As Covid Vaccinations Slow, Parts of the US Remain Far Behind 70% Goal
Vermont and Massachusetts lead the nation, with more than 70% of adults having had at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine. Southern states like Tennessee lag far behind.
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California’s Highest Covid Infection Rates Shift to Rural Counties
As vaccination rates rise across the state, the overall numbers of covid cases and deaths have plunged. But health officials are still reporting nearly 1,000 new cases and more than two dozen deaths a day. So, where does covid continue to simmer in California? And why?
Covid-19: 1-in-4 U.S. Hospital Deaths Linked to Caseload Surges
Close to 6,000 early pandemic deaths may have been avoided, NIH study found Roughly 1-in-4 Covid-19 deaths in U.S. hospitals during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic may have been attributable to strains on facilities...
Covid-19: 1-in-3 Patients Reported Long-Hauler Symptoms
Lingering fatigue, loss of taste and smell reported most often Close to a third of people who experienced mild to moderate Covid-19 symptoms during the acute phase of the illness had lingering symptoms 7 to 9 months later,...
Covid-19: CoronaVac Vaccine Highly Effective for Preventing Hospitalization, Death
Vaccine proved 66% effective for preventing disease in real-world study from Chile Real-world data...
New Research Finds J&J Vaccine Has Muscle Against Covid’s Delta Variant
The data is reassuring to people who got this shot.
Covid-19: Internal Medicine Nurses Had Highest Risk for Infection in Early Pandemic
ICU worker risk was similar to hospital telephone operators Among health care workers in Italy early in the Covid-19 pandemic, prolonged contact to SARS-CoV-2-infected patients was a bigger risk factor for infection than...
Covid-19: HEPA Filters Plus Masks Substantially Reduce Viral Exposure
A viable solution for reducing Covid spread in close indoor settings? CDC researchers found that adding portable high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) cleaners to a universal masking strategy led to a dramatic reduction in...
Covid-19: Breakthrough Infections Involve Lower Viral Load Following mRNA Vaccination
Vaccinated people less likely to infect others, study findings suggest Partial or full vaccination with mRNA Covid-19 vaccine was associated with lower viral load among breakthrough cases, suggestive of reduced SARS-CoV-2...
Analysis: Why We’ll Likely Never Know Whether a Covid Lab Leak Happened in China
If international scientific sleuths are hoping to see a lab log or find a whistleblower, that sort of information won’t be revealed. In China today, it is dangerous to say what you know if it challenges the official government narrative.
Covid-19: Protein-Based Vax Safe, Highly Effective, Study Finds
Efficacy similar to that reported for mRNA vaccines Peer-reviewed findings from a phase III trial of the NVX-CoV2373 nanoparticle protein-based Covid-19 vaccine (Novavax) in the United Kingdom showed full vaccination to convey...
A Break From Breathlessness: How Singing Helped Me Through Long Covid
Long before covid, music therapists used singing and wind instruments to help COPD and asthma patients. These same therapies might help patients recover from covid’s lingering symptoms as well. And though it wasn’t clinical music therapy, singing with an online choir has helped me navigate long covid.
