Author: Claudinne Miller
Can You Get the New Covid Vaccine and the Flu Shot at the Same Time?
NYT Most Americans will be eligible for both the new monovalent Covid vaccine and the annual flu shot this fall. You can schedule your vaccines separately or choose to get them at the same time. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is safe to get both the Covid vaccine and flu shot together. Combining vaccines, […]
Oct 17, 2023
Lab Leak Fight Casts Chill Over Virology Research
NYT Scientists doing “gain-of-function” research said that heightened fears of lab leaks are stalling studies that could thwart the next pandemic virus. Questions about whether Covid leaked from a Chinese laboratory have cast a chill over American virus research, drying up funding for scientists who collect or alter dangerous pathogens and intensifying a debate over […]
Oct 17, 2023
Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid
NYT A team of scientists is proposing a new explanation for some cases of long Covid, based on their findings that serotonin levels were lower in people with the complex condition. In their study, published on Monday in the journal Cell, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania suggest that serotonin reduction is triggered by remnants of […]
Oct 17, 2023
Intranasal COVID Vaccine Generates Strong Immune Response
MedPageToday Stopping respiratory illnesses before they start through new delivery systems and by such mundane work as analyzing a city’s wastewater were among the early highlights at this year’s IDWeek meeting. Intranasal Vaccine Shows Promise At a press briefing, researchers suggested that those who dislike the idea of having to get poked by needles to prevent […]
Oct 17, 2023
Illinois reports first measles case in 4 years, state health officials confirm
ABC News Illinois health officials reported the state’s first case of measles in four years Friday. The Cook County Health Department reported the suspected case Tuesday to the Illinois Department of Public Health. It was confirmed the next day by state health officials. The person, who was exposed to the virus in another country, was […]
Oct 17, 2023
Skeletons of 1918 Flu Victims Reveal Clues About Who Was Likely to Die
While a narrative emerged that the pandemic indiscriminately struck the young and healthy, new evidence suggests that frail young adults were most vulnerable. The flu typically kills the very young, the old and the sick. That made the virus in 1918 unusual, or so the story goes: It killed healthy young people as readily as […]
Oct 11, 2023
NYT Argh, you’re feeling sick again. You don’t want to take off work or go to the doctor if you don’t have to, but you also don’t want to be that person who infects the whole office (substitute “kid” and “classroom,” if applicable). You might have toughed it out before the pandemic, but the etiquette […]
Oct 11, 2023
Teen Depression Rose Sharply During the Pandemic, but Treatment Didn’t Follow
NYT Approximately 20 percent of adolescents had symptoms of major depressive disorder in 2021 — the first full calendar year of the pandemic — but less than half who needed treatment received it, according to a new study. The research, published in JAMA Pediatrics, found that treatment was most lacking for minority adolescents, particularly those who […]
Oct 11, 2023
Long COVID: New study reveals kids’ risk for mysterious illness
SF Chronicle Throughout the pandemic, estimates of American adults experiencing long COVID have varied widely. However, new research confirms that the risk for children, especially those younger than 12 years old, remains rare. An analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that by the end of last year, only 1.3% of individuals […]
Oct 11, 2023
Can Rapid COVID Tests Reveal More Than a Positive/Negative Result?
MedPageToday Experts agree that rapid antigen test kits can show degrees of infectiousness. At-home rapid COVID-19 tests can reveal more about viral load than a simple positive/negative result, according to experts. “By definition, the basic technology suggests that you somehow have to go from a negative ‘zero’ line to a dark line, and within that […]
Oct 11, 2023