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COVID cases rise in Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe

Thu, 2022-06-23 19:20 — mike kraft

COVID cases rise in Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe LONDON (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases rose in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe last week, while the number of deaths globally dropped by 16%, according to the World Health Organization's latest weekly pandemic report issued Wednesday. AP NEWS

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About 20 % of U.S. Adults Who Got COVID-19 Now Have Long COVID, Data Find

Thu, 2022-06-23 19:13 — mike kraft

1 in 5 U.S. Adults Who Got COVID-19 Now Have Long COVID, Data Find More than 7% of U.S. adults have Long COVID Time

About 7.5% of U.S. adults—roughly 20 million people—are currently living with Long COVID symptoms, according to new federal data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

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A 4th vaccine shot provided benefits to patients hospitalized with severe covid--Israel study

Thu, 2022-06-23 03:02 — mike kraft

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciac501/6611845

Hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 during the Omicron wave benefited from a 4th vaccine shot--Israeli study

Waning vaccine-immunity and an increased incidence of COVID-19 during the Omicron outbreak led the Israeli Ministry of Health to recommend a fourth dose of BNT162b2 for high-risk individuals. This study assessed the effect of that dose for hospitalized patients with severe/critical, breakthrough COVID-19. ...

Among hospitalized patients with severe/critical breakthrough COVID-19, a recent fourth dose was associated with significant protection against mechanical ventilation or death, compared to three doses.

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Long COVID:Women are more likely than men to develop long COVID, study finds

Thu, 2022-06-23 02:48 — mike kraft

Women are more likely than men to develop long COVID, study finds A new study found women are 22% more likely than men to develop long COVID and experience different lingering symptoms. ABC News ABC News

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Researchers from Johnson & Johnson's Office of the Chief Medical Officer for Women's Health analyzed data from studies involving 1.3 million patients.

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Europe sees new Covid wave as summer starts

Wed, 2022-06-22 19:26 — mike kraft

Summer starts in Europe with new Covid wave Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising across the continent, spurred by Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. Eliza Mackintosh and Hafsa Khalil, CNN CNN

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Monkeypox cases around the world --more than 35 countries report cases

Tue, 2022-06-21 19:14 — mike kraft

Factbox: Monkeypox cases around the world More than 35 countries where monkeypox is not endemic have reported outbreaks of the viral disease as confirmed cases exceed 2,500. Reuters Reuters

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COVID-19 is now considered to be a respiratory not vascular disease--new studies

Tue, 2022-06-21 18:56 — mike kraft

Why COVID-19 is considered to be a respiratory disease

Medical professionals and researchers have been studying the link between COVID-19 and vascular symptoms since the beginning of the pandemic. They have learned that people with severe COVID-19 are at a risk of strokes, blood clots, and other vascular complications.

These observations led to several hypotheses that COVID-19 was a vascular disease with respiratory symptoms and not a respiratory disease.

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Enormous databases do not necessarily allow scientists to solve long COVID mysteries

Tue, 2022-06-21 18:40 — mike kraft

How common is long COVID? Why studies give different answers Nature - Enormous databases do not necessarily allow scientists to solve long COVID mysteries, such as how well vaccination protects against the condition. Ledford, Heidi nature

Clinical epidemiologist Ziyad Al-Aly has access to a treasure trove that many researchers can only dream of: millions of sets of electronic medical records from the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which provides health care for the country’s military veterans.

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