Coronavirus Cases And U.S. Colleges

More Than 6,600 Coronavirus Cases Have Been Linked To U.S. Colleges by Weiyl Cai, Danielle Ivory, Mitch Smith, Alex Lemonides and Lauryn Higgins.  The New York Times.  July 29, 2020.

The State Of The American Pandemic: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

A Viral Epidemic Splintering Into Deadly Pieces by Donald G. McNeil Jr.  The New York Times.  July 29, 2020,

Computer Modeling To Shed Light Of The Importance Of Large Or Small Droplets In Covid-19 Transmission

Aboard The Diamond Princess, A Case Study In Aerosol Transmission by Benedict Carey and James Glanz.  The New York Times.  July 30, 2020

G.R.U, InfoRos, And Websites Push Out Russian English-Language Disinformation About Pandemic

Russian Intelligence Agencies Push Disinformation On Pandemic by Julian E. Barnes and David E. Sanger.  The New York Times.  July 28, 2020.

Dr. Fauci: Americans Should Consider Wearing Goggles Or A Face Shield

Dr. Fauci:  Wear Goggles Or Eye Shields To Prevent Spread Of COVID-19; Flu Vaccine A Must by Caterina Andreano.  GMA.  July 29, 2020,

Heart Damage Found In Coronavirus Patients Months After COVID-19 Recovery

Heart Damage Found In Coronavirus Patients Months After Recovering From COVID-19, Study Says by Adrianna Rodriguez.  USA TODAY.  July 30, 2020.

Small Study: Children May Have Levels Of Coronavirus Similar To And Maybe Even Higher Than Adults

Children May Carry Coronavirus At High Levels, Study Finds by Apoorva Mandavilli.  The New York Times.  July 30, 2020.

UGA Listed No. 3 Among Colleges In COVID-19 Cases; Transparency Cited By University

UGA Listed No. 3 Among Colleges In COVID-19 Cases;  Public Health Revamps Site by Andy Miller.  WABE/Georgia Health News.  July 30, 2020.

What Do We Know About Children and Coronavirus Transmission?

What Do We Know About Children And Coronavirus Transmission by Josh Michaud and Jennifer Kates

Study Identifies Six Different "Types Of COVID-19

Study Identifies Six Different "Types" Of COVID-19 by Elizabeth Elkind.  CBS News.  July 29, 2020.

Accurate Test To Measure Tau Protein May Be Landmark In Alzheimer's Diagnosis

Alzheimer's Blood Test In Your Doctor's Office Closer To Reality, Studies Say by Sandeeps LaMotte And Andrea Kane.  CNN.  July 29, 2020.

Advance Purchase Of 100 Million Doses Of Vaccine Viewed As Prudent From Economic And Public Health 'Perspectives

The U.S. Commits To Buying Millions Of Vaccine Doses.  Why That's Unusual by Sarah Kliff.  The New York Times.  July 22, 2020.

Pooled Testing Could Expand Testing Capacity Dramatically In Certain Situations

How To Test More People For Coronavirus Without Actually Needing More Tests by Quoctrung But, Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz.  The New York Times.  July 27, 2020.

Coronavirus-Related Deaths In A Community Tends To Reduce Support For Republicans

How Local Covid Deaths Are Affecting Vote Choice by Lynn Vavreck And Christopher Warshaw.  The New York Times.  July 28, 2020.

179,500 Excess Deaths From March 15 to July 11

Tracking The Real Coronavirus Death Toll In The United States by Josh Katz, Denise Lu And Margot Sanger-Katz. The New York Times.  July 22, 2020.

The Evolution Of the Smallpox Virus May Tell Us About The Future of COVID-19

Viking Age Smallpox Complicates Story Of Viral Evolution by James Gorman.  The New York Times.  July 23, 2020.

Pandemic Lockdowns Led to "Longest And Most Coherent Global Seismic Noise Reduction In Recorded History"

With Covid-19, A Seismic Quiet Like Not Other by William J. Broad.  The New York Times.  July 23, 2020.

Why Medicines Must Be Tested In The Developing World

Why Medicines Must Be Tested In The Developing World by David Pilling.  The Financial Times.  July 23, 2020.

Lessening The Burden Of Testing, CDC Produces Symptom-Driven Guidelines For Lifting Isolation

COVID-19 Patients No Longer Need Tests To End Isolation by Donald G. McNeil Jr.  The New York Times.  July 22, 2020.

The Confounding Range Of COVID-19 Symptoms

The Confounding Range Of COVID-19 Symptoms by Alison Snyder.  Axios.  July 23, 2020.

