Spencer Rollyson was admitted to the AdventHealth East Orlando ICU after suffering from heart failure, septic shock and acute respiratory failure. Florida Today

After 21-year-old Canaveral Groves resident Spencer Rollyson bounced back from mild COVID-19 symptoms in May, he didnt think the virus was a big deal I thought it was still a joke.

But mysteriously, two weeks after testing negative for the coronavirus and returning to work, Rollyson started suffering from an array of symptoms: fever, chills, nausea, severe headaches, abdominal and chest pain.

His fever eventually reached 103.4 degrees and Rollyson fell unconscious in the middle of a June 15 telehealth appointment. His mother drove him to AdventHealth East Orlando, where he was admitted to the intensive care unit and placed on a ventilator.

Doctors diagnosed Rollyson with multi-organ failure withheart failure, acute respiratory failure, and severe sepsis with septic shock.

"I thought I was going to die. I was literally sitting in the hospital like, Im going to die,' " Rollyson recalled.

I thought for sure I was gone, he said.

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Spencer Rollyson was admitted to the intensive care unit and placed on a ventilator at AdventHealth East Orlando.(Photo: Courtesy photo)

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Instead, Rollyson survived, returning home to recover after a five-day stay. He said he is now taking two blood-pressure medications and one of his doctors advised him to avoid a high heart rate over the next year to reduce his risk of cardiac arrest. He will return to the hospital Wednesday for anelectrocardiogram checkup.

Rollyson recounted his harrowing hospital experience in a Facebook warning tofriends and relatives whoare not taking the coronavirus seriously:

"Two weeks after I tested negative for the virus is when I went into the ICU and was on the verge of death. Ihad heart failure, respiratory failure and many other things. I was put on a breathing machine because I was not able to breathe on my own,"Rollyson wrote.

"Please take this virus seriously. I had no prior health issues and it almost (took) my life. Be safe!" he wrote.

Canaveral Groves resident Spencer Rollyson recounted his brush with death and posted his hospital diagnosis in a Facebook warning.(Photo: FLORIDA TODAY)

Long-term complications of the coronavirus remain unknown, said Dr. Luis Junco, AdventHealth East Orlando infectious disease medical director. He said links between COVID-19 and Rollyson's health crisis are unclear.

This virus can weaken the immune system, so you become more vulnerable or susceptible to acquire new infections after you get this virus. So thats a possibility in this case, he said.

Junco said Rollyson was suffering from pneumonia and inflammation of the heart and intestines when he was admitted to the hospital. He said Rollyson received a spectrum of antibiotics and recovered relatively quickly.

Spencer is young, so we usually dont see that kind of complications, Junco said.

Saturday, Boston Red Sox officials announced that 27-year-old pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez was out for the season after he developed myocarditis an inflammation of the heart muscle after he recovered from COVID-19.

Two German studiespublished last week found heart abnormalities in COVID-19 patients months after they had recovered from the disease, USA Today reported.

And the National Kidney Foundation warns that COVID-19 will likely result in ahigher number of Americans with chronic kidney disease.

Meagan and Spencer Rollyson, who are both 21, had mild COVID-19 symptoms in May. Spencer later suffered life-threatening health issues that sent him to the AdventHealth East Orlando intensive care unit.(Photo: TIM SHORTT/FLORIDA TODAY)

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Rollysongraduated from Edgewood Jr./Sr. High on Merritt Island in 2016. He manages Green Acres Lawn Service Group, his fathers business.

In January, he married his wife, Meagan,21, a 2017 Melbourne High graduate. Sheworks at Flying J Travel Center in West Cocoa, and she is enrolled in the dental assisting program at Eastern Florida State College. She also tested positive for COVID-19 in May, and she had mild symptoms.

Im still young, and I have a lot of friends that are still not taking it seriously," Spencer Rollyson said.

"Im married. I run my dads business. So I dont have a lot of time to go out and be partying and all that. I basically work all day and go home. And I still got it," he said.

