COVID-19

‘Covid left me in a blacked out room, then I was put in a mental health unit’

The 37-year-old contracted Covid in 2020 and says that he was not particularly ill - but the experience was strange.

Why are more than 300 people in the US still dying from COVID every week?

CDC data shows that those aged 75 and older currently have the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths at 4.66 per 100,000.

FDA requires Covid vaccine makers to expand warning about risk of rare heart inflammation

The CDC last month told its independent vaccine advisers that research showed Covid-19 vaccinations from 2020 through 2022 showed a statistically significant increased risk of myocarditis.

Trump’s NIH cancels $1.7 Billion grants for long COVID projects

Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) – President Donald J. Trump’s administration this week abruptly terminated funding for a slew of studies designed to learn how to better treat the viral condition long COVID. They include studies funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative called Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery, or RECOVER, a $1.7 billion program that serves as the single largest federal funding mechanism for long COVID research. According to Megan Fitzgerald, a researcher...

CIA shifts assessment on Covid origins, saying lab leak likely caused outbreak

NBC News – The CIA said Saturday it has shifted its previous assessments and has concluded that it’s likely the Covid-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic but added that the agency had “low confidence” in its judgment. “CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting,” a CIA spokesperson...

Court Upholds $7.8 Million Verdict for Transit Workers Fired for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine

A California judge denied BART’s requests to overturn the verdict, saying the agency failed to show an undue hardship for not granting religious exemption.

After a long lull, Covid-19 levels are surging in the US: CNN

CNN – After a relatively slow start to the respiratory virus season, Covid-19 levels in the United States began ramping up just ahead of the winter holidays. In previous years, Covid-19 levels have typically started to rise in early November and reach their seasonal peak by the end of December. But this year, levels were nearly the lowest they’ve ever been through October and all of November, according to wastewater surveillance data from the US Centers...

China Virus Remains In Skull For Years After Infection: Study

Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) found that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein remains in the brain's protective layers -- the meninges, and the skull's bone marrow for up to four years after infection.

‘Prosecute Fauci’ Calls Grow Among MAGA After Trump’s Victory

Amid Trump's victory in last week's election, his allies have stepped up calls to have Dr. Fauci prosecuted.

History of COVID-19 doubles long-term risk of heart attack, stroke and death

News Release | Peer-Reviewed Publication Cleveland Clinic – A history of COVID-19 can double the risk of heart attack, stroke or death according to new research led by Cleveland Clinic and the University of Southern California. The study found that people with any type of COVID-19 infection were twice as likely to have a major cardiac event, such as heart attack, stroke or even death, for up to three years after diagnosis. The risk was significantly higher for patients hospitalized...

Mayo Clinic expert answers common questions about the flu, COVID-19

MAYO CLINIC NEWS NETWORK– Influenza (flu) and COVID-19 are both highly contagious respiratory illnesses. COVID-19 is caused by infection with a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), and flu is caused by infection with an influenza virus. The best way to protect yourself from either of these illnesses is to get vaccinated. Updated vaccines for both influenza and COVID-19 are now available. In this Q&A, Dr. Robert Jacobson, medical director for Mayo Clinic's Primary Care Immunization Program, answers...

Missing immune cells may explain why COVID-19 vaccine protection quickly wanes

New insights on what stimulates long-lived antibody production could spur better vaccines

FDA Proposes New Vaccine Approval Process for Pandemics

THE EPOCH TIMES – Due to concerns about the H5N1 avian virus, which has been shown to spread to humans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a new approach to pandemic vaccines. At the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting on Thursday, Jerry Weir, director of the FDA’s Division of Viral Products, asked the 11 committee members to discuss changes to the influenza vaccine strain change process. Under the current plan,...

Pakistani lab owner pleads guilty to faking COVID test results during pandemic

He now faces up to 20 years in prison and will be sentenced on February 7, 2025.

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