Author: Claudinne Miller
Low Vaccine Take-Up Blamed for Covid Deaths and Hospitalizations
Bloomberg The UK could have averted more than 7,000 Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths over a four-month period in 2022 if people had received the recommended number of vaccines. The first British study of its kind, published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet, found that 44% of the population hadn’t gotten enough protective shots by June of […]
Jan 16, 2024
Major Measles Outbreak Erupts In England As Vaccine Hesitancy Increases
Forbes In England, the Birmingham Children’s Hospital is currently grappling with a major outbreak of measles. More than 50 children have been hospitalized in the past month. Vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and polio remain a public health threat. And with childhood vaccine hesitancy—or simply outright refusal—on the rise in the U.K., U.S. and Europe, […]
Jan 16, 2024
The Dangers of Exercise Therapy to Treat Long Covid Patients
Bloomberg The research compared responses to 8-12 minutes of high-intensity cycling in a group of long Covid patients and a group of healthy people. All 46 of the volunteers had blood and muscle biopsies taken before and after for analysis. All of the long Covid patients experienced a bout of debilitating fatigue known as post-exertional malaise. […]
Jan 16, 2024
Should I take Paxlovid if I get covid? Here’s what to know.
Washington Post Paxlovid lowers risk of serious illness and hospitalization, and may help prevent long covid, yet many patients don’t use the drug. The antiviral drug Paxlovid can significantly reduce symptoms of covid-19 and dramatically lower the risk of severe illness or dying of the disease. Yet many eligible people aren’t using it, and some […]
Jan 16, 2024
An unprecedented flu strain is attacking hundreds of animal species. Humans could be next.
Washington Post An avian flu panzootic — a pandemic among animals — has struck some 320 bird and mammal species, including. It felt like watching one of those blockbusters about the end of the world. Like witnessing an apocalypse, but in real life. Which, in a way, it was. The beaches of Valdes Peninsula in […]
Jan 16, 2024
Here are the most notable memes of 2023
NBC News 2023 marked another year of meme-ories. Like in past years, many online turned to memes as a form of escapism. “Memes seemed to be a primary way people dealt with and processed and reacted to news this year,” said Jessica Maddox, assistant professor of digital media at the University of Alabama. They also […]
Jan 2, 2024
Treatment for acute sleeping sickness has been brutal — until now
NPR Acute sleeping sickness – the treatment is almost as horrific as the disease. But now there is encouraging news about an oral medication – one that’s also been used for chronic sleeping sickness to great success. Symptoms for both forms of sleeping sickness start with fever and aches. Then things get worse. The parasite […]
Jan 2, 2024
Behind the Birth of an Anti-Vaccine Story
New York Times A 24-year-old’s sudden death devastated his family — and caught the attention of the movement of vaccine opponents. Before he received his second shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, there was little reason to think that George Watts Jr. was about to die. He was 24 and showed no obvious health problems. His […]
Jan 2, 2024
Four years on, long covid still confounds us. Here’s what we now know.
Washington Post Many people now view covid-19 as an almost routine inconvenience, much like flu, RSV and other seasonal infections. But four years after reports surfaced of a new respiratory illness, prompting a massive response among researchers, the disease’s aftereffects — commonly called long covid — continue to confound doctors and patients alike. “We know […]
Jan 2, 2024
COVID Mask Mandates Return to Hospitals in Five States
Newsweek Hospitals across the U.S. are reinstating COVID-19 mask mandates as the JN.1 variant becomes the dominant strain spreading throughout the country. Hospitals in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Washington D.C. have all brought back divisive rules meaning masks are mandatory for selected people in medical settings. The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control has recorded a 10.4 percent increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations […]
Jan 2, 2024