Author: Claudinne Miller
Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last?
The Atlantic By all official counts—at least, the ones still being tallied—the global situation on COVID appears to have essentially flatlined. More than a year has passed since the world last saw daily confirmed deaths tick above 10,000; nearly a year and a half has elapsed since the population was pummeled by a new Greek-lettered variant of concern. […]
May 2, 2023
CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for covid following CDC conference
Washington Post Attendees say many people did not mask, socially distance or take other precautions recommended earlier in the pandemic. Disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are probing a new outbreak: the roughly three-dozen coronavirus cases linked to their own annual conference last week. “CDC is working with the Georgia Department of Health […]
May 2, 2023
Why Is One Dose Suddenly Enough for the mRNA COVID Vaccines?
MedPageToday The FDA and CDC recently announced that previously unvaccinated Americans can now receive only a single dose of the bivalent Moderna or Pfizer mRNA vaccines. To be clear, this is not saying they can choose to have one or two doses and be considered fully vaccinated either way — only one dose is available to them. […]
May 2, 2023
Scientists Use GPT AI to Passively Read People’s Thoughts in Breakthrough
Vice Scientists have invented a language decoder that can translate a person’s thoughts into text using an artificial intelligence (AI) transformer similar to ChatGPT, reports a new study. The breakthrough marks the first time that continuous language has been non-invasively reconstructed from human brain activities, which are read through a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) […]
May 2, 2023
Marburg death toll in Tanzania rises to six after baby dies
East African Tanzanian health authorities on Saturday said that an 18-month-old child died of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern region of Kagera. The death of the child brought the country’s Marburg death toll to six since its outbreak in the region on March 21, 2023, the Minister of Health Ummy Mwalimu announced when she released an […]
May 2, 2023
Clinical improvement of Long-COVID is associated with reduction in autoantibodies, lipids, and inflammation following therapeutic apheresis
Nature In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are witnessing an unprecedented wave of post-infectious complications. Most prominently, millions of patients with Long-Covid complain about chronic fatigue and severe post-exertional malaise. Therapeutic apheresis has been suggested as an efficient treatment option for alleviating and mitigating symptoms in this desperate group of patients. However, little […]
May 2, 2023
Why viral reservoirs are a prime suspect for long COVID sleuths
NPR Audio Brent Palmer’s first inkling about long COVID started in the early days of the pandemic, before the term “long COVID” even existed. Some of his friends had caught the virus while on a ski trip and returned home to Colorado with the mysterious, new illness. It was a frightening time — and an […]
May 2, 2023
White House Will End Most Covid Vaccine Mandates
New York Times The requirements helped end the public health emergency. But they also prompted a politically charged debate. The Biden administration will end most federal Covid-19 vaccine requirements next week, rolling back a vast assertion of government power that helped bring an end to the worst public health threat in 100 years but roiled […]
May 2, 2023
Diseases Didn’t Just Shape History, They Control the Future
Wired Even within your own body, your 30 trillion human cells can’t compete with the 40 trillion or so bacteria that live rent-free in your gut, on your skin, under your toenails. Your very DNA owes a significant chunk—about 8 percent—of its content to retroviruses, which, when they infect a sperm or egg cell, can […]
May 2, 2023
Vaccine printer could help vaccines reach more people
MIT The printer generates vaccine-filled microneedle patches that can be stored long-term at room temperature and applied to the skin. Getting vaccines to people who need them isn’t always easy. Many vaccines require cold storage, making it difficult to ship them to remote areas that don’t have the necessary infrastructure. MIT researchers have come up […]
May 2, 2023
