Rising COVID hospitalizations, new variants have Americans on edge
A new COVID-19 surge is underway, with seasonal changes and new variants fueling an increase in hospitalizations and deaths.
Aug 29, 2023
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Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services: News and Research on Vaccination
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'You just emotionally break': understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities
A new health humanities essay from the University of Missouri highlights how the narrative of many news stories detailing the challenges of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic often emphasized individual experiences. ...
Aug 25, 2023
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With COVID now endemic, modeling suggests targeted protection will be more effective than blanket measures
Interventions designed to limit the spread of COVID have been rolled back around the world. In New Zealand, the government removed all remaining public health measures last week.
Aug 24, 2023
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Study finds severe COVID-19 twice as common among bus drivers
Bus drivers were at double the risk of being hospitalized for severe COVID-19 in the later stages of the pandemic, and several occupations in education and health care were also at risk of serious illness. This has been shown ...
Aug 23, 2023
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High levels of exposure to COVID-19 virus may reduce protection provided by vaccination and prior infection
High levels of exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19 may reduce or overcome the protection that vaccination and prior infection provides, according to a new study by researchers from Yale University, the University of ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Study finds that remoteness did little to reduce COVID-19 spread to Amazonian Tsimané
Indigenous peoples suffered disproportionately from the COVID-19 pandemic, experiencing a lack of sovereignty, limited infrastructure and discrimination in local health care systems that make them particularly vulnerable ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Polio detection times could be halved using a scientific detection method, new research shows
A new study, "Sensitive poliovirus detection using nested PCR and nanopore sequencing: a prospective validation study," published 17 August 2023 in Nature Microbiology, proves that using DDNS to detect polio outbreaks can ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Sea of pro-vax tweets drown out anti-vax memes, new study shows
Pro-vaccination tweets outnumbered anti-vax sentiment almost four to one, in new research that canvassed a whopping 75 million COVID-19 comments on Twitter at the height of the global pandemic.
Aug 9, 2023
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Influenza shows no seasonality in tropics, posing challenges for health care
In temperate climates, like North America and Europe, flu season starts in the fall, peaks in the winter and ends in the spring. While public health officials have generally assumed that influenza is also seasonal in tropical ...
Aug 4, 2023
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Targeting mpox messages to at-risk groups could result in stigma, study finds
Emphasizing that men who have sex with men (MSM) are most at risk for the virus mpox has the negative effect of increasing support for restricting LGBTQ+ events, according to a new study by UAlbany Associate Professor Ashley ...
Aug 1, 2023
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