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Covid has left thousands of US children orphans. Few states are addressing the crisis An estimated 245,000 children in the US have lost one or both parents to Covid, but despite profound implications they have been largely overlooked in policy responses the Guardian

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WHO: First death reported from new bird flu strain - UPI.com Chinese health authorities have reported the death of a woman from bird flu to the World Health Organization, the first confirmed fatality from the A(H3N8) virus. UPI

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The latest infection is the third case reported from China in the past 12 months, but an epidemiological investigation and tracing of close contacts of the victim have not found any additional infections, WHO said Tuesday in a news release.

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U.S. spending $5 billion to speed up development of new COVID vaccines The U.S. government is spending over $5 billion on an effort to speed up the development of new COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson and a Biden administration official said on Monday. Reuters Reuters

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We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Long COVID With millions of people affected and at least $1 trillion of economic value at stake, long COVID is our next national health emergency Esther K. Choo,Scott Duke Kominers Scientific American

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And yet, unlike our earliest responses to acute COVID, there is no “Operation Warp Speed” for long COVID.

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