Latest Coronavirus News

• Hong Kong, US, Israeli Data Illuminate COVID Vaccine Myocarditis Prevalences, nuances of presentation, and likely clinical course of myocarditis after use of some vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are in sharper view after additions to the literature this week.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
• Americans' Trust in Science Now Deeply Polarized, Poll Shows It's the largest gap in nearly five decades of polling by the General Social Survey, a widely respected trend survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
  Associated Press, January 26, 2022
• Presence of Autoantibodies Most Predictive of Long COVID in Study A deep molecular dive into COVID-19 patients found that the presence of autoantibodies in peripheral blood at initial diagnosis was the chief of four risk factors predicting if a patient would experience long COVID.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
• CDC: COVID Cases Keep Dropping, but 'Milder Does Not Mean Mild' Despite declining national numbers, Americans should not lose sight of the ongoing public health crisis as hospitals remain overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, many of whom are unvaccinated.
  WebMD Health News, January 26, 2022
• 35% of Employers to Proceed With Vaccine Mandate, Poll Shows About 4% of polled executives said they're dropping their vaccine mandate, 29% are in a wait-and-see position, and 12% are less likely to impose a mandate now.
  WebMD Health News, January 26, 2022
• What Is Your Experience Using Telehealth? The COVID-19 pandemic forced many healthcare providers to rely on telehealth technology to provide clinical services to patients unable or unwilling to visit in person.
  Medscape Reader Polls, January 26, 2022
• Booster Shot Drive Falters in the US Americans are less accepting of booster shots than initial COVID vaccinations, a new poll shows, despite a steady flow of information showing boosters improve a person's protection against the virus.
  WebMD Health News, January 26, 2022
• COVID Is Less Severe With Omicron Than Delta, US Study Suggests The Omicron variant appears to result in less severe COVID-19 than seen during previous periods of high coronavirus transmission including the Delta wave, according to a new US study.
  Reuters Health Information, January 25, 2022
• US Funding to WHO Fell by 25% During Pandemic: Document US financial contributions to the World Health Organization has fallen by 25% during the coronavirus pandemic, provisional data show.
  Reuters Health Information, January 25, 2022
• Fauci Says 'Prudent' to Have Omicron Vaccine, but May Not Be Needed A COVID-19 vaccine specifically targeting the Omicron variant would be 'prudent' even if it ultimately may not be needed, the top US infectious disease official said on Tuesday as Pfizer announced trials for such a vaccine.
  Reuters Health Information, January 25, 2022
• California Appears to Pass Peak of Omicron Variant Wave Over 15,000 people are hospitalized with coronavirus, a huge figure but well short of last January's peak of about 22,000 and half of what officials had feared.
  Associated Press, January 26, 2022
• Germany to Receive 3.8 Mln Doses of Novavax's New COVID Vaccine in Q1 Germany expects to receive 3.8 million doses of Novavax's newly approved COVID-19 vaccine Nuvaxovid by March 20, the health ministry said on Tuesday, as the government looks to persuade unvaccinated Germans to get a shot.
  Reuters Health Information, January 25, 2022
• Can Cannabis Compound CBD Treat COVID? Early research suggesting that a popular non-psychoactive compound derived from marijuana might help prevent or treat COVID-19 warrants further investigation in rigorous clinical trials, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, January 25, 2022
• Pfizer and BioNTech Launch Trial of Omicron-Targeted COVID Vaccine Pfizer Inc and BioNTech said on Tuesday they started a clinical trial to test a new version of their vaccine specifically designed to target the COVID-19 Omicron variant, which has eluded some of the protection provided by the original two-dose vaccine regimen.
  Reuters Health Information, January 25, 2022
• Mandatory COVID Shots Could Deepen German Nurse Shortage, Say Care Companies As Germany gears up to make COVID-19 vaccination compulsory in the healthcare sector, the industry fears that resistance among some workers will exacerbate staffing shortages and leave many families reliant on carers in the lurch.
  Reuters Health Information, January 25, 2022
• Cancer Deaths Continue to Fall in EU, UK, Led by Ovarian Cancer Mortality rates from most major cancers are predicted to continue falling in Europe and the UK in 2022, with a particularly striking reduction in deaths from ovarian cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
• Most COVID ICU Survivors Show Adverse Effects 1 Year Later: Study Nearly 60% of former ICU patients reported continuing sickness-related problems at work. Three-fourths reported physical problems, and 26% reported mental problems.
  Medscape Medical News, January 25, 2022
• UK to Begin Testing Merck's COVID Pill for Hospitalized Patients British scientists will begin testing Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics' antiviral pill molnupiravir as a possible treatment for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, amid the worldwide spread of the Omicron variant.
  Reuters Health Information, January 24, 2022
• COVID-19 Vaccines Seem Safe in Rheumatic, Musculoskeletal Diseases SARS-CoV-2 vaccination seems safe in rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease patients, and likely to trigger flares in less than 5% of cases, a registry study shows.
  Reuters Health Information, January 24, 2022
• COVID Drives Record Annual Decline in Canadians' Life Expectancy: Statscan COVID-19 contributed to the biggest annual reduction in life expectancy on record in Canada in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, Statistics Canada said in preliminary findings released on Monday.
  Reuters Health Information, January 24, 2022