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A number of Asian countries, especially in the southeast, reported more daily highs for COVID-19 cases, as global health officials continue their push for more equitable vaccine distribution to beat back the pandemic.

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News Scan for Jul 22, 2021

Children and teens spread COVID-19 to household adults after returning home from a sleep-away camp in June 2020, according to correspondence published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday.The camp outbreak led to 224 index patients ages 7 to 19 with

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Study: 2 COVID vaccine doses much more effective than 1 against Delta

COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness for one dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech or the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine against the Delta variant (B1617.2) was much lower compared with one-dose effectiveness against the Alpha variant (B117), according to a UK study yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Two doses, however, narrowed the gap.

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Global COVID-19 cases rise 12% in past week

According to the latest data from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) weekly situation report, global COVID-19 cases rose 12% in the past week, with all regions except the Americas and Africa reporting increases. Cases have risen globally since the beginning of the month.

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US life expectancy drops 18 months due to COVID-19

The US life expectancy dropped by 18 months due to COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) National Center for Health Statistics.

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US life expectancy drops 18 months due to COVID

The US life expectancy dropped by 18 months due to COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) National Center for Health Statistics.

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Left behind: 1.5 million kids may have lost parent, caregiver to COVID-19

More than 1.5 million children around the world have lost a parent, grandparent, or other caregiver to COVID-19, according to the first global study of its kind.

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News Scan for Jul 21, 2021

A study yesterday in the Journal of School Health finds that while 39 elementary and high school students in a Virginia public school district rode school buses while infected with SARS-CoV-2, investigators found no evidence of viral transmission to other students or adults.A team led by Eastern Virginia Medical School researchers tested

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Delta COVID-19 variant now 83% of US cases

The Delta (B1617.2) variant, first detected in India and now sweeping the globe, represents 83% of COVID-19 sequenced samples in United States, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, who testified today in a Senate committee hearing on the pandemic.

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Iran COVID-19 surge triggers Tehran lockdown

Iran today reported its highest daily case total of the pandemic, and health officials ordered a week-long lockdown for Tehran, the country's capital.

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GAO gives 15 new pointers on pandemic recovery, readiness

In its seventh report about the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday made 15 recommendations around topics such as program integrity and preparedness for future public health emergencies.

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Prescriptions for kids down in pandemic, report shows

Drug prescriptions for US children dipped by more than one-quarter in the first eight months of the pandemic, with the biggest drops in drugs used to treat infections and cold symptoms, according to a University of Michigan-led study published yesterday in Pediatrics.

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News Scan for Jul 20, 2021

While Latino people have lower rates of mortality despite their higher rates of poverty compared with White people in the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic erased it, at least in Los Angeles County, according to a JAMA research letter yesterday.Los Angeles County has the largest Latino population

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Rocky COVID-19 path in UK as it eases final restrictions

As cases rise in the United Kingdom, including its health secretary testing positive and the prime minister going into isolation, the country eased its remaining COVID-19 restrictions.

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US COVID-19 cases up 140% in past 2 weeks

With rising US COVID-19 cases, recommendations and mandates for masks are starting to pop up across the country, and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) today updated its recommendations for the upcoming school year, advising masks for everyone older than 2 years regardless of vaccination status.

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News Scan for Jul 19, 2021

Eighty percent of survey respondents in 10 developing countries indicated a willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 65% in the United States and 30% in Russia, according to a study published late last week in Nature Medicine.Researchers from the University of Cape Town in South Africa analyzed

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Study: Azithromycin doesn't prevent COVID-19 symptoms in outpatients

A single dose of the broad-spectrum antibiotic azithromycin didn't change the proportion of US COVID-19 patients reporting symptoms by 14 days, finds a randomized, controlled trial published late last week in JAMA.

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US COVID-19 cases climb steadily all week

Today in a White House news briefing, public health officials spotlighted the COVID-19 surges appearing across the country and reiterated the urgency for people to get vaccinated.

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European officials say Delta driving deteriorating COVID-19 situation

COVID-19 cases in European Union (EU) and related countries rose 64% this week compared to the previous week, with the situation likely to get worse as Delta (B1617.2) variant activity continues to expand, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today.

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News Scan for Jul 16, 2021

Half of patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 across 302 UK hospitals developed one or more health complications within 28 days or discharge, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet.The researchers looked at 73,197 adults 19 and older and found that 4

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Studies elucidate poorly understood long COVID

Three new studies detail "long-haul" COVID-19, one finding 203 symptoms involving 10 organ systems, another showing that more than five coronavirus symptoms in the first week of infection portends a long disease course, and one finding few long-haul–like symptoms in children.

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Reports confirm pandemic-related drop in basic childhood vaccination

As pandemic disruptions kept families in their homes and shuttered clinics, and as health workers focused their attention on battling COVID-19, officials worried that the world would lose ground on immunizing kids against regular childhood disease.

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Surgeon General warns of COVID-19 misinformation

Today US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, spoke at the White House about his newly issued surgeon general's advisory—the first of the Biden administration—about misinformation concerning COVID-19.

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COVID-19 remdesivir study finds long hospital stay, but context matters

Remdesivir, the only antiviral fully approved for COVID-19 treatment by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), was associated with a longer hospital stay yet no improvement in survival rates, according to a real-world observational study of military veterans today in JAMA Network Open.

