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Overview COVID, Bird Flu, Polio cases

Fri, 2024-06-07 17:53 — mike kraft
Quick Takes: US COVID-19 levels, H5N1, and Polio The last data from the CDC show upticks in early COVID-19 indicators, but severity indicators remain unchanged from the previous week. CIDRAP

 

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New COVID variant KP.3 is now about 25% of U.S, cases-- CDC estimates

Fri, 2024-06-07 17:41 — mike kraft
New COVID variant KP.3 climbs to 25%, now largest in CDC estimates The strain is "very, very similar" to the JN.1 variant from earlier this year. CBS News
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Study on associations between obesity, probable long COVID, and sleep problems

Fri, 2024-06-07 09:17 — mike kraft
Associations between obesity, a composite risk score for probable long COVID, and sleep problems in SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated individuals International Journal of Obesity - Associations between obesity, a composite risk score for probable long COVID, and sleep problems in SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated individuals Nature

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COVID-19 continues takes a disproportionate toll on people with diabetes

Fri, 2024-06-07 09:06 — mike kraft
The disproportionate toll that COVID-19 took on people with diabetes continues today At the start of the pandemic, many people living with diabetes were wondering what COVID-19 meant for them. Diabetes was already known to put people at higher risks from other infectious diseases, including ... Jamie Hartmann-Boyce Medical Xpress

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Opinion: The U.S. Needs A Better Testing Playbook For Future Public Health Emergencies

Thu, 2024-06-06 17:47 — mike kraft
The United States Needs A Better Testing Playbook For Future Public Health Emergencies The absence of a comprehensive national playbook for developing and deploying testing has hindered the United States’ ability to rapidly suppress recent biological emergencies (for example, the COVID-19 pandemic and outbreaks of mpox). We describe here the Testing Playbook for Biological Emergencies, a national testing playbook we developed. It includes a set of decisions and actions for US officials to take at specific times during infectious disease emergencies to implement testing rapidly and to ensure that available testing meets clinical and public health needs.
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Dr. Birx, former health official, says US making ‘same mistakes’ with bird flu as COVID-19

Thu, 2024-06-06 17:34 — mike kraft

Birx says US making ‘same mistakes’ with bird flu as COVID-19 (thehill.com)

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More than 200 symptoms tied to long COVID --new report

Thu, 2024-06-06 10:30 — mike kraft
Report: More than 200 symptoms tied to long COVID Today a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents a number of conclusions about long-COVID diagnosis, symptoms, and impact on daily function, including that the condition can cause more than 200 symptoms, and that a positive COVID-19 test is not necessary to make a long-COVID diagnosis. CIDRAP

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Explainer: What to know as climate records keep getting shattered

Thu, 2024-06-06 10:07 — mike kraft
Climate records keep getting shattered. Here is what you need to know Month after month, global temperatures are breaking records. Meanwhile, scientists and climate policymakers warn of the growing likelihood that the planet will soon exceed the warming limit set in the landmark Paris 2015 climate talks. AP News

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World hits streak of record temperatures, could hit 1.5 C tipping rate before 2023

Thu, 2024-06-06 09:59 — mike kraft
World hits streak of record temperatures as UN warns of 'climate hell' Each of the past 12 months ranked as the warmest on record in year-on-year comparisons, the EU's climate change monitoring service said on Wednesday, as U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent action to avert "climate hell". Kate Abnett,Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber Reuters

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Long COVID: New Report Underscores the Seriousness and breadth of the problem

Wed, 2024-06-05 19:49 — mike kraft

New Report Underscores the Seriousness of Long COVID (yahoo.com)

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