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Overwhelmed Hospitals Sending Patients With COVID-19 To Other States For Treatment

The AP (8/18, Hollingsworth, Salter) reports “many overwhelmed hospitals, with no beds to offer, are putting critically ill COVID-19 patients on planes, helicopters and ambulances and sending them hundreds of miles to far-flung states for treatment.” The...

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Biden Administration To Launch COVID-19 Booster Shot Campaign In A Month

The New York Times (8/18, LaFraniere, Mandavilli) reports the Biden Administration on Wednesday announced several moves to fight “the surging Delta variant of the coronavirus, strongly recommending booster shots for most vaccinated Americans and using fed...

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Biden Says Nursing Homes Must Vaccinate Staff Against COVID-19 In Order To Continue Receiving Medicare, Medicaid Funding

USA Today (8/18, Groppe) reports the Administration on Wednesday “said nursing homes must vaccinate their staffs against COVID-19 if they want to continue receiving federal funding.” However, the order regarding “nursing homes is not immediate.” HHS “will...

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CDC Creating New Disease Forecasting Center To Predict Emerging Health Threats

Reuters (8/18, Roy) reports the CDC “said on Wednesday it is creating a new disease forecasting center to improve the ability to use data to predict and gauge emerging health threats.” The agency’s “Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics will help...

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US To Recommend mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters For All Residents Eight Months After Second Dose

The AP (8/17, Miller) reports “U.S. experts are expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose of the shot, to ensure lasting protection against the coronavirus as t...

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Removal Of CVCs Following Bacteremia Onset Tied To Improved Outcomes In Patients With Cancer Who Have Enterococcal CLABSI, Research Indicates

Infectious Disease Advisor (8/17, Aghjayan) reports, “In patients with cancer who have enterococcal central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), the removal of central venous catheters (CVCs) within 3 days of bacteremia onset may be associated...

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Researchers Render Humans “Effectively Invisible” To Mosquitoes Through Use Of Gene-Editing Tool

The New York Times (8/17, Imbler) reports, “For the first time, scientists have used the gene-editing tool Crispr-Cas9 to render humans effectively invisible in the eyes of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which use dark visual cues to hunt, according to a paper...

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Specific Genes Trigger Apoptosis Of HIV-Infected Macrophages, Study Says

Infectious Disease Advisor (8/17, Nye) says that “silencing specific genes triggers apoptosis of HIV-infected macrophages and may be a viable curative approach for individuals with HIV infection,” according to findings from “a genome-wide screening study...

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Influenza Vaccine Potentially Protective Against Adverse Events Following COVID-19 Infection, Findings Suggest

HealthDay (8/17) reports, “Influenza vaccination has a potential protective effect against adverse events within 120 days of a positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) diagnosis, according to” researchers who “used a continuou...

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Physics Model Shows 20 Seconds Needed To Remove Germs During Hand Washing, Researchers Say

HealthDay (8/17, Preidt) reports 20 seconds are needed to remove germs during hand washing, according to researchers who used a physics-based “model to examine the key mechanics of hand-washing and determine how long it takes to remove viruses, bacteria a...

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Research Suggests COVID-19 Vaccines’ Ability To Prevent Mild Illness Less Robust As Immunity Wanes, Delta Variant Spreads

The Washington Post (8/17, A1, Achenbach, Guarino) reports that a “growing number of studies suggest that coronavirus vaccines continue to provide strong protection against severe disease and hospitalization, but their ability to prevent mild illness is l...

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Patients On Hemodialysis Who Survived COVID-19 Infection Developed, Maintained Antibodies That Cut Likelihood Of Reinfection, Study Says

Healio (8/17, Webb) reports, “Patients on hemodialysis who survived infection with SARS-CoV-2 developed and maintained antibodies that led to a reduced likelihood of reinfection compared with patients who were not previously infected,” according to resear...

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Analysis: Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections Increasing As Delta Variant Spreads

An analysis performed by the Wall Street Journal (8/17, A1, Whelan, Hopkins, Subscription Publication) found that while the Delta coronavirus variant appears to be evading the protection of COVID-19 vaccines at higher rates than other variants, breakthrou...

