"The groundwork of all happiness is health." - Leigh Hunt

May 7, 2020 – A summary of the most recent news on COVID-19

Most states which can be resuming their coronavirus vaccinations don't meet the standards really helpful by the federal government. Other countries are bracing for a second wave of outbreaks. And could a llama's antibodies neutralize the virus? Here's the most recent on coronavirus world wide:

  • The world is approaching 3.8 million confirmed cases and 265,000 deaths. More than 1.25 million people have recovered. In the US itself, we're approaching 1.25 million cases. More than 73,000 people have died and nearly 190,000 have recovered.
  • A series of detailed documents prepared by the country's leading disease researchers designed to offer local decision-makers with step-by-step advice on when and how you can reopen public places similar to public transport, daycare centres and restaurants throughout the still-raging pandemic has been published. put on hold by the Trump administration.
  • After the federal government announced that it will disband the coronavirus task force, President Trump now says: it will continue indefinitelybut with a shift in the middle of gravity.
  • More than half of the US states have begun reopening their economies or are planning to achieve this soon. But Most do not meet the criteria really helpful by the Trump administration to resume business and social activities. If you might be still staying home, you're not alone.
  • A series of studies of the genome of 1000's of samples of the brand new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 show that mutate and evolve while it adapts to its human hosts.
  • Restaurants in California have developed a plan that features changed world in dining roomsas an industry built on face-to-face contact and crowded tables looks for methods to conduct business safely and stop the spread of the coronavirus. Restaurants across the country are develop your own methods.
  • In many countries, authorities are developing plans for How to deal with a second wave of outbreaks while slowly working to reopen businesses and resume other activities that were shut all the way down to combat the pandemic.
  • Measures to contain the contagion have stifled protest movements world wide, from the mass demonstrations in Hong Kong to the civil disobedience of climate activists in London who caused traffic gridlock by closing roads and bridges last yr. But the protesters have learned to adapt.