An outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China. Cases have also been reported in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the spread of the infection a pandemic. Seeking to distinguish the virus from the disease it causes, the WHO named the virus SARS-CoV-2, and the disease Covid-19.
Sandy Hausman reports “The first thing we do is a regular MRI, which just looks at the structure of the brain to see, ‘Is there a lot of atrophy or brain shrinkage? Is there a lesion in the brain that would be the reason that the person is having cognitive decline.” And they can look for fragments of protein in the brain called amyloid. “There are certain PET scans where we can look at the amount of amyloid in the brain, and that is a marker of Alzheimer’s Disease,” Manning says. Sometimes the findings suggest typical, age-related changes. “Normal age related decline includes things like forgetting names very, very common. Proper nouns – common to have a harder time with that.” Manning explains.
Jahd Khalil reports. 80% of calls to 911 in Virginia come from mobile phones. When those calls go to a cell tower, it could be far away, across a border, or a river. That’s to say, 911 telecommunicators sometimes don’t get the right location. So they might need to start off with a different question. Inside the Roanoke E-911 communications center Credit City of Roanoke E-911 Center “When you receive a wireless call, it s, ‘Where is your emergency?’ not, ‘What is your emergency, says Dorothy Spears-Dean is Bureau Chief for the 911 and Geospatial Services Bureau. That’s part of the state Department of Emergency Management. She’s also in a workgroup the General Assembly formed last year.
Richard Taylor, clinical assistant professor in the School of Human Ecology, co-authored a study published in Frontiers in Public Health which estimated that 1.7 million vaccine doses are needed to reach herd immunity for COVID-19 in Travis County. A