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Inaccurate rapid tests are sowing confusion in North Texas, but here’s what experts say you need to know
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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
The presidents of four HBCU schools sat for a roundtable discussion Thursday, discussing a range of topics affecting their schools today.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has procured 250,000 rapid point-of-care antigen tests, which will be set up at nursing homes, assisted living facilities, correctional and juvenile detention centers throughout the state.
Businessman Strive Masiyiwa has urged Africans to adopt what he calls the 'ITTIT' formula to fighting the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus epidemic as governments across the continent gradually ease national lockdown restrictions imposed to reign-in the spread of the disease.
Writing on his popular Facebook blog following his appointment by the African Union as a Special Envoy to Coordinate the Africa Private Sector Initiative for the Procurement of Personal Protective Equipment and other Essential Supplies, Masiyiwa says the key to stopping the disease in its tracks is to adopt the formula #ITTIT; inform, test, trace, isolate and treatment as a collaborative effort among the private sector, NGOs, businesses and faith-based organizations.
Unfortunately, this test needs to be taken at least seven days from the time you are infected, which means you could have unknowingly infected a lot of people during that time.
Once you identify people who have tested positive for COVID-19, they must be isolated in a safe place from others, until the virus is out of their system.
As soon as someone tests positive for the virus, the health authorities will want to sit them down and learn about their #Contacts to help them, their families and others in their community stay safe.
According to information on the CDC website, “Two kinds of tests are available for COVID-19: viral tests and antibody tests.
With so much still unknown about immunity to COVID-19 and dozens and dozens of antibody tests that have not been rigorously validated, experts worry that widespread antibody screening may give those who test positive a false sense of security.
With other diseases, the presence of antibodies often means you have acquired immunity against re-infection, for at least some period of time, but that is not known yet in the case of COVID-19.
An accurate antibody test would help the scientists and researchers gather the data on who has gotten the virus, including those who’ve shown no symptoms of being sick.
We now know from all of this that a positive antibody test may not necessarily mean you’re safe from ever getting the virus again.
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News MY POINT IS: Caroni East MP Dr Rishad Seecheran speaks on Sunday at the UNC press conference on Sunday at the Office of the Opposition Leader in Port of Spain. PHOTO BY ANGELO MARCELLE - CARONI East MP Dr Rishad Seecheran called for Government to allow individuals to buy antigen tests, a cheap and quick way to detect whether they have covid19. Speaking at the UNC press conference on Sunday […]
[New Times] The prices are going to come down soon. The reduction in costs has been considered by the government and is in the process of being addressed.
After the May 25 police custody death on a street in Minneapolis of George Floyd, an African-American, people in Minnesota and around the world were shocked by the civil unrest, rioting and looting that followed. As a Catholic and a Minneapolis resident, Ryan Hamilton said he saw it as an opportunity, “despite all the chaos and angst and pain.”
[The Conversation Africa] Many countries in East Africa have turned to contact tracing and carrying out COVID-19 tests on thousands of individuals as a way of monitoring and trying to limit transmissions of the new coronavirus. In Rwanda, they have been investigating how they can scale up testing significantly. But instead of testing every person - which would require millions of tests - they have turned to a different strategy: pooled testing. Leon Mutesa explains to Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, how this works.
Senator Kelly Loeffler conceded her Senate runoff to Senator-elect Rev. Raphael Warnock Thursday, a day after Warnock was named the projected winner.
Patients were also told that if their last COVID-19 test result was negative, they would be tested on June 3, but sent home for isolation, and that a follow-up on their progress would be done by the regional health authority responsible for the community or parish in which they reside.
Dem a mix up people test and they lying because when they tell us we're going home Thursday (June 4) I'm expecting to be home with my family, because dem seh mi test negative, and now they telling me that it was positive.
He said crew members who received a negative result after the first test were sent home to finish their isolation period, while those who received a preliminary positive result remained at Grand Bahia.
According to the woman, the results from her first test, done on May 14, returned a negative.
“I called back the nurse station to say, 'Miss, even if unnuh not sending me home, although mi get a negative, can you just look at my name and tell me my result if it's negative or positive?
The content originally appeared on: CNN The test results 'were positive for this variant in three persons with history of travel to South Africa. These cases were recent arrivals in the country in the past week,' the statement said. 'The NCDC assumes Omicron is widespread globally given the increasing number of countries reporting this variant. Therefore, it is a matter of when, not if, we will identify more cases.' Nigeria's travel advisory has been updated and now requires travelers to […]
By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — As a result of holiday gatherings, African officials warn of a resurgence of COVID-19 on the continent and urge increased testing to combat it. The level of testing across the continent is considerably less than what health experts say is needed to effectively control the spread of the disease. Africa makes up about 3.3% of the global total of confirmed virus cases, but this is believed to be just a fraction of the actual cases on the continent of 1.3 billion people. When the pandemic began only two of Africa's 54 […]
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