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  • National COVID-19 trends, February 11

    National COVID-19 trends, February 11

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    Betsy Ladyzhets

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    COVID-19 levels remain high in the U.S. as our longer-than-usual winter surge continues. While disease spread is decreasing in some regions, that decline is offset by increases and plateaus in other parts of the country. We’re also seeing a record-high seasonal flu season, as concerns about the bird flu H5N1 continue to grow.

  • We won’t avoid the next pandemic. But we can still prepare.

    We won’t avoid the next pandemic. But we can still prepare.

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    Max Levy

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    When a pandemic begins, so does the blame game. Early days of COVID-19 pointed fingers at wild meat markets and debunked lab leak conspiracies, and that crystallized a long-running narrative that outbreaks are generally humans’ fault; roll the dice enough times with wildlife and you’re bound to land on a plague. Problem is, generalizing that…

  • National COVID-19 trends, February 4

    National COVID-19 trends, February 4

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    Betsy Ladyzhets

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    Our season of intense virus spread continues in the U.S. For now, we are still able to track that spread as major CDC data sources are (or at least appear to be) back to their regular update schedule following interruptions from the Trump administration. Some COVID-19 and flu indicators have gone back up this week,…

  • The “pandemic of abandonment”: Navigating friendships five years into COVID-19

    The “pandemic of abandonment”: Navigating friendships five years into COVID-19

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    October Krausch

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    Over the last five years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many people have experienced significant changes and ruptures to their personal relationships. People with Long COVID and people taking COVID-19 precautions have lost many friends as they are not able or willing to return to “pre-pandemic” behaviors.

  • National COVID-19 trends, January 28

    National COVID-19 trends, January 28

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    Betsy Ladyzhets

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    The U.S. remains in a period of high disease spread, for COVID-19 as well as seasonal pathogens like the flu and norovirus. COVID-19 levels are declining, but our less-intense-than-usual winter surge may give way to more cases this spring. And the public health landscape is full of uncertainty right now as a new Trump administration…

  • Some U.S. COVID-19 data are down amid “pause” to federal health communications

    Some U.S. COVID-19 data are down amid “pause” to federal health communications

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    Betsy Ladyzhets

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    The U.S. government has stopped updating some of its public COVID-19 data, as part of a “pause” to public federal health communications under President Donald Trump. While federal officials have not formally announced any details, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has missed scheduled updates to some infectious disease dashboards this week. A…

  • Long COVID is a smoldering threat to wildland firefighters

    Long COVID is a smoldering threat to wildland firefighters

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    Miles W. Griffis

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    Editor’s note: This story was originally published in October 2022 by High Country News and was supported by The Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Researchers found that particulate matter from wildfires…

  • National COVID-19 trends, January 21

    National COVID-19 trends, January 21

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    Betsy Ladyzhets

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    All COVID-19 data sources indicate that cases are now decreasing in the U.S., suggesting we’re past the peak of this winter’s surge. This winter’s wave seems to be less intense than those in the last couple of years, but it’s still led to millions of cases and many thousands of hospitalizations and deaths. Other diseases…

  • National COVID-19 trends, January 14

    National COVID-19 trends, January 14

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    Betsy Ladyzhets

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    The U.S.’s winter COVID-19 surge continues. Some data sources suggest that we may be close to the peak of this wave, but it will be another week or two before that pattern is clear. Even if we continue to see a lower disease burden than usual for the winter, SARS-CoV-2 still causes an outsized risk…

  • “Stand Together,” an excerpt from The Covid Safety Handbook

    “Stand Together,” an excerpt from The Covid Safety Handbook

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    sick times

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    The Covid Safety Handbook is informed by the global, national, local, and neighborhood care circles coming together under the banner of Covid prevention to center science, accurate and non-judgemental information, inclusiveness, and equity in public health. This book draws strength from all the tireless variant hunters and wastewater trackers around the world who struggle to…

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