COVID-19

Airlines Take Huge Losses As Covid Ravages Flight Crews

Delta Air Lines is reporting a $408 million loss for the final quarter of 2021, dragged down by a COVID-19 surge that rocked the airline in December, and the carrier expects to suffer one more quarterly loss before travel picks up in the spring and summer.

Penis May Shrink After Covid, Experts Warn

A man claims his penis has shrunk by an inch-and-a-half due to Covid, and doctors say it can't be fixed.

Common Cold Can Protect Against COVID-19: Study

LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - High levels of T-cells from common cold coronaviruses can provide protection against COVID-19, which could inform approaches for second-generation vaccines. Immunity against COVID-19 is a complex picture, and while there is evidence of waning antibody levels six months after vaccination, T-cells are also believed to play a vital role in providing protection. The study looked at levels of cross-reactive T-cells generated by previous common colds in 52 household contacts of positive...

Should You Deliberately Catch Omicron To ‘Get It Over With’?

CTV NEWS – The question hung in the air like a bad odour, silencing the small group of fully vaccinated and boosted friends and family at my dinner table. "Why not just get Omicron and get it over with? It's mild, right? And it can boost immunity?" The fully vaccinated, boosted, well-educated friend who asked was sincere, echoing opinions heard on many social platforms. "It's caught on like wildfire," agreed Dr. Robert Murphy, executive director of the...

Walensky Evasive on How Many Deaths Are Actually Caused by Covid

CDC director Rochelle Walensky on Sunday failed to clarify how many of the 836,000 U.S. patients whose deaths were attributed to Covid in the last two years had underlying medical conditions.

Pope: COVID Vaccines Part Of ‘Moral Obligation’

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis suggested Monday that getting vaccinated against the coronavirus was a "moral obligation" and denounced how people had been swayed by "baseless information" to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives. Francis used some of his strongest words yet calling for people to get vaccinated in a speech to ambassadors accredited to the Holy See, an annual event in which he takes stock of the world and...

Moderna Gives Mexico 2.7 Million Shots As Deaths Near 460,000

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. company Moderna donated 2.7 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to Mexico Saturday as the country's official death toll topped 300,000. Mexico passed 300,000 test-confirmed coronavirus deaths this week, but so little testing is done in the country that a government review of death certificates puts to real toll at almost 460,000. Mexican officials welcomed the arrival of the shipment at the airport in Toluca, just west of Mexico City,...

Should You Worry About Waning COVID-19 Antibodies?

Some scientists are asking if healthy Americans need booster shots. Continuing clinical trials show that antibodies from the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines slowly decline starting around six months. Antibodies, however, are only part of the immune defense trained by natural immunity from COVID-19 infection or the vaccine.

Vaccine Focus Shifts To Parents Of Young Children

The worrisome trend in children too young to be vaccinated underscores the need for older kids and adults to get their shots to protect those around them, said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Double Whammy: Florida Man Diagnosed With Covid AND Flu

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – A Southwest Florida man is among the nation's first known cases of ‘Flurona’ – positive tests for influenza and coronavirus at the same time. Erick Salazar's decision to not take an at-home COVID test, but instead go to a clinic, led to the diagnosis. “I feel very tired like really I have no energy,” Salazar said. Infectious disease expert Robert Hawkes of Florida Gulf Coast University said: “Really, these are two different viruses...

IHU Variant: Nothing To Worry About, For Now

HEALTHLINE – A new COVID-19 variant made news after a French traveler returning from Africa tested positive for it in November, according to a study that has not yet been peer-reviewed. Researchers said the traveler was an adult man previously vaccinated against COVID-19 who had recently returned from Cameroon. He was tested in mid-November of 2021 after developing mild respiratory symptoms. The new variant was named B.1.640.2, but scientists have nicknamed it “IHU.” While the variant was...

“We Can’t Vaccinate The Planet Every Six Months”

Andrew Pollard, one of the creators of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, has said that giving people booster shots twice a year is "not sustainable." Speaking to UK newspaper The Telegraph in an interview published Tuesday, Pollard said: "We can't vaccinate the planet every six months." Pollard, who also heads up the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), stressed the "need to target the vulnerable" going forward, rather than administering doses to all those...

Mayo Clinic Just Fired 700 Unvaccinated Workers

Mayo Clinic fired roughly 700 employees who failed to comply with the nonprofit medical center's mandatory Covid-19 vaccination policy.

As Antibodies Wane in Quantity and Efficacy, T Cells Remain Effective Against Omicron

OneResearch BIOMEDICINE NEWSLETTER – As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 becomes increasingly dominant among skyrocketing cases, including in vaccinated individuals, concerns of the variant’s immune escape abilities have grown. Vaccines provoke important responses in the immune system to prevent disease, including creation of T cells and antibodies specific to the pathogen they introduce. In the case of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19, genetic code (mRNA) for the spike protein enters our cells, causing them to manufacture...

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