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  1. 101 studies flagged as bogus COVID cure pusher sees career unravel

    A scientific journal published by Elsevier has reportedly posted a stunning 101 expressions of concern on studies connected to Didier Raoult, a disgraced French microbiologist who gained international prominence amid the pandemic by promoting, with...

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  2. German man got 217 COVID shots over 29 months—here’s how it went

    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, particularly...

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  3. CDC ditches 5-day COVID isolation, argues COVID is becoming flu-like

    COVID-19 is becoming more like the flu and, as such, no longer requires its own virus-specific health rules, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday alongside the release of a unified "respiratory virus guide."

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  4. CDC recommends spring COVID booster for people 65 and up

    People ages 65 and up should get another dose of a COVID-19 vaccine this spring, given the age group's higher risk of severe disease and death from the pandemic virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday.

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  5. RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study

    For some, having to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic was stressful. Parents balanced job duties while caring for children. Some struggled to set up a home office and adjust to new tools, like video conferencing. Lonely workdays at home...

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  6. First state-level look at long COVID reveals the seven hardest-hit states

    Over four years after SARS-CoV-2's debut, researchers still struggle to understand long COVID, including the ostensibly simple question of how many people have it. Estimates for its prevalence vary widely, based on different study methods and...

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  7. FDA slams alcohol-based nasal sanitizer some use for COVID prevention

    In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Food and Drug Administration has been busy clearing out bogus and unproven treatments from the market, especially those it views as claiming to prevent, treat, or cure COVID-19.

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  8. CDC to update its COVID isolation guidance, ditching 5-day rule: Report

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to update its COVID-19 isolation guidance, moving from a minimum five-day isolation period to one that is solely determined by symptoms, according to a report from The Washington Post.

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  9. CDC reports dips in flu, COVID-19, and RSV—though levels still very high

    Key indicators of seasonal flu activity declined in the first week of the year, signaling a possible reprieve from the high levels of respiratory virus transmission this season—but the dip may only be temporary.

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  10. COVID shots protect against COVID-related strokes, heart attacks, study finds

    Staying up to date on COVID-19 vaccines can cut the risk of COVID-related strokes, blood clots, and heart attacks by around 50 percent in people ages 65 years or older and in those with a condition that makes them more vulnerable to those events,...

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  11. US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA

    The US may be heading to a "dangerous vaccination tipping point," with immunization rates falling so low that population-level immunity is now at risk, and we will likely see thousands of needless deaths this respiratory virus season, two top...

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  12. Contact-tracing software could accurately gauge COVID-19 risk

    It’s summer 2021. You rent a house in the countryside with a bunch of friends for someone’s birthday. The weather’s gorgeous that weekend, so mostly you’re all outside—pool, firepit, hammock, etc.—but you do all sleep in the same house....

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  1. Texas sues Pfizer with COVID anti-vax argument that is pure stupid

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Pfizer last week, claiming the pharmaceutical giant "deceived the public" by "unlawfully misrepresenting" the effectiveness of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and sought to silence critics.

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  2. “Mystery” pneumonia in China is mix of common respiratory germs, WHO says

    Last week, news stories and a posting on an infectious disease surveillance system raised fears that another novel respiratory pathogen with pandemic potential was mushrooming in northern areas of China—namely Beijing and Liaoning province. The...

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  3. Bizarre blip: Cases of fetuses with flipped organs quadrupled in China

    Doctors in China are reporting a startling and unexplained spike in fetuses with situs inversus, a rare congenital condition in which the organs in the chest and abdomen are arranged in a mirror image of their normal positions.

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  4. Tenn. vaccine chief, fired after promoting COVID shots, gets $150K settlement

    The state of Tennessee will pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by Dr. Michelle Fiscus, the state's former top vaccination official who was fired in July 2021 after promoting COVID-19 vaccinations in the early stages of the deadly delta wave.

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  5. Fall COVID shot uptake is an “abysmal” 7%; wastewater testing impaired

    More than a month since US health officials recommended updated COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans, only 7.1 percent of US adults have rolled up their sleeves for the shot and just 2.1 percent of children have been immunized.

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  6. Pfizer hikes price of COVID antiviral Paxlovid from $530 to nearly $1,400

    Pfizer on Wednesday revealed that it raised the list price of a course of Paxlovid—its lifesaving antiviral drug used to reduce the risk of severe COVID-19 in those most vulnerable—to nearly $1,400, more than double the roughly $530 the US...

