
By BY APOORVA MANDAVILLI from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3nU12Ac

Scientists studying coronaviruses like the one that causes COVID-19 are taking blood samples from people in regions where there are lots of bats to estimate how often people encounter the viruses they carry.

According to a new CDC report, xylazine has turned up in overdose deaths in 25 of 38 states examined and in 2019, it contributed to death in 64% of cases and almost always also involved fentanyl.
