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Even with current improvements and updated vaccinations in the latter part of the pandemic, it still poses significant dangers for older Americans. Statistics show that nearly 3/4th of COVID-19 deaths have occurred in people over the age of 65, with the highest casualty among people over the age of!-->…
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According to a new global analysis, children experienced learning deficits and had not recovered from those losses more than two years later. Even more severe effects are seen in developing countries and students with low financial backgrounds. This only furthers the idea that the challenges of!-->…
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The North Korean government has imposed a 5-day lockdown on its capital city as it fights the "recurrent flu and other respiratory diseases". In August, North Korea claimed that it had eradicated the coronavirus without vaccines after reporting its first outbreak of Covid-19 in May of last year.!-->…
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A New York insurance agency study reported that 71% of people experiencing long Covid needed to be out of work for six or more months. The CEO of the insurance fund, Gaurav Vasisht, estimates that the number of people experiencing long Covid is higher than this number suggests and that most of!-->…
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The updated Covid-19 boosters are cutting the risk that a person will get sick from the coronavirus by about half, even against infections caused by the rapidly spreading XBB.1.5 subvariant. Studies conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the boosters continue!-->…
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The FDA has proposed a simplified COVID-19 booster plan, with an updated shot matched to circulating strains offered annually in the fall for most Americans, similar to the flu vaccine schedule. However, responses to the idea have shown that the issue is complicated as experts are questioning!-->…
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Like the annual flu shot, the FDA is suggesting that people get a COVID booster each fall. It was also mentioned that it might just be bivalent doses offered in this manner. Many scientists and doctors are hoping that the FDA will provide more data to back up their proposal in a meeting later this!-->…
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With China’s latest coronavirus outbreak, the World Health Organization tries to push Beijing to share data. As opposed to early 2020 when Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised China’s “transparency,” there had been deliberate undercounted cases. Despite the increased contagion and travel increase,!-->…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging travelers to wear masks as a new variant of COVID-19 has been spreading rapidly. The WHO is recommending that individuals wear masks in public spaces, practice physical distancing, and follow other public health measures to help slow the spread of the!-->…
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Provincial official Kan Quancheng for China’s third most populous province, Henan, announced at a press conference that 90% of people in the province are infected with COVID-19. The Chinese government decided to abandon their zero-Covid policies in December due to pressure caused by an increase in!-->…
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The White House chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the United States is “certainly” still in a COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Fauci said there are still 300 to 400 daily COVID-19 deaths in the United States. He also mentioned the low vaccination rate for the!-->…
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Twitter has announced that they will stop flagging tweets and suspending twitter accounts for COVID-19 misinformation. Twitter previously had a COVID-19 specific “five-strike” system for accounts spreading"demonstrably false or misleading" content that could potentially "lead to significant risk of!-->…
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New studies show that the new bivalent booster shot helps protect against the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron. These results are promising as starting in September, 2022, most boosters given were this newer version. The data from Moderna comes from antibody production rather than efficacy tests.!-->…
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The National Science Foundation, which operates McMurdo Station on the southern tip of Antarctica’s Ross Island, announced new measures over the weekend to help control a COVID-19 outbreak at an American scientific research station in Antarctica. U.S. officials have been forced to temporarily halt!-->…
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