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New York City Health Commissioner Says City’s Confirmed 138,000 Cases Are “Tip Of The Iceberg”

POLITICO New York (4/23, Durkin) reports New York City Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot said that the city’s 138,000 confirmed cases are the “tip of the iceberg” and that one million people have likely been exposed to the virus in the city. New York City...

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Testing Of Wastewater For Coronavirus May Help Predict Future Outbreaks Of COVID-19, Research Suggests

Newsweek (4/23) reports, “Traces of the coronavirus in sewage could be used to predict future COVID-19 outbreaks and help lawmakers decide when to relax measures like mask-wearing, scientists believe.” When a research team in France “compared levels of th...

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WHO Analysis Predicts That Malaria Deaths In Sub-Saharan Africa May Double From 2018 To This Year Due To Problems Caused By Coronavirus Pandemic

Healio (4/23, Dreisbach) reports “interruptions to access to antimalarial medicines and disruptions to insecticide-treated net campaigns, or ITNs, because of COVID-19 could potentially double the number of malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020 when...

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Experts Fear Postponed Well-Child Visits, Dropping Immunization Rates During Pandemic Put Children At Risk For Life-Threatening Diseases

The New York Times (4/23, Hoffman) reports, “Afraid of [COVID-19], parents are postponing well-child checkups, including shots, putting millions of children at risk of exposure to preventable deadly diseases.” As parents throughout “the country cancel wel...

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As Public Health Resources Shift Towards Coronavirus Pandemic, STD Rates May Rise

The Hill (4/23, Hellmann) reports “the pandemic that has upended life in the U.S. could lead to increased STD rates and setbacks in the fight against HIV as public health resources are shifted to the coronavirus response.” The Hill adds that “access to ST...

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CDC Announces It Is Sending $631 Million For State, Local Health Departments For Coronavirus Measures

The Washington Post (4/23, Wan) reports the CDC “announced Thursday that it is sending $631 million to state and local health departments to increase their capacity to do contact tracing and testing for the novel coronavirus – a fraction of what many offi...

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New York, New Jersey, And Connecticut To Launch Tri-State Coronavirus Tracing Program

The Hill (4/22, Coleman) reports New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state will work with Connecticut and New Jersey “to launch a tri-state tracing program, with help from former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg.” Gov. Cuomo said he’s spoken with N...

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Many Patients With Coronavirus Develop Blood Clots That Do Not Respond To Anticoagulants, Clinicians Say

The Washington Post (4/22, A1, Cha) reports that coronavirus can cause blood clots that don’t respond to anticoagulants. Craig Coopersmith, a critical-care surgeon at the Emory University health system, describes his experience speaking with colleagues an...

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California Health Officials Say First Deaths From Coronavirus In The US Occurred Weeks Earlier Than Previously Thought

The Washington Post (4/22, Chiu, Armus) reports California health officials say “at least two people who died in early and mid-February” had coronavirus suggesting that the virus was spreading and potentially killing people in the US sooner than previousl...

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Some Patients With COVID-19 Have Pancreatic Injuries, Researchers Observe

Endocrinology Advisor (4/22, Nye) reports in a study published in Gastroenterology, researchers observed “mild pancreatic injury patterns...in a group of patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia” and admitted to a hospital in Wuhan where they “...

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For Patients With HCV Genotype-4 Infection, Retreatment For NS5A Treatment Nonresponse May Be Effective, Study Indicates

Infectious Disease Advisor (4/22, van Paridon) reports, “For patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype-4 infection, retreatment for nonstructural protein 5A (NS5A) treatment nonresponse was effective and well-tolerated in both noncirrhotic and compen...

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Serum HBV RNA May Predict Response To PEG-IFN Treatment In Patients With HBeAg-Positive Chronic HBV, Researchers Say

Infectious Disease Advisor (4/22, Schad) reports, “Hepatitis B virus (HBV) RNA in serum declines profoundly during treatment with pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN); therefore, early on-treatment HBV RNA levels may be used to predict nonresponse,” investigato...

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During Pandemic, Providers Face Pay Cuts, Practices Face Closures, Surveys Reveal

Modern Healthcare (4/22, Kacik, Subscription Publication) reports “a quarter of frontline healthcare providers and nearly half of primary care physicians expect pay cuts this month as COVID-19 strains their organizations, according to a new survey.” Among...

