COVID-19 Updates
News from the FDA/CDC
Children and COVID: New cases increase; hospital admissions could follow
Parents do not seem to be rushing to have children vaccinated before school starts.
Feature
How do you live with COVID? One doctor’s personal experience
Early in 2020, Anne Peters, MD, caught COVID-19. The author of Medscape’s “Peters on Diabetes” column was sick in March 2020 before state-mandated...
From the Journals
Paxlovid reduces risk of COVID death by 79% in older adults
“Treatment with Paxlovid significantly reduces the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19.”
Conference Coverage
COVID-19 vaccine safe in patients with heart failure
There should be no concern about cardiovascular side effects from mRNA vaccines in patients with HF; moreover, vaccines provide a survival benefit...
From the Journals
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients with GI symptoms have worse outcomes
Patients with GI symptoms were more likely to have higher Charlson Comorbidity Index scores and be 50 years and older.
News from the FDA/CDC
COVID to blame as U.S. life expectancy falls
The overall drop took national life expectancy from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77 years in 2020.
From the Journals
Metformin fails as early COVID-19 treatment but shows potential
Metformin may merit further investigation for adults who are overweight or obese.
News from the FDA/CDC
Children and COVID: New cases fall again, ED rates rebound for some
Once again, elementary schools and preschools will be full of children who are not vaccinated.
From the Journals
Regular physical activity may fight infection, illness from COVID: Study
Regular physical activity may help lower the risk of COVID-19 infection and its severity.
From the Journals
Most people with Omicron don’t know they’re infected
“The downside is that many people are likely spreading the virus unintentionally.”
From the Journals
COVID-19 may trigger irritable bowel syndrome
Estimates of the prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms with COVID-19 have ranged as high as 60%.