Two distinct monkeypox variants found in U.S., adding to outbreak’s mystery
At least two genetically distinct monkeypox variants are circulating in the U.S., according to new sequencing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the CDC hasn’t sequenced all 22 confirmed U.S. cases yet, two of them were found to be genetically similar to a 2021 infection in a Texas man who traveled […]
Can long Covid lead to death? A new analysis suggests it could
The CDC is beginning to look at death certificates that indicate more than 100 people who died had long Covid. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is analyzing more than 100 deaths that could be attributed to long Covid by looking at death certificates from across the country over the last two years, according […]
Shanghai emerges from lockdown – but how lasting will the damage be?
At the end of March people in Shanghai were told to prepare for a lockdown of five days. The city was to be divided into two halves, each half would lock down, one after the other. Two months later the entire city is only just emerging from, what for many, has been a longer lockdown […]
Prince Andrew has COVID – Duke tests positive days after seeing Queen and is forced to skip Jubilee celebrations
PRINCE Andrew has tested positive for Covid – forcing him to pull out of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations The Duke of York, 62, has seen Her Majesty in the last few days but she has been tested and not met with her son since his diagnosis. ndrew had been expected to join his mum […]
Lives Cut Short: COVID-19’s Heavy Burden on Older Latinos
The coronavirus pandemic has eaten away at the Latino edge in life expectancy in staggering fashion, and taken a disproportionate toll on older members of the community compared with whites. LOS ANGELES – In December 2020, about 10 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Javier Perez-Torres boarded a bus from Los Angeles to Tijuana, Mexico, to […]
LA County reports 1st presumptive case of monkeypox
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County on Thursday confirmed its first presumptive case of monkeypox infection. At this time the county is awaiting final confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to health officials, the patient is an adult resident who recently traveled and had a known close contact to a case. […]
Studies suggest current COVID wave is bigger than we realize
May 31, 2022 COVID boosters for older Americans may be more important than ever, according to a new report, as studies suggest the current COVID wave is much bigger than we realize; CBS2’s Dick Brennan reports.
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, on the latest long COVID research
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, on the latest long COVID research Apr 11, 2022 AMA CXO Todd Unger discusses the latest research on long COVID with Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, the Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University and a principal investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lle9Tfhhfl4&ab_channel=AmericanMedicalAssociation%28AMA%29
Doctors, nurses risked their lives to battle COVID. Now they’re facing a mental health crisis
COVID hospitalizations and deaths may be down from their surge peaks, but the nation’s hospitals and clinics still face a population in crisis: the healthcare workers themselves. Overworked medical professionals, who risked their health and their families’ well-being to help patients through the pandemic, are now dealing with a public that is increasingly distrustful in a politicized environment where hospital violence […]
JABS UP Parents rush to get chickenpox jabs as cases of monkeypox surge – how to tell them apart
PARENTS have rushed to get their kids vaccinated against chickenpox due to fears surrounding an uptick in monkeypox infections. In the last six weeks the number of people who have had a jab for chickenpox has gone up by 146 per cent. Data from Well Pharmacy shows that this is double the number of doses usually rolled […]
