If You're Suffering After Being Sick With COVID, It's Not Just in Your Head 
Zeynep Tufekci - The New York Times
The scale of the pandemic has made the importance of postviral ailments harder to deny and the need for research greater, but we have not yet risen to the task, while progress on trials for treatments hasn't even begun in a serious way. Read more...

The New COVID Booster Is a Bit of a Gamble - But One Well Worth Taking 
Washington Post
Critics might raise fresh concerns about these new shots, but the latest booster, as with all the previous shots, promises to be a life raft in dangerous seas. Read more...

Travel to Mexico During COVID-19: What You Need to Know Before You Go  
Forrest Brown - CNN
If you're planning to travel to Mexico, here's what you'll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...

Pfizer's COVID Vaccine for Girls and Boys Is 73% Effective Against the Disease 
NoticiasPV
Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was 73.2 percent effective against the disease in a trial of boys and girls ages 6 months to four years, reinforcing the results that led to the vaccine being licensed in young children in June. Read more...

After Threat of Legal Action WHO Offers 10MN COVID Vaccine Doses 
Peter Davies - Mexico News Daily
After the federal government threatened to take legal action against the COVAX vaccine initiative for failing to supply all the COVID-19 shots it promised, the World Health Organization-backed program promptly indicated it would ship an additional 10 million doses to Mexico. Read more...

New Study Suggests COVID Increases Risks of Brain Disorders 
Frances Stead Sellers - Washington Post
A study published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry showed increased risks of some brain disorders two years after infection with the coronavirus, shedding new light on the long-term neurological and psychiatric aspects of the virus. Read more...

COVID-19: Scientists Warn That It's Not Over Till It's Over 
Fawzia Moodley - IPS News
COVID fatigue, the global economic bloodbath, devastating social and mental health impacts, and the hope that large-scale vaccinations provided sufficient herd immunity, persuaded governments to lift the suffocating protocols. But experts warn that we should not be lulled into a false sense of security. Read more...

COVID Can Impair Brain Function, Large Study Suggests 
Carlo Martuscelli - Politico
Two years after infection, patients recovered from COVID-19 are at higher risk of psychosis, dementia and 'brain fog.' Read more...

Blood Abnormalities Found in People With Long COVID 
Jennifer Couzin-Frankel - Science
An ambitious study of people with Long COVID, the mysterious, disabling symptoms that can trail a SARS-CoV-2 infection, has turned up a host of abnormalities in their blood. Read more...

Mexico Boasts Five Weeks of "Continuous Reduction" in COVID-19 Infections & Deaths 
Proceso
The Federal Health Undersecretary reported that there have been five weeks of "continuous reduction" of COVID-19 infections and deaths in the country and said that the pandemic is expected to continue decreasing until it reaches minimum levels. Read more...

When Will the Pandemic End? And Other Pressing Questions, Answered 
The New York Times
We asked three experts - two immunologists and an epidemiologist - to weigh in on some of the hundreds of questions we've gathered from readers over the past few weeks, based on their expertise and opinion.  Read more...

CDC Loosens Coronavirus Guidance, Signaling Strategic Shift 
Lena H. Sun and Joel Achenbach - Washington Post
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday loosened many of its recommendations for battling the coronavirus, a strategic shift that puts more of the onus on individuals, rather than on schools, businesses and other institutions, to limit viral spread. Read more...

Vallarta Reports Four Months Without a COVID Hospitalization
PVDN
Puerto Vallarta has gone four months without hospitalizations from COVID-19, as announced by the director of the Eighth Sanitary Region of the Jalisco Ministry of Health, Jaime Alvarez Zayas. Read more...

Long-COVID Treatments: Why the World Is Still Waiting
Heidi Ledford - Nature
After a slow start, researchers are beginning to test ways to combat the lasting symptoms of the disease.  Read more...

Mexico Purchases Pfizer's Oral Antiviral Therapy for COVID-19 
Vallarta Daily News
The Government of Mexico announced the signing of a purchase agreement for Pfizer's oral antiviral therapy against Covid-19, called Paxlovid, completing the acquisition of 300,000 oral treatments which have begun to arrive in the country. Read more...

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