Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Adults During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Predominance — VISION Network, 10 States, August 2021–January 2022 By Jill M. Ferdinands, PhD, et al. Summary What is already known...
Omicron is popularly reported as ‘mild’, but the possibility of long-term symptoms has not been fully explored. Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, a professor of health policy and management at the City University of New York School of Public...
Dr. Fernando Valerio, a critical care doctor in Honduras who co-authored a recent peer-reviewed study indicating the potential of repurposed drugs targeting SARS-CoV-2, shared with Trial Site his experience treating patients in the Central American nation....
Far from being hobbled by fears of COVID-19, patients with lung cancer actually showed less depression and anxiety during the pandemic than their healthy peers, according to results from a new study by Arrato et al published in JNCCN–Journal of the National...
By Apoorva Mandavilli Covid booster shots lose much of their potency after about four months, raising the possibility that some Americans — specifically those at high risk of complications or death — may need a fourth dose, data published on Friday by the Centers for...
Why can't media outlets like MedPage Today do some reporting on vaccine clinical trials instead of resorting to silly "debunking" articles? By Paul Thacker ~ Originally Published November 30, 2021 in The Disinformation Chronicle This article by the well regarded...
— With 2 licenses remaining, Kathleen Ann Cullen writes scripts through America's Frontline Doctors by Kristina Fiore A viral video about a hospitalized patient taking ivermectin for COVID-19 revealed the name of a doctor who provided the drug via an America's...
Mary Beth Pfeiffer Unless one sells vaccines for a living, the overall numbers for the covid-19 variant Omicron will seem wildly encouraging. Take a California study of 53,000 Omicron and 17,000 Delta cases from November 30, 2021, to January 1, 2022. In every way,...
Massive study shows a long-term, substantial rise in risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a SARS-CoV-2 infection. By Saima May Sidik with Commentary from Michael Lerner We read in the media that we're moving past Covid. The word is...
Calls are growing for the pharmaceutical giant to share its vaccine recipes that could save the most vulnerable people in the world. By John Nichols The coronavirus pandemic has demanded “shared sacrifice” from nurses, bus drivers, teachers, and other frontline...
Mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-COVID times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll AUTHOR Steven W. Thrasher, Ph.D., is a Scientific American columnist and professor at Northwestern University in the Medill School of Journalism...
By EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Lisbon, April 23-26) shows that, although over time the number...
By LINDSEY TANNER New research suggests the coronavirus can invade and destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths in infected women. It’s an uncommon outcome for any pregnancy but women with COVID-19 face an elevated risk. Authorities believe vaccination can help...
Corbevax, a low-cost coronavirus vaccine created in Houston, could be a better weapon against COVID-19 by reaching the unvaccinated in poorer countries. BY KAREN BROOKS HARPER Two years ago, when a pair of Houston scientists first began crafting a cheap, easy-to-make...
By MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF In many ways, viruses are like families — giant, complicated, extended families with cousins, aunts, uncles, grannies and grandpas galore. Just as with human families, scientists can generate family trees for viruses, showing how each member (or...