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In the U.S., The Pandemic Caused a Baby Boom in Red States and a Bust in Blue States

Fri, 2023-05-26 20:23 — mike kraft
The Pandemic Caused a Baby Boom in Red States and a Bust in Blue States The COVID pandemic caused a U.S.-wide decline in fertility rates, but red states actually saw increases Tanya Lewis Scientific American

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Risk of new post-COVID mental disorders higher only in older patients-- study

Fri, 2023-05-26 20:17 — mike kraft
Risk of new post-COVID mental disorders higher only in older patients, study suggests Data suggest an increased risk of new-onset mental illness only in SARS-CoV-2–positive patients aged 70 and older. CIDRAP
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Hundreds of Thousands of Americans Have Lost Medicaid Coverage Since Pandemic Protections Expired

Fri, 2023-05-26 11:57 — mike kraft
Hundreds of Thousands Have Lost Medicaid Coverage Since Pandemic Protections Expired WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans have lost Medicaid coverage in recent weeks as part of a sprawling unwinding of a pandemic-era policy that prohibited states from removing people from the program. Early data shows that many people lost coverage for procedural reasons, such as when Medicaid recipients did not return paperwork to verify their eligibility or could not be located. The large number of terminations on procedural grounds suggests that many people may be losing Yahoo News
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How dispute over raising the U.S. debt limit could reduce spending of some coronavirus relief funds

Fri, 2023-05-26 11:41 — mike kraft
How raising the nation's debt limit could reduce spending of some coronavirus relief funds Proposals to raise the nation's debt limit include spending cuts to coronavirus relief funds that haven't been used. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that $30 billion of “unobligated” pandemic funds could be canceled as part of a debt-limit deal. That could include leftover funds for vaccines, public health initiatives and a program that provides wireless internet access for students. But the Treasury Department says the cuts would have little effect on $350 billion of aid for state and local governments.
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Pfizer COVID tracking confirms safety for kids, heart issues extremely rare.

Fri, 2023-05-26 11:36 — mike kraft
Pfizer COVID vaccine tracking confirms safety in kids, with myocarditis, pericarditis rare CIDRAP

Monitoring of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine safety among more than 3 million US children aged 5 to 17 years flagged just 2 of 20 health outcomes among 12- to 17-year-olds—myocarditis and pericarditis, which were rare.

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Prepare for future pathogens with "even deadlier potential" than COVID, WHO chief warns

Thu, 2023-05-25 17:45 — mike kraft
Prepare for next pandemic, future pathogens with "even deadlier potential" than COVID, WHO chief warns WHO director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is urging the world to be ready for the next pandemic, saying future outbreaks could be even worse than COVID. CBS News

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China faces a new Covid wave that could peak at 65 million cases a week

Thu, 2023-05-25 17:34 — mike kraft
China faces a new Covid wave that could peak at 65 million cases a week China is bracing for a new wave of Covid-19 infections that could see as many as 65 million cases per week by the time the surge peaks at the end of June. Yahoo News

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12 key symptoms define long Covid, new study shows, bringing treatments closer

Thu, 2023-05-25 16:47 — mike kraft
Government-funded study creates first symptom-based long Covid definition, a step toward finding treatments | CNN After more than two years and an investment of nearly $1.2 billion, researchers say they’ve come up with a list of 12 symptoms that can reliably classify someone as having long Covid, a working definition that should accelerate research into the disabling condition. CNN
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Air pollution exposure linked to severe COVID-19 outcomes--study

Thu, 2023-05-25 16:36 — mike kraft
Air pollution exposure linked to severe COVID-19 outcomes CIDRAP

Air pollution exposure is associated with a higher risk of experiencing severe outcomes from COVID-19 infections, including intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and death, according to new evidence in Nature Communications from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

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Cognitive behavioral therapy reduces severe fatigue in long-COVID patients --Dutch study

Tue, 2023-05-09 19:25 — mike kraft
Cognitive behavioral therapy reduces severe fatigue in long-COVID patients Cognitive behavioral therapy lessens fatigue and improves concentration among long-COVID patients. CIDRAP
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