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Covid-19: Masks Not Effective if Few Wear Them

Nov 26, 2020

No clear benefit with face coverings found in controversial Danish trial, but results are hardly definitive "My mask protects you, your mask protects me." It’s become the hallmark pandemic anno...

What Biden Can Do to Combat COVID Right Now

Nov 24, 2020

Use Our Content It can be republished for free. When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, the country was in the midst of a dire economic crisis. Twelve years later, his...

Behavioral, Psych Condition Care Shifted to Telemedicine During COVID-19

Nov 24, 2020

FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Office-based visits for behavioral and psychiatric conditions decreased in association with the COVID-19 pandemic, although increases in telemedicine visits o...

High-Dose Anticoagulation May Not Aid COVID-19 Patients

Nov 24, 2020

FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Higher doses of blood thinners are potentially harmful and have no clear benefits for hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a study published online No...

FDA Issues EUA to Baricitinib Plus Remdesivir for COVID-19

Nov 24, 2020

FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Emergency use authorization was issued for baricitinib in combination with remdesivir for hospitalized patients with COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administ...

AHA: Blacks, Hispanics Make Up 53 Percent of COVID-19 Deaths

Nov 24, 2020

MONDAY, Nov. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Due to disproportionate representation, Black and Hispanic patients bear much of the burden of mortality and morbidity related to COVID-19, according to a stu...

Third COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Effectiveness

Nov 24, 2020

MONDAY, Nov. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- On Monday, AstraZeneca announced that late-stage clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine showed it to be 70.4 percent effective, The New York Times reported. ...

WHO: Remdesivir Not Advised for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients

Nov 24, 2020

MONDAY, Nov. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The use of remdesivir currently is not recommended for hospitalized COVID-19 patients because of the lack of evidence for improvement in mortality, need for m...

FDA Authorizes Use of Monoclonal Antibody Treatment for COVID-19

Nov 24, 2020

MONDAY, Nov. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A combination of two monoclonal antibodies was granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Dru...

Covid-19: Delirium May Be a Presenting Symptom in Elderly Patients

Nov 24, 2020

Study suggests delirium may be present without other typical Covid-19 symptoms Delirium is common among elderly patients presenting to Emergency Departments, but it may also be a presenting symptom o...

Pfizer/BioNTech Submit EUA for Covid-19 Vaccine

Nov 24, 2020

Moderna is expected to follow shortly with its EUA submission As expected, Pfizer, Inc., along with partner BioNTech SE, said they were submitting to the FDA for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA...

Covid-19: FDA Issues EUA for Regeneron’s Monoclonal Antibody Tx

Nov 24, 2020

Casirivimab/imdevimab authorized for ’mild to moderate’ Covid-19 Casirivimab and imdevimab, a monoclonal antibody combo developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for treatment of mild to moder...

Covid-19:Viral Shedding From Virus Can Be Prolonged, But Infection Window is Not

Nov 24, 2020

No live virus detected beyond 9 days in symptomatic patients SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding lasted as long as 83 days in samples from the respiratory tract and 126 days in stool samples in a systematic re...

Covid-19: AstraZeneca Vax Up to 90% Effective in Interim Analysis

Nov 24, 2020

Lower dose appears more effective than higher dose in preventing infection, but the ’why’ is unclear Another horse has entered the race — AstraZeneca announced that its Covid-19 vaccine candida...

Trump’s Lame-Duck Status Leaves Governors to Wing It on COVID

Nov 23, 2020

Not long after the world learned that President Donald Trump had lost his reelection bid, states began issuing a new round of crackdowns and emergency declarations against the surging coronavirus. Tak...

Fear of Flying Is a COVID-Era Conundrum

Nov 23, 2020

The holidays are approaching just as COVID-19 case rates nationwide are increasing at a record-breaking pace, leading to dire warnings from public health experts. The Centers for Disease Control and P...

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Transition Troubles Mount as COVID Spreads

Nov 23, 2020

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. President-elect Joe Biden is still being blocked from launching his official transition while President ...

Take It From an Expert: Fauci’s Hierarchy of Safety During COVID

Nov 22, 2020

As a health journalist, a physician and a former foreign correspondent who lived through SARS in Beijing, I often get questions from friends, colleagues and people I don’t even know about how to...

People Proving to Be Weakest Link for Apps Tracking COVID Exposure

Nov 22, 2020

The app builders had planned for pranksters, ensuring that only people with verified COVID-19 cases could trigger an alert. They’d planned for heavy criticism about privacy, in many cases making...

#PWChat: The Impact of a Biden-Harris White House on Healthcare

Nov 20, 2020

The latest installment of the #PWChat series centered around the impact of a Biden administration on healthcare in the US. Below are the highlights from the chat. You can read the full transcript ...

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