Category: COVID
What To Know About ‘Arcturus’: New Covid Variant Causing Pink Eye
Forbes New Covid strain XBB.1.18, nicknamed arcturus, is quickly spreading across the U.S., but experts are warning that pink eye and high fever, two symptoms of the new variant, are particularly present among children. Arcturus is a subvariant of the highly contagious omicron variant, which is the most prevalent variant in the U.S., according to the Centers […]
May 2, 2023
Patients Living With Long COVID Offer Insight to FDA
MedPageToday Patients with long COVID and their caregivers shared how the illness has impacted their lives, the treatments they’ve tried, and their hopes for clinical trials during a virtual public meetingopens in a new tab or window on Patient-Focused Drug Development for Long COVID hosted by the FDA on Tuesday. Impacts on Daily Living Jill Anderson, a […]
May 2, 2023
COVID-19 has left the world less prepared for an influenza pandemic
Nature Prior to 2020, most pandemic preparedness efforts centered on influenza. Some countries, such as Aotearoa (New Zealand)1, were able to successfully adapt national pandemic influenza plans to the response to COVID-19, and global influenza surveillance systems were harnessed for SARS-CoV-2 (ref. 2). It is now critical that nations and the international community implement lessons learned […]
Apr 25, 2023
Get ready for the newest omicron COVID variant — Arcturus
(CBS News) The World Health Organization has elevated the fast-growing Omicron sublineage XBB.1.16 as a new variant of interest, and says it is outcompeting the previously dominant XBB.1.5 in many regions. XBB.1.16 is a descendant of the recombinant XBB, which is a mashup of two BA.2 sublineages. On social media, the variant has been nicknamed […]
Apr 25, 2023
What’s Going On With Covid Right Now?
NYT Cases, hospitalizations and deaths are lower than they’ve been in years. We asked experts how to think about personal risk — and what the future likely holds. Deaths from Covid-19 in the United States are the lowest they’ve been since March 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s data tracker. Case rates […]
Apr 25, 2023
There’s a New Symptom the ‘Arcturus’ COVID Variant May be Causing
NBC Chicago News A new variant of COVID-19 starting to spread around the United States could be responsible for a new symptom that is unlike any we’ve seen with the virus so far. That variant, classified as XBB.1.16 by the World Health Organization, was designated as a “variant under monitoring” by the organization last month. […]
Apr 25, 2023
Group outlines lessons learned from Covid pandemic in new report
NPR Audio NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Philip Zelikow about the forthcoming report “Lessons Learned From Covid War: An Investigative Report” by the Covid Crisis Group.
Apr 25, 2023
Boys may be prone to fetal brain development from COVID
NPR A new study finds that when pregnant people get COVID, their male children have a greater risk of subtle neurodevelopmental effects. AILSA CHANG, HOST: The country’s tally of COVID-19 cases includes more than 200,000 people who were pregnant when they got infected. Now scientists are reporting that boys from those pregnancies may be prone […]
Apr 25, 2023