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The SARS-CoV-2 Alpha (B117) variant spread faster and more efficiently than previous strains among children 9 years and younger in Israel in late 2020 and early 2021, even amid the concurrent immunization of adults against COVID-19, according to an observational study yesterday in JAMA Network Open.

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COVID-19 Scan for Sep 08, 2021

The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have a collective 91% vaccine efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 infection in Americans 16 years and older, according to a test-negative study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases today.The researchers looked at 812 people who were seeking

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US COVID-19 cases top 40 million; Biden to deliver new plan

In 2 days President Joe Biden will announce a new six-point plan to battle the current surge of COVID-19 cases caused by the highly transmissible Delta (B1617.2) variant and an uneven vaccination campaign that has left only half of the nation fully protected from the novel coronavirus.

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COVID remote learning eroded mental health by race, age, income, data indicate

A study late last week in JAMA Network Open reveals a small link between COVID-19–related school closures and worse child mental health, particularly among older and Black and Hispanic students and those from low-income families.

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G20 pushes for more COVID support for developing nations

At a 2-day G20 health ministers meeting in Rome over the weekend, officials passed a declaration voicing more COVID-19 support for poorer countries, but so far, no new pledges were announced.

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News Scan for Sep 07, 2021

Results from an observational cohort study of pregnant women indicated a 96% vaccine effectiveness (VE) against COVID-19 infection and an 89% VE against hospitalization for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in pregnant women, according to a study in Nature Medicine today.The researchers matched 10,861 Israeli pregnant women who receiv

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Delta surges lead nations to question protracted lockdowns

Of countries that successfully knocked back earlier surges, Vietnam is the latest to weigh easing restrictions as part of a strategy aimed at reducing transmission, but no longer with the goal of zero cases.

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Child COVID hospital cases up in low-vaccination states

Today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) present new data on US COVID-19 hospitalization rates in children and adolescents, which shows kids in states with low vaccination rates saw hospitalizations increase four times compared to states with high vaccination rates.

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How California dealt with COVID-19 oxygen supply issues

As the COVID-19 pandemic hit California, its healthcare facilities started having oxygen supply problems: Too many people were needing ventilatory support too quickly.

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COVID-19 Scan for Sep 03, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) against the Delta (B1617.2) variant was 65% in those fully vaccinated, according to a population-based study in Norway. The results, published in Eurosurveillance yesterday, looked at 4,204,859 infected adults without previous COVID-19 from mid-April to mid-August.Of the cohort, 0.13% had sequences indicating the Delta variant, of

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mRNA COVID vaccines not tied to serious side effects

mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were not associated with significantly higher rates of 23 serious adverse events 1 to 21 days after receiving one or two doses than after 22 to 42 days, finds an interim analysis of surveillance safety data involving millions of people today in JAMA.

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Healthcare-associated infections rose in 2020, CDC says

A new study by researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that, after years of decline, US hospitals saw significant increases in healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in 2020, largely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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FDA sets date for COVID-19 vaccine booster meeting

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBAC) will meet on Sep 17 to discuss COVID-19 vaccine third doses and specifically address the Pfizer-BioNTech supplemental Biologics License Application for administration of a third dose of that vaccine.

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European officials say COVID-19 booster isn't urgent

While the world continues to grapple with increased cases, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said COVID-19 vaccine boosters are not urgently needed for healthy people.

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Study: Vaccines slash long-haul COVID, hospital rates

The odds of long COVID-19 fall by more than half after two doses of vaccine, the risk of hospitalization drops by more than two-thirds, and breakthrough infections are nearly twice as likely to be asymptomatic, according to a UK study yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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News Scan for Sep 02, 2021

The rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib was shown to reduce mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a randomized, controlled trial published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine yesterday. Baricitinib acts as a Janus kinases inhibitor and is under emergency use authorization to treat severe COVID-19 by the US Food and Drug Administration.The study, called COV-BARRIER, consisted of 1,525 hospita

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COVID-19 cases reach new daily highs across US

The 7-day average of new daily COVID-19 cases is now 160,506, the highest it's been since Jan 25, according to the according to the Washington Post tracker. Despite three authorized vaccines, American cities and states have seen large late-summer outbreaks due to the highly transmissible Delta (B1617.2) variant.

