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  • Researchers Identify Specific Risk Factors For CMV Reactivation In Critically Ill Patients With Sepsis

    Infectious Disease Advisor (1/5, Nye) reports researchers conducted “a multivariate analysis” and “identified specific risk factors for cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation among patients who were critically ill with sepsis.” The findings were published in...
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  • Some People May Still Test Positive For COVID-19 After Receiving Vaccines, Experts Say

    USA Today (1/5, Rodriguez) reports experts say some individuals may still test positive for COVID-19 even after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, which “require two doses per patient to be fully effective.” Furthermore, the CDC “said it...
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  • COVID-19 Testing Sites Could Face Post-Holiday Surge, Nevada Officials Say

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    Parkinson’s News Today (1/4, Figueiredo) reports, “Higher levels of neurofilament light chain (NfL) – a biomarker of nerve cell damage – inside small vesicles in the blood associate with more severe motor symptoms, particularly slow movement and rigidity,...
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    HealthDay (1/4) reports, “Smokers who swap some traditional cigarettes for the electronic kind may not be doing anything to protect their arteries, a new study hints.” The researchers investigated whether “certain biological markers of heart disease risk...
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  • US Records 350,000 COVID-19 Deaths As Vaccine Roll Out Efforts Continue

    CIDRAP (1/4, Soucheray) reports, “Over the New Year weekend, the United States reported that 350,000 Americans had died from the novel coronavirus – a grim milestone as state leaders and officials from Operation Warp Speed continue to try to roll out mill...
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  • US Records More Than 18,400 COVID-19 Deaths In Last Week

    Reuters (1/4, Shumaker) reports, “December was the deadliest month of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States with nearly 78,000 deaths, and health officials warned that even more people will likely die in January despite the rollout of vaccines.” D...
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  • Researchers Examine Brain Injuries Of Patients With COVID-19

    Diagnostic Imaging (1/4, Palmer) reports researchers from the National Institutes of Health indicate that neurological responses to COVID-19 “are a result of the body’s inflammatory response to the virus rather than the virus actually making its way into...
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  • Pregnant Patients With Rheumatic Disease Have Similar COVID-19 Prevalence And Disease Severity As Those Who Are Not Pregnant, Study Indicates

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  • Beta-Coronaviruses Exploit Lysosomal Organelles For Egress, Study Indicates

    Infectious Disease Advisor (1/4, van Paridon) reports researchers found “β-coronaviruses exploit lysosomal organelles for egress.” The findings were published in Cell.
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  • Three Healthcare Groups Ask Federal Government To Suspend Penalties For Healthcare-Associated Infections During The COVID-19 Pandemic

    CIDRAP (1/4, Dall) reports the presidents of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), and the Society of Infectious Disease Pharmacists (SIDP) wrote a letter...
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    CIDRAP (1/4, Van Beusekom) reports researchers found “older age, male sex, and physical and cognitive impairments were linked to higher death rates from any cause in 5,256 residents at 351 US nursing homes.” The findings were published in JAMA Internal Me...
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    The Minneapolis Star Tribune (1/3, Carlson) reports saliva testing for COVID-19 “is poised to expand in 2021 in Minnesota.” Beginning “this month, the Minnesota Department of Health is eliminating nasal-swab testing at its 20 ‘barrier-free’ COVID-19 testi...
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    The Los Angeles Times (1/3, Wigglesworth) reports “the coronavirus testing site at Dodger Stadium will reopen Monday after being closed over the weekend for restructuring in a bid to cut down on traffic, which has drawn complaints from neighborhood reside...
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  • UK Coronavirus Variant Is More Transmissible And Appears To Affect A Higher Proportion Of People Under 20, Report Says

    Bloomberg (12/31, Fourcade) reported, “The new coronavirus variant that emerged in the U.K. is more transmissible and appears to affect a higher proportion of people under 20, according to a report from Imperial College London and other science groups.” T...
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    The New York Times (12/31, Mandavilli) reported the more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 that was first identified in the UK is now spreading in the US. In the UK, “the new variant became the predominant form of the coronavirus in just three months, acce...
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  • CDC Hopes To More Than Double Number Of Coronavirus Genomes Sequenced For New Mutations, Official Says

    CNN (1/3, Cohen) reports the US CDC “hopes to more than double the number of coronavirus genomes sequenced to watch for new mutations in the US over the next two weeks, a top official said Sunday.” Currently, the agency is “sequencing about 3,000 samples...
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    The New York Times (1/2, Rabin) reported some COVID-19 survivors continue to suffer from a loss of smell and taste months after otherwise recovering from the illness. While many patients with COVID-19 experience a loss of smell and taste, “most regain the...
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