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2022-05-24: News Headlines

Editor (2022-05-24). One million people killed by capitalism. mronline.org One million people in the United States have died of COVID-19. Coronavirus was written on their death certificates as the cause.

Kevin Mwanza (2022-05-24). Biden And U.S. Government: New Covid Flare-Up Could Infect 100M Americans. moguldom.com More than 100 million people could get infected this fall and winter in a new covid flare-up, leading to a major surge in hospitalizations and death, White House officials said. The massive estimate was part of the Biden administration's pitch to lawmakers for additional coronavirus funding. The projection assumes that a rapidly evolving covid flare-up …

Weiss SR. (2022-05-24). Myocarditis Cases After mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccination in the US. jamanetwork.com To the Editor The case series by Dr Oster and colleagues described adverse event reports of myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The authors purported to answer the question "What is the risk of myocarditis after an RNA-based COVID-19 vaccination in the US?" However, it is not possible to calculate risk or incidence rates from passive surveillance. Due to reporting regulations and limitations of passive surveillance, VAERS reports are a biased subset of events.

Jamanetwork (2022-05-24). Collaboratornewsauthor"> Misspelled. jamanetwork.com In the Original Investigation titled "Effect of Subcutaneous Casirivimab and Imdevimab Antibody Combination vs Placebo on Development of Symptomatic COVID-19 in Early Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Randomized Clinical Trial," published in the February 1, 2022, issue of JAMA, a collaborator's name was misspelled in the listings of the COVID-19 Phase 3 Prevention Trial Team that appeared in Supplements 2 and 3. Akari Kyawa should have been listed as Akari Kyaw. This article has been corrected online.

Jamanetwork (2022-05-24). Death of Pioneers in Research on Tropical Disease. jamanetwork.com Not many weeks have elapsed since The Journal announced the death of Sir Patrick Manson, noted as an authority on tropical medicine. Now a cable from Paris announces the passing of Alphonse Laveran, another famous worker in the same cause, and winner of the Nobel prize in 1907. These two men probably did most to further, if not to found, the new science: Manson, with his demonstration that an insect, the mosquito, was the transmitting agent of filariasis (1879), and Laveran, with his discovery that malarial fever was caused by a parasite (1880). These two apparently simple facts were the solid foundation on which…

Suran M. (2022-05-24). New Federal Agency for Biomedical and Health Research. jamanetwork.com Congress has authorized creating the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), which will be part of the National Institutes of Health.

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