Author: Claudinne Miller
UNMC expert part of panel that produced a new book on U.S. COVID-19 response
Omaha.com A year into the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2021, a group calling itself the Covid Crisis Group gathered to lay groundwork for what its 34 members anticipated would eventually be a commission tasked with studying the nation’s response, along the lines of the 9/11 Commission. One of the group’s members, Philip Zelikow, a history […]
May 2, 2023
Bird Flu Continues Culling America’s Largest Bird
Precision Vaccinations Health officials fear America’s largest birds may become extinct because the highly contagious influenza A H5N1 virus (bird flu) continues to spread. Recently, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) confirmed 20 California condors have died. With a total world population of just 561 birds, these 20 deaths represent a significant loss. As of May 2, 2023, […]
May 2, 2023
Senegal: Congo Fever Viral Disease Claims First Victim
Bobr Times A person has died in Senegal from Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, known as Congo fever, a viral disease that is transmitted by ticks, AFP learned on Tuesday from the Ministry of Health, which says that the case was circumscribed. A butcher who was on duty at the slaughterhouses in Dakar was declared ill on […]
May 2, 2023
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
