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  • Mask Mandates, Tougher COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements Could Be Needed In Fall, Winter Months, Some Experts Believe

    According to the Los Angeles Times (8/20, Money), the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant “has upended previous optimistic projections of herd immunity and a return to normal life, with many health experts believing mask mandates and tougher vaccine r...
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  • CDC Director Says Annual mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines May Not Be Needed As Booster Shot May Provide Long-Term Protection

    CNBC (8/19, Towey) reports “CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday that Americans may not need yearly COVID-19 booster shots, suggesting that a third shot may sufficiently strengthen the long-term protection of Pfizer or Moderna’s vaccines.” mRN...
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  • US Colleges Struggle With Budget To Treat, Test Unvaccinated Students

    The Wall Street Journal (8/19, Belkin, Subscription Publication) reports universities throughout the US are struggling with how to budget for treating and testing unvaccinated students. Only a few schools require unvaccinated pupils to pay for their regul...
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  • TTP Not An Independent Predictor Of Death In Survival Analysis In Patients With Enterococcal BSI, Results Suggest

    Infectious Disease Advisor (8/19, Gupta) reports, “Although a short time to positivity (TTP) was a significant predictor of mortality in patients with bloodstream infections (BSI) caused by Enterococcus spp, it was not an independent predictor of death in...
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  • More Than 90,000 Patients With COVID-19 Were In US Hospitals This Week Amid An Average Of 800 Daily Deaths, Data Show

    The New York Times (8/19, Smith) reports that amid continued spread of the Delta coronavirus variant in the US, “more than 90,000 coronavirus patients were in hospitals nationwide earlier this week, more than in any previous surge except last winter’s.” T...
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  • Study Finds COVID-19 Vaccines Are Working Less Effectively At Preventing Infections In New York

    The Albany (NY) Times Union (8/19, Bump) reports, “The coronavirus vaccines currently in use around the U.S. are highly effective at keeping infected New Yorkers out of the hospital but appear to have worked less well in recent months at preventing infect...
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  • US Administered More Than 1M COVID-19 Vaccine Doses On Thursday, White House Says

    Politico (8/19, Sheehey) reports more than “one million Americans received a dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, a benchmark the nation has not met in nearly seven weeks amid a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic.” The White House “announced the vacc...
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  • Early COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout In US May Have Saved 140,000 Lives, Researchers Say

    HealthDay (8/19, Norton) reports the early COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the US “may have saved nearly 140,000 lives,” according to researchers who estimated “that immunizations prevented 139,393 deaths nationwide between December 2020 and early May 2021.”...
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  • COVID-19 Hospitalizations Among US Patients Under Age 50 Reach New High, CDC Data Show

    The Hill (8/19, Oshin) reports, “COVID-19 hospitalizations among patients under the age of 50 have hit a new high in the U.S.,” and according to the latest CDC data, “the groups with the largest increases in coronavirus hospitalizations are patients in th...
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  • Breakthrough Infections, Waning Immunity, Vaccine Hesitancy Making Path Forward Out Of Pandemic Less Clear

    USA Today (8/19, Rodriguez, Weise, Shannon) reports, “From the earliest days of the pandemic, public health officials told Americans vaccination was the way back to normal life, but the path forward has become less clear,” partially due to a combination o...
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  • Multiple Outbreaks Of COVID-19, Ebola, Marburg Increase Risk Of Strain On West African Health Systems, WHO Warns

    Reuters (8/19, Fick) reports on Thursday, the WHO warned that “on top of the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is facing new outbreaks of the viral hemorrhagic fevers Marburg and Ebola, risking huge strains on ill-equipped health systems.” Ivory Coast “on Sa...
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  • Aiding Vaccination Efforts: My Role as a Navy Medic

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  • The Network That Never Sleeps

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  • Light Chain–Restricted Plasmacytoid Cells In Hyperplastic Germinal Centers: A Clinicopathologic Investigation

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  • CDC Releases Studies Showing Declining COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Infection

    The New York Times (8/18, Mandavilli) reports the CDC “released three studies on Wednesday that federal officials said provided evidence that booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines would be needed in the coming months.” Acco...
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  • Study Compares CSF Biomarker Differences In Down Syndrome And Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease

    Neurology Advisor (8/18, Nye) reports, “In a cross-sectional study of Alzheimer disease (AD) among individuals with Down syndrome...researchers observed significant differences in” levels of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers “amyloid b (Ab) and chi...
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  • Single Dose Vi-Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine Protective Against Typhoid Fever In Pediatric Patients, Results Show

    Healio (8/18, Downey) reports, “A single dose of Vi-tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine provided protection against typhoid fever in children aged 9 months to 16 years,” researchers concluded after conducting “a participant- and observer-masked trial in Dhak...
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  • Cefazolin, ASP Show Similar 90-Day Treatment Outcomes In Patients With MSSA IE, Research Shows

    Infectious Disease Advisor (8/18, Gupta) reports, “There was no difference in 90-day all-cause mortality in patients with methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) infective endocarditis (IE) treated with cefazolin vs antistaphylococcal penicil...
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  • Third Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Dose 86% Effective In Over 60s, Israeli HMO Says

    Reuters (8/18, Rami Ayyub, Lubell) reports a third Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose “was found to be 86% effective in people aged over 60, an Israeli healthcare provider said on Wednesday, citing initial results from a study of thousands of members.” Israeli...
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  • Early Convalescent Plasma May Not Prevent Disease Progression Among High-Risk Outpatients With COVID-19, Study Finds

    Healio (8/18, Southall) reports, “COVID-19 convalescent plasma administered within 7 days of symptom onset did not appear to prevent disease progression among high-risk outpatients with COVID-19, according to” results published in The New England Journal...
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