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Does the end of Covid emergency declarations mean the pandemic is over?

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:12 — mike kraft

Does the end of Covid emergency declarations mean the pandemic is over? What is clear is that Covid isn’t going anywhere, though the damage it is doing to the human species is declining. Helen Branswell STAT

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There are no fixed borders between a pandemic, when a pathogen is new to humans and causing wide scale disease and often high levels of death, and the ensuing endemic phase, when the disease has settled into something that our immune systems can better cope with, explained Marc Lipsitch, an infectious diseases epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Covid-19 experts told White House about chances of an Omicron-level event within the next two years

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:02 — mike kraft

Covid-19 experts say they warned White House about chance of an Omicron-level event within the next two years | CNN In March, the White House reached out to about a dozen Covid-19 experts who are closely following the evolution of the coronavirus to ask a simple question: What did they think were the chances of the world seeing a highly mutated variant, akin to Omicron, within the next two years? Brenda Goodman,Betsy Klein CNN

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The meaning of WHO saying the COVID emergency ahs ended

Fri, 2023-05-05 18:18 — mike kraft

WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean? The World Health Organization says COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency but the coronavirus is here to stay. The action Friday by the United Nations agency doesn’t mean much for the average person. The classification is meant to warn countries that there’s an “extraordinary” event that could pose a health threat and requires a coordinated response. Health officials say the virus isn’t going anywhere and advise people to get vaccinated, including getting booster doses if they qualify. WHO has previously declared global emergencies for outbreaks of swine flu, Zika, Ebola, polio and mpox, formerly called monkeypox.

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A better approach to pursuade parents to vaccinate kids against Covid

Fri, 2023-05-05 17:26 — mike kraft

Some messages more likely to sway parents to vaccinate kids against COVID, survey finds More parents were very likely to vaccinate their kids after reading messages saying that other trusted parents have done so or that the vaccine is safe. CIDRAP

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Analysis: Failures in achieving COVID-19 vaccine equity

Fri, 2023-05-05 17:11 — mike kraft

Cascading failures in COVID-19 vaccine equity Ethical analysis should encompass upstream decisions and their downstream consequences Science

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CDC Director Walensky resigns; Biden still searching for new pandemic czar

Fri, 2023-05-05 13:01 — mike kraft

CDC's Rochelle Walensky resigns, citing pandemic transition The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resigning. Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic is a good time to make a transition. She sent a resignation letter to President Joe Biden and announced the decision at a CDC staff meeting Friday. Her last day will be June 30. Walensky was previously an infectious-diseases specialist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Thousands of COVID tests recalled over bacteria risk and should be discarded, FDA warns

Fri, 2023-05-05 12:02 — mike kraft

Thousands of COVID tests recalled over bacteria risk, FDA warns 500,000 "Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests" distributed to CVS and 16,000 distributed to Amazon should be thrown out. Yahoo Finance

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Public health leaders warn dwindling COVID data risks less preparation for 'the next outbreak'

Fri, 2023-05-05 11:35 — mike kraft

Public health leaders warn dwindling COVID data risks less preparation for 'the next outbreak' While COVID-19 ebbs -- and many of the pandemic-era policies on surveillance data and funding wind down with it -- the nation's public health leaders warned senators on Thursday that a return to "normal" should not mean forgetting the hard lessons learned over the last three years. When the federal government's public health emergency expires next week, COVID-19 data collection tools will also end.

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U.S. CDC to scale back COVID data collection as US nears end of the health emergency

Fri, 2023-05-05 11:28 — mike kraft

CDC to scale back data collection as US ends COVID health emergency The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday it would stop reporting or monitoring COVID-19 case data and transmission rates after the government ends the pandemic's public health emergency designation next week. Ahmed Aboulenein Reuters

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WHO says Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency

Fri, 2023-05-05 11:23 — mike kraft

WHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it's no longer emergency The World Health Organization says that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency. The announcement on Friday marks a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions of people worldwide. WHO said that he pandemic hasn’t come to an end despite the emergency phase being over. The U.N. health agency noted recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

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Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022 -- CDC

Thu, 2023-05-04 18:37 — mike kraft

Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022, CDC data shows | CNN Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in the United States in 2022, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Deidre McPhillips CNN

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How El Nino is expected to cause more weather extremes in the U.S.

Thu, 2023-05-04 11:31 — mike kraft

El Niño is coming. Here's what that means for weather in the U.S. Warmer sea waters have many far-ranging effects. In the new pattern, some parts of the U.S. could get relief from drought, while others might see fewer hurricanes. NPR

As hot as the Earth's weather has been in recent years, it's about to get hotter: El Niño is on the way, with warmer sea temperatures promising new weather extremes, U.S. and international forecasters say.

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Study outlines the favorable and unfavorable trends in cancer risk factors during Covid pandemic

Thu, 2023-05-04 11:04 — mike kraft

ACS spotlights favorable, unfavorable trends in cancer risk factors amid COVID Smoking, inactivity, and heavy drinking declined a bit, but obesity levels rose and fewer women received cervical cancer screening. CIDRAP

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WHO releases strategy paper on COVID disease management and long-term disease prevention

Thu, 2023-05-04 10:55 — mike kraft

From emergency response to long-term COVID-19 disease management: sustaining gains made during the COVID-19 pandemic The updated two-year strategy builds on the objectives of the 2022 SPRP and supports countries as they are working to transition their critical emergency response activities to longer-term sustained COVID-19 disease prevention, control and management.

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Bivalent COVID vaccine shows good Omicron protection while older version wanes --studies

Wed, 2023-05-03 18:25 — mike kraft

Bivalent COVID vaccine shows good Omicron protection while older version wanes CIDRAP

Two studies published today measure the vaccine effectiveness (VE) of COVID-19 vaccines against laboratory-confirmed Omicron variant and subvariants and symptomatic disease. Vaccines that target the newer variants performed well, but primary vaccines offered rapidly waning protection from SARS-CoV-2 infections in the post-Omicron era.

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