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Claims That CDC’s PCR Test Can’t Tell Covid From Flu Are Wrong Victoria Knight Claim: “CDC has just announced they will revoke the emergency use authorization of the RT-PCR tests first introduced in 2/20. … Translation: They’ve been adding flu cases to Covid cases when using that test.” Facebook post, July 25, 2021 Posts circulating […]
Unraveling the Mysterious Mutations That Make Delta the Most Transmissible Covid Virus Yet Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News July 28, 2021 Upon first inspection, the mutations in the highly contagious delta covid variant don’t look that worrisome. For starters, delta has fewer genetic changes than earlier versions of the coronavirus. “When people saw that the […]
The Delta Variant Thrives in a State of Political and Public Health Discord Lauren Weber July 21, 2021 ST. LOUIS — The day after Missouri Gov. Mike Parson finished his bicentennial bus tour to drum up tourism to the state in mid-July, Chicago issued a travel advisory warning about visiting Missouri. Earlier this summer, as […]
Novavax’s Effort to Vaccinate the World, From Zero to Not Quite Warp Speed Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News and Rachana Pradhan July 19, 2021 On a sweltering June morning, Novavax CEO and covid vaccine maker Stanley Erck stood on a stage unmasked and did something that would have been unthinkable six months ago: He […]
Government Oversight of Covid Air Cleaners Leaves Gaping Holes Lauren Weber and Christina Jewett July 12, 2021 Stephen Matthew Shumaker counted on in-home, in-person demonstrations to drive his water filtration business, which serves the Atlanta area. So when covid-19 hit and no one was inviting people indoors, he turned to the air-cleaning part of his […]
As Covid Vaccinations Slow, Parts of the US Remain Far Behind 70% Goal Martha Bebinger, WBUR and Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio July Fourth was not the celebration President Joe Biden had hoped for, as far as protecting more Americans with a coronavirus vaccine. The nation fell just short of the White House’s goal to […]
New Research Finds J&J Vaccine Has Muscle Against Covid’s Delta Variant Victoria Knight In the past two weeks, many medical experts started to question whether the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is administered in a single dose, would be as effective as the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine in protecting against the new, highly […]
Thousands of Young Children Lost Parents to Covid. Where’s Help for Them? JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News Five months after her husband died of covid-19, Valerie Villegas can see how grief has wounded her children. Nicholas, the baby, who was 1 and almost weaned when his father died, now wants to nurse at all […]
The Doctor Will See You Now-and Vaccinate You (390) (NewsUSA) – The data for the safety and effectiveness of the various COVID-19 vaccines continue to rise, and cases continue to fall as more individuals get vaccinated. If you or someone you love has been hesitant to get vaccinated, take the opportunity now to learn more […]
Little-Known Illnesses Turning Up in Covid Long-Haulers Cindy Loose June 1, 2021 The day Dr. Elizabeth Dawson was diagnosed with covid-19 in October, she awoke feeling as if she had a bad hangover. Four months later she tested negative for the virus, but her symptoms have only worsened. This story also ran on Time. […]