People with Long Covid (pwLC), advocates, and their allies from around the world are organizing in preparation of the second annual Long Covid Awareness Day, following similar grassroots advocacy efforts in March 2023. This year’s Awareness Day, pwLC plan to highlight the urgency of the Long Covid crisis and the impacts of the ongoing Covid-19…
After a February of plateaus in Covid-19 spread, all major metrics are now pointing once again to a decline in transmission. A lower-risk spring is on the horizon in the coming weeks. Right now, though, viral levels remain high across the U.S., and the CDC’s recent change to its isolation guidance won’t help.
The U.S.’s winter Covid-19 surge continues to drag on, with wastewater surveillance reporting high levels even as we head into March and relatively slow declines in hospitalizations. While this surge will surely lead to Long Covid, this result will be tough to track thanks to the abandonment of testing and relatively limited tracking efforts from health…
During the first Omicron surge of winter 2021-2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changed their ten-day Covid-19 isolation guidelines to five days after they received a request from Delta CEO, Ed Bastian. The change wasn’t based on any data or science, as Betsy wrote nearly two years ago for the Covid-19 Data…
Last summer, the federal Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) began meeting to update their guidance on infection control in healthcare settings for the first time in sixteen years. The committee’s draft recommendations, released in November, argue that surgical masks are adequate protection against airborne viruses, and allow employers to decide whether to implement…
Despite what might be the second biggest surge of the entire pandemic, CDC director Mandy Cohen has been absent from her official CDC social media accounts. Similarly, the CDC has yet to issue any press releases or public service announcements specifically about the JN.1 surge, which may be infecting over one million Americans each day…
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data on deaths caused by Long Covid, reporting that more than 5,000 Americans have died from this disease since 2020. The CDC’s numbers most likely represent significant undercounts of Long Covid-related deaths, experts say, highlighting a need for better reporting standards and education…
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