COVID-19

Japan to roll out COVID-19 booster targeting XBB subvariant in the fall

Mon, 2023-06-19 10:01 — mike kraft

Japan to roll out COVID-19 booster targeting XBB subvariant in the fall A vaccine subcommittee under the health ministry is aiming to prepare for another spike in infections possibly arriving in the winter. Tomoko Otake The Japan Times

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Covid case tallies drop but data incomplete because of decline in reporting

Mon, 2023-06-19 09:53 — mike kraft

Decline in COVID reporting muddles tracking of global illness patterns CIDRAP

Global cases and deaths continued to drop over the past 28 days, but the metrics don't accurately reflect infection rates because of the steady drop in testing and regular reporting from countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said (Thursday) in its latest weekly update.

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COVID vaccine records in Texas, New Hampshire, Montana could be lost because of opt-in -laws

Fri, 2023-06-16 10:59 — mike kraft

Your COVID vaccine records could be destroyed in 5 years because of Texas law In five years, Texas will have to destroy 10.4 million vaccine records because of an unusual state law. Yahoo News

The impending record destruction is a rare situation in the U.S., because almost every state or municipality that operates a vaccine registry has an “opt out” system.

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Suicides and homicides among young Americans jumped early in the pandemic-- study

Thu, 2023-06-15 18:28 — mike kraft

Suicides and homicides among young Americans jumped early in the pandemic, study says The homicide rate for older U.S. teenagers rose to its highest point in nearly 25 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. And the suicide rate for adults in their early 20s was the worst in more than 50 years. That's according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday. Experts cited several possible reasons for the increases, including higher rates of depression, limited availability of mental health services and the number of guns in U.S. homes. Suicide and homicide are the No. 2 and 3 causes of death for 10- to 24-year-olds.

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Survey iundicates more than 96% of Americans has COVID-19 antibodies by last autumn

Thu, 2023-06-15 17:41 — mike kraft

96.4% of Americans had COVID-19 antibodies in their blood by fall 2022 Infection and vaccination both leave their mark in your blood. Yulia Reznikov/Moment via Getty Images CC BY-ND Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were present in the blood of 96.4% of Americans over the age of 16 by September 2022. That’s according to a serosurvey – an analysis testing for the presence of these immune defense molecules – conducted on samples from blood donors. A serosurvey like this one helps researchers estimate how many people have been exposed to any pa Yahoo News

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FDA advisors endorse using only updated Covid vaccines

Thu, 2023-06-15 17:31 — mike kraft

FDA advisers endorse updating COVID vaccines to target latest omicron strain The COVID-19 vaccines are on track for a big recipe change this fall. Today’s vaccines still contain the original coronavirus strain, the one that started the pandemic. But that strain was long ago supplanted by mutated versions as the virus rapidly evolves. Scientific advisers for the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said the next round of shots should only include protection against the newest omicron variants that are now dominant worldwide.

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Opinion: In California, people are still dying of COVID — but you wouldn’t know it

Thu, 2023-06-15 11:43 — mike kraft

In California, people are still dying of COVID — but you wouldn’t know it | Opinion Piecing together information is like driving through fog without any road signs, one SLO County resident says. | Opinion Yahoo News

... COVID isn’t done with us yet, and people with weakened immune systems continue to be at heightened risk.

For them, trying to stay on top of the latest information is a frustrating experience

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Monoclonal antibody injection prevented COVID-19 during Delta, Omicron

Thu, 2023-06-15 11:35 — mike kraft

Monoclonal antibody injection shown to prevent COVID-19 during Delta, Omicron The relative risk reduction for participants who received adintrevimab as post-exposure prophylaxis was 75%. CIDRAP

A single injection of the monoclonal antibody (mAb), adintrevimab prevented COVID-19 in the phase 2/3 EVADE trial, finds a study yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

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Burnout, online harassment of health workers during COVID-19 decribed in new studies

Thu, 2023-06-15 11:26 — mike kraft

Studies spotlight burnout, online harassment of health workers during COVID-19 CIDRAP

Two new studies illustrate the mental toll COVID-19 took on healthcare workers (HCWs), with the first documenting high rates of burnout among HCWs and the second describing harassment on social media platforms suffered by physicians and scientists during the pandemic.

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