"I didnt take this seriously at all but look what happened to me, he said.

Canaveral Groves resident Spencer Rollyson, 21, suffered mild coronavirus symptoms in May. But life-threatening conditions later sent him to the AdventHealth East Orlando ICU, where he was placed on a ventilator.(Photo: TIM SHORTT/FLORIDA TODAY)

Among Florida residents,20.7% of confirmed COVID-19 cases (106,347 out of512,421) have beenpeople age 24 or younger, the Florida Department of Health reports. But these younger folksonly account for 0.2% of coronavirus deaths among Florida residents (23 out of 7,927).

Researchers know relatively little about thereturn to baseline health for people who become mildly ill with COVID-19, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released two weeks ago.

According to a survey of coronavirussurvivors in 13 states, one in five people ages 18 to 34 with no chronic medical conditions had not returned to their usual state of health two to three weeks after testing positive.

Rollyson's mother, Amy, works as an AdventHealth transcription supervisor. She said theday her sonwas admitted to the hospital was "just terrifying because she was not allowed inside, perCOVID-19 policy.

I was sitting in my vehicle in the parking lot for nine hours, not knowing what was going on. And that was very hard, and very scary, Amy Rollyson said.

I cant even sit in a room with him, or try to bring him any comfort, or see what hes going through. So that was the hardest part of it, just feeling useless, she said.

Amy Rollyson said many people mistakenly believe the coronavirus only impacts older folks.

There are many young people who have died, or who have almost died. That statistic may be low in comparison to our population. That does not make it any less significant when its your child, or your friend, or your sibling," she said.

That is still a person that somebody loves and cares about, and does not want to lose.

Reporter Jim Waymer contributed to this story.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth slowed considerably in July, underscoring an urgent need for additional government aid as a resurgence of COVID-19 infections threatens to snuff out the nascent economic recovery.

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The Labor Departments closely watched employment report on Friday came as Democratic leaders in Congress and top aides to President Donald Trump struggled to negotiate a fiscal package. Trump, who lags former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, in polls ahead of the Nov. 3 election, threatened to bypass Congress with an executive order.

The jobs recovery is on very shaky ground and without seat belts for the unemployed provided by additional fiscal stimulus the economy could be in for a very bumpy ride, said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at MUFG in New York. There cannot be sustainable economic growth if the country has to carry on with the crushing weight of massive unemployment.

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 1.763 million jobs last month after a record rise of 4.791 million in June. Excluding government employment which was artificially boosted by a seasonal quirk related to local and state government education, and temporary hiring for the 2020 Census, payrolls rose 1.462 million, stepping down from 4.737 million in June.

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 1.6 million jobs were added in July. While the number exceeded expectations, the economy has regained only 9.3 million of 22 million jobs lost between February and April.

Blacks continued to experience high unemployment. Racial inequality is a dominant theme in Novembers election.

Economists believe July was probably the last month of employment gains related to the rehiring of workers after the reopening of businesses. A $600 weekly unemployment benefit supplement, which made up 20% of personal income, expired last Friday. Thousands of businesses have exhausted loans offered by the government to help with wages, which economists estimate saved around 1.3 million jobs at the programs peak.

Bankruptcies are accelerating, especially in the retail sector. Coronavirus infections have soared across the country, forcing authorities in some of the worst-affected areas in the West and South to either shut down businesses again or pause reopenings, sending workers back home. The West and South account more than a third of the nations employment. Demand for services has been hardest hit by the respiratory illness.

The initial bounce from widespread re-openings is now behind us, said Sarah House, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North Carolina. Further improvement will occur in fits and starts and depends on the course of the virus.

Slowing employment growth challenges the U.S. stock markets expectation of a V-shaped recovery. The S&P 500 index is up nearly 50% from its March trough. Economists see a U or W-shaped recovery.

Stocks on Wall Street were trading lower. The dollar rose against a basket of currencies. U.S. Treasury prices fell.