Germicidal UV Light To Combat Viruses, Bacteria And Other Microorganisms

Scientists Want To Know More About Using UV Light To Fight COVID-19 Spread by Will Stone.  KHN.  July 22, 2020.  

Responding To Healthcare Workers' Mental Health Needs

Covid-19 Is Pushing Doctors To The Brink.  Medicine Needs To Recognize They're Human And Need Help. Ester Choo, M.D.  The Washington Post.  July 20, 2020.

59% Of Gym Members Don't Plan To Renew Gym Memberships After COVID-19

59% Of Americans Don't Plan To Renew Their Gym Memberships After Covid-19 Pandemic:  Survey by Jade Scipioni.  CNBC.  July 23, 2020.

Dexamethasone AND Prednisone May Be Appropriate In Certain COVID-19 Cases

It's Not Just Dexamethasone:  Other Steroids May Be Used To Treat Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients, Study Says by Adrianna Rodriguez.  USA Today.  July 22, 2020.

Updates On 4 Frontrunners COVID-19 Vaccines

Meet The 4 Frontrunners In The COVID-19 Vaccine Race by Beth Mole.  Are Technica.  July 23, 2020.

Georgia Coronavirus Cases, Deaths By Zip Code

Use This Tool To See How Many GA Coronavirus Cases, Deaths Occur In Your Zip Code by Nick Wooten. Macon.com.  July 23, 2020.

Reinfection Not Likely; Antibodies, Memory T Cells, and B Cells Contribute To Immunity

Can You Get Covid-19 Again?  It's Very Unlikely, Experts Say by Apoorva Mandavilli.  The New York Times.  July 22, 2020.

Middle Georgia Hospital Employee: "When You Have To Start Shipping Patients Out Of State, It's Bad."

Georgia Hospital Worker Sounds Alarm:  "I Have Never Ever Seen Anything Like This"  by Wayne Drash.  NPR.  July 16, 2020.

Trump Emphasizes Transportation And Loosing Environmental Regulations; Coronavirus, Not So Much

Trump Arrives In Atlanta Today To Unveil Transportation Initiative by Greg Bluestein and Tamar Hallerman.  The Atlanta Journal Constitution.  July 15, 2020.

City/State Conflict On Governor Kemp's Ban On Mask Mandates

Kemp's Ban Of Mask Mandates Puts Georgia On Collision Course With Its Cities by Greg Bluestein and Jeremy Redmon.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  July 16, 2020.

Governor Kemp Forbids Cites/Counties From Requiring Masks

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Forbids Cities, Counties From Requiring Masks As Coronavirus Surges In The State by Meagan Flynn.  The Washington Post.  July 16, 2020.

Coronavirus Data Is Funneled Away From CDC, Sparking Worries

Coronavirus Data Is Funneled Away From CDC, Sparking Worries.  Associated Press/New York Times.

Near-Peer Military Conflicts Will Emphasize Medical Training For Average Soldiers

Combat Medicine To Go Through Significant Changes by Steve Balestrieri.  SOFREP.  July 15, 2020.

Third Of People With Alzheimer's Disease Have Access To Firearm At Home

Caregivers Say One-Third Of Alzheimer's Patients Have Access To Guns At Home, Study Finds by Sandeeps LaMotte.  CNN.  July 15, 2020.

Coronavirus Upending The U.S. Health Coverage Market

Coronavirus Outbreak Is Already Upending Health Insurance Premiums And Copays For Next Year by Bertha Coombs.  CNBC.  July 15, 2020.

Smoking Habits Rather Than Underlying Health Conditions Key To Young Adult Vulnerability To COVID

Why Are 1 In 3 Young Adults At Risk Of Severe COVID-19?  One Habit Might Be To Blame by Katie Camero.  Miami Herald.  July 14, 2020.

Revised Picture Of Effect Of Blood Type On COVID: Weaker Link Than Initially Indicated

Covid-19 Risk Doesn't Depend (Much) On Blood Type, New Studies Find by Carl Zimmer.  The New York Times.  July 15, 2020.

National Academies Of Science Recommends Opening School With Emphasis Of In Person Attendance By Younger Students

Citing Educational Risks, Scientific Panel Urges That Schools Reopen by Apoorva Mandavilli.  The New York Times.  July 15, 2020.

Masks May Reduce Viral Inoculum Perhaps Resulting In Milder Cases

Wearing A Mask Doesn't Just Protect Others From COVID, It protects You From Infection, Perhaps Serious Illness, Too by Elizabeth Weise.  USA TODAY.  July 15, 2020.

Moderna Vaccine Developed Neutralizing Antibodies In Bloodstream Of Volunteers

Moderna's Coronavirus Vaccine Ready To Advance To Final Phase Of Testing  CBS/AP.  July 15, 2020.

