Will Covid-19 Vaccines Continue To Protect Us From Hospitalization And Death??
Vaccines are integral to our control of Covid-19—if not for preventing infection, at least for preventing severe illness and death. But what if vaccine-induced immunity lost its efficacy against new variants on all accounts? Along with earlier work published by MIT, a …
Loss Of Smell Linked To Long Term Covid Cognitive Impairment
Very little is known about the long term effects of Covid-19, especially in relation to the brain. Who gets what symptoms may feel like a mystery. And with the current seven day average of new cases hovering around 1,000,000 cases worldwide, the …
Covid-19, Gender And Immune Response: What’s The Relationship? (Part Two)
Covid-19 disease severity and mortality differ between men and women, but the reasons for such differences are not well understood. Part one of this series delves into sex differences in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection and notes how stronger immune responses seen in …
Covid-19, Gender And Immune Response: What’s The Relationship?
This is the first installment in a two part series which analyzes biological sex differences in immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection. This article focuses primarily on Covid-19 related viral entry as well as innate and adaptive immune responses Covid-19 and their correlation …
Mild Covid Inflicts Paradoxical Brain Damage: Detected By Imaging But Not By Neuropsychological Assessment
Brain fog—or difficulty thinking or concentrating—plagues many who recover from Covid-19. Along with fatigue, lightheadedness when standing, and trouble sleeping, Covid-caused neurological symptoms may linger for weeks to months at a time. These ailments can develop even after asymptomatic and mild cases …
Should You Get Vaccinated For Covid-19? Yes. Will It Protect You From Long Covid? Probably Not.
The United States is amidst a new Covid-19 wave. BA.2.12.1, the previous variant of concern, has been outcompeted by highly transmissible Omicron sub variants BA.4 and BA.5. BA.4 and 5 contribute 16 and 65 percent respectively to the 110,000+ Covid-19 cases seen …
Long Covid And Its Unequal Burden
All countries have health disparities, or unfair and avoidable differences in health status between groups. As defined by WHO, these differences come “from the social conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age,” factors which extend beyond an individual’s …
There May Be A New Polio Epidemic On Its Way- If So, What We Can Do: Part III
Infant Receiving Oral Polio Vaccine GETTY IMAGES This is Part III in a series on the enteroviruses that appear to cause a polio-like neurological disease, Acute Flaccid Myelitis. Hopefully we can use what we have learned from both the success and challenges …
Leveraging Fintech to Expand Digital Health in Indonesia, The Phillipines and Singapore
This report examines the role of digital technologies in finance and health care that together can create a “Fintech for Health” approach. This can enable access to healthcare financing, information, and services, and overall operational efficiencies for health systems. A Fintech for …
There May Be A New Polio Epidemic On Its Way- If So, What We Can Do: Part II
This is Part II in a series on the enteroviruses that appear to cause a polio-like neurological disease, Acute Flaccid Myelitis. The US still has no vaccine against the primary causative agent while China has three, with more in Asia on the …
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