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Mashup Score: 3Comments on key documents from the early weeks of SARS-CoV-2 - 3 year(s) ago
By Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, FIDSA The purpose of this blog is to provide comments on reporting of some of the key COVID-19 events from 23 Chinese publications dated Dec. 31, 2019, until Feb. 17, 20…
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Mashup Score: 41
By Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, FIDSA On Aug. 9, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported both in their Health Alert Network and in a separate media statement a fourth case of melio…
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Mashup Score: 2Heightened vigilance needed to solve persisting enigma of melioidosis cases in Kansas, Minnesota and Texas - 3 year(s) ago
By Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, FIDSA On June 30, 2021, CDC issued a Health Advisory via its Health Alert Network stating: “The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the Texas Department of Stat…
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Mashup Score: 7Clues to COVID origins via Wuhan wet market study 2017-2019 of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome - 3 year(s) ago
By Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, FIDSA Retrospective testing for SARS-CoV-2 virus and antibody could be (or has been) done using blood and other samples highly likely to have been obtained from the 18 m…
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Mashup Score: 0Not until June 2021 does China report Wuhan wet markets sold palm civets, racoon dogs and mink from 2017-2019: Where are the SARS-CoV-2 results? - 3 year(s) ago
By Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, FIDSA Last month a paper titled “Animal sales from Wuhan wet markets immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic” by Xiao et al., in Nature Scientific Reports listed 18 m…
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Mashup Score: 2Not until June 2021 does China report Wuhan wet markets sold palm civets, racoon dogs and mink from 2017-2019: Where are the SARS-CoV-2 results? - 3 year(s) ago
By Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, FIDSA Last month a paper titled “Animal sales from Wuhan wet markets immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic” by Xiao et al., in Nature Scientific Reports listed 18 m…
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Mashup Score: 3Why has no Gamma variant (P.1) been reported in Africa despite being found in 72 nations in the Americas, Asia, Europe and Australia? - 3 year(s) ago
By Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, FIDSA Every week the World Health Organization posts an epidemiological update that includes global maps (below) and nation-by-nation listing in Annex 1 (below) for each…
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Mashup Score: 4India declares Delta Plus (K417N) a Variant of Concern, and UK reports it is in 11 nations - 3 year(s) ago
By Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, FIDSA As the highly transmissible “Delta Variant” has spread to over 85 nations, on June 22 India also declared “Delta Plus” a Variant of Concern. The “plus” refers to …
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Mashup Score: 1WHO designates “Lambda” as global variant of interest - 3 year(s) ago
By Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, FIDSA In its weekly COVID-19 epidemiology update this week the World Health Organization stated that the “Lambda” was designated a variant of interest “based upon eviden…
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Mashup Score: 0UN 5th High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS: Civil society says “Yes — AND” to the 2021 political declaration - 3 year(s) ago
The following is a guest post by Maureen Luba Milambe, African Regional Advocacy Advisor, AVAC On Tuesday (June 8), the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve the 2021 Political Declar…
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IDSA Fellow, Dr. Daniel R. Lucey has compiled key COVID-19 events from 23 Chinese publications dated Dec.31,2019 through Feb.17,2021. Read more on IDSA’s @SciSpeaksBlog: https://t.co/mjC0yvsjKi