Jul 23, 2021

THURSDAY, July 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Following two doses, the effectiveness of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 vaccine is modestly lower against the delta variant versus the...

Jul 23, 2021

THURSDAY, July 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- As he urged Americans who are still hesitant to get vaccinated, President Joe Biden told an Ohio town hall on Wednesday night that he expected the U.S. Food...

Jul 23, 2021

THURSDAY, July 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- One day before the official start of the Tokyo Olympics, the city has recorded its highest number of new COVID-19 cases in six months. The 1,979 cases repor...

Jul 22, 2021

WEDNESDAY, July 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is associated with a significantly lower risk for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infecti...

Jul 22, 2021

WEDNESDAY, July 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- More than 1 million children aged younger than 18 years in 21 countries experienced the death of a primary caregiver from COVID-19, according to a study pu...

Jul 22, 2021

WEDNESDAY, July 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine will be produced for the first time in Africa by a South African firm, Pfizer announced Wednesday.The Biovac Institute in Cape ...

Jul 22, 2021

WEDNESDAY, July 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For patients hospitalized with COVID-19, prior use of statins, with or without antihypertensives, is associated with a reduced risk for death, according to...

Jul 22, 2021

CAN-COVID trial was designed, conducted early in pandemic Among patients hospitalized with severe Covid-19 not requiring mechanical ventilation, treatment with the anti-interleukin 1β monoclonal...

Jul 20, 2021

In-hospital complications leave nearly 50% of patients with long-lasting comorbidities Covid-19 survivors do not come away unscathed. Nearly half of patients hospitalized with the virus are left with...

Jul 13, 2021

When the number of covid-19 cases among inmates in Pennsylvania state prisons last fall topped 1,000 and staff cases hovered in the hundreds, the union representing 11,000 corrections officers began l...

Jul 12, 2021

July Fourth was not the celebration President Joe Biden had hoped for, as far as protecting more Americans with a coronavirus vaccine. The nation fell just short of the White House’s goal to giv...

Jul 12, 2021

Most of us are familiar with the good news: In recent weeks, rates of covid-19 infection and death have plummeted in California, falling to levels not seen since the early days of the pandemic. The av...

Jul 09, 2021

THURSDAY, July 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The worldwide COVID-19 death toll topped 4 million on Thursday, with the highly contagious Delta variant spotted in more than 100 countries and the World Hea...

Jul 09, 2021

Close to 6,000 early pandemic deaths may have been avoided, NIH study found Roughly 1-in-4 Covid-19 deaths in U.S. hospitals during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic may have been attributabl...

Jul 09, 2021

Lingering fatigue, loss of taste and smell reported most often Close to a third of people who experienced mild to moderate Covid-19 symptoms during the acute phase of the illness had lingering sympto...

Jul 09, 2021

Vaccine proved 66% effective for preventing disease in real-world study from Chile Real-world data involving more than 10 million people in Chile show the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine to be highly eff...

Jul 09, 2021

In the past two weeks, many medical experts started to question whether the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is administered in a single dose, would be as effective as the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech...

Jul 08, 2021

ICU worker risk was similar to hospital telephone operators Among health care workers in Italy early in the Covid-19 pandemic, prolonged contact to SARS-CoV-2-infected patients was a bigger risk fact...

Jul 07, 2021

A viable solution for reducing Covid spread in close indoor settings? CDC researchers found that adding portable high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) cleaners to a universal masking strategy led to...

Jul 06, 2021

Vaccinated people less likely to infect others, study findings suggest Partial or full vaccination with mRNA Covid-19 vaccine was associated with lower viral load among breakthrough cases, suggestive...