Covid cases in Karnataka crosses 1,550
There are now 395 active cases of Covid and a cumulative of 1,555 Covid positive cases recorded in the state since January 1.
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Indian Express
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- Indian Express
Trump offers ‘second chance' to Iran after Israeli strikes, urges nuclear deal ‘before there is nothing left'
On Friday, US President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Iran in the aftermath of Israeli airstrikes targeting Tehran's nuclear and military infrastructure. According to an ABC report, Trump praised the strike, saying 'I think it's been excellent…They got hit hard, very hard. They got hit about as hard as you're going to get hit. And there's more to come. A lot more.' He also mocked Iranian leadership on his social media platform Truth Social. 'Certain Iranian hardliner's spoke bravely, but they didn't know what was about to happen,' he wrote, 'they are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!' On a phone call with CNN, he reiterated that point saying, 'you know the people I was dealing with are dead, the hardliners.' Asked if this was a result of Israel's attack, Trump responded, 'they didn't die of the flu; they didn't die of Covid.' Trump also echoed his longstanding support of Israel, praising the 'successful attack,' and stating, 'we of course support Israel, obviously and supported it like nobody has ever supported it.' On Truth Social, he alluded to his attempts to renegotiate a nuclear deal with Iran, blaming the country for taking him up on the opportunity. 'I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to 'just do it,' but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn't get it done,' Trump wrote. However, the president also suggested that a reconciliation was still on the cards, offering Iran a 'second chance.' 'There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end,' he stated, urging Iran to 'make a deal, before there is nothing left.' Two sources familiar with the discussions told CNN that US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff had been in contact with Omani officials overnight to try to keep the plans intact. However, the sources admitted it is now 'highly unlikely' the talks will proceed as scheduled. Oman has so far served as a key facilitator of the backchannel talks between Washington and Tehran. Yet significant disagreements persist, especially over Iran's insistence on maintaining the right to enrich uranium. Earlier this week, Trump said in an interview that he was becoming less optimistic about reaching an agreement, suggesting Tehran may be intentionally stalling. On Thursday, however, Trump described a deal with Iran as being 'fairly close' and warned that an Israeli strike on the country could 'blow it.' 'As long as I think there will be an agreement, I don't want them going in,' he told reporters. However, he acknowledged that the potential for conflict remained. Asked by reporters at the White House if a strike on Iran was imminent, he replied, 'I don't want to say imminent, but it's something that could very well happen.' The same day, non-essential American personnel were evacuated from Iran. Trump said the order to move staff out had been given because the region 'could be a dangerous place.' He added, 'we'll see what happens. We've given notice to move out, and we'll see what happens.' When asked what the Israeli government had told him about the need to evacuate US personnel from the region, Trump claimed, 'they didn't tell me anything.' Today, he changed tacks, telling Fox News that he was aware of Israel's strikes beforehand and that 'there were no surprises.' His Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had claimed the opposite. In a statement on Thursday night, he said, 'tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region.'
Yahoo
29 minutes ago
- Yahoo
People with Covid-like symptoms took almost a year before feeling like themselves again, researchers say
Did you have Covid-like symptoms? It may take nine months or even longer to start feeling like yourself again. Researchers at UCLA found that 20 percent of patients with those symptoms continued experiencing suboptimal quality of life for nearly a year after infection. Whereas, physical well-being returned after only three months. "We have newly recognized the difference in recovery with respect to mental vs. physical well-being after a COVID infection," Lauren Wisk, an assistant professor of medicine at UCLA, said in a statement. "The findings showed that health care professionals need to pay more attention to their patients' mental well-being after a Covid infection and provide more resources that will help improve their mental health, in addition to their physical health,' she added. Wisk was one of the lead authors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded study that was published Tuesday in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases. The study compared people who sought treatment for Covid-like symptoms. Of those, 75 percent tested positive for the virus. The rest were negative. Of the 4,700 participants who experienced the symptoms between mid-December 2020 and late August 2022, the people who were positive for Covid were statistically likelier to return to optimal health-related quality-of-life than their Covid-negative counterparts in the year following the infection. The authors said the findings suggest that health authorities may have previously underestimated the long-term effects of non-Covid infections on a patient's well-being. To reach these conclusions, researchers analyzed responses from nearly 1,100 Covid-positive patients and 317 Covid-negative negative patients, assessing aspects including physical function, anxiety, depression, fatigue, social participation, sleep disturbance, pain interference and cognitive function. They found that approximately one in five of those who were part of the study remained in poor overall quality of life, with a high likelihood of self-reporting long Covid for up to a year after initial infection. 'In this large, geographically diverse study of individuals with 12 months of follow-up after Covid-19-like illness, a substantial proportion of participants continued to report poor [overall quality of life], whether or not the inciting acute symptoms were due to SARS-CoV-2 or another illness,' they said. Mental well-being recovered gradually, with significant improvements manifesting between six and nine months after infection, researchers found. The authors said further research was needed, noting that it remains unclear which conditions the symptomatic Covid-negative patients were suffering from and that Covid tests can yield both false-positive and false-negative results. The common cold, allergies, flu and Covid share many similar symptoms. "Future research should focus on how to improve the treatment models of care for patients who continue to experience Covid-19 symptoms and their impact on patients' quality of life, especially as one in five patients may continue to suffer over a year after their initial infection, which likely reflects long Covid," Wisk said.
