Aug 9th, 2022 - New cases of COVID-19 rose among children for the fourth consecutive week, but the size of the increase declined for the second consecutive week, based on data from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. After new child cases jumped by 22% during the week of July 15-21, the two successive weeks have produced increases of 3.

Aug 9th, 2022 - Dermatology is one of the least diverse medical specialties with only 3% of dermatologists being Black and 4% Latinx. 1 Leading dermatology organizations have called for specialty-wide efforts to improve diversity, with a particular focus on the resident selection process.

Aug 9th, 2022 - For Immediate Release: August 09, 2022 Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency: Today, the FDA’s Office of Global Policy and Strategy published “How a European Data Law is Impacting FDA,” which looks at how the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation may be impacting the FDA’s public health activities. So far, t...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Rapid antigen tests (RATs) are widely used for point-of-care or self-testing to identify SARS-CoV-2 (SCoV2), but currently circulating Omicron variants may impair detection. In this study, we prospectively evaluated the Roche-SARS-CoV-2-Antigen and Acon-FlowFlex-SARS-CoV-2-Antigen in 150 consecutively collected nasopharyngeal patient swabs (50 SCoV2 RNA undetectable; 100 SCoV2 Omicron BA.1).

Aug 9th, 2022 - When and where were these subvariants detected? BA.4 and BA.5 were first detected in South Africa in January and February 2022, respectively.1 They are offshoots of the omicron variant BA.2, though their additional mutations seem to have given them a transmission advantage

Aug 9th, 2022 - HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong will shorten the COVID-19 hotel quarantine period for all arrivals to three days from seven, taking another step to gradually unwind stringent pandemic rules that have isolated the Asian financial hub. The measures will be effective from Friday, the city's leader, John Lee, told a news conference on Monday. Arrivals will need to self monitor for a further four da...

Aug 9th, 2022 - As a medical student in the mid-1980s in New York City, I had a firsthand experience of the tragedy and devastation wrought by HIV. Federal and local responses were underwhelming. As a medical student, I was more preoccupied with learning the basics of doctoring and understanding whether we should wear gloves when drawing blood or pulling drains after the 1985 Centers for Disease Control and Pr...

Aug 9th, 2022 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group of 23 state attorneys general led by Florida told a federal court on Monday that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lacks the legal authority to impose a nationwide transportation mask mandate to address COVID-19. The CDC sought "an unprecedented masking mandate regulating every breath of millions of Americans," said the brief in support of t...

Aug 9th, 2022 - (Reuters) - Novavax Inc on Monday halved its full-year revenue forecast as it does not expect further sales of its COVID-19 shot this year in the United States in the face of a global supply glut and soft demand, sending its shares down 33%. Novavax said it now expects 2022 total revenue in the range of $2 billion to $2.3 billion, compared with its prior forecast of $4 billion to $5 billion. Th...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Dr Sameer Vohra An adult working at a daycare center in Rantoul, an agricultural community about 15 miles north of Urbana-Champaign, has tested positive for monkeypox virus (MPV), Illinois health officials report. The patient also had one home healthcare client. The infected person is in isolation, being medically monitored, and is doing well, Illinois public health officials said in a media br...

Aug 9th, 2022 - The same wastewater surveillance techniques that have emerged as a critical tool in early detection of covid-19 outbreaks are being adapted for use in monitoring the startling spread of monkeypox across the San Francisco Bay Area and some other U.S. communities. Before the covid pandemic, wastewater sludge was thought to hold promise as an early indicator of community health threats, in part be...

Aug 9th, 2022 - A hospital quality and safety data reporting requirement that the government had proposed to place on hold for Fiscal Year 2023 — owing to the confounding effects of the COVID pandemic on hospital performance and data-gathering — was reinstated last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The preliminary Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule, used for making annual adj...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Every time I go to the beach, I bring a book but hardly open it. Instead, I look at the waves and listen to the gulls. My eyelids get heavy and my heart rate decreases. My stiff joints relax as I walk along the shore. The fatigue in my feet melts away as they sink in the sand. The beach at Sandy Hook National Recreation Area is one of my happy places. It revives me and reminds me that nature is...

Aug 9th, 2022 - To investigate the correlation between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the incidence of anxiety, depression, and mental disorders in patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia. Novel coronavirus pneumonia patients in Wuhan from 2020 to April were selected for treatment from hospitals and isolation wards from 1 to April. 70 rehabilitated patients were randomly divided into the control gr...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus is the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). It has caused millions of infections and deaths globally over a 2-year period. Some populations including those living with HIV and/or cancer are reported to be at a higher risk of infection and severe disease. HIV infection leads to a depletion of CD4+ T cells which impa...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Immune imprinting or original antigenic sin (OAS) is the process by which the humoral memory response to an antigen can inhibit the response to new epitopes of that antigen originating from a second encounter with the pathogen. Given the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple vaccines have been developed against SARS-CoV-2 infection. These vaccines are directed to the spike protein (S pro...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Objectives: This study aims to assess the trade-offs between vulnerability and efficiency attributes of contact tracing programmes based on preferences of COVID-19 contact tracing practitioners, researchers and other relevant stakeholders at the global level. Methods: We conducted an online discrete choice experiment (DCE). Respondents were recruited globally to explore preferences according to...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Current vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 virus mainly induce neutralizing antibodies but overlook the T cell responses. This study aims to generate an exosomal vaccine carrying T cell epitope peptides of SARS-CoV-2 for the induction of CD8+ T cell response. Thirty-one peptides presented by HLA-A0201 molecule were conjugated to the DMPE-PEG-NHS molecules, and mixed with DSPE-PEG to form the peptide-P...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Objectives: Adverse mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are well documented; however, there remains limited data detailing trends in mental health at different points in time and across population sub-groups most impacted. This paper draws on data from three rounds of a nationally representative cross-sectional monitoring survey to characterize the mental health impacts of COVID-19 o...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Objective: To investigate the status and influential factors of depression, anxiety, and insomnia among people in quarantine during COVID-19. Methods: Data was collected from August 2020 to November 2021 through an online survey of 1,360 people in a quarantined hotel. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) were used ...