Author: Claudinne Miller
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
Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment and animal samples of the Huanan Seafood Market
Preprint AbstractEmerging in December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) eventually became a pandemic and has posed a tremendous threat to global public health. However, the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, remain to be determined. It has reported that a certain number of the early case clusters had a contact history with Huanan […]
Mar 22, 2023
Wuhan Market Samples Contained Covid and Animal Mixtures, Report Says
New York Times In a much-anticipated study, experts described a swab that was positive for the coronavirus and contained loads of genetic material from raccoon dogs. On Jan. 12, 2020, Chinese investigators combing a market for clues about the outbreak of a mysterious new illness in the city of Wuhan swabbed a cart. It was […]
Mar 21, 2023
Foxes in Germany test positive for H5N1 bird flu
BNO news Four foxes in Germany have tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, local officials say, just weeks after red foxes in France succumbed to the same illness, which is affecting a growing number of mammals. The four foxes all died in Lower Saxony, a state in northwest Germany. Two were found dead in the […]
Mar 21, 2023
A Major Clue to COVID’s Origins Is Just Out of Reach
The Atlantic A key set of data could shore up the case for a purely animal origin. So why aren’t scientists sharing it? Last week, the ongoing debate about COVID-19’s origins acquired a new plot twist. A French evolutionary biologist stumbled across a trove of genetic sequences extracted from swabs collected from surfaces at a […]
Mar 21, 2023