NBC News
35 minutes ago
- NBC News
Covid vaccination protects against severe kidney damage, study suggests
Complications from a Covid infection can harm the heart, brain, lungs and kidneys. A new study finds that patients hospitalized for Covid were less likely to suffer severe kidney damage if they were vaccinated. Researchers at UCLA Health analyzed electronic medical records at a large academic hospital between March 1, 2020, and March 30, 2022, of approximately 3,500 hospitalized patients, ages 18 and older, and compared hospitalized patients who got at least two primary doses of the Moderna or Pfizer mRNA vaccine or one dose of Johnson & Johnson Janssen vaccine for Covid with hospitalized patients who had not been vaccinated. The researchers examined which participants developed kidney disease severe enough to require a type of dialysis known as CRRT, or continuous renal replacement therapy. The nonstop dialysis therapy does the work of the kidneys by filtering and removing waste from the blood. It's typically used when a patient is in intensive care, said lead author Dr. Niloofar Nobakht, health sciences clinical associate professor of medicine in nephrology at UCLA Health. The study found that 16% of unvaccinated patients with Covid were more likely to need CRRT, compared with 11% of vaccinated patients during their hospital admission. Unvaccinated patients were more than two-and-a-half times as likely to need CRRT after leaving the hospital — and also had a much higher risk of dying after being discharged, compared with vaccinated patients. In a 2021 study, researchers at Yale University School of Medicine found that among hospitalized patients with Covid, approximately 30% develop acute kidney injury — an abrupt, usually reversible form of kidney dysfunction. Patients hospitalized with Covid were twice as likely to need dialysis than patients hospitalized for other reasons. There is a major limitation in the new study. The researchers did not have the full data on baseline kidney status for the patients —meaning, it's not known how well their kidneys were functioning before the infection — so the benefits of the vaccine may be overestimated or underestimated, said Dr. Scott Roberts, associate medical director of infection prevention at Yale School of Medicine, who was not part of the new study. How Covid can damage the kidneys Covid can injure the kidneys either directly or by damaging other organs such as the heart and lungs, Roberts said. The more severe the symptoms, the greater the risk. 'Conversely, mild or asymptomatic infections rarely cause significant kidney harm,' said Yong Chen, a professor of biostatistics and director of the Center for Health AI and Synthesis of Evidence at the University of Pennsylvania, who was not associated with the new study. Chen researches Covid complications, including kidney problems, in children and adolescents. The risk of post-Covid kidney complications is especially high in older people or the immunocompromised, but it's likely connected to the severity of the initial infection, rather than the virus itself, experts say. 'Comparing Covid to people hospitalized with flu, for example, shows that both have an elevated risk of kidney injury, and it seems to track with how sick they were during their hospitalization,' said Dr. F. Perry Wilson, associate professor of medicine and public health at Yale University School of Medicine who has studied kidney injury in Covid patients. 'Among people with Covid, I would expect that, all else being equal, the vaccinated group just has less severe disease and thus less kidney trouble.' Why vaccination may protect the kidneys 'Vaccination protects kidneys mainly by preventing the severe forms of Covid that cause kidney injury,' Chen said. 'While vaccines don't directly shield kidney cells, they blunt the systemic illness that otherwise leads to multi-organ failure.' However, both Covid infection and the vaccines may be risky for people with glomerulonephritis, a type of kidney disease where the filtering units known as glomeruli get damaged Dr. Jeffrey S. Berns, clinical nephrologist and professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, said there are reports of adults and children with glomerulonephritis having a relapse of the condition or developing the condition for the first time following Covid infection and also vaccination. Berns was not part of the study. Risks for children The study only applied to people 18 and older, but experts say children with Covid can get acute kidney injury and some of them may have permanent kidney damage. 'In a study led by our team, the results also showed that children with prior Covid had a 35% higher risk of new-onset chronic kidney disease over six months,' Chen said. In late May, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend routine Covid shots for healthy children and pregnant women. Doctors say it's too soon to know whether the revised guidelines would contribute to unvaccinated children's increased risk of kidney injury. Even as a new variant of the Covid virus is gaining momentum in the United States, there are fewer cases of acute kidney injury associated with the illness than in the early years of the pandemic. 'As more and more people got vaccinated and or had some degree of immunity from prior infection, disease severity was not as bad and AKI became much less common,' Berns said.
