WHO Predicts COVID Could Still ‘Echo Around the World’
GHealth News – After several weeks of declines in new reported cases of COVID-19, the numbers are increasing globally once…
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COVID Pushed Global Health Institutions to Their Limits
By: Lawrence O. Gostin Moments of existential crisis can turn into opportunities for bold reform. World War II led to…
Study: Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Severe COVID-19
GHealth News – People with a vitamin D deficiency are more likely to have a severe or critical case of COVID-19, according…
WHO recommends two new drugs to treat COVID-19
WHO has recommended two new drugs for COVID-19, providing yet more options for treating the disease. The extent to which…
Do not assume COVID pandemic reaching ‘end game’, warns WHO
Conditions are ripe for Covid-19 to mutate into more new variants, and it is dangerous to assume the pandemic is…
Omicron won’t be the last Covid variant
The World Health Organization on Tuesday said the pandemic will not end as the omicron variant subsides in some countries,…
FDA Authorizes First Oral Antiviral for Treatment of COVID-19
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for Pfizer’s Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir tablets and ritonavir tablets, co-packaged for…
Fauci warns Omicron COVID variant ‘raging through the world’
Top US pandemic adviser Anthony Fauci has warned of a bleak winter ahead as the Omicron coronavirus variant spurs a…
Vaccines should work against Omicron variant, WHO says
Existing vaccines should still protect people who contract the Omicron variant from severe Covid cases, a World Health Organization (WHO)…
What to know about the omicron variant of the coronavirus
By Meryl Kornfield, Adela Suliman, Christine Armario, María Luisa Paúl and Lindsey Bever Omicron has sparked alarm among epidemiologists worried…