A new study indicates the debilitating “brain fog” suffered by millions of long COVID patients is linked to changes in the brain, including inflammation and an impaired ability to rewire itself following COVID-19 infection. United Press International reported this week that the small-scale study, conducted by researchers at Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and […]
Getty Images The government ignored an early warning by two Nobel prize-winning scientists that all healthcare workers should be routinely tested for coronavirus in the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has heard. The advice came in a strongly-worded letter sent in April 2020 by the chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute, Sir Paul Nurse, and […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tapped Vinay Prasad, a prominent critic of federal COVID-19 policies and a proponent of more stringent approval standards, to lead the agency’s vaccines division. Prasad replaces Peter Marks, the longtime leader of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), who resigned in March after clashing with Health […]
A group of Democratic-led states sued the Education Department Thursday in an effort to regain access to hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic relief aid that the department abruptly cut off late last month. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, 16 Democratic attorneys general and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro […]
A former triathlete whose terminal cancer was initially mistaken for long Covid has been given months to live. Olivia Knowles, from Blackpool, noticed something “wasn’t quite correct” in August 2023 while competing in the Half Ironman World Championship in Lahti, Finland. The two-mile swim and 56-mile cycle went smoothly but she added she “just wasn’t […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization for an updated version of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine amid the summer surge of infections. The new version of the vaccine “more closely targets” variants circulating nationwide, therefore providing more protection against “serious consequences” of the virus, including hospitalization and death. It is now permitted […]
President Biden appeared to make light of testing positive for COVID-19 in a fundraising pitch aimed at technology billionaire Elon Musk. “I’m sick,” the president said in a post on the social platform X Wednesday after the White House said Wednesday evening that the president had tested positive for COVID-19. “Of Elon Musk and his […]
Speaking at a session of the inquiry in London, Mr Dawson said witness statements from key decisions makers suggested that informal communications such as WhatsApp, texts, Microsoft Teams and Signal were used to discuss the Scottish government’s Covid response during the pandemic. Source link
Pfizer will sell its COVID-19 antiviral treatment at more than twice the price at which it was sold to the federal government as it transitions toward the commercial market. Since Paxlovid was made available at the end of 2021, the federal government has subsidized the cost. Pfizer sold the treatment to the government at a […]
A new survey released Tuesday indicates that enthusiasm and trust in the COVID-19 vaccines continues to diverge along political lines, with more Democrats than Republicans saying they plan to get the updated doses for this upcoming respiratory viral season. KFF’s ongoing COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor asked participants if they intended to get the flu vaccine and […]