Category: COVID
Regaining fitness after COVID infection can be hard
Here are 5 things to keep in mind before you start exercising again
COVID-19 and the brain
Even mild cases of COVID-19 can leave a mark on the brain, such as reductions in gray matter – a neuroscientist explains emerging research.
Eight changes the world needs to make to live with COVID
The world pre-2020 no longer exists – we may want it to, but it just doesn’t.
Washington state re-opens COVID-19 test portal for the third time.
Rapid antigen tests can be ordered and shipped directly to Washington households at no-cost.
King County hospitals issue urgent call to action: ‘We Need your Help’
Capacity levels were critical before the current surge with non-COVID care and back-logged surgeries. The surge has exacerbated the situation, making it difficult to provide essential care for non-COVID health concerns.
Washington launches at-home test portal
Beginning today, Washington state residents will be able to visit www.sayyescovidhometest.org to order rapid-antigen COVID tests online, and will receive those tests delivered at no cost.
Is COVID-19 here to stay? A team of biologists explains what it means for a virus to become endemic
Endemic viruses include those that cause the common cold and the seasonal flu that appear year after year. Much like these, the virus that causes COVID-19 likely won’t die out, and most experts now expect it, too, to become endemic.
Vaccination Offers Higher Protection than Previous COVID-19 Infection, CDC study finds
Study participants were over 5 times more likely to have COVID-19 if they were unvaccinated and had a prior infection
Your unvaccinated friend is roughly 20 times more likely to give you COVID
Vaccines reduce your probability of getting infected, which reduces the probability of you infecting someone else.
An infectious disease expert explains new federal rules on ‘mix-and-match’ vaccine booster shots
Understanding how the immune system works can help explain why some people could benefit from booster shots.
How many lives have coronavirus vaccines saved? We used state data on deaths and vaccination rates to find out
Sumedha Gupta, IUPUI More than 200 million U.S. residents have gotten at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine with the expectation that the vaccines slow virus transmission and save lives. Researchers know the efficacy of the vaccines from large-scale…
More than 140,000 U.S. Children Lost a Primary or Secondary Caregiver Due to the COVID-19
Overall, the study shows that approximately 1 out of 500 children in the United States has experienced COVID-19-associated orphanhood or death of a grandparent caregiver.
Organ Centers to Transplant Patients: Get a Covid Shot or Move Down on Waitlist
A growing numbers of transplant programs have chosen to either bar patients who refuse to take the widely available covid vaccines from receiving transplants, or give them lower priority on crowded organ waitlists.
Risk of a COVID-19/Flu ‘twindemic,’ makes getting vaccinated all the more urgent
As winter looms and hospitals across the U.S. continue to be deluged with severe cases of COVID-19, flu season presents a particularly ominous threat this year.
Scientists Examine Kids’ Unique Immune Systems as More Fall Victim to Covid
Until the delta variant laid siege this summer, nearly all children seemed to be spared from the worst ravages of covid, for reasons scientists didn’t totally understand. Now, nearly 30% of cases are in children.