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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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‘Overwhelming’ need to study COVID vaccine–associated tinnitus
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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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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.