Category: Covid-19

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Participating households will receive free month-long supply of rapid tests aimed at reducing community transmission.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched an innovative community health initiative called Say Yes! COVID Test starting in Pitt County, North Carolina, and coming soon to Chattanooga/Hamilton County, Tennessee. As many as 160,000 residents across the two communities will have access to free, rapid antigen tests that they can administer themselves to use three times a week for one month. NIH will provide the tests (also called a home-test or at-home test) and evaluate the effectiveness of the initiative, which aims to determine if frequent self-administered COVID-19 testing helps residents reduce community transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease.

Reliable and widely available testing is a critical part of our efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19. Regular screening with at-home COVID-19 tests can strengthen our prevention efforts, said CDC Director RochelleP.Walensky, M.D., M.P.H. Combined with efforts to increase vaccinations, this important initiative will help us understand how best to utilize these new at-home tests to reduce viral transmission rates in communities.

The opportunity to participate in the testing program will be offered by local health departments. Participants will be able to order their test kits online for home delivery or pick them up at a local distribution site. A free online tool that also is available as a phone app will be offered to provide testing instructions, information to help understand test results and text message reminders about testing. Strong community engagement efforts are underway to ensure that vulnerable and underserved populations are aware and able to benefit from the opportunity.

This testing initiative is the first of this scale to attempt to make free, rapid, self-administered tests available community-wide in order to determine their effectiveness in our nations comprehensive response to the COVID-19 pandemic, said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. We hope to gain foundational data that can guide how communities can use self-administered tests to mitigate viral transmission during this and future pandemics.

Participants in the Say Yes! COVID Test initiative will also have the option to volunteer in an NIH-supported research study that will collect additional data through surveys. The survey questions are designed to determine whether frequent self-administered testing has made a difference in behavior, knowledge on preventing spread of the virus and thoughts about COVID-19 vaccination.

Selection of the two communities was based on local infection rates, public availability of accurate COVID-19 tracking data, existing community relationships through the NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) and local infrastructure to support the project.

Researchers at NIH-supported University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University and the Duke Clinical Research Institute, both in Durham, North Carolina, will work with the CDC and NIH to use publicly available COVID-19 case surveillance data on test positivity rates, COVID-19-related illness and hospitalizations and measurements of viral particles in sewage wastewater to evaluate viral transmission in the community. At the same time, publicly available data will be reviewed from other communities of similar size that have not received widespread self-administered tests to evaluate the impact of frequent self-administered testing.

If self-testing is shown to effectively reduce viral spread in the selected communities, the hope is that it will lead to wider distribution and acceptance of frequent home testing across the countryultimately providing an easy and accessible new means of stemming the spread of the virus, said Elizabeth A. DiNenno, Ph.D., an associate deputy director for surveillance, epidemiology, and laboratory sciences at the CDC.

The test being supplied through the NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADxSM) initiative is the QuickVue test developed by San Diego-based diagnostic company Quidel. The test received emergency use authorization for at-home use with a prescription by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on March 1, 2021. The test is performed with a nasal swab and detects the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 viral antigen within 10 minutes. The companion online tool was developed by CareEvolution, LLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, with funding support from NIH, and is customized to be used with the QuickVue test.

In a recent study conducted by the NIH RADx initiative, researchers found that rapid antigen testing at least three times per week achieves a viral detection level on par with PCR-based COVID-19 testing processed in a lab. However, a self-administered rapid test produces confidential results at home in minutes, while laboratory processing takes longer and increases cost. The hope is that easier access to tests and faster test results will make frequent testing more desirable and encourage people to protect themselves and others in the community.

COVID-19 testing has undergone a transformation over the past year to provide optimal approaches for varied circumstances, including self-testing within peoples homes, said Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), part of the NIH, and leader of the RADx Tech program. These advances allow more accessible screening and surveillance testing, a powerful approach that complements vaccination and helps prevent infection as the virus mutates.

Say Yes! COVID Test is being conducted in a collaboration with the CDC, state and local public health departments in North Carolina and Tennessee, NIH, research institutions including Duke University, the University of North Carolina, North Carolina Central University, test manufacturer Quidel, healthcare technology company CareEvolution, community engagement partners from RADx-UP, and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health.

About the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): CDC works 24/7 protecting Americas health, safety and security. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are curable or preventable, chronic or acute, or from human activity or deliberate attack, CDC responds to Americas most pressing health threats. CDC is headquartered in Atlanta and has experts located throughout the United States and the world.

About the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB):NIBIBs mission is to improve health by leading the development and accelerating the application of biomedical technologies. The Institute is committed to integrating the physical and engineering sciences with the life sciences to advance basic research and medical care. NIBIB supports emerging technology research and development within its internal laboratories and through grants, collaborations, and training. More information is available at the NIBIB website:https://www.nibib.nih.gov.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH):NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.

