COVID News

Last update: Friday 5/12/23
As of 3/25/23, COVID News will be published bi-monthly, not weekly, because the nation has entered the final phase of COVID-19 as it becomes just another serious infectious disease.

Previous editions include:
-- endCOVID-19 covered the transition from pandemic to endemic December 2022 to February 2023.
-- omiBivCOVID-19 covered the introduction of bivalent boosters from September 2022 to November 2022
-- omiSubCOVID-19 covered Omicron sub-variants from April 2022 through August 2022
-- omicronCOVID-19 covered Omicron from late November 2021 through March 2022
-- deltaCOVID-19 covered Delta vs mandates from July 2021 to November 2021.
-- vacCOVID-19 covered Biden's vaccinations from late December 2020 to June 2021
-- oldCOVID-19 covered February 2020 through early December 2020

Top stories ...
  • "As Covid Emergency Ends, Surveillance Shifts to the Sewers", Emily Anthes, NY Times, 5/11/23 *** 

  • WHO, "WHO declares end to Covid global health emergency", Helen Branswell, STAT, 5/5/23 *** 

  • "Hispanic, Black Adults More Likely to Report Long COVID-19 Symptoms", Brian Glassman, U.S. Census Bureau, 5/1/23 *** 

Ten sections are divided into two groups: Dashboard and Publications. 

Dashboard (sections A, B, and C) contains links to data pages on the Web that include the tables, maps, and charts most frequently cited by the publications in the second part of the guide.

Publications (sections D through I) contains links to reports, news articles, and opinions.  New links are added every day. Recent links are red; older links are blue. Most of the links in the dashboard sections are always red because they point to Web pages that are updated frequently by their editors, sometimes every day.
    • Older items in the publication sections whose content has been overcome by events are deleted. This enables the overall size of the publications sections to remain more or less the same as newer links are added. However enough older articles remain so that readers can always get a quick sense of where we are and how we got here by skimming the titles of the articles in chronological order.
A. Info | B. Blog Links | C. Trackers | D. World | E. China |  F. United States | G. Context | H. Mandates | I. TreatVax | J. Opinions

... Dashboard ... 

A. Comprehensive information resources 
B. COVID links on this blog
  • COVID FAQs = Links to facts about the virus that everyone should have at their fingertips 
  • Endemic Defense = Links to authoritative sources of information about vaccinations, mitigations, treatments, and self-tests
  • Long COVID -- Links to authoritative sources of information about long COVID plus links to related research.
  • Long COVID Chart Jan 2023 = Links to recent large scale studies of long COVID and a chart that is designed to help our readers identify the most important findings on which these studies seem to agree or disagree.
  • Hindsight = Links to memorable articles about what we should have known about pandemic management and when we should have known
C. Focused trackers

... Publications ...

D. World policies and contexts outside
  • South Korea, "South Korea to end mandatory wearing of mask for public transport", Stermy, TownFlex, 3/15/23
  • World, "W.H.O. Accuses China of Hiding Data That May Link Covid’s Origins to Animals", Benjamin Mueller, NY Times, 3/17/23 
    -- World, "WHO calls on China to share data on raccoon dog link to pandemic. Here's what we know", Michaeleen Doucleff and Jason Beaubien, NPR, 3/17/23
    -- "Unearthed genetic sequences from China market may point to animal origin of COVID-19", Jon Cohen, Science, 3/16/23
    -- "The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic", Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3/17/23
    -- "What Are Raccoon Dogs?", Emily Anthes, NY Times, 3/17/23

  • WHO, "Focus Covid booster campaigns on high-risk people, WHO’s vaccine experts recommend", Helen Branswell, WHO, 3/28/23 
  • WHO, "WHO experts revise Covid-19 vaccine advice, say healthy kids and teens low risk", Carma Hassan and Helen Regan, CNN, 3/29/23 
  • WHO, "WHO declares end to Covid global health emergency", Helen Branswell, STAT, 5/5/23 *** 
E. China policies and context 
  • "How China's new No.2 hastened the end of Xi's zero-COVID policy", Julie Zhu, Yew Lun Tian and Engen Tham, Reuters, 3/2/23  

F. U.S. policies ==> Who's Who Directory
  • "U.S. to lift covid testing requirements on travelers from China", Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 3/7/23 
  • "Biden administration requests $20 billion cash infusion to bolster public health",  Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 3/9/23 
  • "White House disbanding its covid-19 team in May", Dan Diamond and Tyler Pager, Washington Post, 3/22/23 
  • "Senate votes to end Covid-19 emergency, 3 years after initial declaration", Ali Zaslav, Phil Mattingly and Manu Raju, CNN, 3/29/23 
  • "Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Changes to Simplify Use of Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines", FDA, 4/18/23 
    -- This story also covered by NY Times,     STAT

G. U.S. context     
  • "Newsom rescinds California’s COVID-19 state of emergency, marking an end to the pandemic era", Taryn Luna, LA Times, 3/1/23  

  • "Trust In US Federal, State, And Local Public Health Agencies During COVID-19: Responses And Policy Implications", Gillian K. SteelFisher, Mary G. Findling, et al, Health Affairs, 3/6/23 
    --     "A quarter of Americans distrust CDC recommendations, survey finds".  Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3/7/23 
  • "As the pandemic ebbs, an influential COVID tracker shuts down", Rob Stein, NPR, 3/10/23 
  • "Hispanic, Black Adults More Likely to Report Long COVID-19 Symptoms", Brian Glassman, U.S. Census Bureau, 5/1/23 *** 

  • "As Covid Emergency Ends, Surveillance Shifts to the Sewers", Emily Anthes, NY Times, 5/11/23 *** 
H. U.S. Mandates 
  • "CA to end mask requirement, vaccine mandate for health care workers", ABC7 News, 3/6/23 
  • "LA County Keeps COVID Vaccination And Mask Requirement For Health Workers", Jackie Fortiér, LAist, 3/9/23 
I. Treatments, vaccines, boosters, tests 
  • "New study casts doubt on effectiveness of COVID-19 border closures", Megan DeLaire, CTV News, 3/3/23
  • "Long-term COVID-19 booster effectiveness by infection history and clinical vulnerability and immune imprinting: a retrospective population-based cohort study", Hiam Chemaitelly et al., The Lancet, 3/10/23 
  • "Who Is Most at Risk for Long Covid?", Pam Belluck, NY Times, 3/25/23 
J. Notable opinions and long reads       
  • "Opinion  Public health needs a reset", Leana S. Wen, Washington Post, 3/7/23 
  • "A more equitable covid vaccine rollout could have saved a life every 24 seconds in 2021", Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 3/10/23 
  • "Covid experts today: Eating out, masking less, even booking cruises", Marlene Cimons, Washington Post, 3/12/23 
  • "What if the Next Pandemic Happens Tomorrow?", NY Times, 3/13/23 

  • "‘We Were Helpless’: Despair at the C.D.C. as the Pandemic Erupted",  Apoorva Mandavilli, NY Times, 3/21/23 
  • "Statistical and Numerical Errors Made by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention During the COVID-19 Pandemic", Kelley Krohnert, Alyson Haslam, Tracy Beth Hoeg, and Vinay Prasad, SSRN ... Open the PDF Here, 3/23/23 
  • "A closer look at the U.S. pandemic response reached an unsettling conclusion", Editorial Board, Washington Post, 4/25/23 
  • "Our Covid Data Project Is Over, but the Need for Timely Data Is Not", Beth Blauer, Lauren Gardner, Sheri Lewis and Lainie Rutkow, NY Times, 4/30/23 

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