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#Covid19

Covid-19: Breakthrough Infections Involve Lower Viral Load Following mRNA Vaccination

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...

Analysis: Why We’ll Likely Never Know Whether a Covid Lab Leak Happened in China

Jul 06, 2021

Early in this century, post-SARS, and in a period when China started allowing more students and scientists to study abroad, collaboration and exchange between American and Chinese scientists blossomed...

Covid-19: Protein-Based Vax Safe, Highly Effective, Study Finds

Jul 05, 2021

Efficacy similar to that reported for mRNA vaccines Peer-reviewed findings from a phase III trial of the NVX-CoV2373 nanoparticle protein-based Covid-19 vaccine (Novavax) in the United Kingdom showed...

A Break From Breathlessness: How Singing Helped Me Through Long Covid

Jul 02, 2021

Listen to this story: (If you can’t see the audio player, click here to listen on SoundCloud.) Singing was the only time I felt in control of my lungs and, paradoxically, able to f...

Covid’s Lingering Effects Can Put the Brakes on Elective Surgeries

Jul 02, 2021

The week before Brian Colvin was scheduled for shoulder surgery in November, he tested positive for covid-19. What he thought at first was a head cold had morphed into shortness of breath and chest co...

Covid-19: mRNA Vaccines Convey Long-Lasting Protection, Study Finds

Jul 01, 2021

Booster doses may not be needed by many for years, or ever, findings suggest New research offers some of the first direct evidence showing mRNA Covid-19 vaccines to convey long-term protection agains...

Covid 19: Thrombosis After mRNA Vax Rare, But Possible

Jul 01, 2021

Authors detail a case of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia after mRNA-1273 vaccination Although thrombosis with thrombocytopenia has been reported after vaccination with adenovirus vector vaccines for...

Covid-19: New Reports of Vaccine Linked Myocarditis

Jul 01, 2021

Most cases were in younger males, and most were mild Two case reports describe acute myocarditis in adult, mostly male recipients, occurring within days of receiving mRNA Covid-19 vaccines.The new re...

The WHO Didn’t Reverse Its Position on Kids and Covid Vaccines

Jul 01, 2021

“The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION recently reversed its stance on children getting the Covid vaccine.” Instagram post, June 22, 2021 A social media post circulating on Facebook and I...

Post-COVID-19 Symptoms Are Common, Affecting 23.2 Percent

Jun 29, 2021

MONDAY, June 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Post-COVID-19 conditions are common among patients diagnosed with COVID-19, and occur in 19 percent of asymptomatic patients, according to a white paper issue...

Care Disparities Seen for COVID-19 Patients With, Without Schizophrenia

Jun 29, 2021

MONDAY, June 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There are disparities in health and health care between hospitalized COVID-19 patients with schizophrenia and without severe mental illness, according to a st...

Less Than 1 Percent of COVID-19 Patients Experience Reinfection

Jun 29, 2021

MONDAY, June 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Reinfection following COVID-19 is possible, but rare, according to a study recently published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Adnan I. Qureshi, M.D., from...

Seven Cases of Guillain-Barré Noted After COVID-19 Vaccine in India

Jun 29, 2021

MONDAY, June 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) have been reported after receipt of the Oxford-AstraZeneca severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2...

MMWR: Workplace Investigations a Vital Part of Covid-19 Contact Tracing

Jun 28, 2021

Workplace assessments in Washington helped ID cases that would have been missed Including workplace investigations in Covid-19 surveillance programs have the potential to extend contact tracing effor...

FDA Authorizes Tocilizumab to Treat Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients

Jun 28, 2021

EUA based on results from four clinical trials The FDA issued an emergency use authorization for the interleukin-6 (IL-6) inhibitor tocilizumab (Actemra) to treat patients ages 2 years and older wh...

Covid-19: One Vax Dose Effective for Residents of Long Term Care Facilities

Jun 28, 2021

VIVALDI study finds 56% efficacy within 4-7 weeks Elderly residents of long-term care facilities receiving a single dose of either ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (Oxford-AstraZeneca) or BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) m...

Covid-19: Vaccine Carries Low Risk for Bell Palsy, Studies Suggest

Jun 28, 2021

Having Covid-19 does increase the risk for the facial nerve disorder Facial nerve palsy has been identified as a possible adverse effect of vaccination against Covid-19 with mRNA vaccines, but no suc...

Covid-19: Black, Latino Children Appear at Greater Risk for Covid-Related Inflammatory Syndrome

Jun 28, 2021

Researchers identified novel MIS-C subtypes Black and Latino children were over-represented in a cohort of kids with Covid-19-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome reported by researchers from ...

Most COVID-19 Patients Recover Smell at One Year

Jun 28, 2021

FRIDAY, June 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Persistent COVID-19-related anosmia has an excellent prognosis with nearly complete recovery at one year, according to a research letter published online June...

Hawaii to Ease COVID-19 Rules for Fully Vaccinated Tourists

Jun 28, 2021

FRIDAY, June 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Hawaii will drop COVID-19 testing and quarantine rules for fully vaccinated travelers from the U.S. mainland in two weeks, Gov. David Ige announced Thursday. ...

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