Fully vaccinated people can skip Covid quarantines, CDC says, with caveats

Overview -- COCID-19 International developments

WHO expert group recommends use of AstraZeneca vaccine

GENEVA (AP) — Independent experts advising the World Health Organization about immunization on Wednesday recommended the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine even in countries that turned up worrying coronavirus variants in their populations.

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CDC Says Wearing Two Masks Provides More Protection Against Coronavirus

South Africa scraps AstraZeneca vaccine, will give J&J shots

BioNTech ramps up vaccine production at another production plant in Germany

People With Dementia Are Twice as Likely to Get Covid--Study

People with dementia had significantly greater risk of contracting the coronavirus, and they were much more likely to be hospitalized and die from it, than people without dementia, a new study of millions of medical records in the United States has found.

Their risk could not be entirely explained by characteristics common to people with dementia that are known risk factors for Covid-19: old age, living in a nursing home and having conditions like obesity, asthma, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. After researchers adjusted for those factors, Americans with dementia were still twice as likely to have gotten Covid-19 as of late last summer.

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Ford Motor will be producing new style masks that allow improved communication

The controversy over rapid coronavirus tests: a guide

Study measures reductions in coronavirus transmissions by vaccinated persons--Israeli lab

Israel’s largest COVID-19 testing lab says it has found evidence indicating that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine significantly reduces the transmissibility of the coronavirus, offering a tentative answer to one of the world’s most burning questions.

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ANALYSIS: Why the U.S. Is Underestimating Covid Reinfection

Overview: COVID-19 International brief developments

WHO team says COVID-19 likely originated in bats, rules out labatory leak

Study indicates that statewide mask manadates results in up to 5.5. % reduction in hospitalization growth rates ation

 

Decline in COVID-19 Hospitalization Growth Rates Associated with Statewide Mask Mandates — 10 States, March–October 2020

(MMWR) During March 22–October 17, 2020, 10 sites participating in the COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network in states with statewide mask mandates reported a decline in weekly COVID-19–associated hospitalization growth rates by up to 5.5 percentage points for adults aged 18–64 years after mandate implementation, compared with growth rates during the 4 weeks preceding implementation of the mandate. Mask-wearing is a component of a multipronged strategy to decrease exposure to and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and reduce strain on the health care system, with likely direct effects on COVID-19 morbidity and associated mortality.  ...

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Vaccinations are markedly helping reduce Covid-19 in nursing homes --analysis

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