Featured Articles CDC reverses COVID-19 guidance, says testing may not be needed after exposure – NBC News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly tweaked its guidance on COVID-19 testing Monday, making a change that could result in fewer…
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Tulane Outbreak Daily – August 25, 2020
Featured Articles Why The Coronavirus Is So ‘Superspready’ – NPR A person with a high viral load walks into a bar. That, according to researchers who study the novel coronavirus, is a recipe for a superspreading event — where one…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – August 24, 2020
Featured Articles First Case of COVID-19 Reinfection Confirmed – MedPageToday Viral sequence disparity indicates Hong Kong case not simply prolonged infection. A 33-year-old man in Hong Kong may represent the first confirmed case of reinfection, researchers in Hong Kong said.…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – August 21, 2020
Featured Articles Saliva COVID Tests Have Real Potential, FDA Leader Says – MedPageToday The saliva-based test “really has potential” as a more convenient COVID-19 diagnostic, said Anand Shah, MD, the Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs at FDA, during a…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – August 20, 2020
Featured Articles An ‘Unprecedented’ Effort to Stop the Coronavirus in Nursing Homes – NYT Researchers are testing an experimental drug to halt sudden outbreaks. The trial may bring a new type of treatment for the virus. The coronavirus crept into…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – August 19, 2020
Featured Articles Progress report on the coronavirus pandemic – Nature In the first of a series of editorials, we look back at some of the key findings from scientists’ race to demystify SARS-CoV-2. What Derailed America’s Covid Testing: Three Lost…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – August 18, 2020
Featured Articles How Do People Catch Covid-19? Here’s What Experts Say – Washington Post/Bloomberg The modus operandi is becoming clearer. For the most part, SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, spreads by close personal contact via tiny particles emitted when…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – August 17, 2020
Featured Articles Covid-19 is now the No. 3 cause of death in the US. And testing to find and isolate cases has dropped off – CNN Just as more students head back to school, health experts are worried about a…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – August 14, 2020
Featured Articles US sees highest COVID-19 daily death toll since May – CIDRAP Yesterday 1,499 Americans died from the novel coronavirus, the highest number since mid-May, and 1,000 Americans each day have succumbed to COVID-19 for the last 17 days,…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – August 13, 2020
Featured Articles COVID-19 Was Worse Than the Flu in NYC… the 1918 Flu – MedPageToday From March 11 to May 11, COVID-19 was associated with four times as many expected deaths versus corresponding periods from 2017-2019 (incident rate ratio for…