Category: Covid-19

CelticsNew Celtics coach Ime Udoka, here pictured earlier this summer, tested positive for COVID-19 but is almost out of isolation. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images

New Celtics coach Ime Udoka tested positive for COVID-19 and has been in isolation, but according to the team he was vaccinated and thus asymptomatic.

Udoka who was on his final day of isolation Monday is expected to rejoin the team before training camp begins on Tuesday.

It hasnt hit him like its hit others that we read about all over the country, and I think that as far as missing time, hes good at connecting with people, Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens told reporters at media day. Hell do that over FaceTime, over text, over many different ways. He was working at two in the morning in Tokyo helping us talk to free agents.

Even when he hasnt been there in person, he has been very invested every single minute. So Im not worried about that, thats an easy part. Im just very glad his health is okay.

The Celtics reportedly have had issues getting all of their players vaccinated. Stevens told the media the team is doing what it can to bring those numbers up.

Our hope is that we get as close to 100 percent vaccinated as possible as soon as possible, Stevens said. Thats our hope, thats our desire. Obviously well continue to work from our end on what we can do, and work from the educational standpoint within the organization and do what we can, and at the same time everybody has to make that decision for themselves.

Stevens noted that throughout the country, hospitals are overflowing with sick COVID patients and doctors have begun to ration care.

I think thats the thing that, you talk about being fully vaccinated and you talk about him getting it and breakthrough cases or unvaccinated cases, the scariest thing for me is just the health of everybody, Stevens said. People talk about games and talk about all the things that come with that throughout the course of the season, but we have hospitals overflowing, and people are having to make decisions on who gets oxygen.

Its a sad situation we are in as a world. Like everybody else, I hope that gets improved quickly.

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) With 383 new total COVID-19 cases reported Monday, the states total case count is now at 143,183, up from Friday (142,800).

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Active cases are now at 7,588, down from Friday (7,704).

The death toll from COVID-19 is now at 2,129, up 4 from Friday (2,125). The new deaths include three men and one woman in the following age ranges: 50-59 (2); 70-79 (1); 80+ (1). New deaths were reported in the following counties: Butte, Deuel, Lawrence and Oglala Lakota.

Current hospitalizations are at 184, down from Friday (190). Total hospitalizations are now at 7,314, up from Friday (7,290).

Total recovered cases are now at 133,466, up from Friday (132,971). The latest seven-day PCR test positivity rate for the state is 13.4% for September 17 through September 23.

The DOH currently reports total tests each day. There have been 1,481,919 total tests reported as of Monday, up 4,610 from 1,477,309 total tests reported Friday.

Of South Dakotas 66 counties, 59 are listed as having high community spread. High community spread is 100 cases or greater per 100,000 or a 10% or greater PCR test positivity rate.

There are 326 confirmed cases of the Delta variant (B.1.617.2, AY.1-AY.3) detected in South Dakota through sentinel monitoring.

There have been 172 cases of the B.1.1.7 (Alpha variant), 3 cases of P.1. (Gamma variant) and 2 cases of the B.1.351 (Beta variant).

As of Monday, 63.91% of the population 12-years-old and above has received at least one dose while 58.32% have completed the vaccination series.

There have been 435,201 doses of the Pfizer vaccine administered, 316,329 of the Moderna vaccine and 27,954 doses of the Janssen vaccine.

There have been 152,415 persons who have completed two doses of Moderna, an increase of 158 over the previous report. 207,480 persons have received two doses of Pfizer, up 529 people.

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After an exceptionally warm first weekend of Autumn, were in for a couple very warm days to start the week. Today we have plenty of sunshine, and temperatures have heated back into the 80s, with a few 90s.

Skies will be clear in Eastern South Dakota tonight, and mostly clear in the west. A light south breeze will hold temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s very warm for a late September night.

