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Getting to the Super Bowl: Lessons from the NFL on Controlling COVID-19
Aggressive implementation of mitigation procedures with continual evaluations and adjustments allowed the National Football League to complete their season with minimal COVID-19 transmission.
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Virus, Variants, Vaccines
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants may compromise the efficacy of current vaccines.
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Obesity Connected to Up to Half of All U.S. Diabetes Cases
Recent analysis reveals strong connection between body weight and type 2 diabetes.
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Community Health Centers to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
These facilities serve millions who live at or below the federal poverty line.
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Cabotegravir Extended-Release and Rilpivirine Injectable Suspension (Cabenuva) and Cabotegravir Tablets (Vocabria)
Cabotegravir/rilpivirine (CAB/RPV) should be prescribed to treat HIV-1-infected adults. This combination should replace the current antiretroviral (ARV) regimen in those who are virologically suppressed (HIV-1 RNA < 50 copies/mL) on a stable regimen with no history of treatment failure and no known or suspected resistance to ether CAB or RPV.
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Subclinical Influenza Infection in Healthcare Workers
Despite all precautions, influenza vaccination, handwashing campaigns, and messaging to staff not to come to work with respiratory symptoms, healthcare workers are an important source of nosocomial influenza and respiratory infection. Now, it is happening with COVID-19.
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Excess Deaths During COVID-19
Compared with death data for the same weeks from prior years, nearly 300,000 excess deaths occurred in the United States between the weeks ending Jan. 26 through Oct. 3, 2020. Two-thirds were attributed to COVID-19.
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Prior Metformin Use in Patients with Diabetes Hospitalized for COVID-19
Investigators found metformin use before COVID-19 hospitalization for patients with diabetes was associated with a lower risk of death.
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Feds Redefine Who Can Handle COVID-19 Vaccine
HHS expands list of who can prescribe, dispense, and administer shots.
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Does MRSA Nares Colonization Predict Non-Respiratory MRSA Infections?
Nares screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carried a high negative predictive value to rule out MRSA infections at various sites.