Category: COVID
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
Paxlovid may not reduce hospitalization risk for vaccinated older adults
Washington Post A new study suggests Paxlovid may not reduce risk of covid hospitalizations and all-cause deaths in vaccinated adults ages 65 to 74. Paxlovid, the five-day antiviral treatment for covid, may not reduce the risk of covid-related hospitalizations and all-cause deaths in vaccinated older adults, a new study suggests. Paxlovid — Pfizer’s combination of nirmatrelvir and […]
Mar 5, 2025
Women have a higher risk for long covid. Estrogen may play a role.
Washington Post A new study shows non-menopausal women between the ages of 40 and 54 had a significantly higher risk of developing long covid than men. Women have a higher risk of developing long covid than men, depending on their stage of life and whether they have experienced menopause, according to a new nationwide study from RECOVER, […]
Feb 26, 2025
U.S. weighs destroying $500 million in stockpiled covid tests
Washington Post The government is reviewing proposals to shut down the program that ships free covid tests to American households and is considering destroying 160 million tests. The Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans, according […]
Feb 18, 2025
Natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2 weakened significantly after Omicron’s emergence
Medical News Research reveals a sharp decline in both the effectiveness and duration of protection from prior infection post-Omicron, underscoring the need for updated vaccines to sustain immunity A recent Nature study investigated the consequence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolution, particularly between the pre-Omicron era and the Omicron era, concerning the extent and durability […]
Feb 12, 2025