COVID-19 Updates
From the Journals
Drug cocktail significantly reduced severe COVID, death in outpatients
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Booster shot back-and-forth creates uncertainty, confusion
“I take care of a fair number of folks...including the elderly and healthcare professionals. They are already asking for the booster.”
Conference Coverage
Age, C-reactive protein predict COVID-19 death in diabetes
“This means we can easily identify patients early on in their hospital stay who will likely require more aggressive interventions to try and...
From the Journals
COVID-19 hospitalization 80% more likely for smokers
These results contrast with previous studies that have suggested a protective effect of smoking against COVID-19.
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Top questions answered about COVID-19 boosters for your patients
“The biggest concerns are that everyone wants it and they don’t know where to get it.”
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CDC chief overrules panel, OKs boosters for health care workers
Panelists “did not buy the need in occupational or institutional settings.”
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New COVID-19 strain has reached the U.S.
The CDC has not classified R.1 as a variant of concern yet but noted it has “several mutations of importance” and “demonstrates evidence of...
Livin' on the MDedge
Your bathroom towel rack has a dirty little secret
Plus anti-vaxxer purity and sulfurous vegetables.
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FDA OKs Pfizer COVID booster for 65 and over, those at high risk
Emerging evidence shows that booster doses of the Pfizer vaccine cause front-line immune defenders — called binding antibodies — to roughly triple...
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COVID-detecting dogs pilot first airport program
When this good girl sits, that means Cobra has detected an olfactory signal of the coronavirus.
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Will ‘Dr. Disinformation’ ever face the music?
State medical "boards are relatively slow and weak and it's a long, slow process to pull somebody's license."