Public Health

After declining since late July, the nation's seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases has plateaued in the last two weeks, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project. 

The White House said it will redirect $62 million in remaining dues owed to the World Health Organization to other health-related causes, according to The New York Times. 

Many hospitals in New Orleans sent older COVID-19 patients home to die amid a surge in cases this spring, with some families claiming employees pressured them into accepting hospice care, according to an investigative report from ProPublica. 

Problems with COVID-19 testing in the United States boil down to implementation, not technology, Atul Gawande, MD, writes for The New Yorker: "The lunacy of our testing system is the lunacy of our health system in microcosm." 

The number of COVID-19 cases linked to a wedding in Maine rose from 53 reported in late August to at least 134 as of Sept. 1, NBC News reports.

The U.S. has reported an average of 42,214 COVID-19 cases daily in the past week, down 13 percent from the average seen two weeks ago, reports The New York Times. 

There is no data from well-controlled, randomized clinical trials that demonstrate the efficacy and safety of convalescent plasma for treating COVID-19, according to a statement issued Sept. 1 by the National Institutes of Health, which undercuts the FDA's emergency use…

Renton, Wash.-based Providence health system is investing $50 million over the next five years to reduce racial disparities in healthcare, officials announced Sept. 1. 

In August, Becker's asked several infection control leaders and epidemiologists: "At this time next year, what aspects of daily life will have returned to normal? What aspects of our society will be forever changed by the pandemic?"

Hospital admissions for stroke and ministroke in the U.S. fell by nearly one-third between March and April compared to the same period last year, a new study shows.