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Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is this week in

cardiology for August 21st, 2020. This week COVID Diversity, Clinical Research, the sub-Q ICD, and ECGs.

First, COVID. Yesterday, we had 5.7 million cases in the US.

The US deaths two weeks ago were 170,000.

This week they were 176,000.

So the rate of rise has actually fallen slightly to 1.03 x. The bad news here of course is with

schools, colleges particularly. Numerous colleges have tried to bring in students but had to go virtual

due to clusters of cases.

But today, today I'm going to say a bit of good news. My colleague at the Heart

dot org medscape cardiology actually the editor-in-chief Eric Tobel

tweeted this week that SARS Kove2 is evolving very slowly. That makes neutralizing antibodies and vaccines have a better

chance to succeed. All of the recent reports also support a solid B antibody and T cell immune response.

Third, there are no documented reinfections.

Now Professor Natalie Dean added that serious illness

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