Roche’s sales of Covid drugs fall by $1bn
Roche chief executive Severin Schwan said health authorities are holding back from ordering more coronavirus tests and treatments despite a...
Coronavirus
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
New Lab-Made Covid-19 Coronavirus At Boston University Raises Questions
This was one of those should-have-seen-it-coming moments. On October 14, a team of researchers posted on bioRxiv a preprint that...
Boston University claims to have produced new Covid strain with 80 per cent kill rate. Details here
The tests were carried out on mice, and unlike the old standard Omicron strain, the mice just suffered mild symptoms...