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    The New York Times (12/31, Wu) reported on a “case of Covid-19 in a San Diego nurse who fell ill about a week after receiving his first injection of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.” While the case caused concern on social media, “experts said the sickness i...
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    CNN (1/1, Maxouris, Hanna) reported “the US surpassed 20 million total recorded COVID-19 cases on Friday, hours after the country ushered in 2021 and left behind its deadliest month of the pandemic.” The US “also has set a COVID-19 hospitalization record...
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    The New York Times (12/31, A1, Robbins, Robles, Arango) reported the coronavirus vaccination campaign in the US is “far behind schedule in its third week, raising fears about how quickly the country will be able to tame the epidemic.” Federal officials pr...
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  • Some Patients Recovering From COVID-19 Return To Hospitals Repeatedly To Seek Care Related To The Virus

    The New York Times (12/30, Belluck) reports, “Nearly a year into the pandemic, it’s clear that recovering from Covid-19’s initial onslaught can be an arduous, uneven journey.” Now, research reveals “that a significant subset of patients are having to retu...
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  • New Coronavirus Strain Has Likely Been Spreading Undetected In US, CDC Officials Say

    The Hill (12/30, Guzman) reports, “Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday said the new strain of” coronavirus “originally discovered in the United Kingdom and now reported in Colorado has likely been spreading und...
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  • Lower-Income, Densely Populated, Nonwhite Communities In Los Angeles Hardest Hit By Pandemic, Analysis Indicates

    The Los Angeles Times (12/30, campa) reports, “While all hospitals across Los Angeles County are being slammed by waves of COVID-19 patients, those in lower-income, densely populated and nonwhite communities have been hit hardest and face the greatest cha...
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  • Research Has Found COVID-19 Is Complex, Multi-System Disorder

    Newsweek (12/30, Georgiou) reports, “COVID-19 – the disease caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus – can produce a dizzying array of symptoms, affecting people in vastly different ways.” Initially, scientists “thought COVID-19 was primarily a respi...
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  • Psychiatric Events Reported Among Patients With COVID-19 Treated With Hydroxychloroquine Generally Have Not Been Seen In Patients With RA Who Use The Medication, Research Indicates

    MedPage Today (12/30, Walsh) reports that research indicates “the psychiatric events that have been reported among patients with COVID-19 treated with hydroxychloroquine generally haven’t been seen in rheumatoid arthritis [RA] patients who have used the”...
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  • Sinopharm Claims Its COVID-19 Vaccine Is 79.3% Effective

    The AP (12/30, McDonald, Wu) reports Chinese drugmaker Sinopharm “said Wednesday its coronavirus vaccine was found to be 79.3% effective at preventing infection in preliminary data from the final round of testing.” The “data release is the first official...
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  • Study Identifies Novel Association Between Brachyspira Genus And IBS

    Gastroenterology Advisor (12/30, Schad) reports researchers have identified “a novel, strong association...between the Brachyspira genus and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).” They did so after finding “potential associations between mucus-resident microbio...
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  • Colorado Confirms First Known US Case Of New UK Coronavirus Variant

    The Washington Post (12/29, Achenbach, Guarino, Stanley-Becker) says Colorado officials on Tuesday “reported the first known case in the United States of a person infected with the mutation-laden coronavirus variant that has been circulating rapidly acros...
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  • British Government Reports Highest Number Of New COVID-19 Cases Since Starting Mass Testing

    Reuters (12/29, Milliken) says, “Britain’s government reported 53,135 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the highest number since mass testing started in mid-2020 and up sharply from the previous record of 41,385 set on Monday.” The number of new COVID-19...
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    Cancer Network (12/29, Slater) reports, “A comparison of the diagnostic performance between the Afirma genomic sequencing classifier RNA test and the ThyroSeq v3 multigene genomic classifier DNA-RNA test revealed no statistically significant differences i...
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    The New York Times (12/29, Mandavilli) reports that “dozens of research papers published over the past few months found that people whose bodies were teeming with the coronavirus more often became seriously ill and more likely to die, compared with those...
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  • COVID-19 Progression May Be Predicted By Scoring System Based On 10 Parameters In CBC With Differential, Research Indicates

    Medscape (12/29, McNamara, Subscription Publication) reports, “A scoring system based on 10 parameters in a complete blood count (CBC) with differential within 3 days of hospital presentation predict those with COVID-19 who are most likely to progress to...
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  • CDC Predicts US Will Reach 400,000 Coronavirus Deaths By The Time President Trump Leaves Office

    Bloomberg (12/29, Querolo) reports that “the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now predicts the U.S. will see 400,000 coronavirus deaths by Jan. 20, when President Donald Trump is to leave office.” The US “surpassed 100,000 deaths in May, and 200...
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  • Scale Of Wuhan’s COVID-19 Outbreak May Have Been Ten Times More Severe Than Recorded, Study Suggests

    Bloomberg (12/29) reports, “The scale of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan early this year may have been nearly 10 times the recorded tally, a study conducted by China’s public health authorities indicates, leaving the city where the coronavirus first took h...
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  • Russia’s COVID-19 Death Toll Is Three Times Higher Than Previously Reported, Data Suggest

    The New York Times (12/29, Higgins) reports after “months of questions over the true scale of the coronavirus pandemic in Russia and the efficacy of a Russian-developed vaccine, the state statistical agency in Moscow has announced new figures indicating t...
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  • Over 2,900 Healthcare Workers In US Have Died From COVID-19, Analysis Says

    The Hill (12/29, Choi) reports, “More than 2,900 healthcare workers in the U.S. have died of COVID-19 during the pandemic, according to an analysis by Kaiser Health News and The Guardian.” The new analysis “highlights that its recorded fatalities are sign...
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    STAT (12/29, Cooney) reports, “Nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, the perplexing problems of Covid-19 long-haulers seem no nearer resolution – or even explanation – than when they first puzzled doctors and patients in the spring.” Fueled by “a g...
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