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Rapidly spreading COVID variant given new designation by WHO — see_link — 19 December 2023 (LINK)

— "Based on the available evidence, the additional global public health risk posed by JN.1 is currently evaluated as low. Despite this, with the onset of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, JN.1 could increase the burden of respiratory infections in many countries," the WHO wrote in a statement. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that prevalence of the strain has more than doubled in the U.S., making up 21.4% of active cases in America, compared to 8.1% the week before.

A new COVID variant JN.1 is spreading fast in the US. These are its most common symptoms — yahoo news — 17 December 2023 (LINK)

Why Covid is still flooring some people: A friend's third bout of Covid was significantly worse than the previous time they caught it — BBC — (LINK)

— Prof Eleanor Riley, an immunologist at the University of Edinburgh, has had her own "horrid" bout of Covid that was "much worse" than expected.She says: "People's antibody levels against Covid are probably as low now as they have been since the vaccine was first introduced."

The unseen toll: excess mortality during covid-19 lockdowns: not imposing a mandatory lockdown in Sweden resulted in a lower reduction of mobility and a substantial increase in mortality. Our results indicates that up to about 4411 of the 46554 deaths registered during this period could have been avoided had Sweden implemented a mandatory lockdown. — nature — 31 October 2023 (LINK)

All variants of COVID-19 virus can infect the brain, study finds — newatlas.com — 31 October 2023 (LINK)

A new, dominant COVID variant is circulating in US: Experts suggest the new variant might spread more easily than its recent predecessors — themessenger — 30 October 2023 (LINK)

New Zealand PM tests positive for COVID 2 weeks before election — ground.news: 26 media reports — 2 October 2023 (LINK)

Brain fog after Covid linked to blood clots — study — ground.news main source: Nature Medicine, 11 media reports — 31 August 2023 (LINK)

COVID-19 infection linked to increased risk of high blood pressure — ground.news main source: Hypertension, American Heart Association journal, 37 media reports — 21 August 2023 (LINK)

Many long-covid symptoms linger even after two years, new study shows — ground.news: media reports — 21 August 2023 (LINK)

WHO classifies EG.5 ('Eris'), the variant most prevalent in US, as COVID-19 'variant of interest' but says it does not seem to pose more of a threat to public health than other variants — ground.news: 28 media reports — 9 August 2023 (LINK)

'Brain fog' of long Covid comparable to ageing 10 years and effects felt even after two years, study finds — ground.news: 9 media reports — 21 July 2023 (LINK)

WHO warns Covid 'has not gone away' with 1,000 dying each week in Europe — ground.news: 27 media reports — factuality: high 27 June 2023 (LINK)

US intelligence report on COVID-19 origins split over lab leak theory — AP.com — 24 June 2023 (LINK)

— Four agencies still believe the virus was transferred from animals to humans, and two agencies — the Energy Department and the FBI — believe the virus leaked from a lab. The CIA and another agency have not made an assessment.

No clear evidence hat the three sickened Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers had COVID-19 in November, 2019, as opposed to several other respiratory viruses that can cause similar symptoms — themessenger.com — 21 June 2023 (LINK)

— A declassified summary of U.S. intelligence released in late 2021 noted that the reported cases are "not diagnostic of the pandemic's origins." The report added: "Even if confirmed, hospital admission alone would not be diagnostic of COVID-19 infection."

?U.S. Funded Scientist One of Several Wuhan Lab Researchers Sickened During Early Covid Outbreak? — gizmodo.com — 20 June 2023 (LINK)

— One of the researchers was a scientist who had received significant funding from the U.S. government and whose research has focused on "how coronaviruses infect humans. At WIV, he was responsible for overseeing "gain of function" research — the controversial scientific field that involves mutating viruses to make them more deadly and more contagious—involving coronaviruses.

?"Covid 'patient zero' NAMED as Wuhan scientist who conducted deadly tests on souped-up virus, bombshell report"? — ground.news: 12 → media reports — 14 June 2023 (LINK)

— Three lab researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) are believed to be the first known cases of COVID-19, according to unnamed US officials involved in investigating the origins of the pandemic. One allegedly led a gain-of-function research team at the WIV on SARS-like coronaviruses in the lead-up to the pandemic.

Covid: Top Chinese scientist says don't rule out lab leak but Chinese officials have investigated the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and found no "wrongdoing" in the lab: first indication by top Chinese scientist that Beijing takes lab leak theory seriously: nearly 7m people have died — ground.news: 33 media reports — 31 May 2023 (LINK)

Long COVID's 200 Symptoms Have Been Narrowed Down To Just 12 — iflscience.com — 29 May 2023 (LINK)

Government-funded study creates first symptom-based long Covid definition, a step toward finding treatments — ground.news: 12 media reports — 25 May 2023 (LINK)

— Long COVID, or Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), includes 12 symptoms that present or persist more than 30 days after COVID-19 infection. Over 650 million people globally have been infected with SARS-CoV-2.

