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    Infectious Disease Advisor (12/15, Nye) reports, “Nearly 10% of men who have sex with men (MSM) were found to be positive for bacterial enteric pathogens, according to results of” a “cross-sectional study” that sought “to determine the prevalence and risk...
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  • Physicians Raise Concern About Impact Of Overlapping Viral Surges

    The Washington Post (12/15, A1, Cha) reports “the 2022 winter season has been one of prolonged misery for many American families, full of sniffles, sore throats, coughs and trips to the” emergency department “as bugs kept at bay during the pandemic have b...
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  • CDC Warns Co-Infections With COVID-19, Influenza May Cause More Severe Illness In Children

    MedPage Today (12/15, Hein) reports, “The CDC warned that co-infections with COVID-19 and influenza can potentially cause more severe illness in children, and need to be tracked.” The article adds, “Surveillance data from the 2021-2022 influenza season re...
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  • CDC Publishes Revised Case Definition Of MIS-C

    Healio (12/15, Weldon) reports, “The CDC and Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists published a revised case definition of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a potentially serious complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection.” The CDC “said...
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  • Researchers Calling For New Generation Of COVID-19 Vaccines

    NBC News (12/14, Bendix) reports, “Two years after the first Covid shots went into arms, a growing chorus of researchers is calling for a new generation of vaccines that provide broader and more long-term protection against the disease.” Specifically, “re...
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  • Roche Teams Up With Pfizer On US Campaign To Boost COVID-19 Testing, Treatment Awareness

    Reuters (12/14, Shields) reports Roche “has teamed up with Pfizer on a U.S. campaign to boost awareness of COVID-19 testing and treatment, the Swiss drugmaker said on Wednesday.” Reuters adds, “The Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Test, distributed in the United St...
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  • Vaccine Regimens For Zaire Ebola Virus Disease Produce Antibody Responses In Adults, Children, Studies Show

    Reuters (12/14, Srinivasan, Leo) reports Ebola vaccine regimens targeting the Zaire virus strain “developed by Johnson & Johnson and Merck & Co produced virus-fighting antibodies and appear to be safe in children and adults, according to data from two stu...
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  • Study Pinpoints Four Genes That Seem To Play Part In Vulnerability To Suicidal Thoughts Or Behaviors

    HealthDay (12/14, Murez) reports, “Scientists have pinpointed four genes that seem to play a part in” vulnerability to “suicidal thoughts or behaviors.” They did so by conducting “a large, genome-wide analysis using data from more than 630,000 U.S. milita...
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  • Study Estimates 15 Million People Likely Died As A Result Of COVID-19 Pandemic In 2020 And 2021

    HealthDay (12/14, Thompson) reports that nearly “15 million people likely died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, nearly three times more than previously reported, a new World Health Organization study estimates.” The investigators “sa...
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  • Several Children’s Hospitals In US Note Uptick In Invasive Group A Strep Infections

    NBC News (12/14, Bendix) reports, “Several children’s hospitals in the U.S. have detected increases in invasive group A strep infections, a severe and sometimes life-threatening illness that occurs when bacteria spreads to areas of the body that are norma...
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  • COVID-19 Vaccines Prevented More Than 18.5M Hospitalizations, 3.2M Deaths In US, Study Says

    CNN (12/13, Christensen) reports “the Covid-19 vaccines have kept more than 18.5 million people in the US out of the hospital and saved more than 3.2 million lives,” according to a study from the Commonwealth Fund “-- and that estimate is most likely a co...
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  • Several Production Lots Of COVID-19 Tests Recalled Over Possible False Negative Results

    The Hill (12/13, Burbrink) reports, “Several production lots of COVID-19 tests are being recalled because there is an increased chance they may give false negative results.” The FDA “said the recall involves around 11,102 Detect COVID-19 Tests.” The artic...
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  • Study Begins Notifying Participants Of Early Findings Regarding Possible Risks From Genetic Variants

    The AP (12/13, Neergaard) reports on All of Us, a “massive project to unravel how people’s genetics, environments and habits interact to determine their overall health.” On Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health “said...it’s now starting to notify par...
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  • Treatment With Direct-Acting Antivirals Tied To Improved Outcomes, Long-Term Survival Among Patients With Chronic HCV, Study Finds

    MedPage Today (12/13, Hein) reports, “Treatment with direct-acting antivirals (DAA) was associated with improved outcomes as well as improved long-term survival among patients with chronic hepatitis C,” according to findings from a “retrospective cohort s...
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  • Long COVID Played A Role In At Least 3,500 Deaths In US, Analysis Finds

    The New York Times (12/14, Belluck) reports, “Long Covid has caused or contributed to at least 3,500 deaths in the United States, an analysis of death certificates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.” Researchers examined “death certi...
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  • US Agrees To Pay Pfizer Nearly $2B For Additional 3.7M Courses Of COVID-19 Antiviral Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir

    Reuters (12/13, Erman) reports, “The U.S. government agreed to pay Pfizer Inc nearly $2 billion for an additional 3.7 million courses of its COVID-19 antiviral treatment” nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid), “the company said on Tuesday.” This “new purchase...
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