COVID-19

Headlines

• Statement by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on Withdrawal of HHS Policy on Laboratory-Developed Tests
• Statement from HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on COVID-19 Vaccines for 5-11 Year Olds
• COVID vaccine for younger kids already being packed, shipped
• Covid cases and deaths grossly underestimated among meatpackers, House investigation finds
• Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early COVID-19
• Host genetic factors affecting COVID-19 disease susceptibility and severity
• COVID-19 Nursing Home Data
• COVID-19 booster shot for Pfizer, Moderna vaccines will be available Sept. 20 (8/18/21)
• HonorHealth requires all staff to get vaccinated (7/23/21)
• Banner Health requires all staff to get vaccinated (7/20/21)
• COVID-19 response by the Hopi Tribe: impact of systems improvement during the first wave on the second wave of the pandemic
• Notes from the Field: Development of an Enhanced Community-Focused COVID-19 Surveillance Program — Hopi Tribe, June‒July 2020
• A SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak Illustrating the Challenges in Limiting the Spread of the Virus — Hopi Tribe, May–June 2020

Key Terms

• ACE-2 receptor: Human host cell surface receptor angiotensin‐converting enzyme‐2 (Guruprasad, 2021)


• COVID-19: The disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen.


• SARS-CoV-2: The virus that causes COVID-19, which originated from Wuhan in China.


• Spike protein: A viral surface glycoprotein that coronaviruses use to engage their receptor (Whittaker et al., 2021)

Resources:

• Guruprasad, L. (2021). Human SARS CoV‐2 spike protein mutations. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 89(5), 569-576.


• Whittaker, G. R., Daniel, S., & Millet, J. K. (2021). Coronavirus entry: how we arrived at SARS-CoV-2. Current opinion in virology.