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Opinion: How Lessons from Global Health Can Improve Health And The Response To COVID-19 In The US

Submitted by mike kraft on Wed, 2020-08-12 15:50

How Lessons from Global Health Can Improve Health And The Response To COVID-19 In The US | Health Affairs

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‘A Smoking Gun’: Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved From Hospital Air

Submitted by mike kraft on Wed, 2020-08-12 10:48

Skeptics of the notion that the coronavirus spreads through the air — including many expert advisers to the World Health Organization — have held out for one missing piece of evidence: proof that floating respiratory droplets called aerosols contain live virus, and not just fragments of genetic material.

Now a team of virologists and aerosol scientists has produced exactly that: confirmation of infectious virus in the air.

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OVERVIEW: At least 161,000 people have died from coronavirus in the U.S.

Submitted by mike kraft on Wed, 2020-08-12 10:37

U.S. coronavirus cases: Tracking deaths, confirmed cases by state The death toll from covid-19 began to rise steadily in early March, then more sharply as the disease spread to every state and most U.S. territories. Joe Fox, Brittany Mayes, Kevin Schaul, Leslie Shapiro, Bonnie Berkowitz, Youjin Shin, Chris Alcantara Washington Post

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Companies test antibody drugs to treat, prevent COVID-19

Submitted by mike kraft on Wed, 2020-08-12 10:15

Companies test antibody drugs to treat, prevent COVID-19 With a coronavirus vaccine still months off, companies are rushing to test what may be the next best thing: drugs that deliver antibodies to fight the virus right away, without having to train the... AP NEWS

With a coronavirus vaccine still months off, companies are rushing to test what may be the next best thing: drugs that deliver antibodies to fight the virus right away, without having to train the immune system to make them.

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How to recognize Covid-19 symptoms in children, based on pediatricians' advice

Submitted by mike kraft on Wed, 2020-08-12 09:51

How to recognize Covid-19 symptoms in children As US schools and universities move forward with plans for full or partial in-person instruction, parents worry about the spread of coronavirus. Here's what we know about Covid-19's impact on children and how to identify the illness. Sandee LaMotte, Katia Hetter, Kristen Rogers and Ryan Prior, CNN CNN

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Federal spending on COVID-19 vaccine candidates tops $9 billion, spread among 7 companies

Submitted by mike kraft on Wed, 2020-08-12 09:35

Federal spending on COVID-19 vaccine candidates tops $9 billion, spread among 7 companies Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government has allocated more than $9 billion among 7 companies to develop and make COVID-19 vaccine. Karen Weintraub and Elizabeth Weise USA TODAY

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Over 900 Health Workers Have Died of COVID-19. And the Toll Is Rising.

Submitted by mike kraft on Tue, 2020-08-11 16:32

Exclusive: Over 900 Health Workers Have Died of COVID-19. And the Toll Is Rising. KHN and The Guardian unveil an interactive database documenting front-line health care worker deaths. The majority of them are people of color — and nurses face the highest toll. Terry Byrne Kaiser Health News

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STUDY: measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during speech

Submitted by mike kraft on Tue, 2020-08-11 13:42

Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during speech Mandates for mask use in public during the recent COVID-19 pandemic, worsened by global shortage of commercial supplies, have led to widespread use of homemade masks and mask alternatives. It is assumed that wearing such masks reduces the likelihood for an infected person to spread the disease, but many of these mask designs have not been tested in practice. We have demonstrated a simple optical measurement method to evaluate the efficacy of masks to reduce the transmission of respiratory droplets during regular speech.

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EDITORIAL: Kansas tested whether mask mandates decrease COVID-19 cases. The results were clear

Submitted by mike kraft on Tue, 2020-08-11 11:59

Kansas tested whether mask mandates decrease COVID-19 cases. The results were clear Do we really have to ask anymore if masks slow the spread of the coronavirus? kansascity

Do masks work? Better yet, do we really need to ask?

Apparently so.

OK. But as the national debate on whether masks inhibit the spread of COVID-19 goes on far beyond its logical conclusion, what should be a new closing argument has just been made. In Kansas, of all places.

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