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Syracuse, N.Y. -- The state will open 35 new rapid Covid-19 testing sites by mid-April, a move meant to continue to track the coronavirus as New York begins allowing larger gatherings at weddings, concerts, sporting events and other venues.

That includes one that will open at Quest Diagnostics, Shop City Plaza, 396 Grant Blvd., within the next two weeks, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomos office.

This new effort adds to 35 existing test centers, most of which are in New York City.

These 70 test centers will also feed the test results into the states Excelsior Pass program. That is an electronic way for people to show their vaccination and testing history as required to enter or attend some events.

These tests are not free. The testing providers can charge no more than $30, according to a news release from Cuomo. The providers must also release the results within 30 minutes and offer a way for people to schedule appointments.

The testing will be run byBioReference Laboratories,Clarity MedHealth, Quest Diagnostics and Rapid Reliable Testing, according to Cuomos office.

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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) With Spring in full bloom, so too are seasonal allergies.

From the sneezing, the itchy eyes, scratchy throat and coughing.

Experts say its a tough time of the year for many from December to May as people suffer from the familiar symptoms. But, with those symptoms so similar to something else, how do you know if its allergies, a cold, or COVID-19?

Like so many of us, Gina Myhet suffers from allergies.

This is the sunshine state, its pollen all year round, its summer all year round, you never get used to the allergies, its bad, Myhet told 8 On Your Side.

As it turns out, Myhet knows a thing or two about allergies, colds, and COVID. Shes studied all three, as a traveling nurse, now retired and living in Florida.

For Myhet, pollen has always been a problem and during the COVID-19 pandemic, she says symptoms can often be confusing for patients.

The side effects for COVID are the same for allergies, flu, cold. Theyre the same, she explained. You have to sit and figure it out.

Dr. John Greene is a longtime infectious diseases expert with Moffitt Cancer Center and has been in the field for well over four decades.

When it comes to allergies, colds and COVID, we wanted to know one thing.

So, how do you know which one it is, asked Dr. Greene. And, a lot of times you cant tell unless you test for it.

Dr. Greene says theres a lot to be learned from a recent European study. According to the study where 31 countries were researched, allergies can lower your ability to produce immune-boosting chemicals, making you much more susceptible to contracting COVID-19.

Thats an intriguing association that many people are not aware of, so theres sort of a double whammy with pollen, Dr. Greene said.

As far as how to tell the difference between allergies, a cold and Coronavirus?

The key symptom, Dr. Greene says, is wheezing.

All three can easily cause a cough, but the shortness of breath and wheezing, he says, could indicate the possibility of COVID.

Dr. Greene advises anyone who experiences wheezing or shortness of breath to seek medical attention.

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The vaccines were at least 90 percent effective for those fully vaccinated, 80 percent if they were partially vaccinated meaning maybe one dose of Pfizer or Moderna but not yet having the second dose and much, much better than those people who were not vaccinated at all, said Dr. Lawton Davis, Director of the Coastal Health District.

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One Washington Nationals player has tested positive for COVID-19, general manager Mike Rizzo announced on Wednesday. Five others within the organization -- four players and one staff member -- were in close contact with the person that tested positive, RIzzo told reporters, includingBritt Ghiroli of The Athletic.

Rizzo hinted that roster moves will be necessary in advance of their Opening Day matchup against the Mets, scheduled for 7:09 p.m. ET on Thursday in Washington, D.C. That's because those five players will be in quarantine. The player testing positive, per MLB health and safety protocols for 2021, must remain in quarantine for at least 10 days and then be cleared by baseball's joint COVID-19 committee and the team physician following a cardiac examination. As of yet, the players in question have not been named.

Some additional context, via Dougherty:

Mike Rizzo says that the person who tested positive is a player and, after contract tracing -- having flown on a team charter Monday evening -- it was determined that five people had to quarantine. The Nationals have undergone PCR and rapid tests in the time since.

Rizzo also says that the Nationals are working with the league to determine what additional steps to take.

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While impressive progress is being made with vaccination rates across the country, COVID-19 variants are also presently spreading, which may account for some of the case surges we're seeing. Likely, MLB as it enters the 2021 regular season will not be spared from those trends. In other words, the Nats' announcement probably won't be the last of this kind.

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Its been nearly a year since Julie Horowitz-Jacksons mother, Arlene, died of Covid-19 in a nursing facility in Philadelphia. What hit me recently is that the world is opening back up, and my moms still dead, Horowitz-Jackson says.

At this point in the Covid-19 pandemic, as vaccines get rolled out in the United States and around the globe, there is a glimmer of hope that life will safely start shifting back to normal in the coming months. But so many people, like Horowitz-Jackson, are still working through their grief, and it wont just disappear when the virus does. Horowitz-Jackson, 51, says she was coping well with the loss of her mom until recently, when, in Chicago, where she lives, she saw many people out and about, celebrating St. Patricks Day in large crowds. I get angry, she says. I get angry that people arent taking it seriously.