The economy, which entered recession in February, suffered its biggest blow since the Great Depression in the second quarter, with gross domestic product dropping at its steepest pace in at least 73 years.

Job growth slowed across all sectors last month. The leisure and hospitality industry hired 592,000 workers, accounting for about a third of nonfarm payrolls. The bulk of the jobs were at restaurants and bars. Retail employment rose by 258,000 jobs, with almost half of the gain in clothing and accessories stores.

Professional and business services added 170,000 jobs, concentrated in the temporary help services.

Government employment increased by 301,000. The model that the government uses to strip out seasonal fluctuations from the data normally anticipates education workers to drop off payrolls in July. This, however, happened earlier because of the pandemic, leading to a big gain in July.

The unemployment rate fell to 10.2% from 11.1% in June. It was again biased downward by people misclassifying themselves as being employed but absent from work. Without this error, the jobless rate would have been about 11.2%. About 62,000 people dropped out the labor force last month, contributing to the drop in the reported unemployment rate.

Joblessness fell across all demographic groups, but remained high for Blacks, with the unemployment rate dipping to 14.6% from 15.4% in June. The unemployment rate for Hispanics dropped to 12.9% from 14.5%. The jobless rate for whites declined 9.2% from 10.1%.

Women, who have borne the brunt of the job losses because of child care issues, saw their unemployment rate fall to 10.5% from 11.2% mostly as they withdrew from the labor force.

The U.S. economy was marked by intergenerational, racial, and gender inequality before the pandemic, and todays report does nothing to alter that reality, said Nicole Goldin,nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

There were more part-time workers. The number of people on temporary layoff fell, but permanent job losers were little changed at 2.9 million. Average hourly earnings increased 0.2% in July after a drop of 1.3% in June. The workweek shortened to an average of 34.5 hours from 34.6 hours.

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President Donald Trump isfacing criticismafter falsely claiming that children are almost immune to the coronavirus, asschoolsnationwide continue to grapple with when and how to reopen. While experts generally believe that children under 10 years old are less susceptible to thecoronavirusthan teens or adults, theres evidence that they can still catch it.

Doctors also are still learning about the ability of people under 18 to spread the virus to others who may be more vulnerable, Dr. Ron Elfenbein, an emergency care physician in Maryland, said on CBSN Thursday.

The science is constantly evolving, he said. More data is coming out on a daily basis, so its very confusing.

About 339,000 children in the United States were reported to have the coronavirus through July 30, making up 8.8% of all cases,according to a reportby the American Academy of Pediatrics. Elfenbein said children under 10 years old seem less likely to get sick.

Science sort of has shown us that kids under 10 really dont get it very often, in fact, very rarely get it at all, and if they do get it, theyre asymptomatic, he said.

But there are a growing number of examples of young children who did catch the virus. Astudypublished last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documented the case of a summer camp in Georgia wheremore than 200 kids tested positivefor the coronavirus after a teenage staff member was diagnosed in June. Out of 100 kids between the ages of 6 and 10 who were tested, 51 were positive, the study found.

In the next-oldest age group, 11 to 17 years old, 180 out of the 409 kids tested had positive results. Overall, 260 out of the 344 campers and staff who were tested had the virus. There were more than 600 people at the camp.

The camp required all trainees, staff members and campers to provide documentation of a negative coronavirus test within 12 days before starting camp. It also required staff towear masks, but did not require campers to do so, the CDC said.

The researchers said they planned to follow up and see if the children ended up spreading the virus to other members of their households.

In several communities around the country, cases ofchildren testing positivefor COVID-19 havealready disruptedthe beginning of the school year, forcing classmates and teachers into quarantine.

Though the kids overall have a lower risk of becoming seriously ill from the virus, some haveended up hospitalizedwithsevere complications. TheCDC reportsat least 45 children age 14 and under have died from COVID-related causes since the pandemic began.

Mr. Trump made the claim about children and immunity in an interview with Fox News Wednesday, and it was shared on his Facebook page and his campaigns Twitter account. The social media companies said the video violated their policies on COVID-19 misinformation, andthe posts were removed.

