Dr. Anthony Fauci: Recent coronavirus spikes 'well beyond the worst spikes that we've seen.'
9:11 p.m.: 66 UW frat members test positive for COVID-19
UW Medicine has set up a testing facility on campus within walking distance of the Greek houses. The students who have tested positive or have experienced coronavirus-like symptoms are isolating in their rooms, and none have been hospitalized or experienced severe symptoms, according toThere are currently about 1,000 students living in 25 fraternity houses at the north of the UW campus. The residents of the houses are being asked to quarantine or self-isolate amid the outbreak.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is asking churches to return to virtual services and for offices to revert to no more than 25% occupancy.As California coronavirus cases continue to rise, Gov. Gavin Newsom is encouraging the 19 counties with new mandatory closures to consider canceling Fourth of July fireworks.Beach goers cross the Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, Calif., June 27, 2020.
An employee wears a face covering while taking orders from motorists in the drive-through lane at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles, on July 1, 2020.3:50 p.m.: 2 test positive after attending massive party County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel said Wednesday that some people contacted by health investigators were denying being at the party and refusing to speak to the investigators."Many do not answer their cellphones and do not call back," she said."'Sometimes parents answer for their adult children and promise that they have been home consistently -- when they have not been.
People queue in their cars to get COVID-19 tests administered by the Florida Army National Guard, the City of Miami Beach and the Florida Department of Health, at Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, July 1, 2020. Florida now has a total of 158,997 confirmed cases and 3,550 deaths.MORE: Requiring face masks nationwide could save US economy from 5% hit, study predictsMiami-Dade County, which includes the city of Miami, set a record daily increase with 2,306 cases.
Cain is awake, alert and not on a respirator, the statement said, adding,"There is no way of knowing for sure how or where Mr. Cain contracted the coronavirus." An outdoor seating area sits empty on July 1, 2020, in El Paso, Texas. As coronavirus cases have surged in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott has paused the state's reopening plan.MORE: People who stayed home before lockdown helped slow spread of COVID-19: Researchers
"Now all you have to do is take a look at the news at night and you see people congregating at bars without masks, congregating in different types of groups that are well beyond the recommended number of people," he said."What happens when you do that and you don't wear a mask? You get the kind of outbreaks we're seeing."Fauci stressed that young people play an important role in stopping the spread.
Steven Ford, a worker at Harrah's casino sprays slot machines with disinfectant in Atlantic City, N.J., July 1, 2020, as the casino prepared to reopen. The mayor said phase 3 of reopening has not been effective and the city is reverting to its phase 2 plans, with some modifications. Entertainment venues will be closed and restaurants must reduce capacity to 50% from 75%.New York City is doubling down on outdoor dining. Starting this weekend, 22 streets covering 2.6 miles will be dedicated to restaurants, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.
"It became deafening how bad the situation was in many many states and how much it was related back to bars and restaurants," he said. People march down Santa Monica Boulevard to demonstrate against police brutality after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, in West Hollywood, Calif., June 14, 2020."Our last option was to conduct enforcement by issuing an Administrative Citation, but the risk to Community health is too great," the department said Wednesday night.
Hahn, who is also a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said one advantage the country has now that it didn't earlier in the year is the newly-authorized experimental therapeutics, such as the antiviral medication remdesivir. There's also convalescent plasma therapy, a century-old technique used for treating epidemics in which the blood plasma of patients who have recovered from a disease is transfused to those who are still infected.FDA commissioner Dr.
A plasma donor has a blood sample taken before giving convalescent plasma for COVID-19 treatment at a newly-opened plasma donor center in Twickenham, southwest London, on June 11, 2020. It's part of an ongoing trial to see if the antibodies in the plasma from survivors of COVID-19 can be used to treat those currently battling the virus.
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