Wednesday, September 23, 2020 (Kaiser News) — Reopening colleges drove a coronavirus surge of about 3,000 new cases a day in the United States, according to a draft study released Tuesday. The study, done jointly by researchers at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Indiana University, the University of Washington … Read more
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 (Kaiser News) — More than 20 states either don’t release or have incomplete data on the rapid antigen tests now considered key to containing the coronavirus, which has sickened more than 6 million Americans. The lapses leave officials and the public in the dark about the true scope of the pandemic … Read more
By Arthur Allen and Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Monday, September 14, 2020 (Kaiser News) — The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was halted when a participant suffered spinal cord damage, even as the National Institutes of Health has launched an investigation … Read more
Gender disparity in India is a hard reality. (Representational image: Reuters) By Sanjay Zodpey & Preeti Negandhi At a global level, India’s recent performance with respect to gender has been dismal. The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap global report of 2019 published country ranks on various parameters related to gender disparities such as political empowerment, … Read more
By JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News Thursday, September 03, 2020 (Kaiser News) — Dozens of major hospitals across the U.S. are grappling with whether to ignore a federal decision allowing broader emergency use of blood plasma from recovered COVID patients to treat the disease in favor of dedicating their resources to a gold-standard clinical trial … Read more
New Delhi: A high-level government committee has recommended introduction of cosmetovigilance to detect adverse effects of cosmetics, issue reaction warnings and monitor sale of such products. While the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, India’s drug regulatory authority, has both drugs and cosmetics under its purview, there is no platform that defines the activities related to … Read more
However, multiple experts disputed the idea that knowing the number of asymptomatic patients would be relevant for PPE projections. In facilities like nursing homes and jails — both of which were accounted for in the Georgia estimates — asymptomatic individuals could spread the virus if not quarantined immediately. “Because there’s not on-the-spot, point-of-care testing available … Read more
Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, professor, environmental health sciences, and director, Climate and Health Program, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Denis Nash, PhD, executive director, CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health; distinguished professor of epidemiology, CUNY School of Public Health. Amesh A. Adalja, MD, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. CNBC: “Dr. Scott … Read more