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  • People Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 More Likely To Change Behavior Based On Delta Variant Spread, Poll Finds

    USA Today (8/4, Groppe) reports a poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that people already vaccinated against COVID-19 “are more concerned about the highly contagious [Delta variant] – and more likely to change their behavior.” Additionally, “four...
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  • Single Subcutaneous Dose Of Regeneron’s Antibody Treatment Prevents COVID-19, Reduces Incidence Of Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infection, Study Finds

    Healio (8/4, Downey) reports, “A single subcutaneous dose of Regeneron’s antibody cocktail prevents symptomatic COVID-19 and reduces the incidence of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to results from a study published today in The New England J...
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  • FDA Officials Debate Timeline For Decision On Full Approval Of Pfizer Vaccine

    The Wall Street Journal (8/4, Armour, Subscription Publication) reports that FDA officials are in a heated debate about whether to fully approve the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this month or to delay the decision until early or mid-September, according to sou...
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  • Expression Of Interleukin-21 Receptor Significantly Associated With HIV-1 Viral Load, Disease Progression, According To Results Of Retrospective Study

    Infectious Disease Advisor (8/3, Mermelstein) reports, “Expression of the receptor for interleukin-21, a key cytokine for maintaining proper CD8+ T-cell function during acute HIV-1 infection, was significantly associated with HIV-1 viral load and disease...
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  • People Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Have Up To 60% Reduced Risk Of Infection From Delta Variant, Study Finds

    Reuters (8/3, Smout) reports people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 “have an around 50 to 60% reduced risk of infection from the Delta coronavirus variant, including those who are asymptomatic, a large English coronavirus prevalence study found on Wedne...
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  • For Patients Receiving Maintenance Hemodialysis, Infection With Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia May Lead To Worsening Clinical Outcomes, Including Increased In Mortality, Study Indicates

    Healio (8/3, Webb) reports, “For patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis, infection with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia led to worsening clinical outcomes, including increased in mortality, in a 21-year period,” investigators concluded in a study th...
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  • Much Of US Grappling With Responses To Delta Variant

    The Washington Post (8/3, A1, Nirappil, Cusick) reports that while much of the US “wrestles with new masking guidance and new evidence of the dangers of the highly transmissible delta variant, public health authorities and doctors in the states hit hardes...
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  • Physicians Split On Delta Variant’s Infectiousness, Severity For Younger Patients

    The New York Times (8/3, A1, Rabin) reports physicians “working in Covid hot spots across” the US “say that the patients in their hospitals are not like the patients they saw last year” in the beginning of the pandemic. These current patients are “almost...
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  • US Health Systems Face Conundrum Around Potential COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots

    STAT (8/3, Cohrs) reports the US health system “has been single-mindedly focused on getting Covid-19 vaccine shots in arms, but as the Delta variant spreads, the country’s decentralized vaccination campaign is presenting a different challenge – how to pol...
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  • Text “Nudges” About Access To COVID-19 Vaccines Can Increase Vaccination Rates, Study Suggests

    HealthDay (8/3, Preidt) reports, “Text ‘nudges’ about easy access to COVID-19 vaccines can increase vaccination rates, even among people hesitant to get a shot, a new study suggests.” In the study, researchers “analyzed data from two trials with UCLA Heal...
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  • New York City To Require Proof Of COVID-19 Vaccine For Some Indoor Activities

    The AP (8/3, Matthews) reports, “New York City will soon require proof of COVID-19 vaccinations for anyone who wants to dine indoors at a restaurant, see a performance or go to the gym, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.” The rules “will be phased in...
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  • Pentagon Appears Ready To Mandate COVID-19 Vaccinations

    Reuters (8/3, Stewart, Ali) reports that as the Delta variant continues to surge across the US, the Pentagon “appears poised to do something it has not so far – mandate vaccinations to safeguard against COVID-19.” Defense officials “tell Reuters a decisio...
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  • Stanford To Make AI-Ready Healthcare Data Open Source

    AI in Healthcare (8/3, Pearson) reports Stanford University School of Medicine “that maintains the world’s best-stocked library of curated, patient-deidentified and AI-ready data is going 100% open source with its digital riches.” AI in Healthcare adds, “...
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  • US Reaches Milestone Of 70% Of Adults Receiving At Least One Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine

    The Washington Post (8/2, A1, Suliman, Pietsch, Shammas, Goldstein) reports the US on Monday “reported that 70 percent of adults had received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, a benchmark President Biden had hoped to reach nearly a month earli...
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  • French Researchers Develop Machine-Learning Algorithm To Identify Individuals At Increased Risk Of HIV Infection

    Infectious Disease Advisor (8/2, Nye) reports researchers in France have developed a machine-learning algorithm to identify individuals at increased risk of HIV infection that should be encouraged to pre-exposure prophylaxis treatments. The algorithm was...
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  • Researchers Say Case Definitions, Environmental Sampling Approaches For Invasive Mold Infections Vary Substantially

    Healio (8/2, Stulpin) reports, “Despite most facilities performing surveillance for health care-associated invasive mold infections, case definitions and environmental sampling approaches vary substantially and could lead to missed cases, researchers said...
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  • Spike In RSV Cases Occurring As More Children Experience COVID-19 Infection

    HealthDay (8/2, Preidt, Foster) reports, “A rise in cases of a common childhood disease called respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is unfolding just as coronavirus infections are increasing among children.” There has been a significant rise in RSV cases sin...
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  • Researchers Seeking To Determine Whether Delta Variant Makes People Sicker

    Reuters (8/2, Beasley) reports, “With a new wave of COVID-19 infections fueled by the Delta variant striking countries worldwide, disease experts are scrambling to learn whether the latest version of coronavirus is making people --mainly the unvaccinated...
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  • Stall In Advances For COVID-19 Treatments Raises Concerns Among Medical Experts

    Bloomberg (8/2, Querolo, Goldberg) reports, “A stall in treatment advances for Covid-19 has raised concern among medical experts about unvaccinated people, who still make up half the country, and their likelihood of surviving the coming wave of delta case...
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  • US Surpasses 35M Recorded COVID-19 Cases

    The Hill (8/2, Sullivan) reports the US “has surpassed 35 million recorded COVID-19 cases, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker, as the delta variant spurs a new rise in cases.” The US “is now average about 70,000 cases per day and recorded mor...
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