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How Houston Methodist rolled out a large-scale antibody program: 4 takeaways

Houston Methodist has administered monoclonal antibody treatments to nearly 4,000 patients with COVID-19 since the therapy was granted emergency use authorization last November. The health system outlined how it rapidly scaled out its antibody program in a March 29 article…

Hackensack Meridian coronavirus test screens for several variants, gives results in under 3 hours

Scientists at Hackensack Meridian Health have developed a test that can detect multiple coronavirus variants within two-and-a-half hours, the Edison, N.J.-based system said April 1.

Suicides fell in 2020, early CDC data shows

While deaths jumped 17.7 percent overall in the U.S. last year, suicides decreased for the third consecutive year, according to preliminary CDC data published in JAMA.

Blue Shield of California distributing 5.5M vaccines a week

Despite a rocky takeover of California's vaccine distribution plan, Blue Shield of California said its provider partners can now administer 5.5 million COVID-19 vaccines a week.

'Houston on track to be dominated' by UK variant as cases double weekly

Cases of the U.K. B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant in Houston are doubling weekly, increasing rapidly to 648 cases in mid-March from 305 just a week earlier, according to findings from Houston Methodist.

Prior COVID-19 infection, vaccines, offer protection against variants, small NIH study suggests

The immune systems of people with a prior COVID-19 infection may be able to fend off three now widely known variants, according to a small study led by the National Institutes of Health and published March 30 in Open Forum…

26% of US COVID-19 cases traced to UK variant, CDC director says

The more transmisible B.1.1.7. coronavirus variant, which first emerged in the U.K., currently accounts for about 26 percent of cases in the U.S., according to Rochelle Walensky, MD, CDC director.

Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns mask mandate

The Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned a statewide mask mandate March 31 and blocked Democratic Gov. Tony Evers from implementing additional mask orders without the state Legislature's approval, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

COVID-19 3rd leading cause of death in the US last year, CDC finds

After heart disease and cancer, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, according to the CDC's latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published March 31.

New variants could evade COVID-19 shot within a year, many epidemiologists say

About two-thirds of epidemiologists say further mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus could render current COVID-19 vaccines ineffective within a year, according to a small survey the People's Vaccine Alliance released March 30.