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Dicen que hay que informar a los consumidores, para que se preparen para efectos secundarios que, en realidad, pueden significar que las vacunas funcionan.
Research Roundup: COVID; MIS-C; Leukemia; Childhood Cancer
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
Editorial writers express views about these pandemic topics and others.
Generic Drugmakers Team Up To Help Poorer Nations Get COVID Treatments
Other global news is from Turkey, Brazil, New Zealand, France and Lebanon.
New York Plans To Limit Size Of Private Gatherings; Curfews Set In Parts Of New Jersey
Media outlets report on news from New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other states, as well.
1,500 Nurses In Philadelphia Threaten To Strike
Meanwhile in Utah, the state’s largest hospital system is hiring nearly 200 traveling nurses to boost staffs at struggling intensive care units and hospital wards.
Restrictions Silenced Many Veterans Day Gatherings, Parades
Many veterans homes chose to protect their residents this year. More than 4,200 veterans have died from COVID in government-run homes and nearly 85,000 have been infected.
First Caribbean Cruise Since Sailings Restarted Has A COVID Case
Also in the news: Ticketmaster is working on a plan to verify concertgoers’ vaccine status; a child with measles had possible exposures at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; Ohio State postpones its game against Maryland because of COVID; and more.
Data On Effectiveness Of Moderna’s Vaccine Expected By End Of Month
Moderna will start analyzing the first round of date from its final-stage trials and expects to release information on the vaccine’s efficacy in a few weeks.
Clinical Trial Volunteers Describe Effects Of Pfizer Vaccine
News outlets interview a few of the participants in Pfizer’s testing, with some likening the side effects to a “severe hangover” and another saying he now feels “superhuman.” Participants don’t know if they received the vaccine or a placebo.
Tensions Escalate Between Fauci And Other Trump Administration Officials
In particular, public disputes with Dr. Scott Atlas escalate while Dr. Anthony Fauci also comments on former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s public call that he be beheaded.
Trump Administration Eyes Health Care Orders, Rules In Final Weeks
And President Donald Trump — who continues to contest that he lost the White House — blasted the FDA over post-election timing of the announcement about the efficacy of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.
Medicare Will Pay For COVID Antibody Treatments, CMS Announces
The coverage will apply to bamlanivimab. At least one doctor hailed the news as “helpful” for nursing home residents in particular.
Biden Creates Special Transition Team Dedicated To COVID Crisis Response
This group met for the first time on Tuesday and will be largely separate from the coronavirus task force that President-elect Joe Biden named earlier this week, Politico reports. News outlets report on other ways the incoming administration is approaching the COVID public health emergency.
Biden Taps Chief Of Staff Who Brings Pandemic Experience To Job
Ron Klain served as the “Ebola czar” during the Obama administration. The incoming Biden administration will encounter depleted staffs at nearly every federal agency.
California To Join Texas With Over 1 Million Cases As Infections Accelerate In Every State
The state of the public health crisis is also reported out of Iowa, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
Deaths Climb After Ninth Straight Day Above 100,000 COVID Cases In US
The death toll stands at over 241,000. The alarming trend of breaking daily records for new infections continued as well, with the U.S. reporting over 144,000 cases on Wednesday.
Overstressed Hospitals Face Shortages Of Workers, Beds And Treatments
The latest COVID spike is flooding hospitals and medical offices, straining the U.S. health care system. Doctors fear that the crisis is approaching a point where they will have to make dreaded choices about which patients gets beds, ventilators or medications and who will be sent home.
AstraZeneca Study: Blood Cancer Drug Fails To Reduce Deaths From COVID
AstraZeneca’s work is among many trying to evaluate known treatments. Other disappointments include Sanofi’s rheumatoid arthritis medicine Kevzara.
NEJM: Symptom-Based Screening Misses Many Cases In Military
Temperature checks and questions about health rarely detect asymptomatic people. Testing detects more cases.