Month: September 2020

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said Wednesday that he would bet on a coronavirus vaccine to be proven safe and effective before the end of 2020. ‘‘I would still put my money on November/December,” he said, during a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute panel on global pandemics. Fauci, 79, one of the most trusted faces of the coronavirus task force, said his informed projection was calculated based on where the clinical trial sites are in their studies, according to CNN. He added that researchers need to see about 150 infections occur in a vaccine trial for it to be deemed safe and effective. FAUCI HONORED WITH NEW BOBBLEHEAD: 'FACEPALM EDITION' Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, t...

SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah (ABC4 News) – The Salt Lake County Health Department recently launched a COVID-19 tracker to show the community how many confirmed cases are in each school district, and whether or not an individual school has any. “The purpose of us putting this out there is so parents can be educated,” said county epidemiologist Annie George. With school now back in session, George said public health officials expected there to be some COVID-19 cases. “We knew we would likely see an increase. It has been a substantial one,” George said. “But the other thing factoring into that is the Labor Day weekend where we always see spikes after holidays.” The dashboard reports 336 people within Salt Lake County schools tested positive for the respiratory virus in...

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Clarissa Coffin, left, leans on Scott Wells, center, as he comforts his children next to Amanda Bouffioux's casket before her burial at the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery. Coffin, who was FaceTiming their mother, is Bouffioux's sister and Wells was Bouffioux's partner. (Emily Mesner / ADN) Scott Wells is grieving. And he is angry. His significant other, the mother of their two young children, died from COVID-19 on Sept. 8. Amanda Bouffioux was 44, among the youngest Alaskans to die with the virus that hits Alaska Native people especially hard. Bouffioux, an Inupiat woman born in Kotzebue, got sick in mid-August. Within days, she was hospitalized and unable to breathe on her own. She was buried in Anchorage on Tuesday. Her three grown sons helped serv...