Fewer than 20 million Americans have received an updated shot, according to CDC data.
Category: Breaking
Scientists Work Out How To Grow Zombie Mushrooms In A Lab — It Could Help Unlock New Virus-Fighting, Anti-Cancer Drugs
Cordyceps fungi, which infect and zombify insects, are difficult to cultivate but contain chemicals that could help fight cancer and viruses and possibly help treat Covid-19.
Europe’s Covid Wave Suggests U.S. Outbreak Looms Around The Corner
Though cases, hospitalizations and deaths are down across the U.S., mutated omicron variants are gaining ground and high levels of coronavirus have been found in wastewater.
Gates Foundation Pledges $1.2 Billion To Polio Eradication
Vaccine-derived polio has been found in wastewater in New York and London in recent months, prompting renewed fears about the largely-eliminated disease.
Here’s Why Exercising Is Tougher After Covid
Researchers said those with long Covid could be less able to exercise, suggesting that people swimming laps may have to switch to low-impact aerobics and doubles tennis players may have to switch to playing golf using a cart.
CDC Recommends Omicron-Specific Covid Boosters For Kids 5 And Up
Uptake of the retooled coronavirus vaccine among Americans 12 years and older has lagged.
Women And Hospitalized Patients More Prone To Long Covid, Study Finds
An estimated 63% of global long Covid cases are in women, the researchers said, and 43% of patients admitted to the ICU developed persistent symptoms.
Football Concussions—The NFL’s Worst Fear—May Be More Likely On Fake Grass Fields, Study Suggests
The research, among the first to examine how playing surfaces contribute to head trauma, comes amid significant public outcry about the NFL’s handling of concussions.
CDC Asks U.S. Physicians To Monitor For Ebola As Uganda Outbreak Grows
There are no suspected or confirmed Ebola cases in the U.S., and the Uganda outbreak remains much smaller than a 2014 outbreak of the disease that infected more than 28,000 people in West Africa.
Cholera Making An ‘Unwelcome Comeback,’ WHO Warns. Here’s What You Need To Know About One Of Humanity’s Most Feared Killers
Cholera is one of the most rapidly fatal human diseases known and can kill within hours if untreated, though is preventable with vaccination and treatable with rehydration therapy.
