Officials at BYU-Idaho said they are "deeply troubled" by reports that students on campus are intentionally trying to contract COVID-19 in order to recover and then sell their plasma, containing virus antibodies.
Oct 14, 10:25 PM EDT BYU-Idaho students may be intentionally contracting COVID Link Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Email this article Of those 10 potential vaccines in late-stage trials, there are currently five that will be available in the United States if approved. More than 190 vaccine candidates for COVID-19 are being tracked by the World Health Organization, at least 10 of which are in crucial phase three studies. California is followed by Texas and Florida, with over 830,000 cases and over 741,000 cases, respectively. state, with more than 865,000 people diagnosed, according to Johns Hopkins data. The United States is the worst-affected country, with more than 7.9 million diagnosed cases and at least 216,639 deaths.Ĭalifornia has the most cases of any U.S. Since the first cases were detected in China in December, the virus has rapidly spread to every continent except Antarctica. Still, 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 criteria for diagnosis - through clinical means or a lab test - has varied from country-to-country. Over 38.4 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.
A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 1 million people worldwide.
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