Featured Headlines U.S. Sets Daily Record For New COVID-19 Cases – NPR With numbers spiking across Southern states, the United States set a daily record for new COVID-19 cases Thursday in a return to figures not seen since late April.…
Featured Headlines The Pandemic’s Worst-Case Scenario Is Unfolding in Brazil – Bloomberg Overflowing hospitals. Widespread corruption. And a chloroquine-obsessed populist in charge. On a recent afternoon in São Luís, the capital of Maranhão state in northeastern Brazil, Hosana Lima Castro sat…
Featured Headlines Fauci: ‘Too Early’ to Link Young Virus Cases to Death Rate – Bloomberg It’s too soon to tell whether a jump in coronavirus infections among young people is holding down the overall mortality rate from Covid-19, a top…
Featured Headlines WHO reports largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases – AP The virus has infected over 8.8 million people worldwide and killed more than 464,000, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University, though the true numbers are thought…
Featured Headlines Some parts of the U.S. are ‘on the cusp of losing control’ – CNBC As new coronavirus cases surge in several states across the American South and West, the hardest-hit areas are now “on the cusp of losing…
Featured Headlines Do Your Genes Place You At High Risk For COVID-19? – Forbes In the last six months the world has learned that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, more commonly known as COVID-19, is contagious, can be deadly, and has become a…
Featured Headlines Low-cost dexamethasone reduces death by up to one third in hospitalised patients with severe respiratory complications of COVID-19 – University of Oxford A total of 2104 patients were randomised to receive dexamethasone 6 mg once per day (either…
Readers, today’s edition of the Tulane Outbreak Daily is shorter than usual, but will return tomorrow with updated stats and the latest headlines tomorrow. Headed to my daughter’s High School graduation ceremony with COVID-19 protocols today. It’s a drive through…
Featured Headlines HCQ No Longer Approved Even a Little for COVID-19 – MedPageToday Study after study showed no benefit, and now the FDA has had enough. The FDA rescinded its emergency use authorization (EUA) of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to treat COVID-19…
Featured Headlines Glass vial makers prepare for COVID-19 vaccine – Reuters Drugmakers are warning of a potential shortage of vials to bottle future COVID-19 vaccines, but their rush to secure supplies risks making matters worse, some major medical equipment manufacturers…