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Mayor Todd Gloria highlighted Monday what he is touting as the success of the citys COVID-19 Housing Stability Assistance Program and announced a proposal to establish a $5 million legal defense fund to support struggling tenants.

The housing assistance program has provided more than $103 million in rent and utility relief to 11,806 San Diego households since it was opened to applications on March 15, according to the mayors office. About $54 million more has been committed to renters whose applications have received preliminary approval, subject to review and confirmation of their documentation.

I am incredibly proud of the job our city has done to get assistance to residents whove been unable to pay their rent and utilities during this difficult time, Gloria said. I am working with our federal and state partners to bring additional dollars to San Diego to support our program further, and I am asking the City Council to work with me to create a legal-aid program to help San Diegans who are under the threat of eviction.

Gloria is working with federal officials on a program that could provide additional rental-assistance funding to local governments that have been successful in getting relief out to tenants and landlords, as well as advocating for additional state support.

On Oct. 5, Gloria will present a proposal to the City Council that would use $5 million in federal CARES Act dollars to create a program to provide eviction-prevention education and legal assistance, which would be administered by the San Diego Housing Commission.

City Council President pro Tem Stephen Whitburn and Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera joined Gloria for the announcements.

We can all be proud that the city of San Diego has had one of the most efficient rent-relief programs in the nation, said Whitburn. Im pleased the mayor is looking ahead at how we can provide information and assistance to renters in the event they face eviction.

Evictions can often lead to homelessness, and we simply cant afford to have more San Diegans living on the streets, he said.

The program is administered by the San Diego Housing Commission, which has received more than 23,561 applications since the program began. More than 23,148 additional applications have been started but have not yet been submitted.

Home is the bedrock of security, health and success, said Elo- Rivera. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the city of San Diego has preserved this bedrock by protecting residents from eviction, and by supporting them with rental and utility assistance.

However, due to overwhelming need, weve reached the capacity with our limited resources, he said. Additional investments from our federal and state partners will be crucial in preventing a wave of homelessness, and to holding ourselves to our commitment to the ideal of housing for all.

Applications for assistance from the program can also provide additional protections for renters who may face potential eviction after Californias temporary ban on evictions expires Thursday. Assembly Bill 832, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on June 28, includes additional protections for renters, effective Oct. 1.

From Oct. 1 through March 31, 2022, landlords who want to evict a tenant for nonpayment of rent when a tenant has experienced a COVID-19- related hardship must show that the tenat applied for rental assistance and it was denied.

Gilberto Vera, senior attorney at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego, joined Gloria to speak about tenant protections.

Starting October 1, the remaining tenant protections are tied to tenants applying for emergency rental assistance, Vera said. We recommend tenants not only submit rental assistance applications, but also regularly check on the status of their application and keep an open line of communication with their landlord.

He recommended if tenants are served an eviction notice by their landlord that they call Legal Aid Society of San Diego at 877-534-2524 to receive free legal assistance regarding the validity of the notice before self- evicting.

For more information about the COVID-19 Housing Stability Assistance Program, visit http://www.sdhc.org/covid19hsap. Applications may be submitted at covidassistance.sdhc.org.

Immigration status does not affect whether a household qualifies for help from the program.

Applications may be submitted by a tenant, community-based organization or 211 San Diego on behalf of a tenant. In addition, landlords may initiate applications on behalf of their tenants, subject to the tenants review and approval to submit the application.

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As masking and social distancing mandates across the country lifted with the rise in COVID-19 vaccines this spring and summer, other respiratory viruses, such as rhinovirus and respiratory syncytial virus usually known to spike in winter returned and spread, especially among children. The CDC said in a July statement that as coronavirus avoidance measures relaxed, other viruses began circulating at increased levels at an unusual time of the year.

The University of Virginias Dr. Abigail V. Kumral described the local rise in ear infections and viral upper respiratory infections in a piece forThe Conversation,republished below. A member of the UVA general pediatrics clinical faculty since 2016, Kumral sees patients at UVA Northridge Pediatrics.

