Category: Covid-19

When the COVID-19 pandemic first started, there were so many unanswered questions. Now more than two years in, there are still a lot of mysteries surrounding the ever-evolving virus.

The newest subvariant, BA.5, is more contagious than ever. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is the dominant variant in the U.S. The subvariant appears to be resistant to both the vaccine and immunity.

That means someone who has been boosted or has recently had COVID-19 still does not have protection. Its why the CDC recommends masking indoors again.

With the virus evolving so quickly, and no more get-out-of-jail cards, COVID-19 will be with us for quite some time. According to a new study out of the Yale School of Medicine, an endemic phase is on the way, but probably not until 2024.

COVID has upended lives for more than two years now.

The emotional toll on all of us has been high, Dr. Caroline Zeiss, professor of Comparative Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, said.

Dr. Zeiss and her team looked into when we can expect the pandemic to transition to an endemic.

"I think this is a question that everybody has in their mind, is, when can we go back to normal? she said.

The researchers studied how a mild virus similar to COVID-19 impacts rats, then used models to create a timeline. The findings were published Tuesday in the journal PNAS Nexus.

We used this model to predict many, many different scenarios, and ended up with a median of about two years from now that it will become endemic, Dr. Zeiss said.

Things like the common cold and the flu are endemic: everyone gets them now and then, but they are not particularly harmful.

However, Dr. Zeiss said, unlike a cold, COVID-19 requires extra caution.

We accepted that we would get a cold every year. This is going to become like that, eventually, we think, Dr. Zeiss said. However, the disease is still quite pathogenic. There's still a caveat, that for susceptible people, the virus could still be deadly.

Separate research also made public Tuesday before peer review shows there is ongoing risk, indicating that reinfection rates increase the likelihood a person will face new or lasting health problems.

Researchers compared records for 250,000 patients who have had COVID once with 38,000 others who have been infected twice or more.

They found that compared to people who have had a single infection, those with multiple cases had three times the risk of hospitalization within six months of their last infection.

They had twice the risk of dying.

Those patients also had higher risks for lung and heart problems, neurological problems, diabetes, digestive and kidney disorders, and fatigue.

As the new dominant subvariant BA.5 brings the most contagious mutation of COVID-19 yet, Dr. Zeiss said high transmissibility moves the United States closer to an endemic state. However, she said, that transition only successfully happens in a population protected by the vaccine.

In this country, we're currently not in a lockdown situation, people are freely moving around. We're all getting it, we're all being exposed to it, a lot of people are turning up positive, Dr. Zeiss said. That is amplifying the immunity that we have from our vaccination. So the combination of the two is very important. If we were not vaccinated, we would be seeing a lot of illness, and a lot of death."

With the rise of subvariants like BA.5, the Food and Drug Administration has directed vaccine makers to begin working on boosters that specifically target omicron for the fall.

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The last set of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) PCR tests are collected at the testing site as Sweden changes its approach towards coronavirus testing, in Svagertorp, Malmoe, Sweden, February 8, 2022. Johan Nilsson/ TT News Agency/via REUTERS

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STOCKHOLM, July 7 (Reuters) - Sweden is seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases and healthcare can expect an increase in pressure over the summer, the health minister said on Thursday.

"Quite a few are ill even though we are in the middle of the summer. We also see a small increase in the number of COVID-19 patients who need hospital care and intensive care," Minister of Health Lena Hallengren told a news conference.

"However, we don't see the type of impact we saw earlier in the pandemic, I want to stress that," she said.

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Cases in Sweden are hard to track as testing is limited to people receiving healthcare but the Health Agency said it estimated infections were increasing by 30-40% for each of the last few weeks, but from low levels.

Hallengren did not present any restrictions but urged people to stay at home if sick.

On Thursday, 11 people with COVID-19 were treated at intensive care units, far from the over 500 patients at the peak of the first wave in 2020 but somewhat more than during past weeks.

A high level of vaccination and the spread of the milder omicron variant meant Sweden abolished all restrictions in spring. The country stood out early in the pandemic by opting for voluntary measures instead of lockdowns.

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Opinion: Title 42 exacerbates COVID-19 transmission by concentrating migrants in squalid camps. There are better ways to keep border communities safe.

Ed Kissam| opinion contributor

It is not clear if the court decision mandating continued deportation of asylum-seekers under Title 42 will ultimately stand up on appeal.

What is clear is that relying on Title 42 to protect U.S. public health is dangerous because the protection it offers is just an illusion and distracts from the actual public health efforts needed to effectively fight COVID-19 in border communities in both the U.S. and in Mexico.

