Study spotlights disparities in COVID-19 clinical trials | CIDRAP

A study yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine shows women and racial minorities were underrepresented in both COVID-19 clinical treatment trials and in disease prevention trials.

The research was conducted by a team from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, as well researchers from Beijing and London.

Emerging from the COVID pandemic, again For much of the world, 2022 marked the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Michele Gershberg Reuters

..Global health officials cautioned the public against letting its guard down, while acknowledging a change in outlook nearly three years after the virus was first detected. The World Health Organization (WHO) has yet to declare an end to the COVID public health emergency introduced in January 2020.

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China eases anti-COVID measures following protests BEIJING (AP) — China rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places Wednesday in a dramatic change to a strategy that confined millions of people to their homes and sparked protests and demands for President Xi Jinping to resign . AP NEWS

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