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White House ends COVID vaccine requirement for federal workers and air travel

Tue, 2023-05-09 17:37 — mike kraft

Biden drops COVID-19 vaccine requirement for federal workers, air travel - UPI.com The White House on Tuesday announced it is ending its COVID-19 vaccination requirements for federal workers and air travel starting Friday. UPI

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Opinion: The Covid-19 emergency is ending. It’s time for the patient to leave the hospital

Tue, 2023-05-09 10:06 — mike kraft

Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The Covid-19 emergency is ending. It's time for the patient to leave the hospital | CNN After more than three very long years, it's finally happening: The Covid-19 pandemic is ending, at least in the formal sense, both in this country and abroad. This moment is not being marked with parades or big parties but rather with the flourishes of two administrative pens. On Friday, the World Health Organization announced that Covid-19 no longer constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, and this Thursday, the United States is set to end its own public health emergency declaration. Dr.

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Recap: What goes away when the U.S. Covid health emergency ends this week

Tue, 2023-05-09 09:57 — mike kraft

What goes away when the Covid health emergency ends this week The state of emergency is over and that will affect everything from from free vaccines and tests to food assistance programs. POLITICO

The Covid-19 public health emergency ends Thursday and with it a host of pandemic-era rules and waivers that many Americans have come to take for granted.

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Paxlovid slashed risk of COVID hospital stay in unvaccinated patients -- Canadian study

Mon, 2023-05-08 17:12 — mike kraft

Paxlovid slashed risk of COVID hospital stay in some patients amid Omicron, study suggests CIDRAP

The antiviral drug Paxlovid was tied to a 96% lower relative risk (RR) of COVID-19 hospitalization among high-risk outpatients who didn't complete a primary vaccination series but didn't benefit those who had received at least two doses amid the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, according to a real-world study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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Analysis: Record breaking heat in Spain, North Africa impossible without climate change

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:56 — mike kraft

Spain's April heat nearly impossible without climate change Record-breaking April temperatures in Spain, Portugal and northern Africa were made 100 times more likely by human-caused climate change, a new flash study found, and would have been almost impossible in the past. A group of international scientists did a rapid computer and statistical analysis of a late April heat wave that stretched across the Iberian peninsula into Algeria and Morocco. The peaks of the heat wave varied from 36.9 degrees Celsius (98.4 degrees Fahrenheit) to 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees Fahrenheit) degrees in the four countries.

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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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Mpox cases rise in Africa, new infections reported in Europe

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:18 — mike kraft

Mpox cases rise 7% in Africa as Europe reports 17 new infections Africa has had a 7.4% case increase, with 111 new infections in the most recent 2 weeks. CIDRAP

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The meaning of WHO saying the COVID emergency ahs ended

Fri, 2023-05-05 18:18 — mike kraft

WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean? The World Health Organization says COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency but the coronavirus is here to stay. The action Friday by the United Nations agency doesn’t mean much for the average person. The classification is meant to warn countries that there’s an “extraordinary” event that could pose a health threat and requires a coordinated response. Health officials say the virus isn’t going anywhere and advise people to get vaccinated, including getting booster doses if they qualify. WHO has previously declared global emergencies for outbreaks of swine flu, Zika, Ebola, polio and mpox, formerly called monkeypox.

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CDC Director Walensky resigns; Biden still searching for new pandemic czar

Fri, 2023-05-05 13:01 — mike kraft

CDC's Rochelle Walensky resigns, citing pandemic transition The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resigning. Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic is a good time to make a transition. She sent a resignation letter to President Joe Biden and announced the decision at a CDC staff meeting Friday. Her last day will be June 30. Walensky was previously an infectious-diseases specialist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Thousands of COVID tests recalled over bacteria risk and should be discarded, FDA warns

Fri, 2023-05-05 12:02 — mike kraft

Thousands of COVID tests recalled over bacteria risk, FDA warns 500,000 "Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests" distributed to CVS and 16,000 distributed to Amazon should be thrown out. Yahoo Finance

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