Latest Coronavirus News

• US 'Vulnerable' to COVID Without New Shots, White House Says Booster doses will be necessary for most people as immune protection wanes and the virus adapts to become more contagious.
  WebMD Health News, May 16, 2022
• Vaccines Reduced COVID in Quebec's Long-Term Care Facilities Vaccinating residents and healthcare workers, in addition to preventive public health measures, led to lower rates of infection, hospitalization, and death.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Disadvantaged Medicare Patients Benefited Most From COVID Telehealth Waiver Expanding Medicare coverage of telemedicine during the COVID pandemic led to an increase in utilization, particularly among people living in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, a new analysis shows.
  Reuters Health Information, May 13, 2022
• Biden May Need to 'claw Back' Funding for COVID, Jha Says The White House is preparing for a scenario in which Congress fails to approve President Joe Biden's request for additional COVID funds by reviewing old contracts to see if there is any money it can 'claw back,' the president's top COVID adviser said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 13, 2022
• Four Air Force Cadets May Not Graduate Over Vaccine Refusal One possible consequence for the Air Force cadets is having to repay tuition costs, which can be as much as $200,000, if they leave during their junior or senior years.
  WebMD Health News, May 16, 2022
• Radiologists Feeling the Effects of Contrast-Media Shortage The current global shortage of iodinated contrast media is forcing radiologists to make changes in diagnostic imaging to conserve contrast without affecting patient health.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Mingling Among Vaccinated Can Make Vaccines Appear Less Effective Increased contact among vaccinated people can give the false impression that COVID-19 vaccines are not working, researchers warn.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2022
• US Will Share COVID-19 Vaccine Technology, Biden Tells Global Summit The United States will share technologies used to make COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization and is working to expand rapid testing and antiviral treatments for hard-to-reach populations, President Joe Biden said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2022
• Cytokine Patterns May Help Classify Long COVID Subsets Patterns of inflammatory proteins in the blood of people with long COVID may someday help guide individualized treatment, new findings suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2022
• Are Physician White Coats Becoming Obsolete? The white coat has been the traditional physician garb. But since the pandemic, more have been wearing scrubs or more casual clothing. What's best for physicians to wear?
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Cancer and COVID: What Can Increase Risk of Dying? A large meta-analysis suggests that younger age and lung and blood cancers, as well as treatment with chemotherapy, raise the risk for death from COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Online Singing Program Boosts Quality of Life, Not Breathlessness in Long-COVID Patients An online program to help those with breathing issues due to long COVID improved participants' quality of life, but not their breathlessness, a new study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2022
• Massachusetts to Pay $56 Mln Over Deadly COVID Outbreak at Veterans' Home The state of Massachusetts on Thursday agreed to pay $56 million to resolve a lawsuit by families of veterans who contracted COVID-19 during an outbreak at a veterans' care center that killed 84 people early in the pandemic.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2022
• Meatpackers Convinced Trump Officials to Keep Plants Running During COVID Crisis: US House Report Top US meatpacking companies drafted the executive order issued by President Donald Trump in 2020 to keep meat plants running, according to a report released on Thursday by a US House panel.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2022
• We Will Learn From Plight of Aspen's COVID Vaccine Plant: WHO A senior World Health Organization official said on Thursday it was unfortunate that South African firm Aspen's COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity was at risk because of a lack of orders but that lessons would be learnt.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2022
• Diabetes Doubles Risk of Death From COVID-19; East-West Divide? 'These findings are interesting because they reveal that worse outcomes due to COVID-19 in people with diabetes can be reduced in the right setting,' says an expert.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• From Delta to Omicron in 20 Days A Spanish healthcare worker who had received three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine was infected twice by the virus. She had the shortest known time between SARS-CoV-2 infections to date.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Why Won't More Older Americans Get Their Covid Booster? The numbers dismay researchers, who say the lag has cost tens of thousands of lives.
  Kaiser Health News, May 12, 2022
• North Korea Reports First COVID Outbreak If infections spread, an outbreak could cause a crisis in North Korea, which lacks medical supplies and has isolated itself by keeping borders closed and refusing international help with vaccines.
  WebMD Health News, May 12, 2022
• Is Paxlovid, the Covid Pill, Reaching Those Who Most Need It? Many public health workers cannot tell whether vulnerable residents are filling prescriptions as often as their wealthier neighbors.
  Kaiser Health News, May 12, 2022