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Across Sun Belt, Surging Coronavirus Cases Spark Unprecedented Testing Demand

The Washington Post (7/1, A1, Weiner) reports, “Surging cases of the coronavirus across the Sun Belt are sparking unprecedented demand for testing, with lines stretching miles in the summer heat, supplies running out and medical workers left exhausted.” I...

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New York Governor Announces All New Yorkers May Be Tested For COVID-19

Reuters (7/1, Allen) reports New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) “expanded coronavirus testing criteria to include all New Yorkers on Wednesday.” Cuomo said, “We are now opening testing to all New Yorkers,” and added, “We have that much capacity.”

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Kroger’s Coronavirus Home Test Kit Approved By FDA

Reuters (7/1, Maddipatla) reports Kroger’s healthcare unit said Wednesday that the FDA has approved the use of its “at-home sample collection kit for Covid-19” under an emergency authorization. “The kits will be available to frontline workers across its b...

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Health Officials In Austin-Travis County Ask People With Insurance To Seek Alternative COVID-19 Tests

The Austin (TX) American Statesman (7/1, Bradshaw, Subscription Publication) reports, “Austin-Travis County health officials are asking people who have insurance to seek alternative coronavirus testing resources to free up tests for people without doctors...

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Specialist Explains How Golfer’s Negative Test Following Positive Test Does Not Indicate Problems With Test

CNBC (7/1, Kim) reports, “Professional U.S. golfer Cameron Champ immediately withdrew from the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship last Tuesday” following a positive test for COVID-19, but “five days later, he said he tested negative – three times – raising...

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Coronavirus May Infect Human Heart, Brain Cells, Lab Experiments Indicate

Newsweek (7/1, Gander) reports, “The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has been found to infect human heart and brain cells in lab experiments.” Specifically, “In one paper published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine,” researchers found “SARS-CoV-2 was...

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Autopsy Studies Indicate COVID-19 Attacks Various Parts Of The Body

The Washington Post (7/1, A1, Cha) reports, “Autopsies have long been a source of breakthroughs in understanding new diseases, from HIV/AIDS and Ebola, to Lassa fever – and the medical community is counting on them to do the same for [COVID-19], the disea...

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Small Study Shows Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Triggers Immune Response

The Washington Post (7/1, Johnson) reports according to a small study, a COVID-19 vaccine that is the joint work of Pfizer and BioNTech “triggered stronger immune responses in recipients than those seen in people recovering from a natural infection.” In r...

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Challenge Trials For Coronavirus Vaccine Spark Debate Among Researchers

The New York Times (7/1, Grady) reports, “One way to quickly see if a coronavirus vaccine works would be to immunize healthy people and then deliberately expose them to the virus, some researchers are suggesting.” Some “proponents say this strategy, calle...

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Blood Test May Predict Which Patients With COVID-19 Likely Need Ventilator, Study Suggests

HealthDay (7/1, Reinberg) reports, “A blood test may predict which COVID-19 patients are likely to need a ventilator,” according to a recent study. The researchers “found that blood levels of a certain cytokine are predictive of the course of COVID-19.” T...

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Some Patients With Coronavirus Continue To Face Residual Symptoms That May Persist Months, Years

The New York Times (7/1, Belluck) reports, “Hundreds of thousands of seriously ill coronavirus patients who survive and leave the hospital are facing a new and difficult challenge: recovery.” Some “are struggling to overcome a range of troubling residual...

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Study Suggests That Americans Who Stayed Home Before Ordered To Do So May Have Saved Lives

CNN (7/1, Mascarenhas, Lamotte) reports a recent study found that Americans “who decided to self-isolate before” being “required to by state or local mandate” saved lives. The study, published Monday in the journal The Lancet: Infectious Diseases “used mo...

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Consultancy Helping Hospitals Use Physicians’ Notes To Better Track COVID-19 Spread

Modern Healthcare (7/1, Bannow, Subscription Publication) reports that hundreds of hospitals “are gearing up to use doctor’s notes about patient symptoms to better track COVID-19’s prevalence in their communities.” Providers “routinely enter so-called uns...

