HAWAI‘I COVID-19 JOINT INFORMATION CENTER DAILY NEWS DIGEST Feb. 16, 2021
Posted on Feb 16, 2021 in COVID-19, COVID-19 News Releases, Latest News, Newsroom
Department of Health:
Daily Preliminary Vaccine Administration Updates
The chart below will be included in the Daily News Digest, Monday-Friday. A weekly summary is included each Wednesday.
Electronic Lab Reporting Temporarily Interrupted
Resulted in Undercount
DOH reports 17 new cases of coronavirus today. There were no additional deaths. The Hawai‘i Health Information Exchange has been working closely with the Disease Outbreak and Control Division (DOCD) to re-establish reporting feeds as quickly as possible. DOCD anticipates a “rebound” effect of increased case number over the next few days as feeds are re-established.
HAWAI‘I COVID-19 JOINT INFORMATION CENTER DAILY NEWS DIGEST Jan. 29, 2021
Posted on Jan 29, 2021 in COVID-19, COVID-19 News Releases, Latest News, Newsroom
Department of Health:
Daily Preliminary Vaccine Administration Updates
The chart below will be included in the Daily News Digest, Monday-Friday. A weekly summary with final vaccination numbers will be included each Wednesday. https://health.hawaii.gov/coronavirusdisease2019/what-you-should-know/current-situation-in-hawaii/#vaccine
115 New COVID-19 Cases & One Additional Death Reported
DOH reports 115 new cases of coronavirus today. One additional death involving a female, between the ages of 50 to 59 years old, was also reported. She had underlying conditions and was hospitalized at the time of her death.
Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
With the start of the 2020 flu season, co-circulation of SARS-CoV-2 and seasonal influenza viruses could complicate the early detection of COVID-19, experts warn.
A diagnostic test that can discriminate between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A and B viruses is urgently needed, according to Fabiola Mancini, PhD, and colleagues from the COVID-19 National Reference Laboratory and the National World Health Organization (WHO) Influenza Center of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in Rome.
Results from their evaluation of a multiplex one-step reverse transcriptase Real Time PCR assay showed that it effectively detected and discriminated between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A and B viruses. The assay was highly specific and reproducible, and intercepted co-infections, they reported online in the
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Aubri Juhasz / WWNO
Originally published on December 17, 2020 8:29 pm
COVID-19 cases reported by New Orleans public schools were down this week, but not by much. The district reported 76 active cases across 39 schools compared to 80 active cases the week before.
As the district moves further away from its post-Thanksgiving case spike, some numbers are still moving in the wrong direction. The number of students and teachers in quarantine was back up this week, with 769 people isolating at home due to possible exposure compared to 712 the week before.
The district has yet to implement any new restrictions since students began returning to the classroom in September and said they won’t do so until city-wide metrics demonstrate clear trends.