First Case Of Coronavirus Reinfection Found In Nevada Man: Study

ACROSS AMERICA — A 25-year-old man from Reno, Nevada, is the first reported coronavirus patient to be reinfected in the United States, according to a newly released study.

The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, claims that unlike the world’s first presumed case of reinfection in Hong Kong, this patient developed more severe symptoms when he got sick in late May after a mild case in April.

Scientists with the medical school at the University of Nevada at Reno and the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory used advanced testing that sequenced the genetic strains, finding they were distinct between the infections, the Washington Post reports.

The study was released as the U.S. Secret Service battles with exposure to coronavirus due to President Donald Trump's insistence on traveling and holding campaign-style events amid the pandemic.

In the past two months, dozens of Secret Service agents who worked to ensure the security of the president and Vice President Mike Pence at public events have been sickened or sidelined because they were in direct contact with infected people, multiple people familiar with the episodes told the Post.

Meanwhile, as more and more schools and businesses around the country reopen, college towns are moving in the opposite direction because of too much partying and too many coronavirus infections among students.

Colleges are also handing down suspensions and mandated quarantines as outbreaks at fraternity and sororities jeopardize fall reopening plans, the New York Times reports.

The Times has tracked more than 26,000 cases of the virus linked to students returning to colleges, and the latest outbreaks underscore the challenges universities face in regulating student behavior.

Still, the challenges aren't enough to keep campus administration, as well as local and state leaders, from trying.

In Missouri, amid an alarming 44 percent positivity rate for the University of Missouri and the surrounding county, the local health director ordered bars to stop serving alcohol at 9 p.m. and close by 10 p.m., The Associated Press reported.

Earlier this week, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered all bars shut down around the University of Iowa and Iowa State, while the mayor of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, did the same in the hometown of the state’s flagship university.

On Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York outlined criteria that would require campuses go remote for two weeks. And health officials in Butler County, Ohio, announced that they had quarantined all the student athletes who had returned to Miami University, many of whom had attended an off-campus party.

READ: College Towns Growing Alarmed Over Outbreaks Among Students

At least 1,010 new coronavirus deaths and 46,556 new cases were reported in the United States on Friday, according to a New York Times database. Over the past week, there have been an average of 41,980 cases per day, a decrease of 6 percent from the average two weeks earlier.

As of Saturday, 30 states remained above the positive testing rate recommended by the World Health Organization to safely reopen. To safely reopen, the WHO recommends states remain at 5 percent or lower for at least 14 days.

More than 5.95 million people in the United States tested positive for the coronavirus as of Saturday evening, and nearly 182,600 died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

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