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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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Mpox cases rise in Africa, new infections reported in Europe

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:18 — mike kraft

Mpox cases rise 7% in Africa as Europe reports 17 new infections Africa has had a 7.4% case increase, with 111 new infections in the most recent 2 weeks. CIDRAP

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About one quarter of New Yorkers lost at least one person to Covid--survey

Fri, 2023-05-05 11:54 — mike kraft

Survey: Nearly 900K New Yorkers lost at least three people to COVID The latest New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey illustrates the massive toll that COVID-19 took on the city since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. According to the data, about one in four… nprieb The Hill

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Public health leaders warn dwindling COVID data risks less preparation for 'the next outbreak'

Fri, 2023-05-05 11:35 — mike kraft

Public health leaders warn dwindling COVID data risks less preparation for 'the next outbreak' While COVID-19 ebbs -- and many of the pandemic-era policies on surveillance data and funding wind down with it -- the nation's public health leaders warned senators on Thursday that a return to "normal" should not mean forgetting the hard lessons learned over the last three years. When the federal government's public health emergency expires next week, COVID-19 data collection tools will also end.

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U.S. CDC to scale back COVID data collection as US nears end of the health emergency

Fri, 2023-05-05 11:28 — mike kraft

CDC to scale back data collection as US ends COVID health emergency The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday it would stop reporting or monitoring COVID-19 case data and transmission rates after the government ends the pandemic's public health emergency designation next week. Ahmed Aboulenein Reuters

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Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022 -- CDC

Thu, 2023-05-04 18:37 — mike kraft

Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022, CDC data shows | CNN Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in the United States in 2022, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Deidre McPhillips CNN

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What to know about XBB.1.16, the 'Arcturus' variant

Thu, 2023-04-27 17:52 — mike kraft

What to know about XBB.1.16, the 'Arcturus' variant The subvariant accounts for nearly 10% of new Covid cases in the U.S. NBC News

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Covid-sniffing dogs can help detect infections in schools, new study suggests

Thu, 2023-04-27 17:43 — mike kraft

Covid-sniffing dogs can help detect infections in K-12 schools, new study suggests | CNN Elementary students lined up behind a white curtain in the middle of a grand gymnasium at their school in northern California. They stood still as a dog handler walked a yellow Labrador along the other side of the curtain. Jacqueline Howard CNN

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Global COVID markers decline, but hot spots remain in Asia and the Mideast

Thu, 2023-04-27 16:52 — mike kraft

Global COVID markers decline, but hot spots remain in two regions CIDRAP

Though COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to decline over the past 4 weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) is tracking rises in two of its regions, South East Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. In its weekly update today, it also noted rises in individual countries in other parts of the world.

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