What You Need to Know About Coronavirus on Friday, August 14

"You can conclusively say the adults are not alright in America," Dr. Ken Duckworth, chief medical officer of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, who was not involved in the study, told CNN. "We are in August, and this is a biopsy of almost 6,000 people from June," he said. "There's a mental health crisis resulting from this pandemic."

The solution? Don't rush a reopening and control the virus, said the US's top infectious disease expert, who warned on Thursday that another lockdown could be devastating not just for the economy - but for Americans' medical and psychological health.

With no vaccine or coordinated strategy on fighting the outbreak in sight, the buck appears to stop at average Americans.

"Look, this is America. Be a patriot," Biden said in a message directed at those resistant to wearing masks. "Protect your fellow citizens. Step up. Do the right thing."

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Q: Can I catch the coronavirus from food?

A: Health experts say there's no evidence the coronavirus can be transmitted through food.

But don't panic. Yes, the virus was detected on the food product in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, according to a statement from the municipal government. Officials did not name the brand.

But test results for people who might have had contact with the chicken wings have so far come back negative, the statement said.

"This really is respiratory, person-to-person," Dr. Ian Williams, chief of the Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which investigates foodborne and waterborne illnesses told CNN. "At this point there is no evidence really pointing us towards food (or) food service as ways that are driving the epidemic."

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The race for a Covid-19 vaccine

A vaccine must go through multiple stages before being greenlit for use. An initial research and development stage is followed by a series of pre-clinical and clinical trials (consisting of three phases), and typically each step can take two years or more to complete.

American biotechnology firm Moderna was the first in the world to kick off human trials on March 16. In recent months, countries like Russia and China have been pushing forward vaccines before their efficacy has been proven in Phase 3 trials.

"There is a general sense of mistrust of Russia on the American side and we believe that technologies - including vaccine, testing and treatments - are not being adopted in US because of that mistrust," one senior Russian official told CNN.

Concerns mount about Trump trying to undermine election Young people linked to second surge in Europe

Data from various European agencies now shows that the new infection clusters are linked to younger people, who are venturing out into bars, restaurants, raves and other public places. And it is unlike the first surge in spring, where the virus hit the elderly the hardest and with deadlier consequences.

This comes as the UK government removes France, Malta, and the Netherlands, Monaco, Turks & Caicos from its list of travel corridors as cases spike up again in those countries.

Deaths during Covid-19 surge in New York City recall the peak of 1918 pandemic

In fact, the relative increase in deaths during the early period of the Covid-19 pandemic was substantially greater than during the peak of the 1918 pandemic, according to the study published Thursday in JAMA Network Open.

"If you think about it, Covid-19's a bigger shock to our health care system today because we have usually just a lower death rate than we did in 1918. So Covid-19 is a bigger change from norms for us than the 1918 flu was," said the study's co-author Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is an instructor at Harvard Medical School.

Faust said by comparing the first two months of the pandemic in New York to the worst two months of the epidemic in New York 100 years ago, the Covid-19 period had over 70% as many deaths per capita.

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Get a flu shot this fall

And a flu/coronavirus double whammy could be disastrous if it overwhelms the healthcare system. An estimated 410,000 to 740,000 Americans were hospitalized with the flu this past flu season, from October to April, according to the CDC.

Wen said the flu shot is about 40% to 60% effective. But even if you do get the flu after having been vaccinated, the flu shot "still reduces your chance of having severe effects from the flu."

You also want to avoid having a personal double whammy of getting both the flu and Covid-19.

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