Paxlovid, authorized to treat high-risk people early in infection, didn’t meaningfully reduce illness in exposed adults Authors: Jared S. Hopkins Apr. 29, 2022 The Wall Street Journal The Covid-19 pill from Pfizer Inc. failed to prevent symptomatic infections in adults who had been exposed to the pandemic virus, a late-stage study found. Pfizer said Friday that the […]
Authors: Fenit Nirappil and Dan Keating, The Washington PostApril 29, 2022 Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data. The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost […]
Authors: Mint Newsletters April 29, 2022 The BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages appear to be more infectious than the earlier BA.2 lineage The sub-lineages have been detected in seven of South Africa’s nine provinces and 20 countries worldwide New omicron sublineages, discovered by South African scientists this month, are likely able to evade vaccines and natural […]
Authors: Kavya Beheraj N.Y. Times; Cartogram: /AxiosApril 13-26, 2022 COVID cases are on the rise in all but six states and Washington, D.C., as the Omicron subvariant continues to spread across the U.S. The big picture: Case rates and hospitalizations are still well below pandemic highs, prompting NIAID director Anthony Fauci to say this week that the […]
Authors: Carolyn Y. Johnson April 27, 2022 The Washington Post Shortly after he served on a jury in March, Gregg Crumley developed a sore throat and congestion. The retired molecular biologist took a rapid test on a Saturday and saw a dark, thick line materialize — “wildly positive” for the coronavirus. Crumley, 71, contacted his […]
Authors: Spencer Kimball PUBLISHED TUE, APR 26 2022 CNBC KEY POINTS Three out of every 5 people in the U.S. now have antibodies from a previous Covid-19 infection, according to a new CDC analysis. The proportion is even higher among children, demonstrating how widespread the virus was during the winter omicron surge. CDC officials told […]
Authors: Julian Conradson Published April 25, 2022 at 4:14pm A new study out of Europe has revealed that cases of heart inflammation that required hospitalization were much more common among vaccinated individuals compared to the unvaccinated. A team of researchers from health agencies in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway found that rates of myocarditis and pericarditis, two forms of […]
Authors: Chris Melore Study Finds April 25, 2022 Antibiotics that are helping to treat patients with COVID-19 may actually be fueling a concerning rise in the number of superbugs infecting people worldwide. Researchers in the United States have found that cases of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections are going up in comparison to the last year before […]
Authors: John Woolfolk, Bay Area News Group Apr 24, 2022 COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising once again across the country, driven by more contagious subvariants of the virus and leaving health experts unsure whether vaccination and immunity from prior infection will be protective enough to prevent yet another deadly wave of infections. Nearly a third […]
