Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says Australia has secured access to Ronapreve and Pfizer's oral antiviral drug PF-07321332. Here's what we know about these drugs and how they work. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Journalists Tell How Covid Complicates Organ Transplants and the Health of Rural America
KHN senior correspondent JoNel Aleccia discussed organ transplants and the covid-19 vaccine on NBC’s “NBC Now” on Oct. 8. Click here to watch Aleccia on “NBC Now“Read Aleccia’s “Organ Centers to ... [Continue Reading]
WHO blames pandemic as tuberculosis deaths rise for first time in years
Fewer people got tested and treated for the disease because resources were diverted to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO has said. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
El resultado de una prueba de covid puede tardar horas, o hasta cinco días, dependiendo en donde vives
En una semana reciente, una neoyorquina tuvo una prueba gratuita de covid-19 en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, y su resultado al día siguiente, mientras que una residente de Colorado tuvo que desembolsar $50 para una prueba que tuvo que hacerse a ... [Continue Reading]
Trabajadores de salud alertan sobre el aumento de la violencia en hospitales
El departamento de emergencias del Hospital San Leandro, en California, donde trabaja la enfermera Mawata Kamara, se cerró de urgencia cuando un visitante, preocupado por no poder ver a un paciente por las restricciones de covid-19, amenazó ... [Continue Reading]
Journalists Examine Vaccination Rates Among Student Nurses and in Covid Hot Spots
Contributing writer and former KHN correspondent Michelle Andrews discussed difficulties in providing clinical training to student nurses who refuse to get vaccinated on CBS News on Thursday. Click here to watch Andrews on CBS NewsRead ... [Continue Reading]
New California Law Bans Harassment at Vaccination Sites, but Free Speech Concerns Persist
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s now illegal in California to harass people on their way into a vaccination clinic, under a law signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. But First Amendment experts continue to raise legal questions about ... [Continue Reading]
From Sewers to Golf Courses, Cities See Green With New Federal Covid Relief Dollars
Duluth, Minnesota, is hiring a social worker to help people with addiction and mental health problems. Pueblo, Colorado, started paying homeless residents to clean city streets. Palm Beach Gardens, Florida — in Palm Beach County, home to 160 ... [Continue Reading]
Our Covid Cocoon: The Parents Aren’t Alright (But Help May Be Coming)
HELENA, Mont. — My unvaccinated 7-year-old son began hacking and sneezing in late September as the hospitals in our home state of Montana started buckling under the latest covid surge. I took him to get tested when his symptoms wouldn’t go ... [Continue Reading]
Collins’ Skillful Piloting Helped NIH Steer Clear of Political Minefields
It’s remarkable that the reputation of the National Institutes of Health has remained mostly intact through the covid-19 pandemic, even as other federal science agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease ... [Continue Reading]
AstraZeneca develops long-lasting preventative COVID treatment for people who can’t be vaccinated
AstraZeneca asks US authorities to allow emergency use of an antibody treatment to prevent COVID-19, with an Australian specialist calling it an "important" but "niche" drug. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Who actually needs to be exempt from COVID vaccination?
Medical science, not Dr Google. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Student Nurses Who Refuse Vaccination Struggle to Complete Degrees
Kaitlyn Hevner expects to complete a 15-month accelerated nursing program at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville in December. For her clinical training this fall, she’s working 12-hour shifts on weekends with medical-surgical ... [Continue Reading]
Journalists Drill Down on Covid Vaccine Boosters, Misinformation Online
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber discussed how hospitals are dealing with covid-19 on WOSU’s “All Sides With Ann Fisher” on Tuesday. Weber also discussed the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a covid vaccine ... [Continue Reading]
Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites
Rural Americans are dying of covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts — a divide that health experts say is likely to widen as access to medical care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer and ... [Continue Reading]
A Covid Test Costing More Than a Tesla? It Happened in Texas.
When covid-19 struck last year, Travis Warner’s company became busier than ever. He installs internet and video systems, and with people suddenly working from home, service calls surged. He and his employees took ... [Continue Reading]
Can we still trust COVID modelling?
The big Delta outbreaks in Victoria and NSW are on different trajectories, but this week there was a strange crossover moment. On Tuesday, NSW recorded 863 new COVID cases, while in Victoria the daily tally that day was higher, at 867. In NSW the ... [Continue Reading]
Científicos dicen que una píldora diaria para tratar covid estaría a meses de distancia
Un día después de dar positivo para covid-19 en junio, Miranda Kelly estaba lo suficientemente enferma como para asustarse. Con 44 años, hipertensión y diabetes, la asistente de enfermería tenía problemas para respirar, ... [Continue Reading]
A Daily Pill to Treat Covid Could Be Just Months Away, Scientists Say
Within a day of testing positive for covid-19 in June, Miranda Kelly was sick enough to be scared. At 44, with diabetes and high blood pressure, Kelly, a certified nursing assistant, was having trouble breathing, symptoms serious enough to send her ... [Continue Reading]
Mounting Covid Deaths Fuel School Bus Drivers’ Fears
GRIFFIN, Ga. — Natalia D’Angelo got sick right after school started in August. She was driving a school bus for special education students in Griffin-Spalding County School System about 40 miles south of Atlanta and ... [Continue Reading]
Will ‘Dr. Disinformation’ Ever Face the Music?
Earlier this month, Dr. Rashid Buttar posted on Twitter that covid-19 “was a planned operation” and shared an article alleging that most people who got the covid vaccine would be dead by 2025. His statement is a recent ... [Continue Reading]
Iran banned US vaccines, Taiwan snubbed China’s. Here’s what they came up with instead
You've heard of Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, but what about Medigen and Zydus Cadila? SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]