Author: Claudinne Miller
End of Covid Emergency Will Usher in Changes Across the US Health System
KHN The Biden administration’s decision to end the covid-19 public health emergency in May will institute sweeping changes across the health care system that go far beyond many people having to pay more for covid tests. In response to the pandemic, the federal government in 2020 suspended many of its rules on how care is delivered. That […]
Mar 28, 2023
Science of forgetting: Why we’re already losing our pandemic memories
Washington Post Because of information overload and the monotony of pandemic life, your brain may already be forgetting parts of the covid years. How much do you remember about the past three years of pandemic life? How much have you already forgotten? A lot has happened since the “Before Times.” Canceled proms, toilet paper shortages, nightly applause […]
Mar 28, 2023
Do We Need a Spring COVID-19 Booster?
MedPageToday It’s been close to 6 months since the initial rollout of the fall (bivalent) booster. A lot of people are wondering: Do I need a spring booster? The answer hinges on more questions: What is the purpose of vaccines? Does that purpose change depending on age or health status? The Purpose of the COVID Vaccines Last […]
Mar 28, 2023
Marburg virus disease – Equatorial Guinea
WHO Situation at a glance Since the first Disease Outbreak News on this event was published on 25 February 2023, eight additional laboratory-confirmed cases of Marburg virus disease (MVD) have been reported in Equatorial Guinea. This brings the total to nine laboratory-confirmed cases and 20 probable cases since the declaration of the outbreak in February 2023. There […]
Mar 23, 2023
People who catch Omicron are less likely to get Long Covid
Science.org Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic unfurled across the United Kingdom, hematologist John Willan has worried about the disease’s toll on his patients. In March 2020, Willan, who works at the University of Oxford and Wexham Park Hospital, began to track the hospital’s COVID-19 cases among people with leukemias, lymphomas, and other blood diseases. He […]
Mar 23, 2023
Three years into the COVID pandemic, where is Nebraska headed?
Omaha World Herald After three years, COVID-19’s grip on Nebraska — and the nation as a whole — has eased significantly. During the first year, roughly 200,000 cases were confirmed in Nebraska. Thanks to a huge omicron spike, the second year brought even more cases — nearly 270,000, according to Centers for Disease Control and […]
Mar 22, 2023
New Staff for 2023
When I’m not researching and curating content for UNMC, I’m a flower farmer! Farming was never in the plans, it just sort of happened, and my husband and I couldn’t be more thrilled. We have 65 acres of a former tobacco farm, and the soil is a depleted dust bowl from over 350 years of […]
Mar 22, 2023
Analysis and interpretation of metagenomic data from the Huanan market.
Link to full text PDF In an attempt to ensure transparency and engagement towards global partnership, wewould like to provide further context regarding the timeline of work and efforts tocollaborate on the research presented in the report below. On 4 March 2023 (dates in UTC), we discovered accessions posted publicly on the GISAIDdatabase corresponding to […]
Mar 22, 2023