Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore, says students do not face a greater risk of getting infected by Covid-19 as schools start to reopen on June 2. He adds that with schools putting more protocols in place to upkeep safe distancing and personal hygiene, the risk of infection is lower now, compared to before the circuit breaker period.
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South Korea’s foreign minister shares the secret to her country’s coronavirus success.
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The Navajo Nation has surpassed New York and New Jersey for the highest per-capita coronavirus infection rate in the US — another sign of Covid-19’s disproportionate impact on minority communities.
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President Donald Trump said Monday he has been taking anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for over a week to prevent coronavirus infection. Hydroxychloroquine, which has been repeatedly touted by Trump as a potential game-changer in fighting the coronavirus, is also often used by doctors to treat rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Numerous clinical trials are looking to see if it’s effective in fighting the coronavirus, but it is not a proven treatment yet.
London and the Midlands have the lowest COVID-19 infection rates in England, according to estimates by Cambridge University.
While the R number – the number of people an infected person passes the disease on to – is only an average of 0.4 in London, in the North East and Yorkshire it’s an average of 0.80.
Other estimates in the study show that the coronavirus has infected 18% of those aged 5 to 14 but only 3% of those over 75, a sign that shielding measures have worked.
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Experts say an explosion of coronavirus cases in Tasmania’s north-west should serve as a warning to the rest of the country about the risk of outbreaks as the number of recorded cases plateaus.
Some states and territories are talking about rolling back restrictions and measures in coming weeks, as Australia’s coronavirus curve flattens.
Investigations into the source and spread of the outbreak in Tasmania are continuing, but there are warnings such a cluster could occur anywhere if measures are rolled back too quickly.
COVID-19 Update 55 with Roger Seheult, MD of https://www.MedCram.com
Dr. Seheult illustrates new findings from Nature (a peer-reviewed journal) about how the SARS-CoV-2 virus may infect T-cells and render them ineffective during COVID 19 infection. A comparison is also made to how HIV infects T-cells with a key difference being that HIV actually utilizes T-cells of the human immune system to replicate itself (and this has not been observed with SARS-CoV-2. Other topics include a medical review by the Mayo Clinic about potential benefits of sauna/hydrothermal therapy (brief core temperature elevation), and a new “vent multiplexer” that allows some individual adjustment when treating multiple patients with one ventilator.
FOX Business’ Ashley Webster breaks down coronavirus numbers by state.
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The South Korean government is urgently sending medical support to its south, where much of those infected can be traced back to a church service.
Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reports from Daegu, which has been declared a “special care zone”.
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