Collected news stories, with a current focus on Covid-19 recovery
RNZ
The Christchurch clinic will shut up shop after a short, five-month run. A patient has concerns about the impact the closure will have on her health.
Stuff
We lack good evidence on how effective restrictions are. But simple maths shows that, in the long term, the prevalence of Covid-19 is quite difficult to budge.
Stuff
In the fortnight since Aotearoa scrapped the isolation rule a new highly-mutated Covid-19 variant has scientists on alert overseas. What do we know?
Grist
Scientists warn that if farming practices don't change, climate change could push us into the next great plant pandemic.
The downstream impacts will reverberate indefinitely.
RNZ
Explainer - The last remaining Covid-19 mandates have been dropped by the government, so what does this mean for Kiwis now? RNZ is here to clear it all up.
Newsroom
The hundreds of Covid-19 deaths, thousands of hospitalisations and tens of thousands of Long Covid patients won't disappear just because the country has plugged its ears to the virus.
After three-and-a-half years, the final Covid-19 restrictions are being removed.
Salon
As COVID cases rise once again, we are unprepared for the "mass disabling" event caused by long COVID
RNZ
The World Health Organization has declared a new sub-variant of Covid called EG.5 - unofficially named "Eris" - a variant of interest and is asking countries to monitor it as cases grow globally.
Newshub
"It's probably everywhere and if it isn't everywhere, it'll be everywhere."
NPR
Researchers have found a link between the FOXP4 gene and the occurrence of what's known as long COVID. The finding could lead to a better understanding of a condition that affects millions.
www.massey.ac.nz
While the rate of burnout experienced in the workforce has fallen since the height of the pandemic, new research shows it remains nearly three times higher than pre-COVID levels.
Stuff
Broadcast journalist Joy Reid is among the thousands of Kiwis to have been diagnosed with Long Covid, but what is the latest research and how is New Zealand managing the condition?
Salon
Conspiracy theorists have been exaggerating the link between COVID vaccines and heart problems. Here are the facts
RNZ
Of the new cases, 1844 were reinfections - close to half.
RNZ
World leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann has declared the future burden of long COVID to be "so large as to be unfathomable". He has published a scientific review of long COVID in Nature, asserting if 10% of acute infections lead to persistent symptoms, up to 400 million people could be in need of support for long COVID worldwide. While the Australian government has allocated $50m for long COVID research, in New Zealand there has been zero investment for bio-medical long COVID research to understand and treat the condition. Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation at Imperial College London, Professor Altmann has been studying T cells for four decades, and is interested in why people suffer debilitating consequences so long after COVID infection.
RNZ
The tourism sector is being told it needs better strategy, more investment and must be prepared for takeovers if it is to thrive, post-Covid.
Researchers hope a newly launched registry will quantify the burden of long Covid in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Mother Jones
Covid revealed a powerful tool in fighting outbreaks: wastewater surveillance.
RNZ
There have been 6578 new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand over the past week, and 21 further deaths.
www.abc.net.au
Since the dust settled on the pandemic, personal choice has replaced government mandates. So which of our COVID-19 habits did we keep, and which have we let slide?
Stuff
OPINION: New Zealand’s response to Covid-19 was strong compared with other countries, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t reflect on what was done and why.
The numbers cover the week from Monday, June 19 to Sunday, June 25.
Genetic research out of the Liggins Institute sheds light on how serious Covid-19 infections can activate other health conditions.
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