— A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine
As of 8:00 a.m. ET Wednesday, the unofficial COVID-19 toll in the U.S. was 3,902,233 cases and 142,073 deaths, up about 70,000 and 1,150, respectively, from this time a day ago.
As Florida cases climbed, the state’s top teachers’ union and local educators sued Gov. Ron DeSantis to stop the “reckless and unsafe reopening of schools” this fall. (Miami Herald)
By November 1, universal masking may cut projected coronavirus daily deaths by more than 66%, data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington suggested. (Newsweek)
Pfizer will get $1.95 billion from the U.S. government to produce 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate. (Reuters)
More data suggested humoral immunity faded quickly in people with mild COVID-19 illness. (New England Journal of Medicine)
A federal grand jury in Spokane, Washington, accused two Chinese hackers working with the Ministry of State Security of targeting intellectual property and confidential information, including COVID-19 research, the Department of Justice announced.
