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Study confirms key COVID-19 risk factors in children
January 7, 2021
Maskless family, social, and athletic event gatherings continue to pose the greatest risk of exposure to children.
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IDSA panel updates guidelines on COVID molecular diagnostic tests
January 7, 2021
Saliva spit tests stack up well against the gold standard for molecular COVID-19 tests — the back-of-the-nose deep swab.
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Early use of high-titer plasma may prevent severe COVID-19
January 7, 2021
Administering convalescent plasma that has high levels of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 within the first 3 days of symptoms was associated with significantly lower chances of progression to severe COVID-19, new evidence demonstrates.
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No increase seen in children’s cumulative COVID-19 burden
January 6, 2021
New cases were down for the last week of 2020, American Academy of Pediatrics and Children’s Hospital Association report.
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FDA warns about risk for false negatives from Curative COVID test
January 6, 2021
A negative result from the Curative PCR test “does not rule out COVID-19 and should not be used as the sole basis for treatment or patient management decisions.
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Opinion
Social isolation at the time of social distancing
January 6, 2021
Social distancing in the hospital contributes to the development of isolation, loneliness, and fear.
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Microvascular injury of brain, olfactory bulb seen in COVID-19
January 5, 2021
Vascular pathology and perivascular infiltrates found on postmortem MRI scans may be informative when interpreting brain changes on MRI scan in patients with COVID-19.
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Experts debate wisdom of delaying second COVID-19 vaccine dose
January 5, 2021
Another proposed strategy to extend the current supply of COVID-19 vaccines to more Americans involves splitting the current dosage of the Moderna vaccine in half.
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U.S. hits 20 million cases as COVID variant spreads
January 4, 2021
It took 292 days for the US to reach its first 10 million cases, and just 54 more days to double that number.
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COVID-19 mortality in hospitalized HF patients: Nearly 1 in 4
December 31, 2020
In-hospital mortality was 24.2% for patients with HF hospitalized with COVID-19, as compared with 14.2% for individuals without HF who were hospitalized with COVID-19.
