Survivors’ Plasma Helps Blood Cancer Patients Battle COVID-19
Latest Coronavirus News FRIDAY, June 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) Giving COVID-19 survivors’ blood plasma to blood cancer patients hospitalized with COVID-19 significantly improves their chances of survival, a new study finds. “These results suggest that convalescent plasma may not only help COVID-19 patients with blood cancers whose immune systems are compromised, it may […]
U.S. to Spend $3.2 Billion to Help Develop Antiviral Pills for COVID
Latest Coronavirus News By Ernie Mundell and Robin Foster HealthDay Reporters FRIDAY, June 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) After spending billions to speed the creation of COVID-19 vaccines, the United States said Thursday that it will now devote $3.2 billion to the development of antiviral pills that could stop the new coronavirus before it […]
Final State Emergencies Winding Down 3 Years Into COVID Pandemic
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s coronavirus emergency officially ends Tuesday, nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order and just days after the state reached the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths related to the virus. As California’s emergency winds down, such declarations continue in just five other states — […]
WHO: COVID Still An Emergency But Nearing ‘Inflection’ Point
GENEVA (AP) — The coronavirus remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Monday, after a key advisory panel found the pandemic may be nearing an “inflexion point” where higher levels of immunity can lower virus-related deaths. Speaking at the opening of WHO’s annual executive board meeting, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus […]
What Is COVID Variant XBB?
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House Subcommittee Report Details Pandemic Failures, Lessons Learned
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis discussed their final report highlighting the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, ranging from the need to invest in next-generation vaccines to the importance of tackling misinformation, during a hearing Wednesday. The report, the culmination of 42 hearings and member briefings, 37 analyses, and testimony from dozens […]
More Than 3,500 Deaths In U.S. Have Been Linked To Long-COVID: CDC
Long-COVID has been linked to more than 3,500 deaths in the U.S. since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). An analysis of death certificates between January 2020 and the end of June 2022 found long-COVID listed as either an underlying or […]
WHO Director-General Says COVID Remains Emergency, Could Still Surprise Us
The director-general of the World Health Organization on Wednesday said the coronavirus pandemic “remains a public health emergency of international concern.” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the WHO’s Emergency Committee on COVID-19 came to that conclusion during a meeting last week, and he shares that view. The committee also called on countries to make testing, […]
Ivermectin, Luvox Fail as COVID-19 Treatment
Latest Coronavirus News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Aug. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) Two drugs touted as potential COVID-19 treatments, ivermectin and fluvoxamine, don’t do a thing to improve patients’ oxygen levels and keep them out of the hospital or the morgue, a new clinical trial has shown. Neither of the two repurposed drugs […]
First Lady Jill Biden Has COVID-19
Latest Coronavirus News TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) First Lady Jill Biden has COVID-19 and is experiencing “mild symptoms,” according to her staff. “After testing negative for COVID-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening,” Biden’s communications director Elizabeth Alexander said in […]