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New Studies Suggest Some Coronavirus Variants May Pose Unexpected Challenges To Immune System

The New York Times (1/20, Mandavilli) reports, “The steady drumbeat of reports about new variants of the coronavirus – first in Britain, then in South Africa, Brazil and the United States – have brought a new worry: Will vaccines protect against these alt...

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South Africa Variant May Evade Antibodies Taken From People Who Recovered From “Original Form” Of SARS-CoV-2

Newsweek (1/20, Gander) reports the 501Y.V2 variant, also known as the South Africa variant, can evade antibodies taken from people who developed them against “the original form of” the virus, “prompting fears vaccines may not work against it.” The 501Y.V...

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UK Scientists Say Talking May Spread SARS-CoV-2 More Than Coughing

Newsweek (1/20, Gander) reports UK scientists “created an app to help calculate the risk of” transmitting SARS-CoV-2 “in different settings” and found “talking may spread” the virus “more than coughing.” The findings were published in the Proceedings of t...

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Researchers Use Data Analytics And Conclude That Mass Immunization Is The Only True Effective Strategy For Stopping Spread Of COVID-19

Health IT Analytics (1/20, Kent) reports researchers from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering used data analytics to simulate the spread of COVID-19 in New Rochelle, New York. The researchers concluded “that it may not be effective to prioritize high-ris...

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President Biden Signs Executive Orders That Impact Healthcare Industry

Modern Healthcare (1/20, Brady, Subscription Publication) reports that “President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed several executive orders that would impact the healthcare industry.” The President, “in addition to several actions to address the COVID-19 pan...

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CMS Finalizes Coverage Policy For Blood-Based Colon Cancer Screening

Modern Healthcare (1/20, Subscription Publication) reports, “CMS has finalized a memo describing criteria for the coverage of blood-based colorectal cancer screening tests. The agency did deny coverage for Epigenomics’ Epi ProColon assay, citing issues wi...

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CDC Compares Abbott Laboratories’ Rapid Coronavirus Antigen Test To PCR Testing

Reuters (1/19, Chander) reports researchers at the CDC compared Abbott Laboratories’ rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen test BinaxNOW to PCR testing and concluded that the rapid antigen test “is highly likely to correctly detect if people have ever contracted the v...

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Association Of Public Health Laboratories Emphasizes Importance Of COVID-19 Testing Strategies

CIDRAP (1/19, McLernon) reports, “As the United States starts off 2021 with COVID-19 vaccines as well as variants, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) reasserts the importance of strategic COVID-19 testing strategies with a report [PDF] p...

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HHS Authorizes Three Lab-Developed COVID-19 Tests, Skirting FDA’s Involvement

Bloomberg Law (1/19, Lee, Subscription Publication) reports behind a paywall, “HHS on Tuesday authorized three lab-developed Covid-19 tests in an unusual move that skirts the FDA’s traditional role to review products.” The diagnostic “tests from the Ponce...

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COVID-19 Smell Test May Provide Effective Way To Help Drive Down Transmission, Study Suggests

The New York Times (1/19, Wu) reports, “A new modeling study hints that odor-based screens could quash outbreaks” of COVID-19, “but some experts are skeptical it would work in the real world.” The proposed “test does not look for the virus itself, nor can...

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Genomic Subtype Of A Tumor May Contribute To Level Of ctDNA Shedding In Patients With Advanced NSCLC, Retrospective Study Indicates

Cancer Therapy Advisor (1/19, Bennett) reports researchers found in a retrospective study that “the genomic subtype of a tumor may contribute to the level of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) shedding in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCL...

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Study Identifies Seven Genetic Variants Tied To Increased Cirrhosis Risk

Gastroenterology Advisor (1/19, May) reports researchers have identified “seven genetic variants associated with an increased risk of cirrhosis.” They did so after conducting “a multitrait genome-wide association study...that combined cirrhosis rates and”...

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New Coronavirus Variants May Be Able To Evade Protection From Prior Infection, Vaccines, Study Suggests

CNN (1/19, Cohen) reports research indicates that “someone might be able to get infected with one of the new variants of the coronavirus even if they’ve had Covid-19 before or have been vaccinated.” Researchers “took blood from 44 people who’d had Covid-1...

