As U.S. COVID-19 cases break records, weekly deaths rise 3%
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States Undercount Positive Rapid Tests, Masking the Spread of Disease
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As rapid coronavirus tests are becoming more widely available, delivering results in minutes for patients in doctor's offices, nursing homes, schools and even the White House, officials warn of a significant undercount, blurring the virus's spread nationally and in communities where such tests are more commonly used.
Public health officials say that antigen tests, which are faster than polymerase chain reaction (P.C.R.) tests but less able to detect low levels of the virus, are an important tool for limiting the spread of the coronavirus. But they caution that with inconsistent public reporting, the case undercount may worsen as more “point-of-care” antigen tests, as well as D.I.Y. and home test kits, come on the market.
“We want to be sure that we’re not now saying, ‘there’s no disease,’ when there is lots of disease. All that’s happened is that the science with which we identify it has evolved,” said Janet Hamilton, the executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, the group that helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define cases of the coronavirus....
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Germany starts 'wave-breaker' shutdown as Europe locks down
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Nearly 50,000 Americans are hospitalized with coronavirus as experts warn of growing health care pressure
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Coronavirus digest: New lockdowns across Europe as cases resurge
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As coronavirus infections in Europe increase, several countries are imposing new lockdowns to curb the spread of the virus that has claimed close to 219,228 lives in the continent so far. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a strict monthlong lockdown similar to the spring lockdown.
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Super-spreading Trump rallies led to more than 700 COVID-19 deaths, study estimates
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US coronavirus map: Tracking the outbreak
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At least 31 states set their one-day coronavirus case records in October
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CNN)October was a month of grim records in the Covid-19 pandemic, and as November begins, experts say the US hasn't seen the worst of it yet.
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Asia/Pacific: Australia to spend on vaccines for wider region
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has announced it will spend 500 million Australian dollars ($351 million) to secure COVID-19 vaccines for the Pacific and Southeast Asia “as part of a shared recovery for our region from the pandemic.”
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Contract Tracing Problems: People Increasingly, ‘Have No Idea’ how they contracted COVID-19.
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... As the coronavirus soars across the country, smashing daily records and surpassing nine million cases nationwide, tracing the path of the pandemic in the United States is no longer simply challenging. It has become nearly impossible.
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