San Mateo: Nearly 90 students test positive for COVID-19 after prom – The Mercury News
SAN MATEO – Nearly 90 San Mateo High School students have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending prom earlier this...
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UK patient had COVID-19 for 505 days straight, study shows – The Associated Press – en Español
A U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, scientists reported,...
Global COVID cases drop as pandemic disrupts routine US kids’ vaccines
In its weekly snapshot of the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that global cases dropped for the...
AstraZeneca’s Evusheld slashes risk of symptomatic COVID-19 up to 83%
AstraZeneca's monoclonal antibody combination tixagevimab-cilgavimab (Evusheld) reduced the risk of symptomatic COVID-19 infection by 83% over placebo at a median...
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Patient contracted Omicron just 20 days after Delta strain of COVID-19A 31-year-old woman from Spain contracted COVID-19 twice within 3...
An mRNA vaccine with a twist—it copies itself—protects against COVID-19 – Science
A third messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine appears to have proved its worth against COVID-19. And although it is more than...
Review: ‘Silent Invasion’ Is Deborah Birx’s Story of Trump’s Covid Response – The New York Times
“Silent Invasion,” an insider’s look at the Trump administration’s pandemic policies, is earnest and exhaustive, our reviewer says.SILENT INVASION: The...
Risk of myocarditis after COVID vaccine low but highest in young men
A new study of 23.1 million Scandinavians suggests that the risk of myocarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination is low but...
When Covid Enters the House, What Should We Do? – The New York Times
When someone in the family tests positive for the coronavirus, there are some guidelines to follow.Though I have been writing...
A puzzling phenomenon: Patients report a rebound of COVID-19 symptoms after taking the antiviral Paxlovid – The Boston Globe
When it first hit the market in December, the COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, was hailed as a game-changer, an effective...