Weekly Clinical Updates

As infectious diseases such as SARS, Monkeypox, Polio, HIV, and Ebola travel the globe and garner media attention, Parasites Without Borders staff are curating resources in a timely, ongoing basis. We believe the information posted here is worthy of further examination by the science and medical communities. Our primary goal remains to bring the latest medical and biological information to the forefront for researchers and practicing physicians.

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December 22, 2020

Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 (VACO) Index for COVID-19 Mortality | V-safe After Vaccination Health Checker | COVID-19 Vaccines and Severe Allergic Reactions | FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Second COVID-19 Vaccine | K reports new variant, termed VUI 202012/01

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December 14, 2020

Repurposed Antiviral Drugs for Covid-19 — Interim WHO Solidarity Trial Results | Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomized controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK | FDA issues Emergency Use Authorization for first COVID-19 vaccine

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December 7, 2020

Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19 | The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Interim Recommendation for Allocating Initial Supplies of COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, 2020 | Updated CDC guidance on when to quarantine

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November 30, 2020

AZD1222 vaccine met primary efficacy endpoint in preventing COVID-19 | Repurposed antiviral drugs for COVID-19 –interim WHO SOLIDARITY trial results | Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Drug Combination for Treatment of COVID-19 | A Randomized Trial of Convalescent Plasma in Covid-19 Severe Pneumonia

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November 23, 2020

Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 assessed for greater than six months after infection | Sixty-Day Outcomes Among Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 | Infection fatality rate of SARS-CoV2 in a super-spreading event in Germany | FDA Authorizes First COVID-19 Test for Self-Testing at Home

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November 16, 2020

Preexisting and de novo humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in humans | Pfizer and BioNTech announce vaccine candidate against COVID-19 achieved success in first interim analysis from phase 3 study | FDA Authorizes Monoclonal Antibody for Treatment of COVID-19

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