August 14, 2024
(U.S. News & World Report) – In total, about 3.1 million U.S. residents died in 2023, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – roughly 189,000 fewer than in 2022. The age-adjusted rate of mortality … Read More
August 13, 2024
(Axios) – More than two dozen commonly available lab tests couldn’t help diagnose long COVID in a study of more than 10,000 adults, leaving doctors still having to rule out other health conditions to confirm whether someone has the condition. … Read More
August 9, 2024
(New York Times) – The condition has put significant strain on patients and society — at a global economic cost of about $1 trillion a year, a new report estimates. About 400 million people worldwide have been afflicted with long … Read More
August 8, 2024
(NPR) – As Bodansky and his colleagues report in the journal Nature, many children who developed MIS-C had an out-of-control immune response to COVID as a result of mistaken identity. Basically, these children’s immune systems locked onto a part of … Read More
August 7, 2024
(Sydney Morning Herald) – The Tokyo Olympics will forever be remembered as the COVID Games, an extraordinary feat of public health ingenuity and Japanese forbearance that enabled the world’s largest sporting event to be staged within a massive, temporary quarantine … Read More
July 25, 2024
(Undark) – Few experts dispute that long Covid can be debilitating, or that it warrants careful study. But in interviews with Undark, a number of experts said that it is misleading to frame long Covid as an increasing threat. The … Read More
July 25, 2024
(CNN) – After a handful of Australian water polo players tested positive for Covid-19 this week, questions have emerged around how the spread of the disease will be mitigated at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Five players on Australia’s … Read More
July 25, 2024
(Axios) – Demand for flu shots is declining, particularly among some of the most medically vulnerable groups, raising concerns that the vaccines may be falling out of favor in a post-pandemic world. Why it matters: While uptake for flu shots … Read More
July 24, 2024
(Wired) – The latest dominant Covid variants have stronger infectiousness than their predecessors and the ability to evade vaccine-induced antibodies. The northern hemisphere is entering yet another Covid wave—while much of the world acts as if the pandemic were over, … Read More
July 18, 2024
(Axios) – President Biden tested positive for COVID on Wednesday while campaigning in Nevada and is experiencing mild symptoms, according to the White House. The big picture: Biden has been hitting the campaign trail hard with events in Las Vegas, … Read More
July 18, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Masks are creating controversy for businesses again, but this time for a different reason. Early in the pandemic, retailers faced backlash for mandating face coverings. Now some store owners are demanding customers drop their masks. Police … Read More
July 17, 2024
(New York Times) – A large new study provides some of the strongest evidence yet that vaccines reduce the risk of developing long Covid. Scientists looked at people in the United States infected during the first two years of the … Read More
July 17, 2024
(Axios) – The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t make adults more susceptible to common infections and illnesses like asthma, COPD, pneumonia or the flu, a review of more than 256 million patient records concludes. Why it matters: The findings add a new … Read More
July 17, 2024
(Axios) – Four years after health workers were forced to reuse masks and other supplies to get through the dark days of the pandemic, the idea of recycling personal protective equipment is going mainstream. Why it matters: It’s evidence of … Read More
July 15, 2024
(Axios) – COVID-19 cases are growing or likely growing in 45 states and territories, and more than half of the states have virus levels that are “very high” or “high” as a summertime wave expands, according to the Centers for … Read More
July 9, 2024
(New York Times) – Gastrointestinal issues are a common but often unrecognized sign of infection. Many of us associate Covid with respiratory issues. But some people who get sick with the virus never experience a sore throat, coughing or body … Read More
July 8, 2024
(Axios) – What they found: Sexually transmitted disease diagnoses overall rose roughly 5% among commercially insured patients from 2020 to 2023, according to an analysis of FAIR Health’s repository of 47 billion commercial health care claim records. Patients aged 65 … Read More
July 8, 2024
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (vol. 45, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethical Prioritization of critical Care Resources during COVID-19: Perspectives from Italy and the United States” by Lucia Galvagni, Joseph A. Raho “Toward a … Read More
July 3, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Coronavirus infections are likely growing in 44 states and territories as of June 25, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nationally, coronavirus activity in wastewater remains low but is increasing; it is … Read More
July 3, 2024
(Chattanooga Times Free Press) – A Tennessee jury has awarded a former research scientist at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee $687,000 in back pay and damages after she was fired in 2021 for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Following a … Read More
July 2, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Scientists suspect that one culprit behind your new illness might be the infection you got a couple of years ago. The link between new health problems and your past health history appears to be particularly prevalent … Read More
July 1, 2024
(Nature) – A single vaccine has been shown to protect people from both SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses — and with a higher effectiveness than vaccines that target one or the other, the pharmaceutical company Moderna has announced. Moderna, which is … Read More
June 28, 2024
(STAT News) – Alcohol sales per capita went up more from 2019 to 2021 than in any two-year period since 1969, according to estimates from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Deaths from excessive alcohol use are also … Read More
June 25, 2024
(Axios) – Youth mental health has begun to improve after major pandemic dips, new data shows. Why it matters: The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare students’ struggles as well as a fractured system to help them navigate recovery. Some of the recovery, though, trails pre-pandemic mental … Read More
June 25, 2024
(Associated Press) – The Supreme Court on Monday rejected two appeals related to COVID-19 vaccines from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit founded by independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The justices did not comment in letting stand rulings against the … Read More
