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Early this morning Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill that prevents mask mandates in K-12 schools and restricts city and county mandates to public property, according to the Des Moines Register.

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Iowa bans mask mandates as issue grows increasingly political

Early this morning Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill that prevents mask mandates in K-12 schools and restricts city and county mandates to public property, according to the Des Moines Register.

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Nearly 1 million excess deaths in 29 countries amid COVID pandemic

Nearly 1 million more people than normal died in 29 high-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, according to a time series study yesterday in BMJ.

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Experts say CDC missed mark on COVID mask guidance

When Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, announced last week that fully vaccinated Americans no longer had to wear masks in most indoor settings unless local mandates dictate so, many public health experts scratched their heads and braced themselves for what they knew would be a confusing moment in America's battle against COVID-19.

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Another new coronavirus has jumped to people

As the world is dealing with a pandemic caused by one novel coronavirus that likely jumped from animals, researchers have identified another novel coronavirus from a child with pneumonia in Sarawak, Malaysia, in 2017-18, reports a study today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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Texas bans COVID-19 mask mandates as New York opens

States continue to struggle with how and when to drop protective COVID-19 public health measures, including face coverings, in the wake of shifting guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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COVID hot spots persist in Latin American countries

Brazil's decline in cases has stopped, and cases and deaths doubled last week in parts of Argentina and Uruguay, a sign that the Americas region is still in the heat of battle with COVID, officials from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said today during a briefing.

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News Scan for May 19, 2021

Long-haul COVID-19 was associated with severe or very severe symptoms, low income, and some age-groups, but was common even in those with mild symptoms, with a quarter of patients in that group having symptoms after 60 days, according to a Clinical Infectious Diseases study today that looked at adult Michigan patients.The researchers surveyed 593 Michigan adults who had a symptomatic

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The postinfectious COVID-19–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) first characterized in children has a different presentation in adults that may lead to underrecognition, according to a small, single-center study today in JAMA Network Open.

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Disparities in US COVID vaccine distribution spotlighted

Two studies today describe US COVID-19 vaccination disparities, one evaluating vaccine allocation plans aimed at reducing distribution differences, and the other revealing urban versus rural inequities.

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US COVID-19 cases, deaths drop to lowest levels in a year

Today Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the 7-day average of daily COVID-19 deaths—546—is now the lowest level recorded since March of 2020, when the pandemic was just beginning in most parts of the country.

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India's COVID-19 cases top 25 million as deaths soar

India's COVID-19 total topped 25 million cases, and though cases dropped below 300,000 for 2 days in a row, the country today reported a daily record for deaths, with 4,387 reported, thought to be a large undercount as the virus spreads to more rural areas with less testing and healthcare capacity.

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COVID-19 Scan for May 18, 2021

Fewer high-risk outpatients with mild or moderate COVID-19 needed hospitalization or died within 28 days when given bamlanivimab soon after infection compared with their matched peers, finds an observational study yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.University of Pittsburgh researchers compared the outcomes of 232 COV

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UN agencies make urgent appeal for COVAX vaccine doses

Ahead of the G7 summit next month in the United Kingdom, UNICEF today put out an urgent call for leaders to pool their excess COVID-19 vaccine capacity to make up for a 125-million-dose gap in the COVAX program.

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Retailers, states grapple with shifting COVID-19 mask mandates

Major retailers across the country, including Target, Starbucks, and Walmart, are changing their in-store mask requirements following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) announcement last week that fully vaccinated Americans are now safe to resume almost all activities without wearing a mask.

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COVID-19 Scan for May 17, 2021

Almost two thirds of homeless patients hospitalized for COVID-19 were of non-White descent and more than 80% had at least one comorbidity, according to a descriptive study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases yesterday.The researchers analyzed 199 COVID-hospitalized adults who were experi

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Plasma from recovered patients found not helpful for COVID hospital patients

Convalescent plasma given to hospitalized COVID-19 patients did not improve survival or rates of release from the hospital within 28 days, need for invasive mechanical ventilation, or death, according to the most recent findings of the Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial in the United Kingdom.

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COVID-19 spikes in Asia, variant spread keep global health officials on edge

COVID-19 cases continue to rise in a number of Asian countries, and hospitalizations are rising in others. Over in the United Kingdom, mitigation measures are slated to relax soon, but health officials are closely tracking sharp rises in the B1617 variant, first identified in India.

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Spikes in Asia, variant spread keep global health officials on edge

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Mixed reactions to CDC's revised COVID mask mandate

While states continue to relax COVID-19 mitigation measures, concerns about vaccine uptake continue.

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News Scan for May 14, 2021

Four African countries—Benin, Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Yemen—reported new polio cases this week, all involving vaccine-derived strains, according to the latest weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).Three of the four countries reported circulating va

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COVID mRNA vaccines induce immune response in pregnant, lactating women

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines trigger an immune response in pregnant and breastfeeding women, and maternal antibodies transfer into infant cord blood and breast milk, a small descriptive study yesterday in JAMA finds.

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CDC: No masks needed for COVID-vaccinated Americans

Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can now ditch masks in indoor and outdoor settings—even in crowds—according to an announcement made today by Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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India and its states seek to fill COVID-19 vaccine gaps

Amid a continued surge in cases and deaths, India's government and individual states are pursuing ways to boost vaccine supplies and make the most of the doses the country currently has.

