Infectious Diseases
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Three major COVID vaccine developers release detailed trial protocols
Typically, manufacturers guard the specifics of preclinical vaccine trials. This rare move follows calls for greater transparency.
Feature
Signs of an ‘October vaccine surprise’ alarm career scientists
If the executive branch were to overrule the FDA’s scientific judgment, a vaccine of limited efficacy and, worse, unknown side effects could be...
FDA/CDC
CDC adds then retracts aerosols as main COVID-19 mode of transmission
WHO has long stated that coronavirus is spread mainly by droplets that, once expelled by coughs and sneezes of infected people, fall quickly to...
Feature
Many Americans still concerned about access to health care
More than 50% of adults surveyed in August said they were worried about being able to receive care during the pandemic.
Opinion
2020-2021 respiratory viral season: Onset, presentations, and testing likely to differ in pandemic
Expect variations on the traditional parade of seasonal respiratory viruses, with increased numbers of coinfections.
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Tough to tell COVID from smoke inhalation symptoms — And flu season’s coming
“Any time someone comes in with even some of those symptoms, we ask ourselves, ‘Is it COVID?’ At the end of the day, clinically speaking, I still...
Feature
U.S. tops 500,000 COVID-19 cases in children
Milestone provides “a chilling reminder of why we need to take this virus seriously,” said the AAP president.
From the Journals
Asymptomatic children may transmit COVID-19 in communities
A South Korean case series of 91 children with COVID-19 identified detectable viral RNA for approximately 2 weeks’ duration.
News
NYC public hospitals rose to the demands of the COVID-19 crisis
“We hospitalists, and all those recruited to act as hospitalists, essentially took responsibility for the COVID response.”
Conference Coverage
COVID-19 vaccine supply will be limited at first, ACIP says
The working group expects that from 15 to 45 million doses of vaccine will be available by the end of December, depending on which vaccine is...
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Study confirms it’s possible to catch COVID-19 twice
“This appears to be pretty clear-cut evidence of reinfection because of sequencing and isolation of two different viruses.”