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COVID-19 Scan for Jul 15, 2021

Yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine results from a phase 3 trial showed that a combination of bamlanivimab plus etesevimab monoclonal antibodies led to a lower incidence of COVID-19–related hospitalization and deaths.The therapy also accelerated the decline in the SARS-CoV-2 viral loa

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Doctor-delivered COVID messages may boost protective steps

A JAMA Network Open study today describes successful deployment of a video tool to improve COVID-19 knowledge, beliefs, and risk-reduction behaviors of Black and White adults.

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Global COVID-19 deaths on the rise again

In its weekly pandemic snapshot yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said COVID-19 deaths are increasing again after falling for 9 weeks, with the sharpest upticks in Africa and Southeast Asia.

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Several states report spikes in COVID-19 cases

Across the country, all but two states—Maine and South Dakota—are reporting increasing COVID-19 case counts as the Delta variant (B1617.2) causes a wave of summer activity.

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COVID-19 Scan for Jul 14, 2021

Half of 399 hospitalized COVID-19 patients developed bacterial infections 48 or more hours after hospitalization, according to a PLOS One study yesterday. The bacterial superinfections were associated most strongly with lung disease, encephalopathy, mechanical ventilation, hospital stay of 8 or more days, and steroid treatment.From March to August 2020, the researchers looked at hospitalized COVI

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FDA adds J&J COVID-19 vaccine warning

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fact sheet distributed with the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine will now contain warning language about a small increased risk that vaccine recipients have of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a neurologic disorder that can cause progressive, but usually reversible, paralysis.

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COVID-19 Scan for Jul 13, 2021

Today a consensus statement by several leading public health organizations and a commentary in the Annals of Internal Medicine voiced support for mandating COVID-19 vaccinations in US healthcare workers (HCWs).The consensus statement, published in Infection Control & Ho

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Indonesia's surge intensifies, other Asian nations set daily COVID records

Indonesia's daily COVID-19 cases today topped 47,000, as the government unveiled new plans to boost the oxygen supply and as other countries in Asia logged more record highs fueled by the expanding Delta (1617.2) variant spread.

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Pfizer COVID vaccine shows 78% efficacy in pregnancy

Two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were safe and 78% effective in preventing infection in pregnant women in a real-world study in Israel.

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Delta COVID-19 surges worsen; WHO challenges push for vaccine booster doses

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) today warned that the pandemic is worsening with the Delta (1617.2) variant spreading at a scorching pace, and chided countries and drug companies for pushing for third vaccine booster doses when many countries don't have enough to protect their health workers and other vulnerable groups.

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Pfizer, FDA meet to discuss COVID-19 booster

Today officials from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Pfizer will meet to discuss when and if recipients of the company's mRNA COVID-19 vaccine need a booster dose in the coming months given the emergence of the Delta (B1617.2) variant.

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COVID-19 vaccines shown to protect at-risk patients

The Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines are as effective at preventing symptomatic illness in people with underlying medical conditions as in the rest of the population, finds a real-world study of more than 1 million at-risk UK residents.

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Delta surges worsen, WHO challenges push for vaccine booster doses

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Stewardship / Resistance Scan for Jul 12, 2021

A study of hospital patients in Israel found a link between multidrug-resistant gut bacteria and exposure to commonly used non-antimicrobial drugs (NAMDs), researchers reported last week at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID).Out of 1,807 patients admitted to Tel Aviv Medical Cen

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News Scan for Jul 12, 2021

People who received the flu vaccine prior to having COVID-19 had less risk of sepsis, stroke, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and disease requiring emergency or intensive care, according to a study presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) this year.The researchers looked at 74,754 patients i

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CDC calls for reopening schools fully, recommends masking

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its school reopening guidance today, calling for the full reopening of schools for the upcoming 2021-22 school year.

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CDC, FDA contradict Pfizer on COVID-19 vaccine booster

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late yesterday contradicted vaccine makers Pfizer-BioNTech on their assertion that people who received the two-dose mRNA vaccine will likely need a third booster dose of vaccine within 6 to 12 months of initial administration.

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Africa marks worst pandemic week; Europe sees sharp rises

Africa just experienced its worst pandemic week, with 16 countries reporting resurgences, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said yesterday, as some countries in Europe report weekly rises topping 100%.

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News Scan for Jul 09, 2021

In Orange County, California, COVID-19 vaccination in healthcare personnel (HCP) was connected with a 94% reduction in HCP cases 3 weeks after second doses of mRNA-based vaccines were administered, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter yesterday.The researchers included 10,188 HCP from the University o

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China's CoronaVac vaccine shows good efficacy in 2 studies

Two new large studies of China's CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine showed good efficacy against symptomatic infection and severe disease, albeit with lower efficacy than the two mRNA coronavirus vaccines currently in use.

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COVID-19 Scan for Jul 08, 2021

The US COVID-19 vaccination program may have saved almost 280,000 lives and prevented 1.25 million hospitalizations, according to the results of a modeling study published yesterday by the Commonwealth Fund.The researchers already had a COVID-19 transmission mo

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Delta COVID variant surges in Asia, casts shadow on Olympics

Indonesia's daily COVID-19 cases jumped to a new record level today, with Thailand and South Korea also reporting record highs. Rising virus activity has also forced Japanese officials to order a state of emergency for the Tokyo area and a spectator ban for Olympic events.

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US COVID-19 cases jump amid increased Delta activity

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, said today that America has two current truths to face concerning its ongoing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Experts issue pandemic-recovery guidance for health leaders

Thirty-two experts from 17 countries published a consensus statement today in JAMA Network Open to guide health leaders through COVID-19 pandemic recovery and prepare for future emergencies.

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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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