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Covid-19: Immunity Is Still on the Table

Sep 03, 2020

Icelandic study finds immune response 4 months post diagnosis Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 appear to be stable for 4 months after diagnosis, a cohort study from Iceland suggested. This finding holds...

A COVID Love Note from a Mother Physician

Sep 02, 2020

The following was originally posted at becomebraveenough.com.   The media right now is reporting the division of "sides" people are taking when it comes to the pandemic. Political agenda...

Pence Praises Trump’s ‘Seamless’ COVID Response, Leaves Out His State Feuds

Sep 01, 2020

Vice President Mike Pence portrayed his boss, President Donald Trump, as a leader who has reached out across the aisle to help during the coronavirus pandemic. “President Trump marshaled the ful...

Covid-19: Metabolic Syndrome Strong Risk Factor for Death

Aug 31, 2020

Cluster of high BP, diabetes and obesity linked to 4-fold greater mortality risk from Covid-19 Metabolic syndrome proved to be a much stronger risk factor for death from Covid-19 than obesity, hypert...

Covid-19: Saliva Tests Provide Viable Alternative to Nasal Swab Tests

Aug 31, 2020

Saliva tests can be done by patients without the need for health care interaction and PPE Saliva testing for SARS-CoV-2 appears to be a viable alternative to nasopharyngeal swab testing, according to...

Another COVID Mystery: Patients Survive Ventilator, But Linger in a Coma

Aug 31, 2020

Leslie Cutitta said yes, twice, when clinicians from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston called asking whether she wanted them to take — and then continue — extreme measures to keep her husba...

Covid-19: AMA Demands Complete Transparency from FDA on Vaccine Data

Aug 28, 2020

Madera calls for cooperation in instilling vaccine confidence CHICAGO — The American Medical Association (AMA) insisted that the FDA maintain complete transparency and keep physicians informed of...

Risk of COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers

Aug 28, 2020

Despite the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) kits, frontline healthcare workers in COVID-19 facilities are highly exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 infection. The objective of this study is to inves...

Molecular Testing Strategies for COVID-19

Aug 28, 2020

With COVID-19 inflicting substantial damage to the humankind, the WHO has encouraged countries to conduct the disease testing in large numbers. However, countries have adopted different approaches and...

Covid-19: Hospitalization Risk No Greater for Patients with Lupus, IA

Aug 28, 2020

Arthritis patients taking steroids did have higher risk for hospitalization, but not those on anti-cytokine biologics Patients with lupus taking immunosuppressive therapies had no greater risk of hos...

Covid-19: CDC Updates Testing Guidance and AMA Gasps

Aug 28, 2020

AMA calls change a ’recipe for community spread’ The CDC has changed its Covid-19 testing guidelines per recommendations from the White House Coronavirus Task Force. The guidelines now indicate...

Covid-19: Hahn Tweets a Mea Culpa on Convalescent Plasma Claim

Aug 27, 2020

FDA commissioner raises ire of scientific community in numbers mix up FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, MD, had to walk back his claims of 35% efficacy for Covid-19 convalescent plasma after the scienti...

Two Navajo Sisters Who Were Inseparable Died of COVID Just Weeks Apart

Aug 27, 2020

Cheryl and Corrina Thinn were almost joined at the hip. The sisters, both members of the Navajo Nation, shared an office at Arizona’s Tuba City Regional Health Care. Cheryl conducted reviews to make...

Many People of Color, Immigrants Among 1,080 US Health Workers Lost to COVID

Aug 27, 2020

More than 1,000 front-line health care workers reportedly have died of COVID-19, according to Lost on the Frontline, an ongoing investigation by The Guardian and KHN to track and memorialize every U.S...

They Pledged to Donate Rights to Their COVID Vaccine, Then Sold Them to Pharma

Aug 27, 2020

In a business driven by profit, vaccines have a problem. They’re not very profitable — at least not without government subsidies. Pharma companies favor expensive medicines that must be taken repe...

Covid-19 Digest: IDSA, WHO on Convalescent Plasma EUA; China’s Vaccine

Aug 26, 2020

Meanwhile, the U.S. is mulling an EUA for AstraZeneca’s vaccine After the FDA’s issuance of an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the use of Covid-19 convalescent plasma (CCP), the Infectiou...

Covid-19 First Confirmed Case of Reinfection

Aug 26, 2020

Report questions viability of herd immunity theory, long-lasting vaccines Researchers in Hong Kong described what appears to be the first case of confirmed re-infection from Covid-19 in a case study ...

Trump Is Sending Fast, Cheap COVID Tests to Nursing Homes — But There’s a Hitch

Aug 26, 2020

The Trump administration’s latest effort to use COVID-19 rapid tests — touted by one senior official as a “turning point” in arresting the coronavirus’s spread within nursing...

Is Cuomo Directive to Blame for Nursing Home COVID Deaths, as US Official Claims?

Aug 26, 2020

[khn_slabs slabs="1161100" view="inline" /] [partner-box]On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was among the first in a weeklong parade of speakers to...

Florida’s Cautionary Tale: How Gutting and Muzzling Public Health Fueled COVID Fire

Aug 26, 2020

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On a sweltering July morning, Rose Wilson struggled to breathe as she sat in her bed, the light from her computer illuminating her face and the oxygen tubes in her nose. Wils...

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