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Paxlovid as a potential treatment for long COVID
Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2023 Sep 21. doi: 10.1080/14656566.2023.2262387. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: On 31 July 2023, the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced the formation of the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice and the United States National Institutes of Health opened enrollment for RECOVER-Vital, a randomized study to evaluate new treatment options for long Coronavirus (long COVID).AREAS COVERED: The RECOVER Initiative is a $1.15 billion research platform intended to describe, categorize, treat, and prevent long-term symptoms following infection by Severe Acute Res...
Source: Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy - September 21, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Matthew W McCarthy Source Type: research

U.S. Will Resume Offering Free At-Home Covid Tests
The Biden administration is restarting a program that has provided hundreds of millions of free tests through the Postal Service.
Source: NYT Health - September 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sheryl Gay Stolberg Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Tests (Medical) Health and Human Services Department Federal Aid (US) Biden, Joseph R Jr United States Politics and Government Source Type: news

Biden Administration Announces $600M to Produce No-Cost COVID Tests
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household — aiming to prevent possible shortages during a rise in coronavirus cases that has typically come during colder months. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The Department of Health and Human Services says orders can be placed at COVIDTests.gov starting Sept. 25, and that no-cost tests will be delivered for free by the United States Postal Service. Twe...
Source: TIME: Health - September 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized Biden Administration Source Type: news

COVID-19 Concerns, Information Needs, and  Adverse Mental Health Outcomes among U.S. Soldiers
CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 concerns and information needs were prevalent and showed little evidence of decrement over the course of the first 6 months of the pandemic. COVID-19 concerns were consistently associated with adverse mental health outcomes. These data highlight two targets and potential demographic subgroups such that local leadership and Army medicine and public health enterprises can be better prepared to monitor and address to maintain force health and readiness in the face of possible future biomedical threats.PMID:37715687 | DOI:10.1093/milmed/usad350
Source: Military Medicine - September 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Phillip J Quartana Matthew R Beymer Stephanie A Q Gomez Amy B Adler Theresa Jackson Santo Jeffrey L Thomas Amy Millikan Bell Source Type: research

Major cardiovascular events after COVID-19, event rates post-vaccination, antiviral or anti-inflammatory therapy, and temporal trends: Rationale and methodology of the CORONA-VTE-Network study
Bikdeli B. et al. [1] recently introduced the CORONA-VTE-Network study, an intended analysis of the adverse cardiovascular and thrombotic events in patients with COVID-19, distilling data from initial CORONA-VTE registry [2]. This large registry of 10,000 patients derived from prestigious healthcare institutions across the United States, is expected to shed light on key issues related to serious adverse outcomes of COVID-19 disease. As declared by these authors, investigators will systematically review and record detailed clinical and laboratory data from available patient electronic database systems to examine the rates o...
Source: Thrombosis Research - September 16, 2023 Category: Hematology Authors: Daphne J. Theodorou, Stavroula J. Theodorou, Dimitrios Rizos Tags: Letter to the Editors-in-Chief Source Type: research

Viruses, Vol. 15, Pages 1933: Unraveling the Dynamics of Omicron (BA.1, BA.2, and BA.5) Waves and Emergence of the Deltacton Variant: Genomic Epidemiology of the SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic in Cyprus (Oct 2021 & ndash;Oct 2022)
This study offers a comprehensive assessment spanning genetic, phylogenetic, phylodynamic, and phylogeographic dimensions, focused on the trajectory of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Cyprus. Based on a dataset comprising 4700 viral genomic sequences obtained from affected individuals between October 2021 and October 2022, our analysis is presented. Over this timeframe, a total of 167 distinct lineages and sublineages emerged, including variants such as Delta and Omicron (1, 2, and 5). Notably, during the fifth wave of infections, Omicron subvariants 1 and 2 gained prominence, followed by the ascendancy of Omicron 5 in the subs...
Source: Viruses - September 15, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Andreas C. Chrysostomou Bram Vrancken Christos Haralambous Maria Alexandrou Ioanna Gregoriou Marios Ioannides Costakis Ioannou Olga Kalakouta Christos Karagiannis Markella Marcou Christina Masia Michail Mendris Panagiotis Papastergiou Philippos C. Patsali Tags: Article Source Type: research

There ’ s No Sign of Widespread COVID-19 Mandates. Republicans Are Warning of Them Anyway
As Americans fend off a late summer COVID-19 spike and prepare for a fresh vaccine rollout, Republicans are raising familiar fears that government-issued lockdowns and mask mandates are next. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] It’s been a favorite topic among some of the GOP’s top presidential contenders. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters that people are “lurching toward” COVID-19 restrictions and “there needs to be pushback.” South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott posted online that the “radical Left” seeks to bring back school closures a...
Source: TIME: Health - September 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ALI SWENSON / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 wire Source Type: news

Child poverty in the US jumped and income declined in 2022 as coronavirus pandemic benefits ended
Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising
Source: ABC News: Health - September 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

The Changing Landscape of Global Child Health Education in the United States and the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Civil Unrest
Pediatr Ann. 2023 Sep;52(9):e324-e329. doi: 10.3928/19382359-20230720-02. Epub 2023 Sep 1.ABSTRACTThe events of recent years have affected the landscape of global child health education (GCHE) in the United States. War, racism, forced displacement, and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had global repercussions that reached US GCHE. The aim of this article is to examine the effect of these events on the landscape of GCHE in the US. Key areas of GCHE have been reframed, reshaped, and accelerated by these events. Travel restrictions accelerated virtual learning opportunities. Core curriculum needed to be recons...
Source: Pediatric Annals - September 11, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Ashley Bjorklund Mounika Muttineni Sophia Gladding Tina Slusher Cynthia R Howard Source Type: research