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  7. COVID antiviral Paxlovid to see price increase following 400% vaccine hike

    After raising the price of COVID-19 vaccines more than fourfold this year, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told investors Monday that the company will also likely hike the price of its lifesaving COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, raising further...

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  8. “Church of Bleach” family gets years in prison for deadly “miracle” solution

    A federal judge in Miami has handed down years-long prison sentences to a Florida father and his three adult sons who were convicted in July of using a faux church to sell an industrial-strength bleaching agent as a "miracle" solution they falsely...

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  9. Novavax’s updated protein-based COVID vaccine finally authorized by FDA

    Novavax's updated protein-based COVID-19 vaccine has finally won authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, a late-coming achievement that provides Americans with their only alternative to mRNA-based shots for the fall booster campaign now...

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  10. After being demoted and forced to retire, mRNA researcher wins Nobel

    Biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Monday for their foundational research showing that chemical modifications to the molecular building blocks of messenger RNA (mRNA) could enable...

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  11. US may pay 3x more than EU for Moderna’s US-funded COVID shot

    Compared with other countries, the US is again seeing exorbitant prices for a medicine—even one it helped develop.

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  12. Anti-viral drug backfires: COVID drug linked to viral mutations that spread

    With every new infection, the pandemic coronavirus gets new chances to mutate and adapt, creating opportunities for the virus to evolve new variants that are better at dodging our immune systems and making us sicker.

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  1. US to again offer free COVID tests ahead of respiratory virus season

    Americans will again have an opportunity to receive free at-home COVID-19 rapid tests from the US government, with orders beginning next Monday, September 25, the Biden administration announced Wednesday.

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  2. More than half of Americans plan to get updated COVID shot

    Despite last year's abysmal fall booster campaign, more than half of US adults say they plan to get the latest COVID-19 vaccine, which was greenlit by federal authorities last week.

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  3. Everyone should get a COVID booster this fall, CDC says

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended that everyone ages six months and older get an updated COVID-19 vaccine booster shot this fall or winter.

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  4. FDA approves and authorizes updated COVID boosters for everyone 6 months and up

    The Food and Drug Administration greenlit two updated COVID-19 vaccine booster shots Monday—a day before advisers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scheduled to meet to vote on recommendations for use of the updated vaccines.

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  5. BA.2.86 fears fizzle as other variants drive up hospitalizations, deaths

    Concern over the highly evolved omicron subvariant BA.2.86 is easing as the first batch of preliminary studies on the virus suggests it may not be as immune evasive or dangerous as its numerous mutations suggest.

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  6. Conservative judges revive case on FDA’s “you are not a horse” ivermectin posts

    A panel of conservative judges has revived a lawsuit over the Food and Drug Administration's statements about the anti-parasitic and de-worming drug ivermectin—statements meant to clarify that the drug is not effective against COVID-19 and that...

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  7. YouTube under no obligation to host anti-vaccine advocate’s videos, court says

    A prominent anti-vaccine activist, Joseph Mercola, yesterday lost a lawsuit attempting to force YouTube to provide access to videos that were removed from the platform after YouTube banned his channels.

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  8. Global COVID monitoring is crashing as BA.2.86 variant raises alarm

    With global attention and anxiety locked onto the latest coronavirus omicron subvariant BA.2.86, health officials and experts are still mostly in the dark about how the highly mutated virus will play out.

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  9. Fall COVID shots will boost protection against latest subvariants, Moderna says

    Moderna's updated COVID-19 vaccine provided a "significant boost" in people's neutralizing antibody levels against the latest omicron SARS-CoV-2 subvariants circulating in the US, that is, EG.5 and FL.1.5.1, according to a press release from the...

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  10. Fugitive “sovereign citizen” arrested for selling silver as bogus COVID cure

    After a three-year hunt, federal law enforcement agents have finally arrested an alleged fake doctor who made around $2 million selling a silver solution he falsely claimed "destroys" the pandemic coronavirus via vibrations.

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  11. FDA issues safety alert on pregnancy tests after bust on illegal medical lab

    The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use any at-home tests made by Universal Meditech, Inc. (UMI), the company behind an illegal medical lab hidden in a warehouse in the small city of Reedley, California. The lab was shut down...

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  12. Anti-magnetizing-vaccine doctor loses medical license

    Sherri Tenpenny, the Ohio anti-vaccine doctor who made national headlines for claiming in viral testimony that COVID-19 vaccines make people magnetic, has lost her medical license.

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