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China's CanSinoBIO's inhaled COVID booster reported stronger against BA.1 Omicron subvariant than Sinovac shot

Tue, 2023-05-09 10:21 — mike kraft
CanSinoBIO's inhaled COVID booster stronger against BA.1 Omicron subvariant than Sinovac shot Chinese vaccine firm CanSino Biologic's inhalation-based candidate elicited a better antibody response as a booster against the BA.1 Omicron sub-variant than Sinovac's shot, but the antibody level dropped in months, clinical trial data showed. Reuters R
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Opinion: The Covid-19 emergency is ending. It’s time for the patient to leave the hospital

Tue, 2023-05-09 10:06 — mike kraft
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The Covid-19 emergency is ending. It's time for the patient to leave the hospital | CNN After more than three very long years, it's finally happening: The Covid-19 pandemic is ending, at least in the formal sense, both in this country and abroad. This moment is not being marked with parades or big parties but rather with the flourishes of two administrative pens. On Friday, the World Health Organization announced that Covid-19 no longer constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, and this Thursday, the United States is set to end its own public health emergency declaration. Dr.
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Immune cells—not antibodies—cause rare cases of COVID vaccine-linked myocarditis --study

Mon, 2023-05-08 17:40 — mike kraft
Study: Immune cells—not antibodies—cause COVID vaccine-linked myocarditis The rare cases of myocarditis among recipients of mRNA vaccines are caused by a generalized immune-cell and inflammatory response, researchers say. CIDRAP
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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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Paxlovid slashed risk of COVID hospital stay in unvaccinated patients -- Canadian study

Mon, 2023-05-08 17:12 — mike kraft
Paxlovid slashed risk of COVID hospital stay in some patients amid Omicron, study suggests CIDRAP

The antiviral drug Paxlovid was tied to a 96% lower relative risk (RR) of COVID-19 hospitalization among high-risk outpatients who didn't complete a primary vaccination series but didn't benefit those who had received at least two doses amid the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, according to a real-world study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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Analysis: Record breaking heat in Spain, North Africa impossible without climate change

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:56 — mike kraft
Spain's April heat nearly impossible without climate change Record-breaking April temperatures in Spain, Portugal and northern Africa were made 100 times more likely by human-caused climate change, a new flash study found, and would have been almost impossible in the past. A group of international scientists did a rapid computer and statistical analysis of a late April heat wave that stretched across the Iberian peninsula into Algeria and Morocco. The peaks of the heat wave varied from 36.9 degrees Celsius (98.4 degrees Fahrenheit) to 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees Fahrenheit) degrees in the four countries.
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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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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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