Kate Grabowski
Infectious diseases epidemiologist/scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Proud RHSP/RCCS collaborator. Wife. Mom. Nature lover. Views are my own!
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A Rapid Test Offers Hope for Community Screening
In a small study in San Francisco, Abbott’s BinaxNOW identified infectious people nearly as accurately as a P.C.R. test.
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[TESTING] 🔥 Your COVID Roundup, Week #24
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Check out this week's @JHSPH_NCRC newsletter. Lots of emerging #COVID19 research on pregnant moms, babies, and children.
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'The Mental Anguish Is Intense': Gary Peters Becomes First Sitting Senator to Share Abortion Experience
“It's a story of how gut-wrenching and complicated decisions can be related to reproductive health."
Effectiveness of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV prevention in Rakai, Uganda
AbstractBackground. The efficacy of voluntary male medical circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention in men was demonstrated in three randomized trials. This led
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New @RHSP results out on #VMMC in Clinical Infectious Diseases. @PEPFAR supported VMMC programs reduce male HIV incidence by 53% with sustained benefits over many years.
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Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 — Preliminary Report | NEJM
Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 — Preliminary Report
Dying in a Leadership Vacuum | NEJM
Editorial from The New England Journal of Medicine — Dying in a Leadership Vacuum
How Trump damaged science
The US president’s actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 people, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and undermined science and scientific institutions. Some of the harm could be permanent.
We’re on our own
The failure of U.S. government scientists in the Trump administration to follow the science around COVID-19 has left the medical community to fend for itself.
Lilly provides comprehensive update on progress of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody programs | Eli Lilly and Company
The Investor Relations website contains information about Eli Lilly and Company's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
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"The rate of COVID-related hospitalization and ER visits was lower for patients treated with combination therapy (0.9 percent) versus placebo (5.8 percent), a relative risk reduction of 84.5 percent (p=0.049)." Amazing.
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Face masks: what the data say
The science supports that face coverings save lives, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough?
White House Blocks New Coronavirus Vaccine Guidelines
The F.D.A. proposed stricter guidelines for emergency approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but the White House chief of staff objected to provisions that would push approval past Election Day.
White House Officials Flouted Coronavirus Guidance At Their Supreme Court Celebration. It Was Likely A Superspreader Event
“I hope this serves as an important reminder that the virus doesn’t discriminate, that you can catch it whoever you are, and it’s a risk and it’s real,” one expert said of the White House cluster.
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This was all preventable. If it wasn't clear already, this White House is a national security risk.
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Attorney General Barr chooses not to quarantine despite possible exposure to Covid-19
Attorney General William Barr is choosing not to quarantine after recently coming in close contact with members of President Donald Trump's inner circle who have tested positive for Covid-19, including former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.
Trump Has An Elevated Risk Of Severe COVID-19. But It Helps To Be The President.
President Trump has COVID-19. In some ways, that seems inevitable — the campaign trail is a high-contact sport, and the president was cavalier about public hea…
HPV Vaccination and the Risk of Invasive Cervical Cancer | NEJM
Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — HPV Vaccination and the Risk of Invasive Cervical Cancer
Rethinking Covid-19 Test Sensitivity — A Strategy for Containment | NEJM
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Rethinking Covid-19 Test Sensitivity — A Strategy for Containment
Association Between CMS Quality Ratings and COVID-19 Outbreaks ...
Nursing homes are high-risk settings for outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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Two fascinating/very useful articles on COVID-19 transmission in nursing homes out today in MMWR. First article shows that lowest ranked nursing homes (largely for-profit with large patient numbers) had disproportionately greater numbers of outbreaks.
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The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19 | NCRC
This study, which was available as a preprint and thus had not yet been peer reviewed, uses county-level SARS-CoV-2 testing data to show that the Sturgis motorcycle rally likely led to substantial increases in cases in the local community where the...