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First it was a surge in infections. Then hospitalizations. And now, as experts warned, deaths due to COVID-19 are rising in the U.S. back to peak-levels of the spring. There were 2,100 COVID deaths on Tuesday.
The White House coronavirus task force is stressing that the new surge in infections can only be minimized through the “significant behavior change of all Americans.”
Several states and cities are cracking down on the movement of Thanksgiving travelers as a survey shows a lot of people are disregarding warnings about COVID transmission during the holiday.
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News reports are from Russia, England, Mexico, Serbia and Spain.
Editorial pages focus on these pandemic topics and other public health issues.
In other news, people again are panic-buying toilet paper, fans are off limits at a South Dakota basketball tournament, recovery groups go online and more.
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently asked young adults if they had thought about killing themselves in the past 30 days, 1 of 4 said they had.
Among those at risk are people entering new relationships, often post-menopause, when they're less likely to follow safe sex measures because pregnancy is no longer a consideration.
The drug, Zokinvy, appears to increase the average lifespan of children with the rapid-aging disorder by more than two years.
At New York City Health and Hospitals, some of the protective measures include equipping patient rooms with cameras and microphones to enable more remote monitoring, purchasing additional ventilators and dialysis machines, establishing hot (COVID) and cold (non-COVID) areas in hospitals and training some existing nurses for ICU work.
Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of outside experts that makes recommendations to the CDC on use of vaccines, met Monday.
The study, led by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, looked at almost 136,000 pediatric patients -- only 4% of those tested positive for the virus. Other research news touches on sense of smell, lung capacity and bloodstream infections.
In other news: The Strategic National Stockpile still lacks supplies, Clorox can't keep up, Sen. Susan Collins lands a hefty testing swab contract for a Maine company, and more.
Stateline examines how the incoming Biden administration could deliver increased support and funding for state health care services.
A study found that patients in the first three stages of colon cancer who were in expansion states were more likely to receive primarily surgical treatment within 30 days than those in non-expansion states.
Reversing a lower court's ruling, a federal appeals court ruled that the states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood clinics. The case is expected to reach the Supreme Court.
The Trump administration says it will start today distributing the COVID-19 therapy, just approved for emergency use by the FDA. Meanwhile a former FDA chief warns about the virus' long-term effects.
With access to funds and federal officials no longer blocked, getting up to speed on the government's pandemic response and vaccine distributions plans is the top priority for President-elect Joe Biden's transition team.
News about state and local virus restrictions also comes from Washington, D.C., California, Delaware, Florida and Missouri. Additionally, research explores how mask mandates can help consumer spending as well as public health efforts.
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