Covid19

An occupational physician has urged OH professionals to ask employees about Covid-19 infections and immunisations when screening for hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS), particularly among people with symptoms of Raynaud’s phenomenon.…

Adults who faced adversity during childhood were significantly more likely to die from or be hospitalized because of COVID-19. That’s the key finding of my team’s recent study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community…

Ending pandemics is a social decision, not scientific. Governments and organizations rely on social, cultural and political considerations to decide when to officially declare the end of a pandemic. Ideally, leaders try to minimize the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The e-commerce industry, which has seen remarkable growth over the past decade, experienced an even more…

Hydroxychloroquine is not recommended as a treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Also, hydroxychloroquine doesn't prevent infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. In March 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug…

By PTI NEW DELHI: Blood biomarkers for long Covid, or specific blood substances indicating the disease, have been identified, and could be used to accurately distinguish patients with the disease, scientists report…

By MIKE STOBBE and LAURAN NEERGAARD - AP Medical Writers Most Americans should get an updated COVID-19 vaccine, health officials said Tuesday.Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and…

On Sept. 12, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the newly formulated COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans ages 6 months and up, hours after its expert advisory committee voted 13 to 1 in favor of…

The Qantas Group has eliminated expiration dates for Covid-19 travel credits, with Qantas credits now eligible for cash refunds anytime, though the window for using them for travel is closing, the group announced.The Covid credits—those for…

The most recent data, released on Aug. 28, 2023, is from Curriculum Associates, which sells i-Ready assessments taken by more than 11 million students across the country and focuses on “grade-level” skills.* It counts the number of…