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More Than 1,300 People Test Positive For Coronavirus From Texas Child Care Facilities

CNN (7/6, Spells, Jones) reports, “As parents nationwide wonder if it’s safe to send kids back to day care, Texas is grappling with a surge of [COVID-19] cases from child care centers.” In Texas, “at least 1,335 people have tested positive from child care...

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Restrictions On COVID-19 Testing Led To Large Hospital Bills For Some Patients

NPR (7/6, Appleby) reports that “while most insurers have promised to cover the costs of” COVID-19 “testing and related services – and Congress passed legislation in mid-March enshrining that requirement – there’s a catch.” Specifically, the law “requires...

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Study Shows Biennial Fecal Occult Blood Test For CRC Reduces Mortality

Healio (7/6, Young) reports research published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology showed “a sustained reduction in mortality among individuals who complied with biennial fecal occult blood test screening for colorectal cancer [CRC].” According to...

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Some Health Systems, Physicians Dropping African American-Specific Modifier For eGFR

Medscape (7/6, Zoler, Subscription Publication) reports, “A small number of US health systems, as well as some individual physicians, have begun dropping the African American-specific modifier when recording estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), a...

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US COVID-19 Deaths Top 130,000 As States Report Daily Records Of New Cases

Reuters (7/6, Shumaker, Fagenson) reports, “Miami-Dade, Florida’s most populous county, became the latest U.S. coronavirus hotspot to roll back its reopening on Monday, shutting down on-site dining at restaurants, as cases surge nationwide by the tens of...

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Efforts To Understand Coronavirus Impact On Mothers, Babies Has Been “Agonizingly Slow”

ProPublica (7/6, Martin) reports, “The U.S. public health system’s efforts to understand the impact of the coronavirus in mothers and babies have been flat-footed, scattershot and agonizingly slow.” In order “to track the coronavirus in pregnant women and...

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Some Hospitals Struggling To Contain Coronavirus Spread As They Care For Patients

The Wall Street Journal (7/6, A1, Gold, Evans, Subscription Publication) reports that as hospitals care for patients with coronavirus, they often end up being a place where the virus can spread, despite efforts to contain it. The Journal says that this ca...

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FDA Issues Warning About Five Additional Brands Of Hand Sanitizer

CBS News (7/6, Picchi) reports that according to a new warning from the FDA, “consumers should avoid five additional brands of hand sanitizer that tested positive for methanol, a substance that can be toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested.” The...

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US Coronavirus Testing Still Falls Short Of What Experts Say Is Needed To Safely Reopen

USA Today (7/2, King) reported, “An average of 550,000 COVID-19 tests are conducted every day nationwide – a significant increase from the roughly 300,000 processed in May but far short of the nearly 1 million experts say are needed to ensure a safe reope...

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Nearly 25 Percent Of Houston Residents Test Positive For COVID-19, Data Indicate

Newsweek (7/3, Czachor) reported, “Houston’s Health Department reported Friday that nearly 1 in 4 residents are now testing positive for the novel coronavirus, as Texas sees an ongoing surge in new cases and subsequent hospitalizations related to the resp...

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Comprehensive ctDNA Analysis May Aid Detection Of Targetable Mutations In Patients With Advanced NSCLC, Study Indicates

Cancer Network (7/2, Slater) reported researchers conducted “a large-scale assessment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)” and “found that comprehensive ctDNA analysis detected the presence of therapeutically targetable driver and...

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Coronavirus Mutation May Make Virus More Likely To Infect Others, But Doesn’t Appear To Make People More Sick Than Earlier Variations, Research Suggests

The New York Times (7/2, Carey) reported, “For months, scientists have debated whether a variant of the coronavirus that has come to predominate in much of the world did so partly because it is more transmissible than other viruses.” A “new report, posted...

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As Coronavirus Cases Continue To Rise In US, Deaths Appear To Be Down

The New York Times (7/3, Wu) reported, “After a minor late-spring lull, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States is once again on the rise,” but “the virus appears to be killing fewer of the people it infects.” Generally, “experts se...

