Let PCPs Guide Post-COVID Care, CDC Staff Urges
When it comes to diagnosing post-COVID conditions (or so-called long COVID), Michael Saag, MD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, referred to the first line of an old Buffalo Springfield song in a call with clinicians on Thursday. “There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear,” Saag said. CDC, which hosted the […]
How To Manage Fear Around COVID While Still Saying Safe
Since the start of the pandemic, the bulk of messaging about COVID has been extremely fear-based. We’ve read scary headline after scary headline as we have kept tabs on record-high case counts, death rates and hospitalization rates. We have consumed stories of people’s life-threatening battles with COVID and long COVID. As a result, many of […]
COVID Vaccine Won’t Affect Fertility, But Getting COVID Might – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Coronavirus News MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 One less excuse to avoid that COVID vaccine: The shots don’t affect fertility in either men or women, new research shows, but coronavirus infection could cause short-term fertility problems in men. “Many reproductive-aged individuals have cited concerns about fertility as a reason for remaining unvaccinated,” said lead study […]
I Can’t Self-Care My Way Into Feeling Better Anymore
As we barrel toward the two-year anniversary of COVID, I find myself feeling more and more lost. Each day I cycle through rage and apathy. More bad news about variants. More bad news about breakthrough cases. More bad news about long COVID. More bad news about hope for returning to “normal.” Then I go to […]
‘It’s So Much Worse This Time,’ Exhausted ICU Nurse Says Of Current COVID-19 Surge
Working frantically to help COVID patients in 2020 was hellish, declared a registered nurse in Nashville, Tennessee, who started work just last year. But it’s nothing compared to now. “For months, as a nurse intern, I’d watched the battle-weary nurses emerge from COVID rooms, taking off their PPE like warriors stripping off armor, their faces […]
Fauci: ‘Dramatic Data’ From Israel Support COVID-19 Boosters
WASHINGTON — COVID booster shots are showing good efficacy in Israel, Anthony Fauci, MD, chief medical advisor to President Biden, said Thursday at a briefing held by the White House COVID-19 Response Team. Researchers have found that, even with the country’s very high vaccination rate, “we see new PCR-positive infections and new severe COVID cases […]
Double vaccination halves risk of long COVID, study finds
Adults who have received a double vaccination are 49% less likely to have Long COVID should they contract a COVID-19 infection, a new study finds. Researchers at King’s College London analysed data from participants logging their symptoms, tests and vaccines on the UK ZOE COVID Symptom Study app between 8th December 2020 and 4 July […]
‘All the Beds Are Taken’; COVID Baby Airlifted in Texas; Zeke Emanuel as FDA Chief?
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. “All the beds are taken up by COVID victims also getting ECMO,” said Floridian Susan Walker, who is anxiously searching for a hospital where her unvaccinated husband can receive the extracorporeal life support for his severe COVID-19. (CNN) As cases soar and ICU beds fill in […]
‘Breakthroughs’ in Highly Vaxxed Bay Area Spur Interest in Boosters
As breakthrough COVID infections among staff at Bay Area hospitals garner attention as the latest Cape Cod-like cluster, one of these facilities has started offering booster shots for some. Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG), a public hospital that is part of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, said it will accommodate special requests […]
Long COVID May Qualify as a Disability: Biden
Latest Coronavirus News TUESDAY, July 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) Serious “long COVID” symptoms could qualify as a disability and make patients eligible for federal assistance, President Joe Biden said Monday. Some recovered COVID-19 patients have lasting problems such as fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, fever and double vision, which “can sometimes rise to […]