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Long covid linked to blood issues; signs of ongoing inflammatory responses --preliminary British study

Mon, 2024-04-08 17:40 — mike kraft

Long covid linked to signs of ongoing inflammatory responses in blood People with long covid after a serious covid-19 infection have raised levels of many immune molecules in their blood. Better understanding how these molecules can vary could lead to more targeted treatments #author.fullName} New Scientist

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FDA Authorizes COVID Drug Pemgarda for High-Risk Patients

Mon, 2024-04-08 11:21 — mike kraft

FDA Authorizes COVID Drug Pemgarda for High-Risk Patients A Yale Medicine expert explains the significance of a new preventive medication to protect certain immunocompromised people against COVID-19. Yale Medicine

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) to a medicine meant to protect certain immunocompromised people against COVID-19.

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Many younger people from NYC high income neighborhoods jumped the eligibility queue for COVID-19 vaccines --study

Mon, 2024-04-08 10:37 — mike kraft

Study finds many younger people from high income neighborhoods jumped the eligibility queue for COVID-19 vaccines in NYC

Despite vaccine shortages, many younger people in New York City accessed vaccines ahead of schedule, particularly in high-income areas, according to new research at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Low-income areas with high proportions of older people demonstrated lower coverage rates than wealthier areas in the first three months of vaccine rollout, and higher mortality over the year. The findings are published in the Journal of Urban Health.

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Vigorous exercise may be OK for people with long COVID-new Swedish study

Mon, 2024-04-08 10:11 — mike kraft

No need to avoid exercise with long-COVID diagnosis, researchers say Recommendations that people with long COVID, or post-COVID condition (PCC), should avoid vigorous exercise are probably too strict, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open from researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. CIDRAP

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Analysis: How climate change is increasing immune health problems and how to counter it

Fri, 2024-04-05 10:36 — mike kraft

How climate change is driving a global epidemic of immune health problems, and how to stop it Every $1 spent on mitigating climate change would save at least $3 in health care costs, largely through a reduction of diseases such as asthma and allergies. Patrick Skerrett STAT

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Paxlovid does not shorten COVID symptoms among fully vaccinated--study

Fri, 2024-04-05 10:21 — mike kraft

Among fully vaccinated, study shows Paxlovid does not shorten symptoms A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that, for those fully vaccinated against COVID-19 but having at least one risk factor for severe COVID, the antiviral drug Paxlovid did little to reduce symptom duration, but experts caution the findings might not apply to older patients. CIDRAP

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Bird flu: Contrasting views on potential danger to humans

Fri, 2024-04-05 10:10 — mike kraft

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Bird flu daiy cow outbreaks widens in U.S.; CDC says risk to public is low

Fri, 2024-04-05 09:46 — mike kraft

Bird flu dairy cow outbreak widens in Ohio, Kansas, New Mexico Bird flu has infected a dairy herd in Ohio for the first time and was detected in additional herds in Kansas and New Mexico, according to the U.S. government, expanding an outbreak in cows that has raised concerns about possible risks to humans. Tom Polansek Reuters

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COVID-19 infection can increase risk of allergic diseases --study

Thu, 2024-04-04 10:47 — mike kraft

New study reveals increased risk of allergic diseases after COVID-19 infection (news-medical.net)

New study reveals increased risk of allergic diseases after COVID-19 infection The association of COVID-19 with long term allergic conditions. Dr. Liji Thomas, MD News-Medical

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Testing runoff water near homeless encampments to detect COVID

Thu, 2024-04-04 10:24 — mike kraft

Testing environmental water to monitor COVID-19 spread in unsheltered encampments

To better understand COVID-19's spread during the pandemic, public health officials have expanded wastewater surveillance. These efforts track SARS-CoV-2 levels and health risks among most people, but they miss people who live without shelter, a population particularly vulnerable to severe infection.

To fill this information gap, researchers reporting in Environmental Science & Technology Letters tested flood-control waterways near unsheltered encampments, finding similar transmission patterns as in the broader community and identifying previously unseen viral mutations.

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