Monthly Archives: August 2020

Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.

Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.

Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus. Most of these people are not likely to be contagious, and identifying…more »

Why the local health department doesn’t report positivity rate per county

Why the local health department doesn’t report positivity rate per county

According to new data from the White House, five counties in the 13 News viewing area are in the ‘Red Zone,’ including Warren, Simpson, Metcalfe, Monroe, and Green counties. The data refers to ‘red zone’ counties, meaning they each have positivity rates believed to be above 10 percent. “It’s just another piece of the puzzle,”…more »

Jacob Blake Criminal Record Details: Supporters Say Active Warrant Doesn’t Justify Kenosha Police Shooting

Jacob Blake Criminal Record Details: Supporters Say Active Warrant Doesn’t Justify Kenosha Police Shooting

A warrant for Jacob Blake’s arrest was issued against Jacob Blake, but it’s unclear if police were aware of it when they shot the 29-year-old Black man on Sunday. Prosecutors in Kenosha County, Wisconsin charged Blake, 29, with third-degree sexual assault, trespassing and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse last month, according to The Kenosha…more »

On My Mind: They Blinded Us From Science

On My Mind: They Blinded Us From Science

Our Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai unveils the first insights from the new Franklin Templeton–Gallup research project on the behavioral response to the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the recovery: we find a gross misperception of COVID-19 risk, driven by partisanship and misinformation, and a willingness to pay a significant “safety premium” that could affect…more »

Warren, Barren, Logan Co. in COVID red zone, unclear how data is pulled

Warren, Barren, Logan Co. in COVID red zone, unclear how data is pulled

Following up on a story 13 News brought you last week that questioned the positivity rate per county calculation, Governor Beshear addressed these questions this week in his press conferences. How you get the positive rate is by dividing the positive cases by the total number of tests, then multiple that by 100 to get…more »

We now have the best evidence yet that everyone develops long-term coronavirus immunity after infection — and it’s not just about antibodies

We now have the best evidence yet that everyone develops long-term coronavirus immunity after infection — and it’s not just about antibodies

Scientists may now have an answer to one of the most crucial lingering questions about COVID-19: whether people develop long-term immunity. Early research suggested that coronavirus antibodies — blood proteins that protect the body from subsequent infections — could fade within months. But in their concern about those findings’ implications, many people failed to consider…more »

Arizona DHS is ignoring COVID-19 test results that arrive by fax? Oh, come on …

Arizona DHS is ignoring COVID-19 test results that arrive by fax? Oh, come on …

It’s bad enough that Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has decreed it optional for school districts to abide by public health benchmarks developed by his own administration to signal when it’s safe to reopen. Now we learn that one of those three benchmarks may not even be accurate. The Arizona Republic’s Alison Steinbach and Maria Polletta…more »

Kentucky offers plan to report virus cases affecting schools

Kentucky offers plan to report virus cases affecting schools

Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration outlined a process Tuesday to publicly report COVID-19 cases affecting schools as the debate continues to swirl about when to resume in-person classes. Beshear recently urged Kentucky’s K-12 schools to wait until Sept. 28 to restart in-person classes to give more time to bring a recent surge in virus cases under…more »

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