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WHO calls on member states to keep up COVID testing, warns data needed to end pandemic

Wed, 2022-03-30 09:24 — mike kraft

Coronavirus tally: WHO calls on member states to keep up COVID testing, warns data needed to end pandemic The World Health Organization said Wednesday it's concerned that several member states have significantly cut back on testing for COVID-19, making the available data less timely, less representative and less robust.

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This key indicator may determine how bad a BA.2 wave could be in the US

Tue, 2022-03-29 22:31 — FNUOvviyaa

This key indicator may determine how bad a BA.2 wave will be in the US As America casts a wary eye on rising cases caused by the BA.2 subvariant in Europe, the immune status of adults over the age of 65 will be a key indicator of how future variants will affect the US. Brenda Goodman and Deidre McPhillips, CNN CNN

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As America casts a wary eye on rising cases caused by the BA.2 subvariant in Europe, the immune status of adults over the age of 65 will be a key indicator of how future variants will affect the US because the risk of severe outcomes rises dramatically with age...

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Omicron sub-variant BA.2 accounts for about 55% of COVID variants in U.S. - CDC

Tue, 2022-03-29 18:40 — mike kraft

Omicron sub-variant BA.2 accounts for about 55% of COVID variants in U.S. - CDC The U.S. national public health agency said on Tuesday that BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron was estimated to account for more than half the coronavirus variants in the country. Reuters Reuters

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Long Covid: New research into effects on brain and heart

Mon, 2022-03-28 13:51 — mike kraft

How covid brain fog may overlap with 'chemo brain' and Alzheimer's People with "chemo brain" and covid brain fog could not seem more different: Those with "chemo brain" have a life-threatening disease for which they've taken toxic drugs or radiation. Many of those with covid brain fog, in contrast, describe themselves as previously healthy people who have had a relatively mild infection that felt like a cold. So when Stanford University neuroscientist Michelle Monje began studies on long covid, she was fascinated to find similar changes among patients in both g YahooNews

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Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years

Mon, 2022-03-28 09:28 — mike kraft

Shanghai starts China's biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years BEIJING (AP) — China began its most extensive coronavirus lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation's “zero-COVID” strategy. AP NEWS

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Shanghai, China’s financial capital and largest city with 26 million people, had managed its smaller previous outbreaks with limited lockdowns of housing compounds and workplaces where the virus was spreading.

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Africa’s Low Death Rates from Covid: Trying to solve the mystery

Fri, 2022-03-25 13:27 — mike kraft

The low rate of coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths in West and Central Africa is the focus of a debate that has divided scientists on the continent and beyond. Have the sick or dead simply not been counted? If Covid has in fact done less damage here, why is that? If it has been just as vicious, how have we missed it?

The answers “are relevant not just to us, but have implications for the greater public good,” said Austin Demby, Sierra Leone’s health minister, in an interview in Freetown, the capital.

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Two perspectives: Concerns and cautious optomism about possible new Covid surge in the U.S.

Fri, 2022-03-25 11:08 — mike kraft

Experts worry about how US will see next COVID surge coming NEW YORK (AP) — As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S. — and wondering how long it will take to detect. Despite disease monitoring improvements over the last two years, they say, some recent developments don't bode well: AP NEWS

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U.S. Covid vaccinations — including boosters — fall to lowest levels since 2020

Fri, 2022-03-25 10:23 — mike kraft

Covid vaccinations — including boosters — fall to lowest levels since 2020 Vaccination for the coronavirus in the United States has all but ground to a halt, with initial doses and boosters plummeting to the lowest levels since the program began in December 2020. Washington Post

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America Is About to Test How Long ‘Normal’ Can Hold in a future pandemic surge

Thu, 2022-03-24 18:28 — mike kraft

America Is About to Test How Long ‘Normal’ Can Hold Whenever it arrives, the next surge could put the country’s tolerance for disease and death in full relief. Katherine J. Wu The Atlantic

At this very moment, the United States, as a whole, remains in its legit pandemic lull. Coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations are lower than they’ve been since last summer. There’s now a nice, chonky gap between us and January’s Omicron peak.

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