Coronavirus

As COVID cases surge in Europe, US defunds pandemic response

Mar 21, 2022 15:48

The 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.
US sewer data and surges abroad should remind us the pandemic isn’t over

Mar 19, 2022 05:59

The 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.
Test to Treat: Pharmacists say Biden’s major new COVID initiative won’t work

Mar 18, 2022 05:15

US administration's program to facilitate access to antivirals will have a limited impact because American pharmacists are restricted from prescribing the pills.
COVID restrictions are lifting — What scientists think

Mar 11, 2022 16:21

Many countries have started relaxing rules and scaling back testing. Researchers are divided over whether this return to normality is too fast, too soon.
Florida vaccine plan for children denounced as ‘irresponsible and reckless’

Mar 10, 2022 12:22

In 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”.
Study shows COVID-19 infection linked to brain shrinkage, cognitive decline

Mar 10, 2022 12:16

A new study published in the journal Nature shows an association between brain size and structure among those infected by the COVID-19 virus.
COVID-19: How Omicron overtook Delta in three charts

Mar 08, 2022 05:03

Analysis reveals how much faster Omicron spreads and evades the immune system compared with the previous variant.
Will we get a single, variant-proof vaccine for COVID?

Mar 01, 2022 12:56

At 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.
Critics blast Biden rebrand of Trump’s Medicare privatization scheme

Feb 28, 2022 12:26

Rejecting 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.
US National Guard troops to be deployed in DC as trucker convoy protests loom

Feb 24, 2022 04:58

US protest to follow Canadian truckers’ demonstration against pandemic restrictions.