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COVID variants BQ.1/BQ.1.1 make up nearly half of U.S. cases - CDC

Mon, 2022-11-21 14:23 — mike kraft
COVID variants BQ.1/BQ.1.1 make up nearly half of U.S. cases - CDC The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated on Friday that Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 account for nearly half of the COVID-19 cases in the country for the week ending Nov. 19, compared with 39.5% in the previous week. Reuters Reuters

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Pfizer/BioNTech's updated COVID shot shows strong response against BQ.1.1 variant

Fri, 2022-11-18 14:35 — mike kraft
Pfizer/BioNTech's updated COVID shot shows strong response against BQ.1.1 Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE said on Friday their Omicron-tailored shot produced higher virus-neutralizing antibodies in older adults against the emerging subvariant BQ.1.1 than its original vaccine. Reuters Reuters

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Africa: CDC chief urges more COVID-19 testing as cases rise

Thu, 2022-11-17 15:50 — mike kraft
Africa CDC chief urges more COVID-19 testing as cases rise KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The head of Africa's top public health institute is urging authorities across the continent to step up COVID-19 testing amid a concerning rise in new cases in some countries. AP NEWS

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The continent of 1.3 billion people saw a 37% rise in new cases over the past week, Ahmed Ogwell, acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday.

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Getting Covid boosterscould prevent millions of days missed in school and thousands of hospitalizations for kids --study

Wed, 2022-11-16 22:47 — mike kraft
Should you get the COVID booster? It could prevent millions of days missed in school and thousands of hospitalizations for kids If 80% of people five and older got their booster shot, nearly 29 million days of missed school could be prevented for kids. YahooFinance

New research predicts that higher rates of those five and older getting the bivalent booster shot could prevent millions of missed school days and thousands of hospitalizations for kids and teens. ...

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British agency recommends against NHS use of 5 COVID treatments as not cost-effective

Wed, 2022-11-16 15:02 — mike kraft
Britain's NICE recommends against NHS use of 5 COVID treatments as not cost-effective Britain’s agency that determines if medicines should be used in the National Health Service (NHS), has recommended stopping the use of five COVID-19 treatments, including Merck & Co's 's antiviral pill for high-risk patients, citing cost-effectiveness concerns. Maggie Fick Reuters
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U.S. Covid deaths and hospitalizations are falling although new variants could emerge

Wed, 2022-11-16 00:10 — mike kraft
Covid deaths and hospitalizations are falling in the U.S. Even as new omicron strains take over, Covid is no longer driving a majority of patients into the hospital. Still, doctors worry the virus could re-emerge as immunity wanes. NBC News

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As the flu and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) have spread rapidly this fall — inundating and overwhelming hospitals and their staff across the country — Covid has not.

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Internal documents on India Covid-19 vaccine raise troubling questions about approval process

Tue, 2022-11-15 15:53 — mike kraft
'A very worrying scenario': Internal documents on India Covid-19 vaccine raise troubling questions about approval process A STAT review of documents on Bharat Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine found that regulators endorsed the vaccine despite discrepancies in the number of enrollees. Ed Silverman STAT

 

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Analysis: Americans Struggle for New Balance and face contradictions as the Covid Pandemic lingers

Tue, 2022-11-15 15:43 — mike kraft

...life has in many ways returned to something like the Before Times. Restaurants are packed, and cultural performances sold out. Children are sitting in schools, and workers are trickling back into offices. Masks are no longer required in public, even in New York City’s subways. 

The summer travel season was a blockbuster. Even cruise ships — derided as floating Petri dishes early in the pandemic — were filling up with eager passengers.

Most Americans want to get back to normalcy and are unwilling to let Covid rule their lives any longer, Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid response coordinator, said in an interview. “Those two sets of goals are achievable,” Dr. Jha said, so long as Americans keep getting vaccinated, test when necessary and wear masks in crowded public settings.

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China's state media demand strict adherence to ‘zero COVID’

Tue, 2022-11-15 15:12 — mike kraft
China state media demand strict adherence to 'zero COVID' BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling party called for strict adherence to the hard-line “zero-COVID” policy Tuesday in an apparent attempt to guide public perceptions after regulations were eased slightly in places. AP NEWS

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The People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s flagship newspaper, said in an editorial that China must “unswervingly implement” the policy that requires mass obligatory testing and places millions under lockdown to try to eliminate the coronavirus from the nation of 1.4 billion people and the world’s second-largest economy.

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Fever may be a symptom of a new Omicron variant--Indian study

Tue, 2022-11-15 14:50 — mike kraft
Sick with a new Omicron variant? Be prepared for this symptom, new study says Fever among vaccinated COVID patients is becoming more rare, a new study in the U.S. and UK found. But that wasn’t the case for recent COVID patients in India. YahooFinance
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