COVID-19 Updates
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Do psychotropic meds raise or lower COVID risk in psych patients?
The researchers analyzed data from adults who were continuously hospitalized with serious mental illness in 2020.
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Severe COVID-19 adds 20 years of cognitive aging: Study
The impairment is “equivalent to losing 10 IQ points.”
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When it’s not long, but medium COVID?
These symptoms are not severe enough to warrant stopping their job or changing their job schedules. They go back to work but start noticing...
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Almost 60% of U.S. population has been infected by COVID-19: CDC
This is the first time the seroprevalence of prior infection is more than 50% in the American population.
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One in four feel fully recovered following COVID-19 hospitalization
The total number and range of ongoing symptoms at one year was “striking” and emphasizes the “multisystem nature of long COVID.”
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2020 presidential election tied to spike in cardiac events
“These findings suggest that awareness of the heightened risk of CVD and strategies to mitigate risk during notable political events are needed...
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Substance use disorders increase risk for death from COVID-19
“We’ve been worried about seeing what consequences SARS-CoV-2 was going to have on users of these substances, especially in light of the great...
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COVID-19 again the third-leading cause of U.S. deaths
The overall number of COVID deaths in 2021 increased around 20% over 2020, when around 384,000 people died from the virus.
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Myocarditis higher with Moderna COVID vax in young men
Increased risk for myocarditis was seen with both mRNA vaccines in young men, and for the first time suggested a higher risk from vaccination than...
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COVID-19 accelerated psychological problems for critical care clinicians
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Mental illness tied to COVID-19 breakthrough infection
“Individuals with psychiatric disorders “should be prioritized for booster vaccinations and other critical preventive efforts.”