Africa: Statement On the New Covid Strain, EG.5 SARS-CoV-2 Subvariant
[Africa CDC] On 9 August 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated EG.5, a descendant lineage of XBB.1.9.2, and its sub-lineages as a variant of interest (VOI), following the recent increase in the number of E.G.5 cases reported. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 28, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Coronavirus Health and Medicine Source Type: news
Covid jabs can protect patients by giving them antibodies against 21 other viruses - including potentially fatal SARS and MERS
Participants in the study had received two or three doses of the Moderna or Pfizer jabs, had been infected with Covid, or both. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Will the New COVID-19 Vaccine Work Against the BA.2.86 Variant?
COVID-19 isn’t quite done with the world yet. Small surges of cases in the U.S., as well as upticks in COVID-19 hospitalizations over the summer, and new variants that weren’t around even three months ago, remind us that SARS-CoV-2 is still a health threat for the coming fall and winter.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to make a decision about which strain to target in the updated vaccine, which the agency says will be available in mid-to-late September. The FDA will be considering recommendations by the panel of independent vaccine experts it convened in June, which reviewed the late...
Source: TIME: Health - August 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Genomic Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Omicron Lineages Genomic Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Omicron Lineages
This report summarizes U.S. trends in SARS-CoV-2 variants from national genomic surveillance during January 2022-May 2023, with a focus on the predominant Omicron variants.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - August 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Infection Linked to Increased Risk of Reinfection
THURSDAY, Aug. 24, 2023 -- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) omicron infection is associated with increased risk of reinfection among residents of long-term care and retirement homes, according to a study published online... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 24, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Political support for surveillance of Covid waning in Australia despite ‘waves of mutations’, scientists say
Active community testing required on an intermittent basis to see ‘the whole iceberg, not just the tip’, Prof Catherine Bennett saysGet ourmorning and afternoon news emails,free app ordaily news podcastPolitical momentum for the monitoring and surveillance of Covid-19 is “fading”, the Australian virologist who developed a world-first method for rapidly isolating and characterising variants said.Prof Stuart Turville, with the University of New South Wales Kirby Institute, said while the impactof Covid-19 in Australia iswaning, the Sars CoV-2 virus that causes disease is constantly changing and “there is still a lo...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Davey Medical editor Tags: Health Coronavirus Australia news Infectious diseases Science Medical research Source Type: news
Covid-19: The Shapeshifting Protean Virus
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, BA.2.86, may spark the latest wave of Covid-19. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 24, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
Long COVID May Affect More Patients Than Previously Thought
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 23, 2023 -- Some patients with postviral syndrome (PVS) after suspected COVID-19 have detectable severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-specific humoral and cell-mediated immune responses, according to a study... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 23, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Amazon Expands Its Virtual Primary Care Service, including Clinical Laboratory Testing, to All 50 States along with More Locations for One Medical Clinics
Consumer demand for telehealth services and convenient healthcare locations fuels Amazon’s quest to ‘reinvent’ healthcare Amazon’s stated goal of disrupting traditional healthcare processes and workflow continues. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon built several large clinical laboratories to do its own SARS-CoV-2 testing. Then, last February, Amazon acquired One Medical, a San Francisco-based primary care provider […]
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Source: Dark Daily - August 23, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: swallask Tags: Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Sales and Marketing Laboratory Testing Source Type: news
SARS-CoV-2 can cause lasting damage to cells ’ energy production
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can cause lasting damage to energy production by mitochondria in many organs of the body. (Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH))
Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - August 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Long COVID Cognitive Research Needs an Overhaul, Task Force Says
(MedPage Today) -- Long COVID cognitive research needs better studies, an international task force urged.
The approach to assessing cognitive dysfunction after SARS-CoV-2 infection requires an overhaul to better understand long COVID prevalence... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - August 18, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
How COVID-19 Changes the Immune System
If the COVID-19 pandemic has done one thing, it’s made us all more familiar with some of the important players in the immune system. Antibodies, B cells, and T cells are among the best known parts of the body’s response to a virus like SARS-CoV-2, but they don’t act alone.
In a paper published on August 18 in the journal Cell, scientists report that innate immune cells—a critical part of the immune system activated to battle COVID-19—remain altered for at least a year after infection. The finding suggests that these cells may play a role in some of the lingering symptoms associated with Lon...
Source: TIME: Health - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Modeling the impact of COVID-19 interventions on interstate crash rates using comparative interrupted time series - Zhao L, Rilett L, Liu C.
In the early stage of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in March 2020, a series of restrictions were released to minimize the exposure and spread of the communicable virus. These restrictions had significant... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Lung Transplant Outcomes for COVID Respiratory Failure Similar to Other Etiologies
(MedPage Today) -- Patients who received lung transplants due to irreversible respiratory failure from SARS-CoV-2 infection had similar outcomes to those who received lung transplants for other reasons, a retrospective study found.
Among 195 patients... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - August 16, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
UCSF Researchers Discover Mutated Gene That Fights SARS-CoV-2 Even in Individuals with No Exposure to the Coronavirus
Findings may help clinical laboratories identify healthcare workers who could work on the front lines of the next pandemic without fear of serious infection University of California San Francisco researchers have discovered a gene mutation that enables some people’s immune system to recognize and respond to a COVID-19 infection despite having no prior exposure to […]
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Source: Dark Daily - August 16, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: swallask Tags: Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Testing Molecular Diagnostics, Genetic Testing, Whole Gene Sequencing Precision Medicine Source Type: news
