Low cost COVID nasal spray vaccine that can be stored at room temperature reported by Lisbon and Tel Aviv university researchers
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U.S. Nursing Homes Fell Behind on Vaccinating Patients for Covid; Hospitalization rates higher
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The CDC report also revealed that during January’s covid peak, the rate of hospitalizations among nursing home residents was more than eight times that of all U.S. adults, age 70 and older.
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U.S. House Democrats critcize Republican COVID-19 report as a political stunt that failed to help prepare against a future pandemic
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House Democrats on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Tuesday released their own report responding to the Republican-led panel’s final report, deeming the subcommittee to have “failed” in its endeavor to uncover the origins of COVID-19 and instead having “fueled extreme narratives.” ...
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British government purchases 5 million bird flu vaccine doses in case of possible pandemic
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The United Kingdom has bought more than five million doses of a bird flu vaccine for humans in case the virus adapts to better infect people and cause a possible pandemic.
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Explainer: Bird Flu Concerns Grow. Are COVID-19 Mistakes Being Repeated?
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Opinion: A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History
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Almost five years after Covid blew into our lives, the main thing standing between us and the next global pandemic is luck. And with the advent of flu season, that luck may well be running out.
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U.S. Respiratory illness season begins to ramp up--CDC evaluation
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Reduced risk of long COVID after vaccination shown in analysis of 25 studies
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A new meta-analysis of studies involving more than 14 million people published in the Journal of Infection shows that COVID-19 vaccination is associated with a lower risk of developing long COVID, with two doses reducing the odds by 24% and one dose reducing the odds by 15%.
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Mpox: Burundi reluctant to accept vaccines despite outbreak; new case in England
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...Donated vaccine doses are available to Burundi for free but “vaccine hesitancy” might be playing a part in the government’s reluctance to vaccinate people, according to Dr Ngashi Ngongo, mpox lead for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
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Analysis: Concern About How Trump’s Health Nominee Covid Contrarians Will Handle the Next Pandemic
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President-elect Donald J. Trump had already succeeded in rattling the nation’s public health and biomedical establishment by the time he announced on Tuesday that he had picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health. But amid growing fears of a deadly bird flu pandemic, perhaps no one was more rattled than experts in infectious disease.
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