A 62-year-old man in Germany decided to get 217 Covid-19 vaccinations over the course of 29 months —for “private reasons.” But, somewhat surprisingly, he doesn’t seem to have suffered any ill effects from the excessive immunization, according to a newly published case study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The case is just one person, of […]
Read MoreUne faille de sécurité majeure chez Coronalab a mené à l’exposition en ligne de plus de 1,3 million de dossiers de patients. Cette brèche, révélant des informations sensibles incluant les résultats de tests COVID-19 et les données personnelles, soulève de sérieuses inquiétudes concernant la sécurité des données dans le secteur de la santé. Source : […]
Read MoreSince 2021, all dominant Covid variants have descended from Omicron. The 2023–2024 booster was tailored for the XBB.1.5 strain of Omicron, but JN.1 is about as different from XBB.1.5 as Omicron was from Delta. Even so, researchers from China and the US have posted preliminary analyses suggesting that the newest vaccines still effectively defend against […]
Read MoreBut the degree to which people accept the new shots might control whether and when a winter surge arrives. “We know from this virus, year over year, people’s immune response to each vaccine or boost starts waning at that six- to eight-month time point,” says Mark Cameron, an associate professor of population and quantitative health […]
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Read MoreBut over the past few months, even newer Omicron offshoots have arrived. Currently, EG.5.1, or Eris, is the dominant one in the United States, United Kingdom, and China. Meanwhile, a variant called BA.2.86, or Pirola, has been detected in several countries. Pirola has raised alarm bells because it has more than 30 new mutations compared […]
Read MoreIt’s scariant season—again. A new offshoot of Omicron, BA.2.86—nicknamed Pirola—has popped up in Israel, the US, South Africa, and the UK, after it was first recorded in Denmark in late July. Pirola initially set off alarm bells because it was spotted in four different countries at the same time—and because, having majorly curtailed our viral […]
Read MoreThe emergency stage of Covid-19 is over—at least in official terms. The World Health Organization declared an end to the Covid global health emergency last week, and the US will end its federal public health emergency for Covid on Thursday. These announcements come a full year after the European Union moved to end its emergency declaration. As global […]
Read MoreWheezing after getting on the treadmill. Gulping down air while doing chores. Breathlessness is one of the many scary and frustrating symptoms that can linger in Covid patients months after their initial infection. But while these symptoms were a mystery at the beginning of the pandemic, scientists are slowly unraveling their causes—moving us closer to […]
Read MoreThree years in, the pandemic mania has settled to a rumbling hum. We’re back to sweating on each other in nightclubs, spluttering out birthday candles, and sharing firm handshakes. Covid-19, while still very much alive, has for most people diminished to an everyday threat, thanks to vaccines and treatments. The same can’t be said of […]
Read MoreAt least 65 million people are still suffering from long Covid, the mysterious cocktail of symptoms that persist in some patients more than 12 weeks after an initial infection. Researchers are still working to understand this illness, but it’s been slow progress so far. This is because long Covid is not just a medical problem—it’s also […]
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Read MoreThe US Food and Drug Administration is pushing for you to get an annual Covid booster. The problem is, the data isn’t clear on whether you need one. Covid isn’t going anywhere. In the US and many European countries, SARS-CoV-2 is still circulating at significant levels, with Covid settling into being a major, ongoing cause […]
Read MoreWhile the whole blood transcriptomics was helpful, it only provided a general picture of what was going on. Next, the scientists turned to a technique called CITE-seq. This allowed them to find out which cells were expressing which genes differently across males and females, and what specific proteins they were creating. The best part was […]
Read MoreThe changing nature of the virus also makes it difficult to conduct human clinical trials and get a new antibody to patients in time for it to work against the current variants. At a meeting in December, drugmakers asked US and European regulators to consider adopting new standards for approving new antibody drugs, especially those meant […]
Read MoreUn décret paru ce samedi au Journal Officiel met un terme, à compter du 1er février, à la délivrance d’arrêts de travail dérogatoires aux assurés se trouvant dans l’impossibilité de continuer à travailler. Un test positif au Covid ne déclenchera plus automatiquement un arrêt de travail. Un décret, publié ce samedi 28 janvier dans le […]
Read MoreHECTOR RETAMAL / AFP Un agent de santé prélève un échantillon par écouvillonnage sur un homme pour tester le coronavirus Covid-19, à Shanghai, le 9 décembre 2022. HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP L’agence européenne chargée des épidémies a estimé ce vendredi 13 janvier que le variant XBB.1.5 devrait devenir dominant en Europe d’ici un mois ou […]
Read MoreSince Omicron became the world’s dominant Covid variant, it’s taken on a lot of shapes. First there was BA.1, then BA.5, and eventually others, including BQ.1 and BQ.1.1. Now all eyes are on another scrambled string of letters and numbers—XBB.1.5, also known as the Kraken, which has swept the northeastern US in recent weeks. The World […]
Read MoreThe fear is that the sudden spread of Covid through a new population with relatively little prior exposure to the virus will lead to the emergence of a new “supervariant”—one that has the potential to change the face of the pandemic like the Alpha, Delta, and Omicron forms of the virus did before. But whether […]
Read MoreObservez les captures suivantes : Pouvez-vous repérer le moment où j’ai fini, à mon corps défendant, par succomber à la Covid-19 ? Bravo ! Sur le moment, cela n’avait rien d’évident. J’avais bien le nez bouché et le cerveau embrumé, mais mon vieux thermomètre électronique assurait que tout allait pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes. Trois […]
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