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COVID’s back: Here’s what to know this fall and winter
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As colder weather sets in, COVID rates are once more rising across the Northern Hemisphere, with several new variants on the scene. Here's what you need to know. COVID versus seasonal nasties? The COVID pandemic extracted a terrible toll, with nearly seven million deaths worldwide. But thanks to vaccines, prior immunity
COVID’s Heart Damage; Watchdog Halts Psych Trials; Double-Check That Soft-Serve
Infectious Disease > COVID-19 — Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by MedPage Today staff by Charles Bankhead, Senior Editor, MedPage Today August 11, 2023 Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Clinicians continue to struggle to understand and manage COVID-related heart damage. (AP) The suicide rate in the U.S.
COVID’s spread within hospitals hit all-time high amid omicron wave
Surge — Hospital risk was still relatively low, but surge speaks to omicron's transmissibility. Beth Mole - Feb 22, 2022 11:15 pm UTC Enlarge / A health care worker treats a patient inside a negative-pressure room in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Missouri, on Tuesday, August 3, 2021.Spread of…
The 5 phases of COVID’s endgame
Long before COVID-19, there was the Babylon flu epidemic in 1200 B.C.E. Then came the Plague of Athens in 429 B.C.E, the Justinian Plague in 541 C.E., and the Bubonic Plague in the mid-14th century, which scored the highest death toll in human history. Then, in the 1910s, the ill-named Spanish flu pandemic hammered the…
In COVID’s shadow, HIV on march in Eastern Europe
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a Bucharest back street, drug addicts rush towards an ambulance handing out free syringes. While the eyes of the world focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, the fight against HIV has slowed down in Eastern Europe. Three times a week, Alina Schiau and colleagues from the Romanian anti-AIDS Association (ARAS) go…
COVID’s Assault on the Moral Fiber of Medicine
COVID-19's fourth surge is testing the moral fiber of American medicine. The virus has infected more than 42 million Americans and claimed more than 675,000 lives in less than 2 years. Now the Delta variant is forcing us to once again face an onslaught of critically ill patients while at the same time delaying routine…