AVMA economist: COVID rollercoaster ride may be slowing
AVMA economist: COVID rollercoaster ride may be slowing
Dr. Matt Salois
AVMA photo by Scott Nolan
Matt Salois, chief economist of the American Veterinary Medical Association, offered...
COVID-19 Scan for Jan 18, 2022
Study suggests 3 Pfizer vaccine doses may protect against OmicronToday a study from Germany published in Science shows three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19...
News Scan for Jan 18, 2022
US detects H5N1 avian flu in wild duck as Europe, Africa note more H5N1The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Jan 14 announced that...
US government makes free COVID-19 tests available
Today Americans can order four free COVID-19 at-home antigen tests at COVIDtests.gov, 1 month after President Joe Biden said he was securing 500 million...
Asia, parts of Europe tighten COVID-19 measures due to Omicron
Though early-hit countries are on the downslope of their Omicron variant surges, others are battling rising cases, with some tightening their measures and others—such...
Stewardship / Resistance Scan for Jan 19, 2022
Paper highlights use of pre-adapted phage against a pan-resistant infectionA new paper in Nature Communications describes the use of a pre-adapted bacteriophage in combination...
News Scan for Jan 19, 2022
Study finds no evidence of live virus in breast milk of moms with COVID-19A small University of California study finds no evidence that breast...
COVID surges in many regions fuel steady global rise
Global COVID-19 activity jumped 20% last week compared with the week before, amid surges across multiple regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday...
Most side effects noted in COVID vaccine trials may be due to ‘nocebo effect’
More than a third of participants in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials who received a placebo reported adverse events (AEs) such as headache and fatigue...
White House to offer 400 million free N95s to Americans
The Biden administration today confirmed officials will make available and free to the public 400 million N95 respirators to be distributed at community health...