Category: COVID
A new COVID variant is on the rise. Here’s what to know about LP.8.1
The Conversation More than five years since COVID was declared a pandemic, we’re still facing the regular emergence of new variants of the virus, SARS-CoV-2. The latest variant on the rise is LP.8.1. It’s increasing in Australia, making up close to one in five COVID cases in New South Wales. Elsewhere it’s become even more dominant, comprising at least […]
Apr 16, 2025
Is Covid Rewriting the Rules of Aging? Brain Decline Alarms Doctors
WSJ Millions of long-Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties. Five years after the pandemic’s start, millions of Americans are still struggling with long-lasting symptoms of Covid-19. Cognitive difficulties are among the most troubling and common symptoms in people both old and young. These ailments can be severe enough to leave former professionals like Ken Todd […]
Apr 15, 2025
A Call for Closer Kidney Monitoring After COVID-19 Hospitalization
Physicians Weekly Patients experienced a greater annual decline in kidney function after COVID-19 infection compared with after pneumonia due to other infections, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Researchers found that the magnitude of accelerated kidney function decline was steepest in patients hospitalized for COVID-19. “We, therefore, propose that people who were hospitalized […]
Apr 9, 2025
NIH restores some long COVID grants
Chemical & Engineering News The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to be reversing course on its decision to abruptly cancel a spate of grants for long COVID research earlier this week. On Friday, the NIH Office of Extramural Research notified an office at New York University (NYU) that funding awarded through the NIH’s long […]
Apr 2, 2025
Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care
The Atlantic Access to clinics has only gotten patchier as attention to the disease has faded. My house was dark. Tinfoil covered the windows. The only light I could tolerate came from dimmable red bulbs. Ten weeks before, I had tested positive for COVID. On week three of my infection, I went to the emergency room […]
Apr 2, 2025
CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.
NBC News “Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary,” federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pulling back $11.4 billion in funds allocated in response to the pandemic to state and community health departments, nongovernment organizations and […]
Mar 25, 2025
HHS Closing Long COVID Office
MedPageToday Closure is part of the Trump administration’s “reorganization” The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine. The authenticity of the email was confirmed by a government employee familiar with the situation. The email states that this action is […]
Mar 25, 2025
What the COVID-19 pandemic tells us about how viruses evolve
NPR arly in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the coronavirus would mutate slowly. They were wrong. Hundreds of thousands of viral mutations and multiple seasonal waves later, researchers now know why. Turns out, SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes the disease COVID-19 — was making evolutionary leaps and bounds in one specific group of people. “When […]
Mar 25, 2025
The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About
The Atlantic Deaths in isolation have been treated as a painful memory, not as a problem that hospitals need to address. He was one of the few ICU patients whose face I saw in early 2021, when COVID raged through Los Angeles. As a palliative-care physician, my job was to meet, over Zoom, with the […]
Mar 18, 2025
Almost one in 10 may have long Covid, research finds
BBC Almost one in 10 people in England think they could have long Covid, according to analysis of national data. University of Southampton researchers examined information collected by NHS England that showed 4.8% of people reported having the condition. The analysis of more than 750,000 responses to the GP Patient Survey also found that 9.1% […]
Mar 18, 2025