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Health Care June 16, 2023

96.4% of Americans had COVID-19 antibodies in their blood by fall 2022

by Matt Hitchings, University of Florida and Derek Cummings, University of Florida, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] CC BY-ND Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that…

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Health Care April 13, 2023

Human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, is filling ICUs this spring – a pediatric infectious disease specialist explains this little-known virus

by John V. Williams, University of Pittsburgh, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In the year 2000, Dutch scientists went on a mission of exploration –…

Health Care March 14, 2023

What the research shows about risks of myocarditis from COVID vaccines versus risks of heart damage from COVID – two pediatric cardiologists explain how to parse the data

by Frank Han, University of Illinois at Chicago and Jennifer H. Huang, Oregon Health & Science University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Soon after the…

Health Care January 17, 2023

Moderna’s experimental cancer vaccine treats but doesn’t prevent melanoma – a biochemist explains how it works

by Mark R. O’Brian, University at Buffalo, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Media outlets have reported the encouraging findings of clinical trials for a new…

Health Care January 4, 2023

Public Health Agencies Try to Restore Trust as They Fight Misinformation

This article by Lauren Sausser was first published in Kaiser Health News, republished with permission. Lauren Sausser January 4, 2023 OKLAHOMA CITY — By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby,…

Health Care November 19, 2022

Mistrust and Polarization Steer Rural Governments to Reject Federal Public Health Funding

This article by Jazmin Orozco was first published in Kaiser Health News, republished with permission Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez November 18, 2022 ELKO, Nev. — When Elko County commissioners rejected a…

Health Care February 24, 2022

Georgia legislators target COVID mask, vaccine precautions with mandate bans

by Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder [this article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] February 23, 2022 Republican state lawmakers’ fight against COVID-19 mandates gained steam Wednesday, with…

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Health Care January 27, 2022

Is the omicron variant Mother Nature’s way of vaccinating the masses and curbing the pandemic?

By Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In the short time since the…

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Health Care January 9, 2022

Public availability of COVID stats in Georgia choked off because of ELR problems. Just what is ELR?

For the past several days it hasn’t been possible to get complete and consistent reports on COVID in Georgia in general and in Cobb County in our specific case because…

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From the Editor November 21, 2021

We are not out of the woods on COVID-19 in Cobb County

Yesterday I reported that Cobb County had a spike in COVID-19 cases among 0-4-year-olds and 5-17-year-olds and a consequent rise in the COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 of population. The…

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