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As COVID cases surge in Europe, US defunds pandemic response
Mar 21, 2022 15:48The White House has recently announced that it will be scaling back public health measures to fight the COVID-19 virus despite surging infections rates elsewhere in the world and critics who say that it is much too premature to act as though the pandemic is over.
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US sewer data and surges abroad should remind us the pandemic isn’t over
Mar 19, 2022 05:59The method of testing wastewater to detect virus levels within a whole population has been around since the days of polio, but it took a March 2020 outbreak of COVID-19 in Austria to turn the technique into a mainstay in the pandemic fight.
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Test to Treat: Pharmacists say Biden’s major new COVID initiative won’t work
Mar 18, 2022 05:15US administration's program to facilitate access to antivirals will have a limited impact because American pharmacists are restricted from prescribing the pills.
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COVID restrictions are lifting — What scientists think
Mar 11, 2022 16:21Many countries have started relaxing rules and scaling back testing. Researchers are divided over whether this return to normality is too fast, too soon.
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Florida vaccine plan for children denounced as ‘irresponsible and reckless’
Mar 10, 2022 12:22In a pronouncement which stunned experts on Monday Feb. 07, Florida’s controversial Surgeon General Dr Joseph Ladapo said the state would be the first to “recommend against” COVID-19 vaccination for “healthy children”.
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Study shows COVID-19 infection linked to brain shrinkage, cognitive decline
Mar 10, 2022 12:16A new study published in the journal Nature shows an association between brain size and structure among those infected by the COVID-19 virus.
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COVID-19: How Omicron overtook Delta in three charts
Mar 08, 2022 05:03Analysis reveals how much faster Omicron spreads and evades the immune system compared with the previous variant.
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Will we get a single, variant-proof vaccine for COVID?
Mar 01, 2022 12:56At the moment we have no pan-variant vaccine for any endemic virus. Researchers have long dreamed of a universal vaccine that would make flu epidemics less lethal, and there are now promising signs that it could be possible. The design principle for a universal COVID vaccine would follow similar lines.
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Critics blast Biden rebrand of Trump’s Medicare privatization scheme
Feb 28, 2022 12:26Rejecting pressure to terminate the program in its entirety, the Biden administration has recently announced it is redesigning a Trump-era experiment that physicians and progressive lawmakers have criticized as a scheme to fully privatize Medicare.
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US National Guard troops to be deployed in DC as trucker convoy protests loom
Feb 24, 2022 04:58US protest to follow Canadian truckers’ demonstration against pandemic restrictions.