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Biden Will Not Veto Bill To End COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Immediately

The Hill (3/29, Weaver) reports President Biden “will not veto a GOP-led effort to end the COVID-19 national emergency, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer told Democratic senators on Wednesday.” Biden’s decision “comes ahead of a planned vote in the u...

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Administration Encourages Health Insurers, Employer Health Plan Sponsors To Continue Covering COVID-19 Tests

Bloomberg Law (3/30, Hansard, Subscription Publication) reports, “Employer health plan sponsors and health insurers were encouraged by the Biden Administration to continue covering Covid-19 tests without requiring beneficiaries to pay out-of-pocket costs...

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Researchers Identify Potential Connection Between Common Viruses And Rare Hepatitis Cases In Children

The New York Times (3/30, Anthes) reports, “A small new study of American children adds to the evidence that” a recent string of hepatitis cases in children, “which remained extremely rare, may have been caused by a simultaneous infection with multiple co...

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Dengue Fever Spreads Across Sudan As Health System Struggles

Reuters (3/30, Eltahir) reports, “Dengue fever has spread into Sudan’s capital for the first time on record, as the country tackles its widest ever outbreak of the disease, exacerbated by an under-funded health system, officials say.” Since July 12, “at l...

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Federal Judge Blocks ACA Preventive Care Mandate

Reuters (3/30, Pierson) reports that US District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas blocked the Affordable Care Act’s “mandate that health insurance plans cover preventive care, including pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV (PrEP) and screenings fo...

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Congress Approves Bill To Effect Immediate End To COVID-19 Pandemic National Emergency

The Washington Post (3/29, Paybarah) reports the United States Senate has “passed a resolution ending the national emergency declaration that was announced three years ago by President Donald Trump at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.” Even as “House...

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AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine May Be Tied To Increased Cardiovascular Risk For Young Women, Study Suggests

The New York Times (3/29, Mandavilli) reports, “Young women who received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine made by AstraZeneca might have been more likely to die of a heart problem in the 12 weeks after their vaccination, according to an analysis of...

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Johnson & Johnson To Discontinue Late-Stage Study Of Experimental RSV Vaccine

Reuters (3/29, Leo, Erman) reports, “Johnson & Johnson said it will discontinue the late-stage study of its experimental respiratory syncytial virus adult vaccine, weeks after rivals Pfizer and GSK gained a lead in the race for the first vaccine against t...

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Three-Quarters Of Doctors Say Misinformation Made It More Difficult To Treat Patients With COVID-19, Poll Finds

USA Today (3/29, Weintraub) reports, “Almost three-quarters of doctors say misinformation made it harder to treat patients for COVID-19 and made patient outcomes worse, according to a new poll” from Morning Consult. Meanwhile, “nearly as many flagged a pr...

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WHO Urges Equatorial Guinea Officials To Report Additional Marburg Cases

Reuters (3/29, Tétrault-Farber) reports that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus “said on Wednesday the body was aware of additional Marburg cases in Equatorial Guinea and urged the government to report them officially.” There is another “outb...

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WHO Adjusts COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations

Reuters (3/28, Rigby, Satija) reports, “The World Health Organization has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healthy children and adolescents may not necessarily need a shot but older, high-r...

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Vaginal Swabs More Effective Than Urine Analysis At Detecting Some STIs, Research Finds

Medscape (3/28, Fulton, Subscription Publication) reports, “Vaginal swabs are more effective than urine analysis in detecting certain types of sexually transmitted infections, researchers have found.” The findings were published in the Annals of Family Me...

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B/F/TAF Tied To High Rates Of Viral Suppression In Patients With HIV, Substance Abuse Disorder, Research Finds

Infectious Disease Advisor (3/28, Nye) reports a study suggests that “bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (B/F/TAF) is associated with high rates of initial virologic suppression among patients with HIV infection and substance use disorder at...

