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Faye Flam: Fuzzy language is setting back the fight against COVID

People no longer know what to do about the COVID pandemic. Part of the problem is the very language we use to talk about it. Words such as “breakthrough,” “booster” and even “sick” mean different things to different people — and to experts and the general public. The solution is…

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Cannabis opponents should be open to wisdom, says health minister

NONTHABURI: Opponents of the decision to decriminalise cannabis need to open their minds to the wisdom on the merits of the plant, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

Liverpool mass testing pilot saved lives and prevented covid catastrophe

New findings show pioneering city effort helped to keep emergency services running during the pandemic

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Ministry signs contract to buy long-acting antibody drug

The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday signed a procurement agreement with AstraZeneca for 257,500 doses of the long-acting antibody drug Evusheld, which boosts Covid-19 immunity in patients with low immunity levels.

Bangkok Post

2,428 new Covid cases, 22 more deaths

There were 22 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,428 confirmed new cases on Tuesday, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

Dangerous ticks are increasingly coming in contact with people

Blood-feeding arthropods, like mosquitoes, insects and ticks are increasingly sharing their environments with humans due to the climate, with chronic results.

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Fred Gray, the 'chief counsel for the protest movement,' to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the U.S. Public Health Service refused for decades to provide readily available treatment to Black men who had the disease.

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Covid-19 Ireland: Hospitalisations increase 347% as Irish nurses call for public health measures

"We have just emerged from the worst June for hospital overcrowding on record coupled with sharp increases in COVID cases in our hospitals."

Irish Mirror

Covid cases are soaring again this summer - health expert answers all your questions

Azeem Majeed, professor of public health at Imperial College, London, answers readers' questions as Covid cases begin to rise again amid highly infectious subvariants BA.4 and BA.5

Daily Mirror

Covid-19 death rate after positive test decreases in Scotland

THE number of deaths being attributed to Covid-19 in Scotland’s hospitals following a positive test result in patients has more than halved since…

The National (Scotland)

Dangerous strain of salmonella becoming more common in UK meat

Unpublished government records show rise in poultry products testing positive for salmonella infantis

The Guardian - UK

Ministry to propose Covid isolation be reduced to 5 days

The Public Health Ministry will recommend that Covid-19 patients be allowed out after five days of quarantine.

Bangkok Post

1,917 new Covid cases, 18 more deaths

There were 18 more Covid-19 fatalities and 1,917 confirmed new cases on Monday, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

With eased Covid curbs, lift decree

Last week, the Thai government downgraded the Covid-19 situation in the country from a pandemic to endemic. In turn, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his government should also immediately lift the draconian Emergency Decree, which the authorities have used to criminalise legitimate dissent.

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India needs to scale up direct nutrition interventions

Preconception nutrition, maternal nutrition and child feeding practices in the first 1,000 days of life need priority

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North East public health is 'way behind' the rest of the UK - new NHS bosses issue 'call to action' after shocking report

A report claims public health issues in the region are "among the worst in the country" on the back of "a century of declining prosperity"

The New Daily

Expert says mysterious diphtheria outbreak likely isn’t a cause for panic

A leading epidemiologist says diphtheria of the throat is unlikely to become a major public health concern, despite two new infections in NSW.

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The people making a difference: the public health champion who met his hero, Simon Cowell

Alfred Oyekoya helped boost vaccine takeup in Swansea’s BAME community – and was rewarded by visiting the set of Britain’s got talenthe man who

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1,995 new Covid cases, 18 more deaths

There were 18 more Covid-19 fatalities and 1,995 confirmed new cases on Sunday, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported on Monday.

AAP

Calls to lower age limits for fourth doses

As Australia exceeds the 10,000 COVID-19 deaths mark, an infectious diseases expert has called for the fourth dose age limit to be lowered from 65 to 50.

Bangkok Post

The enduring Thai-US friendship

Today, hundreds of millions of Americans around the world are celebrating the 246th anniversary of the independence of the United States of America. We at the American Embassy in Bangkok will join that celebration, but we will also mark over 200 years of friendship between the US and Thailand.

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BA.5 may force return to Red

Cases could peak at 15,000 per day, triggering the imposition of new public health protections to slow the spread of the virus.

Bangkok Post

2,328 new Covid cases, 19 more deaths

The country registered 2,328 more Covid-19 cases and 19 new fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Sunday morning, as the number of patients in serious condition remained high.

Bangkok Post

2,508 new Covid cases, 17 more deaths

The country registered 17 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,508 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Saturday morning.

Daily Record

Monkeypox warning as WHO say groups including children and pregnant women could be at risk

While the condition is not yet considered a public health emergency, the WHO say that they are tracking the outbreaks in different countries closely.

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