Long Covid has been dubbed a public health crisis hidden inside the pandemic by medical experts. More than 100m patients worldwide are estimated still to be suffering from debilitating symptoms 12 weeks or longer after diagnosis. Our explainer on what is known about long Covid elicited hundreds of comments from readers online and replies to…
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The writer is a science commentator Saturday marks exactly two years since I first wrote about an unexplained viral pneumonia affecting 59 people in a Chinese city I had never heard of. The apparent link to a live animal market, echoing the origins of Sars-1, gave me a vague sense of foreboding but no idea…
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The majority of Supreme Court justices on Friday seemed willing to let the federal government’s healthcare worker COVID-19 vaccine mandatego into effect while appeals continue in lower courts. But justices seemed more skeptical of the Labor Department’s ability to require a broad requirement for staff at primarily non-healthcare businesses to be vaccinated or get tested…
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Investors this week deserted a trade that has generated big returns since the financial crisis, ditching shares of fast-growing technology companies in favour of staid businesses that had largely been overlooked by Wall Street. The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite shed 4.5 per cent in the first five trading days of 2022, the worst annual debut since…
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President Joe Biden announced last month that the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free to people to use at home. But despite high public demand for tests, it will still be several more weeks before these kits are available to be shipped, White House officials said.…
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New Hampshire has reached a $21.1 million settlement with a Missouri company over the inaccurate reporting of pharmacy benefit services cost, the attorney general’s office said Friday. Centene and its affiliates Granite State Health Plan, Inc. and NH Healthy Families, Inc. are responsible for one of three health plans in New Hampshire’s Medicaid Care Management…
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Increasing access to COVID-19 booster shots would make a big dent in hospitalizations and unnecessary deaths, new research shows. Tripling the pace of booster vaccination from 770,000 doses per day to 2.3 million could reduce the expected number of COVID-19 hospitalizations by more than 35% and deaths by nearly 30% through April, according to new…
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Oregon hospitals have new interim guidelines to help them determine which patients should get lifesaving care if the current COVID-19 surge forces them to choose between people because of a lack of beds, staff or critical medical equipment. The guidelines will only come into play if a hospital has exhausted all other options to treat…
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The UK’s vaccine advisory panel on Friday said there was “no immediate need” for a second booster shot for elderly vulnerable groups, citing new evidence that vaccine protection against severe disease from the Omicron coronavirus variant is sustained for at least three months. Early data from the UK Health Security Agency, released on Friday, showed…
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