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COVID-19 Scan for Sep 01, 2021

Pre-hospital antiplatelet therapy, most commonly aspirin, was associated with significantly lower in-hospital mortality rates for COVID-19 patients, according to a study this week in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.The researchers matched 6,781 COVID-19 US patients who received ant

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COVID long-haulers may be at risk for severe kidney disease

COVID-19 long-haulers—even those who experienced mild cases—are at significantly increased risk for substantial declines in kidney function, such as organ damage and chronic and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), according to a study today in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

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Schools in crosshairs of US COVID-19 debate

American parents are split on whether mask mandates belong in schools, and universities grapple with mandating vaccines, as the nation returns to classrooms and campuses amid the fourth pandemic surge, this one fueled by the highly transmissible Delta (B1617.2) variant.

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Wealthy nations far short of COVID vaccine donation target

Two people who led an independent review of the world's response to COVID-19 raised deep concerns today about the slow pace of vaccine donations by high-income countries to lower-income countries.

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Study: Lifting state eviction bans puts residents at risk for COVID

A study yesterday in JAMA Network Open reveals that adult residents of US states that lifted COVID-19 eviction moratoria were at increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection 5 to 12 weeks later, compared with residents of states where the bans were still in place.

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News Scan for Aug 31, 2021

After two doses of an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, nearly 90% of immunocompromised patients had an antibody response, but it was about as third as strong as those with healthy immune systems, according to data published in the Annals of Internal Medicine yesterday.Researchers recruited 133 adults who were receiving immunosup

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COVID-19 surges in parts of Asia; levels rise in Europe

In Asia, the Philippines reported a daily record high for COVID-19 cases, as Vietnam battled high infection levels in industrial hubs. Elsewhere, a top European health official today warned of rising illness levels, along with an increase in deaths, in several countries.

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US tops 100,000 daily COVID-19 hospital cases

For only the second time during the 18 months America has been battling COVID-19, the country reached 100,000 daily hospitalizations due to infection with the virus, matching the previous record seen last winter.

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News Scan for Aug 30, 2021

High-risk adults with mild to moderate COVID-19 who receive a dose of casirivimab and imdevimab have lower hospitalization rates than those who don't, according to a randomized, controlled trial today in The Lancet's EClinicalMedicine. The casirivimab and imdevimab combination is under emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration.Mayo Clinic researchers paired 696 intervention patients with 696

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SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant doubles hospital risk, study shows

The SARS-CoV-2 Delta (B1617.2) variant poses twice the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization as the Alpha (B117) strain, according to a large study late last week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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Half of US teens partially vaccinated against COVID

Half of US 12- to 17-year-olds have received their first COVID-19 vaccine dose, and their vaccination rate is rising higher than any other age-group, said White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients during a White House briefing today.

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Africa's COVID-19 trend stabilizes, vaccine push intensifies

The pace of COVID-19 activity in Africa has stabilized, but at a very high level, amid fresh calls to coordinate global efforts to funnel more of the world's vaccine supplies to African countries, which have among the world's lowest immunization coverage.

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News Scan for Aug 27, 2021

The risk of blood clots is higher following COVID-19 infection than after vaccination, researchers based at Oxford University reported today in BMJ.Earlier this year, a number of countries identified rare throm

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Study: Half of COVID-19 survivors have at least 1 symptom a year later

Roughly half of 1,276 adult COVID-19 survivors in Wuhan, China, still had at least one symptom—with a third still reporting shortness of breath—a year after their release from the hospital, finds a single-center study yesterday in The Lancet.

