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Your Coronvirus Update Today – Sept. 25, 2020
Photo: The Philippine government is now requiring all persons with COVID-19 to spend isolation in a government-approved facility, not their own homes.
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL
45,000 people a day are getting coronavirus and 7 million Americans now have been infected
Dry ice from a company in Massachusetts is being ordered from all around the country. Hospitals are building storage units. UPS is building warehouses. Vaccines may need to be kept below 80 degrees Celsius.
CDC has asked states to have vaccination plans ready by November. Healthcare workers and high risk groups will be the first groups – some vaccines may be 1 or 2 injections – Scheduling patients, drive-throughs locations, such as fire stations, etc. are being looked at.
New Year’s Eve events in Times Square canceled – The New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be largely virtual.
Target is hiring 130,000 holiday workers.
Children are not included in the ongoing trials for a COVID-19 vaccine, so it’s likely to be well into next year or beyond before they’ll be able to get a vaccine. A vaccine for children may not be developed until the fall of 2021.
Catholic, Jewish and Muslim day schools throughout the metro area say they’ve been inundated with calls from families who have had it with remote learning and are willing to pay hefty tuitions.
Schools in Vermont are poised to move to the next stage of reopening Saturday, including allowing greater use of facilities, more mixing of students and the start of interscholastic sports
An employee at Maplecrest nursing home in Maine where a coronavirus outbreak has killed seven residents worked while she had COVID-19 symptoms documenting her experience in a log which the home did not know about.
Up to 70 percent of KN95 masks imported from China don’t meet U.S. health standards and could endanger health care workers and patients, an independent medical product evaluation found.
The economic impact of Covid-19 and preserving health insurance for those with preexisting conditions are the most pressing health issues for voters in battleground U.S. states,
Copper’s antimicrobial properties have been known for a while, and in the early days of the pandemic, some researchers showed that while SARS-CoV-2 sticks around on stainless steel for several days, the virus can’t survive past a few hours on copper. Some hospitals and healthcare facilities are considering resurfacing their stainless steel surfaces with copper.
The Philippine government is now requiring all persons with COVID-19 to spend isolation in a government-approved facility, except if they are considered vulnerable – banning all home quarantine.
Israel going into a strict two-week lockdown to control the uptick in cases.
Canada sounded the alarm and told people to wear their masks and limit social interactions to control what might look worse in the fall than it did in the summer.
Britain could become the world’s first country to intentionally infect healthy volunteers with the virus for a “human challenge” trial to expedite a determination on which vaccines work.
Spring break may not be included on the spring academic calendar for Florida colleges – Florida A& M University told trustees Thursday.
United Airlines partnered with Dignity Health-GoHealth Urgent Care and genomics company Color to offer COVID-19 tests to customers flying from San Francisco International Airport to airports in Hawaii.
Russia is offering the United Nations staff free vaccines (that they have developed).
Amgen and Eli Lilly announced a global antibody manufacturing collaboration that would increase supply capacity available for Lilly’s potential COVID-19 therapies, should any of them prove successful in clinical testing and receive regulatory approval. Lilly said that it is studying several potential neutralizing antibodies for the prevention and/or treatment of COVID-19 as either monotherapy or in combination.
Merrimack College in New Hampshire has over 50 cases.
Research is showing that US parents are delaying kindergarten and pre-school enrollment for their children.
College enrollment may be done about 2.5% this year – far less than anticipated – as some choose to take a gap year.
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY
Providence College numbers have risen to 205 positive cases – 1,598 students were tested, with 36 positive cases and a positivity rate of 2.5%.
Uber and Lyft will now both be at curbside at TF Green.
The Rhode Island Partnership for Home Care Political Action Committee announced their endorsement of State Representative Nicholas Mattiello for re-election to the RI House of Representatives and to continue as Speaker because of his support for healthcare services in the home and pandemic financial assistance to home care and hospice providers during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Providence will experience Mi Gente Siempre Responde, a public art project that celebrates the contribution of the Latino community during the COVID-19 public health crisis. The large-scale banners will be installed today, Sept. 25th from 8am to 4pm at 7 locations.
Raise the Bar RI held a demonstration at the RIDOH to talk about the lack of nurses, staffing, payment, etc. 4.1 hours of care as a national standard, which does not exist in RI.
In-person visitation resumes at Massachusetts prisons.
A cluster of cases is happening at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, with five patients and five staff members, who had been in contact with two inpatient units.
$7 million loan to the Mystic Aquarium, a nonprofit that’s been hit hard financially after being forced to close for almost four months because of the pandemic.
The Boston MFA is reopening to the public this weekend with new COVID-19 safety measures in place
Governor Baker is urging low-risk areas of Massachusetts to start in-person education of students.
The Rhode Island Philharmonic will begin its 2020-21 season with an online performance Saturday at Veterans Memorial Auditorium, available to subscribers only, and plans to begin welcoming audiences back to the Vets in October.
The Greater Providence Chamber is offering free PPR to RI Small businesses of less than 50 employees. 5 cloth masks/5 per employee, 1-2 gallons of disinfectant, 2 2-oz bottles hand sanitizers. All while supplies last. Contact them.
Festival Ballet Providence gets students safely back to the barre for children’s, teen/adult, adaptive, and core ballet programs.
The Governor said she will be delivering Halloween protocols at her next address on Wednesday, Oct. 1st.
RI Data:
Deaths: 3
8 more people hospitalized than yesterday
1.4% positivity rate
Data by city/town:
An updated list of data for RI nursing homes and assisted living centers will be published tomorrow…