reader comments 151 with For a fourth consecutive summer, COVID-19 is on the rise, though this year’s warm-weather wave appears milder than those in the emergency period of the pandemic. COVID-19 indicators of hospital admissions, emergency department visits, test positivity, and wastewater levels have all been increasing in the past month, with a peak not ..
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reader comments 55 with People in the US transmitted the pandemic coronavirus to white-tailed deer at least 109 times, and the animals widely spread the virus among themselves, with a third of the deer tested in a large government-led study showing signs of prior infection. The work also suggests that the ubiquitous ruminants returned the ..
Enlarge / Vials with COVID-19 vaccine labels showing logos of pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech. reader comments 35 with An advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted unanimously (21 to 0) to recommend updating COVID-19 vaccines for the 2023-2024 period to be a monovalent formula targeting the latest ..
Enlarge / A long COVID patient sits with her daughter in her wheelchair while receiving a saline infusion at her Maryland home on Friday, May 27, 2022. reader comments 85 with Tens of millions of people worldwide are thought to have developed long-term symptoms and conditions in the wake of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. But this ..
Enlarge / CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testifying before Congress. reader comments 69 with On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky announced that she’d be stepping down from her position at the end of June. The announcement came the same day that the World Health Organization announced that COVID no longer ..
Enlarge / World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks at a press conference on the World Health Organization’s 75th anniversary in Geneva, on April 6, 2023. reader comments 87 with The World Health Organization on Friday declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic while emphasizing that the health threat ..
Enlarge / Minks are seen at a farm in Gjol, northern Denmark, on October 9, 2020. reader comments 60 with Share this story Between September to January of this year, mink in three Polish farms tested positive for the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2— presenting a concerning mystery as to how the animals became infected. SARS-CoV-2 infections ..
Enlarge / A raccoon dog at the Chapultpec Zoo in Mexico City on August 6, 2015. reader comments 291 with Share this story Newly obtained genetic data from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) links the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 to animals—specifically raccoon dogs—at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, where ..
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reader comments 93 with Share this story Surviving a bout of COVID-19 can significantly increase the risk of developing a range of long-term gastrointestinal symptoms and conditions—from constipation and diarrhea to chronic acid reflux, pancreatitis, and inflammation of the bile ducts—according to a study published this week in Nature Communications. The study likely confirms what ..