Month: September 2020

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio officials have reported an increase of 173 COVID-19 cases Saturday amid a decrease in hospitalizations due to the virus. The additional infections bring the city’s total case count to 50,760, according to the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. No new deaths within the last 14 days were confirmed on Saturday. The COVID-19 death toll in Bexar County remains at 1,242. According to numbers on the city’s website, 214 patients are hospitalized, 89 are in the intensive care unit and 43 are on ventilators. The number of patients in the ICU decreased by 10 people from Friday. There are 16% of staffed beds available and 69% of ventilators available. Also on Saturday, the state health department reported 3,433 new coronavirus cases and 135 additional deaths in Texas...

That does not mean it hasn’t happened, and recent scientific studies have documented likely cases of transmission on flights abroad. “An absence of cases identified or reported is not evidence that there were no cases,” said Caitlin Shockey, a spokeswoman for the CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. “CDC is not able to definitively determine that potential cases were associated (or not) with exposure in the air cabin or through air travel given the numerous opportunities for potential exposure associated with the entire travel journey and widespread global distribution of the virus,” Shockey wrote in an email. She said that though the agency has received information about people who may have been exposed on flights subsequently becoming ill with the novel coronavirus, pinp...

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