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COVID boosters offer good protection against severe outcomes but less so against the now dominant strain, JN.1

Fri, 2024-05-31 09:18 — mike kraft

Current COVID boosters offer good protection against severe outcomes but less so against JN.1 The current COVID-19 boosters targeting the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant are still offering solid protection against infection, hospitalizations, and death, but are somewhat limited in efficacy against illnesses caused by the JN.1 subvariant, now the dominant strain in the United States, according to a research letter yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. CIDRAP

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Bird flu infects third US dairy worker; Michigan set to expand testing

Thu, 2024-05-30 15:40 — mike kraft

Bird flu infects third US dairy worker; Michigan set to expand testing A third U.S. dairy worker tested positive for bird flu after exposure to infected cows, and was the first to suffer respiratory problems, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Leah Douglas,Julie Steenhuysen,Tom Polansek Reuters

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Children: Having 2 or more underlying conditions increases risk of severe COVID-19 almost 10-fold in kids

Thu, 2024-05-30 09:16 — mike kraft

Having 2 or more underlying conditions increase the risk of severe COVID-19 almost 10-fold in kids, data show Though severe COVID-19 infections in children are uncommon, children and young adults with comorbidities are at increased risk for critical illness during COVID-19 infections, according to a new study in Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. CIDRAP

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COVID can cause new health problems to appear years after infection--study

Thu, 2024-05-30 09:10 — mike kraft

COVID can cause new health problems even 3 years after infection, study finds. 'We don’t know what’s going to happen at 10 years' A new report reinforces that the virus is not going away. Fortune

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Pregnant women who have had COVID-19 may be at lower risk for long COVID --study

Wed, 2024-05-29 13:52 — mike kraft

Pregnant women with COVID-19 may be at lower risk for long COVID New data from the RECOVERY trial show that women who contracted COVID-19 during pregnancy had a lower risk of developing long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), than other women, according to a study in eClinicalMedicine. CIDRAP

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Long after infection, COVID patients at higher risk for respiratory complications -- study

Wed, 2024-05-29 13:04 — mike kraft

COVID patients at higher risk for respiratory complications well after infection, study finds The risks of respiratory complications were eightfold and nearly twofold greater in COVID-19 patients in South Korea and Japan during and after infection, respectively, than in the general population, suggests a study published yesterday in Nature Communications. CIDRAP

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COVID-19 pandemic reversed decade of gains in life expectancy--WHO

Tue, 2024-05-28 09:39 — mike kraft

WHO: COVID-19 pandemic reversed decade of life expectancy gains The World Health Organization (WHO) published a new report suggesting the COVID-19 pandemic undid a decade of life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy gains (HALE), with global expectancy levels now matching those last seen in 2012. CIDRAP

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"Not only has the pandemic set back healthy longevity worldwide by years, it also reversed the previous trends of shifting disease burden to noncommunicable diseases," the report said.

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New study shows vaccination lowers risk of long COVID; incidence varies by region

Thu, 2024-05-23 10:27 — mike kraft

Study shows vaccination lowers risk of long COVID COVID-19 patients vaccinated against the novel coronavirus were less likely to have symptoms of post-COVID condition (PCC), or long COVID, according to a new study in Nature Communications. CIDRAP

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In other long-COVID research news, a study in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases describes new estimates of long-COVID incidence and clinical study trends in a number of regions.

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Long-Use of COVID codes in health records may dramatically underestimate its prevalence

Tue, 2024-05-21 20:09 — mike kraft

Long-COVID codes in health record may dramatically underestimate its prevalence Long COVID is likely much more prevalent than indicated in electronic health record (EHR) diagnostic or referral codes, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers report in eClinicalMedicine. CIDRAP

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Climate change and heat is linked to worsening brain diseases

Tue, 2024-05-21 20:04 — mike kraft

Climate change is linked to worsening brain diseases Climate change is making the symptoms of certain brain conditions worse, our new review published in The Lancet Neurology has found. Conditions that can worsen as temperature and humidity rise include ... Medical Xpress

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