hospitalized. Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings. Under state guidelines, as many as 50 people can gather inside as long as they can safely socially distance. But "none of ...

An emergency room doctor and researcher said the novel coronavirus is a "frightening echo" of a flu pandemic from over 100 years ago. Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, told "America's Newsroom" Friday that a study he co-authored and was published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, explains how COVID-19 "could be" even worse than the flu pandemic of 1918. THESE ARE THE COVID SYMPTOMS YOU’LL LIKELY GET FIRST, SCIENTISTS FIND "COVID-19 and 1918 H1N1, the Spanish flu, kind of belong in the same conversation," Faust, who is also an instructor at Harvard Medical School, explained. "And the next six months are going to tell us just how close they really are." The emergency room doctor said he believes the research will help show people "why we...

PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon Health Authority released a coronavirus study on Friday indicating that a “substantial” portion of Oregonians have had an undiagnosed and unreported case of COVID-19. The study, authored by OHA epidemiologists, found that 1% of Oregonians that don’t have COVID-19 had evidence of past infection of the virus in their blood. Officials say this is 10 times higher than the reported rate of infections found through conventional testing. “We suspected that a much...

A person who has recovered from COVID-19 will likely be safe from reinfection for three months, according to updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The information marks the first acknowledgement of a defined immunity period for people who have recovered from a COVID-19 infection.  Prior research has shown antibodies from recovered patients will fade over the course of a few months, but federal scientists had not previously said what that means for immunity.  The CDC previously recommended that someone recovered from a COVID-19 infection doesn't need to be tested again for three months so long as that person is asymptomatic, but made clear that any correlation to immunity was still unknown. The CDC did not make a formal announcement of the...