Infectious Diseases News

• CDC Panel Takes on COVID Vaccine Rollout, Risks, and Side Effects CDC's vaccine advisers were briefed Friday on potential approaches for a COVID vaccine rollout and a method for tracking adverse events of these shots.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• USCA 2020 HIV PrEP Referrals Lag for Black MSM, Trans Adults Despite Black and transgender adults being at highest risk for HIV in the US, state health departments struggle to refer them for HIV prevention services.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• About 17% of COVID-19 Survivors Retest Positive on Follow-Up A big question remains: Are those patients who met WHO recovery criteria and then retest positive still contagious?
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• Med Student's Cardiac Crisis a COVID-Era Medical Mystery An Indiana medical student searches for answers about her near-fatal case of myocarditis after COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• Social Media Disinformation Campaigns Tied to Vaccine Hesitancy Social media disinformation campaigns designed to cast doubt on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines are contributing to vaccine hesitancy and a meaningful drop in annual coverage, a new cross-national study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, October 29, 2020
• Famotidine Has Uncertain Impact on COVID-19 Mortality Famotidine use within 24 hours of admission does not improve but may worsen 30-day mortality of patients hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a retrospective study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 29, 2020
• Masks Good, Ventilation Better at Cutting COVID Risk at Indoor Events -study Face masks and limits on numbers are important, but good ventilation technology is the most essential ingredient of all in reducing the risk of the coronavirus spreading at public events indoors, according to a German study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 29, 2020
• COVID-19 Pandemic Shifted Innovation in Diabetes Care The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated innovations in diabetes care, which could create a long-term change in the way doctors and patients communicate, a group of diabetes specialists say.
  Reuters Health Information, October 29, 2020
• TCT 2020 Valvular Disease and COVID-19 Are a Deadly Mix; Don't Delay Intervention Data from the Multicenter International Valve Disease Registry vividly demonstrate that clinical outcomes are poor in patients with uncorrected valve disease who become hospitalized with COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• Most Docs Prefer a Public-Private Combo for Health Reform: Survey Popularity of Medicare for All sank among physicians, perhaps because of the government's botched pandemic response.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• Patients Testing Positive for Both COVID and Flu Following national public health warnings about a possible "twindemic," reports are surfacing of patients testing positive for both the coronavirus and influenza.
  WebMD Health News, October 30, 2020
• Health Workers Account for 1 in 6 Hospital COVID 19 Cases Healthcare workers and their families account for one in six (17.2%) hospital admissions for COVID-19 in the working age population (18-65 years), finds a study from Scotland published online in BMJ.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• COVID-19 Infection Fatality Ratio Is About 1.15%, Study Says A new study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London found the COVID-19 infection fatality ratio is about 1.15% of infected people in high-income nations and 0.23% in low-income nations.
  WebMD Health News, October 30, 2020
• IDWeek 2020 Potentially Practice-Changing Bacterial Therapy Trials Analyzed There has been some really good work that has gone on in the bacterial space. You may have your fair share of COVID patients, but these are infections that we still deal with on a daily basis.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• Superspreaders Spur Record New U.S. COVID Cases Less than a week ago, a daily record was set with 83,000 new cases.
  WebMD Health News, October 30, 2020
• No One Tells Patients Their COVID Hospital Bills Are Covered An investigation into his death found that, like many uninsured COVID-19 patients, he had never been told that cost shouldn't be a concern.
  Kaiser Health News, October 30, 2020
• 'So Frustrating': Grave Missteps Seen in US Virus Response As a new wave of infections sweeps the US just ahead of Election Day, the nation's handling of the COVID crisis has been marked by what health experts see as wasted time and squandered opportunities.
  Associated Press, October 30, 2020
• EADV 2020 Skin Symptoms Common in COVID 'Long-Haulers' Data from an international registry shed light on the lasting inflammatory effects of SARS-CoV-2 and can also inform patient management and prognosis.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• ACG 2020 Video Capsule Endoscopy May Reduce Exposure to COVID Video capsule endoscopy provides an alternative triage tool for acute GI bleeding that could reduce personnel exposure to SARS-CoV-2, a cohort study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• Fauci Says First US COVID-19 Vaccines Could Ship Late December or Early January If all goes well, the first doses of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine will likely become available to some high-risk Americans in late December or early January, Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious diseases expert, said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, October 29, 2020