China's New Covid Wave Set to See 65 Million Cases a Week — ground.news: 9 media reports — 23 May 2023 (LINK)

Mexico develops own COVID-19 vaccine, 2 years late — ground.news: 43 media reports — 3 May 2023 (LINK)

A new long Covid treatment shows promise, but U.S. insurance won't cover it and some doctors are skeptical: Here's why — cnbc — 20 April 2023 (LINK)

— Some long Covid patients swear by hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which can cost more than $50,000 per person. Here's why some experts caution against it.

In pressurized medical-grade chambers, patients alternate between breathing pure oxygen through a mask and regular air. When you go from the former to the latter, your brain interprets the drop in pressure as a lack of oxygen, says Dr. Mohammed Elamir, a physician at The Villages, Florida-based Aviv Clinics. That triggers stem cell production and blood vessel growth in the brain, which helps the body repair itself in a variety of ways, Elamir says.

Coronavirus leak from Wuhan lab was 'unintentional', reveals US Senate report — ground.news: 4 sources — 18 April 2023 (LINK)

New Study: COVID-19 Omicron Variant Is More Deadly Than the Seasonal Flu — scitechdaily — 14 April 2023 (LINK)

WHO experts revise Covid-19 vaccine advice, say healthy kids and teens low risk — CNN — 29 March 2023 (LINK)

Newly released Chinese Covid data points to infected animals in Wuhan — The Guardian — 21 March 2023 (LINK)

Here's How Long You're Contagious With The Latest COVID Variant: Long story short, you are likely contagious for about 10 days after symptoms begin. You should isolate for the first five days and wear a mask on at least days six through 10 — huffpost — 20 January 2023 (LINK)

Have face masks become less effective at managing COVID? — sciencefocus — 15 January 2023 (LINK)

— Throughout the end of 2021, children and adults who declared they "always" wore a face covering at work or school were less likely to test positive for COVID-19 compared to those who "never" or "sometimes" wore a mask. As you may expect. However, from January to May 2022, this trend faded. The likelihood that somebody who never or sometimes wore a mask would test positive was extremely similar to the chance a person who always wears a face mask would test positive. In other words, from January to May 2022, the risk of getting a COVID infection was nearly the same for those who did and didn't wear a mask. But...

Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 possibly more likely to infect those who are vaccinated, New York officials say — foxnews / Yahoo news — 14 January 2023 (LINK)

Study compares effectiveness of Pfizer vs. Moderna booster COVID vaccines after third dose — news-medical.net — 3 January 2023 (LINK)

— Both vaccines reduced the absolute risks of breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections and severe COVID-19 outcomes. However, mRNA-1273 recipients had a lower risk of COVID-19-related adverse events over 16 weeks of follow-up than the BNT162b2 vaccine recipients, particularly for reported SARS-CoV-2 infections. The findings remained comparable across periods spanning Delta and Omicron predominance and only Omicron predominance.

What You Should Know About Chronic Coughing After COVID-19 — yahoo news — 27 December 2022 (LINK)

Why Covid is still flooring some people: A friend's third bout of Covid was significantly worse than the previous time they caught it — BBC — 17 December 2023 (LINK)

— Prof Eleanor Riley, an immunologist at the University of Edinburgh, has had her own "horrid" bout of Covid that was "much worse" than expected.She says: "People's antibody levels against Covid are probably as low now as they have been since the vaccine was first introduced."

15 million excess deaths worldwide were caused by COVID over two years — ground.news: 22 reports — 19 May 2023 (LINK)

Up to 70% of Shanghai population infected with COVID-19: Top doctor — ground.news: 22 sources — 3 January 2023 (LINK)

During COVID PM Boris Johnson thought old people should accept fate and let the young get on with life and the economy going, inquiry told — BBC ● — 31 October 2023 (LINK)

Chinese authorities were preparing Sunday to release a man who disappeared three years ago after publicizing videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the COVID-19 outbreak, a relative and another person familiar with his case said — ground.news: 63 media reports — 30 April 2023 (LINK)

Switzerland not recommending spring-summer COVID-19 vaccine, including for high-risk individuals boosted under six months ago — ground.news: 11 sources — 11 April 2023 (LINK)

Billionaires at Davos Don't Think COVID Is a Cold — slate — 20 January 2023 (LINK)

— You wouldn't know — not unless you asked — that every attendee was PCR tested before entering the forum, or that in the case of a positive test, access was automatically, electronically, revoked. It's hard to square this information with the public narrative about COVID, isn't it?

BBC broadcast misleading vaccine comments — fullfact — 20 January 2023 (LINK)

— On 18 January BBC published an update to their Corrections and Clarifications page about the interview, apologising that "we were not better prepared at the time to challenge Dr Malhotra's points during his interview."

EU countries agree to demand COVID-19 test for travellers coming from China — ground.news: 117 sources — 4 January 2023 (LINK)

WHO pressures China to come clean on Covid — genevasolutions — 4 January 2023 (LINK)

— ground.news: WHO worried about surge of COVID in China amid lack of info: 101 sources (LINK)