The combined vaccine elicited higher immune response against SARS-CoV-2.
Plaque growth can lead to a higher risk of heart attack, stroke, and other life-threatening cardiovascular events for as long as 1 year.
Post-exertional malaise, or exercise intolerance, was seen in 36% of those with long COVID.
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An antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) intervention led by ambulatory care pharmacists was associated with improvements in guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing in a family medicine residency clinic, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
In a preliminary study conducted on 152 patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infections, no patient in a group of 80 people who took a 15-day course of fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, reported clinical deterioration, as opposed to 6 (8.3%) of 72 who took a placebo.
Hospitalizations rose in all but 4 states this week, with the steepest increases in the Midwest, and deaths jumped by nearly 23%.
The findings suggest the need to develop safer measures in similar settings involving young adults, such as for schools and camps.
Of 176 patients, 32 (18%) tested positive via RT-PCR, but only 1 had infectious virus.
Also, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing another $70 million to a WHO vaccine initiative.
A meta-analysis of 50 studies and 18,728,893 US and UK patients with COVID-19 found that black people were 2.02 times more likely and Asians 1.50 times more likely to be infected with COVID-19 compared with white people. The researchers also found that Hispanic people had a 1.77 adjusted risk ratio (RR), but none of the applicable studies had been peer reviewed.
Forty-seven states are seeing uncontrolled spread and 2 are trending poorly, leading several governors to impose new restrictions.
Also, Iran's third surge hits record levels and Sweden orders some restrictions.
About 52% of 128 COVID patients reported fatigue 10 weeks later, regardless of disease seriousness.