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More side effects noted after using 2 different COVID vaccines

Adults 50 and older who received doses of both the Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines reported more mild and moderate side effects than those given only one type of two-dose vaccine, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet.

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News Scan for May 13, 2021

The inaugural cohort of Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 Activity Rehabilitation Program (CARP) for post–COVID-19 syndrome (PCS) were mostly women, younger, had few pre-existing comorbidities, and experienced milder forms of COVID-19, but only a third were able to return to full-time work.The descriptive study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, invol

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Panel details failures that unleashed pandemic, urges bold steps

An independent review panel tasked with evaluating the world's response to the COVID-19 pandemic issued its scathing findings today, outlining failures at every level, recommending steps to end the pandemic, and suggesting overhauls to better prepare for future threats.

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Study: 80% of hospital COVID-19 patients have neurologic complications

Eight of 10 hospitalized COVID-19 patients developed neurologic complications and were six times more likely than their peers to die, according to early results from a global study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.

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Panel details failures that unleashed COVID pandemic, urges bold steps

Today's report on the global pandemic response came from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) based on a resolution passed by the World Health Assembly (WHA) last May. The panel was headed by Helen Clark, New Zealand's former prime minister, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia's former president. It included 11 experts spanning a range of backgrounds and countries, including China and the United States. Panel members were asked to represent their institutions rather than their countries.

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CDC advisers green-light COVID vaccine in young teens

Today during a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) a group of independent experts voted 14-0 to recommend using Pfizer's two-dose mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 12 to 15 years old.

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COVID-19 Scan for May 12, 2021

Twice as many mothers with babies 6 months or younger reported postpartum depression during the first UK COVID-19–related lockdown, according to a Frontiers in Psychology study yesterday.University College London (UCL) researchers surveyed

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Study: 80% of hospital COVID patients have neurologic complications

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India's COVID surge unfolds in more grim chapters

India's tragic COVID surge is showing no let-up, as daily cases stay above the 300,000 mark with more grim examples of people's desperation, including scores of bodies turning up in some of the country's rivers.

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COVID-19 Scan for May 11, 2021

Compared with non-pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19, pregnant women with COVID-19 had lower in-hospital death rates, according to a research letter in the Annals of Internal Medicine today.University of Texas (UTHealth) and University of Maryland research

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FDA paves way for COVID-19 vaccine in 12- to 15-year-olds

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late yesterday expanded the emergency authorization of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to include 12- to 15-year-olds, paving the way for vaccinating a proportion of school-age children before the fall.

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Those with mild COVID-19 seek more primary care than uninfected peers

Although nonhospitalized COVID-19 patients are at low risk for delayed complications, they visit their general practitioner or clinic more often than their uninfected peers in the 6 months after testing positive, finds a population-based study published yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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With COVID-19 cases on the decline, US states move forward

Across the country, everyone from governors to business owners are asking "What's next?" as states record falling COVID-19 cases and more Americans are vaccinated against the novel coronavirus.

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News Scan for May 10, 2021

Mild COVID-19 infection was not linked to longer-term heart damage, according to a JACC Cardiovascular Imaging study late last week.University College London researchers matched 74 SARS-C

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Ibuprofen, other NSAIDs not tied to worse COVID illness, death

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and naproxen don't worsen illness or cause death in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, a new study involving more than 72,000 people in the United Kingdom suggests.

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WHO lists Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

The World Health Organization (WHO) today approved emergency listing for China's Sinopharm vaccine, a step that clears the way for a sixth vaccine to be added to the COVAX program. In other global developments, India's daily deaths today topped 4,000 for the first time, as the country reported more than 400,000 new cases for the third day in a row.

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States plan to lift remaining COVID-19 restrictions

Across the country this week, governors are announcing plans to lift remaining COVID-19 restrictions and have made promises of a normal summer.

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Real-world studies detail high Pfizer COVID vaccine protection

Two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine were highly effective in preventing coronavirus-related infections and severe outcomes, according to two new studies from Israel and one from the United States.

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News Scan for May 07, 2021

Direct COVID-19 deaths may be more than double previous estimates, according to a report yesterday by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).The researchers say that, by May 3, global COVID-19 deaths

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Analysis spotlights shortage of a COVID-19 drug in Canada

Tocilizumab, like other potential COVID-19 drug treatments, is in spot shortages around the world.

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Global Fund fast-tracks $75 million for India's COVID battle

Against the backdrop of the world's second most populous country in the grips of a catastrophic COVID-19 surge, the Global Fund today said it approved $75 million to help India buy oxygen concentrators and oxygen plants.

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CDC predicts sharp decline in COVID-19 activity by July

New modeling from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts the United States will see a sharp drop off of COVID-19 infections and deaths by July, if high vaccination coverage is achieved and most of the country maintains a moderate adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), including physical distancing.

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Three vaccines show promise against COVID variants

Data from three trials posted yesterday show efficacy of the Novavax and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines and good immune response of the Moderna vaccine against different SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.

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COVID-19 Scan for May 06, 2021

The AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is associated with some increases in bleeding and clotting events, according to a BMJ study yesterday, but experts say the benefits outweigh the risks.The researchers compared 28-day post-vaccination comorbidities in

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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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