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The Latest Breaking News on COVID-19

COVID-19 case numbers from around the states and territories

Here's a quick wrap of today's COVID statistics from each Australian jurisdiction.

ABC News

What is Paxlovid? Everything you need to know about Joe Biden’s antiviral Covid drug treatment

Late-stage clinical trial found nearly 90 per cent effectiveness from antiviral pill

The Independent UK

Thousands seeking unproven long Covid blood treatments abroad

Unproven procedures such as apheresis, or ‘blood washing’, and anti-clotting therapy are being offered in Europe

The Guardian - UK

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The ‘wild west’ of long Covid: The expensive, bizarre and ‘dangerous’ treatments on offer to patients

Exclusive: Potentially dangerous clot-busting drugs and probiotic stomach implants are being recommended to patients desperate for help

The Independent UK

COVID-19 antiviral treatments are on the table for more Australians. What are antivirals and how do they help stop the spread of coronavirus?

More than 73,000 Australians have already benefited from COVID-19 antivirals, but what exactly are they and how do they ward off the virus?

ABC News

COVID vaccines work well for people of all body weights – but underweight and obesity remain risk factors for severe disease

Since the pandemic began, more than 6 million people have died from COVID around the world. The good news is that we now have a wide range of treatments as well as highly effective vaccines which have helped reduce the number of severe COVID cases.

The Conversation

Vaccines barely reduce long COVID risk

While existing vaccines are great for preventing serious cases, they aren't as good at preventing long Covid

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Covid vaccines are ‘safe for pregnant women and cut stillbirth risk’, study says

Unvaccinated pregnant women who catch Covid-19 are more likely to fall seriously ill

The Independent UK

Why India rejects the World Health Organization's COVID-19 death toll estimates

New World Health Organization data suggests almost half of the world's unrecorded COVID deaths happened in India, but the government insists its official death toll remains at about half a million. Why does the data differ so drastically?

ABC News

Coronavirus vaccines reduce risk of long Covid, study suggests

Double-jabbed people 41 per cent less likely to report symptoms 12 weeks after testing positive for Covid, according to research from Office for National Statistics

The Independent UK

How in-person schooling has impacted COVID-19 cases in four states

Preliminary COVID-19 data in South Carolina shows 31% of positive cases came from students and school staff.

USAFacts

TB and the woeful state of health reporting in India

In January 2017, the Indian media reported on an exceptional legal battle playing out before the Delhi High Court regarding a young lady suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, suing the Indian government for access to a new TB drug called bedaquiline that was supposed to be effective on TB patients resistant to…

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