This Week in MMWR - Vol. 69, September 4, 2020

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Reports on Drug Overdose Deaths, Timing of COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders, and more.

September 4, 2020 

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SURVEILLANCE SUMMARIES

Evaluation of CDC’s Hemophilia Surveillance Program — Universal Data Collection (1998–2011) and Community Counts (2011–2019), United States The Community Counts data collection system collects high quality clinical and laboratory data on the largest and most representative sample of persons with hemophilia.

WEEKLY REPORT

	Vital Signs: Characteristics of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids and Stimulants — 24 States and the District of Columbia, January–June 2019 A CDC analysis of overdose deaths in 24 states and the District of Columbia in 2019 found approximately 80% of overdose deaths involved one or more opioids.

• Timing of State and Territorial COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders and Changes in Population Movement — United States, March 1–May 31, 2020
• Nonfatal Occupational Injuries to Younger Workers — United States, 2012–2018
• Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine Prescribing Patterns by Provider Specialty Following Initial Reports of Potential Benefit for COVID-19 Treatment — United States, January–June 2020
• Preventing and Mitigating SARS-CoV-2 Transmission — Four Overnight Camps, Maine, June–August 2020
• Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Among Frontline Health Care Personnel in a Multistate Hospital Network — 13 Academic Medical Centers, April–June 2020
• Notes from the Field: Phenibut Exposures Reported to Poison Centers — United States, 2009–2019
• Erratum: Vol 69, No 32
• Notice to Readers: Forthcoming Correction and Republication of the Report “Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost From Excessive Alcohol Use—United States, 2011–2015”

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QUICKSTATS

Prevalence of Past or Present Infection with Hepatitis B Virus Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years, by Race and Hispanic Origin — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2018

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In this week’s episode, Dr. Kent highlights three success stories about efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19. Two reports describe successes in settings serving groups of children and one report is about successes in nursing homes in West Virginia. MMWR also published a report about a monitoring system that aided health officials with decision making and reopening in Kentucky.