流感大流行小说冠状病毒已经在全球范围内杀死了超过716，000人。
根据约翰·霍普金斯大学系统科学与工程中心收集的数据，全球已有超过1910万人被诊断患有由新型呼吸道病毒引起的COVID-19。据信实际数字要高得多，原因是检测短缺、许多未报告的病例以及怀疑一些国家政府隐瞒或淡化疫情范围。
美国是世界上受影响最严重的国家，确诊病例超过490万，至少有160，737人死亡。
下午3:30:加州超过10，000人死亡
加州是美国冠状病毒病例最多的州，根据加州公共卫生部门的数据，现在已经超过了10000人死亡的可怕里程碑。
根据州数据，该州已有超过538，000人被诊断为COVID-19，至少10，011人死亡。
数据显示，在过去两周，加州的住院人数下降了15%。
下午3点:Fauci预计2021年初将有“数千万剂”疫苗
美国国家过敏和传染病研究所主任安东尼·福奇博士星期五说，他预计在2021年的前几个月里，COVID-19疫苗将会有“数千万剂”。
“他们已经保证，到2021年，他们将获得数亿剂疫苗。”福西在与即将上任的布朗大学公共卫生学院院长阿希什·k·贾博士的现场对话中说。“如果你看看2021年的前几个月，我们不会有1亿剂，我们会有数千万剂，这意味着我们必须优先考虑。”
福奇说，医护人员、一线工作人员和易受伤害的老年人可能会被优先考虑。他指出，国家医学研究院的一个独立委员会将帮助疾病预防控制中心就药物的分配提出建议。
福西补充说:“我们还不知道它的功效是什么。”我相信我们会得到有效的疫苗，但是我们不知道是50%还是60%。希望我希望看到75%或更多。"
他补充说:“但它的98%的有效性的机会并不大，这意味着你永远不能放弃公共卫生的方法。”
下午1:20:卫生局局长称这将是他一生中“最重要的流感季节”
卫生局局长杰罗姆·亚当斯博士警告说，今秋和冬季将是他一生中最重要的流感季节，他解释说，增加对疫苗的信心以防止COVID-19和流感患者在重症监护室中泛滥是至关重要的。
亚当斯在周六接受《医生电台报道》采访时说，只有不到50%的成年人注射过流感疫苗，这个数字在黑人中更低。
亚当斯说，潜在的COVID-19疫苗必须被更广泛地接受。
“如果我们对(一种)COVID疫苗有这样的依从性，那么这种疫苗有多有效或多安全并不重要——它仍然不能帮助我们阻止疫情的爆发。事实上，这仍可能加剧贫富差距。”
他说“健康影响”有“真正的机会”...去告诉人们:疫苗是安全的。它们是有效的。他们是这样工作的。"
亚当斯说:“你需要得到一个流感疫苗，当它变得可用，你需要得到一个COVID疫苗。”我充满希望。我希望，由于冠状病毒，我们可能真的会看到全国疫苗摄取量增加，特别是像流感疫苗这样的疫苗。"
库莫说，上午11:40:纽约所有的学区都可以开放
该机构称，截至周五上午，贝、门罗、拿骚和普特纳姆四个县没有开放的重症监护室床位。
该州31家医院只有一张重症监护室病床。
随着医院和医疗中心提供最新信息，这些数字预计会全天波动。
根据州卫生部的数据，佛罗里达州有超过518，000例冠状病毒病例。佛罗里达州的病例数量在全国排名第二，仅次于加利福尼亚。
上午9点:整个高中足球队在阿拉巴马州被隔离
阿拉巴马州奥内塔高中的整个足球队都因冠状病毒病例而被隔离，美国广播公司伯明翰分公司WBMA报道。
据WBMA报道，训练将于8月18日恢复，该队的首场比赛将于8月21日举行。
奥康塔高中称，在周四紧急学校董事会投票后，该校的学年被推迟至8月18日开始。
班级将有一个混合的面对面/远程学习时间表。该高中表示，一些学生已经注册了全日制远程学习。
上午7点38分:疾病控制中心表示，截至8月底，死亡人数高达19万
疾病控制和预防中心更新了其COVID-19死亡预测，称冠状病毒死亡人数可能在8月底达到19万。政府的总体预测预测“死亡人数可能会减少”，但在未来23天内，还有15，000到30，000名美国人可能死于COVID-19。
本周的全国集合预报预测，新的COVID-19死亡的每周报告可能在接下来的四周内减少，在截至8月29日的一周内有4500到10600个新的死亡报告。其预测预测，到那一天，COVID-19总共将报告175，000到190，000例死亡。
根据疾病预防控制中心的州级预测，夏威夷和波多黎各每周报告的新死亡人数在未来四周可能会增加，而佛罗里达、密西西比州、新墨西哥州、北马里亚纳群岛、俄亥俄州、德克萨斯州、佛蒙特州和维尔京群岛的新死亡人数可能会减少。
COVID追踪项目报告称，自3月初以来，第一次检测COVID-19的人数有所下降。本周的测试比上周全国570万次测试的峰值低了9.1%。
根据COVID追踪项目，COVID-19的新病例本周也下降了10.4%。
上午5:20:美国周刊COVID-19例，死亡人数下降
又是一天，随着冠状病毒继续在全球蔓延，这是美国又一个严峻的里程碑。根据约翰霍普金斯大学的数据，美国一夜之间死亡人数超过16万，截至凌晨4:30，死亡总数至少达到16万104人。美国上周死亡人数超过15万。
然而，好消息是，美国广播公司新闻获得的一份联邦应急管理局内部备忘录显示，美国正从最近的全国增兵中略微走弱。与上周相比，上周的新病例和死亡人数都有所下降。在7月29日至8月5日期间，至少有396，559例新病例得到确认，与之前的7天相比下降了12.6%。
同期记录的死亡人数为7348人，与前一周相比，新增死亡人数下降了2.4%。
全国测试阳性率也在下降。在过去的七天里，这个比率是7.5%，比前一周的8.6%有所下降。
根据联邦应急管理局的备忘录，只有两个州和地区的新增病例呈上升趋势，而8个州和地区处于平稳状态，46个州和地区呈下降趋势。
Hard-hit state surpasses 10,000 COVID-19 deaths
A pandemic of thenovelcoronavirushas now killed more than 716,000 people worldwide.
More than 19.1 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some national governments are hiding or downplaying the scope of their outbreaks.
