Category: COVID
People who want COVID vaccines worry about access
NPR Some healthy pregnant women, parents of healthy kids and younger healthy adults are worried they won’t be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 because of the recent changes in access by the federal government. The Trump administration is making it more difficult for healthy children and healthy pregnant women to get the COVID vaccine, […]
Jun 4, 2025
Delta and Omicron Variants Partially Evaded COVID-19 Vaccines, Study Indicates
University of Florida The original COVID-19 vaccines protected against disease and saved lives. However, a new study published in Nature Immunology, and co-authored by researchers with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, uncovers a caveat. Vaccinated people’s immune responses to newly emerged versions of the virus showed less specificity to these variants. Essential workers and […]
May 28, 2025
A New Covid Variant Is Rising Fast. Here’s What We Know About NB.1.8.1
Gizmodo A new Omicron offshoot is spreading fast across Australia and Asia, prompting renewed concerns about the covid-19 pandemic. As we enter the colder months in Australia, covid is making headlines again, this time due to the emergence of a new variant: NB.1.8.1. Last week, the World Health Organization designated NB.1.8.1 as a “variant under monitoring”, owing to its […]
May 28, 2025
The C.D.C. Now Says Healthy Kids Don’t Need Covid Shots. Is That True?
NYT The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer advise that healthy children receive routine Covid shots, a significant departure from its previous approach of suggesting annual shots for everyone age 6 months and older. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the change on X on Tuesday, citing a lack of data to support shots for […]
May 28, 2025
COVID variant NB.1.8.1 hits U.S. What to know about symptoms, new booster vaccine restrictions
CBS News Cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1, linked to a large surge in China, have been detected in multiple locations across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The earliest cases in the U.S. date back to late March and early April, and were detected through a screening program at airports […]
May 28, 2025
Long covid patients are desperate for treatments. These trials may help.
Washington Post Five years since the pandemic began, millions of people are still grappling with long covid, even as new patients are joining their ranks. “Considering how far along we are and how tens of millions of people are suffering, we’ve done very little,” said Eric Topol, a professor of translational medicine and the executive vice president of Scripps […]
May 20, 2025
FDA Officials Detail Plan to Limit COVID Shots
MedPageToday FDA officials have outlined their new approach to COVID-19 vaccine approvals, allowing immunogenicity endpoints for high-risk groups, while calling for randomized controlled trials for those at lower risk. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, detailed the new framework in a “Sounding Board” […]
May 20, 2025
Cardiovascular Implications of Long COVID, Severe COVID: What to Know, How to Manage
MedScape As cases of long COVID — often defined as symptoms that weren’t present before persisting for 3 or more months after the infection — became more prevalent and alarming, researchers began to zero in on the commonly reported cardiovascular symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, and palpitations, among others. Long-COVID patients, much […]
May 14, 2025
Genetic Study Retraces the Origins of Coronaviruses in Bats
NYT As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade. In the early 2000s, a coronavirus infecting bats jumped into raccoon dogs and other wild mammals in southwestern China. Some of […]
May 7, 2025
New antiviral compounds show broad protection against COVID-19 variants
Medical News Since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, numerous novel antiviral therapeutic agents have been developed to target key proteases involved in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) replication. Nirmatrelvir and ensitrelvir, for example, are main protease (Mpro) inhibitors that are currently approved for the clinical treatment of COVID-19. The […]
Apr 30, 2025