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Dementia Cases To Rise To Over 7,000 By 2050 In Brunei: Minister

According to findings from the Lancet’s Global Burden of Disease study in 2019, Brunei has 1,574 cases of dementia, with the figure expected to rise to 7,317 by 2050, Health Minister Haji Mohd Isham said. 

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Covid testing providers scale back despite worries of another winter surge

Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, estimates that only 4% to 5% of infections are being reported, because so many are uncovered through at-home tests and aren't reported to public health departments, or they aren't being detected at all.

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Covid Italia, bollettino del 13 settembre: 23.161 nuovi casi e 93 morti

"La ricerca IHME - riferisce Christopher Murray, direttore dell'istituto IHME (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) che ha messo a punto il metodo usato per il conteggio - mostra che nei primi 2 anni di pandemia quasi 145 milioni di persone in tutto il mondo hanno sofferto di uno dei tre gruppi di sintomi che caratterizzano il Long Covid: affaticamento con dolore fisico e sbalzi d'umore, problemi cognitivi, mancanza di respiro.

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WHO report: 17 million in EU may have suffered long COVID-19

“Knowing how many people are affected and for how long is important for health systems and government agencies to develop rehabilitative and support services,” said Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which conducted the research for the WHO.

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Which states have the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates?

"What has happened is [people in] the states where they refused to get the vaccine, or were hesitant to get the vaccine, got infected," Dr. Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist with the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, told ABC News. "What we are seeing is due to waning immunity, we are going to enter winter with a higher percentage of people who are susceptible."

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Las tabacaleras buscan hacerse con el botín de los jóvenes fumadores africanos

 Un estudio sobre la edad de iniciación del tabaquismo a nivel global elaborado en 2019 por el Instituto de Métricas y Evaluación de la Salud (IHME, por sus siglas en inglés) estima que alrededor del 82% de los fumadores actuales comenzaron a fumar entre los 14 y los 25 años.

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Why Paxlovid is still not available in many LMICs

Ali Mokdad, professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, said only high-income countries, and the rich in several countries, are able to access the drug at the moment.

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US health officials brace for another fall COVID surge, but with fewer deaths

Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, said his group is predicting a rise in COVID cases, deaths and hospitalizations this fall. “But the rise in mortality and hospitalization will not be similar to what we have seen before, simply because most people have some kind of immunity against illness,” Mokdad said.

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Monkeypox infections are slowing in the US. It's not clear if that will last

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington built an influential Covid-19 forecast model early on in the pandemic, but will not be doing the same for monkeypox. "In our mind, this disease is not going to spread into the community as wide as we've seen with Covid," said Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist and professor of health metrics sciences at IHME.

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Do you really need this new Omicron booster? Here’s what experts say.

“COVID is not going to disappear. It's going to stay with us for a long time. And that's what we have seen with similar viruses in the past,” Ali Mokdad, chief strategy officer for population health at the University of Washington, told BuzzFeed News. “This virus is going to keep mutating and could possibly produce an escape variant that could be more severe than what we’re seeing right now."