The United States is the worst-affected country around the world, with more than 4.9 million diagnosed cases and at least 160,737 deaths.
3:30 p.m.: California surpasses 10,000 deaths
California, the state with the most coronavirus cases in the U.S., has now passed the grim milestone of 10,000 fatalities, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Over 538,000 people in the state have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and at least 10,011 people have died, according to state data.
In the last two weeks, the number of hospitalizations in California has dropped by 15%, the data showed.
3 p.m.: Fauci expects 'tens of millions of doses' of vaccine in early 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Friday he expects "tens of millions of doses" of the COVID-19 vaccine in the early months of 2021.
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"They've already guaranteed they're gonna have hundreds of millions of doses in 2021." Fauci said in a livestreamed conversation withincoming Brown School of Public Health dean Dr. Ashish K. Jha. "If you look at the first couple of months of 2021, we're not gonna have 100 million doses, we're gonna have tens of millions of doses,which means that we gotta prioritize."
Health care employees, front-line workers and vulnerable, elderly people will likely be prioritized, Fauci said, noting that an independent committee from the National Academy of Medicine will help advise the CDC on distribution.
"We don't know yet what the efficacy might be," Fauci added. I believe we'll get an effective vaccine, but we don't know if it's going to be 50% or 60%. Hopefully, I'd like to see 75% or more."
"But the chances of it being 98% effective is not great, which means you must never abandon the public health approach," he added.
1:20 p.m.: Surgeon General says this will be 'most important flu season' in his lifetime
Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams is warning that this fall and winter will be the most important flu season in his lifetime, explaining that it's crucial to increase confidence in vaccines to prevent overwhelming ICUs with both COVID-19 and flu patients.
In an interview onDoctor Radio Reportson SiriusXM,Adamssaid slightly less than 50% of adults get their flu shot and that number is even lower among Blacks.
Adams said a potential COVID-19 vaccine must be more widely accepted.
"If we have that level of compliance for [a] COVID vaccine, then it doesn't matter how effective or how safe this vaccine is -- it's still not going to help us stop this outbreak. And it still could actually worsen disparities,"Adams warned.
