Author: Claudinne Miller
How Bad Is a Second (or Third or Fourth) Case of Covid?
NYT Reinfections are becoming more common. Experts are still unsure about how damaging they can be. Doctors and scientists who study Covid-19 agree that for most people, getting infected for a second — or third or fourth — time is basically inevitable. The longer the virus sticks around, the more common repeat infections have and will become, […]
Aug 22, 2023
COVID boosters are still weeks away as cases surge in the U.S.
Axios As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations creep up during a summer wave of heightened virus activity, updated vaccines are still likely weeks away. Americans have largely tuned out COVID, but the latest COVID uptick is a reminder that the virus continues to circulate and mutate — though the threat is far below pandemic-era levels. Health officials face a challenge convincing a […]
Aug 22, 2023
Kaiser Family Foundation: A significant portion of the public is susceptible to health misinformation
KFF While health misinformation and disinformation long preceded the pandemic, the pervasiveness of false and inaccurate information about COVID-19 and vaccines brought into further focus the extent to which misinformation can distort public health policy debates and impact the health choices individuals make. KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor surveys in 2021 and 2022 found that large shares of the public […]
Aug 22, 2023
Covid Can Leave People Vulnerable To New Health Problems 2 Years Later
Science SARS-CoV-2’s public health impact is worse than that of heart disease or cancer, study claims; others say the work may overestimate harm for the general population Three-and-a-half years since SARS-CoV-2 spread around the world, scientists are still documenting the virus’ myriad effects on human health. What’s clear already is that those effects can continue […]
Aug 22, 2023
SARS-CoV-2 can cause lasting damage to cells’ energy production
NIH At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus responsible for the disease, SARS-CoV-2, was feared for its devastating damage to the lungs. But it quickly became apparent that the virus can infect organs and tissues throughout the body, including the heart, brain, kidneys, and blood vessels. Much of the resulting dysfunction was thought […]
Aug 22, 2023
Study Reveals COVID-19 May Trigger New-onset Hypertension
Dicardiology.com A new study in the AHA journal Hypertension finds SARS-CoV-2 infection is significantly associated with the development of high blood pressure in adults with preexisting heart conditions or those who were older, black or male. An analysis of electronic medical records for more than 45,000 people found that COVID-19 infection was significantly associated with the development […]
Aug 22, 2023
Bird flu was found at a new fur farm, seagulls died of the disease in Mikkeli
Finland News (Machine Translated) Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been found in a new fur farm in Kauhava. In total, bird flu has now been found in 25 fur farms in Ostrobothnia, more than half of which are from the same locality, Kausti. The same virus has been confirmed as the cause of death of the […]
Aug 22, 2023
Number of Congo virus patients rising in Balochistan
The Nation Two more suspected Congo virus patients have been admitted to Fatima Jinnah Chest Hospital Quetta FJCHQ. The number of positive cases reported this year has mounted to 28, FJCHQ sources told media. According to the administration, Hamza, 22, a resident of Quetta, and Naseeba, 30, resident of Loralai were shifted to the hospital […]
Aug 22, 2023
Bird flu ‘ticking time bomb’ cannot be stopped without major farming reforms, warns new report
Farmers Review Africa The report – called Bird flu: Only major farm reforms can end it – shows that, contrary to popular belief, wild birds are typically victims of the disease rather than the cause, and it is spiralling out of control due to the rise of factory farming. This view is supported by the international Scientific Task Force […]
Aug 22, 2023
Should We Be Surprised by Leprosy’s Recent Spike in Florida?
MedPageToday Earlier this month, a report in Emerging Infectious Diseases prompted a flurry of internet headlines plus some outlandish theories. COVID vaccines causing leprosy? Seriously? Nonetheless, the data themselves were notable. Although the overall count of newly diagnosed Hansen’s disease in the U.S. — roughly 150 to 200 cases per year — hasn’t changed in several decades, the percentage […]
Aug 22, 2023