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Analysis: Pandemic preparedness strategies must go beyond vaccines

Fri, 2023-04-07 16:49 — mike kraft

Pandemic preparedness strategies must go beyond vaccines Monoclonal antibodies can fill a critical gap to help stop the next infectious disease outbreak from becoming the next pandemic. Science Translational Medicine

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Once a pathogen of pandemic potential has emerged, an effective response that relies on medical countermeasures (e.g., prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic technologies) must be deployed at scale immediately. Thus, medical countermeasures need to be readily available for use at the first signals that a pathogen of concern has surfaced.

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Funding the search for answers about post COVID-19 condition: how Stichting Long COVID is stimulating research in the Netherlands

Fri, 2023-03-31 13:33 — FNUOvviyaa

Funding the search for answers about post COVID-19 condition: how Stichting Long COVID is stimulating research in the Netherlands “What I don’t understand is why there isn’t more of a sense of urgency about funding research into long COVID, when it is costing society so much,” says Ellen Bark, co-found

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Five cities recognized for public health achievements at Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit

Sun, 2023-03-19 01:48 — FNUOvviyaa

Five cities recognized for public health achievements at Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit Partnership for Healthy Cities award recipients include Montevideo, Uruguay for food policy; Mexico City, Mexico for road safety; Vancouver, Canada for surveillance; Athens, Greece for overdose prevention, and Bengaluru, India for tobacco control.The first-of-its-kind Summit was convened in London by Bloomberg Philanthropies, World Health Organization, Vital Strategies, and Mayor Sadiq Khan of London.Today, during the inaugural Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit in London, five global cities were recognized for their achievements in preventing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries.

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The CDC Wants To Modernize Its Healthcare Data Infrastructure

Sun, 2023-03-19 01:42 — FNUOvviyaa

The CDC Wants To Modernize Its Healthcare Data Infrastructure The organization hopes to be at the forefront of data modernization and infrastructure. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., J.D. Forbes

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Suggested ways to help people suffering from long Covid

Thu, 2023-03-09 10:13 — mike kraft

How to help friends and employees living with long Covid | CNN Three years after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic, life has not returned to normal for millions still struggling after their initial infection. For those with long Covid, health challenges are only part of the battle as they endure social stigma and endless bureaucracy in their quest to get better. Julia Chan CNN

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Patients, survivors, and advocates say there are ways you can support the long Covid community, whether you choose to lend your time, voice, or wallet.

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There are at least 500 coronaviruses. Researchers unveil roadmap to develop a new broad vaccine

Tue, 2023-02-21 10:32 — mike kraft

There are at least 500 coronaviruses. We must develop next-gen vaccines now, experts say. Is the world ready to combat future coronaviruses? Researchers with the Gates and Rockefeller foundations lay out a roadmap for new vaccines. YahooNews

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Two new studies indicate Paxlovid's usefulness in helping prevent hospitalization, death in COVID outpatients

Tue, 2023-02-14 10:56 — mike kraft

Paxlovid may help prevent hospitalization, death in COVID outpatients CIDRAP

Two new studies, one from the United States and one from Canada, suggest that the oral antiviral drug Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir-ritonavir) is effective in lowering the odds of hospitalization or death from the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariant.

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Wastewater data should become a more mainstream public health tool

Wed, 2023-01-11 17:20 — mike kraft

What's standing in the way of wastewater data becoming a more mainstream public health tool When case counts suggest Covid-19 is in check, the truth is in the toilets. Brittany Trang STAT

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Millions of Afghan children inoculated against measles, polio in 1st Statewide drive since 2021 transition

Fri, 2022-12-23 22:15 — FNUOvviyaa

Millions of Afghan children inoculated against measles, polio in 1st Statewide drive since 2021 transition Millions of Afghan children have been vaccinated during the first nationwide integrated measles and polio campaign in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power in August 2021, the UN health agency said on Thursday. UN News

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Based on the data from Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health Expanded Programme on Immunization, the campaign covered 329 districts in all 34 provinces of the country – with 4,341 vaccination teams comprised of four members on each team.

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