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... the EU drug regulator said the two messenger RNA boosters offered protection both against the original version of COVID-19 and the omicron subvariant BA.1, which has since been overtaken globally by later omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. Nearly 80% of coronavirus cases worldwide are now being caused by omicron BA.5, according to the World Health Organization.

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School Kids, Tests and Long COVID Reassurance--Scientific American Podcast transcript

Thu, 2022-09-01 10:48 — mike kraft

Back-to-School Special: Kids, Tests and Long COVID Reassurance This is our back-to-school special episode. We’ll talk about why COVID testing is about to become a school problem—and about whether or not kids have risk for long COVID. Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Tulika Bose Scientific American

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COVID cases jump in U.S. Colleges, Chicago public schools, as classes resume

Thu, 2022-09-01 10:33 — mike kraft

Covid Cases Jump by a Third as College Students Return to Classes, Study Finds College campus re-openings in the US led to local increases in Covid-19 cases of more than a third, according to a study that highlights the importance of vaccination as fall classes approach. Sri Taylor Bloomberg.com

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Analysis: Where the U.S. stands as it heads into a third COVID autumn

Thu, 2022-09-01 08:45 — mike kraft

A third Covid autumn is upon us. Here’s a look at where we stand Where things stand now with the pandemic, and who is being hurt the most, as the country prepares to enter its third Covid autumn. J. Emory Parker STAT

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White House to encourage COVID boosters, flu shot this fall

Thu, 2022-09-01 08:37 — mike kraft

White House to encourage COVID boosters, flu shot this fall WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot. That’s at the heart of its campaign to sell the newly authorized shot to an American public that has widely rejected COVID-19 boosters since they first became available last fall. AP NEWS

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New COVID cases, deaths keep falling nearly everywhere --WHO

Thu, 2022-09-01 08:25 — mike kraft

WHO: New COVID cases, deaths keep falling nearly everywhere GENEVA (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally continued to fall nearly everywhere in the world in what the World Health Organization described as a “welcome decline” at a media briefing on Wednesday. AP NEWS

... WHO said COVID-19 infections dropped everywhere in the world while deaths decreased everywhere except for Southeast Asia, where they climbed by 15% and in the Western Pacific, where they rose by 3%.

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