A Dual Variant Booster with Beta More Effective vs Omicron than Current Shot According to a new study, a COVID-19 booster designed to target the Beta variant and the original COVID-19 strain generated a better immune response against several virus variants, including Omicron. The results are a good sign for plans for future shots targeting […]
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Dexamethasone and Remdesivir reduces post COVID Neurological Complications COVID-19 is associated with a range of multi-system complications including neurological disorders. Remdesivir is a repurposed antiviral medication that has shown broad antiviral action in vitro against emerging coronaviruses, including MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2. Remdesivir was shown to reduce the time to clinical improvement in a separate […]
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A Dual Variant Booster with Beta More Effective vs Omicron than Current Shot According to a new study, a COVID-19 booster designed to target the Beta variant and the original COVID-19 strain generated a better immune response against several virus variants, including Omicron. The results are a good sign for plans for future shots targeting […]
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New Omicron XE Subvariant Has the Potential to Spread For some time now, virologists have been observing how different variants of the coronavirus can merge to form new mutations if a patient is infected with different variants at the same time. This kind of recombination seems now to have happened with the Omicron variants BA.1 […]
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use authorization (EUA) to a first-of-its-kind test that can detect SARS-CoV-2 in the breath in less than 3 minutes. The COVID-19 Breathalyzer test (InspectIR Systems, LLC) will be available only in licensed test settings, therefore it is not currently meant for home use. That’s one […]
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Significant numbers of U.S. patients with COVID-19 who were not sick enough to be hospitalized were inappropriately prescribed antibiotics or steroids in 2020 and 2021, according to two studies published on Friday in JAMA. One study found that between April 2020 and April 2021, antibiotic prescriptions were written during 30% of outpatient visits for COVID-19 […]
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There’s a strong likelihood that the antidepressant fluvoxamine (Luvox) may moderately lower rates of hospitalization due to COVID-19 in unvaccinated patients, a new systematic review and meta-analysis has found. But outside experts differ over whether the evidence from just three studies is strong enough to warrant adding the drug to the COVID-19 armamentarium. The report, […]
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CHICAGO :The exclusion of pregnant patients in initial COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials left many patients and doctors wondering how the vaccine might affect pregnant patients and their unborn babies. A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the vaccine is not associated with birth defects that are detectable on ultrasound. This is yet another important piece […]
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In the post-acute phase, we report increased risks and 12-month burdens of incident diabetes and antihyperglycaemic use in people with COVID-19 compared with a contemporary control group of people who were enrolled during the same period and had not contracted SARS-CoV-2, and a historical control group from a pre-pandemic era. Post-acute COVID-19 care should involve […]
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