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The mission of the Global Health Working Group is to explore and improve current and emerging states of health and human security worldwide.

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European scientists make it official. July was the hottest month on record

Tue, 2023-08-08 11:50 — mike kraft

European scientists make it official. July was the hottest month on record by far Now that July’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin. AP News

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Bivalent COVID booster protects against poor outcomes better than 1-strain 4th dose --study

Tue, 2023-08-08 11:33 — mike kraft

Bivalent COVID booster protects against poor outcomes better than 1-strain 4th dose Agência Brasília / Flickr cc CIDRAP

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U.S. NIH is starting studies to find treatements for long COVID

Tue, 2023-08-08 11:20 — mike kraft

Brain fog and other long COVID symptoms affect millions. New treatment studies bring hope The National Institutes of Health is starting some studies to test possible treatments for long COVID. Millions of people are estimated to have the mysterious condition. AP News

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Loss of smell or taste no longer a telltale sign of COVID

Tue, 2023-08-08 11:09 — mike kraft

Loss of smell or taste was once a telltale sign of COVID. Not anymore. The latest research suggests a prevalence of just 3% to 4% for this once-common symptom in recent waves. CBS News

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CDC says news COVID varient is dominat in U.S., also spreading in UK

Tue, 2023-08-08 11:01 — mike kraft

CDC says new COVID variant is dominant, including strain some call "Eris" It is unclear which regions of the U.S. have the most EG.5 infections. Yahoo Life

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Climate: Most children in South Asia are exposed to extreme high temperatures, UNICEF says

Mon, 2023-08-07 11:37 — mike kraft

Most children in South Asia are exposed to extreme high temperatures, UNICEF says | CNN Nearly half a billion children in South Asia are exposed to extreme high temperatures as life-threatening heat waves caused by the climate crisis become stronger and more frequent, according to the United Nations’ children’s agency. Rhea Mogul CNN

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‘Eris’ Is New Covid-19 Variant Spreading, Monitored By WHO

Mon, 2023-08-07 11:23 — mike kraft

EG.5.1 Nicknamed ‘Eris’ Is New Covid-19 Variant Spreading, Monitored By WHO The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed the EG.5 variants as variants under monitoring (VUM) ever since July 19. Bruce Y. Lee Forbes

...EG.5.1 doesn’t seem to be producing different, more or more severe Covid-19 symptoms.

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Guidance on vaccinations, etc as summer Covid-19 cases increase

Mon, 2023-08-07 11:13 — mike kraft

As a summer wave of Covid-19 hits the US, questions about vaccines, quarantine and testing are back | CNN Covid-19 is on the rise again as the world approaches the fourth virus season since the coronavirus arrived on the scene. Amanda Musa CNN

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Covid Eris symptoms of the new variant driving surge in cases

Mon, 2023-08-07 11:02 — mike kraft

A new Covid variant dubbed Eris has emerged as hospital admissions spike amid bad weather and waning immunity this summer.

A descendant of Omicron, Eris, or EG.5.1, was first classified as a variant in the UK on 31 July, but now accounts for one in 10 Covid cases.

It is now the second most prevalent variant in the UK, after Arcturus which makes up almost half of all infection cases at 39.4 per cent, according to UKHSA.

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