Author: Claudinne Miller

Covid, flu, RSV declining in hospitals as ‘tripledemic’ threat fades

(Washington Post) So manypatients sick with RSV had inundated Connecticut Children’s Medical Center that they had to be treated in hallways and playrooms. Facing their busiest season in memory last fall, hospital leaders floated a plan to enlist the National Guard to set up tents outside. Doctors braced for a dire winter — a looming disaster some […]

Jan 24, 2023

Utah Plastic Surgeon Sold Fake Covid-19 Vaccine Cards for $50, U.S. Says

(NYT) Dr. Michael Kirk Moore and three of his associates were indicted this month in a scheme that federal prosecutors said lasted from May 2021 to September 2022. A Utah plastic surgeon and three associates were charged recently with selling fake Covid-19 vaccine cards for $50 apiece in a scheme that lasted more than a […]

Jan 24, 2023

COVID-19 Patients Retain Elevated Risk of Death for 1.5 Years After Acute Infection

(Contagion) New research definitively linked COVID-19 infection to a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease and death—both short- and long-term. The study, published in Cardiovascular Research, evaluated the association between COVID-19 and development of cardiovascular disease and mortality. “COVID-19 patients were more likely to develop numerous cardiovascular conditions compared to uninfected participants, which may have contributed to their higher risks […]

Jan 24, 2023

Declaration of the End of the Ebola Outbreak in Uganda

(US Embassy Uganda) The Ugandan government, in coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO), declared the end of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Uganda on January 11, 2023.  Concurrently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rescinded its Level 2 Travel Health Notice related to Ebola in Uganda. The United States terminated […]

Jan 24, 2023

The next worrisome coronavirus variant could come from China — will it get detected?

(Nature) Fears that the massive surge of coronavirus infections in China could immediately spark the emergence of a troubling new variant are unfounded, say researchers. But that could change in the coming months as more people in the country acquire some natural immunity from infection. More widespread immunity could drive the virus SARS-CoV-2 to evolve […]

Jan 24, 2023

Younger generations suffered from worst mental illness during COVID-19

(HealthEuropa) Mental illness was more common in younger generations compared to older age groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new study by University College London (UCL) explored how five different birth cohort studies which followed participants born in 1946, 1958, 1970, 1989-90 and 2000-02 coped with mental illness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jan 24, 2023

Child dies from Nipah virus in Rajshahi

(Bangladesh news) Sowad drank date juice on Friday morning and felt fever and convulsions. As he fell unconscious, the family members admitted him to the hospital in the afternoon, said Rajshahi Medical College Hospital Intensive Care Unit in-charge Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal. He said that they transferred Sowad to the ICU on Saturday morning as […]

Jan 24, 2023

How Effective Is Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir in Vaccinated Persons with COVID-19?

(NEJM) Preferred therapies for mild-to-moderate COVID-19 include a 3-day intravenous course of remdesivir or nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid). The only published randomized trial of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir was conducted prior to widespread vaccination (N Engl J Med 2022; 386:1397. opens in new tab). Thus, clinicians need further information on the effectiveness of this treatment in more-heavily immune populations. Investigators […]

Jan 24, 2023

Don’t wait for an Ebola outbreak to vaccinate people against it

(Nature) Uganda’s most recent Ebola outbreak should be a wake-up call to the world. Last October, just 3 weeks into the outbreak, the disease spread to Kampala, a well-connected city of 1.5 million people. From there, it might easily have entered other countries. As the incident manager at the Ugandan Ministry of Health, I coordinated […]

Jan 24, 2023

Delaware County confirms tuberculosis case at William Penn School District

(NPR) The Delaware County Health Department is confirming a case of tuberculosis at Penn Wood Middle School in the William Penn School District. The district notified the county Health Department on Sunday. Health officials are working in concert with the district to locate people who may have been exposed to the individual. “The general public […]

Jan 24, 2023