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By Lisa Maracani, Amnesty International's Researcher on Human Rights Defenders

COVID-19 has presented a set of huge new challenges which require governments to listen to advice, be open to criticism and scrutiny from experts, and consult those most affected in order to find solutions that minimize harm. States need to learn quickly from mistakes, adapt, innovate, and provide flexible and differentiated responses to the vast problems arising from the pandemic. This can only be achieved when diverse opinions and debate are allowed, and when different sectors of society are listened to and encouraged to participate. As the WHO says, a crucial way to fight COVID-19, is to inform, empower and listen to communities.

At a time of great crisis, what we would expect to see is governments bringing people together, fostering solidarity, and striving to protect those most at risk. Indeed, amid the shock of the first few weeks of the pandemic, many of us dared to hope that this huge upheaval might be an opportunity to create a more just, inclusive and caring world, and an environmentally friendly future.

What we have seen instead is many states lashing out at those whom they perceive as critics. Instead of unifying society, thin-skinned authorities in places like Nicaragua, Poland, or Tunisia, have ignored, criminalized, or suppressed information and critical voices. Other leaders have used this calamity to further their power and crack down on civic space, including in Hungary, the Philippines, Thailand, Azerbaijan or Zimbabwe. As the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression recently put it:

People have suffered because some governments would rather protect themselves from criticism than allow people to share information, learn about the outbreak, know what officials are or are not doing to protect them.

This is reflected in the abundant documentation of abuses against human rights defenders that we have seen and denounced in the last few months. In our briefing Daring to stand up for human rights in a pandemic we have put together dozens and dozens of individual cases - likely to be just the tip of the iceberg - of people paying a high price for their work defending human rights.

They include whistleblowers in the health sector, community activists, and journalists and bloggers sharing information and raising questions about the handling of the pandemic. Indigenous communities have been left without adequate health care and under siege from those encroaching on their lands; and at-risk activists have been left without protection and made into easy targets for attackers.

Women and LGBTI activists have faced increased gender-based violence and discrimination, and imprisoned human rights defenders and dissidents suffer additional punishment as they continue to be held in overcrowded, unsanitary prisons where they are exposed to the virus.

There are so many individual stories of human rights defenders under attack. One that stands out for me as it epitomizes state contempt for them, is that of Atena Daemi, a woman human rights defender in Iran, imprisoned for her anti-death penalty activism. After four years in prison and being subjected to torture and other ill-treatment, including the denial of medical care, in June, she was sentenced to two additional years and 74 lashes on trumped up charges designed to keep her in detention for her human rights activism.

The pandemic has deepened pre-existing inequalities and poverty, humanitarian crises and the impact of discrimination and racism in every society. It is likely that this will encourage more people than ever to mobilize for their rights. And indeed we have seen movements coming together to defend human rights and protest peacefully, stepping up and playing different roles in their own communities.

This has included providing information on how to protect ourselves from COVID-19 when information is lacking or contradictory, and denouncing the lack of adequate prevention measures and health services. More and more human rights defenders are involved in delivering humanitarian aid and advocating for groups that are marginalized and discriminated against, fighting government pushbacks on human rights under the cover of emergency legislation, and continuing with their long standing human rights work. States could learn a great deal from their resilience, adaptability, determination and innovation.

This is why human rights defenders are important actors in the fight against the pandemic, and why states should see them as allies, not enemies. Without all the individuals and collectives who defend human rights worldwide, it will be almost impossible to tackle COVID-19 and save as many lives and livelihoods as possible.

As well as being a state obligation, is in the interest of states and society at large to recognize, protect and enable human rights defenders to carry out their crucial work. Only then can we mitigate the harshest impacts of the crisis, and ensure those most at risk are not left behind in the process.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) The Tennessee Department of Health reported 117,087 confirmed cases and 1,695 probable cases of COVID-19 in the state on Friday, an increase of 2,432 total cases since Thursday.

