Author: Claudinne Miller
COVID Rebound Can Happen Even without Paxlovid
(Scientific American) Concerns about Paxlovid rebound are preventing some doctors from prescribing the lifesaving drug and some high-risk patients from taking it. Paxlovid gets a bad rap over concerns about COVID “rebound.” That’s the primary takeaway from a series of papers showing that whether or not people take the antiviral medication, many have symptoms that […]
Feb 14, 2023
Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
(Scientific American) The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system. Tara Ghormley has always been an overachiever. She finished at the top of her class in high school, graduated summa cum laude from college and earned top honors in veterinary school. She went on to complete […]
Feb 14, 2023
Safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of the chimpanzee adenovirus type 3-vectored Marburg virus (cAd3-Marburg) vaccine in healthy adults in the USA: a first-in-human, phase 1, open-label, dose-escalation trial
(The Lancet) WHO has identified Marburg virus as an emerging virus requiring urgent vaccine research and development, particularly due to its recent emergence in Ghana. We report results from a first-in-human clinical trial evaluating a replication-deficient recombinant chimpanzee adenovirus type 3 (cAd3)-vectored vaccine encoding a wild-type Marburg virus Angola glycoprotein (cAd3-Marburg) in healthy adults.
Feb 14, 2023
Marburg vaccine shows promising results in first-in-human study
(NIH) A newly published paper in The Lancet shows that an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus (MARV) was safe and induced an immune response in a small, first-in-human clinical trial. The vaccine, developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, could someday be an important tool […]
Feb 14, 2023
The Future of Long COVID
(Atlantic) In the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn’t have a name, much less a large community of patient advocates. For the most part, clinicians dismissed its symptoms, and researchers focused on SARS-CoV-2 infections’ short-term effects. Now, as the pandemic approaches the end of its third winter in the […]
Feb 14, 2023
For Older Americans, the Pandemic Is Not Over
(New York Times) Seniors are increasingly left to protect themselves as the rest of the country abandons precautions: “Americans do not agree about the duty to protect others.” In early December, Aldo Caretti developed a cough and, despite all his precautions, came up positive for Covid on a home test. It took his family a […]
Feb 14, 2023
The Global Governance of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
(Council on Foreign Relations) Challenges and Proposed Reforms Zoonotic diseases, naturally transmissible between humans and animals, have posed a growing public health threat for decades. However, existing institutional arrangements have fallen short. The wide-ranging, large-scale, and costly effects of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate the value of addressing those weaknesses in global governance. Introduction: The Increasing […]
Feb 14, 2023
Interministerial meeting coordinated by MINSABS after the health alert for Marburg hemorrhagic fever issued yesterday.
EQ Ministry of Health (Machine translated to English) Today, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, accompanied by the presidential advisers on health, and WHO consultants based in the country, held an important meeting with the departments linked to the inter-ministerial management of the current epidemic of Marburg virus hemorrhagic fever. The Minister of State […]
Feb 14, 2023
Memes, Tweets, Snark Are the FDA’s New Public Health Weapons
(Bloomberg) FDA commissioner has made social media a key part of outreach. Agency aims to counter misinformation without amplifying it. When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed during a National Football League game in January, dozens of Twitter trolls quickly blamed it on Covid-19 shots. “Snake-oil salesmen” seized on the event, said Food and Drug Administration Commissioner […]
Feb 14, 2023
