Month: November 2020

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 1,897 on Monday, with three more deaths reported, according to the Utah Department of Health. The health department now estimates there are 60,539 active cases of the disease in Utah. The rolling seven-day average number of positive cases per day is now at 2,312, according to the health department. The positive test rate per day for that time period is now 21.5%. There are 560 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah, state data shows. The new numbers indicate a 1% increase in positive cases since Sunday. Of the 1,423,079 people tested for COVID-19 in Utah so far, 13.8% have tested positive for the disease. The state reported an increase of 4,852 tests conducted as of Monday. The lower testing total is most likely ...

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An electron microscope image (ultrathin section, artificially colored) shows a section of a ciliated cell in the olfactory mucosa. Large numbers of intact SARS-CoV-2 particles (red) are found both inside the cell and on cellular processes. Yellow: kinocilia. Credit: Michael Laue/RKI & Carsten Dittmayer/Charité Using post-mortem tissue samples, a team of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have studied the mechanisms by which the novel coronavirus can reach the brains of patients with COVID-19, and how the immune system responds to the virus once it does. The results, which show that SARS-CoV-2 enters the brain via nerve cells in the olfactory mucosa, have been published in Nature Neuroscience. For the first time, researchers have been able to produce electron m...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota surpassed 80,000 coronavirus cases as three new COVID-19 deaths were reported in Monday’s update from the South Dakota Department of Health. The death toll is now at 946. There have been 531 deaths reported in November. The new deaths were two men and one women with two in the 70-79 age range and one in the 60-69 age range. The deaths were reported in Day, Fall River and Hutchinson Counties. On Monday, 564 new total coronavirus cases were announced bringing the state’s total case count to 80,464, up from Sunday (79,900). Total recovered cases are now at 62,334, up from Monday (62,027). Active cases are now at 17,184, up from Sunday (16,930). Current hospitalizations are at 546, up from Sunday (544). Total hospitalizations a...