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New International Regulations to Protect Against Pandemics Finally Approved at WHO Assembly

Mon, 2024-06-03 09:36 — mike kraft

'The World Has Won': New International Regulations To Protect Against Pandemics Finally Approved - Health Policy Watch After two years of intensive negotiations – including long nights this week – the World Health Assembly (WHA) finally passed amendments to the International Health Policy Watch

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Possible explanaton for surge in RSV cases following COVID pandemic--study

Fri, 2024-05-31 10:41 — mike kraft

Study examines surge in RSV cases after the COVID-19 pandemic

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The surge in RSV cases following the COVID-19 pandemic may have been, in part, caused by increased testing and changes to the RSV genome, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications.

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Pandemic treaty talks: Warning that the world is unprepared for another pandemic

Fri, 2024-05-31 10:03 — mike kraft

World unprepared for another pandemic as WHO treaty talks push on Member states gathered in Geneva to work out how to continue negotiations about an accord after missing this month’s deadline. Emma Farge,Jennifer Rigby Reuters

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More Things to Know About FLiRT, the New Coronavirus Strains

Fri, 2024-05-31 09:30 — mike kraft

3 Things to Know About FLiRT, the New Coronavirus Strains A Yale Medicine expert discusses the FLiRT strains, two new COVID subvariants that emerged in in spring 2024. Yale Medicine

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COVID boosters offer good protection against severe outcomes but less so against the now dominant strain, JN.1

Fri, 2024-05-31 09:18 — mike kraft

Current COVID boosters offer good protection against severe outcomes but less so against JN.1 The current COVID-19 boosters targeting the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant are still offering solid protection against infection, hospitalizations, and death, but are somewhat limited in efficacy against illnesses caused by the JN.1 subvariant, now the dominant strain in the United States, according to a research letter yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. CIDRAP

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WHO emergencies team run short of funding as health crises multiply

Thu, 2024-05-30 11:08 — mike kraft

WHO emergencies team faces funding crunch as health crises multiply The World Health Organization's emergencies department is facing “existential threats” as multiplying health crises have left it so short of cash that it needed emergency funds to pay staff salaries at the end of last year, an independent report said. Jennifer Rigby Reuters

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US Reportedly Nears Deal To Fund Moderna mRNA Bird Flu Shot Trial, holds talks with Pfizer

Thu, 2024-05-30 09:41 — mike kraft

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Children: Having 2 or more underlying conditions increases risk of severe COVID-19 almost 10-fold in kids

Thu, 2024-05-30 09:16 — mike kraft

Having 2 or more underlying conditions increase the risk of severe COVID-19 almost 10-fold in kids, data show Though severe COVID-19 infections in children are uncommon, children and young adults with comorbidities are at increased risk for critical illness during COVID-19 infections, according to a new study in Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. CIDRAP

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COVID can cause new health problems to appear years after infection--study

Thu, 2024-05-30 09:10 — mike kraft

COVID can cause new health problems even 3 years after infection, study finds. 'We don’t know what’s going to happen at 10 years' A new report reinforces that the virus is not going away. Fortune

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US Health Secretary Optimistic About Pandemic Treaty Talks, But Timeline Remains Uncertain

Wed, 2024-05-29 14:05 — mike kraft

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