新冠病毒Alert: October 15, 2021 | Everyday Health

TheJohns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centermaintains an ongoing count of the COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States and worldwide. As of 4:05 p.m. on October 15, 2021, the tally is:

Total cases worldwide: 239,926,774 (up from 239,493,291 Thursday)

Total deaths worldwide: 4,886,917 (up from 4,879,038 Thursday)

Total cases in the United States: 44,825,194 (up from 44,732,933 Thursday)

Total deaths in the United States: 722,903 (up from 720,482 Thursday)

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FDA小组支持Moderna和J＆J助推器。A key advisory committee for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted unanimously (19-0) on Thursday to recommend emergency use authorization of a booster dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for people over 65 and other adults considered at high risk. On Friday, the same panel unanimously endorsed giving a booster of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to everyone 18 and over who’s already received a first J&J shot,according to CNBC。Many committee members said the J&J vaccination should be considered a two-dose inoculation much like Moderna and Pfizer’s. One dose of J&J’s vaccine has been shown in studies to be comparatively less effective than the established two-dose mRNA vaccines.

The Moderna booster would be a half dose to be administered at least six months after the second dose. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee agreed use of a booster dose would be safe and effective in some people, asreported by CNN。遵循小组的建议，预计FDA将在几天内就这些助推器提出决定。

Biden touted the vaccination effort's success as COVID-19 drops.As今日美国reported总统拜登(Joe Biden)在白宫的地址Thursday praised the country’s progress and vaccination efforts in fighting theCOVID-19 pandemicas case and hospitalization rates continue to decline.

“It's working. We're making progress,” said Biden. “Daily cases have declined 47 percent and hospitalizations are down 38 percent over the past six weeks.”

Biden also cautioned that around 66 million eligible Americans remain unvaccinated, which he called a “still unacceptably high number.”

The United States will allow entry of vaccinated foreign travelers starting November 8.The United States is lifting travel restrictions for fully vaccinated international air and land border travelers effective November 8, according to White House assistant press secretaryKevin Munoz on Twitter。All foreign nationals arriving in the United States will have to show proof of being fully vaccinated. Travelers entering the country, including American citizens returning home, will be required to take a pre-departure COVID-19 test within three days of their flight, and show proof of a negative result before boarding. They also must take a viral test, such as a PCR or rapid test, three to five days after arrival.

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The U.S. Navy is set to discharge sailors who don’t get vaccinated.美国海军周四宣布，正准备拒绝为五角大楼授权的拒绝对Covid-19的疫苗接种的水手。according to Fox News。The service members who get discharged over their noncompliance face the risk of losing some veterans benefits.

Retail sales have posted surprise gains.巴伦报道on U.S. Commerce Department figures Friday showing that American consumers stepped up spending in September and retail sales ticked up by a surprising 0.7 percent. “The increase, which sent the monthly sales total to $625.4 billion, defied economists’ expectation for a slight decline — for the second month in a row,” according to Barron’s.

Americans drank and smoked more during the pandemic.UCLA presented study results Tuesdayshowing that Americans drank and smoked more, spent less time exercising, and spent more time in front of a computer or television in comparison with before the pandemic.

主要研究作者说：“我们发现，在大流行期间限制非必要活动和居住命令的法规对美国成年人的多种生活方式行为产生了深远的负面影响。”Liwei Chen, MD，加州大学洛杉矶分校野战学校流行病学副教授，在一份声明中。“尽管这些变化对所有美国人来说都是糟糕的，但它们在美国已经承担了较高的疾病负担。

Studyresults published in the journal营养were based on survey responses from 2,709 adults.

自6月以来，疫苗接种可能会预防90,000人死亡。Kaiser Family Foundation analysisof COVID-19’s effect on mortality rates released Wednesday estimated that nationally more than 90,000 deaths from COVID-19 since June could have been prevented with vaccines. The investigation showed that in September, COVID-19 was the second leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease, and for people ages 35 to 54, coronavirus was the leading cause of death. The study found that COVID-19 deaths fell sharply in the months when vaccines first became widely available, but they increased again because of the more infectious COVID-19 delta variant, insufficient vaccination rates, and local and state governments easing up social distancing restrictions. “The overwhelming majority of hospitalizations and deaths continue to be preventable,” concluded the report.

Millions of kids’ vaccines are ready to go.In anticipation of the FDA soon authorizing COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11, the Biden administration has purchased 65 million pediatric doses of the vaccine,根据NBC新闻。Sources told NBC that the White House has contacted the nation’s governors and urged them to prepare for a flood of vaccination requests in November to inoculate this younger population. An FDA advisory committee plans to meet to review the request for authorization on October 26.

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The Chicago police union has urged members to resist mandate.作为Chicago Sun Timesreported, Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara encouraged police officers not to comply with the city’s vaccine reporting mandate.

New York lost 3.5 percent of health workers due to vaccine requirements.纽约州数据显示,马COVID-19疫苗ndate led to about 34,000 health workers losing jobs or being placed on leave, reflecting a reduction of 3.5 percent of the workforce,according to the期刊新闻。由于任务授权，大约有20,500名工人（占行业劳动力的8％）有效地削减了大约20,500名工人（占行业的8％），因此家庭卫生部门受到了最大的打击。

Around the World

India has opened to fully vaccinated tourists.The news service半岛电视台在星期五说随着感染数量的下降，印度重新开放，以最新的冠状病毒限制，以特许航班的方式进行全面接种的外国游客。从11月15日开始，乘坐常规航班的外国游客将能够进入该国。这是该国自2020年3月以来首次允许外国游客进入该国。该国的每日感染从5月的400,000峰值下降到20,000以下。印度的疫苗接种计划在很大程度上取得了成功，其中近70％的符合条件的成年人口至少接受了一种剂量。

An English lab may have issued 43,000 false negatives on virus tests.The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Friday that COVID-19 testing laboratory in central England has been suspended over concern that it might have give 43,000 incorrect negative PCR test results to people who were infected,according to Reuters。

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Children can carry high levels of infectious virus.Early in the pandemic,scientists were unsurehow frequently kids pass the coronavirus to others. A newstudy published Thursday in theJournal of Infectious Diseasesconfirmed that children are spreaders of COVID-19 and emerging variants. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) who evaluated 110 children age 2 weeks to 21 years who tested positive for COVID-19 found that they all are capable of carrying high levels of live, infectious virus. Levels are highest early in the illness in both symptomatic and asymptomatic children. The viral loads of hospitalized children were no different from those found in hospitalized adults. Study authors noted, however, that viral load had no relation to severity of disease in children.

Monoclonal antibody treatment is no replacement for vaccines, say experts.ABC新闻本周四发表了一篇文章interviewing several health experts who consistently said that monoclonal antibody treatments are no substitute for vaccination. The FDA has granted emergency authorization status to four antibody treatments, which are most helpful in mild to moderate disease. The data supporting these antibodies, however, is much more limited than the extensive research supporting currently approved and authorized vaccines.

“单克隆抗体是高危患者的重要治疗选择。但是，可以将它们用作预防工具的想法被严重误导。药物。