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Anxiety, depression may play a role in long COVID, including physical issues

Mon, 2023-05-08 17:30 — mike kraft

Anxiety, depression may play a role in long COVID - UPI.com In trying to untangle the mysteries of long COVID, researchers have found anxiety and depression may play a role for some of those with the lingering condition. UPI

In the study from researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), patients who perceived that they had thinking difficulties during COVID-19 infection were also more likely to have lingering physical symptoms than those who did not report thinking issues.

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Analysis: Research into treating long COVID is stuck

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:42 — mike kraft

Long COVID Treatment Research Is Stuck in a Frustrating Catch-22 Patients are feeling abandoned, for good reason. Liz Highleyman Slate Magazine

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Florida's controversial Surgeon General confirmed for 2nd term

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:33 — mike kraft

Anti-vaccine Florida surgeon general confirmed for second term. Concerns about what’s next “Vaccines are one of the greatest achievements in history, so what happens when their value is undermined by an expert?” said Richard Carpiano, a public health scientist at the University of California-Riverside who has studied the anti-vaccination movement. Miami Herald

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Does the end of Covid emergency declarations mean the pandemic is over?

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:12 — mike kraft

Does the end of Covid emergency declarations mean the pandemic is over? What is clear is that Covid isn’t going anywhere, though the damage it is doing to the human species is declining. Helen Branswell STAT

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There are no fixed borders between a pandemic, when a pathogen is new to humans and causing wide scale disease and often high levels of death, and the ensuing endemic phase, when the disease has settled into something that our immune systems can better cope with, explained Marc Lipsitch, an infectious diseases epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Covid-19 experts told White House about chances of an Omicron-level event within the next two years

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:02 — mike kraft

Covid-19 experts say they warned White House about chance of an Omicron-level event within the next two years | CNN In March, the White House reached out to about a dozen Covid-19 experts who are closely following the evolution of the coronavirus to ask a simple question: What did they think were the chances of the world seeing a highly mutated variant, akin to Omicron, within the next two years? Brenda Goodman,Betsy Klein CNN

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The meaning of WHO saying the COVID emergency ahs ended

Fri, 2023-05-05 18:18 — mike kraft

WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean? The World Health Organization says COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency but the coronavirus is here to stay. The action Friday by the United Nations agency doesn’t mean much for the average person. The classification is meant to warn countries that there’s an “extraordinary” event that could pose a health threat and requires a coordinated response. Health officials say the virus isn’t going anywhere and advise people to get vaccinated, including getting booster doses if they qualify. WHO has previously declared global emergencies for outbreaks of swine flu, Zika, Ebola, polio and mpox, formerly called monkeypox.

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A better approach to pursuade parents to vaccinate kids against Covid

Fri, 2023-05-05 17:26 — mike kraft

Some messages more likely to sway parents to vaccinate kids against COVID, survey finds More parents were very likely to vaccinate their kids after reading messages saying that other trusted parents have done so or that the vaccine is safe. CIDRAP

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Analysis: Failures in achieving COVID-19 vaccine equity

Fri, 2023-05-05 17:11 — mike kraft

Cascading failures in COVID-19 vaccine equity Ethical analysis should encompass upstream decisions and their downstream consequences Science

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CDC Director Walensky resigns; Biden still searching for new pandemic czar

Fri, 2023-05-05 13:01 — mike kraft

CDC's Rochelle Walensky resigns, citing pandemic transition The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resigning. Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic is a good time to make a transition. She sent a resignation letter to President Joe Biden and announced the decision at a CDC staff meeting Friday. Her last day will be June 30. Walensky was previously an infectious-diseases specialist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Thousands of COVID tests recalled over bacteria risk and should be discarded, FDA warns

Fri, 2023-05-05 12:02 — mike kraft

Thousands of COVID tests recalled over bacteria risk, FDA warns 500,000 "Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests" distributed to CVS and 16,000 distributed to Amazon should be thrown out. Yahoo Finance

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