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Arcturus' COVID-19 Variant picks up speed, has a new symptom

Mon, 2023-04-17 09:53 — mike kraft

This One Symptom Is Emerging With the New Highly Transmissible ‘Arcturus' COVID-19 Variant While it does have a higher transmissibility rate than previous strains, the variant Arcturus, also known as omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, stands out for bringing along a new COVID symptom – conjunctivitis, red or pink eye. Matt Stefanski NBC Chicago

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Promising new malaria vaccine for kids receives first approval in Ghana

Fri, 2023-04-14 17:30 — mike kraft

Promising new malaria vaccine for kids approved in Ghana Ghana became the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine for young children that may offer better protection against the disease that kills hundreds of thousands every year. Preliminary results from early testing of the new vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford, have suggested the vaccine is far more effective than the only malaria vaccine now authorized for use by the World Health Organization.

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Chances of getting long COVID are lower after a second infection than a first--British study

Fri, 2023-04-14 13:12 — mike kraft

You're less likely to get long COVID after a second infection than a first The chances of developing lingering symptoms after COVID appears to fall sharply from the first to the second time someone gets sick, new research finds. The risk is still significant. NPR

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Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine highly effective --Israeli study of over 65's

Fri, 2023-04-14 13:02 — mike kraft

Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine highly effective, study says - UPI.com A new study examining the effectiveness of the new Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine determined it is highly effective in reducing hospitalizations and deaths. UPI

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Covid has left millions children orphans. Few U.S. states are addressing the crisis

Thu, 2023-04-13 18:12 — mike kraft

Covid has left thousands of US children orphans. Few states are addressing the crisis An estimated 245,000 children in the US have lost one or both parents to Covid, but despite profound implications they have been largely overlooked in policy responses the Guardian

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Analysis: Obesity and COVID-19 mortality are correlated-study

Thu, 2023-04-13 11:02 — mike kraft

Obesity and COVID-19 mortality are correlated Scientific Reports - Obesity and COVID-19 mortality are correlated Nature

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We observe a statistically significant positive association between COVID-19 mortality and the proportion of obese in adult populations spanning 142 countries. This association holds across countries belonging to different income groups and is not sensitive to a population’s median age, proportion of the elderly, and/or proportion of females.

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Meta-analysis reveals wide range of persistent long-COVID psychiatric symptoms

Thu, 2023-04-13 10:57 — mike kraft

Meta-analysis reveals wide range of persistent long-COVID psychiatric symptoms The top three conditions were anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. CIDRAP

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High percentage of COVID-infected healthcare workers still caring for patients --study

Thu, 2023-04-13 10:25 — mike kraft

Study notes high rate of COVID-infected healthcare workers still caring for patients Half of all healthcare workers with symptomatic COVID-19 continued to go to work, even if they were involved with direct patient care. CIDRAP

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Briefing paper on improving access to novel COVID-19 treatments--WHO

Thu, 2023-04-13 10:20 — mike kraft

Improving access to novel COVID-19 treatments Launch of Member States briefing on how to navigate interfaces between public health and intellectual property.

Launch of Member States briefing on how to navigate interfaces between public health and intellectual property.

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Analysis: Following COVID-19 precautions was closely linked to traditional values except in the U.S.--study

Wed, 2023-04-12 09:51 — mike kraft

Traditional values closely linked to following COVID-19 precautions, except in US CIDRAP

A new study from researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles shows the US population's response to COVID-19 precautions stood in sharp contrast to other countries.

Worldwide, people who professed to have more traditional or socially conservative values were more likely to adhere to COVID-19 recommendations, but in the United States people with those values were more likely to dismiss such recommendations.

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