US flying blind to potential COVID-19 resurgence as states scale back on testing, data reporting

A third of U.S. COVID now caused by Omicron BA.2 as overall cases fall

Could the Covid-19 vaccine become a yearly shot? Some experts think so

OPINION: UK Covid cost-cutting will put blinkers on the country's best Covid research

No country met air quality standards in 2021, new WHO report says

SHANGHAI — Not a single country managed to meet the World Health Organization’s air quality standard in 2021, a survey of pollution data in 6,475 cities showed on Tuesday, and smog even rebounded in some regions after a COVID-related dip.

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Seafood workers at higher risk for COVID-19--study

UNH Report: Seafood workers at higher risk for COVID-19

Workers in the seafood industry were twice as likely to contract COVID-19 than employees in other food industries, according to a new study from the University of Hampshire.

Tight working conditions on vessels, as well as in seafood processing factories, appears to have played a direct role.

“You have people working, just like in any food processing, in really close quarters, working side by side together, on these food lines,” said Easton White, assistant professor of biological sciences at UNH, who led the study.

White said fishers faced challenges using PPE while onboard vessels, where a wet environment made the use of masks less effective.

The report, published in the journal PeerJ, based its findings on media reports and documented outbreaks between April 2020 and July 2021. ...

 

 

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High Death Rate in Hong Kong Shows Importance of Vaccinating the Elderly

The first time the Omicron variant breached Hong Kong’s coronavirus defenses, in late 2021, the city stamped it out, cementing its status as one of the world’s most formidable redoubts of “zero Covid.”

But a few weeks later, Omicron came to the metropolis again, this time causing an outbreak among cleaners at a public-housing estate that spiraled out of control. The conflagration of resulting cases is now killing people at a rate exceeding that of almost any country since the coronavirus emerged.

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NY doesn’t expect ‘steep surge’ from variant--Health official

Scientists search for a test to measure immunity from Covid infections

CDC Latest Recommendations for People with COVID-19 and COVID-19 Close Contacts

Recommendations for People with COVID-19 and COVID-19 Close Contacts

Have you tested positive for COVID-19 or have mild symptoms and are waiting for test results?

 

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Most unvaccinated children lack antibodies after COVID; SK Bioscience vaccine shows promise vs Omicron -studies

New figures on Polarized U.S. Public Opinion About Public Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

FDA advisory panel schedules April 6 meeting to discuss additional COVID booster shots

Is There Any Way To Reduce the Risk Of Long COVID If You Get Sick?

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 ...given the nature of extremely contagious respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, infectious disease specialists say that most of us will, at some point, get infected. And as the reality of living with endemic COVID sets in, many of us have grown increasingly concerned about getting long COVID if and when that infection occurs.

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Cambridge study on long COVID patients indicates high percentage of brain fog and concentration problems

Long COVID study indicates “something concerning is happening”

Two new studies are reporting on an ongoing long COVID research project investigating the persistent effects of COVID-19 on cognition in the months after acute disease. The University of Cambridge-led research found many long COVID patients are experiencing significant and measurable memory or concentration impairments even after mild illness.

“Long COVID has received very little attention politically or medically,” said Lucy Cheke, senior author on the new studies. “It urgently needs to be taken more seriously, and cognitive issues are an important part of this. When politicians talk about ‘Living with COVID’ – that is, unmitigated infection, this is something they ignore.”

The new findings come from an ongoing project called The COVID and Cognition Study (COVCOG). The study recruited nearly 200 COVID-19 patients across late 2020/early 2021 and around the same amount of demographically matched uninfected controls. The goal was to “map the terrain” of cognition in post-acute COVID-19.

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