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 […]
Authors: Sun M. Yoo MD, MPH, Teresa C. Liu MD, MPH, Yash Motwani BS, Myung S. Sim DrPH, Nisha Viswanathan MD, Nathan Samras MD, Felicia Hsu MD & Neil S. Wenger MD, MPH Journal of General Internal Medicine (2022) ABSTRACT Background The incidence of persistent clinical symptoms and risk factors in Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) in diverse US cohorts is unclear. While […]
Authors: CNA 24 Apr 2022 08:02AM PARIS: Not even one in three people have completely recovered from COVID-19 a full year after being hospitalized with the disease, a United Kingdom study indicated on Sunday (Apr 24), warning that long COVID could become a common condition. The study involving more than 2,300 people also found that women were 33 per […]
Authors: Michelle Roberts UK doctors believe they have documented the longest Covid infection on record – a patient they treated who had detectable levels of the virus for more than 16 months, or 505 days, in total. The unnamed individual had other underlying medical conditions and died in hospital in 2021. Persistent infections such as […]
Authors: Piero Sangaletti Edge-Institute Austria at ER-System Mechatronics, Golling, Austria, Advisory Board of Concerned Scientists, Tampa, Florida USA, Antonietta GattiCofounder and Principal Investigator of Nanodiagnostics, SRL (Società a Responsabilità Limitata), Italy. Clemens Arvay Independent scientist and textbook author in Health Ecology, Vienna and Graz, Abstract The engineered spike protein of SARS-COV-2, and the corresponding infectious […]