ContinuingTitle 42 exacerbates SARS-CoV-2 transmission by disrupting orderly processing of asylum-seekersand concentrating migrants in squalid camps, holding cellsand crowded detention facilities.

Viral transmission is via aerosol, making crowded spaces, and especially chaotic ones, the most fertile environment for outbreaks.

The Trump administrations use ofTitle 42 to deport asylum-seekers arriving to the Mexico-U.S. borderwas political subterfuge.

Arizona and the 23other anti-immigrant states that asked for continuation of Title 42 deportations clearly stated their objective was actually just to decrease immigration. Their arguments gave zero attention to the actual epidemiological dynamics of COVID-19 spread.

Moreover, the plaintiff states said DHS had no plans to combat COVID-19 if Title 42 were terminated, although it actually did.

The trouble is that DHS enhanced plan was basically good but lacked details and is now threatened by lack of adequate funding.

For example, DHS made a commitment to vaccinate all detainees in custody. It has recently been vaccinating about 1,000 migrants per day.

But there are now about 7,300 Border Patrol encounters per day at the border during the past threemonths. Thats not a surge, but, clearly, vaccination efforts and other planned activities are falling short.

1.Ensure that detainees are up to datewith vaccination. The highly infectious BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants will soon be the predominant strains.

Full vaccination (twoshots) does little to control COVID-19 transmission. Booster shots are needed both to diminish transmission and effectively protect those who do become infected from serious illness and hospitalization.

2.Work harder and smarter to get detainees to agree to vaccination. Trusted voices (not from law enforcement) are needed.

Worried asylum-seekers and others need opportunities to ask questions about vaccination and get answers in their native language. Special efforts will be needed to convince those who understandably but unwisely refuse vaccination because of worries about side effects, includingpregnant women and the parents of young children.

3.Implement test to treat,a key element in overall U.S. COVID-19 strategy.

This means provisions are needed to immediately prescribe anti-viral medication for detainees who test positive and who are at risk of developing serious illness. In addition to saving lives, prompt anti-viral treatment decreases the likelihood that seriously-ill detainees infect others.

This is crucial when crowded living conditions make effective isolation impossible.

4.Work on both sides of the border. Crowding dramatically increases COVID-19 transmission, not simply in DHS detention facilities but in informal camps and shelters in Mexican communities along the border. It is not possible to avoid the reality that life in these communities is linked to adjoining U.S. communities one basic reason there is no scientific rationale for using Title 42 to return asylum-seekers to Mexico.

DHS cannot implement an effective Mexico-U.S .border public health initiative on its own, given its organizational identity as a law enforcement agency.

Border strategy also needs toinclude partnering with migrant-serving nongovernmental organizations, local public health departments and other community partners on both sides of the border focusing on action, not on interagency processes and proclamations.

Weve learned in the past two years of pandemic response that COVID-19 variants continue to evolve. Our responses mustbe configured to assure theywill be sustainable for years to come.

Broader, more inclusivecollaboration and more strategic responses will be crucial to success.

Ed Kissam has led research on farmworker and immigrant issues sponsored by the Department of Labor, the Commission on Agricultural Workersand the National Institute for Food and Agriculture. Reach him atedkissam@me.com.

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The CDCs most recent update of COVID-19 Community Levels placed Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral and Rio Grande counties at Level Medium, and Saguache Countyat Level Low.

If you have symptoms of respiratory illness, stay at home away from others and use a home test that you already have on hand to test for COVID-19, or contact your healthcare provider for their guidance about whether you need an appointment.

It is recommended each household have at-home COVID-19 test kits on hand. Expiration dates for most home test kits have been extended. Binax Now COVID-19 antigen tests are okay to use for 15 months from the date of manufacture. If you need help to know if your home test is still okay for use, you may call (719) 480-8719 or look it up on the FDA website.

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In a recent article published in the journalJAMA Internal Medicine, investigators examined the major causes of mortality across the United States (US) in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic.

Study: Leading Causes of Death in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2020 to October 2021. Image Credit:Corona Borealis Studio / Shutterstock

Cancer and heart disease were the primary causes of mortality in the US in 2020, contributing to 1.29 million fatalities, followed by the SARS-CoV-2 infection, associated with 350,000 deaths. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic might have inadvertently increased other causes of mortality, like diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, and unintended injuries.

