Is convalescent plasma still useful as a covid treatment?
What is convalescent plasma?It’s a form of passive immunisation. Blood plasma containing antibodies from one…
Category: COVID-19
Covid NHS memorial is named year’s top statue
bmj;383/nov06_15/p2594/FAF1faAlan Morris/AlamyScotland’s first memorial sculpture dedicated to NHS staff who worked through the covid-19 pandemic…
Covid-19: Whitehall chaos and misplaced confidence undermined UK’s response, inquiry hears
A toxic and chaotic environment at the heart of government, with distrust between civil servants…
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Paying for Covid pills will soon shift to insurers
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is slowly shifting millions of Covid-19 treatments to private insurers…
There is an overlap between long covid and ME/CFS
Thank you for highlighting the devastation long covid has wrought on healthcare workers’ lives, including…
Long covid clinics offer a lifeline for this isolating disease
Waters’ report on doctors with long covid shows that it is a profoundly incapacitating disease….
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Covid inquiry: Government developed intervention package without scientists’ advice before second lockdown
The Eat Out to Help Out scheme, the “rule of six,” and the local tier…
Maternal Covid-19 vaccination offers infants immunity for up to 6 months
The risks of severe neonatal morbidity, neonatal death, and admission to the neonatal intensive care…
Researchers try to tease out possible ties between long Covid and menopause
When she stopped getting her period in March 2022, Daryn Schwartz wasn’t especially concerned. At…
Covid-19: Up to 2% of hospital patients acquired infection after being admitted
Between 95 000 and 167 000 patients are estimated to have caught covid-19 in England’s…
Opinion: Listen: Why long Covid might predate the pandemic
Since the early days of the pandemic, long Covid has haunted us: Even a mild…
Long covid: Researchers “extremely angry” at Boris Johnson’s “bollocks” comment
Clinicians who led research on long covid from early on in the pandemic and who…
Serotonin levels are depleted in long Covid patients, study says, pointing to a potential cause for ‘brain fog’
If you’ve been following the mystery of long Covid since it emerged in 2020, you’ll…
Covid-19: Confusion around vaccination during pregnancy likely to have contributed to deaths of 27 women in the UK
Pregnant women are being urged to get the covid vaccine after an expert group found…
STAT+: HHS dispatches millions to next-generation Covid targets, including intranasal vaccine
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Friday that it is investing in three potential vaccines…
Opinion: Yes, everyone should get an updated Covid-19 vaccine
Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that everyone in the U.S….
Covid-19 inquiry: Ministers abandoned public health principles during pandemic, says BMA chief
The UK government “lost control” of the covid pandemic in its early stages through poor…
FDA authorizes Novavax’s updated Covid-19 vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized Novavax’s updated Covid-19 vaccine, giving Americans seeking…
STAT+: Nobel Prize, in a rarity, celebrates a fruitful and durable partnership
The most noteworthy aspect of awarding the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology to two…
Covid-19: Vaccine hesitancy and access affect uptake of new boosters
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has encouraged all Americans aged 6…
Flu, Covid vaccination rates decline, as U.S. health officials make new push for inoculations
Vaccination rates against flu and Covid-19 have declined since earlier in the pandemic and a…
STAT+: U.S. government’s next-gen Covid effort gives small biotech up to $433 million
The U.S. government’s “Project Nextgen,” its effort to accelerate and streamline the rapid development of…
Opinion: Paxlovid is not fully accessible to those who need it most: the immunocompromised
The pandemic is over for most of the world. But for the 2.7% of adults…
Rollout of Covid vaccines is bumpy, but not unexpected, experts say
The latest rollout of Covid-19 vaccines has been messy, with people facing more challenges getting…
Senate HELP on collision course
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Legally blocked: the right to health
Are covid and long covid occupational diseases? The testimonies of health professionals who work long…
Free Covid tests will be offered again to all U.S. households
The federal government is again offering free Covid-19 tests to Americans, providing a fifth round…
Does the risk of getting long Covid increase each time you get reinfected?
More than three years into the coronavirus pandemic, fewer and fewer people are experiencing their…
Covid-19: Florida governor tells under 65s to shun boosters against national guidance
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has recommended that the state’s residents under 65 shun the new…
Covid-19: Drug companies charged South Africa high prices for vaccines, contracts reveal
South Africa’s government, desperate to secure covid vaccines when wealthy nations had reserved most of…
Listen: Covid’s latest surge, Alnylam at the FDA, & the end of an era
What does Covid-19 have in store for the winter? When are good data not good…
Opinion: Long Covid is a new name for an old syndrome
Long Covid goes by many names. Today, it is no longer a new public health enigma,…
New Covid vaccine is recommended by CDC for everyone 6 months or older
A panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 13-1 Tuesday…
FDA approves updated Covid-19 vaccines
The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it had greenlit two updated Covid-19 booster shots…
Amid another rise in cases, Covid’s new normal has set in
Among people who are still paying attention to Covid-19, there’s been a recent surge —…
How a supplement company became a haven for health misinformation
On a Friday afternoon in July, as many New Yorkers fled the scorching city streets,…
Three lessons from Covid that could help global leaders prevent the next pandemic
Everyone has things that, looking back, they would have done differently in the early days…
Vaccine experts urge more inclusivity in clinical trials
The recently approved RSV vaccines have been celebrated as key public health tools, but some…
How a ‘weighted lottery’ helped underserved patients get a scarce Covid drug
In the midst of the Covid-19 surge during the winter of 2021, the Pittsburgh-based UPMC…
Covid-19 and flu boosters to start earlier than planned, with extra funding for GPs
The government has reversed its decision to delay England’s covid and influenza vaccination campaigns for…
Opinion: It’s long past time for a more comprehensive Covid treatment approach
Because Covid cases and hospitalizations are no longer front-page news, many Americans might be surprised…
Covid-19: Families sue former health secretary over care home and hospital deaths
Families whose relatives died in care homes and hospitals in the early weeks of the…
U.S. health officials lay out plans to cope with respiratory virus season
With last fall’s chaotic early start to the respiratory virus season still fresh in the…
Covid-19: Scientists sound alarm over new BA.2.86 “Pirola” variant
A new SARS-CoV-2 subvariant with a high number of mutations that could help it neutralise…
New study suggests people who tested negative for Covid-19 can still develop long Covid
Of the 103 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the U.S., an estimated one-third have…
CDC says it’s too soon to assess risk posed by new Covid subvariant
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it’s too early to tell whether…
How do UK broadcast media deal with covid misinformation?
Covid-19 may no longer lead the UK media’s news agenda, but concern about covid misinformation…
Covid and flu boosters to start in October to “maximise” protection, says NHS England
England’s autumn covid and influenza vaccination campaigns for adults will start in October this year,…
Long term risk of death and readmission after hospital admission with covid-19 among older adults: retrospective cohort study
AbstractObjectivesTo characterize the long term risk of death and hospital readmission after an index admission…
Covid-19: Hospital admissions rise in England amid fears of new variant and waning immunity
The number of hospital admissions for covid-19 is rising across England, latest figures show. Experts…