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  • Coronavirus Test Positivity Rate In Texas Reaches 24%

    Newsweek (8/13, Osborne) reports the coronavirus “test positivity rate in” Texas is now at 24%. In addition, Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, “says the state is currently missing around 90 percent of cases.”
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  • Scientists Identify New Kind Of Taste Cell In Mice

    Newsweek (8/13, Gander) reports scientists “identified a new type of taste cell in mice that, unlike others, can respond to a range of stimuli: bitter, sweet and umami.” The findings were published in PLOS Genetics.
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  • Operation Warp Speed Recruits Scientists From Other Countries To Help Test Coronavirus Vaccine Candidates

    Reuters (8/13, Taylor) reports Operation Warp Speed “is recruiting scientists in South Africa and Latin America to help test possible vaccines in U.S.- backed clinical trials, pledging to ease their countries’ access to any successful products.” Scientist...
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  • Researchers Compare Impact Of 1918 Flu Pandemic And Current Coronavirus Pandemic On New York City

    The New York Times (8/13, Mandavilli) reports on the similarities and differences between the 1918 flu pandemic and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic for New York City. The New York Times adds, “By some measures, the toll of the Covid-19 surge in New York...
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  • Intensive Contact Tracing Could Be Saving Lives Among White Mountain Apache Tribe Members, Epidemiologists Say

    The New York Times (8/13, A1, Kolata, Amaya) reports “the coronavirus is raging through the White Mountain Apache tribe. Spread across a large reservation in eastern Arizona, the Apaches have been infected at more than 10 times the rate of people in the s...
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  • Healthcare Providers To Start Flu Vaccinations Early

    Reuters (8/13, O'Donnell) reports healthcare providers are starting “flu vaccinations early, ordering extra shots and aiming to add tests that check for both the annual flu and COVID-19.” Reuters adds, “Flu vaccination for the fall has taken on increased...
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  • Coronavirus Pandemic Is Having A Significant Impact On Americans’ Mental Health, CDC Survey Says

    USA Today (8/13, Dastagir) reports the coronavirus pandemic “is having a significant impact on Americans’ mental health, according to a new survey (8/13)” from the CDC. The CDC survey “found elevated levels of symptoms of anxiety and depressive disorders,...
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  • Current and Historical Trends in Diversity by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex Within the US Pathology Physician Workforce

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  • Massive COVID-19 Testing: 30 Million Tests/Week

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  • Efforts To Expand Rapid Coronavirus Testing Face Challenge Of Relatively Few Machines To Run The Tests

    The Wall Street Journal (8/12, Krouse, Terlep, Subscription Publication) reports federal officials and healthcare providers are trying to expand rapid coronavirus testing, but there is a relative shortage of the machines needed to process the tests.
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  • Researchers Use Genetic Analyses To Identify Gene Mutations Linked To Stillbirth

    HealthDay (8/12, Reinberg) reports investigators “used genetic analyses to identify gene mutations that are linked to stillbirth,” identifying “the likely genetic causes in about one of every 10 cases of stillbirth studied.” After sequencing “genes from 2...
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  • Certain Amino Acids Found In Blood, CSF May Be Biomarkers Of Parkinson’s, Systematic Review Suggests

    Parkinson’s News Today (8/12, Carvalho) reports, “Certain amino acids...found in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid [CSF] may be valuable biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease,” investigators concluded in a systematic review and meta-analysis that revealed tha...
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  • Researchers Say HPV Is More Prevalent In Adults With More Than Five Lifetime Sexual Partners

    Infectious Disease Advisor (8/12, Gupta) reports researchers found “among sexually experienced adults, prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection was primarily reflective of higher number of lifetime sexual partners, specifically >5 lifetime sexua...
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  • Syndromic Testing With FilmArray ME Panel In Children With CNS Infection May Reduce Duration Of Antibacterial And Antiviral Use, Length Of Hospital Stay, And Total Cost Of Hospitalization, Study Indicates

    Infectious Disease Advisor (8/12, Gupta) reports, “Syndromic testing with the FilmArray® meningitis/encephalitis (ME) panel (BioFire Diagnostics, bioMérieux) in children with central nervous system (CNS) infection was found to significantly reduce the dur...
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  • Man Dies From Bubonic Plague In Mongolia

    Newsweek (8/12, Georgiou) reports a 42-year-old man from Mongolia’s Khovd Province died from bubonic plague “on Tuesday after coming into contact with dead marmots, according to local health officials.” There have been four confirmed cases of bubonic plag...
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  • Contact Tracers Struggling In US

    Bloomberg (8/12, Holder) reports on the struggles of contact tracers attempting to reach people who have tested positive for COVID-19. Public health experts say contact tracing is “critical to quelling infections.” However, in the US, contact tracing face...
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  • Experts Say More Must Be Done Now To Stop Growing Threat Of Superbugs

    Kevin Outterson, founder and executive director of CARB-X, and John Rex, chief medical officer at F2G Limited, write in an opinion piece for STAT (8/12) that scientists have predicted a future “infectious disease crisis” caused by antibiotic-resistant bac...
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  • Healthcare Workers Who Test Positive For SARS-CoV-2 Reportedly Feel Pressure To Return To Work Sooner Than Public Health Officials Say

    Kaiser Health News (8/12, Huetteman) reports public health officials have said that people who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 should stay home and not go to work, but healthcare workers who test positive for the virus are often pressured to return to work....
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  • ASCP, Other Groups Urge Trump Administration To Update, Reprioritize Coronavirus Testing Guidelines

    Healthcare Finance News (8/11, Hackett) reports US coronavirus “testing shortages continue along with gaps in the supply chain for reagents, swabs, plastics, viral transport media and personal protection equipment,” according to a letter signed by the Ame...
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  • Alphabet’s Verily Establishes Lab To Create More COVID-19 Testing Capacity

    CNBC (8/11, Farr) reports, “Alphabet’s health and life sciences company Verily has developed its own lab focused on coronavirus tests.” Verily “shared in a blog post on Tuesday that it established the lab in South San Francisco, where it’s headquartered”...
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