Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines

 

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In 2020, all the precautions that helped people avoid Covid had an unexpected benefit: An entire branch of the flu’s family tree, a B strain that geneticists call the Yamagata clade, disappeared, and it hasn’t been detected since.

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Covid-19 increases risk of developing autoimmune disease, but vaccination helps-- Japan and South Korean study

 

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Researchers also found that vaccination against Covid, with either mRNA or viral vector shot, reduced the risk of developing a new autoimmune disease. They did not spell out in the study exactly how much vaccines reduced the risk of AIRDs.

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Long Covid: low iron levels may play a role--British study

 

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the researchers found that long COVID was associated with how quickly inflammation and low iron levels regulated after acute infection. People who took a longer time to demonstrate regulation, and had more severe initial infections, were at an increased risk of long COVID.

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Flu shot effectivenness is OK -- US numbers indicate

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Officials generally are pleased if a flu vaccine is 40% to 60% effective.

The shots tend to do better when they are well matched against the circulating flu strains. Officials say that’s what’s happened during this — relatively typical — flu season.

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White House lifting its COVID-19 testing rule for people around Biden, Harris and spouses, ending a pandemic vestige

U.S. nursing homes still plagued by staff shortages and poor infection control--government report

A serious cyber attack has hit an important part of the US health care system

People 65 and older should get a Covid spring booster shot --US CDC Advisory panel

 

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The recommendation was approved by CDC Director Mandy Cohen, allowing the United States to join Canada and the United Kingdom in offering a spring booster this year to people at high risk of severe disease if they contract Covid.

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Testing positive for COVID-19 no longer means five days in isolation, U.S. CDC says

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days, U.S. health officials announced Friday.

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Racial minorities in the U.S. have greater long-term harms from COVID-19 --study

Diagnosing COVID-19 vs RSV, Flu --some guidance

Nearly half of older Americans postpone or don't have surgeries because of financial concerns--study

...Nearly half of people ages 50 and older who were very concerned about the cost of surgery wound up not having an operation they had considered, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Open. 

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U.S. syphilis rates highest since 1950, other STD rates down or flat

Religious people coped better with the COVID-19 pandemic, research suggests

Thousands of front line workers may have survived Covid if US government regulations were better --study

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