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2022-02-01 Tonnes of COVID-19 health care waste expose urgent need to improve waste management systems Geneva, 1 February 2022 – Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems around the world, threatening human and environmental […]
2022-01-30 In Super-Vaxxed Vermont, Covid Strikes — But Packs Far Less Punch Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News Even Eden, a snow-covered paradise in northern Vermont, is poisoned by omicron. The nearly vertical ascent of new coronavirus cases in recent weeks, before peaking in mid-January, affected nearly every mountain hamlet, every shuttered factory town, every […]
2022-01-26 Pharmacies Are Turning Away Immunocompromised Patients Seeking 4th Covid Shot Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Patients with weakened immune systems — who are at high risk from covid-19 — say pharmacies are turning them away when they seek additional vaccine doses recommended by federal health officials. Alyson Smith became eligible this month […]
2022-01-25 Patient, Beware: Some States Still Pushing Ineffective Covid Antibody Treatments JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News As the omicron variant completes its sweep across the U.S., states with scarce supplies of monoclonal antibody therapies continue to use two treatments that federal health officials warn no longer work against the highly contagious version of […]
2022-01-23 Wildfires and Omicron Prompt a Special Health Insurance Enrollment Period in Colorado Markian Hawryluk A wildfire displaced thousands of Coloradans just as the omicron surge began sweeping through the state, so health insurance was likely not on many people’s minds when the regular enrollment period for the state’s health insurance marketplace ended Jan. […]
2022-01-21 Families Complain as States Require Covid Testing for Nursing Home Visits Judith Graham As covid-19 cases rise again in nursing homes, a few states have begun requiring visitors to present proof that they’re not infected before entering facilities, stoking frustration and dismay among family members. Officials in California, New York, and Rhode […]
2022-01-20 CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally CORBEVAX uses recombinant DNA technology that many countries already have the infrastructure to produce. Artis777 via iStock/Getty Images Plus Maureen Ferran, Rochester Institute of Technology The world now has a new COVID-19 vaccine in its arsenal, and at a fraction of the […]
2022-01-19 Officials Struggle to Regulate Pop-Up Covid Testing Sites — And Warn Patients to Beware Michelle Andrews NEW YORK — In recent months, mobile covid-19 testing tents and vans have sprouted on urban sidewalks and street curbs as demand has skyrocketed in response to the rapid spread of the omicron variant. Some of the […]
2022-01-17 With No End in Sight to Pandemic Life, Parents Find Disruption Is the New Normal Katharine Gammon As my kindergartner fumbled with his shoes, I stood at our door sifting through the mental parenting checklist newly lodged in my brain: backpack. Sweatshirt. Snacks. Sunscreen. Water bottle. KN95 mask. Vaccination card. Jesse asked […]
2022-01-16 What Patients Can Learn With Confidence From One Negative Rapid Test (Hint: Very Little) Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News and Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Julie Ann Justo, an infectious disease clinical pharmacist for a South Carolina hospital system, hoped Christmas week would finally be the time her family could safely gather […]