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Estimated 3 million Americans avoiding working in person due to COVID --study

Thu, 2022-11-10 10:54 — mike kraft

3 million Americans are still avoiding the workforce. They might be ‘long social distancing’ Unemployed workers might be "long social distancing," a new paper finds. They're too afraid of catching COVID to return to work. YahooFinance

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Americans' fears of catching COVID lowest since summer of 2021: Gallup

Thu, 2022-11-10 10:27 — mike kraft

Fears of catching COVID lowest since summer of 2021: Gallup Story at a glance Just 28 percent of Americans are concerned about catching COVID-19, marking the lowest total reported since June of 2021. The findings come as some experts raise concern abo… Gianna Melillo The Hill

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U.S. authorizes Sobi's drug to treat COVID-19 in high-risk patients

Thu, 2022-11-10 08:50 — mike kraft

U.S. authorizes Sobi's drug to treat COVID-19 in high-risk patients Sobi North America, a unit of Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB , said on Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized its arthritis drug for treatment of high-risk hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Reuters Reuters

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U.S. faces third Covid winter, without key tools and treatments

Thu, 2022-11-10 08:42 — mike kraft

U.S. set to face third Covid winter without key tools and treatments Already, some hospitals in New York City are planning to stop using certain drugs because resistant Covid variants are spreading, an infectious disease specialist told STAT. Andrew Joseph STAT

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Immigrants had little effet on COVID-19 Infection Rates In The United States --report

Wed, 2022-11-09 19:44 — mike kraft

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01955

Little To No Correlation Found Between Immigrant Entry And COVID-19 Infection Rates In The United States

...Our findings support existing evidence that the short-term impacts of immigrant flow on local COVID-19 rates were minimal.

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Analysisi of Geographic Accessibility of COVID-19 Test to Treat Sites by Race, Ethnicity, Age, and Rurality

Wed, 2022-11-09 19:34 — mike kraft

Geographic Accessibility of COVID-19 Test to Treat Sites This cross-sectional study explores geographic disparities in antiviral access by quantifying the accessibility of COVID-19 Test to Treat sites for subpopulations by race, ethnicity, age, and rurality. JAMANetworkOpen

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Locations in US of long COVID clinics

Wed, 2022-11-09 12:39 — mike kraft

Where are the long COVID clinics? For people with long COVID, finding a place to get appropriate medical care is a challenge. katie Science News

For the millions of people in the United States with long COVID, getting help comes down to where they live. Long COVID clinics have been popping up, but their accessibility and the kind of care they offer vary wildly.

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Latest COVID-19 Variants Can Evade Vaccine Protection, According to New Data

Wed, 2022-11-09 10:10 — mike kraft

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The Latest COVID-19 Variants Can Evade Vaccine Protection, According to New Data

New lab data suggest that vaccines and prior infections may not offer enough protection against several new COVID-19 variants cropping up in the U.S. and around the world.

Dr. David Ho, director of Columbia University’s Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, and his team reported the results from a set of studies published in the journal Nature. They showed how well some of the latest variants—BQ.1, BQ.1.1, XBB, and XBB.1, which were all derived from Omicron—are evading both vaccine-derived and infection-derived immunity.

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Opinion: OPINION After COVID and monkeypox, it's time to rethink how U.S. responds to infectious diseases

Tue, 2022-11-08 10:41 — mike kraft

After COVID and monkeypox, it's time to rethink how U.S. responds to infectious diseases The COVID-19, monkeypox, and now Ebola responses have illustrated the urgent need to re-imagine the nation’s laboratory system. Scott J. Becker USA TODAY

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Rate of sea level rise 'has doubled since 1993' thanks to climate change-- report

Tue, 2022-11-08 09:14 — mike kraft

Rate of sea level rise 'has doubled since 1993' thanks to climate change, report finds The rate of global sea level rise is speeding up dramatically as temperatures continue to rise due to climate change, a new report finds, and now poses “a major threat to many millions” of people living on ocean coastlines. YahooNews

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