Covid linked to longer-term elevated risk of brain fog and dementia
Covid linked to longer-term elevated risk of brain fog and dementiaStudy finds that unlike anxiety and depression, conditions including brain...
Month: August 2022
Risk of ‘brain fog’ and other conditions persists up to two years after Covid infection
Among the many worrying consequences of Covid-19, neuropsychiatric conditions rank high. A year ago researchers from Oxford University reported that...
Novavax seeks FDA approval for COVID booster
Novavax has submitted an application to the Food and Drug Administration for Emergency Use Authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine as...
Carroll laments lost chance for Lock, Seahawks due to COVID
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Wednesday the team had no indication quarterback Drew Lock had...
Top US health official admits ‘dramatic mistakes’ in tackling Covid
The director of the top US public health agency has admitted the organisation made some “pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes”...
COVID-19 offers lessons on fighting climate change
President Joe Biden is deliberating on declaring a national climate emergency. Echoes of our collective delay in declaring COVID-19 a global health emergency reverberate. Yet, even as we contend with more...
Where Bay Area coronavirus infection rates stand right now
California’s MyTurn site to end in-home vaccination option Beginning August 31, California's primary COVID-19 vaccination scheduling service, My Turn, will...
How much virus does a person with COVID exhale? New research has answers
A device called the Gesundheit-II can collect viral RNA exhaled by people infected with SARS-CoV-2.Credit: Isabel Teresa Sierra Maldonado People...
Study: 56% of Omicron-infected adults didn’t know they were contagious
An observational study of 210 adults in California with detectable SARS-CoV-2 antibodies during an Omicron variant wave shows that 56%...
News Scan for Aug 17, 2022
Study suggests test-to-stay COVID-19 strategy in schools was effectiveUsing a test-to-stay (TTS) strategy in K-12 schools during the winter of...