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Beta-Cell Function May Enter A Period Of Rapid Decline Around Six Months Before People Meet The Diagnostic Threshold For T1D, Study Indicates

Medwire News (5/29, McDermid) reported, “Beta-cell function enters a period of rapid decline around six months before people meet the diagnostic threshold for type 1 diabetes [T1D],” investigators found in a study that included 80 participants who “were f...

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SARS-CoV-2 May Have Infected Bats, Pangolins, And An Unknown Third Species Before Infecting Humans, Study Suggests

CNN (5/29, Fox) reported a study published in Science Advances suggests SARS-CoV-2 “spent some time infecting both bats and pangolins before it jumped into humans.” However, the researchers also said that there is evidence the virus may have also infected...

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Some High Altitude Populations Have Low Coronavirus Contagion Rate, Prompting Researchers To Investigate Potential Connection Between Altitude And The Virus

The Washington Post (5/31, Tegel) reports the coronavirus contagion rate in the Cusco region of Peru “is more than 80 percent below the national average,” and “the relative dearth of cases and deaths in the internationally connected but high-elevation reg...

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Among Patients With COVID-19 And Diabetes, One In 10 Died Within Week Of Hospitalization, Study Shows

CNN (5/29, Erdman) reported, “One in 10 coronavirus patients with diabetes died within the first seven days of hospitalization, and one in five needed a ventilator to breathe, according to a new study by French researchers” published in Diabetologia. The...

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Toll Of COVID-19 On Healthcare Workers May Be Underestimated By CDC, Experts Say

Modern Healthcare (5/29, Johnson, Subscription Publication) reported, “Experts fear the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s surveillance of COVID-19 cases and deaths among healthcare workers are under-counting the impact on the front lines, which...

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CDC Issues Updated Guidance On How To Reduce Coronavirus Transmission In Offices And Houses Of Worship

CIDRAP (5/29, Soucheray) reported the CDC issued updated guidance on reducing the transmission of coronavirus in offices and houses of worship. The agency’s “workplace recommendations are exhaustive, and include employee temperature checks, desks spaced 6...

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Large Coronavirus Testing Study Finds 95% Of Positive Coronavirus Test Results Were Latinx

STAT (5/28, McFarling) reports on the efforts of Diane Havlir, “who runs the HIV/AIDS division at the University of California, San Francisco,” to conduct “one of the largest coronavirus testing studies in the nation.” Even though “Havlir expected to see...

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Wastewater Testing For Coronavirus Reportedly Gaining Traction

STAT (5/28, Begley) reports the notion of testing wastewater for coronavirus to assess how widespread the virus is in the surrounding areas is gaining traction. Researchers in the US, the Netherlands, and elsewhere have conducted successful proof-of-conce...

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FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization To Quest Diagnostics Self-Collection Coronavirus Test Kit

Reuters (5/28, Roy) reports the FDA granted emergency use authorization to Quest Diagnostics’ self-collection SARS-CoV-2 test kit. Quest “plans to make the self-collection kits available for healthcare providers and employers for return-to-work testing pr...

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Many People With Autism Do Not Receive Two Forms Of Genetic Testing Recommended By Experts, Study Indicates

HealthDay (5/28, Preidt) reports researchers found that many people with autism do not receive two forms of genetic testing recommended by experts: chromosomal microarray testing and Fragile X testing. The researchers found that among 1,280 people with au...

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Scientists Say Different Kinds Of Tumors Have Distinct Microbiomes

STAT (5/28, Cooney) reports “scientists have discovered distinct populations of microbes living inside different types of tumors: In other words, breast and brain and pancreatic tumors have their own characteristic microbiomes,” according to a study publi...

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Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 Found To Have Blood Plasma Viscosity 95 Percent Higher Than Normal, Small Study Demonstrates

Newsweek (5/28, Gander) reports, “The blood of some patients with COVID-19 is thicker than normal,” according to results of a small study published in The Lancet. In the study, “all of the patients were given drugs to prevent blood clots, but the viscosit...

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African-American Coronavirus Victims Found To Have Lungs Clogged With Blood Clots, Study Shows

CNN (5/27, Fox) reports, “Careful autopsies of 10 African-American victims of coronavirus show their lungs were clogged with blood clots, researchers reported Wednesday.” Each of the “10 patients had underlying conditions that have been shown to worsen in...

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Two Studies Indicate That Patients With Cancer Have Higher Mortality Rate From COVID-19 Than Others

The Wall Street Journal (5/28, Toy, Subscription Publication) reports researchers found people with cancer who develop COVID-19 are more likely to die from it than others. The AP (5/28, Marchione) reports on two studies that concluded people with cancer w...

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AJCP: Placental Pathology in COVID-19

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AJCP: COVID-19 Autopsies, Oklahoma, USA

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Laboratory Medicine: 3D-Printing to Address COVID-19 Testing Supply Shortages

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Laboratory Medicine Blog: Review: Blood Supplies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Questions About Antibody Test Accuracy May Add More Uncertainty To Coronavirus Pandemic

TIME (5/27) reports, “More than 100 antibody tests are currently available in the U.S.” After “serious questions emerged in early May about the accuracy of these tests and the usefulness of their results, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said i...

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Public COVID-19 Testing Sites In Texas Are Located Disproportionately In White Neighborhoods, Investigation Finds

NPR (5/27, Adeline) reports that the outlet “investigated the location of public testing sites in Texas, one of the first states to reopen, to see how they were distributed between predominantly white and predominantly minority areas” and “found that in f...

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Beta-Cell Function May Enter A Period Of Rapid Decline Around Six Months Before People Meet The Diagnostic Threshold For T1D, Study Indicates

SARS-CoV-2 May Have Infected Bats, Pangolins, And An Unknown Third Species Before Infecting Humans, Study Suggests

Some High Altitude Populations Have Low Coronavirus Contagion Rate, Prompting Researchers To Investigate Potential Connection Between Altitude And The Virus

Among Patients With COVID-19 And Diabetes, One In 10 Died Within Week Of Hospitalization, Study Shows

Toll Of COVID-19 On Healthcare Workers May Be Underestimated By CDC, Experts Say

CDC Issues Updated Guidance On How To Reduce Coronavirus Transmission In Offices And Houses Of Worship

Large Coronavirus Testing Study Finds 95% Of Positive Coronavirus Test Results Were Latinx

Wastewater Testing For Coronavirus Reportedly Gaining Traction

FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization To Quest Diagnostics Self-Collection Coronavirus Test Kit

Many People With Autism Do Not Receive Two Forms Of Genetic Testing Recommended By Experts, Study Indicates

Scientists Say Different Kinds Of Tumors Have Distinct Microbiomes

Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 Found To Have Blood Plasma Viscosity 95 Percent Higher Than Normal, Small Study Demonstrates

African-American Coronavirus Victims Found To Have Lungs Clogged With Blood Clots, Study Shows

Two Studies Indicate That Patients With Cancer Have Higher Mortality Rate From COVID-19 Than Others

AJCP: Placental Pathology in COVID-19

AJCP: COVID-19 Autopsies, Oklahoma, USA

Laboratory Medicine: 3D-Printing to Address COVID-19 Testing Supply Shortages

Laboratory Medicine Blog: Review: Blood Supplies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Questions About Antibody Test Accuracy May Add More Uncertainty To Coronavirus Pandemic

Public COVID-19 Testing Sites In Texas Are Located Disproportionately In White Neighborhoods, Investigation Finds