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27% rate of long COVID in infected health workers --Brazilian study

Mon, 2023-06-05 18:18 — mike kraft

Study finds 27% rate of long COVID in infected health workers CIDRAP

A new case-control study of Brazilian healthcare workers (HCWs) suggests as many as 27% developed long COVID after infection, and multiple infections raised the risk. The findings were published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

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WHO to expand on European Union digital COVID-19 certification system

Mon, 2023-06-05 18:14 — mike kraft

WHO to expand on European Union digital COVID-19 certification system - UPI.com The World Health Organization said on Monday it will expand on the European Union's digital COVID-19 certification system for use globally which will facilitate mobility across a range of ongoing health threats and pande UPI

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Warming triggering carbon dioxide in air hits new peak, growing at near-record fast rate

Mon, 2023-06-05 18:06 — mike kraft

Amount of warming triggering carbon dioxide in air hits new peak, growing at near-record fast rate The cause of global warming is showing no signs of slowing as heat-trapping carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has increased to record highs in its annual Spring peak. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations says carbon dioxide levels in the air are jumping at one of the fastest rates on record. Those levels are now the highest they’ve been in more than 4 million years. The last time the air had similar amounts was during a less hospitable hothouse Earth before human civilization.

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96% of US blood donors had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in 2022, CDC reports

Mon, 2023-06-05 10:48 — mike kraft

96% of US blood donors had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in 2022, CDC reports During July to September 2022, 96.4% had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, including 26.1% from vaccination alone, 22.6% from infection alone, and 47.7% from both. CIDRAP

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Viruses and other bugs could make a summer comeback

Mon, 2023-06-05 10:41 — mike kraft

Is Covid ticking up? Viruses and other bugs could make a summer comeback, doctors say Doctors are on the lookout for worrisome upticks in Covid, human metapneumovirus and enteroviruses. NBC News

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Analysis: Covid disputes made it nearly impossible to pass new vaccine rules in some states

Mon, 2023-06-05 10:33 — mike kraft

How Covid made it nearly impossible to pass new vaccine rules Around the country, vaccine policy is on hold while lawmakers recover from a pandemic-policy hangover. POLITICO

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Toxic, pandemic-era battles over immunizations and school closures have made vaccine politics radioactive, even on diseases wholly unrelated to Covid-19. In California, where lawmakers pushed through some of the nation’s strictest mandates through 2019, schools are wary of wading back into the fight.

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Earth is danger zone in nearly all ecological ways--study

Thu, 2023-06-01 18:00 — mike kraft

Earth is 'really quite sick now' and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says A new study says Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that’s losing its natural areas, but for well-being of people living on it. The study, published Wednesday, looks not just at guardrails for the planetary ecosystem but for the first time it includes measures of “justice,” which is mostly about preventing harm for groups of people.

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Covid infections had hit attendees at CDC epidemiology conference

Thu, 2023-06-01 17:44 — mike kraft

COVID-19 outbreak hits CDC epidemiology conference The CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference hosted 1,800 people over four days in Atlanta — 13% of them said they later tested positive for the coronavirus. Los Angeles Times

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Black men were likely underdiagnosed with lung problems because of bias in software, study suggests

Thu, 2023-06-01 17:24 — mike kraft

Black men were likely underdiagnosed with lung problems because of bias in software, study suggests A new study suggests racial bias built into a common medical test for lung function is likely leading to fewer Black patients getting care for breathing problems. The study released Thursday in JAMA Network Open found that as many as 40% more Black men might be diagnosed with breathing problems if current diagnosis-assisting computer software was changed. AP NEWS

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Some financial pledges to fight climate change went to strange projects

Thu, 2023-06-01 11:17 — mike kraft

A pledge to fight climate change is sending money to strange places Rich countries promised $100 billion a year to reduce the effects of global warming. Reuters found large sums went to a coal plant, a hotel and chocolate shops. Reuters

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Although a coal plant, a hotel, chocolate stores, a movie and an airport expansion don’t seem like efforts to combat global warming, nothing prevented the governments that funded them from reporting them as such to the United Nations and counting them toward their giving total.

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