Heres what she had to say in The Conversation.

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ar pain is one of the most common reasons that young children go to the doctor, and acute otitis media which means middle ear infection is themost frequent cause for the use of antibioticsin children under 5 years of age. Twenty-five percent of children willhave an ear infectionby their first birthday, and 60% by age 5.

As apediatrician, I see children in my clinic daily for ear infections. Because these are associated with viral upper respiratory infections, we typically see most ear infections in the fall and winter, when influenza and cold viruses are prevalent. However, with near-universal mask-wearing due to COVID-19 last winter and many children out of school, the number ofviral upper respiratory infections dropped drastically. As a result, we saw very few ear infections in our clinic.

This summer, with the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, we sawa return of many respiratory viruses, and with them, middle ear infections.

The middle ear space, which is the space behind the ear drum, is connected to the back of the throat via the eustachian tube. When people, especially children, get congested, they tend to collect fluid in this space.

If a child has a cold and stays congested for awhile, that buildup of fluid can become infected, usually by bacteria that have migrated from the back of the nose or the throat. As children grow, their skull lengthens, and the eustachian tube can drain more easily because it begins to slant downward toward the back of the throat. Over time, children also build immunity to common cold viruses and get sick less often, so overall ear infections decrease with age.

The three most common bacteria that cause middle ear infections areHaemophilus influenzae,Streptococcus pneumoniaeandMoraxella catarrhalis.

Interestingly, before we had pneumococcal vaccines againstStreptococcus pneumoniae, these bacteria caused about60% to 70% of all ear infectionsin children between 6 months and 5 years of age. But after these vaccines were added to thechildhood immunization seriesin 2001, overallrates of ear infections dropped, and the proportion due to strep pneumo has gradually decreased to 15% to 25%.Haemophilus influenzaenow causes the majority of ear infections.

The American Academy of Pediatrics most recent guidelines for acute otitis media, which isdiagnosed by physical exam, came out in 2013. A doctor will look in a childs ears with an instrument called an otoscope to see if the ear drum is red or bulging or if it has fluid behind it. Sometimes the doctor will use a small puff of air in the ear to see if the ear drum moves well. If there is an infection behind the ear drum, it will not move with the air.

Acute otitis media is typically treated with antibiotics, which are generally recommended for ear infections in children younger than age 2. For children over 2, antibiotics are recommended if there is a fever or severe pain, or if both ears are infected. In the absence of fever or if the infection is on only one side, the recommendation is to wait a day or two before starting antibiotics, as sometimes these infections will clear on their own in older children.

This differs from treatment for outer ear infections otitis externa, or swimmers ear which can be treated directly with antibiotic ear drops. When the ear canal is very swollen, a wick of gauze may be used to carefully get the antibiotic drops deeper into the ear canal.

Following recommended childhood vaccination schedules is a big part of preventing ear infections, or at least decreasing their frequency. Pneumococcal vaccines are particularly important. Ear infections are a common complication of influenza in children;about 40% of childrenyounger than 3 years get an ear infection with the flu. So getting a flu vaccine each year can also help prevent ear infections.

Breastfeedinghas alsobeen shownto beprotective against ear infections, with exclusive breastfeeding for the first six monthsproviding the most protection. Higher levels ofprotective antibodies in breastfed infantsas well as immunologic factors found in breast milk help provide this protection.

Children who are exposed to more viral upper respiratory infections are at increased risk for ear infections.Children in group day caresettings are exposed to more infections, and thus have higher rates of ear infections. That being said, as the mother of a child who loves his day care, it is important to note that group child care is often the most affordable or the only option for families, so it is unclear if day care avoidance is really possible. Since ear infections are much less common in older children, school is less of a risk than day care.

Exposure to tobacco smokeis also a risk factor. Caregivers quitting smoking when possible and minimizing childrens exposure to tobacco smoke reduce the risk of ear infections.

