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Trying to understand long covid, scientists made mini brains and infected them with coronavirus.

Mon, 2022-11-07 18:35 — mike kraft

Scientists made mini brains and infected them with coronavirus.

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Paxlovid reduces risk of long Covid -USG study

Mon, 2022-11-07 10:23 — mike kraft

Paxlovid reduces risk of long Covid, Veterans Affairs study finds | CNN Paxlovid, the antiviral pill that reduces the risk of hospitalization and death from Covid-19, also reduces the risk of long Covid, according to a new study by researchers at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Jamie Gumbrecht CNN

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COVID Superspreader Events Still Exist But Probably Underreported

Mon, 2022-11-07 09:56 — mike kraft

COVID Superspreader Events Still Exist. Here's What They Look Like Now. Just because we don't hear about clusters of infections like we did in 2020 and 2021 doesn't mean they don't happen. YahooNews

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China doubles down on zero-Covid pledge despite public frustration, change comes in small increments

Mon, 2022-11-07 09:39 — mike kraft

What exit? China doubles down on zero-Covid pledge despite public frustration China has reiterated its unswerving commitment to its longstanding zero-Covid policy, despite mounting public frustration the stringent measures are costing the very lives they're intended to protect. By Nectar Gan, CNN CNN

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The unrelenting campaign has kept infections and deaths low at great economic and social cost, as new fast-spreading variants make containing the virus near impossible....

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What are the new BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 coronavirus variants, and why it matters

Mon, 2022-11-07 09:05 — mike kraft

Factbox: What are the new BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 coronavirus variants, and why it matters New offshoots of the dominant BA.5 subvariant of Omicron known as BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are gaining ground in the United States as the SARS-Cov-2 virus that triggered the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve. Julie Steenhuysen Reuters

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Information on the new COVID variants that are circulating

Fri, 2022-11-04 19:21 — mike kraft

New COVID Variants Are Circulating. Here's What to Know. As it gets colder and more people move their activities indoors, the recent decline in COVID-19 cases across the United States has started to level off. Coronavirus-related hospitalizations are ticking up in a number of states, including Arizona, Indiana, Illinois, Nevada, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin. And there have been a variety of unnerving headlines about the immune evasion and increased transmissibility of the next round of coronavirus subvariants. At least half a dozen v YahooNews

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Lessns learned" Two early US programs successfully traced COVID case contacts

Fri, 2022-11-04 18:03 — mike kraft

Two early US programs successfully traced COVID case contacts One report details a massive NYC effort to probe 941,035 COVID-19 cases and follow up with their contacts. CIDRAP

A pair of new studies describe how two US jurisdictions quickly mobilized teams of contact tracers to identify and isolate people exposed to SARS-CoV-2, with a massive New York City effort finding 1.4 contacts per case and a college student-led Central Pennsylvania initiative that may have led to fewer symptomatic household infections.

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Data on Covid vaccines delivered under COVAX sharing scheme for poorer countries

Fri, 2022-11-04 10:19 — mike kraft

Factbox: Vaccines delivered under COVAX sharing scheme for poorer countries The COVAX facility, backed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), has delivered 1.83 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to 146 countries, GAVI data shows. Reuters Reuters

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Analysis: Lessons from past outbreaks can stop new epidemics in their tracks

Fri, 2022-11-04 10:01 — mike kraft

Lessons from past outbreaks can stop new epidemics in their tracks | CNN In late June of this year, Ghana's health authorities received some disturbing news: Two cases of viral hemorrhagic fever were detected in the country. Blood samples from the infected individuals came back positive for Marburg virus, a deadly disease that can kill most of those infected. Dr. Tom Frieden,Precious Matsoso CNN

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Vaccines: Pfizer, Biotech report booster shot effectiveness and trials on combined Covid and flu vaccine

Fri, 2022-11-04 09:40 — mike kraft

Pfizer, BioNTech say bivalent COVID-19 booster shot performs better against BA.5 omicron subvariant Pfizer and BioNTech said that updated data from a Phase 2-3 clinical trial shows the bivalent booster performed better against the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants. ABC News ABC News

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