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California Coronavirus Variant May Be Playing Role In State’s Virus Surge, Researchers Say

The New York Times (1/19, Zimmer) reports a coronavirus variant detected in California, known as CAL.20C, “accounted for more than half of the virus genome samples collected in Los Angeles laboratories on Jan. 13, according to a new study that has not yet...

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Researchers Examine Potential Link Between Immunosuppression And Brain Volume In People With HIV

Aunt Minnie (1/19, Moan) reports one study “of individuals with HIV used MRI to reveal that lower current CD4+ T-cell counts were associated with smaller hippocampal and thalamic volumes in the brain,” and “the subset of participants not receiving treatme...

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US COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses 400,000

CNN (1/19, Maxouris, Hanna) reports that the US “has reported at least 400,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.” Bloomberg (1/19, Gale) reports, “With more than 24 million COVID-19 infe...

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Local Health Departments See COVID-19 Testing Capacity Threatened Amid Vaccine Staffing Shortages

The Hill (1/18, Sullivan) reports local US “health departments struggling to find enough staff to carry out a massive vaccination campaign are finding that another key weapon against the coronavirus is being threatened: testing capacity.” Health officials...

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CDC Warns Of Potential COVID-19 Surge Due To More Contagious Coronavirus Variant

The New York Times (1/15, A1, Mandavilli, Rabin) reported, “Federal health officials sounded the alarm Friday about a fast spreading, far more contagious variant of the coronavirus that is projected to become the dominant source of infection in the countr...

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Researchers Turn To Identical Twins For Better Understanding Of COVID-19

The New York Times (1/18, Wu) reported, “Identical twins offer researchers a ready-made experiment to untangle the contributions of nature and nurture in driving” COVID-19. By analyzing “twin registries in the United States, Australia, Europe and elsewher...

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UK Coronavirus Variant Sweeps Across London

The Wall Street Journal (1/18, Subscription Publication) reports on the new UK variant of the coronavirus, and its effects across London. In one area in the East End, it was estimated that one out of 16 residents was infected with the virus.

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New Studies Suggest Some Coronavirus Variants May Pose Unexpected Challenges To Immune System

South Africa Variant May Evade Antibodies Taken From People Who Recovered From “Original Form” Of SARS-CoV-2

UK Scientists Say Talking May Spread SARS-CoV-2 More Than Coughing

Researchers Use Data Analytics And Conclude That Mass Immunization Is The Only True Effective Strategy For Stopping Spread Of COVID-19

President Biden Signs Executive Orders That Impact Healthcare Industry

CMS Finalizes Coverage Policy For Blood-Based Colon Cancer Screening

CDC Compares Abbott Laboratories’ Rapid Coronavirus Antigen Test To PCR Testing

Association Of Public Health Laboratories Emphasizes Importance Of COVID-19 Testing Strategies

HHS Authorizes Three Lab-Developed COVID-19 Tests, Skirting FDA’s Involvement

COVID-19 Smell Test May Provide Effective Way To Help Drive Down Transmission, Study Suggests

Genomic Subtype Of A Tumor May Contribute To Level Of ctDNA Shedding In Patients With Advanced NSCLC, Retrospective Study Indicates

Study Identifies Seven Genetic Variants Tied To Increased Cirrhosis Risk

New Coronavirus Variants May Be Able To Evade Protection From Prior Infection, Vaccines, Study Suggests

California Coronavirus Variant May Be Playing Role In State’s Virus Surge, Researchers Say

Researchers Examine Potential Link Between Immunosuppression And Brain Volume In People With HIV

US COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses 400,000

Local Health Departments See COVID-19 Testing Capacity Threatened Amid Vaccine Staffing Shortages

CDC Warns Of Potential COVID-19 Surge Due To More Contagious Coronavirus Variant

Researchers Turn To Identical Twins For Better Understanding Of COVID-19

UK Coronavirus Variant Sweeps Across London