Some children get ear tubes to help prevent recurrent ear infections. If your child has had at least three ear infections in six months, or four in a year, your pediatrician might refer you to an ear, nose and throat doctor to decide if this surgery would be beneficial for your child.

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Governor Greg Abbott today announced that the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), in partnership with local officials, will launch a new COVID-19 therapeutic infusion center in Waco. The infusion center will begin accepting patients tomorrow and has been provided with monoclonal antibodies to treat outpatient cases of COVID-19 who have a referral from a doctor.This treatment is available at no cost to the patient. Local partners include McLennan County, Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Hillcrest, Waco-McLennan County Public Health District, Texas State Technical College, the Waco-McLennan County Office of Emergency Management, and the City of Waco.Thank you to our partners in Waco and McLennan County for working with the State of Texas to launch this infusion center," said Governor Abbott. "This facility will expand access to this free and effective treatment for Central Texans who test positive for COVID-19."We are grateful to the State and our community partners for bringing this invaluable weapon in our fight against COVID-19 to our community, said McLennan County Judge Scott Felton.Governor Abbott, TDEM, and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) have established and expanded antibody infusion centers in communities across the state over the past several months. COVID-19 antibody infusion treatment can prevent a patient's condition from worsening and requiring hospital care. These facilities also help increase bed capacity in hospitals so that resources are available for the most ill patients. The State deployed similar measures beginning in November 2020 to communities across Texas.These state-sponsored infusion centers are in addition to the infusion treatment centers provided by more than 200 private health providers across the state.Antibody infusion centers are currently operating in the following communities, with more coming online in the coming days: Amarillo (TDEM) Austin (DSHS) Beaumont (TDEM) Corpus Christi (DSHS) Edinburg (TDEM) Fort Worth (DSHS) Harlingen (TDEM) Houston (DSHS) Laredo (DSHS) Livingston (TDEM) Lubbock (TDEM) McKinney (TDEM) Nacogdoches (TDEM) Odessa (TDEM) San Antonio (DSHS) Seguin (TDEM) Tyler (TDEM) The Woodlands (DSHS) Victoria (TDEM) Waco (TDEM)The treatment is free and available to Texans who test positive for COVID-19 and have a doctor's referral. Texans can visit meds.tdem.texas.gov to find a therapeutic provider near them.

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The Allen County Department of Health is moving their free COVID-19 testing clinic to Fort Waynes southwest side starting Tuesday.

The new testing site at 5750 Falls Dr. will still offer both the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and rapid antigen COVID-19 tests to anyone, regardless of age or symptoms. Parkview Health is also partnering with the department by providing several staff members to assist with testing.

This new site comes as demand for COVID-19 tests remains high due to an ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases. Health Department Administrator Mindy Waldron says the new venue should be able to administer up to 500 tests per day.

Allen County Health Commissioner Matthew Sutter explains the importance of rapid testing when it comes to slowing down the spread of COVID-19.

Until recently, the department has hosted their free COVID-19 testing clinic at 1230 Ruston Pass near Dupont Road. That clinic closed on Saturday to prepare for the relocation to the Falls Drive venue.

Those who want to register for an appointment can register online or call 260-449-3303 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Well update this story as new data and information become available, so check back frequently.

Students across Chicago and Illinois are back in classrooms. And this year, on top of the usual grades, attendance and test scores, parents have one more metric to track: How many coronavirus cases are showing up at my childs school?

For starters, these are the official local trackers to watch:

Chicago Public Schools has created a COVID-19 dashboard for the 2021-22 school year.

The Illinois Department of Public Health is monitoring school-aged outbreaks and exposures for the rest of the state, including suburban Cook County.

Additionally, WBEZ is tracking vaccination rates for children ages 12 to 17 for the six-county Chicago metropolitan area by ZIP code.

