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  • Malaria Control Over Past Two Decades Has Plateaued, WHO Report Finds

    CIDRAP (12/1, McLernon) reports, “Despite great strides to eliminate malaria over the past two decades, control of the disease in recent years has plateaued,” according to the World Health Organization’s 299-page “World Malaria Report 2020: 20 years of gl...
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  • CDC Panel Says Healthcare Workers, Long-Term Care Residents Should Be First To Receive Coronavirus Vaccines

    The New York Times (12/1, Goodnough) reports that “an independent panel advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Tuesday to recommend that residents and employees of nursing homes and similar facilities be the first people in the Unit...
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  • CDC To Release Guidelines Reducing Quarantine Time Following COVID-19 Exposure

    CNN (12/1, Diamond) reports CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield “informed Vice President Mike Pence and White House Coronavirus Task Force members on Tuesday that the CDC will soon issue new guidelines reducing the number of days close contacts should quaran...
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  • GAO Report: Half Of US States, Territories Expect Further Shortages In Rapid COVID-19 Tests During Next Two Months

    ABC News (11/30, Haslett) reports, “Rapid tests and reagents – the medical devices used to process COVID-19 tests – are in short supply as the U.S. heads deeper into the winter months, according to a survey of 47 states and territories conducted by the no...
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  • California Public Health Officials Recommend COVID-19 Tests For All Hospital Staff, Patients

    Modern Healthcare (11/30, Christ, Subscription Publication) reports, “The California Department of Public Health last week recommended that all general acute-care hospitals in the state test healthcare staff weekly and test and monitor all patients being...
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  • COVID-19 Test Without Swab Found To Be Highly Effective, British Government Says

    Reuters (11/30, Shirbon) reports, “A type of COVID-19 test that can be taken without the need for a nose or throat swab has been found to be highly effective in identifying infectious cases, including for people not showing symptoms, the British governmen...
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  • Artificial Intelligence Researchers At DeepMind Claim They Have Solved “Protein Folding Problem”

    The New York Times (11/30, Metz) reports that artificial intelligence “researchers at [Google-owned] DeepMind say they have solved ‘the protein folding problem,’ a task that has bedeviled scientists for more than 50 years.” The team at DeepMind “said on M...
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  • Black Children Disproportionately Affected By MIS-C, Study Finds

    CIDRAP (11/30, Van Beusekom) reports, “A study of 223 patients younger than 20 years hospitalized with the rare but serious COVID-19–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in New York City found that black children were disproportio...
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  • Campaign Aims To Vaccinate Children Across Yemen After Polio Outbreak

    Reuters (11/30, Barrington) reports, “As the world focussed on COVID-19 this year, the United Nations in August declared an outbreak” of polio in Yemen. According to the story, “a three-day campaign finishing Monday run by the World Health Organisation an...
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  • Health Officials Said To Be Bracing For Another Post-Holiday COVID-19 Surge

    CIDRAP (11/30, Schnirring) reports, “Despite case-reporting lulls over the long holiday weekend, the number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 continues a record-breaking rise, with no let-up in the pace of deaths. ... With the Thanksgiving holiday n...
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  • COVID-Related Nursing, Staffing Shortages Hit Hospitals Nationwide

    CIDRAP (11/30, McLernon) reports, “COVID-19–related shortages of personal protective equipment and drugs continue to plague the US healthcare system, but now in the third US pandemic wave, nursing and other staffing shortages are sweeping the country.”
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  • Pandemic Reveals Shortcomings Of Diagnostic Tests’ Limited Role In Addressing Disease

    The Washington Post (11/27, Ganguli) reported that “for many Americans, including physicians...the pandemic has forced difficult conversations about the limits of medical tests. It has also revealed the catastrophic harms of failing to recognize those lim...
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  • FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization For COVID-19 Antibody Test

    CNN (11/25, Howard) reported that the FDA “issued an emergency use authorization for Kantaro Bioscience’s COVID-19 antibody test kit, the group announced on Wednesday.” This “newly authorized antibody test, called COVID-SeroKlir, identifies and measures p...
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  • Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp COVID-19 Tests Taking Several Days To Complete

    USA Today (11/26, Alltucker) reported, “Amid a record demand for testing ahead of the Thanksgiving weekend, Quest Diagnostics said this week that it’s taking up to three days to complete a test after receiving a sample.” Additionally, “LabCorp, another la...
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  • Decreased Testing For HIV, Tuberculosis In Eastern Europe, Central Asia Amid Coronavirus Pandemic Could Lead To Higher Mortality Rates, Expert Says

    Reuters (11/25, Tétrault-Farber) reported, “Testing for HIV and tuberculosis has fallen in Eastern Europe and Central Asia during the coronavirus pandemic and could lead to higher mortality rates, a U.N. special envoy for AIDS said on Wednesday.”
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  • Detection Rates For Advanced Adenomas, CRC Superior With Three Cumulative Rounds Of Biennial FIT Versus Once-Only Sigmoidoscopy, Trial Shows

    MedPage Today (11/25, Swift) reported, “Detection rates for advanced adenomas and colorectal cancer (CRC) were superior with three cumulative rounds of biennial fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) versus once-only sigmoidoscopy, baseline results from a ran...
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  • SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Appear To Be Neutral, Study Finds

    CNN (11/25, Fox) reported, “A giant study of more than 12,000 mutations in the novel coronavirus finds none of them has made a big difference in how easily it infects people, researchers reported Wednesday.” The mutations were “found in more than 46,000 s...
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  • Researchers Warn Virus Mutations Could Complicate Vaccination Efforts

    The New York Times (11/27, Gorman, Zimmer) reports the coronavirus “is not a shape shifter like the flu virus, but it could become vaccine resistant over time. That prompts researchers to urge vigilance.” The Times adds scientists “say that caution in thi...
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  • Less Than 10% Of Americans Had Evidence Of Previous Coronavirus Infection By September, Seroprevalence Studies Find

    CIDRAP (11/25, Dall) reported, “Large-scale seroprevalence studies conducted over the summer show that, through September, less than 1 in 10 of Americans had evidence of previous coronavirus infection, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and...
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  • Hydroxychloroquine, Convalescent Plasma Do Not Prevent Infection Of COVID-19 Or Lead To Clinical Improvement, Studies Find

    CIDRAP (11/25, Van Beusekom) reported that two studies published “in the New England Journal of Medicine found that two once-promising but largely discredited COVID-19 treatments – hydroxychloroquine and convalescent plasma – didn’t prevent infection or l...
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