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‘You catch it, you get better’

October 8, 2020

President Donald Trump on Thursday, just days after being hospitalized for COVID-19 and as he continued to receive medical care at the White House, once again downplayed his own sickness and the threat to Americans across the country.

a man wearing a suit and tie: President Donald Trump pulls off his protective face mask as he poses atop the Truman Balcony of the White House after returning from being hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment, Oct. 5, 2020.

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President Donald Trump pulls off his protective face mask as he poses atop the Truman Balcony of the White House after returning from being hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment, Oct. 5, 2020.

“Remember, when you catch it, you get better, and you’re immune,” he told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo in his first extensive interview since getting out of Walter Reed hospital Monday and with Election Day now just weeks away.

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The president’s continued effort to minimize the danger comes as more than 211,000 American lives have died from the virus

Trump falsely dismisses virus danger: ‘You catch it, you get better, and you’re immune’

October 8, 2020

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President Donald Trump on Thursday, just days after being hospitalized for COVID-19 and as he continued to receive medical care at the White House, once again downplayed his own sickness and the threat to Americans across the country.

“Remember, when you catch it, you get better, and you’re immune,” he told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo in his first extensive interview since getting out of Walter Reed hospital Monday and with Election Day now just weeks away.

The president’s continued effort to minimize the danger comes as more than 211,000 American lives have died from the virus that continues to spread in many parts of the U.S., including inside the White House and within the ranks of his own administration.

PHOTO: President Donald Trump pulls off his protective face mask as he poses atop the Truman Balcony of the White House after returning from being hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment, Oct. 5, 2020. — President Donald Trump pulls off his protective face mask as he poses atop the Truman Balcony of the White House after returning from being hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center

‘You catch it and then you get better:’ Trump claims he would’ve beaten COVID-19 without treatment

October 8, 2020

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President Trump boasted Thursday that he doesn’t need any help beating coronavirus — and you don’t either.

The COVID-stricken president said he is strong enough to win his fight against the deadly virus without treatment, an ill-informed statement considering that 210,000 Americans have succumbed to the pandemic

“I think I would have done it fine without drugs. You don’t really need drugs,” Trump told Fox News.

“You catch it and then you get better. And then you are immune,” Trump added.

Trump praised the experimental anti-body treatment that he was given last Friday, calling the drug a “cure” for COVID-19.

But he suggested that his own strength was primarily responsible for his ability to fight off the virus so far.

“I view it as a cure because I took it,” Trump said. “It’s great, it made me better, I’ll tell you right now.”

Doctors say that personal strength obviously has

LFCHD works with Kentucky Department for Public Health to catch up on more than 1,900 backlogged COVID-19 cases

October 8, 2020

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – In a COVID-19 world, eyes stay fixed on the numbers, the total confirmed cases, the positivity rate, and the COVID-related death toll.

But, the numbers from the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department and the state’s daily report weren’t adding up.

More than 2,000 cases of COVID-19 were announced Wednesday by Governor Andy Beshear, but more than half of those are from a backlog of cases from Fayette County.

“We were using one system initially in this pandemic and the state uses a federal system to enter data,” LFCHD Communications Officer Kevin Hall said.

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That means the health department’s limited staff had to enter those numbers twice.

“As the number of cases increased in Lexington so did the number of cases we had to double enter,” Hall said.

What really brought more attention to this backlog of numbers in Fayette County was how it

Meta-Analysis: Kids Half as Likely to Catch COVID-19 as Adults

September 27, 2020

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Children were less likely than adults to acquire a COVID-19 infection from an index case, a meta-analysis found.

Across 32 contact tracing or population testing studies comparing SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in children and adults, children younger than 14 were less likely to be infected from an index case overall (odds ratio 0.56, 95% CI 0.37-0.85), and specifically in studies examining household transmission (OR 0.41, 95% CI 0.22-0.76), reported Russell M. Viner, PhD, of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in London, and colleagues.

However, adolescents 14 and older did not have a significantly lower risk of infection compared with adults (OR 1.23, 95% CI 0.64-2.36), they wrote in JAMA Pediatrics.

Seroprevalence appeared to be lower in children than adults, especially for children younger than 14, who had 48% lower odds of infection compared with young adults 20 and over, they reported.

While “we found few data that were

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