But the blizzard of data points and technical terms may have left you wondering: Where does the data come from? How often is it updated? And, whats missing? To consolidate your hunt for information, weve refashioned the CPS and IDPH source data into simple lookup tools and explain the quirks of the underlying data in a section that well update as we find out more.

CPS reports the number of confirmed cases and close contacts on its website both district-wide and by individual school. The school district started out the year publishing weekly reports but has started posting updates more frequently.

Utilizing CPS source data, WBEZs lookup tool lets you search for your school, compare schools side-by-side, and sort by number of cases and contacts.

The Illinois Department of Public Health handles data collection for areas outside of Chicago, including suburban Cook and beyond. Instead of providing precise numbers as CPS does, the state health department reports on outbreaks, which it defines as clusters of two or more cases linked by time and location.

IDPH groups those outbreaks into ranges less than five, five to 10, or more than 10 in order to cloak the identities of children who have tested positive at any given school, especially very small ones. This data set trades precision for privacy, which makes it hard to detect large outbreaks or to analyze change over time.

Here, weve collected and republished IDPH data about COVID-19 outbreaks in a lookup table. The state health departments online tracker doesnt specify where schools are located, but weve scraped the underlying data that powers the IDPH tracker and found that it includes more information than the website displays. So you can use the tool below to search by school, city or county.

IDPH also reports potential exposures, which include confirmed and probable cases based on contact tracing. However, this data set does not include city name, so you can only search by school or county.

WBEZ is tracking vaccination rates for children ages 12 to 17 by ZIP code. We intend to update these figures on a monthly basis.

You can use the lookup tool below to either search vaccination rates by ZIP code or zoom in on the map.

These data sets have various omissions that make it difficult to draw big-picture conclusions about the spread of coronavirus in schools. Here are some of the issues weve identified.

Apples and oranges, folks. IDPH and CPS publish similar but not identical data, which makes it difficult to compare cases between, say, a CPS school and a school in suburban Cook County. CPS reports exact case totals, while IDPH only describes outbreaks in broad numerical ranges.

Some reporting is duplicative. We noticed that a smattering of Chicago schools appear in IDPH data. This can happen when a CPS school reports an outbreak to the Chicago Department of Public Health, which in turn passes the information to the state health department. When this happens, the school shows up in both CPS and IDPH databases.

This can lead to inconsistencies. Local and state tallies can get out of sync as different agencies investigate COVID-19 cases, creating multiple streams of data. Take Barry Elementary School in Hermosa, for example. According to IDPH potential exposures data, there were between two to four COVID-19 cases where individuals reported Barry as a place they had visited as of Sept. 10.

But if you look up Barry Elementary in the CPS database, the tool reports 0 confirmed cases as of Sept. 15.

Were not sure why the CPS and the health department information dont match. To better understand how this process works, weve filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Chicago Department of Public Health.

The data are delayed and the lag time is hard to predict. If you are a CPS teacher or parent, you may have been recently notified of a COVID-19 case in your school that was not reflected in the districts tracker. Similar anecdotes of delayed contact tracing reports are piling up.

CPS updates are sporadic. CPS started out the school year posting weekly reports on Wednesdays, but began posting more frequent updates in late September. Its tracker also no longer indicates when records were last posted, making it unclear if case counts are up to date.

Agencies can change numbers after publication. CPS recently posted the following message on its tracker: On September 20, CPS discovered a data issue in its reporting platform producing duplicate cases within the Actionable Cases graph below. Cases that were either reported more than once or were later withdrawn due to this issue have now been removed from the total case count.

IDPH cautions users that all data is provisional, which means its numbers are subject to updates, including retroactive ones. This presents a challenge when looking at how COVID-19 cases, outbreaks and potential exposures change over time because IDPH only posts current outbreak data and removes historical data from its website.

Charmaine Runes is WBEZs data/visuals reporter. Follow her @maerunes. Matt Kiefer is WBEZs data editor. Follow him @matt_kiefer

We scrape IDPHs website for the datasets on school outbreaks and potential exposures in schools, which update on Fridays.

