New Covid app can detect virus from people’s voices ‘more accurately than lateral flow test’
Vishwam Sankaran

Scientists are developing a mobile phone app that “accurately” detects Covid-19 infections by analysing a person’s voice using artificial intelligence (AI).

The yet-to-be peer-reviewed research for the app, to be presented on Monday at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona, reportedly found that ...

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Interesting- my voice definitely changed when I had COVID and it hasn't gone all the way back to normal yet.

COVID-19 misinformation prompts some patients to refuse blood transfusions from vaccinated donors
Tom Yun

As misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines spreads, doctors across Canada say some patients are refusing blood transfusions from vaccinated donors, putting their health at risk.

Earlier this month, Calgary-based obstetrician Dr. Stephanie Cooper tweeted that for the first time, she had encountered a patient who had declined to receive a blood transfusion unless the blood was from an unvaccinated donor.

"So - this was a first for me. A patient declined blood transfusion if the donor had received a COVID vaccination," she tweeted on Oct. 2.

Cooper's tweet was met with replies from other physicians who say they've encountered patients making similar requests, including from London, Ont.-based obstetrician Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, who tweeted, "Sadly, we’ve had a couple of patients here with the same beliefs."

Dr. Davinder Sidhu, the division head for transfusion and transplant medicine for southern Alberta, says he's seen requests for unvaccinated blood "at least once or twice a month over the last several months." In some cases, these concerns have been raised by parents who have heightened concerns over their children.

"Some of the same concerns these parents have about vaccinating their kids, they also have about getting transfusions from COVID-vaccinated folks," he told CTVNews.ca over the phone on Friday. "Our job for those folks is to ...

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Hey we have dummies, too.

BA. 275.2: new Omicron subvariant can evade nearly all protective antibodies: study
Alexandra Mae Jones

A new study from researchers in Sweden suggests the world could be in for a dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases this winter due to new mutations creating variants that could avoid immunity from vaccines or previous infections.

The variant BA.2.75.2, one of the latest developments in the Omicron lineage of COVID-19, can evade the majority of neutralizing antibodies in the blood, the study found, and is also resistant to several monoclonal antibody antiviral treatments that were created to treat those ill with COVID-19.

The mutations that make this possible in BA.2.75.2 are popping up in other variants as the virus continues to ...

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