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COVID-19 Testing Lab Prenetics To Merge With Artisan Acquisition

Bloomberg (9/15, Fioretti) reports Hong Kong coronavirus testing laboratory Prenetics “has agreed to merge with tycoon Adrian Cheng’s U.S.-listed blank-check company Artisan Acquisition” in a deal that will take Prenetics public with a “value of $1.25 bil...

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Large-Scale Studies To Investigate Long-Term Effects Of COVID-19

Reuters (9/15, Khandekar) reports, “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded nearly $470 million to support studies among tens of thousands of Americans that will investigate the long-term effects of COVID-19.” The studies are due to “include adult...

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Neonatal Syphilis Rates Continue Upward Multiyear Trajectory, CDC Data Show

MedPage Today (9/15, Gever) reports, “New CDC data show no letup during 2020 in the discouraging multiyear trend toward rapidly increasing rates of neonatal syphilis,” with case counts last year reaching “2,022, according to the CDC’s Virginia B. Bowen, P...

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Investigational Typhoid Vaccine Safe, Effective In Young Children, Analysis Shows

MedPage Today (9/15, Gever) reports researchers in a “major” 28,000-participant trial conducted in Malawi found that an investigational typhoid fever vaccine “showed 80.7% efficacy” in young children and “fewer adverse events than were seen with a standar...

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Data Show One In 500 Americans Have Died From COVID-19

CNN (9/15, Holcombe) reports “1 in 500 Americans have died from coronavirus since the nation’s first reported infection,” according to Johns Hopkins University data, which show that “as of Tuesday night, 663,913 people in the US have died of COVID-19.” CN...

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Analysis Shows Waning Immunity For Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine

Bloomberg (9/15, Langreth) reports Moderna on Wednesday “said that a new analysis of the late-stage clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine found a higher rate of breakthrough cases in people who got shots early in the study.” The analysis “examined instan...

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Growing Number Of US Employee Groups Citing Religious Exemptions To COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

The AP (9/15, Long, DeMillo) reports groups of employees across the US increasingly are “citing religious objections to try to get out of the required COVID-19 vaccination” as the objections have become “a much more widely used loophole against the COVID-...

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Biden Administration Takes Over Distribution Of Monoclonal Antibodies, Purchases 1.4M Additional Doses

The Washington Post (9/14, Bernstein) reports the Biden Administration “moved this week to stave off shortages of monoclonal antibodies, taking over distribution of the critical COVID-19 therapy and purchasing 1.4 million additional doses.” The policy, wh...

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Administration’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Could Overwhelm US Testing Capacity

Bloomberg (9/14, Court) reports the US “may not have enough” COVID-19 tests “to keep pace with the Biden administration’s tightened workplace COVID-19 mitigation measures.” The Administration’s requirement that companies with 100 or more employees require...

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Enhanced Adherence Support Using Drug Feedback From Intracellular TFV-DP Measurements Not Tied With Increased HIV PrEP Adherence, Study Says

According to Infectious Disease Advisor (9/14, Gupta), “Although initiation rates of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) increased and HIV infection incidence decreased among a cohort of young women in South Africa and Zimbabwe, enhanced adherence support...

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US COVID-19 Infections, Fatalities On The Rise

The AP (9/14, Hollingsworth, Bussewitz, Long) reports COVID-19 fatalities and infections in the US have returned “to levels not seen since last winter, erasing months of progress.” The US is averaging more than “1,800 COVID-19 deaths and 170,000 new cases...

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Some Healthy Americans Seeking COVID-19 Booster Shots Prior To FDA Approval

The New York Times (9/14, Steinhauer) says, “While tens of millions of Americans continue to decline even a first COVID-19 vaccine, a small but growing number have sought out additional shots even though the Food and Drug Administration has not yet approv...

