Current vaccine strains show high neutralization against the latest variants, but the LP.8.1 antigen may provide similar or moderately higher cross-reactive antibody response.
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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Cancer patients who received systemic treatment like chemotherapy or radiation in the 3 months before testing positive for COVID-19 were at increased risk of death, admission to an intensive care unit (ICU), and hospitalization, according to a study yesterday in JAMA Oncology.
The cheap drug fluvoxamine reduced the need for a long emergency department visit or a hospital stay.
Of parents polled, 30% will definitely not get their child vaccinated, and 33% will wait and see.
Also, a syringe shortage looms, and African nations lag woefully in COVID-19 vaccine uptake.
The monoclonal antibody sotrovimab reduced the risk of hospitalization or death from COVID-19 by 85% compared with placebo, according to an interim analysis of a phase 3 clinical trial published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"Reported allergy symptoms did not impede the completion of the 2-dose vaccine protocol."
An agreement with the UN eases access in low- and middle-income countries to molnupiravir.
CDC director says the nation is "now heading in the right direction, but needs to remain vigilant."
COVID-mitigating behavior such as physical distancing and mask use didn't change after receipt of vaccination prior to government exemptions, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
Experts approve the vaccine in children 5 to 11 on an emergency use basis.