Georgia Health Agency Stymies Requests For Public Records During Pandemic

Ga. Health Agency Stymies Requests For Public Records During Pandemic by Max Blau.  AJC.  July 14, 2020.

Data Gaps In Georgia In Coronavirus Cases: Race, Ethnicity

As Coronavirus Cases Climb In Georgia, Data About Race, Ethnicity Lag by J. Scott Trubey.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  July 7, 2020.

Cites Including Athens Require Masks

A Growing Number Of Georgia Cities Require Masks Over Kemp's Objection by Greg Bluestein and Ben Brasch.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  July 8, 2020.

In Reversal, University System Of Georgia Requires Students And Faculty To Wear Face Coverings

University System Of Georgia To Require Masks In Classrooms After All by Eric Stirgus.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  July 6, 2020.

New Generation Coronavirus Tests

A New Generation Of Fast Coronavirus Tests Is Coming by Katherine J. Wu.  The New York Times.  July 6, 2020,

More Than 1400 Georgia Healthcare Workers Ask Governor For More Coronavirus Restrictions

More Than 1,400 Georgia Healthcare Workers Sign Letter Asking Governor For More Coronavirus Restrictions by Hollie Silverman, Susannah Cullinane And Steve Almasy.  CNN.  July 4, 2020.

UGA Faculty Survey Of Opening Practices At Peer Institutions

Opening Policies Of Top 20 Public Universities = UGA Peer Aspirational Institutions.  UGA Volunteers.

Georgia Tech Faculty Challenges Optional Masks

"A Nightmare":  Georgia Tech Faculty Rush Back Against In-Person Reopening Plans by Matthew S. Schwartz.  NPR.  July 5, 2020.

Waste Water Tracking Can Provide Early Warning For Covid Onset

Waste-Watching:  Sewage Can Help Track Pandemic Virus Trends by Malcolm Ritter. AP.  July 6, 2020.

Why? Cases Are Rising But Deaths Are Falling

Covid-19 Cases Are Rising, But Deaths Are Falling.  What's Going On?  by Dylan Scott.  Vox.  July 6, 2020.

Months Of Trial And Error In The ICU Offer Clues On How To Save Covid Patients

Months Of Trial And Error In The ICU Offer Clues On How To Save Covid Patients by Jason Gale.  Bloomberg.  July 6, 2020.

New Study Of Hydroxychoroquine Points To Improvements But Difficult To Interpret Due To Methodology Problems And Limitations

Study Finds Hydroxychloroquine May Have Boosted Survival, But Other Researchers Have Doubts by Maggie Fox, Andrea Kane, And Elizabeth Cohen.  CNN.  July 3, 2020.,

Florida "Heading A Million Miles An Hour In The Wrong Direction"

Florida "Heading A Million Miles An Hour In The Wrong Direction" As COVID-19 Cases Keep Rising, Doctor Says.  CBS/AP.  July 3, 2020.

Former CDC Directors Calls The US An "Outlier" As Other Nations Have Curtailed Spread; Says Nuanced Vision Needed

U.S. Is An "Outlier" in Global Coronavirus Fight, Former CDC Director Says by David Morgan.  CBS This Morning.  July 6, 2020.

Large Scale Serological Study: Achieving Herd-Immunity Through Natural Infection Raised And Practical Concerns Including Death Toll

Spain's Coronavirus Antibodies Study Adds Evidence Against Herd Immunity by Al Goodmn.  CNN.  July 6, 2020.

WHO: Access To HIV Medicines Impacted By COVID-19

WHO:  Access To HIV Medicines Severely Impacted By COVID-19 As Aids Response Stalls.  World Health Organization.  July 6, 2020.,

Pandemic Surge Yields Contrasting Campaign Strategies

Trump And Biden Campaigns Shift Focus To Coronavirus As Pandemic Surges by Yasmeen Abutaleb and Josh Dawsey.

Publicly-Financed Vaccine Research May Generate Big Private Profits

How A Covid-19 Vaccine Could Cost Americans Dearly by Elisabeth Rosenthal.  The New York Times.  July 6, 2020.

WHO Reviewing Report Urging New Guidance Over Airborne Spread Of Coronavirus

WHO Reviewing Report Urging New Guidance Over Airborne Spread Of Coronavirus by Reuters.  Reuters/The New York Times.  July 6, 2020.

Controversy: The Role Of Aerosols In Coronavirus Transmission

239 Experts With One Big Claim:  The Coronavirus Is Airborne by Apoorva Mandavilli.  The New York Times.  July 4, 2020.,