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The COVID Pandemic Is Not Over For Older Persons

Tue, 2023-02-14 11:16 — mike kraft

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For older Americans, the pandemic still poses significant dangers. About three-quarters of Covid deaths have occurred in people over 65, with the greatest losses concentrated among those over 75.

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15 Signs of COVID That Could Mean Persons Were Sick but Didn’t Know

Tue, 2023-02-14 09:56 — mike kraft

15 Signs of COVID That Could Mean You Were Sick but Didn’t Know By now, we've all known someone who's had COVID-19. With the two most dominant variants now significantly more contagious than their parent, Omicron...have you been infected without realizing it? Here are subtle signs of COVID that may suggest this. The post 15 Signs of COVID That Could Mean You Were Sick but Didn’t Know appeared first on The Healthy. MSN

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Suicides in U.S. rose in 2021 after 2 years of declines, CDC report finds

Mon, 2023-02-13 09:45 — mike kraft

Suicides rose in 2021 after 2 years of declines, CDC report finds A new CDC report published Thursday found the number of suicides increased in 2021 -- after two years of declines -- to figures not seen since 2018 ABC News ABC News

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Omicron XBB.1.5 variant expands US dominance except to northwest

Mon, 2023-02-13 09:38 — mike kraft

Omicron XBB.1.5 variant expands US dominance CIDRAP

...the CDC said the more transmissible XBB.15 subvariant makes up an estimated 74.7% of cases, up from 66.4% last week. The only area where the subvariant isn't dominant is in the far northwestern region, which includes Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

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Stop-and-go federal funding floods public health agencies with cash during crises but starves them of funds afterward.

Mon, 2023-02-13 09:08 — mike kraft

JACKSON, Miss. — When the coronavirus first scythed through the nation in early 2020, few places needed help fighting it more than Scott County, Miss., a rural patch of chicken processing plants and pine forests an hour east of the state capital, Jackson.

The poverty rate for the county’s 28,000 residents was far above the nation’s. So, too, were rates of diabetes and other chronic illnesses that worsen the risk of severe Covid-19. Yet Mississippi’s health department, struggling under huge budget cuts ordered by the state’s Legislature, had deployed just two nurse practitioners to cover a quarter-million residents in Scott and eight other counties.

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No new variants found in China’s Covid outbreak -- study

Mon, 2023-02-13 08:41 — mike kraft

No new variants emerged from China’s Covid outbreak, study finds A genomic analysis found that all infections in Beijing belonged to existing Covid variants, according to a Chinese-funded study published in The Lancet. NBC News

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An influential U.S. COVID tracker center plans to close down as pandemic ebbs

Mon, 2023-02-13 08:27 — mike kraft

As the pandemic ebbs, an influential COVID tracker shuts down After three years, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center is ceasing operations. Its data dashboards and maps became go-to sources for information from the early days of the pandemic. NPR

In another sign of the changing state of the pandemic, an invaluable source of information about the virus over the last three years is shutting down, NPR has learned.

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Heart attacks in people ages 25 to 44 increased by 30% compared to the expected number over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic --study

Fri, 2023-02-10 10:26 — mike kraft

Since COVID, more young people are dying of heart attacks. Here's what we know A recent study found that heart attacks in people ages 25 to 44 increased by 30% compared to the expected number over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. TODAY.com

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COVID vaccination in pregnancy may benefit both moms and infants --Canadian study

Fri, 2023-02-10 10:18 — mike kraft

COVID vaccination in pregnancy may benefit both moms and infants CIDRAP

Pregnant women can reduce their infant's risk of COVID-related hospitalization by receiving at least two doses of an mRNA vaccine, which are highly effective against maternal Delta variant infection and moderately effective against maternal and infant Omicron infection, suggests a study published yesterday in BMJ. A third (booster) dose offered added protection against Omicron.

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