More than half of all travel destinations are 'very high' risk The CDC designated a half dozen new places "very high" risk for travel on Monday, including South Korea and French Polynesia. Almost 140 destinations are now at Level 4, the highest risk category. By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN CNN

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Controlled studies ease worries of widespread long Covid in kids Children are more likely to suffer from pandemic-associated symptoms than from infection-associated symptoms. School policies should reflect this reality. Patrick Skerrett STAT

Uncertainty about the effect of Covid-19 on children is gradually being replaced by reassuring news.

UK health agency says long COVID less common in the vaccinated Long COVID is less likely to affect vaccinated people than unvaccinated people, a new review of 15 studies by the UK Health Security Agency released on Tuesday has concluded. Reuters Reuters

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WHO Europe warns of COVID rise in east, like Russia, Ukraine COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization's Europe office said Tuesday that health officials are turning their attention to growing rates of COVID-19 infection in Eastern Europe, where six countries — including Russia and Ukraine — have seen a doubling in case counts over the last two weeks. AP NEWS

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Pfizer director Dr. Scott Gottlieb: Shots for kids under 5 delayed due to low Covid cases in trial "One case in one direction or another can tip the perception of the vaccine's overall effectiveness," said the Pfizer board member and former FDA chief. Krystal Hur CNBC

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Natalie Lambert, a biostatistician and health data scientist at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has collected self-reported data from more than a million long Covid patients through a collaboration with Survivor Corps, a Facebook support group for Covid survivors. Patients frequently report that their doctors have advised them to exercise, she said — but many say that when they do, they feel worse afterward.

After Covid, risks of heart problems remain elevated for up to a year Among the unvaccinated, long-term heart risks attributed to Covid-19 were "everywhere," researchers found. NBC News

... it appears the coronavirus can leave patients at risk for heart problems for at least one year following infection, according to one of the largest analyses of post-Covid health effects to date.