We download CPS reports from their COVID-19 readiness website, which are updated after impacted individuals are notified. Previously, these reports were updated once a week on Wednesdays.

We calculate vaccination rates for children ages 12 to 17 by ZIP code using vaccination data from public records requests and publicly available population counts from the Census Bureau. Rates are the number of children between 12 and 17 years old who have received a complete vaccine series divided by the population of the same age group according to the Census Bureaus five-year 2019 American Community Survey Estimates (Table B09001_009E). We confirmed this methodology with IDPH. These data update on a monthly basis.

We built the map of vaccination rates among 12 to 17-year-olds by joining the vaccination rate data by ZIP to a spatial file with every ZIP code tabulation area (ZCTA) in Illinois. ZCTAs are a Census Bureau spatial representation of the U.S. Postal Service ZIP codes, which are not geographic areas but rather a collection of mail delivery routes.

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Covid-19 has triggered unprecedented financial challenges for many individuals and families.

Now, one survey shows just where many of them are feeling the pinch their credit card balances.

Bankrate.com finds that 42% of U.S. adults with credit card debt have increased those balances since the Covid-19 pandemic began in March 2020. The company's online survey was conducted in early September and included 2,400 adults, 1,297 of whom had credit card debt.

Of those whose debts increased, 47% said it was directly caused by the pandemic.

"It does go to show how widespread and persistent of a problem credit card debt can be," said Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate.com.

Admittedly, while many Americans have seen their credit card balances balloon, others have been able to whittle down those debts since the onset of Covid-19.

Overall, credit card balances are down significantly, according to the latest Federal Reserve data.

Bankrate.com's survey results highlight how those financial improvements have not been shared by households equally, Rossman said.

Moreover, once you're in credit card debt, it can be hard to get out. The reason: the average annual percentage rate is more than 16%.

The survey found 54% of adults carry credit card balances from month to month, and 50% of those people have been in credit card debt for at least a year.

"It does tend to be a long-term systemic kind of thing," Rossman said.

The average person with credit card debt owes $5,525. By making only the minimum payments, they'll be in debt for about 16 years and pay more than $6,000 in interest, Rossman said.

The good news is that as the economic recovery moves forward, credit card companies are once again starting to offer 0% balance transfer deals that had dried up earlier in the pandemic, he said.

Those offers can let borrowers pause their interest for up to 20 months while they attack those debts.

Typically, you need a credit score of at least 700 to qualify for one of those deals. In addition, you need to make monthly payments on time in order to hang on to that 0% rate.

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Alternatively, nonprofit credit counseling can help borrowers consolidate their balances, negotiate lower interest rates and come up with a plan to get debt-free.

Borrowers may also consider going it alone by consolidating their debts with a personal loan, increasing their income or reducing their expenses so that they have more money to sock away toward their balances, Rossman said.

If you find yourself overwhelmed by your monthly credit card statement, Rossman said taking these additional steps can help:

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RALEIGH, N.C. (WAVY) TheNorth Carolina Department of Health and Human Servicesreleased its latest coronavirus statistics on Monday.

Daily COVID-19 cases in the state are slightly down with 2,665 new cases being reported in the last 24 hours.

Current hospitalizations are also slightly compared to the previous week with 3,012 patients hospitalized in North Carolina due to the virus.

Overall, the state has reported 1,382,231 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. The states daily positivity rate is at 9.0%.

Local Counties Metrics:Gates 973 16 deathsBertie 2,331 47 deathsCamden 1,014 8 deathsChowan 2,171 39 deathsCurrituck 2,476 23 deathsDare 3,527 12 deathsHertford 2,643 69 deathsPasquotank 4,606 94 deathsPerquimans 1,410 11 deaths

Percent of Adult Population Partially Vaccinated: 69%Percent of Adult Population Fully Vaccinated: 64%

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