Excess Deaths Highest Among Younger Minorities During COVID Pandemic
By Kristina Fiore Source Medpagetoday When it came to excess U.S. deaths during the COVID pandemic, racial and ethnic disparities hit younger...
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Multi-country outbreak of mpox, External situation report #36 – 14 September 2024
By WHO Highlights • On 14 August 2024, the WHO Director-General declared the resurgence of mpox to be a public health emergency of international...
Singapore to Quarantine Close Contacts of Patients With New Mpox Strain
By Karoline Kan Source bloomberg Singapore will mandate a three-week quarantine at a designated facility if close contacts of patients infected with...
Influenza A(H1N1) variant virus – Viet Nam
By WHO Situation at a glance On 19 August 2024, the Viet Nam National Focal Point (NFP) for International Health Regulations (IHR) notified the...
Short, stringent lockdowns halted SARS‑CoV‑2 transmissions in Danish municipalities
By Florian Ege Source Nature Abstract In late 2020, the focus of the global effort against the COVID-19 pandemic centered around the development of...
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination on global, regional, and national burden of Guillain-Barré syndrome: observational study
By Xīn Gào et al. Abstract Objectives: To estimate the global, regional, and national burden and trends of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), and to...
The Covid summer wave is here
By Aria Bendix Source NBC If more people around you seem to be coming down with Covid lately, that’s because infections are indeed on the rise...
Fresh COVID wave in Singapore: FLiRT variants account for two-thirds of cases; peak expected in June
By etimes.in Source Scientific Reports Singapore is seeing a rise in COVID cases and a peak is expected between mid and end of June. "We are at the...
Years of life lost due to COVID-19 and other causes of death in Australia, 2019-2022
By Aaliya F Ibrahim et al. Source researchsquare Abstract Background Years of life lost (YLL) is a measure of fatal burden, quantifying the toll...
Update on COVID-19 in Thailand: 02 May 2024
Source WHO Since March 2024, data reported by the Ministry of Public Health on a weekly basis indicates that hospital admissions due to COVID-19...