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People Who Eat More Fruits, Vegetables May Have Lower Risk Of COVID-19, Study Suggests

HealthDay (9/14, Norton) reports, “People who eat plenty of fruits and vegetables may have a somewhat lower risk of COVID-19 than those with unhealthy diets,” according to researchers who surveyed 590,000 adults and “found that the quarter with the most p...

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Progress Toward Sickle Cell Gene Therapies Slowed By Sheer Expense

The New York Times (9/14, Kolata) reports in 2019 Helen Obando “became the first American teenager with sickle cell to be declared free of the disease six months after undergoing an experimental gene therapy meant to cure her.” However, progress toward si...

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Biden Administration Says Federal Employees Must Be Vaccinated By November 22

Reuters (9/14, Shepardson) reports the Biden Administration “said most federal employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no later than Nov. 22 as it drafts rules to require large employers to have their workers inoculated or tested weekly.” In g...

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WHO, Partners Hope To Provide Africa With 30% Of Needed COVID-19 Doses By February

The AP (9/14) reports, “The World Health Organization and its partners said they hope to provide Africa with about 30% of the COVID-19 vaccines the continent needs by February, badly missing the 60% vaccination coverage goal that African leaders had once...

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There Are No Credible Data To Support Coronavirus Booster Shots For General Population, Review Says

The New York Times (9/13, Mandavilli) reports, “None of the data on coronavirus vaccines so far provides credible evidence in support of boosters for the general population, according to a review published on Monday” in The Lancet “by an international gro...

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Dozens Of Fatalities Reported In Uttar Pradesh Dengue Fever Outbreak

Reuters (9/13, Das) reports a dengue fever outbreak “is suspected of killing dozens of people in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh since the start of September, and authorities have launched a campaign to destroy mosquito breeding grounds.” In the m...

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Ebola Vaccine Generates Antibody Response, Study Finds

Reuters (9/13, Kalia) reports Johnson & Johnson “said on Monday its Ebola vaccine regimen demonstrated antibody immune responses in adults and children, citing data published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.” The company’s “two-dose regimen was...

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Probenecid May Be Effective As Prophylaxis, Treatment In COVID-19, Other Respiratory Illnesses, Models Suggest

Healio (9/10, Laday) reports, “Probenecid could potentially be used to prevent or treat not only COVID-19, but other respiratory illnesses including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus infection,” researchers concluded after using animal and human l...

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COVID-19 Testing Lab Prenetics To Merge With Artisan Acquisition

Large-Scale Studies To Investigate Long-Term Effects Of COVID-19

Neonatal Syphilis Rates Continue Upward Multiyear Trajectory, CDC Data Show

Investigational Typhoid Vaccine Safe, Effective In Young Children, Analysis Shows

Data Show One In 500 Americans Have Died From COVID-19

Analysis Shows Waning Immunity For Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine

Growing Number Of US Employee Groups Citing Religious Exemptions To COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Biden Administration Takes Over Distribution Of Monoclonal Antibodies, Purchases 1.4M Additional Doses

Administration’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Could Overwhelm US Testing Capacity

Enhanced Adherence Support Using Drug Feedback From Intracellular TFV-DP Measurements Not Tied With Increased HIV PrEP Adherence, Study Says

US COVID-19 Infections, Fatalities On The Rise

Some Healthy Americans Seeking COVID-19 Booster Shots Prior To FDA Approval

People Who Eat More Fruits, Vegetables May Have Lower Risk Of COVID-19, Study Suggests

Progress Toward Sickle Cell Gene Therapies Slowed By Sheer Expense

Biden Administration Says Federal Employees Must Be Vaccinated By November 22

WHO, Partners Hope To Provide Africa With 30% Of Needed COVID-19 Doses By February

There Are No Credible Data To Support Coronavirus Booster Shots For General Population, Review Says

Dozens Of Fatalities Reported In Uttar Pradesh Dengue Fever Outbreak

Ebola Vaccine Generates Antibody Response, Study Finds

Probenecid May Be Effective As Prophylaxis, Treatment In COVID-19, Other Respiratory Illnesses, Models Suggest