A saliva-based COVID-19 test has been granted emergency use authorization. Dr. Deborah Birx is urging all Americans to wear masks indoors and outdoors. Here's the latest coronavirus news you need to know. 👇
. Some churches have moved completely online, others have embraced drive-in service, and some are adamant about holding in-person gatherings.Traditional school lunches and accompanying socializingat schools that decide to open for in-person instruction. Most students will eat lunch in their classrooms or will sit by class in the cafeteria as schools try to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Some other changes include mandatory handwashing and prepackaged meals.
“They need to have some space between the children because they have to take their masks off," said John Christenson, medical director of infection prevention at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis.Testing for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has dropped nationwide the past two weeks even as the evidence builds disease spread is. In Mississippi, more than one in five tested for the virus in the past week were positive, the highest rate in the nation as of Friday.
“The enhanced positivity rate is the thing that bothers people more than anything else,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “Because it suggests this virus is circulating still very briskly.
“With saliva being quick and easy to collect, we realized it could be a game-changer in COVID-19 diagnostics,” said Anne Wyllie, assistant professor and associate research scientist at Yale.Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, urged all Americans to wear masks indoors and outdoors to help curb the pandemic.
“So we are really asking all communities, whether you are urban or rural communities, to really wear a mask inside, outside, every day," she said. “Much of the spread is asymptomatic. I know we all want to believe that our family members cannot be positive. They are.
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