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Statins again linked to lower COVID-19 mortality
July 21, 2021
Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 who had been taking statins had a substantially lower risk of death and severe outcomes than those who weren’t in a large observational study.
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‘Dealing with a different beast’: Why Delta has doctors worried
July 21, 2021
“We are either going to get vaccinated and end the pandemic, or we’re going to accept death and a lot of it.”
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Children and COVID: New vaccinations increase as cases continue to climb
July 20, 2021
Vaccine initiations among children aged 12-15 years had declined in 6 of the previous 7 weeks.
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HIV increases risk for severe COVID-19
July 20, 2021
“We don’t have any information from this about the T-cell counts [or] the rates of viral suppression, which I think is tremendously important,” one physician said about the data.
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Early heparin treatment linked to lower COVID-19 mortality
July 15, 2021
Rates of death were significantly lower by almost half in patients who received early heparin than in those who did not.
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Children and COVID: New vaccinations drop as the case count rises
July 13, 2021
About a quarter of all 12- to 15-year-olds and 37% of 16- and 17-year-olds have been fully vaccinated.
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FDA to warn J&J that vaccine can increase Guillain-Barré risk: Media
July 13, 2021
The agency still calculates the benefit of vaccination with the J&J product continues to outweigh the risk.
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Standard medical mask can protect wearer from aerosols
July 12, 2021
Although this study showed how well different masks filtered out particles, it could not assess how well different masks prevent actual infection.
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Delta variant key to breakthrough infections in vaccinated Israelis
July 8, 2021
“The positive news is that there is 93% prevention against severe disease or mortality.”
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California’s highest COVID infection rates shift to rural counties
July 8, 2021
“If you live in an area that has low vaccination rates and you have a few people who start to develop a disease, it’s going to spread quickly among those who aren’t vaccinated.”
