November 10 coronavirus news

By Zamira Rahim, Stephanie Halasz, Ben Westcott, Steve George, Emma Reynolds, CNN

Updated 0504 GMT (1304 HKT) November 11, 2020
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11:41 p.m. ET, November 10, 2020

Colorado saw a record number of Covid-19 cases identified on Tuesday

From CNN's Kay Jones

In this Oct. 27, 2020, file photo, a tester prepares to administer a swab test at a drive-in Covid-19 testing site in Federal Heights, Colorado.
In this Oct. 27, 2020, file photo, a tester prepares to administer a swab test at a drive-in Covid-19 testing site in Federal Heights, Colorado. David Zalubowski/AP

Colorado authorities identified 3,890 Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, a new daily record for the US state.

Since the pandemic began, 138,427 people in Colorado have contracted the novel coronavirus. At least 2,427 of those have died.

Some 1,116 Covid-19 patients are being treated in the hospital, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and 84% of the state's intensive care unit beds are occupied.

11:26 p.m. ET, November 10, 2020

The city of Miami Beach is extending its Covid-19 emergency declaration

From CNN’s Rebekah Riess

Miami Beach Police officers issue a ticket to visitors for not wearing facemasks on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Florida on August 27.
Miami Beach Police officers issue a ticket to visitors for not wearing facemasks on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Florida on August 27. Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images/FILE

Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales has extended the city's Covid-19 state of emergency and its emergency measures through November 18, according to a release from the City of Miami Beach.

The order extends the mask mandate for Miami Beach, and the general curfew established throughout Miami-Dade County continues to be effect daily from midnight until 6 a.m. Eastern Time.

Any business or organization in violation of the provisions of the order may subject to the closure of their establishment for a period of at least 24 hours, or through the duration of the state of emergency.

The southeastern US state of Florida, where Miami Beach is located, has so far recorded more than 852,174 cases of Covod-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.

 

11:07 p.m. ET, November 10, 2020

Maryland just had its 7th straight day of 1,000-plus Covid-19 cases

From CNN’s Jennifer Henderson

Local residents wait in for coronavirus testing at a drive-thru location at Six Flags America, on May 29, in Bowie, Maryland.
Local residents wait in for coronavirus testing at a drive-thru location at Six Flags America, on May 29, in Bowie, Maryland. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Tuesday marked the seventh day in a row that Maryland confirmed at least 1,000 new Covid-19, Governor Larry Hogan said at a news conference.

“The numbers continue to rise,” he said. 

The US state of Maryland identified 1,338 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday. Fifty-four more people were hospitalized, bringing the total number of hospitalizations to 761 -- the highest since June 13. Authorities said 176 people are being treated in intensive care units.

Since the pandemic began, at least 4,084 people in the Mid-Atlantic state have died from Covid-19.

11:01 p.m. ET, November 10, 2020

A new test might be better at detecting past coronavirus infection, study finds

From CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen

The world has come to depend on antibody tests to check whether someone's already had Covid-19, but a study in the town where the virus first spread in Italy shows that these tests are not completely reliable.

A different test -- one that looks for an immune cell, called a T cell -- was more effective, according to the study.

"This makes sense. It's well known that antibodies wane, but T cells have immunological memory," said Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious disease specialist at Baylor College of Medicine.

In the study, researchers in Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States studied people in Vo, Italy, to learn more about testing accuracy.

They conducted blood tests on 70 people who had had confirmed cases of coronavirus about two months earlier.

Theoretically, all 70 of them should have had positive results on an antibody test. But the antibody test returned negative results in 16 of the cases, or 23%. The T cell test missed only 2 cases, or about 3%.

The researchers also tested 2,200 people who had tested negative for Covid-19. Of those, the T cell test returned positive results for 45 of them.

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10:44 p.m. ET, November 10, 2020

More people hospitalized in US with Covid-19 than ever before

From CNN’s Amanda Watts and Virginia Langmaid

Medical staff members work in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, on Sunday, November 8.
Medical staff members work in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, on Sunday, November 8. Go Nakamura/Bloomberg/Getty Images

More people are being hospitalized in the United States with Covid-19 than at any time during the pandemic, according to the Covid Tracking Project (CTP). 

Some 61,964 people are currently receiving hospital care due to Covid-19 as of Tuesday, according to CTP. The nation has never before topped 60,000 hospitalizations. The US currently averages roughly 1,661 new hospitalizations per day, CTP data shows.

These are the highest hospitalization day records according to CTP data:

  1. Nov 10 – 61,964
  2. April 15 – 59,940
  3. April 21 – 59,780
  4. July 23 – 59,718
  5. July 24 – 59,682
  6. April 14 – 59,610
10:12 p.m. ET, November 10, 2020

California surpasses 18,000 coronavirus deaths, nears 1 million cases

From CNN's Sarah Moon and Alexandra Meeks

People wait in line at a coronavirus test site in Los Angeles, California, on November 10.
People wait in line at a coronavirus test site in Los Angeles, California, on November 10. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

More than 18,000 Californians have now died due to complications from the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, state health officials announced Tuesday, a grim new milestone as cases of Covid-19 surge once again at an alarming rate.

