by owner | Jun 15, 2022 | Testing, U.S.
The omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2021 and early 2022 spread like a grass fire in America’s densely populated cities but led to higher rates of death in rural counties where vaccinations are lagging. The latest study by the University of...
by owner | Jun 15, 2022 | Testing
Long COVID may be too big a problem for humans to solve—alone, at least. Increasingly, researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to help them sort through the electronic medical records of millions of long-COVID patients in hopes of better understanding the...
by owner | Jun 15, 2022 | Africa, Medicine
Pharmaceutical company Moderna announced on 7 March 2022 that it would develop a site in Kenya to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines. The company holds much of the key intellectual property relating to the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines. Due to their higher efficacy, mRNA...
by owner | Jun 3, 2022 | Medicine, Testing
The CDC is beginning to look at death certificates that indicate more than 100 people who died had long Covid. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is analyzing more than 100 deaths that could be attributed to long Covid by looking at death certificates from...
by owner | Jun 1, 2022 | Medicine, U.S.
COVID hospitalizations and deaths may be down from their surge peaks, but the nation’s hospitals and clinics still face a population in crisis: the healthcare workers themselves. Overworked medical professionals, who risked their health and...
by owner | May 30, 2022 | Testing
For the third year, Americans are greeting the unofficial start of summer shadowed by the specter of the coronavirus amid rising covid-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country. The United States is recording more than 100,000 infections a day — at least five...
