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Global COVID-19 total tops 5 million; some nations overwhelmed

The global COVID-19 total passed 5 million today, with daily cases in Brazil starting to reach levels seen in the United States and Doctors Without Borders sounding an alarm about catastrophic spread of the novel coronavirus in Yemen.

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News Scan for May 21, 2020

An investigation into a wedding-related COVID-19 outbreak in Jordan found a high transmission rate and a high rate of asymptomatic carriers, researchers from Jordan reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.The outbreak occurred in the middle of March when J

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Studies: 1% of healthcare workers had COVID-19

Two studies published today in JAMA Network Open reveal a 1% COVID-19 infection rate in healthcare workers (HCWs) in hospitals in the southern Netherlands and Wuhan, China, but with higher rates in HCWs who reported no exposure to COVID-19 patients.

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In pandemic, many seeing upsides to telemedicine

Part of a two-part series on COVID-19 and telehealth. The second part, slated for tomorrow, will cover how barriers to telehealth can be overcome and what the future of this care delivery model may hold.

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As COVID-19 cases near 5 million, WHO sees long road ahead

As cases neared 5 million today, the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general said that a record daily high of 106,000 cases were reported over the past day. And with worries rising about cases in low- and middle-income countries, there's still a long road ahead with the pandemic.

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CDC's COVID-19 reopening guidelines released

States forging ahead with reopening plans can now use a 60-page guidance document published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) originally deemed too prescriptive by the White House.

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Critical illness common in New York COVID-19 inpatients: study

Of 1,150 COVID-19 adult patients hospitalized in New York City from Mar 2 to Apr 1, 257 (22%) were critically ill, and 101 (39%) of them died, according to the largest known US prospective study of coronavirus patients.

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News Scan for May 19, 2020

Church events held between Mar 6 and 11 at an Arkansas church—where the pastor and his wife were positive for COVID-19 and showing symptoms—led to 35 confirmed COVID-19 cases among 92 people (38%) who attended events. The super-spreading event is described today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).The high attack rate also led to three fatalities among churc

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WHA passes pandemic probe resolution; Korea clarifies reinfection reports

The World Health Assembly (WHA) approved a resolution today calling for an independent inquiry into the pandemic and the World Health Organization's (WHO's) role in responding to it, as South Korean researchers revealed that discharged patients who test positive for COVID-19 again don't appear to be contagious.

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All states approach reopening as HHS funds more testing

As the end of May approaches, all 50 states will have begun the process of partially reopening their economies in the wake of 4-, 6-, 8-, or 10-week stay-at-home orders that mandated non-essential workers, schools, retail, and restaurants close in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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COVID-19 presents antibiotic stewardship with challenges, opportunities

In the months since the novel coronavirus emerged in China and began spreading around the globe, reports of bacterial co-infections and widespread antibiotic use in COVID-19 patients has prompted concerns that the unprecedented viral pandemic, on top of the devastation it has already caused, could have the downstream effect of diminishing antibiotic supplies and further fueling rates of antibiotic resistance.

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Scientists isolate live COVID-19 virus from feces, detect RNA on surfaces

Chinese researchers have isolated live COVID-19 virus from the feces of patients who died from the disease, according to a report published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

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Evidence of prolonged COVID-19 virus shedding noted in China

Editor's Note: This story was updated on May 19 to clarify that viral RNA, not infectious virus, was detected in the story on COVID-19 virus shedding.

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US COVID-19 deaths pass 90,000 as Moderna vaccine delivers promising phase 1 results

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine candidate appears safe for human use, the company said today as it released results from the phase 1 trial of mRNA-1273.

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World Health Assembly opens amid pandemic tensions, calls for probe

Calls for investigations into the World Health Organization (WHO) role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and a probe into the source of the virus in China dominated the opening of the World Health Assembly (WHA) today, held virtually and shortened to 2 days.

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Prolonged COVID-19 virus shedding noted in China

Patients with COVID-19 outside of Wuhan, China, shed the virus for a median of 17 days, according to a retrospective cohort study published yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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News Scan for May 18, 2020

The nearly 22% of US counties with higher proportions of black people accounted for 52% of COVID-19 cases and 58% of related deaths, according to a study published late last week in the Annals of Epidemiology.The researchers accessed public data on Apr 13 to compare pre

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COVID-19 impacts shift as global cases pass 4.6 million

COVID-19 activity across the world this weekend reflects a mixed picture of many earlier affected countries navigating the uneasy task of unwinding restrictions and extinguishing flare-ups, while more recently affected nations struggle to blunt exponential spread, as case counts topped 4.6 million.

