CDC adds six new symptoms, new coronavirus update

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The information below is current as of about 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 27, 2020. As we know, the news regarding coronavirus and responses is changing by the minute. We will work to update as needed.)

Daily statistics:

In New Mexico, confirmed cases rose from 2,726 on April 26 to 2,823 on April 27, according to the New Mexico Department of Health (https://cv.nmhealth.org/).

There are 126 cases reported in Doña Ana County, including 10 new cases as of April 27. There has been one death in the county related to coronavirus.

 In Texas (State Department of Health Services: https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83), reported 25,297 cases on April 27, up from 25,631 on April 26. Total deaths are now 663. El Paso County reports 802 cases as of April 27, up from 780 on April 26.

Mexico reports 14,677 cases as of April 27, up from 13,842 on April 26. The new total includes 1,351 deaths and 8,354 recoveries. reported 249 cases in the state of Chihuahua, including 237 in Cuidad Juarez. That includes 52 deaths in Juarez and 61 total in Chihuahua. 

According to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html  confirmed cases in the United States increased from 928,619 to 957,875 on April 26, including 53,922 deaths, up from 52,459.

According to news.google.com, there are, as of April 27, 3,002,303 million cases of coronavirus reported worldwide, a rate of 386 per one million people. That includes 878,813 people who have recovered and 208,131 deaths. Those figures are up from the April 26 numbers: 2.99 million positive, 207,000 deaths, 875,000 recoveries.

Regional statistics

New Mexico (as of April 27)

58,803 tested

2,823 positive (4.8 percent)

155 people hospitalized

666 recovered

104 deaths

126 cases in Doña Ana County; 3,899 people have been tested: 3.23 percent positive.

Texas (as of April 27)

290,517 tested

25,297 positive (8.7 percent)

1,563 currently hospitalized

11,170 recovered

663 deaths

802 cases in El Paso County

CDC adds six new COVID symptoms

The Centers for Disease has added six additional symptoms for the COVID-19 illness.

Symptoms reported have been wide ranging, but following are now considered the top symptoms likely to occur, anywhere from two to 14 days after exposure to the virus:

• fever
• cough
• shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• chills
• repeated shaking with chills
• muscle pain
• headache
• sore throat
• new loss of taste or smell

Dealing with foggy glasses while wearing a mask

If you have been one of the millions of Americans wearing a mask in public (as El Pasoans are now required to do), and you also wear glasses, you may be having issues with your lenses fogging.

Here is an article from AARP that addresses that issue:

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/eyewear-face-masks.html?cmp=SNO-ICM-FB-COVID-HLTH&socialid=3298673188