Month: December 2020

.text-align-center { text-align: center; } .share { display: none; } FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:December 28, 2020   COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced the following COVID-19 updates. Today's cases and deaths (scdhec.gov/COVID19) Cumulative totals (scdhec.gov/COVID19) Confirmed and probable cases: 275,285/22,765 Confirmed and probable deaths: 4,782/391 Tests performed for South Carolinians: 3,587,445 Testing opportunities (scdhec.gov/COVID19testing) Testing opportunities available statewide: 282 Percent positive (scdhec.gov/COVID19dashboard) 5,397 individual test results reported statewide yesterday (not including antibody tests) 28.5% percent positive Facility reports The ...

An illustration of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, the cause of gonorrhea.Illustration: Alissa Eckert/CDC Over the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social media: super gonorrhea. That’s because the World Health Organization recently warned that the pandemic is helping fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Unfortunately, the situation is only likely to get worse. Antibiotic resistance has been a slow-brewing crisis for decades, but the effects are finally becoming hard to ignore. Currently, so-called superbugs are thought to kill around 35,000 Americans annually, as well as 700,000 people globally. One of the more worrying superbug threats today is Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the namesake bacteria that ...

COVID-19 vaccination registration for 65 and older, health care workers in Osceola County opens Updated: 3:03 PM EST Dec 28, 2020 Hide Transcript Show Transcript WITH MORE ON WHAT WE CAN EXPECT IN THE COMING DAYS, MEGAN? WAGON: -- MEGAN IN THE NEXT : COUPLE OF DAYS, EVEN MORE HEALTHCARE WORKERS, MORE PEOPLE IN NURSING HOMES, AND MORE FLORIDA RESIDENTS WHO ARE 65 AND OLDER WILL BE GETTING THEIR FIRST DOSE OF THE COVID-19 VACCINE. THE ORDER GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS PASSED LAST WEEK DECLARED THE SENIOR POPULATION AS THE NEXT PRIORITY GROUP, SO NOW COUNTY LEADERS IN CENTRAL FLORIDA ARE WORKING ON MAKING TH...

As the United Kingdom continues to struggle with new cases of COVID-19 amid a more contagious strain of the virus, scientists in London are testing an antibody treatment aimed at protecting against COVID-19.  Researchers at the University College of London Hospital (UCLH) announced they administered the first dosage of their antibody treatment candidate to a patient on Christmas Day. The larger trial, led by UCLH researchers, recruited a total of 10 volunteer patients and administered a dose to one.  Drug manufacturer AstraZeneca — whose potential COVID-19 vaccine is anticipated to be the next vaccine approved for emergency use — also developed a long-active antibody (LAAB), known as AZD7442, which may help the human body’s immune system stimulate protection against COVID-19 for peo...

Brain scans, spinal fluid analyses and other tests didn’t find any brain infection, said Dr. Gabbay, whose hospital has treated two patients with post-Covid psychosis: a 49-year-old man who heard voices and believed he was the devil and a 34-year-old woman who began carrying a knife, disrobing in front of strangers and putting hand sanitizer in her food. Physically, most of these patients didn’t get very sick from Covid-19, reports indicate. The patients that Dr. Goueli treated experienced no respiratory problems, but they did have subtle neurological symptoms like hand tingling, vertigo, headaches or diminished smell. Then, two weeks to several months later, he said, they “develop this profound psychosis, which is really dangerous and scary to all of the people around them.” Also strikin...

EVERYTHING BACK UP AND RUNNING AGAIN. WE WILL OF COURSE KEEP YOU POSTED ON WHAT IS HAPPENING. JASON: VACCINATION EFFORTS BEGAN LAST WEEK FOR RESIDENTS IN SEMINOLE COUNTY WITH THE FIRST 8000 OR SO DOSES OF THE MODERNA BEING DELIVERED. THERE WAS A PRESS CONFERENCE EARLIER TODAY THAT THEY ARE HOPEFUL THEY WILL BE ABLE TO GET MORE AND MORE PEOPLE VACCINATED. >> WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT MORE VACCINE WILL COME AND WE CERTAINLY WANT TO GET VACCINE OUT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE IN THOSE PRIORITY GROUPS. AND SO WE LEARNED THAT WE HAVE ALREADY PUT THE CALL OUT, THE VACCINE WILL BE ADMINISTERED YEAR IN SEMINOLE COUNTY WITHIN A WEEK AND A HALF TO TWO WEEKS. 8100 INITIAL DOSES, AND WE WANT VACCINE ON THE WAY JUST AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO CONTINUE OUR EFFORTS. JASON: THIS WEEK, MORE OF TH...