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	health Daily update ⋅ January 26, 2022
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	NPR Hospitals use a lottery to allocate scarce COVID drugs for the immunocompromised NPR Dr. Vivian Cheung takes steroids to manage a rare genetic disease. The drugs suppress her immune system, which puts her at high risk of getting very sick from COVID-19. It also means that her body didn't really make antibodies in response to two shots ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Will another devastating variant follow Omicron? Experts debate COVID-19 future, 'endgame' Los Angeles Times As coronavirus transmission rates drop across California, indicating that the surge spawned by Omicron is flattening, many are wondering whether the latest variant will be the last surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. There remains considerable debate ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Pandemic to Endemic: Is a New Normal Near? HealthDay TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It has begun to feel like a pandemic that will never end, but public health experts now say the Omicron variant may be ushering in a "new normal," where COVID-19 becomes an endemic, but manageable, disease. Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Survivors of Severe COVID Face Higher Odds for Another Hospitalization Soon After U.S. News & World Report By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People hospitalized for COVID-19 are not necessarily out of the woods once they're discharged: Many land in the hospital again in the months afterward, ... Flag as irrelevant
	WBUR Got COVID? Here's what to know about drug treatments, and who is getting them WBUR In an outpatient context, there are four medications being used to help people with omicron infections. Two are given intravenously: a monoclonal antibody treatment called sotrovimab and an antiviral drug called remdesivir. They've ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Washington Post CDC study finds shorter hospital stays during omicron wave, even as infections and death toll mount The Washington Post Federal health officials reported Tuesday that the omicron variant caused less severe illness in hospitalized patients than earlier virus lineages, even though its explosive transmissibility has caused far more infections and led to more than 2,200 ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report 3 Factors Helped Teens Stay Mentally Healthy During Pandemic U.S. News & World Report By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Support from family and friends, along with exercise and sufficient sleep, have helped protect teens' mental health during the pandemic, new research shows. Flag as irrelevant
	Minneapolis Star Tribune University of Minnesota ivermectin trial nearing completion Minneapolis Star Tribune University of Minnesota researchers expect to finish enrollment this week in the nation's first clinical trial of ivermectin to treat COVID-19, and the study's highly anticipated results could be only a month away. Flag as irrelevant
	CNBC Covid vaccine skepticism may be fueling 'worrisome' rise in wider anti-vax sentiment, doctors say CNBC In the late 1990s, claims that vaccines caused autism "turned tens of thousands of parents around the world against the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine," according to the Lancet medical journal. In 2010, the journal retracted a 12-year-old article ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Young Women at Higher Risk for Stroke Than Male Peers: Study U.S. News & World Report By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Strokes aren't common among young people, but when they do happen, they strike more often in women than men, a new review finds. Of the nearly 800,000 Americans ... Flag as irrelevant
	Today.com Who will get long COVID? Study may offer clues Today.com A blood test may someday help determine a person's risk for long COVID, new research suggests. The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, found that people who go on to develop long Covid have lower levels of certain antibodies ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Unvaccinated man denied heart transplant by Boston hospital BBC News A US hospital has rejected a patient for a heart transplant at least in part because he is not vaccinated against Covid-19. DJ Ferguson, 31, is in dire need of a new heart, but Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston took him off their list, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News COVID-19 Vaccine Before or After Infection? For Super Immunity, It Makes No Difference Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Now, a new study finds that there are two routes to enhanced immune protection—breakthrough infections following vaccination or vaccination after natural infection—both of which provide roughly equal levels of enhanced immune protection. This ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Walking Just 10 Minutes a Day May Lead to a Longer Life The New York Times Published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine, the study used data about physical activity and death rates for thousands of American adults to estimate how many deaths every year might be averted if everyone exercised more. The results ... Flag as irrelevant
	Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Eye Scans Open a Window into Heart Health Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Scientists at the University of Leeds have successfully trained artificial intelligence (AI) systems to detect signs of heart disease from retinal scans that are comparatively cheap and routinely performed by opticians and eye clinics. Flag as irrelevant
	Palm Beach Post Long COVID: Why aren't my symptoms going away? Why did they come back? Am I a long-hauler? Palm Beach Post But for some COVID patients symptoms never go away, or they resurface after weeks of apparent health. Sometimes symptoms appear weeks later for people who never experienced symptoms when they first caught it. Fatigue. Shortness of breath. Flag as irrelevant