The California Department of Public Health reported 24 new deaths on Tuesday, raising the statewide death toll to 18,001. The US state has reported 977,218 confirmed cases of Covid-19 to date. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom warned residents that the state’s coronavirus cases, positivity rates and hospitalizations are all on the rise.

“People are letting their guard down by taking their masks off. They're starting to get together, outside of their household cohorts,” Newsom said at a news conference

San Francisco's uptick: San Francisco is temporarily closing indoor dining and will reduce the capacity of fitness centers and movie theaters to 25% to a rapid and significant increase in Covid-19 cases, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Tuesday.

Indoor instruction at some high schools will also be paused because the transmission rate among high school students is similar to adults, Breed said. All of the new changes go into effect at 11:59pm Pacific Time on Friday, November 13.

"People have gotten complacent and as a result of this behavior, we're seeing an uptick," Breed said. "As a result of that uptick, it has forced our city to make some very hard decisions to not just pause the reopening efforts, but to roll back some of the gains that we have made."
 

Since October 2, San Francisco has experienced a 250% increase in Covid-19 cases, according to county health data. The city is averaging nearly 80 new cases a day compared to approximately 32 new daily cases at the end of October.

In a warning to all San Francisco residents, Director of Health Dr. Grant Colfax said the current surge in cases is greater than the rate of increase from the last major surge in the summer when cases peaked on July 19. Colfax said the city's current fall surge will exceed the summer surge if residents are unable to help turn things around.

“This suggests much broader virus transmission and has the potential to be explosive,” Colfax said. “If we stay on our current course of activities and if we do not reverse, it is entirely plausible we face a situation where our health care system becomes overwhelmed and reverses the current progress we’ve made.”
10:04 p.m. ET, November 10, 2020

Vermont officials will require non-essential travelers to undergo a 14-day quarantine

From CNN’s Jamiel Lynch and Rob Frehse

Vermont is enacting a 14-day quarantine for all non-essential travelers entering the northeastern US state in order to slow the spread of Covid-19, the Vermont Department of Health said in a statement.

While Vermont continues to have the lowest positivity rate in the country, cases rose 46% this week, the release said.

Under the new guidelines which begin today, anyone traveling or returning to Vermont must quarantine for 14 days (or 7 days followed by a negative Covid-19 test). Essential travel -- including for school, work, personal safety, medical care, care of others, parental shared custody or for food, beverage or medicine -- is exempt.

Vermont authorities reported 46 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. Authorities have identified 2,462 cases in the state since the pandemic began.

9:15 p.m. ET, November 10, 2020

Texas set a new record for Covid-19 cases identified in a day

Medical workers put on personal protective equipment (PPE) before starting shifts at a Covid-19 drive-thru testing site in El Paso, Texas, on Monday, November 9.
Medical workers put on personal protective equipment (PPE) before starting shifts at a Covid-19 drive-thru testing site in El Paso, Texas, on Monday, November 9. Joel Angel Juarez/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The state of Texas reported 10,865 Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, a new single-day record for the Lone Star state. Authorities there have now identified 974,230 novel coronavirus cases since the pandemic began.

Some 94 virus-related deaths were reported Tuesday, bringing the state's death toll to 18,863. 

According to the state's Covid-19 dashboard, there are currently 6,170 lab-confirmed coronavirus patients in Texas hospitals. 

9:07 p.m. ET, November 10, 2020

Oregon pauses reopening amid "frightening reality" as case rises threaten hospital capacity

From CNN’s Konstantin Toropin

Oregon Governor Kate Brown asked residents on Monday via a video posted to her official Twitter account to keep social gatherings small.
Oregon Governor Kate Brown asked residents on Monday via a video posted to her official Twitter account to keep social gatherings small. Credit: Governor Kate Brown/Twitter

Oregon Governor Kate Brown has said she is pausing reopening plans with the state “headed on the wrong road” and running out of hospital capacity.

“Our fears that this virus would spread out of control when the colder months set in are certainly becoming a frightening reality,” Brown said at a news conference Tuesday.

Brown said she was ordering a “two-week pause” in four more counties where community transmission is on the rise, with nine now under additional restrictions. Restaurants and indoor events are reduced to a maximum of 50 people and businesses are encouraged to mandate working from home, according to a statement Monday.

Oregon is headed on the wrong road,” Brown said Tuesday, emphasizing that the state is running out of hospital space.

Dr. Dana Hargunani, Oregon Health Authority’s chief medical officer, said at the news conference that the state has 146 available intensive care beds -- just 20% of its total ICU capacity, according to its Covid-19 dashboard. Hargunani also noted that they only have 701 regular, adult beds available -- 15.6% of the state’s overall capacity.

“While we have plans in place to share beds and ventilators if necessary, that needs to be a last resort,” Brown said Tuesday.

“We cannot and should not be relying on the fact that our hospital systems can withstand a surge.” 

“I need Oregonians to know it's not too late to do the right thing,” Brown said as she urged residents to wear masks and stay home when feeling sick.