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Coronavirus Cases Jumped By Almost 50% Last Month As States Began To Reopen

The Washington Post (7/1, Gearan, Hawkins, O'Grady) reports that coronavirus infections in the US “surged nearly 50 percent in June as states relaxed quarantine rules and tried to reopen their economies, data compiled Wednesday showed, and several states...

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Coronavirus Cases At US Veterans Hospitals Tripled In June From The Month Before

Newsweek (7/1, Kirk) reports that the cases of new coronavirus patients “being treated at veterans hospitals and health care facilities tripled last month, according to a story in the Military Times.” The Department of Veteran Affairs “reported that it tr...

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COVID-19 Cases In Texas Child Care Centers Are Rising Quickly, Data Show

The Texas Tribune (7/1, Oxner) reports, “Although COVID-19 transmission rates nationwide among children have appeared to remain relatively low, more than 300 children at Texas child care centers have tested positive, and the numbers are rising quickly.” A...

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Epidemiologists Expected COVID-19 Surge Following Protests, But Have Not Seen It Yet

The New York Times (7/1, Goldstein) reports that in the wake of protests following the killing of George Floyd, “tens of thousands of New Yorkers poured into the streets,” and “epidemiologists braced for a surge of new coronavirus cases.” But, the day bef...

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Total COVID-19 Deaths In US Likely Higher Than Official Count, Study Suggests

Reuters (7/1, Beasley) reports, “The number of Americans who died from COVID-19 in March through May was likely significantly higher than the official U.S. count due in part to state-level reporting discrepancies, according to a study published on Wednesd...

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Gallup Finds Growing Concern About Hospital Supplies, COVID-19 Tests

The Hill (7/1, Budryk) reports a Gallup poll of 3,454 US adults conducted June 22 to June 28 shows 44 percent of those polled “are either moderately or very worried about access to hospital supplies, treatment or services in their area,” and 39 percent sa...

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Some Countries In Europe And Asia Say They Have Sufficient Supplies Of Remdesivir Despite US Deal With Gilead

Reuters (7/1, Cha, Rinke, Smout) reports, “Some governments in Europe and Asia said on Wednesday they have enough of Gilead’s COVID-19 anti-viral remdesivir for now despite fears of shortages” after the US purchased “all of Gilead’s projected production f...

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Across Sun Belt, Surging Coronavirus Cases Spark Unprecedented Testing Demand

New York Governor Announces All New Yorkers May Be Tested For COVID-19

Kroger’s Coronavirus Home Test Kit Approved By FDA

Health Officials In Austin-Travis County Ask People With Insurance To Seek Alternative COVID-19 Tests

Specialist Explains How Golfer’s Negative Test Following Positive Test Does Not Indicate Problems With Test

Coronavirus May Infect Human Heart, Brain Cells, Lab Experiments Indicate

Autopsy Studies Indicate COVID-19 Attacks Various Parts Of The Body

Small Study Shows Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Triggers Immune Response

Challenge Trials For Coronavirus Vaccine Spark Debate Among Researchers

Blood Test May Predict Which Patients With COVID-19 Likely Need Ventilator, Study Suggests

Some Patients With Coronavirus Continue To Face Residual Symptoms That May Persist Months, Years

Study Suggests That Americans Who Stayed Home Before Ordered To Do So May Have Saved Lives

Consultancy Helping Hospitals Use Physicians’ Notes To Better Track COVID-19 Spread

Coronavirus Cases Jumped By Almost 50% Last Month As States Began To Reopen

Coronavirus Cases At US Veterans Hospitals Tripled In June From The Month Before

COVID-19 Cases In Texas Child Care Centers Are Rising Quickly, Data Show

Epidemiologists Expected COVID-19 Surge Following Protests, But Have Not Seen It Yet

Total COVID-19 Deaths In US Likely Higher Than Official Count, Study Suggests

Gallup Finds Growing Concern About Hospital Supplies, COVID-19 Tests

Some Countries In Europe And Asia Say They Have Sufficient Supplies Of Remdesivir Despite US Deal With Gilead