Author: Claudinne Miller
Pandemic Throwback: That time the guy drinking cranberry juice on a skateboard went viral
Nathan Apodaca was on the way to work when his truck broke down, so he skateboarded and made a TikTok. I wish I could be so chill.
Dec 5, 2023
Prone Positioning Falls Flat for Weaning COVID Patients Off ECMO
MedPage Today Early application of prone positioning did not help patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) — mostly from COVID — get off venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) any faster compared to supine positioning, a randomized trial found. Among ARDS patients receiving ECMO, an identical 44% of patients were successfully weaned off ECMO […]
Dec 5, 2023
Is the flu shot market a slam dunk for mRNA vaccines? Experts aren’t so sure
STAT News Here are two things that are true. The world needs more effective flu vaccines. And pharmaceutical companies that learned of the vaccine-making power of the messenger RNA platform during the Covid-19 pandemic need new markets for their technology. With the heydays of Covid vaccine sales in the rearview mirror, the flu vaccine market, […]
Dec 5, 2023
‘Medical Freedom’ Activists Take Aim at New Target: Childhood Vaccine Mandates
NYT Mississippi has long had high childhood immunization rates, but a federal judge has ordered the state to allow parents to opt out on religious grounds. For more than 40 years, Mississippi had one of the strictest school vaccination requirements in the nation, and its high childhood immunization rates have been a source of pride. […]
Dec 5, 2023
How common are unexplained outbreaks of disease?
BBC Amid reports of a mysterious respiratory illness spreading among children in China, an expert explains how regularly unexplained outbreaks turn up. It began one spring morning in 1993, when a Navajo family pulled into a service station in New Mexico and dialled 911. Their son, a 19-year-old marathon runner, had suddenly developed breathing problems. He […]
Dec 5, 2023
World animal health body warns of swine fever vaccine risks as Vietnam readies exports
Reuters The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) is warning that more testing of African swine fever vaccines is needed, triggered by Vietnam’s plans to export doses in coming months to fight a disease that regularly ravages pig farms worldwide. WOAH says AVAC Vietnam JSC, the producer of one of the two vaccines, has not […]
Dec 5, 2023
We’re Living the Reality of the Pandemic’s Simplest Math
The Atlantic Sick season will be worse from now on. Last fall, when RSV and flu came roaring back from a prolonged and erratic hiatus, and COVID was still killing thousands of Americans each week, many of the United States’ leading infectious-disease experts offered the nation a glimmer of hope. The overwhelm, they predicted, was probably temporary—viruses making […]
Dec 5, 2023
True prevalence of long-COVID in a nationwide, population cohort study
Nature Long-COVID prevalence estimates vary widely and should take account of symptoms that would have occurred anyway. Here we determine the prevalence of symptoms attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection, taking account of background rates and confounding, in a nationwide population cohort study of 198,096 Scottish adults. 98,666 (49.8%) had symptomatic laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections and 99,430 (50.2%) […]
Dec 5, 2023
Anthony Fauci to testify before Congress about pandemic mandates, COVID-19 origins
USA Today Dr. Anthony Fauci, former chief White House medical advisor, will testify before Congress early next year on the origins of COVID-19 and other preventative steps officials took in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Fauci’s testimony comes as the House’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus continues to investigate the pandemic. Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, […]
Dec 5, 2023
RSV in winter 2023: Everything you need to know about symptoms, treatments, shots
ABC News As the United States heads into the colder weather months, cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have been ticking up across the country. For the week ending Nov. 25, there were 8,863 positive RSV tests recorded, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is typical for this time of year. This is […]
Dec 5, 2023
