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Federal Aviation Administration officials and industry leaders are meeting Wednesday outside Washington to address a string of near-misses at airports that have raised fresh concerns about aviation safety as a rapid rebound from the pandemic has brought an influx of new workers.

Health care workers infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant were far less likely to experience significant long COVID symptoms than those who contracted the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to new research out of Switzerland.

Kotkas estimates that there are some 10,000 different devices and over 10,000 types of identification documents worldwide that can be used for identity verification, and Veriff wants to be able to use all of them with sufficient accuracy.

Omicron won’t be the last variant, and comprehensive strategies are still needed to reduce severe disease, deaths and transmission, according to Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead officer on Covid. She said at a briefing on Tues that countries shouldn’t abandon well-established, life-saving interventions, such as social distancing, mask-wearing, good ventilation and avoiding crowds.

COVID-19 wastewater monitoring project expanding as Alberta universities team up to test in more communities. Wastewater allows researchers to see localized trends of COVID-19 cases, even if people are asymptomatic.

Researchers say the discovery could lead to the creation of a vaccine for all coronaviruses, which would not only protect against COVID and its variants, but also against coronaviruses that cause common colds and new emerging animal coronaviruses.

The novel coronavirus pandemic is the perfect model for understanding what exactly a pandemic is and how it impacts life on a global scale. Since the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020, the public has been bombarded with new language to understand the virus and the subsequent global public health response. This article will uncover the

The early warning system issued a daily internal report but not a more significant alert about the emergence of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019. Canada's pandemic warning system was understaffed and unready when COVID hit.

Calgary woman has breathlessness, voice problems, sleep troubles, extreme fatigue 7 months after diagnosis. Leah Noster's life has changed dramatically since her COVID-19 diagnosis in December, and she's not sure she'll ever be the same. "It's been a terrible, terrible journey," she said.

The stakes are even higher now that the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is ravaging the world, as times of great crisis often put women on the front lines. Women predominate in key roles as nurses, social workers, and caregivers.

But the COVID-19 pandemic differs from other mass trauma events in ways that make it especially toxic: large geographic scope, unpredictable in nature, and the sudden wide

Q: Are coronavirus long-haulers contagious?

A: It’s not very likely, but it’s a sticky question to answer. Typically after having an active infection like COVID-19, the contagiousness goes away after a week or so and you start