Month: August 2020

CONNECTICUT — Connecticut residents in their 20s continue to have the most coronavirus cases out of any age group. New data from the state Department of Public health showed 90 people between 20 and 29 years old tested positive for the virus between Aug. 2-8. The age group with the next most cases were people in their 30s with 79 cases. People in their 20s also had the most number of cases when adjusted by population. "People in their 20s had the largest amount of positive test results during the week, followed by people who are in their 30s and 40s," Gov. Ned Lamont said. Connecticut had another 76 coronavirus cases reported Thursday out of more than 8,000 test results. That kept the state's positive test rate below 1 percent. No new coronavirus-related deaths were reported Thursday. Ne...

U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to manufacture a strain of the novel coronavirus that could be used in human challenge trials of vaccines, a controversial type of study in which healthy volunteers would be vaccinated and then intentionally infected with the virus, Reuters has learned. The work is preliminary and such trials would not replace large-scale, Phase 3 trials such as those now under way in the United States testing experimental COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc and Pfizer Inc, according to a statement emailed to Reuters by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak U.S. officials organizing the fight against the pandemic have been under pressure from advo...

The United States has at least 167,242 COVID-19 deaths. August 14, 2020, 1:37 PM 5 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 753,000 people worldwide. Nearly 21 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some national governments are hiding or downplaying the scope of their outbreaks. The United States is the worst-affected country in the world, with more than 5.2 million diagnosed cases and at least 167,242 deaths. ...