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The unofficial U.S. COVID-19 case count sailed past the 8-million-case mark over the weekend and ended up at 8,155,894 cases and 219,679 deaths as of 8:00 ET a.m. on Monday. That makes averages of 56,062 cases and 700 deaths per day over the past week.
Global daily case counts broke the 400,000 mark for the first time late Friday and the total cases crossed 40 million on Monday. (Reuters)
Just four counties in all of the U.S. have yet to report a single COVID-19 case. Do they “essentially serve as their own version of the NBA bubble?” (ABC)
Six people in China caught coronavirus from one couple’s sewage leak, according to the first reported case of such spread. (Newsweek)
A woman with a tracheostomy got a coronavirus swab stuck in her lung in a case of testing gone wrong. (Newsweek)
NIAID director Anthony Fauci, MD, gets a first look at the coronavirus vaccine trials to determine when they’re ready to head to the FDA — except for Pfizer’s trial. (ProPublica, CNBC)
CVS and Walgreens will administer COVID-19 vaccine at long-term care facilities nationwide under a deal announced by the Trump administration Friday. (Politico)
At least 20 cases of COVID-19 have been tied to a Trump campaign rally and counter protests in Duluth last month, which the Minnesota Department of Health is calling an outbreak. (CNN)
A spike in COVID-19 cases around Kansas City, Missouri, has hospitals “bursting at the seams,” with some facilities refusing non-emergency care and others to divert ambulances. (ABC)
Most states are seeing coronavirus hospitalizations rise, and 16 are at or near their all-time peak. (Axios)
Why you haven’t seen Deborah Birx, MD, lately: she’s mostly on the road now. (The Hill)
Twitter took down an anti-mask tweet by Trump adviser Scott Atlas, MD, that it deemed misleading. (CNN)
COVID-19 vaccine developer Vaxart is under federal investigation for exaggerating its Operation Warp Speed involvement. (CNN)
Hispanic Americans accounted for an increasing proportion of deaths over the summer: up from 16.3% in May to 26.4% in August. (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Americans’ environmental noise exposure has been about halved during the pandemic. (Washington Post)
NBC dug into multisystem inflammatory condition in adults; and a British study found that, among people hospitalized for COVID-19, debilitating symptoms persisting for weeks after discharge were the rule, not the exception, according to Reuters.
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Source: MedicalNewsToday.com
