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WSJ: US round-up: https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-cases-top-25-million-world-wide-11598780022 There is also some info on India. Moderna faces Pentagon probe over vaccine patents: https://www.ft.com/content/2be1f87e-9e96-4e23-9cc5-33ba35e50586 . WSJ: Companies rush to shore up COVID-19 testing availability ahead of flu season: https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-rush-to-shore-up-covid-19-testing-ahead-of-flu-season-11598788800 . WSJ: Teachers retrain for online teaching: https://www.wsj.com/articles/teachers-retrain-to-keep-students-on-track-in-online-classes-11598727600 . WSJ: Garbage piles up: https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-trash-piles-up-during-covid-residents-raise-a-stink-11598779801 . China’s biggest oil refiner, Sinopec, has …

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WSJ: US round-up: https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-latest-news-08-29-2020-11598698806 . News for South Korea and Japan is in last paragraphs. Vaccine status tracker: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/aug/29/covid-vaccine-tracker-when-will-a-coronavirus-vaccine-be-ready . The tracker follows 186 vaccines, 7 of which have entered Phase 3 trials. CDC updates advice on those most at risk from COVID-19: https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/cdc-removes-covid-age-range-warning.html . FDA approves expanded use of remdesivir, without evidence: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/08/28/fda-ignores-science-expanding-remdesivir-treat-covid-19/5662305002/ . …

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WSJ: US round-up: https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-latest-news-08-26-2020-11598427633 . CDC changes testing guidelines: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-testing-guidelines-coronavirus-no-symptoms_n_5f4667fac5b64f17e136efd2 . As the article points out, asymptomatic people spread the disease, so this change makes no sense, unless long-term testing shortages are expected – oh … WSJ: FDA defends plasma decision: https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-officials-reject-claims-that-convalescent-plasma-decision-was-politicized-11598362563 . Not sure the FDA has any real defense here. Head of Harvard …

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WSJ: US round-up: https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-latest-news-08-25-2020-11598344983 . News on South Korea, India and New Zealand is in last paragraphs. FDA chief walks back plasma comments: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/25/fda-chief-walks-back-comments-on-effectiveness-of-coronavirus-plasma-treatment.html . The chaos of injecting politics into a public health crisis continues. More on racial disparities in hospitalizations: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/health/covid-19-hospitalizations-racial-ethnic-disparities-study/index.html . The re-infection case and immunity: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/8/24/21399041/covid-19-reinfection-hong-kong-case-immunity . A key point: It’s …

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US round-up: Cases decline nationally but trend upward in the Midwest: https://www.nationthailand.com/lifestyle/30393391 (article from the Washington Post). WSJ: More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-latest-news-08-24-2020-11598258429 . Note that the brain transplants suggested for University of Alabama students (this newsletter for July 14) have not occurred. WSJ: More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-is-covid-19-convalescent-plasma-11598217668 . While cases are dropping nationwide, schools and nursing homes are a …

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USA Today: US round-up: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/08/23/covid-news-trump-deep-state-fda-biden-prepared-shut-down-country/3419189001/ . Plasma therapy was used during the 1918 influenza pandemic, and has been used in combating many diseases and illnesses. Convalescent plasma is not a vaccine: https://www.history.com/news/blood-plasma-covid-19-measles-spanish-flu . WSJ: Antibody drugs advance: https://www.wsj.com/articles/antibody-drugs-advancing-to-fill-covid-19-treatment-gap-11598175001 . Infectious Disease Society of America: Hydroxychloroquine should not be used for COVID-19: https://www.idse.net/Covid-19/Article/06-20/IDSA-Recommends-Against-Using-Hydroxychloroquine-for-COVID-19-/59368 . Are oral …

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Bloomberg: Global round-up: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/global-deaths-pass-800000-cases-above-23-million-virus-update/ar-BB18gzFT?li=BBnb7Kz . Spain is closing brothels in Castillo-La Mancha, home of 80% of the country’s brothels, to fight a spike in COVID-19 cases. Vaccines administered nasally could offer more protection than those administered by injection: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00502-w . Symptom order in COVID-19: fever, cough, upper GI (nausea, vomiting), lower GI (diarrhea): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00473/full . …

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