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Doctors are trying to understand why Covid Patients Coming Off Ventilators Can Take Weeks to Regain Consciousness

Mon, 2022-11-07 18:45 — mike kraft

In March 2020, New York City’s hospitals filled up with patients desperately ill with Covid-19. In many cases, when their fluid-filled lungs could no longer give them oxygen, doctors sedated them and put them on ventilators.

The patients who recovered were taken off the machines and anesthesia. Within a day or so, their doctors expected them to wake up.

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Paxlovid reduces risk of long Covid -USG study

Mon, 2022-11-07 10:23 — mike kraft

Paxlovid reduces risk of long Covid, Veterans Affairs study finds | CNN Paxlovid, the antiviral pill that reduces the risk of hospitalization and death from Covid-19, also reduces the risk of long Covid, according to a new study by researchers at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Jamie Gumbrecht CNN

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China doubles down on zero-Covid pledge despite public frustration, change comes in small increments

Mon, 2022-11-07 09:39 — mike kraft

What exit? China doubles down on zero-Covid pledge despite public frustration China has reiterated its unswerving commitment to its longstanding zero-Covid policy, despite mounting public frustration the stringent measures are costing the very lives they're intended to protect. By Nectar Gan, CNN CNN

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The unrelenting campaign has kept infections and deaths low at great economic and social cost, as new fast-spreading variants make containing the virus near impossible....

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Data on Covid vaccines delivered under COVAX sharing scheme for poorer countries

Fri, 2022-11-04 10:19 — mike kraft

Factbox: Vaccines delivered under COVAX sharing scheme for poorer countries The COVAX facility, backed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), has delivered 1.83 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to 146 countries, GAVI data shows. Reuters Reuters

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Vaccines: Pfizer, Biotech report booster shot effectiveness and trials on combined Covid and flu vaccine

Fri, 2022-11-04 09:40 — mike kraft

Pfizer, BioNTech say bivalent COVID-19 booster shot performs better against BA.5 omicron subvariant Pfizer and BioNTech said that updated data from a Phase 2-3 clinical trial shows the bivalent booster performed better against the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants. ABC News ABC News

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Regular exercise may improve the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines--study

Thu, 2022-11-03 13:43 — mike kraft

Regular exercise may improve the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines Exercisers who were vaccinated were about 25 percent less likely to be hospitalized with covid than sedentary people who got the same vaccine, a study finds. Gretchen Reynolds Washington Post

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Are the unvaccinated still a danger to the rest of us--a complex issue ?

Thu, 2022-11-03 12:09 — mike kraft

Are the unvaccinated still a danger to the rest of us? Americans who still aren't fully vaccinated against COVID-19 probably have some immunity from a past infection. They may not be so dangerous anymore. YahooNews

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China's zero-Covid policy explained, cases highest since August, zone closed aroung Iphone factory

Thu, 2022-11-03 11:48 — mike kraft

Factbox: What is China's zero-COVID policy and how does it work? Nearly three years into the pandemic, China is sticking with a strict COVID-19 containment policy that has caused mounting economic damage and widespread frustration, while keeping its borders shut for most international travel. Reuters Reuters

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Analysis: The Pandemic Uncovered Ways to Speed Up Science

Tue, 2022-11-01 17:44 — mike kraft

The Pandemic Uncovered Ways to Speed Up Science There doesn't have to be a trade-off between good research and fast research. Saloni Dattani WIRED

The pandemic highlighted broad problems in research: that many studies were hyped, error-ridden, or even fraudulent, and that misinformation could spread rapidly. But it also demonstrated what was possible.

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