Reformulated booster shots ready by September, White House says
Jul 29, 2022
The Biden administration is working on contracts for the reformulated booster doses.
Cognitive, functional decline detected before stroke
Jul 07, 2021
Patients with stroke have steeper declines in the 10 years before stroke compared with stroke-free controls.
Natural protection against reinfection with BA.1 COVID-19 variant lower
Feb 17, 2023
However, protection against severe disease remains high, at 88.9%, for omicron BA.1 at 40 weeks.
Risk for progression to severe COVID-19 lower with nirmatrelvir + ritonavir
Mar 01, 2022
Treatment of symptomatic COVID-19 with nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir was linked to an 89% lower risk for progression versus placebo.
SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests should not be used for diagnosis
Feb 01, 2022
A related review shows that recent infection protected against symptomatic reinfection with the wild-type or alpha variant of SARS-CoV-2.
Remdesivir offers some benefit for hospitalized COVID-19 patients
Feb 01, 2022
No difference was seen for in-hospital mortality, but a need for initiation of mechanical ventilation was reduced with the addition of remdesivir to standard care.
Incidence rates of SARS-CoV-2 similar for children, adults
Oct 15, 2021
“Children are not only capable of becoming infected, but are also capable of transmitting SARS-CoV-2,” write the authors of an accompanying editorial.
US wastewater tests spot highly mutated variant of COVID-19
Aug 24, 2023
Officials did not specify where the samples were from; most patients infected with new BA.2.86 variant have had mild symptoms.
Boar’s Head recall tied to listeria expands to 7 million more pounds of deli meat
Jul 31, 2024
“Listeria is especially harmful to people who are pregnant, aged 65 or older, or with weakened immune systems,” the FDA said.
Antibody levels after COVID-19 vaccination inversely linked to body weight
May 23, 2022
An inverse correlation was sustained for up to six months following two doses of BNT162b2 (Pfizer–BioNTech) in a small cohort of healthy young and middle-aged adults.