Erin Prater

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DENVER, CO – AUGUST 30 : Lilly Downs, 18, pets facility dog Posey at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. Downs has been in and out of the hospital with Long Covid. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Nearly half of COVID patients worldwide still have symptoms after 4 months, according to a giant new study

Woman taking the temperature of a sick child

Doctors are overprescribing antibiotics during the tripledemic. The shortage could hurt those who truly need them

Well-protected medical staff performs swab test for COVID-19.

Thanksgiving kicked off a COVID surge, and it’s slamming U.S. hospitals already battling the tripledemic: ‘It’s the perfect storm for a terrible holiday season’

The trouble with a zero COVID approach, immunologically speaking, is that it’s not a policy China’s government can “switch off” with little or no consequence, experts tell Fortune. They fear millions of infections and surge in deaths and hospitalizations if the country chooses to open up again.

China dumping its draconian ‘zero COVID’ policy could come at the huge cost of rampant infections: ‘This will spread like wildfire’

Vivek Murthy, US surgeon general, during a virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden and baby formula manufacturers in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., US, on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Biden is meeting with the manufacturers to tout his administration’s efforts to combat a shortage that’s only worsening across the country, risking backlash from angry parents. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘Hospitals are filling up’: The U.S. surgeon general warns a surge in viral illnesses is pushing medical facilities to the brink—and tells Americans how to stay safe

Six nights per week, Mona Randolph, 82, sleeps in a nearly 75-year-old iron lung, which she calls “Yellow Submarine,” from the song by the Beatles. Polio survivor Randolph is one of the last three iron lungs users in the U.S. (Shelly Yang/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Is polio circulating in the U.S.? The CDC will test wastewater to find out: ‘It would not be surprising’

The National Trust team of rangers clear deceased birds from Staple Island, one of the Outer Group of the Farne Islands, off the coast of Northumberland, where the impact of Avian Influenza (bird flu) is having a devastating effect on one of the UK’s best known and important seabird colonies. Nearly 53 million U.S. birds have died this year due to avian flu, marking the worst outbreak in national history and fueling the holiday turkey shortage.

It’s official: This year’s bird flu outbreak is now the worst in U.S. history

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, patients who came down with the virus have reported a wide range of symptoms beyond the respiratory issues you might expect, including GI ailments like diarrhea, nausea, stomach pains, and loss of appetite. Researchers at Rutgers University may have discovered why.

Even a mild case of COVID could harm your gut’s microbiome, especially if you’re on antibiotics, new study finds

People hold signs during a rally to demand that the federal government respond quickly to the recent San Francisco monkeypox outbreak at the San Francisco Federal Building on July 18 in San Francisco, Calif. Monkeypox will now be known as “mpox,” in a bid to destigmatize the disease and eradicate racism associated with it, the World Health Organization announced Monday.

The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox. Here’s why

A little boy getting a doctor checkup.

A ‘tripledemic’ hitting kids across the country has some people blaming ‘immunity debt.’ But experts say that’s misguided—and could be damaging

A shopper at Reading Terminal Market as the indoor mask mandate is reinstated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S, on Monday, April 18, 2022. Philadelphia is bringing back its indoor mask mandate beginning April 18 after a 50% increase in Covid-19 cases in the past 10 days. Photographer: Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The COVID variants dominating this fall mean ‘we’re still in the Omicron era’

Protestors lay down outside the White House to call attention to those suffering from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Long COVID on Sept. 19 in Washington, D.C. If you’re a Long COVID patient with headaches, brain fog, or other neurological symptoms, another coronavirus could be to blame—at least in part, according to a new study.

Suffering from Long COVID headaches and brain fog? Another coronavirus could be the culprit

Grandmother welcoming her family at airport

COVID testing to protect loved ones this holiday season may provide you with a ‘false sense of security,’ new study warns

Woman wearing a protective face mask

Sick with a new Omicron variant? Be prepared for this symptom, new study says

Kindergarteners, a few with face masks, sing and jump during class at Iroquois Community School in Des Plaines on Aug. 5, 2022. Despite the urging of the stateâs health department, many Illinois school districts are pausing their weekly COVID-19 SHIELD testing for students this fall. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

What is BN.1? Meet the newest Omicron spawn being tracked by the CDC