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US COVID-19 hospital cases match winter surge

More than 100,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, a level not seen since Jan 30, when the pandemic reached its peak in the United States, the Washington Post reports.

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US COVID-19 hospitalizations match winter surge

More than 100,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, a level not seen since Jan 30, when the pandemic reached its peak in the United States, the Washington Post reports.

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Australia, New Zealand report record COVID-19 cases

As they both battle the highly transmissible Delta (B1617.2) variant, COVID-19 cases in Australia and New Zealand reached new daily highs.

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COVID vaccine supply chains evolved over time

This month, the nonprofit and nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics released its analysis of the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain to begin answering two questions:

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Large real-world study: Pfizer's COVID vaccine is safe

The largest real-world study of a COVID-19 vaccine to date shows that Pfizer/BioNTech's shot is safe and linked to substantially fewer adverse events than SARS-CoV-2 infection in unvaccinated patients.

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News Scan for Aug 26, 2021

US veteran suicide ideation (SI) rates showed a slight decrease during the first year of the pandemic, according to a JAMA Psychiatry study yesterday. Among the associated risks, however, was having COVID-19, which doubled the odds of SI.The researchers gave a longitudinal survey to 3,078 US veterans in

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WHO sees signs of global COVID-19 plateau

After a steady rise for nearly 2 months, the pace of the world's COVID-19 cases seems to be plateauing, though levels continue to rise in the Western Pacific and Americas regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest pandemic snapshot.

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US pediatric COVID-19 cases now match winter surge

More than 180,000 COVID-19 cases in US children were recorded in the week ending on Aug 19, reaching levels of the winter surge, according to the latest data from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). More than one in five (22.4%) reported cases that week were in children.

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COVID-19 patients at higher risk of blood clots after surgery, study shows

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), a dangerous complication of surgery, is 50% more likely to occur in current COVID-19 patients and nearly twice as likely in those with recent infection, according to an international study yesterday in Anaesthesia.

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News Scan for Aug 25, 2021

Substance use among US kids 10 to 14 years old remained relatively stable during the first 6 months of the pandemic, according to longitudinal study results published yesterday in the Journal of Adolescent Health.The researchers used part of the cohort from the Adolesce

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CDC: Unvaccinated 5 times more likely to get COVID-19

Today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published new data from Los Angeles County collected from May to July, which show unvaccinated people were 5 times more likely to get COVID-19 than vaccinated peers and 29 times more likely to be hospitalized for their infections.

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WHO airs concern over COVID control, medical supplies in Afghanistan

At a briefing today, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean office said the group is worried that upheaval in Afghanistan will fuel a spike in COVID-19 cases and that the country has only enough medical supplies to last 1 week.

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Study: Patients, not staff, source of most hospital COVID spread

Most hospital patients diagnosed as having COVID-19 contracted the virus from other patients rather than healthcare workers (HCWs), with 21% of patients causing 80% of cases, finds a UK study today in eLife.

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COVID-19 Scan for Aug 24, 2021

The number of older adults who are homebound (leaving home once a week or less) increased in 2020 over the prior decade, according to a research letter yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine. The researchers say that this could affect social, psychological, and physical needs because of factors such as physical distancing and caretaker or telehealth access.The data used survey responses from the US National Health and

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New Zealand extends COVID-19 lockdown again

New Zealand's prime minister today extended the country's COVID-19 lockdown again, as the country added 38 cases to its total over the past day, while neighboring Australia grappled with record high cases in the Sydney hot spot.

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Pfizer COVID vaccine gains full FDA approval

Earlier today the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech full approval, a milestone in the ongoing pandemic.

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COVID may be most infectious 2 or 3 days around symptom onset

The risk of SARS-CoV-2 spread among COVID-19 patients to their close contacts was strongest in the 2 days before and 3 days after symptom onset and when index patients were mildly or moderately ill rather than asymptomatic, according to a US study of Chinese patients today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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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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