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More Things to Know About FLiRT, the New Coronavirus Strains
Fri, 2024-05-31 09:30 —
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3 Things to Know About FLiRT, the New Coronavirus Strains
A Yale Medicine expert discusses the FLiRT strains, two new COVID subvariants that emerged in in spring 2024.
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COVID boosters offer good protection against severe outcomes but less so against the now dominant strain, JN.1
Fri, 2024-05-31 09:18 —
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Current COVID boosters offer good protection against severe outcomes but less so against JN.1
The current COVID-19 boosters targeting the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant are still offering solid protection against infection, hospitalizations, and death, but are somewhat limited in efficacy against illnesses caused by the JN.1 subvariant, now the dominant strain in the United States, according to a research letter yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Bird flu infects third US dairy worker; Michigan set to expand testing
Thu, 2024-05-30 15:40 —
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Bird flu infects third US dairy worker; Michigan set to expand testing
A third U.S. dairy worker tested positive for bird flu after exposure to infected cows, and was the first to suffer respiratory problems, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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WHO emergencies team run short of funding as health crises multiply
Thu, 2024-05-30 11:08 —
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WHO emergencies team faces funding crunch as health crises multiply
The World Health Organization's emergencies department is facing “existential threats” as multiplying health crises have left it so short of cash that it needed emergency funds to pay staff salaries at the end of last year, an independent report said.
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US Reportedly Nears Deal To Fund Moderna mRNA Bird Flu Shot Trial, holds talks with Pfizer
Thu, 2024-05-30 09:41 —
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Free COVID-19 Paxlovid pills for uninsured to expire at end of year.
Thu, 2024-05-30 09:27 —
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Free COVID medication set to become unaffordable for many by end of 2024
Pfizer's Paxlovid has become a go-to treatment for cases of COVID-19 in adults. But a federal program that covers the prescription's costs expired at the end of 2024.
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Children: Having 2 or more underlying conditions increases risk of severe COVID-19 almost 10-fold in kids
Thu, 2024-05-30 09:16 —
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Having 2 or more underlying conditions increase the risk of severe COVID-19 almost 10-fold in kids, data show
Though severe COVID-19 infections in children are uncommon, children and young adults with comorbidities are at increased risk for critical illness during COVID-19 infections, according to a new study in Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
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COVID can cause new health problems to appear years after infection--study
Thu, 2024-05-30 09:10 —
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COVID can cause new health problems even 3 years after infection, study finds. 'We don’t know what’s going to happen at 10 years'
A new report reinforces that the virus is not going away.
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Pregnant women who have had COVID-19 may be at lower risk for long COVID --study
Wed, 2024-05-29 13:52 —
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Pregnant women with COVID-19 may be at lower risk for long COVID
New data from the RECOVERY trial show that women who contracted COVID-19 during pregnancy had a lower risk of developing long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), than other women, according to a study in eClinicalMedicine.
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Long after infection, COVID patients at higher risk for respiratory complications -- study
Wed, 2024-05-29 13:04 —
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COVID patients at higher risk for respiratory complications well after infection, study finds
The risks of respiratory complications were eightfold and nearly twofold greater in COVID-19 patients in South Korea and Japan during and after infection, respectively, than in the general population, suggests a study published yesterday in Nature Communications.
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