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• 12 Ideas for Getting Kids Back to School   The lynchpin of economic recovery may rest with getting kids back to school, says F. Perry Wilson. Here are 12 ideas for getting it done safely.
  Medscape, July 08, 2020
• COVID-19 Update: Elusive Complication, Remdesivir Toxicity The coronavirus stories Medscape's editors around the globe think you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2020
• Off-Road Screening Tests Can Identify Impaired Driving Among Older Adults Off-road driver screening tests can reliably identify older adults who are likely to fail on-road driving tests, an Australian study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• Demand for Unproven COVID-19 Remedy Led to Shortages for SLE Patients Pandemic-driven demand for hydroxychloroquine contributed to shortages for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, according to an international survey of lupus clinics.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• Hepatotoxicity Tied to Remdesivir COVID-19 Treatment Although remdesivir treatment may shorten time to recovery in patients with COVID-19, it may also induce liver injury, possibly in combination with P-glycoprotein inhibitors, according to a case report by Dutch investigators.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• Interventions Could Reduce Racial Disparity in Neonatal Kernicterus Various interventions could reduce the largely overlooked high kernicterus rate among Black infants, a new review suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• Poor Data Obscures COVID-19 Death Toll at Spain's Nursing Homes The Spanish government is still not able to say how many nursing home residents have died because of the coronavirus, according to a Health Ministry document seen by Reuters.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• WHO Experts to Travel to China at Weekend to Study COVID-19 Origins The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that experts from the global body would travel to China at the weekend to prepare a study of the origins of the novel coronavirus and how it jumped from animals to humans.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• People Refusing Coronavirus Treatment May Face Jail in Italy's Veneto People who test positive for the coronavirus but refuse hospital treatment could face a prison sentence under a new regulation introduced in Italy's northeastern region of Veneto.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• GSK to Develop Plant-Based COVID-19 Vaccine With Canada's Medicago The world's largest vaccine-maker GSK has put its vaccine booster technology to work in a potential new COVID-19 shot, to be developed with a Canadian biopharmaceutical company backed by tobacco company Philip Morris.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• US Government Awards Novavax $1.6 Billion for Coronavirus Vaccine The US government has awarded Novavax Inc $1.6 billion to cover testing and manufacturing of a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus in the US.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• Congo Health Workers Reduce Coronavirus Services in Pay Protest Health workers responding to the coronavirus outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital have cut their services to a minimum in protest against unpaid bonuses, they said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• Sierra Leone Doctors Threaten to Expand Strike Amid COVID-19 Crisis Doctors in Sierra Leone, who are refusing to treat COVID-19 patients to press demands for bonus payments and more protective equipment, threatened on Tuesday to suspend care for other patients too if the dispute is not resolved by Sunday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• South Korean COVID-19 Patient Recovering After Double Lung Transplant After a record 112 days on a specialized life-support system, a South Korean COVID-19 patient is recovering from double lung transplant surgery, doctors say, in only the ninth such procedure worldwide since the coronavirus outbreak began.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• COVID News: Perspective From a Physician Journalist   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Jonathan LaPook, chief medical correspondent for CBS News, about his experience as a physician journalist.
  WebMD, July 08, 2020
• China Could Have Done More to Aid World's COVID-19 Response, Top US Health Official Says US coronavirus task force response coordinator Dr Deborah Birx said that the US and other countries could have had a stronger initial response to COVID-19 if China had been more forthcoming about key features of the virus.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• US Withdrawal From WHO to Take Effect July 2021: UN The US will leave WHO on July 6, 2021, the UN said on Tuesday after receiving formal notification of the decision by President Donald Trump more than a month ago.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• US Signs $450 Mln Contract With Regeneron for COVID-19 Therapy The US government signed a $450 million contract with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for its potential COVID-19 antibody cocktail, the drugmaker said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• GSK Says Long-Acting HIV Prevention Drug 65% More Effective Than Truvada Britain's GSK said on Tuesday that an injection of its cabotegravir drug given every two months was found to be 65% more effective in preventing HIV infections than Gilead's Truvada daily oral pills.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• 'At War Time Speed', China Leads COVID-19 Vaccine Race China is forging ahead in the race to develop a vaccine to help control the COVID-19 pandemic, with Sinovac Biotech's experimental vaccine set to become the country's second and the world's third to enter final stage testing later this month.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020