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Explainer: Why are Shanghai's COVID infections nearly all asymptomatic?

Wed, 2022-03-30 10:10 — mike kraft
Explainer: Why are Shanghai's COVID infections nearly all asymptomatic? Epidemiologists examining the biggest Chinese outbreak of COVID-19 in two years are trying to ascertain why the proportion of asymptomatic cases is so high, and what it could mean for China's future containment strategy. David Stanway Reuters
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Webinar today, 11 AM ET: Enabling Population-Scale Diagnostic Testing for COVID-19 and Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks--Johns Hopkins

Wed, 2022-03-30 09:16 — mike kraft

Enabling Population-Scale Diagnostic Testing for COVID-19 and Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks

 

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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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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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Second COVID vaccine booster significantly lowers death rate-- Israeli study

Mon, 2022-03-28 09:37 — mike kraft
Second COVID vaccine booster significantly lowers death rate, Israeli study shows Senior citizens who received a second booster of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination had a 78% lower mortality rate from the disease than those who got one only, a study from Israel showed on Sunday. Reuters Reuters
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Ukranian war impact: Curtailed harvests and scarcer fertilizer all but promise hunger and hardship for tens of millions.

Fri, 2022-03-25 18:39 — mike kraft
Russia’s Invasion Unleashes ‘Perfect Storm’ in Global Agriculture Curtailed harvests and scarcer fertilizer all but promise hunger and hardship for tens of millions. Christina Lu Foreign Policy
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American use of at-home coronavirus tests jumped during the Omicron wave, but disparities remain, a survey suggests.

Fri, 2022-03-25 17:50 — mike kraft

The use of at-home coronavirus tests jumped during the Omicron wave, but disparities remain, a survey suggests

The use of at-home coronavirus tests surged during the winter Omicron wave in the United States, with white, high-income and highly educated people most likely to report using the tests, an online survey of U.S. adults suggests.

Between Dec. 19 and March 12, 20.1 percent of survey respondents who said they had symptoms consistent with Covid-19 reported using an at-home test, up from 5.7 percent between late August and early December, when Delta was the predominant coronavirus variant in the United States....

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Data dashboards have been an important part of pandemic response and planning. What have their developers learned?

Fri, 2022-03-25 17:40 — mike kraft
Lessons from the COVID data wizards Nature - Data dashboards have been an important part of pandemic response and planning. What have their developers learnt about communicating science in a crisis? Peeples, Lynne nature

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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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Nearly2 in 5 Covid-19 researchers have faced harassment, mainly over Covid issues. , survey finds

Fri, 2022-03-25 13:17 — mike kraft
Almost 2 in 5 Covid-19 researchers have faced harassment, survey finds Harassment of researchers and public health officials during the pandemic has become a growing concern and a focus for professional organizations. NBC News

Nearly 2 in 5 Covid-19 researchers reported they had been harassed since the pandemic began, according to a new survey published Thursday in Science.

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