Daily Mirror: “A new COVID strain feared to be behind a sudden rise in cases around the world is feared to be “harder to stop”. Latest figures from the UK Health Safety Agency show a rise of 15.7% in confirmed cases as the virus continues to mutate.”👇
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NewsNation: “Two new COVID variants are circulating, and they have the potential to evade immunity that could lead to a summer surge. The new strains are subvariants of the Omicron variant, known as KP.2 and KP.1.1, but which have been nicknamed FLiRT.”👇
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FT: ' #LongCOVID is exerting a silent drag on work and health, say officials and economists who warn that a struggle to count the costs of the condition is leaving authorities “shooting in the dark”.👇
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iNews: “Cases involving FLiRT variants have soared to account for ¼ of all UK COVID infections. At the same time, the immunity from vaccines and previous infections is likely to be waning after months of very low levels of the virus.”👇
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TIME: “The COVID lull in the U.S. may soon come to an end, as a new family of SARS-CoV-2 variants—nicknamed “FLiRT” variants—begins to spread nationwide. These variants are distant Omicron relatives that spun out from JN.1.”👇
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Cosmos Magazine: “A new research published in the BMG Public Health Journal found that dyspnoea – or a shortness of breath – occurred in around 1 in 8 #longCOVID patients among around 6,400 diagnosed outpatients.”👇
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Scientific American: “Vaccination dramatically lowers #longCOVID risk. Several new studies reveal that getting multiple COVID vaccine doses provides strong protection against lingering symptoms.”👇
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Forbes: “A study of 340 people with a prior COVID infection reported that some degree of smell loss persisted in close to one-third of the participants one year post-exposure, although a loss of taste was absent.”👇
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Inside precision medicine: “A new targeted RNA sequencing method can accurately determine SARS-CoV-2 mutation frequency and types, both in cell culture and clinical samples, according to by Baylor College of Medicine’ research.”👇
insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/coronav…

The Japan Times: “A new study found that women with #longCOVID had significantly lower levels of testosterone compared to those who had recovered from their infection.”👇
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Time: “A COVID patient with a weakened immune system incubated a highly mutated novel strain over 613 days before succumbing to an underlying illness, researchers in the Netherlands found.”👇
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Reuters: “The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives.”👇
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ContagionLive: 'More than half of severe COVID inpatients have persistent health issues post hospitalization. A new study found physical health problems lingered 1 year after their hospital stay.'👇
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BBC: “Children are less likely than adults to develop severe COVID, because cells in their nose are better at fighting off the virus, a study suggests. Tests show ageing adult nose cells contain 100x more virus in the 1st few days after an infection.”👇
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CNN: “The number of women ages 40 to 64 seen at a hospital because of alcohol misuse nearly doubled during the COVID pandemic, according to a new study.”👇
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News Medical: 'Years after the U.S. began to slowly emerge from mandatory COVID lockdowns, more than half of older adults still spend more time at home and less time socializing in public spaces than before the pandemic, according to a new research.'👇
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Medical Express: “New research suggests that something as simple as a cup of tea can help in the fight against COVID. The findings demonstrate how certain teas inactivate SARS-CoV-2 in saliva by up to 99.9%.”
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Nature: “New study among adults in the U.S. highlights the COVID pandemic’s prolonged influence on population mental health, particularly among persons with fewer economic assets and those experiencing more pandemic-related stressors.”👇
nature.com/articles/s4418…

Global Times: 'Throughout the month of March 2024, the Chinese mainland reported that the new cases of COVID were all caused by the #Omicron variant, with the main prevalent strain becoming the JN.1 series variant.'👇
globaltimes.cn/page/202404/13…

ABC News: 'Flu, RSV, and COVID triple whammy of viruses join whooping cough surge in Australia as doctors' urge people to vaccinate.'👇
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…