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Released: 30-May-2024 7:05 PM EDT
AI model confirms vaccination is key to cutting COVID in prisons
University of South Australia

A team of scientists has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based transmission model that can predict prison infection rates with high accuracy. Incorporating real-world data from every facility in the NSW prison system, the new findings add weight to current theoretical models.

29-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Risk of death from COVID-19 lessens, but infection still can cause issues 3 years later
Washington University in St. Louis

New findings on long COVID by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care system reveal that COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized within the first 30 days after infection face a 29% higher risk of death in the third year post-infection compared with people who have not had the virus.

Released: 27-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Governments Fail to Reach Consensus on Pandemic Prevention Agreement
Wildlife Conservation Society

Member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) did not reach consensus on a new agreement or treaty on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.

   
Newswise: How COVID-19 'breakthrough' infections alter your immune cells
Released: 24-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
How COVID-19 'breakthrough' infections alter your immune cells
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Repeated vaccination and infection leads T cells and B cells to build an "immunity wall"

Released: 24-May-2024 10:05 AM EDT
What’s at Stake With the U.S. Supreme Court Case on Misinformation?
Harvard Medical School

Concerns over medical misinformation are not new, but the COVID-19 pandemic magnified long-simmering tensions over two fundamental concepts: Freedom of speech and the federal government’s responsibility to protect people from what it considers false and dangerous claims.

   
Released: 24-May-2024 5:05 AM EDT
People who hold populist beliefs are more likely to believe misinformation about COVID – new report
Loughborough University

Over a fifth of Americans and Poles surveyed believed that COVID-19 vaccines can change people’s DNA. And more than half of Serbian people believed that natural immunity from COVID was better than being vaccinated. These figures come from a new report which examines the effects of populism on misinformation and other aspects of crisis communication around the coronavirus pandemic.

21-May-2024 6:05 AM EDT
Research reveals more people died from hot or cold weather conditions than COVID-19 in parts of UK
University of Bristol

Research has highlighted how weather extremes worsened by climate change are now a major national public health threat.

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Released: 20-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
COVID-19 Impacted Domestic Violence Differently Depending on Class, but Not in the Way You May Think: New Study
American Sociological Association (ASA)

New sociological research that looks into how crisis conditions during the pandemic—such as poor heath and insecure housing—affected domestic abuse and victims’ interpretation of violence.

   


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