Latest Coronavirus News

• EU, United States Launch Joint Health Task Force The European Union and the United States have launched a new joint health task force to cooperate on cancer, global health threats and related supply chains and infrastructure, officials told a press conference on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 17, 2023
• 7 Things to Know About Bats and Pandemic Risk For millennia, bat viruses lurked in forests across West Africa, India, South America and other parts of the world. But, undisturbed, they posed little threat to humanity.
  Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2023
• How Providers Are Adjusting to Clinical Care Post-PHE Physician practices adjust to another new normal as the COVID-19 health emergency ends.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2023
• COVID Emergency Over, but Hundreds Are Still Dying Weekly Just 6 months after President Joe Biden declared that the pandemic is over, Debbie's death was a painful reminder to Traci and her family that COVID hasn't actually gone anywhere.
  WebMD Health News, May 17, 2023
• Review Supports Continued Mask-Wearing in Healthcare Visits Researchers reviewed three randomized trials and 21 observational studies to compare the effectiveness of cloth masks in reducing COVID-19 transmission.
  WebMD Health News, May 17, 2023
• 'Alarming' Levels of Childhood Obesity in Spain Excess weight affects 40.6% of children in Spain, and future predictions are not encouraging, say specialists.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2023
• Could Vitamin D Supplementation Help in Long COVID? If confirmed in large randomized clinical trials, vitamin D supplementation could be a strategy to reduce the burden of long COVID, say researchers, as suggested by a new retrospective study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2023
• Hyperbaric Oxygen May Improve Heart Function in Long COVID Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increased markers of heart function in patients with post-COVID syndrome or long COVID, in a small, randomized trial.
  Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2023
• G7 Plans New Vaccine Effort for Developing Nations The Group of Seven rich nations is set to agree on establishing a new programme to distribute vaccines to developing countries at next week's summit of leaders, Japan's Yomiuri newspaper said on Saturday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 13, 2023
• FDA Moves to Curb Misuse of ADHD Meds The FDA has announced updates to ADHD stimulant medication labels to note the serious risks of misuse, abuse, addiction, and the sharing of these drugs.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2023
• CDC Cuts Back Hospital Data Reporting on COVID Some experts wonder whether CDC will have enough timely information to guide public health decisions if the virus comes roaring back.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2023
• S. Korea to Drop Mandatory 7-Day COVID Quarantine South Korea on Thursday lowered its crisis level for COVID-19 and will from June no longer require infected people to quarantine for 7 days.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2023
• China's COVID Wave Raises Concern of Trading Volume Slowdown A fresh wave of COVID-19 is spreading through China as people return from public holiday travel, reaching trading floors and raising concern of an impact to trading volume.
  Reuters Health Information, May 10, 2023
• Here's How We Can Rebuild Trust in Vaccines Falling rates of childhood vaccination and declining support for school vaccination laws have some experts exploring new ways to boost childhood vaccination rates.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2023
• Behavioral Therapy Reduces Long COVID Fatigue: Study People with long COVID reduced their fatigue after completing 17 weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy, compared with people with similar long COVID fatigue levels who didn't participate in therapy.
  WebMD Health News, May 10, 2023
• COVID Travel, Federal Employee Vaccine Requirements Revoked President Joe Biden on Tuesday revoked requirements that most international visitors to the United States be vaccinated against COVID-19 as well as similar rules for federal employees and contractors.
  Reuters Health Information, May 09, 2023
• Novavax's COVID, Flu Vaccine Candidates Show Promise in Study Novavax said on Tuesday that a mid-stage study of three of its vaccines, including a combination shot targeting COVID-19 and influenza, showed strong immune responses and were found to be safe.
  Reuters Health Information, May 09, 2023
• How the End of the COVID Public Health Emergency May Affect You The federal public health emergency for COVID-19, in place in the US for more than 3 years, ends on Thursday. The implications will be felt by many physicians and their patients.
  WebMD Health News, May 09, 2023
• Cash-Rich BioNTech Broadens Scope as COVID Shot Sales Slide Germany's BioNTech, Pfizer's partner on COVID-19 vaccines, said its first-quarter net income plunged on lower demand for the shots as it widens its work on cancer and other diseases.
  Reuters Health Information, May 08, 2023
• CDC to Scale Back Data Collection on COVID Cases The CDC said it would stop reporting or monitoring COVID-19 case data and transmission rates after the government ends the pandemic's public health emergency designation next week.
  Reuters Health Information, May 05, 2023