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Masking Still Required In Nearly Half Of Medical Offices, Poll Indicates

MedPage Today (3/28, Frieden) reports, “Nearly half of medical groups continue to require masking even as local public health officials have dropped mask mandates, according to a recent poll from the Medical Group Management Association.” However, “the 49...

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Intervention Improves COVID-19 Testing, Vaccination Referral Rates Among People Who Inject Drugs, Researchers Say

Healio (3/27, Stulpin) reports, “An intervention called LinkUP improved rates of COVID-19 testing and vaccination referral acceptance among people who inject drugs, with increased impact among those experiencing homeless, researchers found.” The findings...

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Researchers Identify Test-Negative Design As “Least Biased And Most Efficient” To Measure COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness In Patients With CKD

Healio (3/27, Keenan) reports, “Researchers identified a test-negative design as the ‘least biased and most efficient’ to measure COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in patients with chronic kidney disease” (CKD), according to findings published online ahead o...

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Patients Hospitalized For Severe Infectious Diseases Face Higher Risk Of Major Cardiovascular-Disease Events Within Month Of Admission, Study Finds

Cardiovascular Business (3/27, Pearson) reports, “Patients hospitalized for severe infectious diseases are at heightened risk of major cardiovascular-disease events within a month of admission date, according to a study.” Investigators “further found the...

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Overall Healthcare Employment Rates Return To Pre-Pandemic Levels, Report Finds

Medical Economics (3/27, Shryock) reports, “Health care employers added 44,200 jobs in February, consistent with the 12-month average of 49,100, according to a report from Altarum.” In particular, “hospitals led healthcare job growth in February, adding 1...

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Health Officials Weigh Decision To Recommend More COVID-19 Booster Shots

The New York Times (3/24, Mandavilli) reported that with “roughly 300 people in the United States...still dying from Covid-related causes each day,” federal health officials face “the thorny question” of whether to recommend further booster shots for the...

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Innate Immune Response To Clostridioides Difficile Infection May Be Preserved In Immunocompromised People, Research Suggests

Infectious Disease Advisor (3/24, Nye) reported, “Among immunocompromised individuals, innate immune responses to Clostridioides difficile infection may be preserved, according to results of a study.” The findings were published in Open Forum Infectious D...

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Biden Will Not Veto Bill To End COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Immediately

Administration Encourages Health Insurers, Employer Health Plan Sponsors To Continue Covering COVID-19 Tests

Researchers Identify Potential Connection Between Common Viruses And Rare Hepatitis Cases In Children

Dengue Fever Spreads Across Sudan As Health System Struggles

Federal Judge Blocks ACA Preventive Care Mandate

Congress Approves Bill To Effect Immediate End To COVID-19 Pandemic National Emergency

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine May Be Tied To Increased Cardiovascular Risk For Young Women, Study Suggests

Johnson & Johnson To Discontinue Late-Stage Study Of Experimental RSV Vaccine

Three-Quarters Of Doctors Say Misinformation Made It More Difficult To Treat Patients With COVID-19, Poll Finds

WHO Urges Equatorial Guinea Officials To Report Additional Marburg Cases

WHO Adjusts COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations

Vaginal Swabs More Effective Than Urine Analysis At Detecting Some STIs, Research Finds

B/F/TAF Tied To High Rates Of Viral Suppression In Patients With HIV, Substance Abuse Disorder, Research Finds

Masking Still Required In Nearly Half Of Medical Offices, Poll Indicates

Intervention Improves COVID-19 Testing, Vaccination Referral Rates Among People Who Inject Drugs, Researchers Say

Researchers Identify Test-Negative Design As “Least Biased And Most Efficient” To Measure COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness In Patients With CKD

Patients Hospitalized For Severe Infectious Diseases Face Higher Risk Of Major Cardiovascular-Disease Events Within Month Of Admission, Study Finds

Overall Healthcare Employment Rates Return To Pre-Pandemic Levels, Report Finds

Health Officials Weigh Decision To Recommend More COVID-19 Booster Shots

Innate Immune Response To Clostridioides Difficile Infection May Be Preserved In Immunocompromised People, Research Suggests