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How a simulation is informing COVID-19 vaccine policy after our 'return to normal'

Tue, 2024-05-21 09:11 — mike kraft

How a simulation is informing COVID-19 vaccine policy after our 'return to normal' As the saying goes "There is no such thing as normal" and this has been especially true after the pandemic. Medical Xpress

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Now, there is a complex global situation where populations in different countries have unique hybrid immunity landscapes, born from a wide range of vaccination history and exposure history combinations.

In 2023, we needed to consider what hybrid immunity meant for booster vaccinations. And what different types of hybrid immunity meant for future vaccination strategies.

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Repeat COVID-19 vacinations may help strengthen immune systems against future variants--study

Tue, 2024-05-21 09:03 — mike kraft

Here's Yet Another Reason to Stay on Top of Your COVID Vaccine Boosters Great news. Tessa Koumoundouros ScienceAlert

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Wearing Face Masks Did Not Significantly Reduce Risk of COVID Infection After First Omicron Wave ---Britsh study

Mon, 2024-05-20 17:53 — mike kraft

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Hospitalized COVID patients 35% more likely to die than flu patients last winter -- study

Fri, 2024-05-17 10:32 — mike kraft

Hospital COVID patients 35% more likely to die than flu patients last winter, study suggests During the 2023-24 respiratory virus season, hospitalized US COVID-19 patients were at a 35% higher risk for death from any cause than those admitted for influenza, compared with a 61% higher risk the winter before, estimates a research letter published today in JAMA. CIDRAP

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Why raw milk sales surging when it is more dangerous than ever because of bird flu

Thu, 2024-05-16 19:12 — mike kraft

Raw milk is more dangerous than ever. So why are sales surging? It has everything to do with Americans’ distrust in government. Keren Landman, MD Vox

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The New U.S. Strategy on Global Health Security seeks to make U.S. foreign policy on global health more effective

Thu, 2024-05-16 18:59 — mike kraft

The New U.S. Strategy on Global Health Security | Think Global Health

The New U.S. Strategy on Global Health Security | Think Global Health The strategy seeks to make U.S. foreign policy on global health more effective Council on Foreign Relations

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Millions more older adults at risk in the future from extreme heat

Thu, 2024-05-16 12:30 — mike kraft

Extreme heat will put millions more older adults at risk in the future By 2050, as many as an additional 246 million adults 69 and older could experience temperature extremes that exceed 37.5° Celsius. Aimee Cunningham Science News

The new projection suggests that more than 23 percent of the global population of these older adults — largely concentrated in Africa and Asia — will encounter this intense heat, compared with 14 percent today.

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The 2024 Europe report on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action-Lancet study

Thu, 2024-05-16 11:53 — mike kraft

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Before vaccines, 44% of COVID-19 patients in ICU died-- U.S. study

Thu, 2024-05-16 10:29 — mike kraft

Study: Before vaccines, 44% of COVID-19 patients in ICU died A new analysis of pre-vaccine data from scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that 18% of hospitalized patients and 44% of those admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) for COVID-19 died, with wide variations among different groups. CIDRAP

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Before the mid-December 2020 introduction of COVID-19 vaccines, the pandemic caused approximately 480,000 hospitalizations, and 350,000 deaths in the United States.

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