Katie Bach, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who was not involved in the report, said the study showed that “we have a group of people who got long Covid and at least up until now have been unable to get back to work, and it is a …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Friday it planned to hold a meeting of outside experts next month to discuss whether initial doses of COVID-19 vaccines need to be updated to combat circulating variants. While updated booster doses from Pfizer and Moderna are already approved for …
Read More »Potential New Treatment for “Brain Fog” in Long COVID Patients – Neuroscience News
Summary: Researchers identified two FDA-approved drugs that can mitigate or even eliminate the brain fog associated with COVID-19 infection. Source: Yale Individuals with long COVID, sometimes referred to as “long-haulers,” experience symptoms that may persist for weeks, months, or even years after their acute viral infection. While symptoms vary widely, …
Read More »How to Get Free COVID Tests from the U.S. Government, for a Limited Time
Looking for free COVID tests as cases increase across the U.S.? Reported COVID cases have roughly doubled since recording a six-month low of 261,268 in mid-October 2022, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data (opens in new tab). Nodding to this growing surge of cases, the White House yesterday …
Read More »Fed chair Powell on the U.S. labor shortage: COVID, retirements, missing immigrants
Data: Federal Reserve; Chart: Rahul Mukherjee/Axios Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell struck a particularly somber note at his press conference earlier this week when he mentioned that one reason the labor market is so tight right now is that many workers died from COVID-19. The big picture: Economists have theorized for …
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