Latest Coronavirus News

• RSV Kills 100,000 Kids Under Age 5 a Year Worldwide A new study is the first to filter RSV deaths into narrow age brackets. Researchers found that nearly half — 45,000 deaths — were in infants under 6 months old.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• ATS 2022 COVID Burnout? Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, and Float Downstream A randomized trial showed that transcendental meditation can relieve burnout-related stress and emotional exhaustion.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• US to Study Whether Longer Paxlovid Course Needed to Combat Reinfections The National Institutes of Health is in talks with Pfizer about studying whether a longer course of the drugmaker's COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid is needed to prevent infection recurrence, top US infectious diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• COVID Is Rising in the Americas, Virus 'Not Going Away Anytime Soon': PAHO COVID-19 is on the rise again in the Americas as many countries have abandoned measures like masking and social distancing and many lag in vaccination rates, the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• Pancreatic Involvement in COVID-19: What Do We Know? Data indicate that the pancreas as a target of SARS-CoV-2 infection and suggest that pancreatic beta cell involvement could contribute to the metabolic dysregulation seen in patients with COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• This Rural County Was a Vaccine Success Story. Not Anymore. Meigs County, Tennessee, reported one of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the South for much of the past year. But those reports were wrong because of a data error.
  Kaiser Health News, May 19, 2022
• CDC Calls for One Third of Americans to Mask Up Again CDC director Rochelle Walensky, MD, and other officials held their first White House COVID-19 Response Team briefing since April 5 because of the 'steady increase in COVID cases' over the past 5 weeks.
  WebMD Health News, May 19, 2022
• Japanese Man Gambles Away Town's COVID Relief Funds A Japanese man went on a gambling spree after COVID-19 relief funds worth 46.3 million yen — about $358,000 in US dollars — accidentally ended up in his bank account.
  WebMD Health News, May 19, 2022
• As COVID Cases Rise, US Health Officials Mull Widening Additional Booster Eligibility Health officials are considering extending the eligibility for a second COVID-19 vaccine booster dose to people under 50 amid a steady rise in cases, with the United States seeing a threefold increase over the past month.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• When Africans Asked for COVID Shots, They Didn't Get Them. Now They Don't Want Them It's noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a tablet.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• 'Huge' Pressure for Shanghai to Stay COVID-Free as Lockdown End Nears Health authorities in Shanghai faced 'huge' pressure to keep China's most populous city free of COVID-19 as residents were counting down the days until June 1 when their lockdown is set to end after almost two months of isolation.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• Estrogen Treatment Linked to Reduced COVID Mortality Women who went on hormone replacement therapy with estrogen within 6 months of catching COVID-19 had a reduced risk of dying, a new study says.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• New Pandemic Peril? Pretending It's Over as Case Numbers Rise Just because many people seem more than ready to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us doesn't mean it's really over.
  WebMD Health News, May 18, 2022
• Children and COVID: New Cases Up by 50% The new-case count was over 93,000 for the week of May 6–12, compared with 62,000 the previous week.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• WHO Raises Alarm About 'Healthcare on a Knife-Edge' in Ukraine The World Health Organization's Europe chief sounded the alarm on Tuesday about healthcare provision in Ukraine during the war with Russia and called for an investigation into more than 200 attacks on the healthcare system.
  Reuters Health Information, May 17, 2022
• US Says Use of Pfizer's COVID-19 Antiviral Up 315% Use of Pfizer's COVID-19 oral antiviral treatment Paxlovid has jumped 315% over the past 4 weeks, the US Department of Health & Human Services said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 17, 2022
• FDA Declines to Authorize Common Antidepressant as COVID Treatment The FDA has decided not to authorize the antidepressant fluvoxamine to treat COVID-19, saying that the data has not shown the drug to be an effective therapeutic for fighting the virus.
  Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2022
• Long COVID Symptoms Are Often Overlooked in Seniors Millions of older adults are grappling with long COVID, yet the impact on them has received little attention. Research suggests seniors are more likely to develop the poorly understood condition.
  Kaiser Health News, May 18, 2022
• Omicron Breakthrough Cases Boost Protection, Studies Say The vaccinated people who had a breakthrough case of Omicron produced antibodies that helped protect against coronavirus variants.
  WebMD Health News, May 18, 2022
• Improved Cancer Survival in States with ACA Medicaid Expansion An increase in cancer survival rates has been seen in states that implemented Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022