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Even As Total COVID-19 Cases Surge, More Patients On Ventilators Are Surviving

The Washington Post (7/3, Bernstein) reported that an increasing number of COVID-19 patients “are surviving after they are placed on mechanical ventilators, a last-resort measure that was perceived as a signal of impending death during the terrifying earl...

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People With HIV Hospitalized With COVID-19 May Not Have Worse Results Than People With COVID-19 Who Did Not Have HIV, Study Indicates

HealthDay (7/3, Preidt) reported researchers found “people with HIV who were hospitalized with COVID-19 didn’t have worse results than” people with COVID-19 who did not have HIV. The findings were published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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Respiratory Viral Coinfection May Be More Common In Children Than Adults, Study Indicates

Infectious Disease Advisor (7/3, Gupta) reported researchers found “compared with adults, respiratory viral coinfection occurs substantially more frequently in children, especially in children aged <5 years.” The findings were published in Clinical Microb...

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Group Of 239 Experts Asks WHO To Revise Recommendations Based On Evidence They Say Shows Coronavirus Lingers In Air Indoors

The New York Times (7/4, Mandavilli) reported, “The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide, in bars and restaurants, offices, markets and casinos, giving rise to frightening clusters of infection that increasingly confirm what many scientists have b...

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More People Have Died Of Non-COVID-19 Causes Than Would Be Expected In A Typical Year, Analyses Indicate

The Washington Post (7/2, Thebault, Bernstein, Tran, Shin) reported, “The coronavirus killed tens of thousands in the United States during the pandemic’s first months, but it also left a lesser-known toll: thousands more deaths than would have been expect...

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Giroir Says Coronavirus Testing Capacity At Risk As Virus Surges In Some States

NBC News (7/1, Edwards) reports, “A day after Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, warned that the United States could soar to 100,000 daily new cases, a top federal health official admitted that labs across the country were scr...

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US May Adopt Pooled Testing To Track COVID-19

The New York Times (7/1, Mandavilli) reports the Administration may adopt pooled testing in order to “vastly increase the number of coronavirus tests performed in the United States and permit widespread tracking of the virus.” Pooled testing would also “e...

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More Than 1,300 People Test Positive For Coronavirus From Texas Child Care Facilities

Restrictions On COVID-19 Testing Led To Large Hospital Bills For Some Patients

Study Shows Biennial Fecal Occult Blood Test For CRC Reduces Mortality

Some Health Systems, Physicians Dropping African American-Specific Modifier For eGFR

US COVID-19 Deaths Top 130,000 As States Report Daily Records Of New Cases

Efforts To Understand Coronavirus Impact On Mothers, Babies Has Been “Agonizingly Slow”

Some Hospitals Struggling To Contain Coronavirus Spread As They Care For Patients

FDA Issues Warning About Five Additional Brands Of Hand Sanitizer

US Coronavirus Testing Still Falls Short Of What Experts Say Is Needed To Safely Reopen

Nearly 25 Percent Of Houston Residents Test Positive For COVID-19, Data Indicate

Comprehensive ctDNA Analysis May Aid Detection Of Targetable Mutations In Patients With Advanced NSCLC, Study Indicates

Coronavirus Mutation May Make Virus More Likely To Infect Others, But Doesn’t Appear To Make People More Sick Than Earlier Variations, Research Suggests

As Coronavirus Cases Continue To Rise In US, Deaths Appear To Be Down

Even As Total COVID-19 Cases Surge, More Patients On Ventilators Are Surviving

People With HIV Hospitalized With COVID-19 May Not Have Worse Results Than People With COVID-19 Who Did Not Have HIV, Study Indicates

Respiratory Viral Coinfection May Be More Common In Children Than Adults, Study Indicates

Group Of 239 Experts Asks WHO To Revise Recommendations Based On Evidence They Say Shows Coronavirus Lingers In Air Indoors

More People Have Died Of Non-COVID-19 Causes Than Would Be Expected In A Typical Year, Analyses Indicate

Giroir Says Coronavirus Testing Capacity At Risk As Virus Surges In Some States

US May Adopt Pooled Testing To Track COVID-19