Latest Coronavirus News

• 2021 May Be Big Lyme Disease Year For the first time, Lyme disease-carrying ticks -- typically associated with woodlands in New England and other forested regions of the US -- have been found in abundance near beaches in Northern California, new research shows.
  WebMD Health News, May 07, 2021
• Kamala Harris' Family in India Where COVID Rages G. Balachandran turned 80 this spring — a milestone of a birthday in India, where he lives. If not for the coronavirus pandemic, he would have been surrounded by celebrating family members.
  Associated Press, May 07, 2021
• Survey Offers Snapshot of Nationwide COVID-19 Discharge Practices More than one-quarter of sites gave little or no guidance for clinical discharge criteria, while 14% gave very specific detailed algorithms.
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• US Schools Turn Focus to Mental Health of Students Reeling From Pandemic As COVID-19 upended education during the past year, Pennsylvania middle school teacher Jennifer Lundberg often began her English lessons gauging the mental wellbeing of her students.
  Reuters Health Information, May 06, 2021
• Pleas for Help in India as COVID-19 Leaves Children Without Carers When an Indian children's rights group tracked down two boys aged 6 and 8 after it was told that their parents were both severely ill with COVID-19 and unable to care for them, the children had not eaten for days.
  Reuters Health Information, May 06, 2021
• Novavax Vaccine Shows 51% Efficacy Against South African Variant, Study Finds Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine had efficacy of 51% against infections caused by the South African variant among people who were HIV negative, according to a new analysis published on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 06, 2021
• Parental Deaths Climb as Much as 20% During COVID-19 Pandemic in US COVID-19 fatalities in the US have so far taken a parent from more than 37,000 children, an increase of 17.5% to 20.2% in parental bereavement compared to the pre-pandemic period, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, May 05, 2021
• COVID-19 Vaccine Patents Dominate Global Trade Talks WHO members will assess on Wednesday signs of progress in talks on a proposal by South Africa and India to waive patent rights on COVID-19 vaccines in order to boost supply to developing countries.
  Reuters Health Information, May 05, 2021
• Canada Permits Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine for Children 12-15, Reports Third Death Linked to AstraZeneca Canada is authorizing the use of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine for use in children aged 12 to 15, the first doses to be allowed for people that young, the federal health ministry said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 05, 2021
• Lilly Hit by Staff Accusations, FDA Scrutiny at COVID Drug Factories Eli Lilly employees have accused a factory executive of altering documents required by government regulators in an effort to downplay serious quality control problems at the US plant producing the drugmaker's COVID-19 treatment, according to an internal Lilly complaint and a source familiar with the matter.
  Reuters Health Information, May 05, 2021
• Our Readers Respond: Require Doctors Be COVID-19 Vaccinated? A WebMD poll and another from Medscape approach the same COVID-19 vaccination requirement question from different angles.
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• BSR 2021 Studies Highlight Pandemic's Impact on Patients With RMDs From the Europe-based REUMAVID study to the United Kingdom's CONTAIN study, some common themes are emerging, with lessons to be learned for future practice.
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• COVID Testing a Windfall for Hospitals, Labs, and Others As the pandemic enters its second year, no procedure has been more frequent than tests for the virus causing it. And it's serving as a financial bonanza for some.
  Kaiser Health News, May 07, 2021
• APA 2021 Support Group for Asian Americans Uses Theater to Cope With COVID An online, culturally based peer support group that uses theater and other creative outlets is helping Asian Americans cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• Topol Talks: COVID-19 Variants Are Innocent Until Proven Guilty Medscape Medical News Editor-in-Chief Eric Topol, MD, addresses the ability of current and future COVID-19 vaccines to combat SARS-CoV-2 variants and other obstacles to pandemic "containment."
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• ARVO 2021 COVID-19 Confinement May Have Caused Myopia in Kids The COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to a myopia pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2021
• ARVO 2021 COVID Delay of nAMD Treatment Less Harmful than Expected Does this suggest that ophthalmologists are overtreating their patients?
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2021
• Majority of Parents Will Wait on Kids' COVID Vaccine The survey, by the polling company Invisibly, asked 1258 parents about their thoughts on the COVID vaccine for their children.
  WebMD Health News, May 06, 2021
• COVID-Related Mental Illness Rises, Capacity to Treat Falls During the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of Americans reporting symptoms of mental illness has significantly increased, and the capacity to treat these disorders has decreased, a new report shows.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2021
• Ventilated COVID Patient Gets Ivermectin After Court Order The daughter of a 68-year-old woman, who has been in an Illinois ICU for a month, sued to get the controversial drug the FDA has warned against administered to her mom. A judge granted the family's wish.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2021