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TSA Extends Federal Mask Mandate For Public Transportation Until January 2022

USA Today (8/17, Hines, Schulz) reports, “Travelers on airplanes, trains, buses and in airports and train stations should be prepared to continue to wear masks for holiday travel and into next year” after the Transportation Security Administration on Tues...

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Booster Shots Of Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Lead To Higher Levels Of Protective Antibodies, Early Data Suggest

Bloomberg (8/16, Griffin, Langreth) reports Pfizer and partner BioNTech “submitted early-stage data to U.S. regulators showing that a third dose of their Covid-19 vaccine led to higher levels of protective antibodies when given eight to nine months after...

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Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Panel Outperforms Traditional Microbiologic Culture Results, Study Finds

Infectious Disease Advisor (8/16, Mermelstein) reports, “In patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia, bacterial targets and copy numbers detected by the recently FDA-cleared BioFire FilmArray pneumonia panel correlated better with patients’ clinical char...

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Human Contraception Antibody Safe, Effective In Immobilizing Sperm Activity, Study Says

Healio (8/6, Gawel) says, “An anti-sperm monoclonal antibody has been found to be safe and possess potent sperm agglutination, or clumping, and immobilization activity in laboratory tests, according to a study published by EBioMedicine.” Study researchers...

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HPV Vaccine Effective In Preventing Penile HPV Infection When Administered Up To Age 18 Years, Researchers Find

According to Healio (8/16, Stulpin), “HPV vaccination was effective in preventing penile HPV infection in transgender women and men who have sex with men when the vaccine was administered before and up to age 18 years, researchers reported in The Journal...

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COVID-19-Related Fatalities In Hospitals Reaching Previous Highs In Some US States

Bloomberg Law (8/16, Levin, Subscription Publication) reports, “The number of people dying with COVID-19 in U.S. hospitals is hitting previous highs in some hot-spot states with low-to-average vaccination rates, upending hopes the virus has become less le...

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COVID-19 Vaccine Provides Strong Immune Response In Patients With HIV, Research Shows

HealthDay (8/16, Preidt) reports, “COVID-19 vaccination triggers a strong immune response in people with HIV, meaning they’re likely protected against the coronavirus,” researchers concluded after analyzing “blood samples collected from seven women and fi...

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Overwhelmed Hospitals Sending Patients With COVID-19 To Other States For Treatment

Biden Administration To Launch COVID-19 Booster Shot Campaign In A Month

Biden Says Nursing Homes Must Vaccinate Staff Against COVID-19 In Order To Continue Receiving Medicare, Medicaid Funding

CDC Creating New Disease Forecasting Center To Predict Emerging Health Threats

US To Recommend mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters For All Residents Eight Months After Second Dose

Removal Of CVCs Following Bacteremia Onset Tied To Improved Outcomes In Patients With Cancer Who Have Enterococcal CLABSI, Research Indicates

Researchers Render Humans “Effectively Invisible” To Mosquitoes Through Use Of Gene-Editing Tool

Specific Genes Trigger Apoptosis Of HIV-Infected Macrophages, Study Says

Influenza Vaccine Potentially Protective Against Adverse Events Following COVID-19 Infection, Findings Suggest

Physics Model Shows 20 Seconds Needed To Remove Germs During Hand Washing, Researchers Say

Research Suggests COVID-19 Vaccines’ Ability To Prevent Mild Illness Less Robust As Immunity Wanes, Delta Variant Spreads

Patients On Hemodialysis Who Survived COVID-19 Infection Developed, Maintained Antibodies That Cut Likelihood Of Reinfection, Study Says

Analysis: Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections Increasing As Delta Variant Spreads

TSA Extends Federal Mask Mandate For Public Transportation Until January 2022

Booster Shots Of Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Lead To Higher Levels Of Protective Antibodies, Early Data Suggest

Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Panel Outperforms Traditional Microbiologic Culture Results, Study Finds

Human Contraception Antibody Safe, Effective In Immobilizing Sperm Activity, Study Says

HPV Vaccine Effective In Preventing Penile HPV Infection When Administered Up To Age 18 Years, Researchers Find

COVID-19-Related Fatalities In Hospitals Reaching Previous Highs In Some US States

COVID-19 Vaccine Provides Strong Immune Response In Patients With HIV, Research Shows