Featured Headlines Fauci: No Quick End to Pandemic – MedPageToday But NIAID director, in CHEST speech, was optimistic about vaccine prospects. In a sobering message to physicians and their patients, the United States’ top infectious disease official suggests the rampaging…
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Tulane Outbreak Daily – October 19, 2020
Upcoming Virtual Events Webinar: COVID-19: Navigating the COVID-19 Treatment Landscape From antivirals and anti-inflammatory therapy to corticosteroids and convalescent plasma, the treatment landscape for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) evolves each and every day as more and more studies are added…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – October 16, 2020
Featured Headlines Researchers Blast ‘Dangerous’ COVID-19 Herd Immunity Strategy – MedPageToday Any so-called “herd immunity” strategy based on letting coronavirus infections spread unchecked is not only dangerous, but completely unsupported by scientific evidence, said researchers in an open letter to…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – October 14, 2020
Featured Headlines Midwestern States Surge Toward Top of All-Time U.S. Covid Cases – Bloomberg North Dakota looks poised to become the No. 1 state in the nation by cumulative Covid-19 cases per capita, having surged past Florida and Mississippi with…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – October 13, 2020
Featured Headlines Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly pause covid-19 trials for possible safety issues – Washington Post Experts say the halts demonstrate that monitoring systems to protect patient safety are working as intended. But some worry the lack of information…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – October 12, 2020
Featured Headlines Covid-19 Coronavirus May Survive For 28 Days On These Surfaces – Forbes On the surface, this doesn’t look good. A study just published in the Virology Journal found that the Covid-19 coronavirus can survive on common surfaces such…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – October 7, 2020
Featured Headlines Even Mild Covid-19 Infections Can Make People Sick for Months – Bloomberg Two-thirds of patients who had a mild-to-moderate case of Covid-19 reported symptoms 60 days after falling ill, when more than a third still felt sick or in a worse condition…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – October 6, 2020
Virtual Events Series two of the COVID-19 Open Online Briefings is in motion Each week Dr David Nabarro shares the latest about the state of the pandemic and response priorities. He offers a 30-minute update on what he sees happening…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – October 5, 2020
Featured Headlines Trump to Be Discharged – MedPageToday Well enough to return to White House, but experts remain puzzled about his aggressive treatment. President Trump said via Twitter that he will be discharged from Walter Reed Medical Center on Monday evening and…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – October 2, 2020
Featured Headlines Masks, Social Distancing Will Likely Be Needed Until Late 2021, Fauci Says During Virtual Event – CBS News Americans better get used to wearing masks and practicing social distancing for another year, Dr. Anthony Fauci said during a…