In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, pulmonologist Joseph Varon offered an opinion that made headlines around the world and went viral on social media. Varon was fighting two wars, he said: one against COVID and one against stupidity.
Biden launches U.S. plan to help Americans struggling with long COVID
“Long-Haul” COVID-19, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Healthcare Policy, Joe Biden, Long COVID, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Primary Care Physicians (PCPs), Therapeutics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United StatesPresident Joe Biden on April 5 tasked the U.S. health department with developing a national action plan to tackle the looming health crisis of long COVID, a complex, multi-symptom condition that leaves many of its sufferers unable to work.
Vaccines Cut “Long-Haul” COVID Risk in Half; Kids Test Positive in Droves
“Long-Haul” COVID-19, American Academy of Pediatrics, AstraZeneca, BNT162b2 (Pfizer and BioNTech), Children, Covid-19 Data, COVID-19 Studies, COVID-19 Vaccines, FDA, Kids, Lancet Infectious Diseases, mRNA-1273/Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine (Moderna), Oxford University, United StatesA study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases found that the Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca or Moderna vaccines resulted in a drop in “long-haul” Covid-19 by 50 percent. According to data collected by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), more than 500,000 children tested positive in the United States for Covid-19 from August 5 to August 26.