COVID-19

What A ‘Mild’ Case Of Covid Is Really Like

KAISER HEALTH NEWS – The test results that hot day in early August shouldn’t have surprised me — all the symptoms were there. A few days earlier, fatigue had enveloped me like a weighted blanket. I chalked it up to my weekend of travel. Next, a headache clamped down on the back of my skull. Then my eyeballs started to ache. And soon enough, everything tasted like nothing. As a reporter who’s covered the coronavirus...

Ivermectin, ‘Wonder Drug’?

SHOTS HEALTH NEWS – Through July and August, Julie Smith watched her husband Jeffrey get worse and worse from COVID-19. In early July, the healthy, 51-year-old outdoorsman had tested positive for the coronavirus. Within a week, he was admitted to the intensive care unit at a hospital near their home, in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio. The hospital treated him with antiviral drugs, convalescent plasma and steroids, but he continued to decline. Weeks later he...

Pfizer Vaccine Promises To Knock Down Pediatric Covid Spike

Pfizer said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11 and that it will seek U.S. authorization for this age group soon -- a key step toward beginning vaccinations for youngsters.

Trick? Or Treat? Vaccines For Kids Eyed For Halloween Rollout

Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) is expected by October 31 for the Moderna vaccine for kids 5 to 11.

9 Signs You May Have A Delta Infection

Spotting the signs of a coronavirus infection—particularly this "more transmissible" Delta variant—is essential, to save your life and the life of those around you.

Pink Slips Continue For Unvaccinated Workers

BECKER'S HOSPITAL REVIEW – Some Kentucky health systems have fired employees who did not comply with their workplace's COVID-19 vaccination requirement, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. By the end of the day Sept. 15, the requirement deadline, Morehead-based St. Claire HealthCare had fired 23 employees for noncompliance, hospital spokesperson Amy Riddle confirmed to Becker's. St. Claire announced its vaccine policy on Aug. 4. At that time, more than 70 percent of the health system's workforce was...

“Stunning Rebuke” For Biden’s Vaccine Plan

A key government advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected Biden's plan to give COVID-19 booster shots across the board and instead recommended the extra vaccine dose only for those who are age 65 or older or who run a high risk of severe disease.

COVID Vaccines: Risks Versus Benefits

The rate of breakthrough cases in fully vaccinated individuals was below 1%, and hospitalisation rates in this group ranged from 0 – 0.6%. In contrast, more than 90% of COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths occurred among those who were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.

Pandemic’s Awful Toll On Infants and Children

HOUSTON CHRONICLE – Fifteen months ago, Solidad Odunuga received a phone call from the Houston Health Department. Odunuga’s daughter, who had been living on and off the streets, had given birth to a baby boy named Emmanuel before leaving the hospital with no contact information or forwarding address. Emmanuel was born with congenital syphilis, an infection passed to him during pregnancy from his mother. Odunuga suspects her daughter didn’t know she had syphilis. “Once she found out,...

Employers Forge Plans For Unvaccinated Workers

What can employers do if workers avoid COVID-19 vaccines? They can require vaccination and fire employees who don't comply, or take other actions such as withholding company perks or charging extra for health insurance. Businesses for months have been encouraging workers to get vaccinated, in some cases offering incentives like time off or gift cards. But more are taking a harder stance and requiring vaccinations for any remaining holdouts, a push that has gained momentum since...

Fauci, Pfizer Want To Vaccinate 5-Year-Olds

CNBC – Top U.S. health officials believe that Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine could be authorized for children aged 5-11 years old by the end of October, two sources familiar with the situation said on Friday. The timeline is based on the expectation that Pfizer, which developed the shot with Germany’s BioNTech, will have enough data from clinical trials to seek emergency use authorization (EUA) for that age group from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

Get Set For The Flu/Covid Combo Shot

Vaccine developer Novavax said on Wednesday it has initiated an early-stage study to test its combined flu and Covid-19 vaccine. The trial, to be conducted in Australia, will enroll 640 healthy adults between the ages of 50 and 70 years and who have either been previously infected with the coronavirus or given an authorized Covid-19 vaccine at least eight weeks prior to the study.

AMA Calls For Ending Ivermectin Use for Covid

Health experts and medical groups are pushing to stamp out the growing use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19, warning that it can cause harmful side effects and that there’s little evidence it helps.

ER Doctor’s Vaccine Warnings Fall On Deaf Ears, But He Keeps Trying

The Conversation – As an emergency medicine and critical care doctor at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, I’ve lost count of the number of COVID-19 surges since the U.S. pandemic began in Seattle in February 2020. But this one feels different. The patients are younger. They have fewer preexisting medical conditions. And at my hospital, over 95% of these hospitalized patients share one common feature: They’re unvaccinated. While I’m grateful to...

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