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As Several States Rush To Reopen, Relaxed Restrictions Supply New Coronavirus Targets

The Washington Post (4/22, Wan, Johnson, Achenbach) reports that “as several states – including South Carolina, Tennessee and Florida – rush to reopen businesses, the sudden relaxation of restrictions will supply new targets for the coronavirus that has k...

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Trump Administration Announces Plan To Pay Hospitals And Physicians For Care Of Uninsured Patients With COVID-19

The AP (4/22, Alonso-Zaldivar) reports the Trump Administration “announced a plan...to start paying” healthcare providers “who care for uninsured patients with COVID-19, but Democratic lawmakers and health industry groups are likely to press for more.” HH...

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Researchers Say Fast Coronavirus Test May Be Less Accurate Than Most Common Alternatives

NPR (4/21, Stein) reports “researchers at the Cleveland Clinic tested 239 specimens known to contain the coronavirus using five of the most commonly used coronavirus tests, including the Abbott ID NOW,” which “has generated widespread excitement because i...

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FDA Grants Emergency Approval To First In-Home Test For Coronavirus

The New York Times (4/21, Thomas) reports the FDA “granted emergency approval to the first in-home test for Covid-19, a nasal swab kit that will be sold by LabCorp.” According to the agency, the company has demonstrated their test “is as safe and accurate...

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In Absence Of National Strategy, Coronavirus Testing Gap Reportedly Widens Among States

The Washington Post (4/21, A1, Eilperin, Mooney) reports Rhode Island and Kentucky have “done comparable numbers of diagnostic tests and lost similar numbers of residents to the disease.” However, “there’s one key difference. Kentucky has more than four t...

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Three Economists Devise Plan To Estimate Infection Rate In General Population By Providing Incentives To Encourage Participation

The New York Times (4/21, Porter) reports on how three economists devised a plan to estimate the coronavirus infection rate in the general population by testing a representative sample. As part of their plan, the economists decided to provide incentives t...

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Quest Diagnostics Starts Testing For COVID-19 Antibodies, Expected To Scale Up Testing Capacity In Coming Weeks

Reuters (4/21, Roy) reports Quest Diagnostics “said on Tuesday it has started testing using blood samples to detect COVID-19 antibodies and expects to ramp up capacity over the coming weeks as public health experts push for wider testing in the United Sta...

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New York City Health Commissioner Says City’s Confirmed 138,000 Cases Are “Tip Of The Iceberg”

Testing Of Wastewater For Coronavirus May Help Predict Future Outbreaks Of COVID-19, Research Suggests

WHO Analysis Predicts That Malaria Deaths In Sub-Saharan Africa May Double From 2018 To This Year Due To Problems Caused By Coronavirus Pandemic

Experts Fear Postponed Well-Child Visits, Dropping Immunization Rates During Pandemic Put Children At Risk For Life-Threatening Diseases

As Public Health Resources Shift Towards Coronavirus Pandemic, STD Rates May Rise

CDC Announces It Is Sending $631 Million For State, Local Health Departments For Coronavirus Measures

New York, New Jersey, And Connecticut To Launch Tri-State Coronavirus Tracing Program

Many Patients With Coronavirus Develop Blood Clots That Do Not Respond To Anticoagulants, Clinicians Say

California Health Officials Say First Deaths From Coronavirus In The US Occurred Weeks Earlier Than Previously Thought

Some Patients With COVID-19 Have Pancreatic Injuries, Researchers Observe

For Patients With HCV Genotype-4 Infection, Retreatment For NS5A Treatment Nonresponse May Be Effective, Study Indicates

Serum HBV RNA May Predict Response To PEG-IFN Treatment In Patients With HBeAg-Positive Chronic HBV, Researchers Say

During Pandemic, Providers Face Pay Cuts, Practices Face Closures, Surveys Reveal

As Several States Rush To Reopen, Relaxed Restrictions Supply New Coronavirus Targets

Trump Administration Announces Plan To Pay Hospitals And Physicians For Care Of Uninsured Patients With COVID-19

Researchers Say Fast Coronavirus Test May Be Less Accurate Than Most Common Alternatives

FDA Grants Emergency Approval To First In-Home Test For Coronavirus

In Absence Of National Strategy, Coronavirus Testing Gap Reportedly Widens Among States

Three Economists Devise Plan To Estimate Infection Rate In General Population By Providing Incentives To Encourage Participation

Quest Diagnostics Starts Testing For COVID-19 Antibodies, Expected To Scale Up Testing Capacity In Coming Weeks