NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The BinaxNOW rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection assay from Abbott does “not seem particularly useful” in symptomatic children and young adults aged 7 to 20 years due to “suboptimal” sensitivity and specificity, researchers say. In symptomatic children younger than age 7, the test’s specificity is also “suboptimal” but its high sensitivity […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the U.S. and people hunkered down in their homes to live and work, some people turned to a variety of legal and illegal drugs for relief – and an analysis of residues in wastewater reveals the most popular ones. In the early months […]
Between the surging Delta variant, breakthrough infections in vaccinated individuals and evolving guidance around masking and booster shots, the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to change 18 months into the crisis. Texas A&M Today spoke with virologist Benjamin Neuman about some of the latest developments in the pandemic. Neuman is the chief virologist at […]
As more and more health care systems across parts of the U.S. push up against一or beyond一their capacity amid widely circulating COVID-19 infections, questions about how hospitals can continue to care for patients have taken dire form. Hospitals are now filled to the brim with unvaccinated patients. Concerns over how best to ration care for scores […]
New daily coronavirus infections in Israel are approaching record levels, despite the country’s largely successful vaccination campaign and the recent rollout of the world’s first widespread booster shot. The spread of the virus has been driven by a surge in the delta variant—even among the vaccinated—and sparked talk of crackdowns on gatherings ahead of the […]
Gov. Kemp on GA COVID surge: People don’t trust federal government Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp tells ‘America’s Newsroom’ people should do their ‘due diligence’ by talking with doctors and make good health decisions to avoid the coronavirus surge. Do the COVID-19 vaccines affect my chances of pregnancy? No, there’s no evidence that any vaccines, including […]
If you happened to be scrolling through social media over the weekend, it’s likely you would have evidenced would can only be described as a Great Garbage Fire of anger, frustration and criticism being shouted into the web from every direction. As Sydney-siders woke to images of thousands taking to the streets in protest against […]
While two-thirds of the U.S. adult population has received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, vaccination rates remain highly variable across, and within, states. This is of increasing concern as communities reopen and more contagious variants of the virus spread, resulting in spikes in cases in parts of the U.S. A new Schaeffer Center white […]
JAKARTA (Reuters) – In the teeming, impoverished North Jakarta neighbourhood of Muara Baru, people have made a grim joke out of the acronym for the Indonesian government’s lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic: PPKM. “Pelan Pelan Kita Mati,” Herdayati, a 48-year-old mother of six and sole breadwinner for a family living in a narrow, claustrophobic […]
The first wave of COVID-19 in 2020 in India saw a substantial increase in the sale of antibiotic formulations used in adults and adolescents, especially azithromycin, says a study. COVID-19 likely contributed to about 216 million excess doses of non-pediatric formulations of antibiotics in total and 38 million excess doses of azithromycin between June and […]
