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Today Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the agency is working on updating and evaluating its mask guidance, but said COVID-19 transmission and hospitalization rates were still high throughout the country, and the recommendation of masking in indoor settings regardless of vaccination status remains in place.

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COVID-19 Scan for Feb 09, 2022

A prospective cohort study of US children diagnosed as having COVID-19 reveals that certain demographic characteristics, preexisting chronic diseases, and initial vital sign and lab values may portend disease severity, a finding that the researchers said could help improve outcomes.The University of Colorado-led study involved 167,262 COVID-19 patien

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More states remove COVID-19 mask mandates

Across the country, states are once again beginning to loosen or do away with mask mandates in schools and indoor spaces as COVID-19 cases continue to drop from the Omicron surge.

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Serious illness, death more common in pregnant women with COVID-19

Pregnant COVID-19 patients are about 40% more likely to develop serious complications or die than their uninfected peers, suggests a study led by University of Utah Health researchers published yesterday in JAMA.

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News Scan for Feb 08, 2022

A small Massachusetts General Hospital–based study in JAMA shows more lasting antibodies in infants after COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy, compared with infants whose mothers had natural COVID-19 infections during pregnancy but were not vaccinated.The study looked at 77 vaccinated pregnant mothers, and 12 wh

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COVID-19 cases climb higher in parts of Asia

Some locations in Asia affected later by the Omicron variant are reporting more daily record highs, even in places like Hong Kong that have taken a more aggressive "zero COVID" approach to battling the virus.

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COVID-19 Scan for Feb 07, 2022

Nonhospitalized COVID-19 patients at highest risk for severe outcomes are often the least likely to receive monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), finds a study of more than 1.9 million Medicare beneficiaries published late last week in JAMA.A team led by a Harvard Medical School researcher examined a sample of

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Africa needs sixfold rollout boost to hit COVID vaccine target

Officials with the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said yesterday that countries need to increase their vaccination rate six times to reach the June target of immunizing 70% of the population.

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ACIP fully recommends Spikevax, as CDC expands wastewater surveillance

Today during a meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the group voted unanimously to fully recommended the use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in adults 18 and older.

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New conditions common 1 to 5 months after positive COVID test

A cohort study of Americans tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection shows that new-onset shortness of breath, heart rhythm abnormalities, and type 2 diabetes were more common 31 to 150 days after testing positive for COVID-19 than among those with negative results.

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News Scan for Feb 04, 2022

COVID-19 vaccine uptake among adults living with HIV in New York was lower than that of the rest of the state's population as of October 2021, according to a study today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).New York public health agencies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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US COVID-19 cases continue steep decline

Cases of COVID-19 continue to drop significantly across the country, as the most recent surge caused by the Omicron variant is declining at a rapid pace.

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News Scan for Feb 03, 2022

The severity of COVID-19 does not change based on pregnancy trimester, finds research presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM's) virtual annual meeting.According to an abstract published Jan 1 in the American Journal of Obstetrics &

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US COVID-19 cases drop, but hospitalizations in unvaccinated still high

The 7-day average of US COVID-19 infections is 446,400 new cases a day, a decrease of 36% from the previous week, according to Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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First COVID-19 human challenge study yields infection clues

COVID-19 infection has a shorter incubation period than originally thought, and rapid tests performed well at tracking virus levels, a research team based at Imperial College London reported today in a preprint study that describes the results of the first human challenge trial.

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More COVID vaccine hesitancy, low uptake in US racial minorities

A study of 1.3 million US and UK adults yesterday in Nature Communications finds significantly lower self-reported COVID-19 vaccine uptake among even willing non-White Americans during the initial vaccine rollout—but no such disparity among UK participants.

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COVID-19 Scan for Feb 02, 2022

A study yesterday in Radiology used imaging to determine that breakthrough infections are less severe when a patient is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 compared with patients who are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.The study was based on images collected from the COVID-19

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Pfizer: COVID vaccine for youngest kids may be available soon

Today Pfizer and BioNTech submitted an emergency use authorization (EUA) application to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for use in children 6 months to 4 years — the last age-group ineligible for COVID-19 vaccination in the United States.

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WHO warns of rising COVID-19 deaths

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) today said the group is tracking a worrying rise in deaths in most of the world's regions, urging countries not to give up in the battle against the more transmissible Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant.

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It's easy to misinterpret at-home COVID test results, data show

A randomized controlled trial yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that adult consumers struggle to interpret and act on negative at-home COVID-19 tests.

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WHO warns of rising COVID deaths

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COVID-19 Scan for Feb 01, 2022

Two studies yesterday in Nature show that the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines provide robust cellular protection against serious illness caused by the highly transmissible Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant, despite evidence of waning neutralizing antibody protection against the virus.In one study, University of Cape Town researchers in South Africa eva

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FDA fully approves Moderna COVID vaccine, Spikevax

Today the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approval to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna, which will now be known as Spikevax.

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Study suggests BA.2 COVID-19 subvariant more contagious

A study on how Omicron subvariants transmit in Danish households found that the BA.2 subvariant is substantially more transmissible than the original variant, researchers reported yesterday in preprint findings.

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News Scan for Jan 31, 2022

Significantly fewer adult Medicare beneficiaries with schizophrenia or bipolar 1 disorders had mental health-related outpatient, emergency department (ED), and hospital visits, as well as fills for antipsychotics and mood-stabilizing drugs in the first 8 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.The findings, published late last week in JAMA Network Open, suggest

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COVID patients with disability prone to longer hospital stay, readmission

Hospitalized COVID-19 patients with a disability were more likely than peers without a disability to have a longer hospital stay and be readmitted—but were no more likely to die in the hospital or be admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), finds a retrospective study today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).