The health department also announced 1,167 confirmed deaths, 5,190 hospitalizations, and 79,357 recoveries. More than 1.6 million coronavirus tests have been administered.

On Thursday, TDH reported 114,801 confirmed cases and 1,147 confirmed deaths.

The total COVID-19 case count for Tennessee is now 118,782 as of Aug. 7, 2020 including 1,206 deaths, 5,190 hospitalizations and 79,357 recovered. For additional data, including the weekly cluster report, go to https://t.co/Psc3HfgZ8j. pic.twitter.com/7RPCFakcYW

One new death was reported Friday in Carter County, bringing the countys total fatalities to six.

TDH reported 220 new cases in our area: 69 in Washington County, 38 in Sullivan County, 33 in Johnson County, 29 in Greene County, 24 in Carter County, 19 in Hawkins County, and eight in Unicoi County.

Almost set a record in NETN today 220 new cases reported today. (record is currently 229 set last Saturday)

One new hospitalization reported in Greene County.

One more person has died in Carter County. pic.twitter.com/3850cwEa4y

Twenty-six new recoveries were reported: 11 in Washington County, seven in Sullivan County, four in Carter County, and two each in Greene and Hawkins counties.

There are currently 2,481 active cases in Northeast Tennessee, up from 2,288 active cases on Thursday.

The following data was reported in local counties:

Carter 497 cases / 6 deaths / 121 recoveriesGreene 447 cases / 7 deaths / 145 recoveriesHawkins 435 cases / 7 deaths / 103 recoveriesJohnson 258 cases / 42 recoveriesSullivan 933 cases / 12 deaths / 601 recoveriesUnicoi 156 cases / 65 recoveriesWashington 1,200 cases / 2 deaths / 334 recoveries

Active cases by county:

Carter 370Greene 295Hawkins 325Johnson 216Sullivan 320Unicoi 91Washington 864

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Today, that decision appears to have paid off.

This turn around has caught the attention of health experts, who have praised Arizona as an example of a state that successfully reimplemented mitigation efforts as cases rose.

"We saw in Arizona, which was a good example, they went up (in cases) and they started to really clamp down and do things right. And the cases came right down," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN's John Berman on Thursday morning.

The state and its governor, Doug Ducey, were praised on Wednesday by President Donald Trump and Dr. Deborah Birx in the Oval Office, where Ducey credited the downward trend to Arizonans wearing masks, physically distancing, washing hands and staying home if sick.

"They've really done a great job putting these pieces together and really creating that path forward," Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said. She pointed to the improvement in Arizona as a model that could work for other states.

Of course, while things are improving, the state -- like the rest of the country -- is not in the clear.

Arizona reported nearly 1,400 cases on Thursday, bringing the statewide total to more than 183,000. And the number of deaths continues to climb, with more than 4,000 total deaths as of Thursday.

"This is not a victory lap," Ducey said last week after discussing the state's downward trend. "This is not a celebration. If anything, it's evidence that the decisions and the sacrifice that Arizonans are making are working."

How Arizona did it

"We did take some further steps," Ducey said on Wednesday. "We were in the unhappy but responsible position of dispersing large crowds, so bars and nightclubs and gyms all closed temporarily," he said.

"But upon putting those steps out there, we've seen improvement every week, week-over-week for four weeks," he said.

On May 8, retail stores, barbershops and salons were allowed to resume in-person business with some guidelines. A few days later, on May 11, restaurants were allowed to resume dine-in service. That day, the state had a total of 11,383 cases of Covid-19.

Then things went downhill from there. Cases rose throughout the month of June, totaling 79,228 on June 30 -- up from 20,129 on June 1. The state was forced to try and rectify the situation before it spun out of control.

"The Covid-19 crisis didn't hit Arizona until later," Ducey explained. "We had a very difficult June, we've had a much better July."

At the time, Ducey warned his state it would take time for the restrictions to be reflected in the state's Covid-19 numbers.

