Study: Severely ill COVID patients at 16 times higher risk for abnormally rapid heartbeat
mgstanton / Flickr ccCOVID-19 patients requiring mechanical ventilation are 16 times more likely than non-severely ill peers to experience ventricular...
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CDC panel weighs updates to COVID vaccine recs
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today presented proposed COVID vaccine policy updates to its vaccine...
Preprint COVID-19 studies subject to more ‘spin’ during pandemic
Preprint, non–peer-reviewed studies rose in visibility dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, as scientists around the global tried to decipher and...
Another post-COVID-19 risk: new-onset diabetes
A study of more than 600,000 people in British Columbia, Canada, links COVID-19 and a higher risk of diabetes more...
‘Protect others’ may be more effective message for COVID vaccine uptake
The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Antimicrobial Drug Advisory Committee (AMDAC) voted unanimously this week to support approval of...
Two drug combos show protection against severe COVID-19
Two new randomized, controlled trials published yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine describe how drug combinations lowered the risk...
Early steroid use for severe COVID-19 tied to fewer deaths
JAMA Network Open has published a new US national cohort study demonstrating that early administration of the steroid dexamethasone was...
Symptom-based diagnosis captures more long-COVID cases than ICD-10 definition
In a slide presentation at this week's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Copenhagen, Denmark, a...
FDA authorizes second bivalent COVID boosters for seniors, other at-risk groups
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today authorized second bivalent (two-strain) COVID-19 booster doses for people ages 65 and up...
COVID death rate 5 times higher in Dutch adults with intellectual disabilities in 2020-21
Dutch adults with intellectual disabilities died of COVID-19 at a rate five times higher than the general population in the...