Scott Hughes

TL;DR: Clinicians should test patients with rash consistent with monkeypox,† regardless of whether the rash is disseminated or was preceded by prodrome, and public health efforts should prioritize gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, who are currently disproportionately affected for prevention and testing.

TL;DR: Analysis of the genomic diversity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) early in the coronav virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic indicates that it is unlikely that SARS- covirus-2 circulated widely in humans prior to November 2019 and defines the narrow window between when Sars-Cov-2 first jumped into humans and when the first cases of CO VID-19 were reported.

TL;DR: The most common sets of spike mutations in this lineage (now designated as B.1.526) are L5F, T95I, D253G, E484K or S477N, D614G, and A701V as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A large outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease caused by a cooling tower occurred in a medically vulnerable community in New York City and prompted enactment of a new city law on the operation and maintenance of cooling towers.

TL;DR: The occurrence of this case, combined with the identification of poliovirus in wastewater in neighboring Orange County, underscores the importance of maintaining high vaccination coverage to prevent paralytic polio in persons of all ages.