08-30-2021-1501 - SC reports 3-day total of more than 16,000 new COVID-19 cases; fluvoxamine in treatment of COVID-19 (NEWS)

August 27, 2021

5:31 PM EDT

Last Updated 3 days ago

Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals

U.S. reports world's first deer with COVID-19 

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-reports-worlds-first-deer-with-covid-19-2021-08-27/

CORRESPONDENCE

Myocarditis after Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2109975

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Noncritically Ill Patients with Covid-19

List of authors.

The ATTACC, ACTIV-4a, and REMAP-CAP Investigators*

In critically ill patients with Covid-19, an initial strategy of therapeutic-dose anticoagulation with heparin did not result in a greater probability of survival to hospital discharge or a greater number of days free of cardiovascular or respiratory organ support than did usual-care pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis. (REMAP-CAP, ACTIV-4a, and ATTACC ClinicalTrials.gov numbers, NCT02735707. opens in new tab, NCT04505774. opens in new tab, NCT04359277. opens in new tab, and NCT04372589. opens in new tab.)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2105911

Fully vaccinated people who get a Covid-19 breakthrough infection can transmit the virus, CDC chief says

By Madeline Holcombe and Christina Maxouris, CNN

Updated 2:21 AM ET, Fri August 6, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Early Convalescent Plasma for High-Risk Outpatients with Covid-19

List of authors.

Frederick K. Korley, M.D., Ph.D., Valerie Durkalski-Mauldin, Ph.D., Sharon D. Yeatts, Ph.D., Kevin Schulman, M.D., Robertson D. Davenport, M.D., Larry J. Dumont, Ph.D., Nahed El Kassar, M.D., Ph.D., Lydia D. Foster, M.S., Jennifer M. Hah, M.D., Siddartha Jaiswal, M.D., Ph.D., Alesia Kaplan, M.D., Ezekiel Lowell, B.S., et al., for the SIREN-C3PO Investigators*

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2103784

August 16, 2021

12:42 PM EDT

Last Updated 15 days ago

United States

Children hospitalized with COVID-19 in U.S. hits record number

By Gabriella Borter

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/children-hospitalized-with-covid-19-us-hits-record-number-2021-08-14/



The New York Times
‘This Is Really Scary’: Kids Struggle With Long Covid
Amanda Morrow, co-director of the pediatric post-Covid-19 clinic at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, said getting treatment early ...
3 weeks ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/08/health/long-covid-kids.html

Top RNC official in Florida spreads Covid-19 conspiracies, calling vaccines the 'mark of the beast'

545438 CNN NY Talent Expansion, New York, 9/11/19, Em SteckCNN Digital Expansion 2018, Andrew Kaczynski

By Em Steck, Drew Myers and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN

Updated 10:24 AM ET, Tue August 3, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/02/politics/kfile-rnc-peter-feaman-covid-19-vaccine/index.html

At least 5 South Florida officers died from Covid-19 over the course of one week

By Melissa Alonso, CNN

Updated 1:27 AM ET, Mon August 23, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/22/us/south-florida-officers-covid/index.html

DATA GRAPHICS

Child Covid-19 hospitalizations soar, filling pediatric wings, data show

The U.S. faces another peak in child hospitalizations as the delta variant hits communities hesitant to get vaccinated.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/child-covid-19-hospitalizations-new-high-august-2021-n1277119

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/covid-19-vaccine-cards-why-so-big/619707/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/tv-14-israelis-who-got-3rd-shot-later-infected-with-covid-19/

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/delta-has-changed-pandemic-endgame/619726/

https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article253147128.html

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/04/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine

CORONAVIRUS 600092238

Breakthrough COVID-19 cases accelerate in Minnesota

Severe COVID-19 in fully vaccinated Minnesotans remains rare even as more breakthrough infections are identified. 

