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Experts Say More Black People Need To Be Included In Coronavirus Vaccine Trials To Be Successful

NBC News (6/17) reports that while black people in the US “have been disproportionately devastated by COVID-19,” they are also “inadequately represented in human studies that would treat the disease that has claimed more than 116,000 lives in the United S...

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WHO Warns That Dexamethasone Should Be Reserved For Most Severe Cases Of COVID-19

Reuters (6/17, Kelland, Farge) reports the WHO welcomed the news of a trial that found dexamethasone could be an effective treatment for patients with severe COVID-19. However, Mike Ryan, head of the WHO’s emergencies program, said, “It is exceptionally i...

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WHO Halts Testing Of Hydroxychloroquine For Patients With COVID-19 In SOLIDARITY Trial

Reuters (6/17, Shields, Farge, Kelland) reports the WHO announced that it has halted testing of hydroxychloroquine in the SOLIDARITY trial, the “large multi-country trial of treatments for” patients with COVID-19, “after results from other trials showed n...

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Outpatient Use Of Azithromycin Associated With Greater Five-Year Risk For CV Death, Non-CV Death, And All-Cause Mortality Compared With Amoxicillin, Study Indicates

Healio (6/17, Buzby) reports that research indicated “outpatient use of the antibiotic azithromycin was associated with greater 5-year risk for CV death, non-CV death and all-cause mortality compared with amoxicillin.” Investigators found that “patients p...

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China Reportedly Collecting Blood Samples From Men And Boys Across The Country To Build A Large DNA Database

The New York Times (6/17, Wee) reports, “The police in China are collecting blood samples from men and boys from across the country to build a genetic map of its roughly 700 million males, giving the authorities a powerful new tool for their emerging high...

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Health Insurers May Balk At Paying For Coronavirus Antibody Tests

Reuters (6/16, Humer) reports, “U.S. health insurers may balk at covering tests that look for coronavirus antibodies in some cases, arguing that employers or the government should foot a bill expected to run into billions of dollars.” While health insurer...

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Experimental Blood Test May Improve Screening For HCC, Study Indicates

HealthDay (6/16, Preidt) reports researchers at NCI say a new blood test may improve screening for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer. The findings were published in Cell.

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Children And Teenagers May Be Only Half As Likely To Become Infected With SARS-CoV-2 As Adults Age 20 Or Older, Study Indicates

The Washington Post (6/16, Achenbach) reports researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found “children and teenagers are only half as likely to get infected with the coronavirus as adults age 20 and older, and they usually don’t d...

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Flushing A Toilet May Generate Cloud Of Aerosol Droplets That Could Spread Coronavirus Particles, Study Indicates

The New York Times (6/16, Sheikh) reports a study published in the Physics of Fluids suggests that “flushing a toilet can generate a cloud of aerosol droplets that rises nearly three feet,” and “those droplets may linger in the air long enough to be inhal...

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Brain MRI Findings Of Patients With COVID-19 Show Three Main Patterns, Research Shows

HealthImaging (6/16, O'Connor) reports, “Data establishing a connection between COVID-19 and adverse neurological symptoms continues to grow, with new research released Tuesday showing three main brain MRI patterns in patients with the disease.” In the st...

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Researchers Say Dexamethasone Can Improve Survival In Patients With COVID-19

The New York Times (6/16, A1, Mueller) reports scientists at the University of Oxford announced the steroid dexamethasone can “reduce coronavirus-related deaths, after a 6,000-patient trial in Britain showed that” the “low-cost steroid could reduce deaths...

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Trump Administration Official Offers Update On Potential Coronavirus Vaccines

The AP (6/16, Alonso-Zaldivar) reports a senior Trump Administration official said the Administration has been in talks with health insurers and that they expect coronavirus vaccines to be covered without copays. The health insurance “industry earlier mad...

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Researchers Say Large Majority Of People Infected With SARS-CoV-2 Carried Antibodies Up To 60 Days Later

Newsweek (6/16, Gander) reports researchers found most people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 “had antibodies to [the virus] for almost two months after falling sick,” but “it is unclear whether the antibodies could protect the patients from being...

