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Immune cells—not antibodies—cause rare cases of COVID vaccine-linked myocarditis --study

Mon, 2023-05-08 17:40 — mike kraft

Study: Immune cells—not antibodies—cause COVID vaccine-linked myocarditis The rare cases of myocarditis among recipients of mRNA vaccines are caused by a generalized immune-cell and inflammatory response, researchers say. CIDRAP

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Anxiety, depression may play a role in long COVID, including physical issues

Mon, 2023-05-08 17:30 — mike kraft

Anxiety, depression may play a role in long COVID - UPI.com In trying to untangle the mysteries of long COVID, researchers have found anxiety and depression may play a role for some of those with the lingering condition. UPI

In the study from researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), patients who perceived that they had thinking difficulties during COVID-19 infection were also more likely to have lingering physical symptoms than those who did not report thinking issues.

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Analysis: Research into treating long COVID is stuck

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:42 — mike kraft

Long COVID Treatment Research Is Stuck in a Frustrating Catch-22 Patients are feeling abandoned, for good reason. Liz Highleyman Slate Magazine

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Florida's controversial Surgeon General confirmed for 2nd term

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:33 — mike kraft

Anti-vaccine Florida surgeon general confirmed for second term. Concerns about what’s next “Vaccines are one of the greatest achievements in history, so what happens when their value is undermined by an expert?” said Richard Carpiano, a public health scientist at the University of California-Riverside who has studied the anti-vaccination movement. Miami Herald

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Does the end of Covid emergency declarations mean the pandemic is over?

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:12 — mike kraft

Does the end of Covid emergency declarations mean the pandemic is over? What is clear is that Covid isn’t going anywhere, though the damage it is doing to the human species is declining. Helen Branswell STAT

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There are no fixed borders between a pandemic, when a pathogen is new to humans and causing wide scale disease and often high levels of death, and the ensuing endemic phase, when the disease has settled into something that our immune systems can better cope with, explained Marc Lipsitch, an infectious diseases epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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