The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

I’m a ‘COVID virgin.’ Does that make me a sitting duck?

Now that most Americans have been infected with COVID — more than 70%, according to a recent estimate from the White House — the rest of us are the outliers.

Tribune News Service · Aug 11, 2022

Cognitive rehab may help older adults clear COVID-related brain fog

Eight months after falling ill with COVID-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She would forget to remove laundry from the dryer at the end of the cycle. She would turn on the tap at a sink and walk away.

Tribune News Service · Aug 11, 2022

More than two years into the pandemic, hospital care still may not save you from dying of COVID-19

PHILADELPHIA — By the fall of 2020, the pandemic’s first year, doctors treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients said they were starting to get the regimen down to a science. They learned when to put patients on ventilators, administer steroids, and deploy an expanding array of newer drugs.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Aug 11, 2022

Demand destruction the new buzzword

On Feb 23, a day before Russia invaded Ukraine, the world crude oil price was US$90.60 (3,221 baht) per barrel. Russian oil supply disruption and demand recovery from Covid-19 dragged the crude oil price to almost $120 at the end of May, after the US and European central banks sent…

Bangkok Post · Aug 10, 2022

What's BA.5 and why is it so contagious?

BA.5 is the most transmissible and immune-evasive subvariant yet. Here's how it took over the world

Salon · Aug 10, 2022

Queensland researchers find overlap in pathology of long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome

Researchers knew there were similarities in the symptoms. Now they've found an overlap in the pathology of the two illnesses.

ABC News · Aug 10, 2022

Newcastle Loves 2022 awards results as Stack and Rusty's are double winners at red carpet ceremony

The accolades have now been handed out at this year's Newcastle Loves awards, held at The Lofts in the city centre

Chronicle Live · Aug 10, 2022

North Korea declares victory over COVID, suggests leader Kim had it

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has declared victory over COVID-19 and his sister indicated that he too caught the virus, while vowing "deadly retaliation" against South Korea, which the North blames for causing the outbreak.

Reuters · Aug 10, 2022

Anthony Fauci jokes that he created Covid-19 virus in his own kitchen

Chief medical advisor to the president arrives with Secret Service agents to receive honorary award amid death threats

The Independent UK · Aug 10, 2022

Whole Foods' John Mackey: 'I Feel Like Socialists Are Taking Over'

The 'conscious capitalism' innovator on overregulation, COVID mandates, and why he will be speaking his mind much more freely when he retires.

Reason · Aug 10, 2022