	Healio Myocarditis low after COVID-19 vaccination, but odds elevated in male teens, young adults Healio Despite low absolute rates, researchers observed elevated odds of cardiac injury among male adolescents and young adults after messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccination in a large U.S. study, as well as a smaller study in Hong Kong. Flag as irrelevant
	PBS NewsHour New Pfizer study to test omicron-specific vaccine PBS NewsHour Pfizer is enrolling healthy adults to test a reformulated COVID-19 vaccine that matches the hugely contagious omicron variant, to see how it compares with the original shots. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced the study on Tuesday. Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Post-Vax Myocarditis Most Pervasive in High-School Boys MedPage Today Mounting data on mRNA vaccination against COVID-19 continued to suggest a small excess risk of myocarditis, especially in young men and adolescent boys. Based on voluntary reports to the passive surveillance Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System ... Flag as irrelevant
	Bloomberg Deaths Months After Covid Point to Pandemic's Grim Aftermath Bloomberg Study finds greater mortality risk for hospitalized patients · Findings add to evidence of coronavirus's hidden damage. Flag as irrelevant
	Deseret News Were side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine all in your head? Deseret News The study represents a meta-analysis of 12 vaccine trials with a total of 45,380 participants. The researchers found that 76% of the adverse side effects (such as fatigue or headache) that people experienced after receiving their first COVID-19 vaccination ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News Pfizer begins testing omicron-matched COVID shots in adults ABC News Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced the study on Tuesday. COVID-19 vaccine-makers have been updating their shots to better match omicron in case global health authorities decide the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Interaksyon Omicron Survives Longer on Plastic, Skin Than Other COVID Variants WebMD In a lab experiment, samples of different variants were applied to pieces of plastic and human skin collected from autopsies, researchers from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine wrote in bioRxiv. A variant "survived" until it could no longer be ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Pfizer opens study of COVID-19 shots reformulated to target Omicron Los Angeles Times Pharmacist Sima Manifar prepares a children's dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic on Dec. 29 in Lawrence, Mass. (Charles Krupa / Associated Press). Flag as irrelevant
	Popular Science Can cannabis protect people from COVID? Buzzy studies can't say. Popular Science A large team of researchers conducted experiments on human lung cells and on live mice to see how different cannabis compounds affected the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2. They found that cannabidiol, the non-psychoactive compound also known as CBD, and one of ... Flag as irrelevant
	oregonlive.com COVID-19 infection before or after vaccination could create 'super immunity', OHSU researchers find oregonlive.com In both cases, antibodies in the blood were found to be 10 times or more as potent as the antibodies in people who have been vaccinated but never had the disease, the researchers found. Flag as irrelevant
	WRAL.com Deadly avian flu found in NC; zoo closes aviary, poultry farmers on alert WRAL.com This strain of H5N1 bird flu is the same one that caused the biggest bird flu epidemic in history in Europe. Wildlife officials have been ramping up testing of birds shot by hunters - and they found the ... Flag as irrelevant
	FOX31 Denver Half of children hospitalized with COVID develop headaches, altered mental state FOX31 Denver Of the 44% of children with neurological symptoms, the most common were headaches and acute encephalopathy, or in simpler terms, "an altered mental status." "The SARS-CoV-2 virus ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Pandemic to Endemic: Is a New Normal Near? U.S. News & World Report By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It has begun to feel like a pandemic that will never end, but public health experts now say the Omicron variant may be ushering in a "new normal," where COVID-19 ... Flag as irrelevant
	WWLP.com Are itchy eyes an omicron symptom? WWLP.com (NEXSTAR) – Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we've repeatedly been warned about the symptoms of the virus. Having a cough, sore throat, fever, or loss of taste or smell were among the most common. But there is a new symptom being reported by ... Flag as irrelevant
	KXAN.com Half of children hospitalized with COVID develop headaches, altered mental state KXAN.com Of the 44 percent of children with neurological symptoms, the most common were headaches and acute encephalopathy, or in simpler terms, "an altered mental status." "The SARS-CoV- ... Flag as irrelevant
	KSTP COVID-19 booster drive is faltering in the US KSTP FILE - Riley Bredbeck, 13, from Westminster, Vt., looks away when getting the Pfizer COVID-19 booster during a vaccine clinic that was hosted by Rescue Inc. at Bellows Falls Fire Department, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, in Bellows Falls, Vt. The COVID-19 ... Flag as irrelevant
	LA Daily News Omicron has 'passed the peak' in LA County, Ferrer says, but transmission rate still worrisome LA Daily News Local COVID-19 daily case numbers and the testing-positivity rate are trending downward, indicating Los Angeles County appears to have "passed the peak" of the omicron variant surge, but virus transmission remains at one of the highest points of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fortune The WHO says the next COVID variant will be more infectious than Omicron, and it might be more deadly Fortune The WHO defines a "variant of concern" as any variant that either weakens the effectiveness of vaccines or increases transmissibility or virulence to a degree "of global public health significance." Between Delta and Omicron, the WHO labelled variants like ... Flag as irrelevant
