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Is WHO ready to end the global health emergency over Covid? Maybe not just yet

25.01.2023

Three years ago, the World Health Organization declared that the mushrooming outbreak of a new coronavirus — later named SARS-CoV-2, the cause of Covid-19 — posed such a threat to …

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Coronavirus

HHS needs better oversight of research that alters pathogens, government watchdog says

19.01.2023

WASHINGTON — The health department’s oversight of research that could enhance dangerous pathogens has vague parameters, a lack of transparency, and “does not fully meet the key elements of effective …

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Coronavirus

Biden Covid adviser David Kessler to exit as pandemic response winds down

13.01.2023

WASHINGTON — David Kessler, the D.C. veteran who guided government dispatches of millions of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, is exiting the Biden administration this month. His departure comes as the …

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Coronavirus / Health

Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

12.01.2023

The percentage of U.S. kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable dip into the 2021-2022 school year, health officials said Thursday, amid disruptions related to Covid-19 …

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Coronavirus / Health

XB what? BQ huh? Do you need to keep up with Omicron’s ever-expanding offspring?

12.01.2023

It’s like clockwork now. Every few months, we’re warned that the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned yet another subvariant, this one even more transmissible than the ones …

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Coronavirus / Health / Health Tech

What’s standing in the way of wastewater data becoming a more mainstream public health tool

11.01.2023

When case counts suggest Covid-19 is in check, the truth is in the toilets. The pandemic has long been in its fatigue phase, making it hard for public health departments …

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Coronavirus / Health

Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?

11.01.2023

WASHINGTON — After 9/11, Congress created an entirely new government agency to address the threat of terrorism, and Americans are still taking off their shoes in airports more than twenty years …

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Health

Callers keep flooding 988 mental health, suicide line

10.01.2023

HYATTSVILLE, Md. — When Jamieson Brill answers a crisis call from a Spanish speaker on the newly launched national 988 mental health helpline, he rarely mentions the word suicide, or …

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Coronavirus / Health

The pandemic showed the power of viral sequencing. Now the U.K. plans to decode other respiratory bugs

10.01.2023

Building on the global boom in viral surveillance during the pandemic, U.K. scientists on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to expand sequencing of the common seasonal respiratory bugs that have received …

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