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Close, In-Person Interactions For Extended Amounts Of Time Seem To Be Main Ways People Contract COVID-19

The Wall Street Journal (6/16, A1, Hernandez, Toy, McKay, Subscription Publication) reports on the ways in which people contract COVID-19. The biggest culprit is in-person interactions, close in proximity, for long periods of time, while places where peop...

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NIH Launches Centralized Nationwide Platform For Data On Patients With Coronavirus

Fox News (6/16, Rivas) reports the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “announced Monday a new ‘centralized, secure enclave’ of medical record data from coronavirus patients diagnosed nationwide.” The analytics platform “is part of a new effort called the...

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American Red Cross To Test All Blood Donors For Coronavirus Antibodies

HealthDay (6/15, Preidt) reports the American Red Cross announced it “will test all blood, platelet and plasma donations for [SARS-CoV-2] antibodies so donors can learn whether they’ve been exposed to the new coronavirus.” In a news release, Chris Hrouda,...

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Beijing Tests Tens Of Thousands Of People, Places Part Of City Under Lockdown To Contain Coronavirus Cluster

The New York Times (6/15, Buckley) reports Beijing authorities “placed a swath of the city under lockdown on Monday and tested tens of thousands of people as they rushed to contain a new coronavirus outbreak that marked an unnerving breach in China’s capi...

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Patients With Underlying Conditions Are 12 Times More Likely To Die From COVID-19, Report Indicates

The Washington Post (6/15, Sun) reports that “people with underlying medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes were hospitalized six times as often as otherwise healthy individuals infected with the novel coronavirus during the first four mont...

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African Americans More Likely Than White Americans To Say Family Member, Close Friend Died Of COVID-19, Respiratory Illness Since March, Surveys Indicate

The AP (6/15, Stafford, Fingerhut) reports, “African Americans are disproportionately likely to say a family member or close friend has died of COVID-19 or respiratory illness since March, according to a series of surveys conducted since April that lays b...

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FDA Withdraws Emergency Use Authorization For Hydroxychloroquine And Chloroquine As Treatments For Patients With COVID-19

The Washington Post (6/15, McGinley, Johnson) reports the FDA “withdrew its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine” and chloroquine as treatments for patients with COVID-19. The agency concluded it “is no longer reasonable to believe” that hyd...

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Experts Say More Black People Need To Be Included In Coronavirus Vaccine Trials To Be Successful

WHO Warns That Dexamethasone Should Be Reserved For Most Severe Cases Of COVID-19

WHO Halts Testing Of Hydroxychloroquine For Patients With COVID-19 In SOLIDARITY Trial

Outpatient Use Of Azithromycin Associated With Greater Five-Year Risk For CV Death, Non-CV Death, And All-Cause Mortality Compared With Amoxicillin, Study Indicates

China Reportedly Collecting Blood Samples From Men And Boys Across The Country To Build A Large DNA Database

Health Insurers May Balk At Paying For Coronavirus Antibody Tests

Experimental Blood Test May Improve Screening For HCC, Study Indicates

Children And Teenagers May Be Only Half As Likely To Become Infected With SARS-CoV-2 As Adults Age 20 Or Older, Study Indicates

Flushing A Toilet May Generate Cloud Of Aerosol Droplets That Could Spread Coronavirus Particles, Study Indicates

Brain MRI Findings Of Patients With COVID-19 Show Three Main Patterns, Research Shows

Researchers Say Dexamethasone Can Improve Survival In Patients With COVID-19

Trump Administration Official Offers Update On Potential Coronavirus Vaccines

Researchers Say Large Majority Of People Infected With SARS-CoV-2 Carried Antibodies Up To 60 Days Later

Close, In-Person Interactions For Extended Amounts Of Time Seem To Be Main Ways People Contract COVID-19

NIH Launches Centralized Nationwide Platform For Data On Patients With Coronavirus

American Red Cross To Test All Blood Donors For Coronavirus Antibodies

Beijing Tests Tens Of Thousands Of People, Places Part Of City Under Lockdown To Contain Coronavirus Cluster

Patients With Underlying Conditions Are 12 Times More Likely To Die From COVID-19, Report Indicates

African Americans More Likely Than White Americans To Say Family Member, Close Friend Died Of COVID-19, Respiratory Illness Since March, Surveys Indicate

FDA Withdraws Emergency Use Authorization For Hydroxychloroquine And Chloroquine As Treatments For Patients With COVID-19