The Year the Pandemic 'Ended' (Part 1)
A timeline of covid normalization in the US in 2022
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COVID spreading faster than ever in China. 800 million could be infected this winter
China is now facing what is likely the world's largest COVID surge of the pandemic.
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Meet a woman suffering from long COVID who quit her job, spent $11,000 on treatments, but still can't get disability insurance
She had disability insurance, but the company claimed she had inadequate proof to qualify for long-term payouts..
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Repeat COVID is riskier than first infection, study finds
The findings were drawn from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) data collected from March 1, 2020 through April 6, 2022 on 443,588 patients with one SARS-CoV-2 infection, 40,947 with two or more infections, and 5.3 million noninfected individuals.
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Nirmatrelvir and the Risk of Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19
Important new preprint just posted: Paxlovid treatment for Covid associated with ~25% reduction of #LongCovid, beyond less death and hospitalization reduction
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Biden officials worry pandemic exhaustion could lead to bad covid winter
Their focus is on getting reformulated booster shots to seniors and the immunocompromised to avert thousands of preventable deaths
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Biden officials worry pandemic exhaustion could lead to bad covid winter
Their focus is on getting reformulated booster shots to seniors and the immunocompromised to avert thousands of preventable deaths
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It’s a Bad Time to Be a Booster Slacker
Americans aren’t getting the new bivalent COVID shot. What does that mean for the looming winter wave?
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People who caught mild Covid had increased risk of blood clots, British study finds
Patients hospitalized with Covid were 27 times more likely to develop blood clots, 21 times more likely to suffer heart failure and 17 times more likely to have a stroke, according to the study.
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A mild COVID infection changed my life. Why aren't we warning others?
As an expert at the crossroads of infectious diseases and organizational decision-making, Furness, PhD, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, is determined to do everything in his power to avoid infection