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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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U.S. FDA approves first RSV vaccine, a long-sought scientific achievement

Wed, 2023-05-03 13:24 — mike kraft

FDA approves first RSV vaccine, a long-sought scientific achievement The FDA has approved the first-ever vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, completing an elusive quest that has been decades in the making. Helen Branswell STAT

... The product, GSK’s Arexvy, was approved for adults ages 60 and older.

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Analysis: We won't know for a while if Covid's spring lull will last

Wed, 2023-05-03 13:15 — mike kraft

Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last? Things look calm right now. They may even stay that way—but we won’t know for sure for a good long while. Katherine J. Wu The Atlantic

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The nursing shortage: Recruiting from the Global Health will not solve the problem

Wed, 2023-05-03 12:19 — mike kraft

The Global North can’t solve its health care worker shortage by recruiting from the Global South Some countries with a tradition of training nurses "for export," like the Philippines, are actually facing a huge shortage themselves. Torie Bosch STAT

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WHO finds signs of health system recoveries, European group cites lessons learned

Wed, 2023-05-03 12:06 — mike kraft

WHO survey finds signs of health system recovery from pandemic CIDRAP

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has been tracking health system impacts since the early days of the pandemic, and its latest survey of countries shows that health services are starting to recover, according to new findings..

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WHO director general warns that the world is failing to learn COVID’s lessons

Wed, 2023-05-03 11:50 — mike kraft

WHO director general warns that the world is failing to learn COVID’s lessons "Future generations will question what we did to improve from the pandemic," said. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Yahoo Finance

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“If the world does not learn from our past mistakes with COVID, then future generations will question what we did to improve from the pandemic,” he said.

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U.S. COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers, int'l travelers to end May 11

Wed, 2023-05-03 11:40 — mike kraft

COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers, international travelers to end May 11 - UPI.com The Biden administration has announced plans to end COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week for federal employees, international travelers, Head Start educators and CMS-certified healthcare facilities. UPI

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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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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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The debate over who dangerous are repeat COVID infections

Thu, 2023-04-27 10:56 — mike kraft

Are repeat COVID infections dangerous? What the science says Nature - Researchers disagree over how bad it is to be reinfected, and whether COVID-19 can cause lasting changes to the immune system. Willyard, Cassandra nature

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Situation analysis of Covid status --Experts comment on present and future

Thu, 2023-04-27 10:43 — mike kraft

Deaths from Covid-19 in the United States are the lowest they’ve been since March 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s data tracker. Case rates have similarly plummeted, though infections have become harder to track because of the widespread availability of at-home rapid tests; many of the monitoring systems that were set up at the beginning of the pandemic have also been wound down.

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