New COVID variants are emerging: BA.4.6, BQ.1, BQ.1.1 & BF.7 explained
BA.5 is losing its grip on the US, accounting for only 67% of new coronavirus infections.New variants are beginning to...
Month: October 2022
Europe’s Covid Wave Suggests U.S. Outbreak Looms Around The Corner
ToplineCovid infections, hospitalizations and deaths are rising across Europe as the continent heads into winter, worrying officials and foreshadowing another...
‘Show me the Mounties:’ Ottawa mayor pleaded for more resources as protesters dug in, inquiry hears
Outgoing Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says the city did not have the police resources it needed to handle last winter's anti-COVID-19...
Oct. 25 Web Event: How the Pandemic Continues To Shape Medicaid Spending, Enrollment and Policy – Findings From KFF’s 22nd Annual Medicaid Budget Survey
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven record rises in Medicaid enrollment and substantial increases in total Medicaid spending. The forthcoming end...
Commercialization of COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments, and Tests: Implications for Access and Coverage
In response to the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government spent billions of dollars in emergency funds...
Cancer vaccine could become available by 2030, scientists behind COVID jab say
Vaccines that treat cancer could be accessible to patients as early as the next decade, say the BioNTech developers.While scientists...
Using traveler arrival COVID-19 screening data for real-time SARS-CoV-2 surveillance
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers developed a model to reconstruct the estimates of how...
China’s Xi Jinping set for third term at Communist Party Congress
HONG KONG — Chinese officials gathering this week for the country’s most important political event in years face an increasingly...
Next covid wave could be on a collision course with holiday travel
The summer of 2022 delivered on predictions it would be the season of "revenge travel," with countries dropping coronavirus restrictions,...
US warned to prepare as COVID cases rise in Europe
Health officials in the U.S. are bracing ahead of an anticipated winter COVID-19 surge as cases rise in Europe. Previously, rising...