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U.S. Food and Drug Administration has decided not to authorize the antidepressant fluvoxamine to treat COVID-19

Tue, 2022-05-17 10:19 — mike kraft

FDA declines to authorize common antidepressant as COVID treatment The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has decided not to authorize the antidepressant fluvoxamine to treat COVID-19, saying that the data has not shown the drug to be an effective therapeutic for fighting the virus. Leroy Leo,Michael Erman Reuters

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Future COVID variants will likely reinfect us multiple times a year, experts say — unless we invest in new vaccines

Tue, 2022-05-17 09:21 — mike kraft

Future COVID variants will likely reinfect us multiple times a year, experts say — unless we invest in new vaccines For more than a year now, the original COVID-19 vaccines have held up remarkably well — even miraculously so — against a Greek alphabet of new variants: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta. But now experts say something is changing.

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How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?

Mon, 2022-05-16 19:42 — mike kraft

How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus? A virus that shows no signs of disappearing, variants that are adept at dodging the body’s defenses and waves of infections two, maybe three times a year — this may be the future of COVID-19, some scientists now fear. The central problem is that the coronavirus has become more adept at reinfecting people.

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Pfizer study estimates its vaccine helped prevent over 110,000 Covid deaths

Mon, 2022-05-16 19:25 — mike kraft

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South Africa experiences a new surge of COVID from versions of omicron

Mon, 2022-05-16 19:08 — mike kraft

South Africa in new surge of COVID from versions of omicron JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. For about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalizations, but not increases in severe cases and deaths, said Professor Marta Nunes, a researcher at Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. AP NEWS

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How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While COVID Killed 1 Million Americans

Mon, 2022-05-16 10:26 — mike kraft

How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While COVID Killed 1 Million Americans MELBOURNE, Australia — If the United States had the same COVID death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved. For many Americans, imagining what might have been will be painful. But especially now, at the milestone of 1 million deaths in the United States, the nations that did a better job of keeping people alive show what Americans could have done differently and what might still need to change.

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Overview: Shanghai plans to end lockdown; North Korea; Automakers reinstate mask mandates in southeastern Michigan plants

Mon, 2022-05-16 10:20 — mike kraft

Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus Shanghai set out plans for the end of a painful COVID-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks, heavily bruising China's economy, and for the return of more normal life from June 1. Reuters Reuters

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How North Korea's COVID-19 outbreak could ignite a major health crisis

Fri, 2022-05-13 20:04 — mike kraft

Explainer: How North Korea's COVID-19 outbreak could ignite a major health crisis North Korea's admission that it is battling an "explosive" COVID-19 outbreak has raised concerns that the virus could devastate a country with an under-resourced health system, limited testing capabilities, and no vaccine programme. Soo-Hyang Choi,Josh Smith Reuters

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Afica's only Covid vaccine plant is struggling because of lack of customers

Fri, 2022-05-13 10:47 — mike kraft

Covid in Africa: Why the continent's only vaccine plant is struggling Aspen Pharmacare says it may have to stop producing the jabs in South Africa unless demand rises. BBC News

The global organisations that buy Covid vaccines for poorer countries "need to step up" and order doses from Africa's only Covid vaccine maker in order to save the production line, the company's senior executive told the BBC.

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55% of Hospitalized COVID Patients Still Had Symptoms at 2 Years

Thu, 2022-05-12 19:34 — mike kraft

55% of Hospitalized COVID Patients Still Had Symptoms at 2 Years 'Ongoing follow-up of COVID-19 survivors is essential,' researcher says Molly Walker medpagetoday

More than half of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, during the initial outbreak reported at least one symptom a couple of years later, researchers found.

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