In the current research, the scientists analyzed the prominent causes of mortality overall and across different age groups in the US between March 2020 and October 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The team procured the complete 2020 national death certificate information and accessed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on May 05, 2022, for 2021 data. The researchers did not include data more recent than October 2021 since it was incomplete. They identified the top five causes of mortality by age group and year and compared the months of March through December 2020 with January through October 2021. The study did not need an institutional review board review since the data were publicly available.

The study results indicated that heart disease, cancer, COVID-19, accidents, and stroke were the most frequent causes of death in the US between March 2020 and October 2021, with respective rates of 20.1%, 17.5%, 12.2%, 6.2%, and 4.7%. Between March andDecember 2020, 2.875 million people died, and 2.855 million mortalities occurred betweenJanuary andOctober 2021. Besides, the five leading causes of mortality were the same each year. In individuals older than one year, the number of deaths increased across all age groups.

The leading causes of death in all groups 55 years or older were COVID-19, cancer, and heart disease. The top three causes of mortality were unchanged in 2020 and 2021 across these age groups.

In 2020, SARS-CoV-2 infection was the second most common cause of mortality among individuals aged 85 years or older, with 110,000 deaths or 12.8% of casualties, and third in 2021 with 69,000 or 8.9% of deaths.

With 17,000 fatalities or 10.4% of all deaths between those aged 45 to 54 in 2020, COVID-19 was the fourth most common cause of mortality after cancer, heart disease, and accidents. Nevertheless, in 2021, SARS-CoV-2 infection was the leading cause of causality across this age group, with 30,000 deaths or 16.8% of mortalities.

In all age groups between 1 and44 years, accidents were the leading cause of mortality in both timestamps. Compared to 2020, SARS-CoV-2 infection increased from the fifth-leading cause of mortality in people aged 35 to 44 with 6100 fatalities to the second-leading cause with 13,000 deaths in 2021. Additionally, SARS-CoV-2 infection rose to the fourth-ranking cause of mortality in 2021 in people aged 25 to 34, accounting for 5000 fatalities, and for people aged 15 to 24, accounting for 1100 fatalities.

Overall, the study findings showed that SARS-CoV-2 infection caused one in eight mortalitiesin the US between March 2020 and October 2021 and was ranked among the top five causes of death in all age groups for people 15 years or older. While cancer and heart disease outnumbered COVID-19 mortalities generally and in most age groups, accidents were the major cause of mortality in people between the ages of 1 and 44. Deaths associated with COVID-19 in the 2021 timeframe declined in ranking among those who were 85 years or older compared to 2020 but elevated among 15 to 54 years old and became the leading cause of mortality among 45 to 54 years old.

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Kemp also used some of the money to provide bonuses for first responders, such as law enforcement officers and firefighters.

Kelly Farr, the governors budget director, said somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% of the original $2.4 billion the state received last year remains uncommitted. He said administration officials are still considering what to do with the next $2.4 billion the state just received.

The state has until 2024 to spend the money, so Kemp if he is reelected or Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams will have some big decisions to make over the next few years.

The governor has been in an unusual situation the past few years because the state has seen waves of federal and state tax revenue coming in. That wasnt what he expected before the pandemic, when he was calling on state agencies to cut spending because of recession fears.

But increased federal spending directly on Georgia families pumped up state income and sales tax revenue in 2021, helping to produce a record $3.7 billion surplus.

Kemp signed legislation refunding about one-third of that surplus to Georgia taxpayers earlier this year.

The fiscal year that just ended last week is expected to produce another record surplus, and with an election looming, the governor is likely again to call for refunding a chunk of that money to Georgians.

The state of Georgia has already spent or committed most of the $2.4 billion it received last year in federal COVID-19 relief funds. The things it went for include:

. Grants to communities for water and sewer improvements.

. Projects to expand high-speed internet in underserved areas of the state

. Aid to businesses and non-profits effected by the economic slowdown in 2020

. $1,000 bonuses for law enforcement, firefighters and other first responders

. Money to help relieve court backlogs

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COVID-19 deaths in 2020 led to the biggest life expectancy drop in the United States since World War II, according to a new reports from a federal research group.

In global COVID developments, cases rose for the fourth week in a row, led by the more transmissible BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its weekly pandemic update.

The life expectancy drop was detailed in provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Life expectancy declined 1.5 years from 2019 to 2020, from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.3 years in 2020. Life expectancy during that period was the lowest since 2003 and represented the biggest 1-year drop since World War II, when it declined 2.9 years between 1942 and 1943.

