What you need to know about coronavirus on Friday, October 16
The President was non-committal on the NBC city corridor on a query about whether or not he took a Covid-19 take a look at on the day of his debate with Biden on the finish of September — though he was required to achieve this. He was airlifted to hospital with Covid-19 days later. Nor did he specific any remorse for holding a Rose Garden ceremony for his Supreme Court nominee a number of days earlier than that debate, a gathering now broadly considered as a “super-spreader” occasion. Trump additionally made the false declare that “85% of the people that wear masks catch it.”
YOU ASKED. WE ANSWERED
Q. Do airplanes air flow methods flow into Covid-19?
The examine, which was launched with out peer assessment, didn’t take into consideration different ways in which individuals might catch the virus on a plan: by individuals coughing or respiratory straight on them, from surfaces or from confined areas corresponding to restrooms.
WHAT’S IMPORTANT TODAY
Big world examine finds remdesivir does not assist Covid-19 sufferers
Until now, remdesivir has been the one drug that appeared to have particular optimistic results on the coronavirus. It was the one drug with an Emergency Use Authorization for Covid-19 from the FDA.
The WHO examine reviewed remdesivir and three different repurposed medication — hydroxychloroquine, the HIV mixture of lopinavir and ritonavir, and interferon — in 11,000 Covid-19 sufferers in 30 nations. None of them helped sufferers reside any longer or get out of the hospital any sooner, WHO mentioned.
Europe’s Covid deaths may very well be up to 5 occasions greater in January than April, WHO says
The feedback come as new Covid-19 instances speed up by way of a lot of Europe, main to a raft of latest restrictions in a few of its largest capitals. But in London, locals have expressed confusion and doubt over lockdown guidelines, set to go into place at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, that can have an effect on tens of millions dwelling within the metropolis.
These households cherished multi-generational dwelling. But Covid-19 has wrecked it
This recommendation made sense for these with aged relations dwelling in separate households. But greater than 6% of British households — a complete of round 1.8 million individuals — are multi-generational. In the UK, individuals from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities are extra possible than their White friends to be dwelling in such teams, Zamira Rahim experiences.
For all of those households, no matter race, isolation is a luxurious that’s laborious to come by.
ON OUR RADAR
- Queen Elizabeth had her first royal engagement in months — but didn’t wear a mask.
- Trump ally and ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spent seven days in ICU with Covid. Now he says “I was wrong” to assume the White House was a “safe zone.”
- More Americans have fallen into poverty after federal stimulus programs ended.
- A worldwide rise in continual illnesses, mixed with Covid-19, bodes ailing for world well being,(*16*)
- In New Delhi, one of many world’s most polluted cities, winter this 12 months comes with the added fear of Covid-19.
- The Australia-New Zealand journey bubble is lastly right here — nevertheless it’s solely one-way for now.
- CNN Travel’s Lilit Marcus thought “flights to nowhere”§ had been foolish. Then she went on one.
TODAY’S TOP TIP
Reduce transmission this fall by socializing outdoors
But simply because you’re outdoors doesn’t suggest you can abandon all security precautions. “Outdoors is not perfect. If you’re still sitting a foot away from other people, without a mask, you can still spread it — especially if you’re in that very infectious period,” Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency medication doctor, instructed CNN.
TODAY’S PODCAST
“We always have our (masks) on to make sure that we’re not spreading anything — or even have the chance to get anything — from the jump. So we have very strict guidelines and we make sure we follow them.” — Rhyne Howard, Kentucky Wildcats
