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Reference Site: Global Compendium of Knowledge on COVID-19

Fri, 2023-04-21 11:15 — mike kraft
Global Compendium of Knowledge on COVID-19 The Compendium stores over 140 documents and has recorded over 300 visits to the most popular ones. The Compendium is maintained and expanded to reflect the most relevant experiences and learnings from COVID-19 vaccination.
The Global Compendium of Country Knowledge on COVID-19 vaccination is now available on TechNet21.  ...
 
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    COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic - SARSCoV2

    Fri, 2020-01-03 20:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    An expanding list of information resources on the COVID-19 Pandemic.  A link to Resources, Information, FAQs and Research on this pandemic will be provided (in red - here), and at the bottom of this post  . . .

    CLICK HERE - Map and Dashboard - Coronavirus COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University

    CLICK HERE - Map and Dashboard - COVID-19 Tracker - Microsoft / Bing

    CLICK HERE - WHO - Map and Dashboard - Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation

    CLICK HERE - Map and Dashboard - COVID-19 tracker - The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

    CLICK HERE - ESRI - Impact Planning for COVID-19 - Select your State and County 

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    WHO COVID-19 update outlines decreases in new cases and deaths

    Mon, 2024-04-15 10:23 — mike kraft
    COVID-19 epidemiological update – 12 April 2024 SARS-CoV-2 PCR percent positivity, as detected in integrated sentinel surveillance as part of the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) and reported to FluNet was around 8.0% from 69 countries during the week ending 31 March 2024. Globally, JN.1 was the most reported variant of interest (VOI, now reported by 121 countries), accounting for 95.1.8% of sequences in week 13 compared to 93.0% in week 10. Its parent lineage, BA.2.86, has been declining and accounted for 1.6% of sequences in week 13 compared to 3.0% in week 10.
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    US respiratory virus activity declines, with few hot spots except North Dakota --CDC

    Fri, 2024-04-12 17:53 — mike kraft
    US respiratory virus activity declines, with few hot spots reported Outpatient visits for flulike illness is below the national baseline for the first time since October. CIDRAP

    Activity from the three main respiratory viruses continues to decline in the United States, with one of the main flu markers—outpatient visits for flulike illness—now below the national baseline for the first time since October, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its latest updates for flu, COVID, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

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    Florida COVID-19 death count spikes

    Fri, 2024-04-12 10:59 — mike kraft
    COVID-19 death count spikes across Florida in 2024 The number of COVID-19 cases is low in Florida compared to previous years, but the virus hasn't disappeared. Paola Tristan Arruda WESH

     

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    Minority healthcare workers experienced COVID testing delays in first 2 years of pandemic --study

    Fri, 2024-04-12 10:35 — mike kraft
    Minority healthcare workers experienced COVID testing delays in first 2 years of pandemic Black and non-Hispanic healthcare professionals (HCPs) of other races and those without graduate degrees were more likely than their White peers and clinical HCPs with graduate degrees to experience delayed COVID-19 testing in the first 2 years of the pandemic, finds a multicenter, test-negative case-control study. CIDRAP

     

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    Covid vaccines not linked to fatal heart problems in young people --CDC study

    Thu, 2024-04-11 18:45 — mike kraft
    Covid vaccines aren't linked to sudden death in young people, a new CDC report finds. The new report debunks widespread misinformation that the mRNA shots were connected to sudden cardiac death in young athletes. NBC News

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    the analysis shows that the risk of sudden death in young adults after being vaccinated is significantly lower than the risk of sudden cardiac death from all causes — about 1 in 500,000 per year, compared to 1 in 100,000 per year, according to his estimates.

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    Heat waves are a cause of more illness and death in U.S. cities with fewer trees

    Thu, 2024-04-11 09:43 — mike kraft
    Heat waves cause more illness and death in U.S. cities with fewer trees There are usually fewer trees in neighborhoods with higher populations of people of color. Planting trees could save hundreds of lives every year. ashley Science News
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    What worries scientists about bird flu's spread among cattle

    Thu, 2024-04-11 09:38 — mike kraft
    Here's what worries scientists about bird flu's spread among cattle Avian influenza is still spreading among dairy cattle. Scientists are paying close attention to how the virus is changing and what that means for its pandemic potential. NPR

    The unlikely spread among cattle and one dairy worker has scientists looking through the data to better understand this spillover. They say the risk to humans hinges on whether the virus can evolve in key ways to better infect mammals.

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    Long Covid: three new studies outline long-term burden in adults

    Wed, 2024-04-10 19:41 — mike kraft
    Three studies spotlight long-term burden of COVID in US adults Three new studies shed new light on long COVID in the United States, with one finding that two thirds of severely ill patients reported persistent impairments for up to 1 year, another showing that US veterans were at three times the risk of preventable hospitalization in the month after infection, and the last revealing that one third of COVID-19 survivors had lingering symptoms at one time. CIDRAP

     

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