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New Omicron Variant Gaining Ground In India, Detected In Numerous Other Countries

The AP (7/11, Ungar, Ghosal) reports, “The quickly changing coronavirus has spawned yet another super contagious Omicron mutant that’s worrying scientists as it gains ground in India and pops up in numerous other countries, including the United States.” T...

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Official COVID-19 Case Metrics Likely Undercounted Amid BA.5-Driven Surge

CNN (7/11, McPhillips) reports, “Official COVID-19 case metrics severely undercount the true number of infections, leaving the United States with a critical blind spot as the most transmissible coronavirus variant yet takes hold.” The Omicron subvariant B...

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Mayo Clinic Laboratories To Begin Monkeypox Testing

Healio (7/11, Stulpin) reports that on Monday, Mayo Clinic Laboratories “became the second commercial laboratory in the U.S. to begin monkeypox testing as part of an effort to increase testing capacity and access.” According to the CDC, the company “will...

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Healthcare-Associated Monkeypox Transmission Following Exposure Is Low, Literature Review Contends

HealthDay (7/11) reports “health care-associated transmission of the monkeypox virus following exposure is low, according to” a 12-study literature review published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. One researcher said, “Although it is reassur...

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US Government To Extend COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Again

Bloomberg (7/11, Griffin) reports, “The US government will once again extend the COVID-19 public health emergency, continuing measures that have given millions of Americans special access to health insurance and telehealth services.” HHS “has repeatedly r...

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US Government Orders Additional 2.5M Doses Of Monkeypox Vaccine

Reuters (7/1, Roy) reported, “The U.S. government has ordered 2.5 million more doses of Bavarian Nordic’s vaccine [Jynneos] for use against monkeypox outbreaks, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Friday.” The government “is ramping up its...

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Combination Therapy Demonstrates Similar Efficacy, Safety As Monotherapy For Treatment Of Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Network Meta-Analysis Finds

Infectious Disease Advisor (7/1, Arini Lopez) reported, “Fluoroquinolone...monotherapy, β-lactam (BL) monotherapy, and β-lactam plus macrolide (BL-M) combination therapy demonstrated similar efficacy and safety for the treatment of community-acquired pneu...

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Study Observes High Rates Of Antibiotic Resistance Among Patients Presenting To ED With Complicated UTIs

Healio (7/3, Stulpin) reported that “a study of nearly 150,000 patients who presented to the ED with complicated UTIs found many were resistant to commonly used oral antibiotics.” In both the “ED only” and “inpatient” cohorts, “Escherichia coli was the pr...

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Biden Administration Hopeful Updated COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Appeal To Those Still Hesitant

The New York Times (7/4, A1, Mueller) reports Americans’ complaints about the current generation of COVID-19 vaccines may soon be addressed. US “regulators committed last week to updating the 2020 vaccine recipes for this fall’s booster campaign with new...

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Physicians Study Health Data Of College Athletes To Understand Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects Of COVID-19

The Washington Post (7/2, Cohn) reported that early in the pandemic, “enough athletes with COVID were experiencing” myocarditis that physicians at several “Big Ten schools didn’t want to take any chances.” These physicians “also started taking a deeper lo...

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Health Officials Push For Use Of Elastomeric Respirators During COVID-19 Pandemic

The New York Times (7/3, Jacobs) reported that despite early recommendations by federal health officials, elastomeric respirators “remain a rarity at American health care facilities” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC “has done little to promote the mask...

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Deaths From Fungal Infections Increased In US In 2020 And 2021, Researchers Say

Healio (7/2, Stulpin) reported, “Deaths from fungal infections increased in the United States in 2020 and 2021 compared with previous years, with Aspergillus and Candida infections driving COVID-19-associated fungal deaths, researchers found.” The team “a...

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Moderna To Seek Authorization For Omicron-Specific COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Candidate

The Washington Post (6/8, Abutaleb, Jeong) reports, “Moderna said it will seek authorization for an updated coronavirus vaccine designed to protect against Omicron subvariants that the company described as its ‘lead candidate’ for a fall booster, but it r...

