Category: COVID
Do you still need to isolate with COVID? Here are the latest CDC recommendationsCovid Is Still With Us, but the Guidance Has Changed. Here’s What to Know if You’re Exposed.
NBC Chicago As the nation experiences a summer surge in COVID-19 cases, questions might arise if you, a family member or friend becomes ill. While you might have gotten COVID in the past, public health recommendations were updated earlier this year, so the guidance might be different from last time. Here’s what you need to know […]
Jul 23, 2024
Map Shows 17 States With ‘Very High’ Covid Rates
Newsweek Some 17 US states have detected “very high” levels of Covid in their wastewater, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A rise in levels of Covid found in wastewater can signal that more people are getting infected. Newsweek has analysed official figures to create a map illustrating the highest rates of Covid […]
Jul 23, 2024
Heat driving people indoors, transmissible variants causing people to get sick this summer, virologist says
WTOP The extreme heat that’s been making its way across the D.C. region in the last few weeks is causing many people to remain indoors, which one virus expert said is a factor facilitating the spread of respiratory viruses like COVID-19. Andrew Pekosz, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said […]
Jul 17, 2024
COVID Rates Are Rising Again. Why Does It Spread So Well in the Summer?
Scientific American A combination of human behavior and immunity, the environment, and SARS-CoV-2 itself explains why the virus surges during both hotter and colder months. It’s that time of year: a thick, oppressive heat blankets everything, people huddle inside air-conditioned homes, offices, shops and cafes for respite—and COVID is surging again. Levels of SARS-CoV-2, the […]
Jul 16, 2024
About 7 percent of U.S. adults have had long covid, report says
Washington Post Just 6 percent of the vaccinated and boosted respondents reported long covid symptoms vs. 8 percent of those who weren’t vaccinated. About 7 percent of U.S. adults — nearly 18 million people — had suffered from long covid as of early last year, according to a recent report in JAMA Data Brief. The […]
Jul 16, 2024
If You Test Positive for Covid, Can You Still Travel?
NYT With coronavirus cases on the rise, summer travelers are once again facing difficult questions. Here’s the latest travel guidance from health experts. As new coronavirus variants gain traction across the United States, summer travelers are facing a familiar and tiresome question: How will the ever-mutating virus affect travel plans? In light of updated guidelines from the Centers for Disease […]
Jul 10, 2024
‘Playing COVID roulette’: Some infected by FLiRT variants report their most unpleasant symptoms yet
LA Times As the summer travel season picks up, COVID cases and hospitalizations are rising in Los Angeles County — and some of those recently reinfected are finding their latest bout to be the worst yet. There are no signs at this point that the latest coronavirus variants are producing more severe illness, either nationally […]
Jul 9, 2024
COVID-19 emergency room visits, deaths are up. Should you be worried?
USA Today More people ended up in emergency rooms and died in recent weeks from COVID-19, federal health data showed. The information agencies collect, known as surveillance data, that tracks cases and the spread of COVID-19 has become limited. However, COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are indicators of the disease’s spread. The numbers for emergency room admissions and deaths are […]
Jul 3, 2024
3 Things to Know About FLiRT and LB.1, the New Coronavirus Strains
Yale Medicine The good news is that in the early spring of 2024, COVID-19 cases were down, with far fewer infections and hospitalizations than were seen in the previous winter. But SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID, is still mutating, raising concerns about a potential wave of infections this summer. In April, a group of new virus […]
Jul 3, 2024
COVID trend reaches “high” level across western U.S. in latest CDC data
CBS News A key indicator for tracking the spread of COVID-19 has officially reached “high” levels across western U.S. states, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now shows. But the agency says it remains too early to say whether this year’s summer COVID-19 surge has arrived nationwide. Levels of SARS-CoV-2 virus showing up in wastewater samples […]
Jul 2, 2024