He said there's "a real opportunity" for "health influences ... to go and tell people: 'vaccines are safe. They are effective. Here is how they work.'"
"You need to both get a flu vaccine, and when it becomes available, you need to get a COVID vaccine," Adams said. And I am hopeful. I'm hopeful that because of coronavirus, we may actually see vaccine uptake increase across the country, particularly for vaccinations like the flu vaccine.”
11:40 a.m.: All New York school districts can open, Cuomo says
In New York state, which was once the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, all school districts can open for the fall based on the infection rate, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on a conference call Friday.
"Every region is well below our COVID infection limit," Cuomo tweeted. "If the infection rate spikes, the guidance will change accordingly."
Each of the 749 school districts must have a reopening plan approved by the state's Department of Health, the governor said. So far, 127 districts have not submitted plans to the department of health.
Each district should also post a remote learning plan and a plan for testing, he said.
11:20 a.m.: Florida has 4 counties with no ICU beds
Hard-hit Florida has 47 hospitals with no available intensive care unit beds, according to the state's Agency for Healthcare Administration.
Four counties -- Bay, Monroe, Nassau and Putnam -- had no open ICU beds as of Friday morning, the agency said.
Thirty-one hospitals in the state had just one available ICU bed.
These numbers are expected to fluctuate throughout the day as hospitals and medical centers provide updates.
Florida has over 518,000 coronavirus cases, according to state Department of Health data. Florida has the second-highest number of cases in the country behind California.
9 a.m.:Entire high school football team quarantined in Alabama
The entire football team at Alabama's Oneonta High School is under quarantine due to coronavirus cases,ABC Birmingham affiliate WBMA reported.
Practice will resume on Aug. 18 and the team's first game is set for Aug. 21, WBMA reported.
Oneonta High School's school year has been delayed to start on Aug. 18 after an emergency school board meeting vote on Thursday, the school said.
Classes will have a hybrid in-person/remote learning schedule. Some students have registered for full-time remote learning, the high school said.
7:38 a.m.: CDC says up to 190,000 dead by end of August
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID-19 death projections, saying the coronavirus death toll could reach 190,000 by the end of August. The government’s ensemble forecast predicts “deaths may decrease,” but another 15,000 to 30,000 more Americans may die from COVID-19 over the next 23 days.
This week’s national ensemble forecast predicts that weekly reports of new COVID-19 deaths may decrease over the next four weeks, with 4,500 to 10,600 new deaths reported during the week ending Aug. 29. Its forecast predicts that 175,000 to 190,000 total COVID-19 deaths will be reported by that date.
State-level forecasts, according to the CDC, predict that the number of reported new deaths per week may increase over the next four weeks in Hawaii and Puerto Rico and may decrease in Florida, Mississippi, New Mexico, the Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Texas, Vermont and the Virgin Islands.
The COVID Tracking Project reported that for the first time since early March, the number of people tested for COVID-19 is down. This week’s tests were 9.1% lower than last week’s national peak of 5.7 million tests.
New cases of COVID-19 were also down this week by 10.4% , according to the COVID Tracking Project.
5:20 a.m.: US weekly COVID-19 cases, deaths down
Another day, another grim milestone for the U.S. as the coronavirus pandemic continues across the globe. Overnight the U.S. surpassed 160,000 deaths, bringing its total to at least 160,104 as of 4:30 a.m., according to Johns Hopkins. The U.S. crossed 150,000 deaths last week.
In good news, however, an internal Federal Emergency Management Agency memo obtained by ABC News shows that the U.S. is slightly coming down from its recent national surge. New cases and deaths in the last week have both decreased in week-over-week comparisons. At least 396,559 new cases were confirmed during the period of July 29 and Aug. 5, which is a 12.6% decrease from the previous seven-day period.
There were 7,348 deaths recorded in the same time frame, marking a 2.4% decrease in new deaths compared with the previous week.
The national test-positivity rate is also going down. In the last seven days, the rate was 7.5%, which is down from 8.6% from the previous week.
Only two states and territories, according to the FEMA memo, are in an upward trajectory of new cases, while eight are at a plateau and 46 states and territories are going down.
