Covid-19 Pandemic
 Here’s the latest news: France’s hospitalizations rise as virus spread ‘won’t stop’ Heart injury after Covid spurs call to screen college athletesFlorida Reopens Bars and Schools in Risky Return to Normality A university gets tested When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reopened this fall, it looked like the school had done everything right. It was testing students, faculty and staff for Covid-19 twice a week, a volume that accounted for nearly 20% of the state of Illinois’s total virus screenings last week. It developed an app that tracked test results, with a negative clearing students to enter buildings and even some local bars. It also required masks and put large gatherings off-limits. Then, all of a sudden, things weren’t going exactly how the school had planned. While more cases had been expected as students came back, new positive tests continued to pile up even after classes began. Last week, the school began cracking down, ratcheting up its public-health measures and asking undergrads to only leave their homes for essential activities.  A COVID-19 saliva sample is collected as testing is conducted at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. Photographer: Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images What changed? The school said it wasn’t just maskless partying, some amount of which it had anticipated, but that some students didn’t isolate when they got positive test results back. Indeed, some went out to parties, or even threw parties themselves. Lets be clear: If you test positive for Covid-19, you need to isolate. Obviously. If we’ve learned nothing else over the last half year, it’s how highly infectious this virus is. But what happened at UIUC’s Central Illinois campus also shows how reopening during a pandemic is hardly straightforward, even when a plethora of precautions have been taken. In no small part, that’s because institutions are doing something totally new and foreign, even as the science is still emerging and human behavior remains hard to predict.–Emma Court Listen up How the Virus Will Be Different This Winter We’re learning constantly about SARS-CoV-2: what it does to the human body, how it spreads, and why it seems to transmit more readily in certain situations compared with others. Knowing how long the virus lives under different conditions is crucial for understanding the drivers of transmission and how to stop it. Jason Gale spoke with a scientist looking into some of these critical questions. And his answers don’t bode well for winter in the Northern Hemisphere.  Photographer: Patricia Suzara Photographer: Patricia Suzara What you should read U.K. Pledges Testing Surge But Labs Can’t Cope Months into pandemic, people still struggle to get tested. Singapore Airlines Plans Flights to Nowhere Flights may be bundled with staycation hotel and shopping packages. Interruption Insurance Isn’t Preventing Shutdowns More than 1,000 companies have sued over refusal to pay claims. VMware Cuts Pay for Some Remote Workers Staff choosing to permanently work from home may lose 18% of pay. In Smoky Bay Area, Covid-Hit Businesses Suffer Fires, smoke force residents to stay inside, hurting economic recovery. Know someone else who would like this newsletter? Have them sign up here. Have any questions, concerns, or news tips on Covid-19 news? Get in touch or help us cover the story. Like this newsletter? Subscribe for unlimited access to trusted, data-based journalism in 120 countries around the world and gain expert analysis from exclusive daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close. Follow Us Get the newsletter You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg’s Coronavirus Daily newsletter. Unsubscribe | Bloomberg.com | Contact Us Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022 |
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