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Study suggests Covid rebound is far more common with Paxlovid than without
STAT A small and preliminary study published Monday seems to indicate that patients receiving the drug Paxlovid are far more likely to experience Covid rebound than those who did not take it. That conclusion runs counter to previous statements by Pfizer, which makes Paxlovid, and by researchers at the Food and Drug Administration who have argued […]
Nov 14, 2023
Nearly 1M Chickens Will Be Killed on a Minnesota Farm Because of Bird Flu | Lakeland News
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Nov 8, 2023
The Viral Threat Almost No One Is Thinking About
The Atlantic Flu viruses and coronavirus started the last few pandemics. Could the next one be a paramyxovirus? Whether it begins next week, next year, or next decade, another pandemic is on its way. Researchers can’t predict precisely when or how the outbreak might begin. Some 1.6 million viruses are estimated to lurk in the world’s mammalian […]
Nov 1, 2023
Bird Island Records First Influenza Case Following Unexplained Mortality Of Birds
Nature World News Experts said that a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in the brown skua populations that were found in Bird Island, South Georgia. They said that this is the first known case of the avian influenza in the Antarctic region. First Case The reported case of avian influenza came after reports of […]
Oct 24, 2023
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
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
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
People who’ve had Covid at least 5 times describe how the illness changed with each reinfection
NBC News Three people interviewed said their later infections were less severe than their first ones. Even so, getting Covid over and over takes a mental toll. Nearly four years after Covid’s emergence, plenty of people have tested positive at least twice. But an unlucky group has been hit with reinfection after reinfection. “I’ve seen […]
Oct 10, 2023
End of an era: The CDC has stopped printing Covid vaccination cards
NBC It’s the end of an era for a once-critical pandemic document: The ubiquitous white Covid vaccination cards are being phased out. Now that Covid vaccines are not being distributed by the federal government, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped printing new cards. The federal government shipped more than 980 million cards […]
Oct 10, 2023