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Vaccine 90% Efficacy; 10 Million U.S. Cases; Biden's Task Force

— A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine

by Crystal Phend, Senior Editor, ľֱ

MedpageToday
COVID-19 UPDATE and Other News over a background of illustrated coronaviruses

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Pfizer and BioNTech said their in an interim analysis, after 94 infections were recorded -- but with few other details.

The grim records keep rolling in: The U.S. is the first country to for COVID-19 cases by some counts; alone accounts for 1 million of them. (Reuters)

Johns Hopkins' unofficial U.S. tally stood at 9,973,563 as of 8:00 a.m. Monday, with 237,584 dead. Daily averages over the past week reached 109,000 new cases and 940 deaths.

President-elect Joe Biden this morning with three co-chairs, including a former Surgeon General and a former FDA commissioner.

Biden's team told pharma executives on Operation Warp Speed that they that would disrupt the program's work. (Reuters)

President Trump's , and at least five other White House official tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in recent days. (Bloomberg)

In good news for ferrets, a nasal antiviral compound in the animals, according to a preprint manuscript.

against the common cold found in some adults and many children also neutralized the new coronavirus in vitro. (Science)

FDA authorized the first blood test for SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies, .

Delaware achieved striking COVID-19 results with stay-at-home orders, mask mandates, and contact tracing: , 88% decline in hospitalization, and 100% decline in mortality from late April to June. (MMWR)

The RECOVERY trial, which brought us dexamethasone for COVID-19, is for hospitalized COVID-19 cases. The also is studying aspirin but for newly-diagnosed ambulatory cases.

Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon NIAID director Anthony Fauci, MD, leading Twitter to cancel his account. (CNN)

It's quarantine and possible disciplinary action for 36 residents in Syracuse, New York, whose featured an infected co-worker.

CDC's "root-cause analysis" of its failure on early coronavirus test kits suggested that the agency decided to send out the kits despite rate in the final quality control runs. (NPR)

In other news:

  • FDA cleared Nightware's Apple Watch-based in adults with nightmare disorder or nightmares from post-traumatic stress disorder.
  • got a boost from a new study of ViiV Healthcare's injectable cabotegravir, according to topline data released by the drugmaker.

  • "Jeopardy!" host at 80 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. (CNN)
  • "Today" host was diagnosed with prostate cancer and has opted for prostatectomy.