The Latest on COVID-19

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  CBS News

  

  Dr. Leana Wen says for bird flu, "we should have learned our lesson from COVID" in testing

  CBS News - By Patrick Maguire

  Dr. Leana Wen said Sunday that the lack of testing for bird flu doesn't mean that the virus isn't alive in humans, and that she feels the federal …

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  NPR

  

  Is it the flu or is it COVID? One at-home test can tell you

  NPR - Rob Stein

  With the flu season getting underway, and COVID-19 still circulating, if you get sick you might wonder: 'Which virus got me this time?' Until now, sick people who wanted to get tested had to crawl out of bed and sit in a waiting room surrounded by other coughing, sneezing people. "You may have a …

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  NBC News

  

  Do the Covid vaccines provide long-lasting protection?

  NBC News - By Akshay Syal, M.D.

  The CDC is recommending that older adults get a second Covid shot in the spring. How durable are the vaccines? In October, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that high-risk adults get a second updated Covid vaccine to bolster their protection against the virus. The agency now …

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  The New York Times

  

  C.D.C. Expands Covid Vaccine Recommendations

  The New York Times - By Dani Blum

  The agency endorsed additional doses for people at high risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday expanded its Covid vaccine recommendations, urging some people to get additional doses of the updated shots. The agency said that people 65 and older and those who are moderately …

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  NPR

  

  Getting the COVID vaccine during pregnancy protects newborns from hospitalization

  NPR - Jackie Fortiér

  Nearly 90% of babies who had to be hospitalized for COVID-19 had mothers who didn’t get the vaccine during pregnancy, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Babies too young to be vaccinated had the highest COVID hospitalization rate of any age group except people …

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  Associated Press

  

  The US is mailing Americans COVID tests again. Here's how to get them

  Associated Press - By AMANDA SEITZ

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans can once again order COVID-19 tests, without being charged, sent straight to their homes. The U.S. government reopened the program on Thursday, allowing any household to order up to four at-home COVID nasal swab kits through the website, covidtests.gov. The tests will …

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  NPR

  

  New research points to raccoon dogs in Wuhan market as pandemic trigger. It's controversial

  NPR - Gabriel Spitzer

  Remember the raccoon dog? The adorable fox-like critter made headlines in the spring of 2023, when it was implicated in some preliminary research on the source of the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers had found genetic evidence that raccoon dogs, an exotic species known to be susceptible to …