Category: COVID
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
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
FDA May Authorize Additional Covid-19 Booster Shots
WSJ Agency officials could make the decision on clearing another round for people at high risk within a few weeks. Federal health regulators are nearing a decision on whether to authorize a second round of the Omicron-targeted booster shots for the elderly and other people at high-risk of severe Covid-19, people familiar with the agency’s deliberations said. […]
Mar 21, 2023
Finally, a Potential Therapy to Prevent Long COVID
MedPageToday Diabetes drug found to reduce chance of long COVID in clinical trial preprint. Hi, it’s Jeremy Faust with MedPage Today. Thanks for joining me. Today, we’re going to discuss an interesting new paper called “Outpatient Treatment of COVID-19 and the Development of Long COVID Over 10 Months.” Link to related paper in The Lancet (Preprint) […]
Mar 21, 2023
Long-covid symptoms are less common now than earlier in the pandemic
Washington Post Americans infected with the coronavirus’s omicron variant are less likely to develop symptoms typical of long covid than those who had covid-19 earlier in the pandemic, according to the largest-ever study of who is most vulnerable to being sickened — or debilitated — by the virus’s lingering effects. The analysis of nearly 5 million […]
Mar 21, 2023