By Mariana Chavez-MacGregor, MD, MSC Key Points Question What are the rates of death, mechanical ventilation, intensive care unit stay, and hospitalization among patients with COVID-19 with or without cancer? Findings In this cohort study of...
By Esther Landhuis The antidepressant fluvoxamine (Luvox) may prevent hospitalization and death in outpatients with COVID-19, new research suggests. Results from the placebo-controlled, multisite, phase 3 TOGETHER trial showed that in COVID-19 outpatients at...
The treatment reduced the risk of reaching mechanical ventilation by 44%. ICU admissions were lower by 43%, and an overall in-hospital mortality saw a 47% decrease. Originally published in The Jerusalem Post on October 6, 2021 Over-the-counter aspirin could protect...
Apparently, the shots may keep coming—especially for the immunocompromised—as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their guidelines. The CDC considers this fourth shot an actual “booster.” As it turns out, the CDC suggests that those with...
Why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccines, and what we can do about it. BY NORMAN DOIDGE ‘Needle Points,’ Tablet’s exploration into the sources and nature of vaccine hesitancy, is presented in four parts. Chapter I begins below. Continue to Chapter II, III,...
By CARLA K. JOHNSON A cheap antidepressant reduced the need for hospitalization among high-risk adults with COVID-19 in a study hunting for existing drugs that could be repurposed to treat coronavirus. Researchers tested the pill used for depression and...
By Nancy Lapid Oct 27 (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that have yet to be certified by peer review. Breakthrough infections can lead to long...
By Jessica McDonald Republicans say a letter from a National Institutes of Health official is an admission that the agency funded so-called gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in China, with some falsely linking the work to the pandemic coronavirus. But the...
By Jiping Liu, et al. Abstract Large-scale COVID-19 vaccinations are currently underway in many countries in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we report, besides generation of neutralizing antibodies, consistent alterations in hemoglobin A1c, serum sodium and...
By Lily Li, MD, et al. Key Points Question What is the association between self-reported history of high-risk allergy and allergic reactions after messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccination? Findings In this cohort study of 52 998 health...
By Elizabeth Cohen On September 17, Mayra Arana made the phone call she says saved her life.Arana had been vaccinated against Covid-19, but she developed a breakthrough infection. She feared the virus might kill her, since her immune system is weak after years of...
The willingness of some workers to give up their livelihoods helps explain the country’s struggle to contain the pandemic. By Sarah Maslin Nir Under the threat of losing their jobs, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers finally got a Covid-19 vaccine. Teachers, nurses...
— Systematic vaccination is necessary but may not be sufficient for those at high risk by Daniel Teres, MD, Diana M. Stone, PhD, MPH, DVM, and Martin A. Strosberg, PhD, MPH he recent surge of COVID-19 in the southern U.S. in summer and early fall was...
According to an October 21 report from Yahoo News, the NIH has now admitted to paying for Gain-of-Function work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. At the same time, NIH is pointing the finger at its contractor EcoHealth Alliance for violating reporting...
For those who need boosters, the mix-and-match approach with the various vaccines seems to be safe and effective. By Ed Cara On Thursday night, Rochelle Walensky, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gave the green light to boosters for...