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• How Can We Stop the Next Pandemic? Here's What a WHO Panel Recommends A new global system should be set up to respond faster to disease outbreaks, an independent WHO review panel said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• UPDATE 2-U.S. CDC Finds More Clotting Cases After J&J Vaccine, Sees Causal Link
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• CIA's Fake Vaccination Program in Pakistan May Have Hurt Trust in Vaccines Pakistani families' trust in vaccines may have been shaken by the CIA's attempt to locate Osama bin Laden through a program to collect DNA from kids under the guise of a vaccine drive, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• Intranasal Nanoparticle Flu Vaccine Boosts Immune Response in Mice An intranasal influenza vaccine made of nanoparticles enhanced the immune response and offered protection against different viral strains in mice, and also shows promise for people, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• Fewer but More Often Severe COVID Cases in People Living With HIV, Study Suggests People living with HIV do not appear to be at higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, but they may have more severe disease than people without HIV, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• Norway Drops AstraZeneca Vaccine, J&J Remains on Hold Norway will not resume use of the COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca, and a decision on whether to include Johnson & Johnson shots remains on hold, Prime Minister Erna Solberg said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• 'A Hell Out Here': COVID-19 Ravages Rural India India's coronavirus death toll crossed 250,000 on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, leaving families to weep over the dead in rural hospitals or camp in wards to tend the sick.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• German Vaccine Seekers Getting Aggressive, Doctors Say Germans desperate to be vaccinated against the coronavirus are becoming increasingly aggressive, doctors said on Wednesday, as frustration mounts.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• PAHO Warns COVID-19 Transmission Far From Under Control in Americas Nearly 40% of all global deaths from COVID-19 reported last week happened in the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• BMD Measurement Can Help Improve Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease in Women Evaluation of bone-mineral density can improve risk stratification and guide clinical management of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in women, suggests a large retrospective study from South Korea.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• Deaf Healthcare Workers Left Behind as Masks Became Universal During Pandemic A UK survey of deaf healthcare workers shows many feel frustrated by a lack of transparent masks and adequate communication-support policies.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Might Trigger Corneal-Transplant Rejection Two older women who underwent a Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty transplant and later received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine have presented with symptoms and signs of endothelial graft rejection, according to a UK report.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• Brazil Ex-Health Minister Saw No Need for Pfizer Vaccine, Say Sources Eduardo Pazuello failed to take up Pfizer on its offer of COVID-19 vaccines last year because he believed Brazil should rely on British and Chinese shots made in the country.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• Three Ways a Panel Says the WHO, States Failed on COVID-19 The International Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response issued its report on Wednesday into the global handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling for a new transparent global system to be set up for investigating disease outbreaks.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• How Can We Stop the Next Pandemic? Here's What a WHO Panel Recommends A new global system should be set up to respond faster to disease outbreaks, which could ensure that no future virus causes a pandemic as devastating as COVID-19, an independent World Health Organization review panel said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• Canadian Province of Ontario Will Pause First Doses of AstraZeneca Vaccine The Canadian province of Ontario will stop offering first doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, provincial officials said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• New Drug Helps COVID-19 Patients Breathe on Their Own Lenzilumab given to hospitalized COVID-19 patients who were still breathing on their own significantly improved their odds of not needing invasive mechanical ventilation, researchers have found.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• Pandemic Prompts EU Drugs Watchdog to Simplify Non-COVID Processes Europe's medicines watchdog said it will simplify some of its review procedures to focus on COVID-19 treatments and vaccines as it faces a pandemic-driven surge in new drug applications.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• America's Mask Makers Face Postpandemic Meltdown The small US manufacturers that rushed to produce face masks over the past year are now stuck with hundreds of millions of unsold face coverings because China is flooding the market with below-cost masks.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• WHO Reviewing Seychelles COVID-19 Data After Fully Vaccinated People Test Positive WHO said on Tuesday it was reviewing coronavirus data from Seychelles after the health ministry said more than a third of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week had been fully vaccinated.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021