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The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 12.4 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 4.3 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 65,471
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 901
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 64.6 % of the population
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases improved and deaths worsened
CDC advisers recommend resuming use of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine
New Study Shows Long Haul COVID-19 Can Kill Patients Months After Infection
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The Association for Molecular Pathology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America are cautioning healthcare providers against using certain data generated by some COVID-19 PCR tests to make patient care decisions.
Some tests generate data known as cycle threshold (Ct) values that have the potential to help determine a patient s prognosis and risk of transmission. But the wide variety of testing procedures in use and lack of a universal threshold are barriers that could result in misinterpretation of results and mismanagement of patients, the groups warned in a blog post.
Separately, the American Clinical Laboratory Association issued a white paper on Thursday recommending that molecular tests that detect SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid, such as PCR tests, should be prioritized for diagnosing COVID-19 in symptomatic patients.
Can We Reach COVID Zero ? Predicting the Next 8 Months
April 23, 2021 COVID-19 is likely to follow a seasonal pattern similar to some other respiratory viruses with fewer cases come summer 2021 followed by a jump next winter, experts predicted in a briefing Thursday.
If that pattern holds, it could mean a need to reinforce the mask-wearing message as the weather gets colder and people once again congregate indoors. Right now, we are projecting the United States all the way to Aug. 1 [will have] 619,000 deaths from COVID-19, with 4.7 million globally, said Ali H. Mokdad, PhD, a professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle, during the briefing sponsored by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and IHME.