Month: August 2020

THIS IS KCRA 3 NEWS AT 6:00 A.M. DEIRDRE: I AM DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK. LETICIA: I AM LETICIA ORDAZ. WE START WITH A CHECK OF THE TOP CORONAVIRUS HEADLINES. DEIRDRE: CALIFORNIA’S NEW SYSTEM FOR COUNTIES WILL GO INTO EFFECT TODAY AND HAIR SALONS AND BARBERSHOPS CAN REOPEN INDOORS. SOME COUNTIES WILL BE ABLE TO ADD INDOOR DINING. LETICIA: CHICO STATE ENDING THE SMALL NUMBER OF IN-PERSON CLASSES TELLING STUDENTS THAT THEY NEED TO LEAVE THE DORMS AFTER 30 CASES WERE REPORTED. DEIRDRE: A LOOK AT THE LATEST NUMBERS FROM AROUND THE STATE. 4000 PEOPLE TEST POSITIVE OVER THE LAST 24 HOURS. THERE WERE 27 DEATHS AS THE STATE NEARS 13,000. SUNDAY NUMBERS Coronavirus map, graphs display number of cases, deaths in California ...

It’s known as the “viral load.” The most used test to determine if someone has COVID-19, known as a PCR test, is either positive or negative, that’s it. But the test does not identify the viral load — the greater the amount of virus, the more likely it is that the patient is contagious. “In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus,” The New York Times reported Sunday after conducting a review of data. On Thursday, the United States recorded 45,604 new coronavirus cases, according to a database maintained by The Times. If the rates of contagiousness in Massachusetts and New York were to apply nationwide, then perhaps only 4,500 of those people m...

The vast majority of the nearly 6 million coronavirus diagnoses in the United States likely were not contagious, according to the New York Times. Despite continued widespread COVID-19 panic, which includes many virus-related restrictions, up to 90% of individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 potentially carried such "insignificant" amounts of the virus that they were not contagious, the Times reported. What are the details? The most widely used diagnostic test for COVID-19 is called the PCR test, which, according to the FDA, tests for the virus' genetic material. The problem with the test is that it only reports the presence of the genetic material being searched. It does not report the amount of genetic material, meaning individuals with such insignificant levels of COVID-19 g...

As some schools begin in-person classes, data compiled by the American Academy of Pediatrics from the summer show that cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the coronavirus have increased at a faster rate in children and teenagers than among the general public. Cases +720%Children +270%All May 21Aug. 20 Hospitalizations +356%Children +122%All May 21Aug. 20 Deaths +229%Children +115%All May 21Aug. 20 Source: The American Academy of Pediatrics The data set, which spans from May 21 to Aug. 20, varies from state to state, possibly obscuring differences in how the virus affects infants, young children and adol...