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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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How the Aging Immune System Makes Older People Vulnerable to Covid-19

Tue, 2020-09-08 11:56 — mike kraft

Covid-19 patients who are 80 or older are hundreds of times more likely to die than those under 40.

That’s partly because they are more likely to have underlying conditions — like diabetes and lung disease — that seem to make the body more vulnerable to Covid-19.

But some scientists suggest another likely, if underappreciated, driver of this increased risk: the aging immune system.

The changes that ripple through our network of immune cells as the decades pass are complex, resulting in an overreaction here, a delayed response there and over all, a strangely altered landscape of immunity.

Scientists who study the aging immune system say that understanding it may lead not only to a clearer sense of how age is connected to disease vulnerability, but to better strategies for vaccines and treatments for Covid-19.

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Covid patients have lung damage 'weeks after leaving hospital'

Tue, 2020-09-08 10:44 — mike kraft

Covid patients have lung damage 'weeks after leaving hospital' Austrian research shows how recovery can be slow process for those with severe infection Nicola Davis the Guardian

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ANALYSIS: What Young, Healthy People Have to Fear From COVID-19

Tue, 2020-09-08 10:32 — mike kraft

What Young, Healthy People Have to Fear From COVID-19 The White House’s new science adviser says: nothing. The science disagrees. Derek Thompson The Atlantic

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Experts project autumn surge in coronavirus cases, with a peak after Election Day

Tue, 2020-09-08 10:21 — mike kraft

Experts project autumn surge in coronavirus cases, with a peak after Election Day ‘It’s not so much whether it’s coming, but how big is it going to be,’ one epidemiologist said of an expected viral wave. Joel Achenbach, Rachel Weiner Washington Post

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For Long-Haulers, Covid-19 Takes a Toll on Mind as Well as Body

Mon, 2020-09-07 19:34 — mike kraft

...Early on in the pandemic, a pervasive myth among patients and some health authorities was the idea that Covid-19 was a short-term illness. Only in recent months has more attention been given to long-haulers. In online support groups like Body Politic and Survivor Corps, long-haulers have produced informal surveys and reports to study their course of illness.

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WHO new graphics on the world wide spread of COVID-19

Mon, 2020-09-07 19:01 — mike kraft

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New graphics from the World Health Organization illustrate how much worse the coronavirus pandemic is in the Americas compared to other regions of the world.

The US has more cases and more deaths than any other country, with Brazil coming in for a close second.

New graphics from the World Health Organization illustrate how much worse the coronavirus pandemic is in the Americas compared to other regions of the world.

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Australia OKs funding for two potential vaccines

Mon, 2020-09-07 10:59 — mike kraft

The Latest: Australia OKs funding for two potential vaccines CANBERRA, Australia — Australia announced on Monday it had struck supply and production agreements with pharmaceutical companies worth 1.7 billion Australian dollars ($1.2 billion) over two... AP NEWS

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia announced on Monday it had struck supply and production agreements with pharmaceutical companies worth 1.7 billion Australian dollars ($1.2 billion) over two potential COVID-19 vaccines.

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ANALYSIS: Once again, U.S. at pandemic crossroads

Mon, 2020-09-07 10:14 — mike kraft

Once again, U.S. at pandemic crossroads A brief opportunity to bring down the caseload before cold weather sets in may be squandered. Joanne Kenen POLITICO

The United States has a narrow window to force the coronavirus into a partial retreat before the one-two punch of school openings and colder weather brings a widely feared rebound.

It’s blowing it, again.

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First Famines of Coronavirus Era Are at World’s Doorstep, U.N. Warns

Sun, 2020-09-06 11:03 — mike kraft

The first famines of the coronavirus era could soon hit four chronically food-deprived conflict areas — Yemen, South Sudan, northeast Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo — the top humanitarian official of the United Nations has warned.

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