	Deseret News Time for another COVID-19 booster shot? Not in the US — yet Deseret News Just about 60% of Utahns are considered fully vaccinated, meaning it's been two weeks or more since they've received the initial vaccination series against the deadly virus — two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or a single dose of Johnson & Johnson. Flag as irrelevant
	Infection Control Today Long COVID Symptoms Last for a Year for Some Patients Infection Control Today The main outcomes were physical symptoms (including frailty, fatigue, and other physical problems), mental symptoms (anxiety, depression, PTSD), and cognitive symptoms self-reported 1 year after ICU treatment. Flag as irrelevant
	Healio Pfizer, BioNTech launch trial of omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine Healio Pfizer and BioNTech said Tuesday that they have initiated a clinical study to assess the safety and efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine for adults aged 18 to 55 years that specifically targets the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. Flag as irrelevant
	Prevention.com Bird Flu Is Back in the US: How Worried Should You Be? Prevention.com The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently issued an alert after detecting "highly pathogenic" avian influenza cases in several wild birds. ("Pathogenic," in case you're not familiar with the word, means that it can cause disease.) ... Flag as irrelevant
	News On 6 Hospital Refusing Heart Transplant For Man Who Won't Get Vaccinated News On 6 A Boston hospital says it won't consider performing a heart transplant on a patient who refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19, CBS Boston reports. DJ Ferguson, 31, is fighting for his life at Brigham and Women's Hospital and in desperate need of a ... Flag as irrelevant
	KTVZ Deschutes County, FEMA partner on free walk-in COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Bend Armory KTVZ BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Deschutes County Health Services said Tuesday it is partnering with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to offer free walk-in COVID-19 vaccines for anyone 5 or older at the Bend National Guard Armory through Friday, Feb. Flag as irrelevant
	fox8.com Woman who came face-to-face with lab monkey after truck crash becomes sick fox8.com VALLEY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WBRE/WYOU) — A woman who came into close contact with an escaped monkey on the side of an interstate in Pennsylvania said she developed pink eye-like symptoms and is now on preventative medication. Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek Algerian minister urges COVID vaccination amid virus surge ABC News ALGIERS, Algeria -- Algeria's health minister on Tuesday urged people to get vaccinated and save hospitals from collapse as the North African nation faces a surge of COVID-19 infections. Algeria is battling infections from both ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Two-thirds with Omicron say they have had Covid before BBC News UK Health Security Agency chief executive Dr Jenny Harries said although vaccines may not stop every infection, they were doing a great job at protecting lives. "Vaccination remains the best way to ... Flag as irrelevant
	WNEP Scranton/Wilkes-Barre UPDATE: Monkey crash near Danville WNEP Scranton/Wilkes-Barre MONTOUR COUNTY, Pa. — Over the weekend, we spoke with a woman who came upon the crash involving 100 monkeys on Friday. Michele Fallon told us she had an up-close encounter ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Economist What makes animals susceptible to SARS-CoV-2? The Economist Unfortunately, in Hong Kong it is serious. Having discovered that some hamsters imported from the Netherlands in late December were infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19, the territory's government ordered a cull of the animals. Flag as irrelevant
	CBC.ca Omicron subvariant BA.2 raises new questions about puzzling evolution of virus behind COVID-19 CBC.ca The subvariant is known as BA.2 in the classification system used to catalogue mutations of SARS-CoV-2, and it's just one of a handful of Omicron subvariants featuring different mutations, which also includes the original lineage, BA.1, as well as BA.1.1, ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBC Montana New COVID-19 variant detected in at least 40 different countries NBC Montana WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (WPEC) — As omicron cases fall across some parts of the United States, international health officials are now warning about a new variant. "BA.2" is a sub-variant of omicron and has been labeled "variant under investigation" by ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Guardian Child Covid infections are rising in England – is low vaccine rate a factor? The Guardian Covid cases in the UK have fallen sharply in the past few weeks, and hospital admissions appeared to have turned a corner. But now, it seems, the situation has stalled, with cases bobbing around 90,000 a day. Flag as irrelevant
	WLKY Louisville Omicron variant cases 'seem to be at a plateau' LouisvilleKy.gov Mayor Greg Fischer was joined by Dr. Sarah Moyer, director of the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness (LMPHW), Dr. SarahBeth Hartlage, associate medical director of LMPHW, and Dr. Edward Miller, maternal fetal medicine physician ... Flag as irrelevant
	KSTP MDH: 37 newly reported COVID-19 deaths, 1507 current hospitalizations KSTP Tuesday, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) reported: 37 new deaths from COVID-19*. *MDH reports one death was from August, two were from December and 34 were from this month. MDH also reported the following data regarding hospital capacity**:. Flag as irrelevant

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