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COVID vaccine markedly cuts household transmission, studies show

A pair of studies in yesterday in Science show the substantial benefit of COVID-19 vaccination to household contacts in Israel, including unvaccinated children. But one of the studies highlighted waning protection over time.

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COVID vaccine markedly cuts household spread, studies show

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Polls show Americans frustrated with pandemic response, authorities

New polls from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) show Americans are increasingly frustrated with the state of the pandemic and losing faith in authorities, including chief White House Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci, MD, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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COVID-19 Scan for Jan 28, 2022

A third COVID-19 vaccine dose increased vaccine effectiveness (VE) against hospitalization from 82% to 97% among adults with healthy immune systems and from 69% to 88% among those with impaired immunity, according to a study today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).Led by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Preven

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ECDC details COVID vaccine payoffs, plan for post-peak phase

In Europe, the Omicron variant is fueling infectionc rates that are three times higher than at any other stage of the pandemic, and vaccination is the key to preventing serious health outcomes and disruptive staff shortages, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today in its latest COVID-19 risk assessment.

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ECDC assessment details vaccine payoffs, strategy for post-peak phase

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Studies highlight benefits of COVID vaccine booster, longer dose spacing

Two reports yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine detail the effects of the COVID-19 vaccine booster on Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant antibody levels, one finding that concentrations were 20 times higher after a third Moderna vaccine dose than after the primary series, and the other showing the benefits of longer intervals between doses.

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COVID-19 hospital cases drop in Northeast, Midwest

Rates of new COVID-19 hospitalizations are dropping in the Northeast and Midwest but rising in the South, a sign that the Omicron surge is receding at an uneven pace in the United States.

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News Scan for Jan 27, 2022

Among 457 adult participants in an ongoing phase 1/2 clinical trial who completed primary COVID-19 vaccination with the Moderna, Johnson & Johnson (J&J), or Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines, a booster dose with either the same (homologous) or a different brand (heterologous) induced an immune response and was safe.Baylor College of Medicine researchers led the open-label trial, pu

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Review: No role for convalescent plasma in most COVID hospital patients

A prospective meta-analysis of international randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of convalescent plasma for the treatment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients finds no clinical benefit in most cases.

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Global COVID surge slows but quickens in multiple countries

The steady global rise in COVID-19 cases slowed last week, with cases up 5% compared with the previous week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its weekly update on the pandemic. However, countries reported more than 21 million new cases, marking the highest weekly total since the pandemic began.

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US donates 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to COVAX

The White House today confirmed the United States has donated 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses — towards a goal of 1.1 billion — to low-income countries via COVAX, the global vaccine sharing program.

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Report details where top 100 brand-name Rx drugs are made

While a range of consumer goods, from clothing to food, report the country of manufacture on their label, this is not the case for brand-name prescription medications. US drug marketers aren't required to disclose this information—and many don't—leaving patients whose health depends on these drugs in the dark about where their drug was made.

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News Scan for Jan 26, 2022

A large UK study yesterday in PLOS Medicine finds that COVID-19 patients released from the hospital were more than twice as likely as the general population to be rehospitalized or die within the next 10 months. They were also at nearly five times the risk for death from any cause.London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers led the st

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More early-hit European nations unwind Omicron restrictions

Two countries that experienced early Omicron surges in Europe—Denmark and the Netherlands—today announced that they were stepping down their restrictions.

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CDC confirms Omicron less severe than other variants

Thirty-one states, as well as Washington, DC and Puerto Rico, are reporting decreasing or plateauing new COVID-19 case averages, ABC News reports, signaling that the massive surge caused by the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant may be receding.

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75% of COVID ICU survivors have physical symptoms 1 year on

One year after 246 COVID-19 survivors were treated in 1 of 11 intensive care units (ICUs) in the Netherlands, nearly 75% reported lingering physical symptoms, more than 26% said they had mental symptoms, and upwards of 16% still had cognitive symptoms, according to a study yesterday in JAMA.

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COVID-19 Scan for Jan 25, 2022

Among 1,068 US adults surveyed about their mental health amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 12% to 15% reported serious psychological distress that persisted throughout the study period, mostly among young adults, low-income respondents, and Hispanic participants.The data were published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.A team

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Black adults outpace White peers in accepting COVID vaccine

A pair of new US studies late last week in JAMA Network Open shed new light on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, finding that reluctance to get vaccinated fell faster among Black than White Americans and revealing a link between depression and vulnerability to vaccine misinformation.

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WHO chief warns conditions ripe for more COVID-19 variants

At a briefing to the World Health Organization (WHO) executive board today, its director-general warned that conditions remain ideal for new variants to emerge and that countries have the power to change the drivers of the pandemic.

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COVID-19 ebbs, but US hospital cases, deaths stay high

Across the country new daily case counts for COVID-19 are declining, but cities and states are still struggling with high demands for hospital services, and Los Angeles late last week reported its most deaths in a single day since Mar 10, 2021.

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News Scan for Jan 24, 2022

A new Canadian study shows visits for mental health and substance abuse problems by physicians increased 27% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is published in JAMA Network Open.The study was based on mental health and substance use outpatient

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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