COVID deaths contributed 74% to the recent life expectancy decline. Other factors included rises in deaths from accidents or unintentional injuries, part of which included drug overdose deaths, which reached an all-time high in 2020. The CDC said other contributors included homicide, diabetes, and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.

The team found racial differences in life expectancy declines, with Hispanic Americans, especially males, experiencing the largest decline in 2020. The group typically has longer life expectancy than Black or White Americans.

COVID's role in the life expectancy drop also varied by race. The disease was responsible for 90% of the drop in the Hispanic population, 68% in the White population, and 59% in the Black population.

In another analysis that sized up COVID deaths, a new report from National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers said prior to Omicron variant circulation, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death, only topped by heart disease and cancer.

In other US developments:

At a World Health Organization (WHO) briefing today, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said new weekly COVID cases have risen nearly 30% over the past 2 weeks, with four of six world regions experiencing rises in the last week.

BA.4 and BA.5 are driving waves in Europe and the Americas, he said, adding that countries like India are seeing a new sublineage called BA.2.75, which the WHO is following.

Tedros warned that reduced testing not only obscures the true picture of virus evolution and disease burden, it also means that new treatments aren't given early enough. Other concerns include lack of access to new treatments by low- and middle-income countries, declining protection from vaccines, and growing numbers of people with long COVID from each pandemic wave.

Regarding people suffering from long-term effects, Tedros said, "This obviously impacts individuals and their families but it also puts an extra burden on health systems, the wider economy and society-at-large."

In its weekly situation report, the WHO said cases rose in the Eastern Mediterranean, South East Asia, Europe, and Western Pacific regions, with more than 4.6 million cases reported last week. The five countries reporting the most cases included France, Germany, Italy, the United States, and Brazil.

Deaths last week declined by 12% but were up in the Eastern Mediterranean and South East Asia regions.

The proportions of BA.4 and BA.5 continue to increase and are responsible for 37% and 52% of sequenced Omicron samples, respectively. The rate of increase for BA.4 is not as high as for BA.5.

Regarding BA.2.75, Soumya Swaminathan, MD, the WHO's chief scientist, said in a Twitter video clip that the subvariant was first identified in India and about 10 other countries and that there are still limited sequences available for analysis. So far, scientists know that it has a few mutations on the receptor binding domain of the spike protein of the virus.

Swaminathan said it's still too early to know if BA.2.75 has immune-evasion properties or produces a more clinically severe illness. "So we have to wait and see and of course we are tracking it," she said, adding that the WHO's technical advisory group on virus evolution is constantly looking at data from around the world.

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The 2021 West Virginia Social Survey, a representative survey of non-institutionalized adults in the Mountain State, found residents were more likely to report being worse off in 2021 compared to 2020. West Virginia adults were also more likely to think the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax compared to the United States adult population.

For more information on perceptions and impact of COVID-19 in West Virginia read the full report.

The WVSS was executed by the Survey Research Center at WVU and co-directed by Christopher P. Scheitle and Katie E. Corcoran, associate professors in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

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A Hollywood Hills rapper who bragged in a music video about getting rich by committing COVID-19 fraud plans to plead guilty to federal fraud and firearms charges.

Fontrell Antonio Baines, 33, who records music under the pseudonym Nuke Bizzle, claimed in one of his songs that he fraudulently took advantage of pandemic-related unemployment benefits. In the video in question, Baines held up a stack of envelopes that appeared to be from the California Employment Development Department (EDD).

Baines, who is originally from Memphis, admitted to using multiple addresses that he had access to in Beverly Hills and Koreatown to apply for unentitled EDD benefits, according to the United States Department of Justice.

In one instance, Baines used the identity of a Missouri man who briefly attended school in California to apply for unemployment benefits, even though the man never worked in the state. Baines used the card issued to that man to withdraw about $2,500 in cash using the EDD-issued debit card.

Since his arrest in October 2020, Baines has admitted to filing 92 fraudulent claims through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. In total, he received more than $700,000 in fraudulent benefits and applied for more than $1.2 million.

Baines, who is a felon, also admitted to federal investigators that he kept a semi-automatic pistol and ammunition at his home in Hollywood Hills.

In the coming days, Baines is expected to enter guilty pleas for mail fraud and illegal firearm possession, the DOJ said.

He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years for the mail fraud charge and 10 years for the firearm charge. He also agreed to forfeit more than $56,000 previously seized by law enforcement as part of the investigation.

Anyone with information about attempted fraud involving COVID-19 fund can report it by contacting the DOJs National Center for Disaster Fraud Hotline at 866-720-5721. You can also submit a complaint online.

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