Category: COVID
Covid-19 testing to no longer be recommended for vast majority of people
Irish Times Covid numbers in hospital more than double as fresh wave starts. Testing for Covid-19 will no longer be recommended for the vast majority of people from next Thursday, the HSE has announced. People with Covid-19 or other respiratory virus symptoms should stay at home until 48 hours after their symptoms have substantially or […]
Mar 28, 2023
This week Dr. Lawler provides us with updates of COVID-19 data from the U.K., and discusses the concerns of the low level of COVID testing. “We [the U.S.] are now testing at a level that is similar to April 2020.” Watch the video here: https://bit.ly/3FZIiaO
Mar 28, 2023
People who catch Omicron are less likely to get Long Covid
Science.org Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic unfurled across the United Kingdom, hematologist John Willan has worried about the disease’s toll on his patients. In March 2020, Willan, who works at the University of Oxford and Wexham Park Hospital, began to track the hospital’s COVID-19 cases among people with leukemias, lymphomas, and other blood diseases. He […]
Mar 23, 2023
Three years into the COVID pandemic, where is Nebraska headed?
Omaha World Herald After three years, COVID-19’s grip on Nebraska — and the nation as a whole — has eased significantly. During the first year, roughly 200,000 cases were confirmed in Nebraska. Thanks to a huge omicron spike, the second year brought even more cases — nearly 270,000, according to Centers for Disease Control and […]
Mar 22, 2023
UNMC GCHS Weekly Update
Mar 22, 2023
Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment and animal samples of the Huanan Seafood Market
Preprint AbstractEmerging in December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) eventually became a pandemic and has posed a tremendous threat to global public health. However, the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, remain to be determined. It has reported that a certain number of the early case clusters had a contact history with Huanan […]
Mar 22, 2023
Wuhan Market Samples Contained Covid and Animal Mixtures, Report Says
New York Times In a much-anticipated study, experts described a swab that was positive for the coronavirus and contained loads of genetic material from raccoon dogs. On Jan. 12, 2020, Chinese investigators combing a market for clues about the outbreak of a mysterious new illness in the city of Wuhan swabbed a cart. It was […]
Mar 21, 2023
A Major Clue to COVID’s Origins Is Just Out of Reach
The Atlantic A key set of data could shore up the case for a purely animal origin. So why aren’t scientists sharing it? Last week, the ongoing debate about COVID-19’s origins acquired a new plot twist. A French evolutionary biologist stumbled across a trove of genetic sequences extracted from swabs collected from surfaces at a […]
Mar 21, 2023
Dr. Anthony Fauci Would Like to Set the Record Straight
Rolling Stone Magazine Famed immunologist who led the nation’s COVID response talks new PBS doc, Trump and Fox News, gain-of-function research, the lab-leak theory, and more EVERYONE SEEMS TO have an opinion about Dr. Anthony Fauci. For those on the left, the famed physician and immunologist who led America’s Covid-19 response under presidents Trump and Biden is a […]
Mar 21, 2023
Study finds co-infection with ‘superbug’ bacteria increases SARS-CoV-2 replication
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry Global data shows nearly 10 per cent of severe COVID-19 cases involve a secondary bacterial co-infection – with Staphylococcus aureus, also known as Staph A., being the most common organism responsible for co-existing infections with SARS-CoV-2. Researchers at Western have found if you add a ‘superbug’ – methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus […]
Mar 21, 2023