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Omicron Identified In Minnesota Man Who Traveled To NYC Javits Center For Anime Convention
The Minnesota resident had recent travel history in New York City, according to the state ’s Department of Health.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - December 2, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Anna Kaplan, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Breaking breaking-news Coronavirus Source Type: news
Omicron May Fuel Surges, WHO Warns Amid Transmission Concern
The World Health Organization warned that the new coronavirus variant could fuel surges with “severe consequences” amid signs that it makes Covid-19 more transmissible.
Scientists in South Africa, where omicron was first detected, said it appears to spread more easily but existing vaccines are still likely to protect against severe illness. The Geneva-based WHO assessed the variant’s risk as “extremely high” and called on member states to test widely. Understanding the new strain will take several days or weeks, the agency said.
“We don’t have enough data to determine vaccine effec...
Source: TIME: Health - November 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Loni Prinsloo and Jason Gale / Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire COVID-19 Source Type: news
A new Covid variant is no surprise when rich countries are hoarding vaccines | Gordon Brown
Western countries are destroying surplus doses of vaccine while the poorest nations go without. This must changeDespite the repeated warnings of health leaders, our failure to put vaccines into the arms of people in the developing world is now coming back to haunt us. We were forewarned – and yet here we are.In the absence of mass vaccination, Covid is not only spreading uninhibited among unprotected people but is mutating, with new variants emerging out of the poorest countries and now threatening to unleash themselves on even fully vaccinated people in the richest countries of the world.On Thursday, the UK ’s Departm...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 26, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Gordon Brown Tags: Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science World news South Africa Source Type: news
Covid-19 UK: Britain's coronavirus cases FALL for first time in a week
Department of Health bosses posted 38,263 new infections over the last 24 hours, down 2.7 per cent on the 39,329 recorded last Wednesday. It was the first time Britain's cases fell in a week.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Coronavirus infections rise for third day in a row
Britain's Covid-19 infections have increased by 20 per cent in a week after Department of Health bosses reported a further 36,517 cases today, a rise from the 30,305 reported last Sunday.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UK's Covid cases fall... AGAIN: Britain posts 43,467 positive tests in 12% week-on-week drop
Department of Health bosses posted 43,467 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, down 12 per cent on the 49,298 recorded last Friday. Covid deaths rose 3.3 per cent today.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Citing misinfo, North Dakota health agency cuts out comments
The North Dakota Department of Health has switched off comments on its social media accounts in an effort to stop the spread of misinformation, mostly about the coronavirus
Source: ABC News: Health - October 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
U.S. CDC Advisory Committee Unanimously Recommends Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine as a Booster for All Eligible Individuals Who Receive Authorized COVID-19 Vaccines
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., October 21, 2021 – Johnson & Johnson (the Company) today announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), has recommended its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster for all eligible individuals who receive an authorized COVID-19 vaccine. “Today’s recommendation supports the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine as a booster for eligible individuals in the U.S. regardless of which vaccine they initially receive,” said Paul Stoffels, M.D., Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Scientific Officer at Jo...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - October 21, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
UK's daily Covid cases rise just 1% in a week and deaths flatline
Department of Health bosses posted 36,060 new coronavirus infections, up 1.4 per cent on last Friday's figure of 35,577. It was the third day in a row daily Covid cases have climbed week-on-week.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NIH Director Francis S. Collins to Step Down by End of Year
Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health for 12 years, said Tuesday he is stepping down, capping a career in which he directed crucial research into the human genome and the fight against serious diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and COVID-19.
Collins said he was “grateful and proud of the NIH staff and the scientific community, whose extraordinary commitment to lifesaving research delivers hope to the American people and the world every day.” He said the decision to step down at year’s end was “a difficult one.”
“I fundamentally believe, howe...
Source: TIME: Health - October 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DINO HAZELL/AP Tags: Uncategorized Public Health wire Source Type: news
Extending free personal protective equipment (PPE) to the health and care sector
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) -In response to coronavirus, the DHSC created a parallel PPE supply chain in the UK to meet the unexpected challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and to ensure much-needed PPE was delivered to the frontline. DHSC is committed to providing this central, free provision of Covid-19 PPE until 31 March 2022. This consultation is seeking views on whether it should extend the provision of free PPE to the health and care sector after this date. The closing date for comments is 31 October 2021.ConsultationDHSC - consultations
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 1, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Consultations Covid-19 Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
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
Ninth two-monthly report on the Coronavirus Act 2020
Department of Health and Social Care - The Coronavirus Act 2020 gives the government powers to take the right action to respond effectively to the progress of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, for example by making it easier for people to receive their Statutory Sick Pay. These powers are temporary and designed to be switched on when necessary, and off when no longer needed. The act requires ministers to report every two months on which powers are currently active.ReportMore detail
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - September 23, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Source Type: news
Nearly half of the unvaccinated say they’re willing to get a coronavirus shot. The challenge is trying to get it to them.
The unvaccinated but willing account for approximately 10 percent of the American population, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Immunizing this group could be critical to attaining herd immunity and protecting those disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - September 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Meryl Kornfield Source Type: news
Britain's daily Covid cases rise again by nearly a fifth in a week and deaths climb 10%
Department of Health bosses posted 31,564 new coronavirus infections today, up 18.5 per cent on the 26,628 recorded last Tuesday. Cases had been falling for the nine days prior to Saturday.
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
