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Detailed trends and information on the COVID-19 situation in Butte County.

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Opinion: Fauci doesn't have the answers on Covid's origins. China does

The Senate committee hearings last week on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic presented a master class in political distraction from what is important for the nation’s public health. And Thursday the committee held Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for invoking his Fifth Amendment defense to a committee chaired by someone who has already said Fauci “should go to prison.” The Covid-19 pandemic originated in Wuhan, China. The Chinese government vigorously suppressed information about the epidemic in the first weeks and months. It dragged its feet on alerting the international community to the threat. It frustrated the World Health Organization’s attempts to discover basic facts about the transmissibility of the virus, denying the rest of the world crucial weeks to prepare. And once the virus had escaped China and spread to Europe and then North America, it covered up the initial facts about the epidemic, silenced whistleblowers, and prevented investigations into the origin of the virus by refusing international investigations, locking WHO representatives in their hotel rooms on the specious theory that the virus had been imported from abroad. It then denied international access to scientists in Wuhan, their laboratory records, and the records of local public health authorities...

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Study details long COVID's effect on patients' wellbeing

Working-age adults living with long COVID feel less satisfied with life, experience less happiness, and have less hope, according to a study published this week in BMC Public Health. The paper highlights the association between having long COVID and poorer wellbeing. “The findings underscore that the burden of long COVID extends beyond clinical health outcomes to encompass how individuals evaluate and experience their lives,” wrote the authors, from Syracuse University in New York. “Long COVID symptoms were significantly associated with lower levels of subjective wellbeing in a dose-dependent manner.” The World Health Organization defines long COVID “as the continuation or development of new symptoms 3 months after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, with these symptoms lasting for at least 2 months with no other explanation.” Understanding wellbeing in people with long COVID Past research indicates that people with long COVID report more anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder than people without it. The authors of this paper hoped to understand how living with long COVID affected people’s overall appreciation of life. They examined data from the 2023 and 2024 National Wellbeing Survey, which gathers information about Americans’ health and wellbeing. Surveys from those two years included questions about long COVID, and...

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Maryanne Chisholm: Oh For F*cks Sake

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Fact-check: Kennedy says the US had the highest COVID death rate on earth

In a combative interview on CNN, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. opened the conversation with a throwback claim. “We had the highest death rate from COVID of any nation on earth,” Kennedy said. When host Dana Bash challenged him, Kennedy doubled down: “What I said was accurate. We had the highest death rate from COVID.” The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for evidence for Kennedy’s statement. The overwhelming majority of global COVID-19 deaths occurred between January 2020 and March 2023. During that period, the U.S. had the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths, over 1.1 million. In the last few years, the death toll has climbed to 1.2 million. But during the pandemic’s height, 2020 to 2023, the U.S. did not lead the world in its overall rate of death from the illness. Peru did. In its tracking of global COVID-19 cases and deaths through March 2023, Johns Hopkins University found that Peru’s population was hit hardest with a rate of 665.84 deaths per 100,000 people. The U.S.’s per capita death rate was nearly half that with 341.11 deaths per 100,000 people. That is the 14th highest rate. Bulgaria,...

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