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WHA preps for virtual meeting as COVID-19 cases top 4.5 million

As the number of global COVID-19 cases passed 4.5 million today, the World Health Assembly (WHA) geared up to meet virtually for the first time in a shortened meeting that will mainly focus on the COVID-19 threat.

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Trump taps new team to develop, deploy COVID-19 vaccine

"I just want to make something clear. It's very important. Vaccine or no vaccine, we're back. And we're starting a process."

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COVID-19 Scan for May 15, 2020

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it's working with Abbott Laboratories to address potential false-negative results provided by the company's rapid coronavirus test.In a news release yesterday, the FDA said it's evalua

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Studies find further lack of COVID benefit from hydroxychloroquine

Results from two new studies, including the first randomized controlled trial, are providing further evidence that the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine may not help COVID-19 patients.

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Exploring respirator options for protecting health workers from COVID-19

Since the beginning of America's battle with the novel coronavirus, N95s, the close-fitting respirators worn instead of face masks to protect frontline workers from infectious aerosols and respiratory droplets, have been in short supply.

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COVID-19 Scan for May 14, 2020

Two of 15 dogs who shared homes with humans infected with COVID-19 in Hong Kong were also infected, according to a study published today in Nature, and a separate study details experimental infections of cats.In the first study, RNA from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes

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COVID-19 response gets more political as US deaths top 85,000

With whistleblowers testifying to members of Congress and President Donald Trump in an ongoing dispute with the nation's top infectious disease advisor, the federal response to the novel coronavirus has grown increasingly divided and political in the last week.

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Global COVID-19 death toll exceeds 300,000

The number of COVID-19 deaths today passed the 300,000 mark, as another city in China went on lockdown to prevent a resurgence and more countries in Europe learned that low numbers of people were exposed in their outbreaks, meaning many are vulnerable to a second wave.

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Kawasaki-like COVID-19 complication found in Italian kids

Doctors in Bergamo, Italy, have described a series of 10 young children hospitalized with symptoms similar to those of the rare inflammatory Kawasaki-like disease emerging amid the COVID-19 pandemic, adding to reports of similar cases in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and the United Kingdom.

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Russia, South America emerge as major COVID-19 hot spots

A surge of infections in Russia lifted the country's COVID-19 total to the world's second highest, as illness numbers and deaths continued to rise sharply in parts of South America.

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COVID-19 Scan for May 13, 2020

In a study yesterday in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), researchers describe a COVID-19 super-spreading event at a Washington state choir practice in March, which was attended by a symptomatic index patient and produced an attack rate of 53.3% to 86.7%.The choir practice, conducted on Mar 10, lasted 2.5 hours and wa

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Americans on the move as COVID-19 orders lift

More Americans have traveled away from their homes in the past week compared with the preceding 6 weeks, a new analysis from the New York Times found, showing that states' decisions to reopen parts of their economies have increased mobility across the country.

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Physical distancing may extend to 2022, COVID-19 study finds

The latest mathematical COVID-19 model released by Harvard University researchers predicts that recurrent winter outbreaks will probably occur after the first, most severe pandemic wave; prolonged or intermittent physical distancing may be necessary into 2022; and a resurgence is possible as late as 2024.

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Fauci: COVID-19 vaccine, treatment by autumn 'a bridge too far'

According to Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, it's a bridge too far to consider that medical therapeutics and an efficacious vaccine could be at play in the United States at the end of August.

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Wuhan to use massive testing against COVID-19 resurgence; Russia cases soar

Two countries—China and Singapore—are taking massive testing steps to tamp down COVID-19 resurgences, as cases continued to soar in Russia, now the country with the third-highest number of cases.

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Scientists: 'Exactly zero' evidence COVID-19 came from a lab

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Internet has been teeming with provocative conspiracy theories that the novel coronavirus was (1) created in a Wuhan, China, lab and deployed as a bioweapon or (2) derived from bats, grown on tissue culture, intentionally or accidentally transmitted to a researcher, and released into the community.

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News Scan for May 12, 2020

A retrospective study of COVID-19 patients in New York City hospitals found that treatment with the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine, the antibiotic azithromycin, or both was not significantly associated with differences in in-hospital mortality compared with patients who received neither drug. But cardiac arrest was more frequent in patients treated with both drugs, according to the findings published yesterday in JAMA.Of 1,438 COVID-19 patients treated at 25 New York City hospitals fr

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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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