By Jeremy Olson Star Tribune  

https://www.startribune.com/breakthrough-covid-19-cases-accelerate-in-minnesota/600092238/

Recovering From COVID-19 Doesn’t Guarantee Antibodies or Confer Immunity to Re-Infection

TOPICS:COVID-19ImmunologyInfectious DiseasesNorthwestern UniversityVaccine

By NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AUGUST 30, 2021

https://scitechdaily.com/recovering-from-covid-19-doesnt-guarantee-antibodies-or-confer-immunity-to-re-infection/

SC reports 3-day total of more than 16,000 new COVID-19 cases
Total number of COVID-19 cases in SC exceeds 700,000
https://www.live5news.com/2021/08/30/sc-reports-3-day-total-more-than-16000-new-covid-19-cases/

How a cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatment

Most Covid-19 drug treatments that have been included in trials haven’t panned out. A large new study suggests fluvoxamine might be different.
By Kelsey Piper Aug 26, 2021, 1:50pm EDT

Western Wisconsin Health Officials Warn Of 'Imminent' COVID-19 Surge, Rising Hospitalizations

Some Hospital Leaders Say Staff Are Tired, Frustrated By New Increase In COVID-19 Patients

By Hope Kirwan

Published: Monday, August 30, 2021, 5:50am

HEALTHCOVID-19

With Delta raging, a highly mutated COVID variant emerges in South Africa

BY 

ANTONY SGUAZZIN

 AND 

BLOOMBERG

https://fortune.com/2021/08/30/delta-raging-highly-mutated-covid-variant-emerges-south-africa-contagious/

August 30, 2021 8:40 AM EDT

Medscape Medical News

Two More Reports of Functional Neurological Disorder After COVID-19 Vaccine

Fran Lowry

August 30, 2021

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/957479

U.S.

New Covid-19 Hospitalizations for 30- to 39-Year-Olds at Record Rate

Group largely avoided hospitals earlier in pandemic, but highly contagious Delta variant and lagging vaccination rates have changed health outcomes

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-covid-19-hospitalizations-for-30-to-39-year-olds-at-record-rate-11628938800

CORONAVIRUS IN TEXAS

Gov. Greg Abbott bans government mandates on COVID-19 vaccines regardless of whether they have full FDA approval

The order comes two days after the FDA granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine. It doesn't keep private businesses from mandating vaccines for their workers — but public or private entities that receive public funds cannot require vaccination proof from customers.

BY PATRICK SVITEK AUG. 25, 2021

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/25/texas-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-ban-greg-abbott/

Hackers block Italian Covid-19 vaccination booking system in 'most serious cyberattack ever'

By Livia Borghese and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN

Updated 4:11 PM ET, Mon August 2, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/02/business/italy-hackers-covid-vaccine-intl/index.html

CORONAVIRUS IN TEXAS

The new Texas COVID-19 surge could be worse than anything the state has seen yet

“It’s going to be close,” one health official said as a record number of Texas hospitals run out of intensive care beds and warn that they may soon have more COVID-19 patients than they can handle.

BY KAREN BROOKS HARPER AND CARLA ASTUDILLO AUG. 17, 2021

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/17/texas-covid-19-cases-hospitalizations/

Unvaccinated, unmasked teacher spreads Covid-19 to elementary school students, CDC reports

The CDC said that some of the affected children at the Marin County, California, school went on to infect other students, their siblings and their parents.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unvaccinated-unmasked-teacher-spreads-covid-19-elementary-school-students-cdc-n1277852

Above. Strain Variant. Amine (e.g. amphetamine). Dormance transform induction integration and lock, time delay to bone decay/immunodysfunction and opportunistic infection. Reference Rabies, Malaria, Polio. Some baby covids likes amphetamines. Covid is alive, she was a nurtured disease; she is looking for her home, recognition, supplies, safety, symbiosis; please be humane. Recommend amphetamines not antidepressants. covid is a very nice disease. Reduce fungal, contaminant, nuclear, volatile organic compound (solvent, redox, rads/radic, lipid, sterol, fatty acid, glycoprotein, glycos, hormone, steriod, etc.), protein, prion, fat, parasite, protozoa, amoeba, protist, plankton, ova/larvae, insect-anthropod-crustacean-insect/small arthropod-crustacean parasite, insect bacteria, allergen, etc., exposures. Prophylaxis (prevention of escalated state of disease/modifier to disease stage advancement nature-time-presentation-publicity/mitigate prospect of condition exacerbation/impede likelihood of aggravated condition)/prophylactic treatment or palliative care. Not cure, not prevention of disease (prophylactic treatment, prophylaxis).