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  • WHO Recommends Malaria Vaccine For Children In Hardest-Hit Regions

    The Washington Post (10/6, Firozi, Iati, Cunningham) reports the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Wednesday “the world’s first vaccine to prevent malaria for widespread use in children, a tool it said can help save tens of thousands of lives...
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  • Biden Administration To Invest $1B To Boost Supply Of At-Home Rapid COVID-19 Tests

    The New York Times (10/6, Weiland) reports on Wednesday, the White House “announced a billion-dollar investment in at-home rapid coronavirus tests that it said would help quadruple their availability by later this year.” By the end of this year, “200 mill...
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  • POC NAT For HIV-1/HIV-2 Infection Had High Sensitivity, Specificity Among Children, Infants Exposed To HIV, Analysis Finds

    Infectious Disease Advisor (10/6, Nye) reports a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews “found that point-of-care (POC) nucleic acid-based testing (NAT) for HIV-1/HIV-2 infection had high sensitivity a...
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  • As Infections, Deaths Decline, Health Officials Warn COVID-19 Remains A Threat

    The New York Times (10/6, Hassan) reports, “New coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths are falling as the United States begins to recover from a persistent summer surge that strained hospitals across the country and killed over 100,000 Americans i...
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  • Patients Reported Abnormalities Three Months After COVID-19, Researchers Say

    Healio (10/6, Welsh) reports, “Three months after acute COVID-19, patients reported several physical and self-reported abnormalities, and there was no difference between patients who were or were not hospitalized,” according to research presented at the E...
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  • Vertical HIV Infection Transmission During Peripartum Period Or Breastfeeding Tied To Maternal HIV Drug Resistance, Viral Load, CD4 Counts, Research Shows

    Infectious Disease Advisor (10/6, Nye) reports, “Vertical transmission of HIV infection during the peripartum period or while breastfeeding was associated with maternal HIV drug resistance, viral load, and CD4 counts,” according to results from case-contr...
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  • CDC Director Warns US May Be At Increased Risk Of Severe Flu Season

    CNBC (10/6, Lovelace) reports CDC “influenza experts are concerned that the United States could be at risk for a severe flu season this year, Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky warned Wednesday.” The US population may “have reduced immunity against influenza...
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  • WHO Issues Working Case Definition Of Long-COVID-19

    Healio (10/6, Downey) reports the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a “working case definition” of long-COVID-19, saying the condition “occurs in individuals with a history of probable or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, usually 3 months from the onse...
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  • Study Finds Antibiotic-Resistant Microbial Infections In Seniors Led To Nearly 12K Deaths In One Year

    MedPage Today (10/7, Basen) reports, “Six common antibiotic-resistant microbial infections in Medicare-age Americans resulted in close to 12,000 deaths in 2017, and cost the U.S. nearly $1.9 billion, a new study found.” This group “of older Americans, the...
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  • AstraZeneca Seeks FDA Approval Of Preventive COVID-19 Antibody Treatment

    The New York Times (10/5, Bengali) reports, “AstraZeneca said on Tuesday that it had asked the Food and Drug Administration to grant emergency authorization for a long-acting antibody treatment to prevent Covid-19 in people who are at high risk of the dis...
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  • Company Recalls 200K At-Home COVID-19 Tests Over False-Positive Results

    The New York Times (10/5, Anthes) reports Australian company Ellume, “that makes a widely available at-home coronavirus test, has recalled nearly 200,000 test kits because of concerns about a higher-than-expected rate of false positives,” representing nea...
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  • Employer Demand For Coronavirus Tests Further Straining Scarcity

    Reuters (10/5, O'Donnell) reports surging coronavirus test demand “from U.S. employers has exacerbated a nationwide shortage of rapid tests in recent weeks and is driving up costs for state and local testing programs, according to industry executives and...
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  • Micro Clots May Be Cause Of Some “Long-COVID” Symptoms, Researchers Say

    Bloomberg (10/5, Sguazzin) reports research suggests that “some of the symptoms of so-called long-covid...may be caused by inflammatory molecules trapped inside tiny blood clots.” Bloomberg adds “high levels of inflammatory molecules were found in micro c...
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  • Researchers Find Convalescent Plasma Is “Futile” To Treat Patients Who Are Critically Ill With COVID-19

    The Hill (10/5, Beals) reports researchers “found that convalescent plasma treatment is ‘futile’ to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients.” According to the study, “the treatment resulted in ‘a low likelihood of providing improvement’ for severe COVID-19...
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  • COVID-19 Vaccines Prevented 39,000 Senior Deaths Between January And May, HHS Says

    The Hill (10/5, Coleman) reports that according to a report released by HHS on Tuesday, “COVID-19 vaccines may have saved the lives of tens of thousands seniors nationwide early this year.” The report indicates the effectiveness of COVID vaccines “in pote...
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  • Medical Mistrust Driving Vaccine Hesitancy Among US Hispanics, Study Suggests

    HealthDay (10/5, Preidt) reports, “Misinformation and medical mistrust are major drivers of vaccine hesitancy among U.S. Hispanics,” according to researchers who “also found that protecting other family members is an important factor in convincing Hispani...
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  • Study Finds COVID-19 Disproportionately Kills Black, Hispanic Americans

    HealthDay (10/5, Reinberg) reports COVID-19 has hit certain US minority groups “hard, with significantly more deaths among Black and Hispanic Americans compared with white and Asian Americans,” according to a new study published in Annals of Internal Medi...
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  • Primary Care Practitioner Bias May Impact PrEP Discussions With Black Women, Researchers Suggest

    Medscape (10/5, Boerner, Subscription Publication) reports, “Primary care practitioners who scored higher on a scale indicating unconscious or conscious racism were less willing to discuss HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with Black women, citing concer...
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  • Johnson & Johnson Asks FDA To Allow COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses

    The AP (10/5, Perrone) reports, “Johnson & Johnson asked the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to allow extra shots of its COVID-19 vaccine as the U.S. government moves toward expanding its booster campaign to millions more vaccinated Americans.” Th...
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