Juliana Kim, NPR, February 25, 2023 The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization on Friday for the first at-home test that can simultaneously detect both COVID-19 and the flu. With a shallow nasal swab, the single-use kit …
Understanding the Recommendations for COVID-19 Booster Shots
Vanessa Caceres, US News, February 21, 2023 With all the talk in the past couple of years about COVID vaccines and boosters, it may be confusing to know just when you should get a COVID-19 booster. A lot of that confusion has to …
What doctors wish patients knew about long COVID-19 brain fog
Sara Berg, American Medical Association, February 17, 2023 Patients with long COVID—sometimes called COVID long-haulers—experience an assortment of symptoms that may persist for weeks, months or even years after their SARS-CoV-2 infection. While symptoms vary widely, months after COVID-19, some patients …
Commercialization of COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments, and Tests: Implications for Access and Coverage
Kaiser Health News, February 13, 2023 In response to the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government spent billions of dollars in emergency funds to purchase medical countermeasures – vaccines, including boosters, treatments, and tests – to provide …
Are there places you should still mask in, forever? Three experts weigh in
Carmen Acosta, NPR, February 10, 2023 There are still hundreds of thousands of COVID cases reported in the U.S. each week, along with a few thousand deaths related to COVID. But with mask mandates a thing of the past and …