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Children and COVID: Decline in new cases reaches 7th week
Study shows that the COVID-19 vaccine is effective against the Omicron variant.
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Air trapping common in patients with long COVID
The reported findings “indicate a long-term impact on bronchiolar obstruction,” states Brett M. Elicker, MD.
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Biden administration’s new test-to-treat program pits pharmacists against physicians
The widespread distribution of pharmacies and their extended hours are other big pluses, especially for people who can’t easily leave work or...
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Future variants of concern likely lurk in today’s patients
“The virus that replicates in each infected patient is in reality a mixture of slightly different SARS-CoV-2 viruses.”
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COVID-19 often more severe with congenital heart defects
“Hospitalized patients with heart defects are up to twice as likely to have critical outcomes of COVID-19 illness,” says author of a new study.
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COVID-19 vax effectiveness quantified in immunosuppressed patients
A database study of 154,000 patients found that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines give people taking immunosuppressants significant protection against COVID-19...
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‘Deltamicron’ with genes of Delta and Omicron found
Because there have been so few confirmed cases, it is too soon to know whether such infections will be very transmissible or cause severe disease...
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Omicron BA.2 lineage makes up 11.6% of COVID variants in U.S.: CDC
Scientists are tracking a rise in cases caused by BA.2, now the dominant variant in South Africa, which is spreading rapidly in parts of Asia and...
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If you’ve never had COVID, should you relax or worry?
One infectious disease expert warns those who have never been infected not to assume they have “a suit of armor.”
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First ‘before-and-after’ COVID-19 brain imaging study shows structural changes
Whether the abnormal changes are the hallmark of the spread of the pathogenic effects in the brain, or of the virus itself, remains to be...
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Children and COVID: Weekly cases at lowest level since August
Florida’s surgeon general drops a bomb on vaccination.
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Double-dose COVID-19 vaccines showed limited effectiveness against Omicron
“For now, we are going to have to realize that it is virtually impossible to prevent mild COVID without frequent boosting.”
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COVID-19 found in 29 types of animals, scientists say
The virus “could be evolving in hosts we are not aware of.”
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Reactivation of a BCG Vaccination Scar Following the First Dose of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine
We describe a case of BCG vaccination scar reactivation in a 48-year-old man after he received the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine.