Latest Coronavirus News

• Scott Atlas Resigns as Special Adviser to Trump on Coronavirus Dr. Scott Atlas has resigned as special adviser to President Donald Trump, a White House official said on Monday, after a controversial four months during which he clashed repeatedly with other members of the coronavirus task force.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2020
• CMS Launches Hospital-at-Home Program to Free Up Hospital Capacity The agency's move is likely to prompt more hospitals to start similar initiatives and persuade more private insurers to cover hospital-at-home care.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2020
• COVID-19 and Risk of Clotting: 'Be Proactive About Prevention' How best to manage the increased risk of arterial and venous thrombosis in COVID-19 patients is the subject of a new review article.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2020
• California Urges Hospitals to Test All Workers for Virus A letter from the California Dept of Public Health recommended hospitals test healthcare workers weekly because they are at high risk of contracting COVID-19 and spreading it to other patients.
  Associated Press, November 30, 2020
• Pharma Money Colors Operation Warp Speed's Quest to Defeat COVID Moncef Slaoui, a Moderna board member and longtime drug industry executive, was awarded options to buy 18,270 shares in the company, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
  Kaiser Health News, November 30, 2020
• FDA Says It Won't Object to Dry Heat Use on N95 Respirators The new policy, which recognizes the ongoing PPE shortage amid the COVID-19 pandemic, goes into effect immediately.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2020
• AASLD 2020 AASLD 2020: A Clinical News Roundup 'We chose papers that had the highest level of evidence, such as randomized controlled trials, controlled studies, and large datasets -- and some small datasets too,' said Tamar Taddei, MD, Yale Univ.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2020
• Employers Decide Whether to Report Healthcare Worker Deaths Workplace safety regulators have given employers broad discretion to decide internally whether to report worker deaths. Scores of deaths were not reported to occupational safety officials.
  Kaiser Health News, November 30, 2020
• HIV, TB Tests Fall in East Europe and Central Asia Due to COVID-19 Testing for HIV and tuberculosis has fallen in Eastern Europe and Central Asia during the coronavirus pandemic and could lead to higher mortality rates, a UN special envoy for AIDS said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 25, 2020
• EU Seeks to Bypass Patents to Boost Drugs Access in Crises The European Union is planning bold measures to boost its access to drugs, from sidestepping patent rights in emergencies to offering incentives for companies to shift production to Europe, according to EU documents published on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 25, 2020
• Biden Fractures Foot, Will Wear Orthopedic Boot Follow-up CT scan confirmed hairline fractures of President-elect Biden's lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones. It is anticipated that he will likely require a walking boot for several weeks.
  WebMD Health News, November 30, 2020
• COVID-19 May Hurt Male Fertility Evidence of testes damage from COVID-19 has been accumulating in a series of small autopsy studies, suggesting that the new coronavirus could have an impact on male fertility.
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2020
• When and How Will COVID-19 Vaccines Become Available? Pfizer with partner BioNTech and Moderna have released trial data showing their COVID-19 vaccines to be about 95% effective at preventing the illness, while AstraZeneca Plc this week said its vaccine could be up to 90% effective.
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2020
• AstraZeneca CEO Says Co Likely to Run New Global Trial on COVID-19 Vaccine: Bloomberg News AstraZeneca is likely to run an additional global trial to assess the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine, according to the company's Chief Executive Pascal Soriot, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2020
• Berlin Plans Six Vast COVID-19 Vaccination Centres Handling 4000 People a Day Berlin is racing to open six mass vaccination centres capable of handling up to 4000 people per day by mid-December, the project coordinator told Reuters on Thursday, as the city waits for authorities to approve the first vaccines.
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2020
• When and Which COVID-19 Vaccines Are Likely to Be Available in Asia Pfizer with partner BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc and AstraZeneca have released trial data this month showing their experimental vaccines are effective in preventing the disease.
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2020
• WHO Experts Would Like to Go to Wuhan, China, to Probe COVID-19 Origin Researchers led by the World Health Organization would like to go back to a wholesale food market in Wuhan in China to follow up initial cases of COVID-19 which emerged in the city and investigate how the virus probably first spread from bats.
  Reuters Health Information, November 25, 2020
• How Will Canada's COVID-19 Vaccine Program Work? Canada has ordered more COVID-19 vaccine doses per capita than any other country - at least 194 million and up to 414 million doses for its population of 38 million.
  Reuters Health Information, November 25, 2020
• To Reopen or Not to Reopen: That Is the Fraught Question for US Schools After a 2-week deluge of calls and messages from parents, and at least one death threat, the school board in Chandler, Arizona, called a special meeting this fall.
  Reuters Health Information, November 25, 2020
• Mutations Not Making Coronavirus Able to Spread More Rapidly: Study The COVID-19-causing coronavirus is mutating as it spreads around the world in the pandemic, but none of the mutations currently documented appears to be making it able to spread more rapidly, scientists said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 25, 2020