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Thousands of 'Black Fungus' Cases Reported in COVID-19 Patients in India

May 25, 2021

MONDAY, May 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- India is struggling with thousands of cases of deadly fungal infections in COVID-19 patients and those who have recovered from the disease. Nearly 9,000 cas...

Pfizer, AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccines Effective Against Indian Variant: Study

May 25, 2021

MONDAY, May 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Two doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines are effective against the coronavirus variant first identified in India, according to a new report fr...

Latin America's COVID-19 Death Toll Climbs Above 1 Million

May 25, 2021

MONDAY, May 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 death toll in Latin America and the Caribbean has surpassed 1 million, Johns Hopkins University data show. The region has only 8 percent of the...

Approved Vaccines 'Respond' to All COVID-19 Variants So Far: WHO

May 24, 2021

FRIDAY, May 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccines approved for use in the United States and Europe show protection against all of the more infectious coronavirus variants known to be circling the glob...

Meds Used for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Shifted Over 2020

May 24, 2021

FRIDAY, May 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In 2020, there were marked shifts in the therapeutics used to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a research letter published online May 21 in J...

ATS: Antiviral Cocktail Highly Effective in At-Risk Covid Patients

May 24, 2021

Regeneron’s mAb treatment reduced hospitalization, death by 70% Treatment with Regeneron’s two-drug antibody cocktail of casirivimab and imdevimab was associated with a roughly 70% reduct...

To the Bat Cave: In Search of Covid’s Origins, Scientists Reignite Polarizing Debate on Wuhan ‘Lab Leak’

May 24, 2021

Once dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the idea that the covid virus escaped from a Chinese lab is gaining high-profile attention. As it does, reputations of renowned scientists are at risk — and so...

COVID-19 Pandemic Tied to Increase in Overdose Deaths

May 21, 2021

THURSDAY, May 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There was an increase in drug overdose deaths in San Francisco during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a research letter published online May 12 in JAMA N...

COVID-19 Booster Shots Likely Needed Within a Year: Fauci

May 21, 2021

THURSDAY, May 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Fully vaccinated people will likely need a COVID-19 booster shot within about a year, the nation's top infectious diseases expert and the Pfizer CEO said Wed...

FDA Eases Storage Rules for Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine

May 21, 2021

THURSDAY, May 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- New storage rules for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine after it has been thawed that will make it easier to transport and deliver the doses have been announced by...

Risk for Post-COVID-19 Clinical Sequelae Examined in Adults

May 21, 2021

THURSDAY, May 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for developing new clinical sequelae is increased after the acute phase of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), according t...

Less Than 1 Percent of COVID-19 Patients Experience Recurrence

May 20, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For every 10,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, there are approximately 4.3 recurrent cases, according to a study published online May 4 in PLOS ONE. Ithan D....

Hospitalization Rates Overestimate COVID-19 Burden in Children

May 20, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Reported hospitalization rates overestimate the burden of COVID-19 in children, according to a study published online May 19 in Hospital Pediatrics. Laur...

Homicides Surge in California Amid Covid Shutdowns of Schools, Youth Programs

May 20, 2021

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After Setbacks, Sanofi/GSK COVID-19 Vaccine Performs Well in Early Trial

May 19, 2021

TUESDAY, May 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline announced Monday that their COVID-19 vaccine candidate produced powerful responses in a preliminary trial that followed an earlier ...

mRNA Vaccines Effective for Preventing Symptomatic COVID-19

May 19, 2021

TUESDAY, May 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For health care personnel (HCP), the vaccine effectiveness (VE) of authorized mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) against symptomatic COVID-1...

ACC: DARE-19 Finds SGLT2i Tx Does Not Significantly Reduce Organ Damage in Covid-19

May 18, 2021

Less organ decompensation and fewer deaths, but not statistically significant As a class, sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) have consistently demonstrated benefit—initially as a ...

Systemic Reactogenicity Up With Heterologous COVID-19 Vaccine Doses

May 17, 2021

MONDAY, May 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Participants receiving heterologous prime and boost doses of COVID-19 vaccines have an increase in systemic reactogenicity after the boost dose compared with t...

New Heart Failure Diagnosed in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients

May 17, 2021

FRIDAY, May 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 may be at risk for developing new heart failure, according to a research letter published in the May 4 issue of the Journal...

Many Hispanic Americans Want to Get COVID-19 Vaccine, but Have Not

May 17, 2021

FRIDAY, May 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Some of the lowest U.S. COVID-19 vaccination rates are among Hispanics, but not because they do not want the vaccine, according to a new survey. Rather, the lo...

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