Opinion | The New Covid Boosters Are Amazing News
Many European countries and Canada, for example, did a better job of making sure more of their population got boosters. Their cumulative death and illness tolls from the Omicron wave…
The Scientific Response to COVID-19: What Does the Biomedical Literature Say? | naked capitalism
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Unvaxxed Kids, and 8 Days a Week (of Isolation) | COVID, Quickly, Episode 38
This is our second back-to-school special episode. Today, we talk about two big issues—the low vaccination rates among the littlest kids, and how long you should quarantine after being sick…
U.S. known COVID cases hold at lowest level since May, but infections are rising again in New York
U.S. known cases of COVID are continuing to ease and now stand at their lowest level since early May, although the numbers need to be viewed gently, given the number…
Coronavirus Watch: COVID telehealth fraud cost Medicare $128M in first year
Telehealth visits spiked during the pandemic as Americans sought care remotely. But a new report indicates some providers engaged in potential fraud or wasteful billing, costing Medicare $128M in the…
‘Guardrails’ needed? Telehealth fraud cost Medicare $128M in first year of COVID pandemic, feds say
During the first year of the COVID pandemic, 1,714 doctors and health providers billed Medicare nearly $128 million in “high risk” claims, according to a new report from federal investigators.…
FDA authorizes first revamp of COVID vaccines to target omicron
Enlarge this image Vials of the newly reformulated COVID-19 vaccine booster are being readied by Pfizer for distribution now that the Food and Drug Administration has authorized the shots for…
FDA expected to authorize new omicron-specific COVID boosters this week
Enlarge this image The FDA is expected to authorize a new COVID-19 booster shot this week. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Frederic J. Brown/AFP via…
The new COVID booster could be the last you’ll need for a year, federal officials say
Enlarge this image The new COVID boosters rolling out this month represent a shift in strategy, said White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha during a press briefing. The…
The Number of Children Orphaned by COVID Keeps Rising
As an epidemiologist, I am used to studying waves of infection and measuring the rise and fall of deaths. While the deaths of parents and grandparents from COVID crash and…