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Opinion: The latest coronavirus variants show reassuring early signs --But not time to let down the guard. ...

Mon, 2022-11-14 17:20 — mike kraft

Opinion | The latest coronavirus variants show reassuring early signs The pandemic may have reached the phase in which infections still spread, but do not claim such an enormous toll as did the omicron and delta waves. Editorial Board Washington Post

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Many patients with weak immune systems don’t realize their Evusheld Covid-19 medicine is as effective as in the past

Mon, 2022-11-14 17:14 — mike kraft

Many patients with weak immune systems don't realize their Covid-19 medicine isn't as effective as it used to be | CNN Judy Salins considers herself a smart, empowered patient, but until this week, she had no idea that the medicine she takes to defend herself against Covid-19 isn't protecting her as well as it used to. Elizabeth Cohen,Naomi Thomas CNN

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The medicine is called Evusheld, and its effectiveness is waning dramatically because new Covid-19 subvariants are taking center stage, and the drug doesn’t neutralize all of them.

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The latest CDC guidelines for testing and isolation as number of COVID cases rise

Mon, 2022-11-14 10:14 — mike kraft

As Covid cases tick up, here are latest CDC guidelines for testing and isolation Daily Covid cases are up 11% in the last two weeks, though many new cases aren't included in those tallies. If you're exposed or test positive, here's what to do. NBC News

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Research underway on any long term Myocarditis after Covid vaccination for young males

Mon, 2022-11-14 09:14 — mike kraft

Are there longterm myocarditis risks after Covid vaccination? Both Pfizer and Moderna are launching clinical trials to track health issues — if any — in the years following a diagnosis of vaccine-associated heart problems in teens and young adults. NBC News

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Repeat COVID is riskier than first infection, study finds

Fri, 2022-11-11 10:48 — mike kraft

Repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure, death | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Researchers recommend masks, vaccines, vigilance to prevent reinfection Kristina Sauerwein Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

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Young kids and teenagers are at similar risk for long covid as adults --study

Thu, 2022-11-10 17:28 — mike kraft

A large study today from Germany shows that kids and adolescents are at the same relative risk of experiencing COVID-19 symptoms 90 days or more after acute infection as adults are, according to findings in PLOS Medicine.

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Doctors are trying to understand why Covid Patients Coming Off Ventilators Can Take Weeks to Regain Consciousness

Mon, 2022-11-07 18:45 — mike kraft

In March 2020, New York City’s hospitals filled up with patients desperately ill with Covid-19. In many cases, when their fluid-filled lungs could no longer give them oxygen, doctors sedated them and put them on ventilators.

The patients who recovered were taken off the machines and anesthesia. Within a day or so, their doctors expected them to wake up.

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Trying to understand long covid, scientists made mini brains and infected them with coronavirus.

Mon, 2022-11-07 18:35 — mike kraft

Scientists made mini brains and infected them with coronavirus.

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Americans may soon have to pay for COVID-19 tests

Fri, 2022-11-04 18:24 — mike kraft

Why you may soon have to pay for that COVID-19 test The federal government is poised to stop paying for COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments in the coming months, shifting the costs onto the public. Experts say most Americans are not aware … iswanson The Hill

The federal government is poised to stop paying for COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments in the coming months, shifting the costs onto the public.

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Lessns learned" Two early US programs successfully traced COVID case contacts

Fri, 2022-11-04 18:03 — mike kraft

Two early US programs successfully traced COVID case contacts One report details a massive NYC effort to probe 941,035 COVID-19 cases and follow up with their contacts. CIDRAP

A pair of new studies describe how two US jurisdictions quickly mobilized teams of contact tracers to identify and isolate people exposed to SARS-CoV-2, with a massive New York City effort finding 1.4 contacts per case and a college student-led Central Pennsylvania initiative that may have led to fewer symptomatic household infections.

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