“In the chaos of the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, oncologist and geneticist Ami Bhatt was intrigued by widespread reports of vomiting and diarrhoea in people infected with SARS-CoV-2,” Heidi Ledford writes over at Nature magazine. “’At that time, this was thought to be a respiratory virus,’ she says. Bhatt and her colleagues, curious […]
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) and breaking the isolation: Finding community online
One survivor is using his experience dealing with long Covid to help others struggling with the condition and the painful emotions that can torment them by running a pop-up virtual support group for long-Covid patients that runs 24 hours at a time so people in any time zone can find help when they need it. Dave, […]
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) in hiding: There are more asymptomatic cases than you think
Hervé, a father of two in Paris, was shocked when he found out that his daughter, Cèlia, had been infected with Covid-19. He, Cèlia, Cèlia’s mother and brother had multiple negative PCR tests since the pandemic began and had never felt sick. But in January 2022, when Hervé took Cèlia, 10, to a pediatric vaccination […]
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Fall Covid booster affected by your history of illness: The Washington Post
“In the beginning, when the coronavirus was new, the quest for a vaccine was simple,” Carolyn Y. Johnson writes over at The Washington Post about the fall Covid booster. “Everyone started out susceptible to the virus. Shots brought spectacular protection.But the next chapters of life with the virus —- and the choice of booster shots […]
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Covid testing is tightening again in the New York area
Covid testing is tightening even further in New York City, perhaps as a sign of what’s next in the pandemic, judging from our experiences at the testing van we support in an undervaccinated neighborhood in Queens. City data shows that the rate of hospitalizations and deaths related to Covid is not extremely high and appears […]
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) and vaccine proof: What’s working and what isn’t?
You need to prove you got vaccinated — maybe at the border, maybe at the door of the bar, or at the airline gate or the sports arena. What to use? There’s always your paper vaccine record. And yet a number of electronic vaccine passes have sprung up, some more useful and reliable than others. […]
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Drop in Covid vaccine production predicted
“For much of the pandemic, the main obstacle to vaccinating the world against the coronavirus was a lack of supply, as wealthy nations bought up vaccine doses and logistical bottlenecks hampered access for the poorest countries,” Adam Taylor writes in The Washington Post. “But increasingly, global vaccination efforts — spearheaded by Covax, a vaccine-sharing initiative backed in […]
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Coronavirus (Covid-19): The coming mental health crisis
The Covid pandemic may appear to be on the decline in the United States, but some experts are saying we have yet to witness another, still unfolding wave of illness and death — the mental health crisis that has been called the fourth wave of the pandemic. ClearHealthCosts spoke to patients and experts around the […]
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) and the vaccine: In search of Moderna, Chapter 2
I went looking for a Moderna booster on Saturday, Oct. 23, the day after the Centers for Disease Control announced that they were available and I was eligible, as an over-65 person with the initial Moderna series completed in January and February of this year. I called Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y., part […]
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) and testing: Omicron and holidays have made the market crazy
The combination of the surge in the new Omicron Covid variant, people’s decisions to travel for the holidays and the shutdown of some public testing sites has driven a sudden overnight change in the Covid testing landscape. Many people who had settled on a testing place in their neighborhood have now found that place has […]
