Dr. Amesh Adalja joins Good Day DC to speak all in regards to the newest on monkeypox. (Authentic air date: August 1, 2022)
MARYLAND – The Maryland Division of Well being introduced on Friday that it has launched a monkeypox dashboard, which incorporates knowledge on monkeypox case counts and the vaccination fee.
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The info dashboard will probably be up to date each Friday and can embrace confirmed circumstances within the state, circumstances by jurisdiction, circumstances by demographic and the variety of folks vaccinated within the state.
DC monkeypox on-line knowledge tracker identifies circumstances within the District
County case counts beneath 10 is not going to be proven to guard affected person privateness.
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“This device will additional assist well being care suppliers ship the care that’s wanted to Marylanders affected by human monkeypox,” mentioned MDH Secretary Dennis R. Schrader. “The dashboard additionally builds on the details about human monkeypox that the state has been offering to assist residents keep wholesome and protected.”
As of Saturday, 461 whole circumstances have been reported within the state. Two jurisdictions, Prince George’s County and Baltimore Metropolis, account for greater than 66 p.c of circumstances within the state, whereas Montgomery County has the third-highest case fee with greater than 12 p.c of the state’s circumstances.
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The dashboard additionally reveals that as of Saturday, a complete of 2124 Marylanders have been vaccinated in opposition to monkeypox.
Click on right here to see the dashboard.
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Montgomery Co. holds first monkeypox city corridor
Montgomery County held its first monkeypox city corridor Monday evening to supply an replace to residents on the county’s response to the illness.
Monkeypox Indicators, Signs and Prevention from the CDC:
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Monkeypox is a uncommon illness brought on by an infection with the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox virus is a part of the identical household of viruses as smallpox. Monkeypox signs are much like smallpox signs, however milder; and monkeypox isn’t deadly. Monkeypox isn’t associated to chickenpox.
Signs of monkeypox can embrace:
Fever
Headache
Muscle aches and backache
Swollen lymph nodes
Chills
Exhaustion
A rash that may appear to be pimples or blisters that seems on the face, contained in the mouth, and on different components of the physique, just like the arms, toes, chest, genitals, or anus.
The rash goes via completely different phases earlier than therapeutic fully. The sickness usually lasts 2-4 weeks. Typically, folks get a rash first, adopted by different signs. Others solely expertise a rash.
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READ MORE: Montgomery County leaders push Maryland Gov. Hogan to supply extra monkeypox vaccinations
Monkeypox spreads in several methods. The virus can unfold from person-to-person via:
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Direct contact with the infectious rash, scabs, or physique fluids
Respiratory secretions throughout extended, face-to-face contact, or throughout intimate bodily contact, comparable to kissing, cuddling, or intercourse
Touching objects (comparable to clothes or linens) that beforehand touched the infectious rash or physique fluids
Pregnant folks can unfold the virus to their fetus via the placenta
It’s additionally doable for folks to get monkeypox from contaminated animals, both by being scratched or bitten by the animal or by getting ready or consuming meat or utilizing merchandise from an contaminated animal.
Monkeypox can unfold from the time signs begin till the rash has absolutely healed and a recent layer of pores and skin has shaped. The sickness usually lasts 2-4 weeks. Individuals who would not have monkeypox signs can’t unfold the virus to others. At the moment, it isn’t recognized if monkeypox can unfold via semen or vaginal fluids.
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Monkeypox issues as college students head again to highschool
Faculty is sort of again in session in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, and after years of worrying about COVID-19, many college students and oldsters at the moment are questioning whether or not they need to be involved about monkeypox as nicely.
Prevention Steps
Take the next steps to stop getting monkeypox:
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Keep away from shut, skin-to-skin contact with individuals who have a rash that appears like monkeypox. Don’t contact the rash or scabs of an individual with monkeypox. Don’t kiss, hug, cuddle or have intercourse with somebody with monkeypox. Don’t share consuming utensils or cups with an individual with monkeypox.
Don’t contact the rash or scabs of an individual with monkeypox.
Don’t kiss, hug, cuddle or have intercourse with somebody with monkeypox.
Don’t share consuming utensils or cups with an individual with monkeypox.
Don’t deal with or contact the bedding, towels, or clothes of an individual with monkeypox.
Wash your arms usually with cleaning soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
In Central and West Africa, keep away from contact with animals that can unfold monkeypox virus, often rodents and primates. Additionally, keep away from sick or lifeless animals, in addition to bedding or different supplies they’ve touched.
READ MORE: Virginia expands monkeypox vaccine eligibility as circumstances close to 300
In case you are sick with monkeypox:
Isolate at house
When you have an energetic rash or different signs, keep in a separate room or space away from folks or pets you reside with, when doable.
Proud Montgomery County, MD resident Gavriella Kaufmann (Potomac) won her episode of FOX’s game show “Name that Tune”, which aired last week.
Kaufmann, who was born and raised in Potomac and graduated from Churchill High School in 2015, stated in an interview with FOX 5, that she has always been into music and referred to herself as a music and game show savant. When she saw an ad on LinkedIn about being on season 4 of the game show, she immediately knew she had to do it.
“I’ve loved game shows for as long as I can remember, and music has always been a huge part of my life. Being on Name That Tune was the perfect combination of both passions—it was like a dream come true.” Kaufmann told us.
The episode had a happy ending, with Kaufmann winning a whopping $85,000! She added, “When I was on Name That Tune, I was so focused on doing my best and naming as many songs as possible that I completely lost track of the score. It wasn’t until Jane, the host, told me my total. I was in complete shock, but it was such an incredible moment!”
Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
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I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
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“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
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The campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. (credit: Courtesy)
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
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UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
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SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
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The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.