With over 550,000 reported Covid-19 deaths in the US and 2.8 million worldwide, a massive grief crisis is upon us with large, unaddressed mental health and economic implications.

For a large share of people, these [losses] lead to bouts of prolonged grief disorder and depression, says Ashton Verdery, a Penn State sociologist who studies the societal costs of bereavement. But also they have huge impacts on their finances, on their employment, on their relationships, and on all kinds of aspects of thriving in the world.

And new research here provides a broad window onto the lasting scope of our national tragedy.

These losses that are felt now will be felt for some time to come even individuals who arent born yet will potentially be missing these relatives who might have been alive during their formative years, says Mallika Snyder, a graduate researcher at UC Berkeley who is also working on estimates with colleagues of the excess bereavement felt in the United States and other countries this year.

Theres no exact figure on the amount of excess bereavement, but its likely very large, and very devastating.

Lately, Ive been trying to understand the long-term consequences of the Covid-related death the blank spaces and shadows it leaves behind. Death is not a one-dimensional statistic. It ripples across time, leaving holes in peoples present and future where their loved ones would have been. So, so many people are sensing these holes in their lives right now.

Recently, Verdery and colleagues estimated that, roughly, every person who dies from Covid-19 in the United States leaves nine grieving people behind. Since more than 550,000 people have died of Covid-19 here, then there are nearly 5 million people whove suffered the loss of someone close to them.

Verderys work is based on a statistical model of the personal connections people typically have. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collects data on who is dying of Covid-19, but not the survivors they leave behind.

That said, Verdery says his teams work suggests a huge swath of people are dealing with loss. Each death [regardless of their age at death] is going to leave a 4-year-old, a 50-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 10-year-old bereaved, on average, he says.

And researchers know from past disasters that those losses can leave a lasting mark.

Meghan Zacher, a sociology researcher at Brown, has recently re-analyzed some mental health and wellness data collected from survivors of Hurricane Katrina, in an attempt to predict some of the long-term consequences of the pandemic. Katrina and Covid are different in really important ways, she stresses. This isnt an apples-to-apples comparison. But there really isnt an apples-to-apples comparison to the pandemic, at least in modern history.

She and her co-authors found that the experience of losing a relative or a friend during the storm and its aftermath had the largest effects on mental and physical health, one year after the storm, she says. Also things like fearing for your loved ones safety had sizable impacts, as did unmet medical needs. And those are all things that people have experienced during the pandemic.

The loss of a loved one is really hard, and not everyone copes in the same way. But theres some research into the broad buckets of need grieving people fall into. And that helps us understand the immediate impact this bereavement crisis is having in the country and around the world.

Survey research suggests that, at least in Western contexts, around 60 percent of people dealing with a loss cope by relying on friends and family to support them. They handle it in their own way, says Catriona Mayland, a physician and researcher at the University of Sheffield who studies end-of-life issues. Its not necessarily easy for this group to deal with loss. But they manage.

A further 30 percent might need some more structured help. So that might be group bereavement support from a faith-based or community-based group, Mayland says.

And then around 10 percent of those who lose someone close to them experience symptoms qualifying them for a prolonged grief disorder, a diagnosis that soon will be included in the DSM (the psychology/psychiatry official diagnostic manual).

The diagnosis recognizes that sometimes grief rises to the level of severely interfering with the normal function of life, and that people experiencing prolonged grief could benefit from mental health care.

That 10 percent figure is both small and large. It means that, yes, most people cope with loss in their own time. But its also not uncommon for someone to need extra help.

And then consider the Covid-19 pandemic. Again, there could be 5 million people grieving losses due to the pandemic. If 10 percent of those people qualify for this diagnosis, thats half a million people.

Theres even some limited research from the Netherlands suggesting losses due to Covid-19 are harder to take, resulting in more grief, compared to deaths from more typical natural causes.

Talking with people who have experienced loss, its easy to see why. Horowitz-Jacksons family is Jewish, and its custom for the family and surrounding community of the deceased to hold a week-long open house shiva period, where theres near-constant company in the home.

Shiva Zoom was about the worst thing Ive ever experienced, she says. Particularly, she remembers how her father, hard of hearing, struggled with the technology. The ritual of seeing each other and leaning on one another, she says, just couldnt be facilitated as well over the internet.

Mayland worries, too, that there actually could be an upward shift in the number of people needing more than informal support after a loss, since due to the social distancing restrictions of the pandemic, normal support from family and friends may be limited.

Which is all to say: More people than usual may need support to deal with their loss.