In early July, the state was paid a visit by members of the White House coronavirus task force, including Birx and Vice President Mike Pence. A few days later, on July 9, Ducey took another step back, limiting indoor dining to 50% capacity before things started looking up.

The average of new daily cases over a seven-day period began steadily declining each week, something the governor touted in his visit to the Oval Office on Wednesday.

Despite the improvement, Ducey recognizes that the Grand Canyon State was not out of the woods.

"Like I said, no celebration, no victory lap," he said. "We're going to stay the course, stay vigilant and keep our guard up. But we have a path forward in Arizona."

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Due to seven postponed games, the Cardinals were about to start a stretch of 55 games in 52 days. This postponement makes their schedule entirely uncertain.

Players converged on Busch Stadium from either traveling with the team from Milwuakee or joining the team out of the alternate-site camp in Springfield, Mo. The Cardinals added four players from the alternate-site camp Wednesday to the workouts. All of them had previously undergone regular testing and received negative tests before traveling to join the big-league roster.

On Friday, Major League Baseball and the players' union released the updated information on the ongoing testing of players and staff during the regular season. The leagues call this "monitoring testing."

There have been 13,043 test samples collected in the past week, and of that group 13 have tested positive. That includes seven players and six staff members. The Cardinals are the majority of those positive tests.

On four of the last seven days MLB has not had a new positive, and the Cardinals had three consecutive days of that.

During the regular season, a total of 71 new positives have been revealed from 53,826 samples. That number includes 49 players. Nineteen of the 30 major-league clubs have had at least one positive test during the regular season. The two outbreaks have been with the Marlins and Cardinals.

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While reports of new coronavirus cases continued apace on Friday, a flood of 215 recoveries took the state's active cases down to 1,053. This marks the first time that recoveries have outweighed new cases in the last week and the most significant drop in active cases since early June.

The burst of recoveries comes as Bismarck and Mandan announced a revamped approach to the pandemic in an effort to address a resilient hotspot in North Dakota's capital region. At a meeting of the Burleigh-Morton COVID-19 Task Force on Friday, Bismarck Mayor Steve Bakken stressed the importance of containing the virus in Burleigh and Morton while saying that he would like to avoid delaying the reopening of local businesses.

Also at the meeting, Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health Director Renae Moch said that there is no single source for the high levels of transmission in Bismarck and Mandan but noted that the outbreak is most widespread among young people. Moch reportedd 86 active cases of the virus among 20-29 year-olds in Burleigh and Morton counties, the most of any 10-year age demographic.

Burleigh County continues to report the highest number of active cases of any county, adding 25 new cases on Friday. And while the county's active case count dropped to 260, it is still reporting more than double the number of active cases in Cass County, which has the second-highest county total. Combined, the neighboring Burleigh and Morton counties account for nearly a third of North Dakota's active cases.

Of the new cases reported Friday:

Forty-four are from the Burleigh-Morton County region, which encompasses neighboring cities Bismarck and Mandan.

Twenty-seven of the new cases came from Cass County, which includes Fargo and West Fargo.

These high numbers of new cases in Stark and Williams counties suggest a resurgent outbreak in western North Dakota.

A Benson County man in his 40s, reported Friday as having underlying health conditions, also died from the virus, marking North Dakota's seventh death in as many days and pushing the state's coronavirus death toll to 110. Benson County, which encompasses part of the Spirit Lake Reservation, has suffered a small spike in coronavirus cases lately, with the county reporting 54 active cases Friday.

About 2.6% of the 5,773 test results announced Friday came back positive, but 5.3% of residents tested for the first time received a positive result. North Dakota does not regularly report a seven-day rolling average for positivity rate as many other states do, but Forum News Service calculated the rate to be 4.9% for tests taken on previously untested residents.

All counties in North Dakota have reported cases of COVID-19, but some currently have zero active cases.

A total of 7,327 North Dakota residents have tested positive, but 6,164 have recovered.

The state has announced the results of 346,669 tests, and many residents have been tested more than once.

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