Category: COVID
Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care
The Atlantic Access to clinics has only gotten patchier as attention to the disease has faded. My house was dark. Tinfoil covered the windows. The only light I could tolerate came from dimmable red bulbs. Ten weeks before, I had tested positive for COVID. On week three of my infection, I went to the emergency room […]
Apr 2, 2025
CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.
NBC News “Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary,” federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pulling back $11.4 billion in funds allocated in response to the pandemic to state and community health departments, nongovernment organizations and […]
Mar 25, 2025
HHS Closing Long COVID Office
MedPageToday Closure is part of the Trump administration’s “reorganization” The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine. The authenticity of the email was confirmed by a government employee familiar with the situation. The email states that this action is […]
Mar 25, 2025
What the COVID-19 pandemic tells us about how viruses evolve
NPR arly in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the coronavirus would mutate slowly. They were wrong. Hundreds of thousands of viral mutations and multiple seasonal waves later, researchers now know why. Turns out, SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes the disease COVID-19 — was making evolutionary leaps and bounds in one specific group of people. “When […]
Mar 25, 2025
The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About
The Atlantic Deaths in isolation have been treated as a painful memory, not as a problem that hospitals need to address. He was one of the few ICU patients whose face I saw in early 2021, when COVID raged through Los Angeles. As a palliative-care physician, my job was to meet, over Zoom, with the […]
Mar 18, 2025
Almost one in 10 may have long Covid, research finds
BBC Almost one in 10 people in England think they could have long Covid, according to analysis of national data. University of Southampton researchers examined information collected by NHS England that showed 4.8% of people reported having the condition. The analysis of more than 750,000 responses to the GP Patient Survey also found that 9.1% […]
Mar 18, 2025
A Clearer Picture of Covid’s Lasting Effects on the Body
NYT Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes. Five years — and hundreds of millions of cases — after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic, scientists are getting a clearer picture of how the virus can affect the body long after an […]
Mar 12, 2025
5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure
NPR It’s been five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. But many patients with long COVID have yet to find meaningful recovery. Around 6% of adults in the U.S. — or roughly 18 million — are estimated to be living with the damaging aftermath of catching the virus, according to research and a long-running survey of U.S […]
Mar 12, 2025
Five years of Covid exacted a terrible toll. Another epidemic has claimed even more lives
STAT We lost sight of the fact that more young people were dying from drug overdoses than from Covid’ The 2020s have inarguably been Covid-19’s decade. Since the coronavirus outbreak was acknowledged as a pandemic exactly five years ago, the pandemic has killed well over 1 million Americans, derailed the global economy, and sparked political upheaval […]
Mar 11, 2025
COVID Broke the Rules of Virus Evolution
The Atlantic Why did this coronavirus change faster than scientists expected? In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus would not change much to become more dangerous soon, and any vaccine could provide years of durable protection. What […]
Mar 11, 2025