A person older than 65 who loses a spouse has a shockingly elevated increased risk of dying over the next year, Verdery says estimates range from 15 to 30 percent higher risk of dying. There are many reasons: Our loved ones take care of us when were sick, they prod us to get checked out by a doctor, they provide emotional and sometimes financial support. When a loved one gets taken out of the picture, so many cracks can form in the foundations of our lives.

There is, quite literally, a condition called broken heart syndrome, or takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Its when, in reaction to a sudden surge in stress, the hearts left ventricle weakens.

The experience of loss can be particularly impactful on the trajectory of a life when it comes to young people: When a person under the age of 18 loses a parent, they become less likely to finish high school or college. Because we know that education is so strongly linked to all manner of life course outcomes like involvement in the prison system, socioeconomic status in adulthood, unemployment spells, early pregnancy, all sorts of stuff this does suggest that some of these bereavement events might be really derailing, Verdery says.

The impact of these deaths is so powerful that bereavement is thought to be a source of racial disparities in health and education in America. By age 20, a Black child is twice as likely to experience the death of a mother and 50 percent more likely to experience the death of a father. The pandemic is likely to make this trend worse as we know Covid-19 has been taking minorities at younger ages than white people dying from it.

And American society doesnt do well to protect these grieving kids. Its estimated that less than 50 percent of children who experience the loss of a parent receive Social Security survivors benefits (which they may be entitled to). This is one of the most staggering statistics that I found, Verdery says. The kids are already dealing with so much. And were not even getting them in touch with the benefits theyre entitled to.

After experiencing the loss of her child, Joyal Mulheron, a former adviser to Michelle Obamas Lets Move campaign, felt the extreme, life-altering pain bereavement can bring. I basically drove to work every day for 18 months and cried to and from work, she says. And it wasnt just her personal pain that was horrible she also realized that society often overlooks bereavement issues.

Now Mulheron runs Evermore, a bereavement-focused nonprofit, and hopes the pandemic will be a wake-up call for the country to start paying closer attention to the societal strain bereavement puts on the country. The challenge is no one is thinking about it as an event that can change the course of an individuals life, she says.

For instance, she points out that bereavement is not part of the FMLA the Family and Medical Leave Act, which provides time off for those caring for sick family members, but not to cope with their loss. She calls for better housing protections for those who lose financial support after losing a loved one, more transparent funeral pricing, and better Social Security assistance for kids who lose parents.

She also simply would like to see this issue be studied more thoroughly. Weve not had the data to really contextualize this, Mulheron says. Weve really thought of a death event as a personal tragedy, rather than a family or a community experience. At the very least, Mulheron would like to see the White House establish an Office of Bereavement Care, to set a national agenda on this issue.

On a smaller scale, Mayland, the physician who studies end-of-life issues, says it can be helpful just to find spaces to talk about grief, and more helpful still if friends and family reach out with an ear to listen. Sometimes its therapeutic to be able to tell a story, she says.

Each time I talk about it, I feel like Im honoring her memory, Horowitz-Jackson, the Chicago woman who lost her mother, says.

And dont forget, Mayland stresses, Individual kindness can have an impact. It often is the small things that actually can make a difference.

If youre reading this, having lost someone to Covid-19, know that you are not alone. So many people are experiencing loss in the country right now, and the pain might not go away when life appears to return to normal.

For some additional resources on bereavement, check out Refuge in Grief, a website and online community with worksheets and courses for processing grief. And you can read more about therapies designed to help people with complicated grief here.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) Should you be required to get a COVID-19 vaccination? Thats the question lawmakers are debating.

Its a conversation happening around the world and Tennessee is now advancing a bill that would restrict governmental entities from requiring a coronavirus shot.

Were not here to argue whether or not vaccines are good or bad were not here to argue the science behind COVID, were simply saying we are against a government mandate to a medical treatment especially without a religious exemption, said Gary Humble, organizer of the rally.

Currently, there is not a requirement for COVID-19 shots to be taken in Tennessee.

The approved U.S. vaccines have shown the doses are effective against severe illness and death.

The amended bill passed the Senate Health and Welfare committee by a party line vote 8-1.

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Texas Medical Center has been working diligently with the totality of its member institutions and both city and county officials to closely monitor the evolving Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and to develop an appropriate action plan as it relates to keeping citizens informed and prepared with up-to-date resources, guidelines, and ways to be vigilant when it comes to personal health protocol.

Texas Medical Center is sharing a set of metrics to better track how Houston is doing in its fight against COVID-19. These daily metrics include tracking of the reproduction rate (R(t)), daily new cases, and test positivity rates.TMC will continue to release its Coronavirus (COVID-19) monitoring metrics and data on weekdays. Saturday and Sundays data will be posted on Monday mornings.

Several Texas Medical Center (TMC) Hospitals have received shipments of the COVID-19 vaccines. TMC Members have released a joint statement insupport of vaccines whilereinforcing the continued importance of social measures to preventspread of COVID-19.

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