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Catching Omicron variant ‘does NOT provide immunity from reinfection’, scientists reveal – saying it helps explain the continued rise in cases
Covid sufferers who caught the Omicron variant will not be protected from catching it again, according to scientists at Imperial College London. The investigators say Omicron and its evolutions could explain why Covid cases remain higher than predicted in the UK....
Omicron Hit Rural America Harder Than Cities
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...
Artificial intelligence may be the only way researchers can solve the perplexing puzzle of Long COVID. It ’s already categorizing patients and even identifying them
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...
Drug companies sidestepping the WHO’s technology transfer hub in Africa
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...
Florida faces meningococcal outbreak ahead of Pride
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In response to an ongoing outbreak of meningococcal disease in Florida, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging travelers headed to Pride events in the state to get vaccinated. According to the CDC, the outbreak of serogroup C...
Connecticut Woman Dies of Powassan Virus: DPH
A woman in her 90s became the second Connecticut resident to test positive for the virus this year. A Windham man was the first person to test positive for Powassan virus this year, according to DPH officials. The woman lived in New London County and became sick in...
I dodged Covid but caught monkeypox’: a Londoner’s surreal ordeal
George avoided Covid during the pandemic, but then became one of the first UK cases of monkeypox virus after he developed strange symptoms As the black, scabby lesion grew, George turned to Google. The 29-year-old was unnerved by the wart-like spot; as a healthcare...
Two distinct monkeypox variants found in U.S., adding to outbreak’s mystery
At least two genetically distinct monkeypox variants are circulating in the U.S., according to new sequencing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the CDC hasn’t sequenced all 22 confirmed U.S. cases yet, two of them were found to be...
Corbevax gets approval as first mix-and-match booster vaccine
Biological E: Trial showed significant enhancement in immune response Vaccine manufacturer Biological E’s protein sub-unit Covid-19 vaccine Corbevax has become the first to be approved by the country’s drug regulator as a heterologous booster in adults, meaning those...
Can long Covid lead to death? A new analysis suggests it could
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...
Shanghai emerges from lockdown – but how lasting will the damage be?
At the end of March people in Shanghai were told to prepare for a lockdown of five days. The city was to be divided into two halves, each half would lock down, one after the other. Two months later the entire city is only just emerging from, what for many, has been a...
Prince Andrew has COVID – Duke tests positive days after seeing Queen and is forced to skip Jubilee celebrations
PRINCE Andrew has tested positive for Covid - forcing him to pull out of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations The Duke of York, 62, has seen Her Majesty in the last few days but she has been tested and not met with her son since his diagnosis. ndrew had been...