The WHO To Discuss Global Pandemic Treaty At World Health Assembly May 22-28
You know the 1996 movie Independence Day, where much of the World united to defeat a common enemy? Well, during the Covid-19 pandemic that started in 2020, pretty much the opposite happened. The World was about as organized as all-cat produced and directed episode of Dancing with the Stars or rather Dancing with the Stars Who are Also Cats. […]
This is how China rounds up thousands of people for quarantine
Thousands of people in a village near the Chinese port city of Tianjin were ordered into government quarantine, with videos circulated on social media showing residents being marched through streets and onto buses as officials continue to deploy the country’s strict COVID-Zero playbook on new outbreaks. Residents of Liuanzhuang village in northern Tianjin were ordered […]
Failure of an American ideology’: why Covid has an outsized impact on the US
As the US records 1 million Covid deaths, experts note underinvestment in long-term care, primary care and public health all contributed to the toll David Rosner continually talks to colleagues who are distraught about the American response to the Covid-19 pandemic. “When you are in a school of public health and a public health environment, […]
FDA authorizes Pfizer Covid booster for children 5 to 11 years old
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. Children in the age group can get a booster shot at least five months after they’ve received the primary two-dose series, the FDA said in a statement. Full coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic […]
This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state
One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn’t have to. In Tennessee, 11,047 of the people who died could have survived if everyone in the state had gotten vaccinated. In Ohio, that number is 15,875. Nationally it’s nearly 319,000, […]
Had Covid At Christmas? You Could Get It Again Now
(Bloomberg) — As a stealth wave of Covid makes its way across the U.S., those who have so far evaded the virus are now falling ill — while others are catching Covid for a second, third or even fourth time.Several factors have conspired to make the state of the pandemic harder than ever to track. […]
COVID-19: ‘We might not be in a great spot in the fall,’ says Moderna CEO
The majority of Moderna’s (MNRA) revenue comes from governments abroad — which are bracing are for an ongoing need for COVID-19 vaccines this year. While the U.S. waits on funding and for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to decide on which virus strain to attack through boosters, Moderna and other vaccine companies are […]
The lucky few to never get coronavirus could teach us more about it
When her partner tested positive for the coronavirus two days before Christmas, Michelle Green worried she, too, would become ill. She was two months pregnant with their second child. He was a bartender at the time, and some of his co-workers were infected with the virus. “I told him to get in the guest bedroom […]
Here’s what the White House’s grim coronavirus warning means for you
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Washington (CNN)”You don’t make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline.”That was Dr. Anthony Fauci’s message for an anxious nation when the novel coronavirus first began to spread across the US. More than two years later, […]
Long-COVID Lung Disease: Researchers Characterize 3 Phenotypes
Post-COVID lung disease includes 3 different subtypes or subgroups that potentially require separate and different management, according to a study published in the European Respiratory Journal. Consequences of prolonged multi-organ symptoms and complications from COVID-19 infection are a growing health concern. Residual organ damage post-COVID-19 range from self-limited abnormalities to major lung diseases. Histological evaluation […]
