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Discussion: Will COVID cause health issues decades down the road?

Mon, 2022-01-24 19:23 — mike kraft

COVID-19 can wreak havoc on your body. So will it cause health issues decades down the road? | CBC News COVID-19 can lead to a dizzying array of symptoms and sometimes causes lingering effects. What will that mean for the long-term health of millions of people who’ve been infected — months, years or even decades down the road? CBC

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Small Towns With Small Work Forces have Big Problems when COVID strikes

Mon, 2022-01-24 19:00 — mike kraft

In Marvell, Ark., a tiny Mississippi Delta town of 855 residents tucked into a sea of cotton, soy bean and corn fields, Lee Guest is a particularly essential essential worker.

He is the mayor and the assistant fire chief, and his day job is as a rural mail carrier. If the four employees of the local water utility don’t show up, he knows enough about the system to keep the water flowing, too.

“There’s a handful of us — we can go get stuff taken care of,” he said. ...

Out of 13 full-time and 11 part-time employees, six have gotten Covid-19. One, who went to a hospital but wasn’t admitted, got sick in 2020. The rest of the cases have tested positive in the last three weeks.

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U.S FDA curbs use of two antibody drugs sidelined by omicron

Mon, 2022-01-24 17:37 — mike kraft

FDA curbs use of antibody drugs sidelined by omicron WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 antibody drugs from Regeneron and Eli Lilly should no longer be used because they are unlikely to work against the omicron variant that now accounts for nearly all U.S. infections, U.S. AP NEWS

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BA.2, newest COVID-19 variant, found in Washington state, health officials say

Mon, 2022-01-24 17:26 — mike kraft

BA.2, newest COVID-19 variant, found in Washington state, health officials say State health officials confirmed to KOMO News on Monday that BA. 2, the newest variant of COVID-19, has been detected in Washington state, which is still grappling with a surge in cases from the omicron and delta variants.

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High levels of omicron-fighting antibodies detected four months after Pfizer booster--study

Mon, 2022-01-24 17:20 — mike kraft

Study finds high levels of omicron-fighting antibodies four months A new study shows high levels of coronavirus antibodies that fight the omicron variant four months after a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine, a positive sign for the durability of a booster shot’s Peter Sullivan TheHill

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First free N95 masks are arriving at US pharmacies, grocery stores s

Mon, 2022-01-24 12:22 — mike kraft

First free N95 masks are arriving at US pharmacies The first free N95 masks from the government have begun arriving at US pharmacies, with more on the way. The Biden administration is trying to ramp up access to high-quality masks amid the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant of Covid-19 and announced last week that 400 million N95 masks will be provided. By <a href="/profiles/aditi-sandal">Aditi Sangal</a> and Melissa Macaya, CNN CNN

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Rapid COVID tests: Their accuracy and efforts to improve them

Mon, 2022-01-24 10:39 — mike kraft

Why rapid COVID tests aren't more accurate and how scientists hope to improve them

How much should you trust the results of a rapid antigen test? That's a question many people are asking these days amid recent research and anecdotes suggesting these tests may be less sensitive to omicron. Researchers are working fast to figure out what's going on and how to improve the tests.

That includes people like Dr. Wilbur Lam, a professor of pediatrics and biomedical engineering at Emory University and one of the lead investigators assessing COVID-19 diagnostic tests for the federal government. His research team began evaluating rapid antigen tests against live samples of the omicron variant last December in the lab, and in early assessments, he says, some tests failed to detect the coronavirus "at a concentration that we would have expected them to catch it if it were another variant."

That finding prompted the Food and Drug Administration to update its online guidance in late December to note that, while rapid antigen tests do detect the omicron variant, "they may have reduced sensitivity."

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