Coronavirus

Coronavirus Weekend News Brief – March 18: In U.S., Covid is Waning in Wastewater, CDC Revisits Guidance on Airborne Virus Transmission

Coronavirus Weekend News Brief – March 18: In U.S., Covid is Waning in Wastewater, CDC Revisits Guidance on Airborne Virus Transmission

Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on its 1,468th day.
In news we cover today, four years ago today, Moderna began human trials on its mRNA coronavirus vaccine, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will further revise their airborne respiratory virus guidelines after complaints that they were, …

The Pandemic, by the Numbers

This past Monday marked the four-year anniversary of the declaration by the World Health Organization that the Covid-19 outbreak was a pandemic. It was also the day that headlines carried the story of a Broadway usher who worked front-of-house at two Broadway theaters who had tested positive for Covid. That usher, who was not identified, had worked at both the Booth Theatre, where “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe” was being …

Coronavirus Weekend News Brief – March 17: New Covid Screenings at Miami Airport, Covid Per Capita Death Rate Highest in South and Southwest

Coronavirus Weekend News Brief – March 17: New Covid  Screenings at Miami Airport, Covid Per Capita Death Rate Highest in South and Southwest

Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on its 1,467th day.
In news we cover today, per capita death rates for Covid were highest in the South and Southwest, the CDC started SARS-CoV-2 screenings at a major airport,  and about the same number of people (more or less) who have …

Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 15: Number of Long Covid Patients Has ‘Startling’ Increase, Long Covid Trials for Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction Begin

Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 15: Number of Long Covid Patients Has ‘Startling’ Increase, Long Covid Trials for Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction Begin

Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on its 1,465th day.
In news we cover today, there has been a startling rise in the number of people with Long Covid, a Long Covid patient trial for Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction has begun, and about the same number of people (more …

Coronavirus Daily News Brief –March 13: 22% of Americans Clueless About Long Covid, First Covid Death in New York Was Four Years Ago Today

Coronavirus Daily News Brief –March 13: 22% of Americans Clueless About Long Covid, First Covid Death in New York Was Four Years Ago Today

Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on its 1,463rd day.
In news we cover today, the first death from Covid in New York State took place four years ago today, advances in mRNA vaccines made during Operation Warp Speed may help eradicate yet another strain of the flu, and …

Coronavirus Daily News Brief –March 12: Pandemic Reduced Life Expectancy by 1.6 Years, Vaccines Cut Risk of Virus-Related Cardio Complications

Coronavirus Daily News Brief –March 12: Pandemic Reduced Life Expectancy by 1.6 Years, Vaccines Cut Risk of Virus-Related Cardio Complications

Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on its 1,462nd day.
In news we cover today, pandemic-induced shutdowns began in earnest in New York City four years ago today, the first two years of the pandemic saw life-expectancy reduced by 1.6 years, and vaccines cut the rusk of cardiologic complications …

Four Years Ago Today, It Was the Beginning of the End: The Pandemic Shuttered Broadway. The Rest of the World Followed

The events of four years ago today are indelibly engraved in my memory like almost no other, except perhaps where I was when the space shuttle exploded, where I was on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway en route to Brooklyn or when I woke up in a hotel room in San Francisco on  September 11, 2001, and the aftermath of the terror attacks of that day were being recapped on television.

And …