White House pushes student vaccinations as hospital admissions, deaths rise about 40% in a week


Daily new cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the delta variant of the coronavirus are all surging as millions of Americans remain unvaccinated, federal health officials warned Thursday. “Across the board,…[...]

FDA Reportedly Planning For COVID Vaccine Booster Shot Approval By September


Confirming what we have all suspected (and The White House, France, and Germany all confirmed), The FDA has tonight confirmed, according to people familiar with discussions within the agency, expects to have…[...]

Recovered COVID Patients Suffering ‘Significant Cognitive Deficits’ According To Large-Scale UK Study


Over 190 million people have officially contracted SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19. Of that, the vast majority have recovered - while up to one-third reportedly suffer from lingering symptoms of varying…[...]

Even With Breakthrough Cases, The Data Doesn’t Seem To Support Mask Mandates For Vaccinated People


The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new mask guidance is based on newfound data suggesting vaccinated individuals can spread COVID-19, despite that data appearing to show that the…[...]

Report from UK Shows 35% of Those Hospitalized with COVID Had Taken Two Doses of Vaccine


Nearly half of those hospitalized in Britain with the ‘Delta Variant’ were vaccinated.   Sky News reported: A report out of Britian shows that 35% of all individuals hospitalized with the ‘Delta…[...]

New ‘Delta Plus’ COVID Variant Detected In San Francisco Bay Area: ‘It’s At Least As Bad’ As Original


As the Delta variant of the coronavirus fuels an ongoing COVID wave, Bay Area health experts are keeping a close eye on yet another variant: Delta Plus. “We believe that…[...]

I treat pediatric COVID patients. What I’m seeing in our hospital scares me.


There is this popular notion that covid doesn't affect children - and my public health and epidemiologic training reminds me that on a population-level, it's true, the majority of children…[...]