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UArizona part of statewide collaboration that compiled 100,000 sequenced COVID genomes
The Arizona COVID-19 Genomics Union, which includes UArizona, positions the state to play a role in the planned U.S. Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence.
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Centers for Disease Control and PreventionHealthScience and TechnologyCollege of ScienceCOVID-19ResearchA massive effort to track the COVID-19 pandemic in Arizona over the past two years has resulted in the genomic sequencing of more than 100,000 samples of the COVID-19 virus by the Arizona COVID-19 Genomics Union, or ACGU.The ACGU includes the Phoenix-based nonprofitTranslational Genomics Research Ins...
Source: The University of Arizona: Health - May 3, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: stolte Source Type: research
What Happens When the World ’s Most Popular COVID-19 Dashboard Can’t Get Data?
One Monday in late February 2020, Lauren Gardner was working frantically. The website she’d been managing around the clock for the last month—which tracked cases of an emerging respiratory disease called COVID-19, and presented the spread in maps and charts—was, all of a sudden, getting inundated with visitors and kept crashing.
As Gardner, an associate professor of engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), struggled to get the site online again, an official in the Trump Administration falsely claimed on Twitter that JHU had deliberately censored the information.
“Seems like bad timing to sto...
Source: TIME: Health - September 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Barone Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Fake COVID-19 Vaccination Cards Worry College Officials
(SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.) — As the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps across the United States, a growing number of colleges and universities are requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for students to attend in-person classes. But the mandatory requirement has opened the door for those opposed to getting the vaccine to cheat the system, according to interviews with students, education and law enforcement officials.
Both faculty and students at dozens of schools interviewed by The Associated Press say they are concerned about how easy it is to get fake vaccine cards.
Across the internet, a cottage industry has s...
Source: TIME: Health - August 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roselyn Romero/AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 wire Source Type: news
Participation in Fraternity and Sorority Activities and the Spread of COVID-19 Among Residential University Communities - Arkansas, August 21-September 5, 2020.
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Preventing transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in colleges and universities requires mitigation strategies that address on- and off-campus congregate living settings as well as extracurricular activities and other social gatherings (1-4). At the start of the academic year, sorority and fraternity organizations host a series of recruitment activities known as rush week; rush week culminates with bid day, when selections are announced. At university A in Arkansas, sorority rush week (for women) was held during August 17-22, 2020, and consisted of on- and of...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - January 8, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Vang KE, Krow-Lucal ER, James AE, Cima MJ, Kothari A, Zohoori N, Porter A, Campbell EM Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 24th 2020
We report that electrical stimulation (ES) stimulation of post-stroke aged rats led to an improved functional recovery of spatial long-term memory (T-maze), but not on the rotating pole or the inclined plane, both tests requiring complex sensorimotor skills. Surprisingly, ES had a detrimental effect on the asymmetric sensorimotor deficit.
Histologically, there was a robust increase in the number of doublecortin-positive cells in the dentate gyrus and SVZ of the infarcted hemisphere and the presence of a considerable number of neurons expressing tubulin beta III in the infarcted area. Among the genes that were unique...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 23, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Aging Research Should be Far More of a Priority than is Presently the Case
For our species, aging is by far the greatest single cause of suffering and death. It is presently inevitable, affects everyone, and produces a drawn out decline of pain and disability, leading to a horrible death through progressive organ failure of one sort or another. The integrity of the mind is consumed along with the vitality of the body. Aging is the cause of death of 90% or more of the people who live in wealthier regions of the world, and the majority of those even in the poorest regions. More than 100,000 lives every day are lost to aging, and hundreds of millions more are suffering on their way to that fate.
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Source: Fight Aging! - August 21, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
‘It’s The Hunger Games for Laboratories.’ Why Some People Are Waiting Weeks for Their COVID-19 Test Results
A graduate student in Florida waited 11 days. Positive. A 14-year-old in California waited 24 days. Negative. A writer in New York has waited for four days—and is still waiting.
As the United States struggles to control the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the country are using Twitter to announce the arrival of their virus test results. The point of these tweets is not just to broadcast the result itself, but to point out the absurdity of receiving a result so stale that it’s almost completely useless from a public health standpoint.
Social media posts from July and August make clear a frustrating reality: ...
Source: TIME: Health - August 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Barone Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 UnitedWeRise20Disaster Source Type: news
North Carolina coronavirus cases could skyrocket to 750K if social-distancing policies relaxed, model shows
A new COVID-19 infection model created by researchers at Triangle universities warn that if social-distancing policies are removed at the end of April, cases in North Carolina could triple to 750,000.
On Monday, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) released two pandemic models created by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, RTI International, Blue Cross NC and Durham-based NoviSci. The models forecast two potential possibilities for the state's caseloa d…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - April 7, 2020 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Seth Thomas Gulledge Source Type: news
Coronavirus cases could surge to 750K in NC if social restrictions loosened, model shows
New COVID-19 infection models created by researchers at Triangle universities warn that if social-distancing policies are removed at the end of April, cases in North Carolina could triple to 750,000.
On Monday, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) released two pandemic models created by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, RTI International, Blue Cross NC and Durham-based NoviSci. The models forecast two potential possibilities for the state's case lo ad…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 6, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Seth Thomas Gulledge Source Type: news
Inventors Are Whipping Up Homemade Ventilators to Fend Off a Shortage. Some Doctors Are Wary
A mechanical ventilator can cost a hospital tens of thousands of dollars up front, and even more money each day it’s used to keep oxygen flowing into a sick patient’s lungs. It’s unsurprising, then, that some small U.S. hospitals can count theirs on one hand. There are about 160,000 ventilators in use in hospitals nationwide—about half the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. as of April 6.
As the number of coronavirus diagnoses ticks upward, inventors are resorting to increasingly creative solutions to stave off an impending ventilator shortage. But the stakes are high for getting it righ...
Source: TIME: Health - April 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
The Coronavirus-Infected Grand Princess Is in Port. But Passengers Are Still Stuck on Board
(OAKLAND, Calif.) — Thousands of passengers aboard a cruise ship struck by the novel coronavirus waited anxiously Tuesday for their chance to leave the vessel, even if it meant being shipped to military bases for weeks of quarantine.
After days of being forced to idle off the Northern California coast, the Grand Princess docked Monday at the Port of Oakland with some 3,500 passengers and crew on board.
“Everyone was hollering and clapping” as the giant vessel sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge and entered the harbor, passenger Karen Schwartz Dever said.
About two dozen people who need acute medical care ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Olga R. Rodriguez and Daisy Nguyen / AP Tags: Uncategorized California COVID-19 onetime Travel Source Type: news
Coronavirus Q & A
As the coronavirus has spread and dominated the news, UNISON has received an increasing number of enquiries on what employers – and members – should do to minimise the risk of infection at this worrying time.
The issues and risks will vary depending on the sector you are working in, so UNISON has been proactive in negotiating jointly agreed advice in a number of sectors.
General advice on what coronavirus (COVID-19) is, how it is spread, and basic hygiene to minimise the spread of the disease is available from the Public Health England (PHE) Website
Basic hygiene includes:
Washing your hands regularly, particularly af...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - March 3, 2020 Category: Food Science Authors: Martin Cullen Tags: Article health health and safety Source Type: news
