Top stories:
- Covid and TB spreading at ICE concentration camps
- Winter Olympic athletes are taking Covid precautions
- “The U.S.’s long winter COVID-19 wave continues”
- US AMA forms new vaccine review group apart from FDA, CDC
- Portugal, Germany and Thailand reimpose Covid testing for China arrivals amid concern over fast-spreading XBB variant
- Director Jeong Jin-woo dies at 88 after fall and Covid complications
- Long Covid could trigger symptoms similar to Alzheimer’s, new study says
- A guide to Covid toe and Covid skin problems we wish we didn’t need
- Two great upcoming Long Covid events (online)
- Covid denial king Vinay Prasad personally prevents
- Americans from getting Moderna’s new flu vaccine
Last year’s Novavax COVID-19 vaccine finder from the company itself is gone, there’s nothing in the press about Novavax availability beyond saying it will be available “in the fall,” and since reddit locked their cesspool down, searching “novavax reddit” with time range of “last month” is useless.
A clinical survey of 85 pediatric long-COVID patients in Bavaria, Germany, reveals high levels of fatigue, loss of motivation, difficulty concentrating and maintaining attention, worsened mood, and greater anxiety. A
Among adults in Ravensburg, Germany, financial incentives for COVID-19 vaccination did not result in significant changes to vaccine uptake and may have inadvertently lowered community vaccination levels, according to a recently published study in JAMA Network Open.
People with weakened immune systems—most of whom were vaccinated—made up 4% of a random sample of more than 12 million people in England in 2023 yet represented 22% of both COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths, according to new findings from the INvestigation oF cOvid-19 Risk among iMmunocompromised populations (INFORM) study.
A meta-analysis of 37 studies involving 3 million people suggests that those with long COVID are much more likely to experience chest pain, heart palpitations, and high blood pressure than their uninfected counterparts.
Long COVID principally affects adults in their prime, affecting their quality of life and ability to work, contributing to profound public health and socio-economic impacts.
“An estimated one in 10 infections results in post-Covid conditions suggesting that hundreds of millions of people will need longer term care”
—Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
This is a really good like State of the Covid letter, of where we’re at right now. It ain’t great, obviously. This guy is an epidemiologist with a background in hospital infection control and emergency management.
The race for next generation vaccines is steadily heating up now. And this month, we’ve passed a major milestone: The first data suggesting that an already-authorized nextgen vaccine could outperform the BNT/Pfizer vaccine – with its manufacturers ramping up production facilities for potentially wide distribution in the next year or so.
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