Contagion

Placing COVID patients in skilled nursing facilities during the early pandemic led to increased cases, deaths, study finds

Tue, 2024-06-04 17:53 — mike kraft

Placing COVID patients in skilled nursing facilities led to increased cases, deaths, study finds Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, some states allowed COVID-19 patients to be discharged from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and even offered financial incentives to SNFs to take in patients to deal with hospital bed shortages. CIDRAP

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Opinion: Why the New Human Case of Bird Flu Is So Alarming and the need for better monitoring

Mon, 2024-06-03 11:13 — mike kraft

The third human case of H5N1, reported on Thursday in a farmworker in Michigan who was experiencing respiratory symptoms, tells us that the current bird flu situation is at a dangerous inflection point.

The virus is adapting in predictable ways that increase its risk to humans, reflecting our failure to contain it early on. The solutions to this brewing crisis — such as comprehensive testing — have been there all along, and they’re becoming only more important. If we keep ignoring the warning signs we have only ourselves to blame.

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Dengue: Honduras declares health emergency as Central America enters peak dengue season

Mon, 2024-06-03 10:29 — mike kraft

Honduras declares health emergency as Central America starts peak dengue season | CNN Honduras has declared a national health emergency after reporting a rise in hospitalizations and deaths from dengue, the health ministry announced on Friday. Michael Rios CNN

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CDC reports US COVID markers show small rise in activity

Mon, 2024-06-03 10:06 — mike kraft

US COVID markers show small rise in activity Wastewater detections are up in the western region, which is also seeing a small rise in test positivity. CIDRAP

The main markers the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses to track COVID activity showed small rises Friday from very low levels, including wastewater SARS-CoV-2 detections, which rose from the minimal to low level over the past week....

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Pedople with disabilities still struggle as public COVID precautions fade away

Mon, 2024-06-03 09:43 — mike kraft

As COVID precautions vanish, people with disabilities struggle with safety and isolation The pace of COVID fatalities in the U.S. has slowed significantly, with the nation’s death toll standing at more than 1 million people. With precautions like mandatory masking no longer in place, it can seem as if worries about the virus are gone as well. But for many people with disabilities, the threat is still very real. We hear from people in the disability community about their concerns. Andrew Corkery PBS NewsHour

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New International Regulations to Protect Against Pandemics Finally Approved at WHO Assembly

Mon, 2024-06-03 09:36 — mike kraft

'The World Has Won': New International Regulations To Protect Against Pandemics Finally Approved - Health Policy Watch After two years of intensive negotiations – including long nights this week – the World Health Assembly (WHA) finally passed amendments to the International Health Policy Watch

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Possible explanaton for surge in RSV cases following COVID pandemic--study

Fri, 2024-05-31 10:41 — mike kraft

Study examines surge in RSV cases after the COVID-19 pandemic

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The surge in RSV cases following the COVID-19 pandemic may have been, in part, caused by increased testing and changes to the RSV genome, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications.

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