COVID-19 Federal Responses: Thursday, May 5, 2022
New research about the cognitive impairment effects of long COVID-19 compares these symptoms to 20 years of cognitive aging and a reduction of 10 IQ points. …
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Thursday, April 21, 2022
Two variants of Omicron’s BA.2 sub lineage—BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1—appear to spread about 25% faster than BA.2. The new variants are contagious enough that the…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Monday, April 18, 2022
The FDA granted emergency use authorization of a breath test that can detect COVID-19 infections within as little as three minutes and has a 0.7% rate of fal…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Thursday, April 14, 2022
A statistical analysis of reported cases, hospital admissions, reported deaths, and seroprevalence estimates that 43.9% of the global population had been inf…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Monday, April 11, 2022
New research highlights the importance of air ventilation as a COVID-19 mitigation measure. Public health experts are tracking a new COVID-19 sub variant, l…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Monday, April 4, 2022
Increasing rates of norovirus infection are responsible for a wave of stomach flu. Cases are easily confused with COVID-19 as both can cause gastrointestinal…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Thursday, March 31, 2022
The CDC created a calculator tool to help people diagnosed with COVID-19 understand for how long they should quarantine or isolate. The White House launched…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Thursday, March 24, 2022
A study suggests that children have stronger antibody responses to COVID-19 than adults. This contributes to developing understanding of why kids tend to hav…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Monday, March 21, 2022
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said that rising COVID-19 cases in Europe driven by the BA.2 var…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Thursday, March 17, 2022
The BA.2 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant is estimated to compose about a quarter of new COVID cases in the U.S., and that share is expected to increase. B…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Monday, March 14, 2022
According to the Centers for Disease and Prevention’s (CDC’s) new mask guidance, 98% of Americans live in counties where universal masking is no longer neces…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Thursday, March 10, 2022
A new study found that school districts that required students and staff to wear masks reported, on average, 23% fewer COVID-19 cases than those districts th…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Monday, March 7, 2022
The healthcare sector added 64,000 jobs in February. There are still 306,000 (1.9%) fewer jobs in the sector than in February 2020, where the sector lost man…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Thursday, March 3, 2022
Despite the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron seeming to be more contagious, some infectious disease experts believe that it is unlikely to cause any major shift to…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Monday, February 28, 2022
A study found that COVID-19 patients from more socially vulnerable neighborhoods—measured by an index that incorporates factors like socioeconomic status, le…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Thursday, February 24, 2022
The Department of Defense (DOD) is developing an algorithm to predict whether someone has COVID-19 days before showing symptoms using data collected from “bi…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Tuesday, February 22, 2022
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering a broad recommendation of second booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines. However, this recommendation is un…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Monday, February 14, 2022
A study found that the effectiveness of booster shots wanes over time. Effectiveness against hospitalization fell from 91% two months post-booster to 78% at …
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Thursday, February 3, 2022
A study into the infection dynamics of the original strain of COVID-19 conducted on unvaccinated adults found that the incubation period averaged only 46 hou…
COVID-19 Federal Responses: Monday, January 31, 2022
Virologists suggest that individuals who receive positive test results from rapid antigen tests are likely still contagious, even if that test is taken after…