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• FDA Approves Test That Can Detect Coronavirus in Minutes The US Food and Drug Administration granted the approval under its Emergency Use Authorization. Abbott said it will start distribution next week and will ramp up manufacturing to 50,000 tests per day.
  Reuters Health Information, March 28, 2020
• Guideline Highlights Safety During Autopsy in Suspected COVID-19 Cases The UK's Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) has released new guidelines that emphasize risk reduction during postmortem examinations of individuals suspected of having COVID-19.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• Mass Testing Explains Germany's Relatively Low Death Rate From Coronavirus - Virologist Germany's relatively low rate of deaths so far from coronavirus is largely due to the high number of tests being carried out in the country
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• Australia Enters 4,000 Healthcare Workers in Trial for Coronavirus Vaccine Thousands of Australian healthcare workers will begin a trial to see if a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis can fight off the new coronavirus, researchers said.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• As Coronavirus Spreads, U.S. Military to Withhold Some Infection Data The U.S. military has decided it will stop providing some of the more granular data about coronavirus infections within its ranks out of concern that the information might be used by adversaries as the virus spreads.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• Italian Scientists Investigate Possible Earlier Emergence of Coronavirus Italian researchers are looking at whether a higher than usual number of cases of severe pneumonia and flu in Lombardy in the last quarter of 2019 may be a signal that the new coronavirus might have spread beyond China earlier than previously thought.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• Africa's Window to Contain Coronavirus Narrowing - WHO About half of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa still have a "narrowing" opportunity to curb the spread of coronavirus in the local population, the regional head of the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• How Many Americans Have Coronavirus? New Reuters Poll Might Offer a Hint The official count of coronavirus infections in the United States sits at about 70,000 cases, but a chronic shortage of tests means only a fraction of the people infected are being counted.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• In Europe, Tech Battle Against Coronavirus Clashes With Privacy Culture Governments across Europe are turning to technology to track the spread of the coronavirus and monitor people under quarantine.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• COVID-19's Sexual Health Repercussions Put Most Vulnerable at Risk The social and economic disruption underway as the COVID-19 pandemic rages is likely to have negative consequences for sexual and reproductive health worldwide, but lessons can be learned from past epidemics to help prepare for these changes, according to two experts on outbreaks and reproductive health.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• Urologists Step Up to Help Manage COVID-19 Outbreak Urologists in Singapore have described what it was like for them to step up and help manage the COVID-19 outbreak there.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome Not Linked to Increased Mortality Risk In a nationwide prospective cohort study in Sweden, people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) had no increased mortality risk, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• Infants With Neonatal COVID-19 Seem to Have Mild Course, Favorable Outcome The clinical symptoms of newborns with or at risk for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) appear to be mild and outcomes "favorable," researchers from China said today.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 Not Found on PPE After Health Worker Contact With Patients Healthcare workers treating patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 did not appear to have traces of the virus on their personal protective equipment (PPE) when they exited patient rooms, a pilot study in Singapore found.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• Pediatric Malpractice Claims Decreased While Median Payout Remained the Same During a 30-year period, the proportion of U.S. pediatricians who faced malpractice claims fell but the median indemnity stayed about the same, according to a new study based on survey data.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• U.S. Slashed CDC Staff Inside China Prior to Coronavirus Outbreak The Trump administration cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters has learned.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• New York Says Hospitals Overwhelmed Under Almost Any Coronavirus Scenario New York state's hospitals will be overwhelmed under almost any realistic scenario in the coronavirus outbreak and authorities are adding capacity wherever possible to meet soaring demand, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• Spain Extends Coronavirus Lockdown, in 'War' to Buy Medical Supplies Spain extended its coronavirus lockdown on Thursday to at least April 12 as Europe's second-worst hit country fought "a real war" procuring medical supplies in an overheated Chinese market that officials said was rife with fraud and speculative deals.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• One Ventilator, Two Patients: New York Hospitals Shift to Crisis Mode At least one New York hospital has begun putting two patients on a single ventilator machine, an experimental crisis-mode protocol some doctors worry is too risky but others deemed necessary as the coronavirus outbreak strains medical resources.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020
• U.S. Can Avoid Lockdowns if Coronavirus Returns - Fauci The United States will likely see another cycle of the coronavirus sometime after the current outbreak has ended, but entire cities will not be need to be closed down again because of what is being learned now.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2020