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Data Show New Omicron Subvariants Gaining Ground Across US

The New York Times (6/8, Anthes) reports, “The Omicron subvariants known as BA.4 and BA.5 now represent 13 percent of new coronavirus cases in the United States, up from 7.5 percent a week ago and 1 percent in early May, according to new estimates from th...

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Patients With HIV Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 More Likely To Develop Breakthrough Infection, Study Finds

MedPage Today (6/8, Hamza) reports, “Patients with HIV who were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 were more likely to develop a breakthrough infection, according to a study of the Corona-Infectious-Virus Epidemiology Team (CIVET)-II cohort.” Among the “ne...

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Over 1,000 Monkeypox Cases In 29 Countries Reported To WHO In Current Outbreak

Reuters (6/8, Roy, Rigby) reports, “There have been more than 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to the World Health Organization in the current outbreak outside the countries in Africa where it more commonly spreads.” Overall, 29 “countries have reported cas...

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Independent Labs’ Revenue From COVID-19 Tests May Be Driving Up Health Insurance Premiums, Study Suggests

Modern Healthcare (6/8, Kacik, Subscription Publication) reports, “Independent laboratories reap the benefits of lucrative COVID-19 tests and those costs may be boosting health insurance premiums and tax bills, according to a...study” set “to be published...

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Biden Administration Redirecting Federal COVID-19 Funds To Secure Vaccines, Treatments

The Washington Post (6/8, Romm) reports, “The Biden administration is shifting dwindling federal coronavirus funds toward securing another round of vaccines and treatments – rationing money and cutting back on other critical public health programs as Cong...

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Number Of OSHA Healthcare Inspections For COVID-19 In 2022 Has Surpassed 2021 Levels, Analysis Finds

Bloomberg Law (6/8, Rolfsen, Subscription Publication) reports the Occupational Safety and Health Administration “has inspected more hospitals and nursing homes in the first six months of 2022 than it did for all of 2021, agency enforcement numbers show.”...

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White House Officials Introduce New Models For Paxlovid Distribution To Expand Access

The New York Times (5/26, Weiland) reports, “White House officials said on Thursday that they were introducing new models for distributing Paxlovid, the COVID-19 oral medication made by Pfizer, in an effort to get the treatment to more people and keep cor...

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New Omicron Variant Gaining Ground In India, Detected In Numerous Other Countries

Official COVID-19 Case Metrics Likely Undercounted Amid BA.5-Driven Surge

Mayo Clinic Laboratories To Begin Monkeypox Testing

Healthcare-Associated Monkeypox Transmission Following Exposure Is Low, Literature Review Contends

US Government To Extend COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Again

US Government Orders Additional 2.5M Doses Of Monkeypox Vaccine

Combination Therapy Demonstrates Similar Efficacy, Safety As Monotherapy For Treatment Of Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Network Meta-Analysis Finds

Study Observes High Rates Of Antibiotic Resistance Among Patients Presenting To ED With Complicated UTIs

Biden Administration Hopeful Updated COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Appeal To Those Still Hesitant

Physicians Study Health Data Of College Athletes To Understand Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects Of COVID-19

Health Officials Push For Use Of Elastomeric Respirators During COVID-19 Pandemic

Deaths From Fungal Infections Increased In US In 2020 And 2021, Researchers Say

Moderna To Seek Authorization For Omicron-Specific COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Candidate

Data Show New Omicron Subvariants Gaining Ground Across US

Patients With HIV Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 More Likely To Develop Breakthrough Infection, Study Finds

Over 1,000 Monkeypox Cases In 29 Countries Reported To WHO In Current Outbreak

Independent Labs’ Revenue From COVID-19 Tests May Be Driving Up Health Insurance Premiums, Study Suggests

Biden Administration Redirecting Federal COVID-19 Funds To Secure Vaccines, Treatments

Number Of OSHA Healthcare Inspections For COVID-19 In 2022 Has Surpassed 2021 Levels, Analysis Finds

White House Officials Introduce New Models For Paxlovid Distribution To Expand Access