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Here is an update for this afternoon on how humanity is dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic that is caused by SARS CoV-2. The story is told through links to news outlets, research papers, and videos. They are presented without comment.
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Macon County COVID-19 News
Data from Macon County Public Health as of July 20th and graph by Macon Media of data from May 30th to July 20th [LINK]
Please note there is a gap for Saturdays and Sundays starting this past weekend since the health department will no longer be reporting numbers on those days.
507 Detected Cases (+4 in one day)
42 Active Positive (+3 in one day)
461 Recovered (+1 in one day)
4 Death (unchanged)
Testing Data for Macon County
4612 MCPH Tests (+9 in one day)
1680 Tests by Others (unchanged)
6290 Total Tests (+9 in one day)
95 Tests Pending Results (-45 in one day)
Macon County Schools Update
Schools started back on Monday, August 17th with most children attending school twice a week for in-person instruction. High School students will attend one day a week, with an opportunity for extra instruction on Fridays.
Today's Press Releases
August 20th, 3:04pm from Macon County Schools
Update #1
Tomorrow, Friday, August 21st, Macon County Schools will be delivering meals to students throughout the Franklin area. Buses will be running their regular routes beginning at 9:00 am. In addition to the delivery of meals, meals will also be available for pickup at each school campus from 11:00 am until 1:00 pm with the exception of Mountain View Intermediate. Meals will not be available for pickup at Mountain View Intermediate School. If you have questions regarding meal pickup or delivery, please contact your child’s school.
August 20th, 10:36am from Macon County Schools
Our School System is working closely with the Macon County Health Department (CHD) to contain the spread of COVID-19 in our community. These efforts include recommendations to students and staff to self-isolate and contact tracing. Timely and accurate information to parents and staff is crucial. However, such notifications must balance the privacy rights and interests of students and staff under State and federal laws. As a result, the need to make direct contact with affected individuals will be made by the CHD. The district cannot discuss the health status of any specific students or staff with others.
We can, however, explain the health department process for identifying and tracing any potential COVID-19 exposure as follows:
If a student or staff member is diagnosed with COVID-19, the CHD will be notified and the communicable disease staff and school nurses will work to identify the parameters of exposure and actions to contain the spread of the virus.
The school administrators and school nurse, along with CHD communicable disease staff will craft a communication to share with those identified as a close contact. A close contact is defined as being within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes. If a person is identified as a close contact, they will be instructed to self-quarantine and contacted by contact tracers who will provide further guidance on quarantine and when/where to get tested.
The school, in collaboration with the health department, will send a general notification to families and staff if a cluster of cases are identified (5 or more positive cases) in a school. This notification will not include identifying information about the case (staff or student, names, or grade.) Those who have been identified as close contacts will be individually notified and instructed on next steps.
Every response will be based on the unique circumstances of the occurrence of the virus. There is no single response to all cases that occur in school settings.
We need our staff to do their part at school and at home to maintain social distance from others outside of their household, wear face coverings, and wash / sanitize hands often to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The goal of every action in this sequence of events is to protect our students and staff and get back to learning and school activities as soon as possible.
North Carolina Coronavirus Map and Case Count [LINK]
Infographic from Johns Hopkins University [LINK]
Resources for Reliable Information about the Corona Virus (COVID-19) [LINK]
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Videos
Dr John Campbell
A Torrent of Good News
The John Batchelor Show Segment
What Intelligence missed about the virus & What is to be done? David Shedd, Former Acting Director DIA; Heritage Foundation.
Exclusive: Ex-US intel chief says Trump leaks have a ‘corrosive effect’ [LINK]
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Pandemic Heroes and Those Taken by the Pandemic
Lost on the Frontline [LINK]
Faces That Can’t Be Forgotten
How the Obituaries desk is memorializing victims of the coronavirus pandemic. [LINK]
Faces of some of the more than 160,000 lives lost in US to coronavirus [LINK]
Faces of the dead
This is how they lived — and what was lost when they died. [LINK]
Lives to remember: Those we've lost to coronavirus [LINK]
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Research Papers, Clinical Trials, and News About Such
1918 Pandemic Influenza Historic Timeline [LINK]
Timing social distancing to avert unmanageable COVID-19 hospital surges [LINK]
Rapid Recovery from COVID-19 Respiratory Failure with Comorbidity in 21 Patients Treated with Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide [LINK]
UCI develops low-cost, accurate COVID-19 antibody detection platform [LINK]
Evidence lags behind excitement over blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment [LINK]
Toward a coronavirus breathalyzer test (Press Release) [LINK]
A Lymph Node Targeted Amphiphile Vaccine Induces Potent Cellular and Humoral Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 [LINK]
Spike protein mutational landscape in India: Could Mullers ratchet be a future game-changer for COVID-19? [LINK]
Effects of case- and population-based COVID-19 interventions in Taiwan [LINK]
Pediatric SARS-CoV-2: Clinical Presentation, Infectivity, and Immune Responses [LINK]
COVID-19 Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons — 23 States, January 31–July 3, 2020 [LINK]
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Masks, Masks, Masks
(Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!)
Exposure assessment for airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 via breathing, speaking, coughing and sneezing [LINK]
Low humidity increases COVID risk; another reason to wear a mask [LINK]
Face masks do not cap citizens’ basic rights, rules court (Netherlands). [LINK]
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Back to School
Download a PDF of "LIGHTING OUR WAY FORWARD: North Carolina's Guidebook for Re-opening Schools" [LINK]
Researchers show children are silent spreaders of virus that causes COVID-19 [LINK]
Michigan has 14 school-related coronavirus outbreaks. State won’t say where. [LINK]
One State Is Requiring Its Students to Get Flu Vaccine by End of Year — and, Yes, It’s Legal [LINK]
A Yale professor’s stark warning to returning students: Be prepared for deaths [LINK]
New York City teachers threaten to strike over school reopenings [LINK]
Nearly 600 Miami-Dade County Public School employees have tested positive for COVID-19 [LINK]
University of Michigan professors have ‘no confidence’ in administration’s plan to contain coronavirus [LINK]
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COVID-19 in the USA
Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Jump to Over 1.1 Million: Live Updates [LINK]
Ohio Gov. DeWine orders state employees to stay home until 2021 - Dayton Business Journal [LINK]
Surprising COVID-19 side effect: More companies adopt the 4-day workweek [LINK]
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COVID-19 Around the World
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Sports, Entertainment, Public Transportation, and Other Crowded Venues
An Influencer House Wouldn’t Stop Partying, So L.A. Cut Its Power [LINK]
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Published at 6:00pm on Thursday, August 20, 2020
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