September 7, 2021

Idaho activates “crisis standards of care,” letting hospitals ration treatment as Delta patients fill wards across the Mountain West. Outlets like Slate declare the health-care system has already collapsed. The rationing is real, though the coverage tends to skip the staffing crisis underneath it, where nurses have been quitting for months and looming mandates threaten to remove more of them.

Fauci calls Florida Governor Ron DeSantis “completely incorrect” for saying that whether a person gets vaccinated “really doesn’t impact me or anyone else.” The exchange arrives the same week the AP profiles unvaccinated Black and Latino Americans as “vaccine deliberate” rather than hesitant, a reminder that Delta was spreading among the vaccinated too and complicating the tidy line about personal responsibility.

The WHO accuses wealthy nations of prolonging the pandemic by hoarding treatments and vaccines, singling out the United States for administering more than 1.3 million booster doses while much of the world waited for a first shot. In Japan, a third man dies after receiving contaminated Moderna doses, with authorities saying no causal link has been established.

Idaho hospitals begin rationing health care amid COVID surge

AP News

Why some US Blacks and Latinos remain COVID-19 'vaccine deliberate'

Some experts and health advocates have found unvaccinated people of color to be vaccine 'deliberate' rather than vaccine hesitant.

ABC News

Is China's Covid-19 Diplomacy Succeeding? | ChinaPower Project

This ChinaPower feature provides a comprehensive assessment of the scope and impact of China's Covid-19 medical aid and vaccine diplomacy.

ChinaPower Project

Study examines severe breakthrough cases of COVID-19

A new Yale study provides insights into breakthrough COVID-19 cases in fully vaccinated individuals and who might be particularly vulnerable to serious illness.

YaleNews

Just Say It: The Health Care System Has Collapsed

Delta hasn't brought us to the brink or the edge. We're way past that.

Slate

More children are self-harming since the start of the pandemic. Here’s what parents and teachers can do to help

Self-harm is often a response to mounting stress and uncertainty. So it’s not surprising rates have gone up during the pandemic. Self-harm can be a means to cope and establish control over emotions.

The Conversation

No, taking zinc will not protect you from COVID-19

The National Institutes of Health and two OhioHealth doctors advised against using zinc supplementation above the recommended dietary amount to prevent COVID-19.

10TV

Fauci slams DeSantis for “completely incorrect” claim that vaccination doesn’t impact others

Axios

Chicago CBP Seize Counterfeit COVID Vaccination Cards

Securing America's Borders

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (.gov)

WHO criticizes wealthy nations for hoarding Covid treatments and vaccines, saying it's prolonging pandemic

The U.S., which has fully immunized 53% of its population, has already administered booster shots to more than 1.3 million people.

CNBC

Tempe-based company using UV lights to kill coronavirus particles

Besides rendering the virus that causes COVID-19 inactive, the UV-C light can also be used to keep people safe from the spores that cause Valley Fever.

FOX 10 Phoenix

Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in pregnancy - Nature Medicine

In an observational cohort of pregnant women in Israel, the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine was found to have effectiveness similar to that seen in the general population.

Nature

Functional comparison of MERS-coronavirus lineages reveals increased replicative fitness of the recombinant lineage 5 - Nature Communications

MERS-CoV is enzootic in dromedary camels, can spread to humans but undergoes limited onward transmission. Here, Schroeder et al. compare clinical isolates of MERS-CoV in vitro and show that the predominantly circulating recombinant lineage 5 possess a fitness advantage over parental lineage 3 and 4 due to reduced activation of innate immune signaling.

Nature

Fauci Says DeSantis Is 'Completely Incorrect' To Call Vaccine A Mere Personal Choice

"It really doesn't impact me or anyone else," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said about whether a person gets vaccinated. "Yeah, that's not true at all," Fauci said in response on Tuesday.

NPR

C60 fullerene against SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus: an in silico insight - Scientific Reports

Nature

New Studies Find Evidence Of 'Superhuman' Immunity To COVID-19 In Some Individuals

That's how some scientists describe the findings of a series of studies looking at the antibodies created by individuals who were infected by the coronavirus and then had an mRNA vaccine.

NPR

Popular Drug Does Not Alleviate Mild Covid-19 Symptoms, Study Finds (Published 2021)

The New York Times

Hundreds of Epidemiologists Expected Mask-Wearing in Public for at Least a Year (Published 2021)

The New York Times

The Pandemic Hurt These Students the Most (Published 2021)

The New York Times

California’s Pandemic Recall (Published 2021)

The New York Times

For countries with few vaccine doses, fighting COVID-19 is ‘a race from behind’

The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare wide disparities in health care between countries on issues like vaccines and raised calls for more resource-sharing to save lives.

PBS

Singapore reports most coronavirus cases in more than 1 year

Reuters

Biden to outline plan to curb coronavirus Delta variant as cases grow

Reuters

United States boosts tracking of coronavirus strains as Mu variant draws scrutiny

Science | AAAS

How the risk of side effects could change with Covid-19 vaccine boosters

What will the side effects from a Covid vaccine booster shot look like? Is there a higher or lower risk of an adverse event, compared to the earlier regimens?

www.statnews.com

The Plan to Stop Every Respiratory Virus at Once

The benefits of ventilation reach far beyond the coronavirus. What if we stop taking colds and flus for granted, too?

The Atlantic

Third person dies in Japan after taking contaminated Moderna coronavirus vaccine

A 49-year-old man died the day after taking his second shot of the vaccine, though authorities said a causal link has not been identified

The Guardian

Fact check: Over-the-counter vitamins not proven to treat, prevent COVID-19

A viral Facebook post claims a number of supplements are effective in treating COVID-19, but health experts say more evidence is needed.

USA Today

The Looming Crisis of Kids and COVID

U.S. News & World Report

Efforts grow to end use of potentially harmful parasite drug touted to treat COVID-19

Ivermectin is approved in the U.S. to treat infections from parasites in humans and some animals like cows and horses. But with COVID-19 infections surging again, more Americans are turning to the drug despite warnings that it has shown little benefit and can cause harmful side effects.

PBS

A Vietnamese court sentences a man to five years in prison for breaking coronavirus rules. (Published 2021)

The New York Times

COVID-19 boosters are coming, but who will get them and when?

COVID-19 booster shots may be coming for at least some Americans, but there's still important science to be worked out about who really needs them and when.

PBS

September 7, 2021

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