Opinion
Dr. Topol talks: COVID-19 variants are innocent until proven guilty
May 7, 2021
“The B.1.1.7 is going to be the dominant strain worldwide. It could develop new mutations within it that could come back to haunt us. We must keep watch.”
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Clinician well-being a top priority, Surgeon General says
May 7, 2021
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said he’ll push for scientists to be heard in an unpoliticized way.
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Military leader shows hospitalists a way out of pandemic ‘combat’
May 4, 2021
Hospitalists treating patients during the pandemic must take stock of the physical and mental toll on their own health.
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New child COVID-19 cases drop for second consecutive week
May 4, 2021
Report shows that 5% of all U.S. children have been infected during the pandemic.
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FDA set to okay Pfizer vaccine in younger teens
May 4, 2021
Pfizer submitted data to the FDA showing its mRNA vaccine was 100% effective at preventing COVID-19 infection in children ages 12 to 15.
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AHA guidance on blood clots linked to COVID-19 vaccine
April 30, 2021
“The risk of CVST due to infection with COVID-19 is 8-10 times higher than the risk of CVST after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.”
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No link seen between heart inflammation and COVID shots, CDC says
April 29, 2021
“We have not seen a signal and we’ve actually looked intentionally for the signal in the over 200 million doses we’ve given,” says CDC director Rochelle Walensky.
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CDC guidelines coming on long COVID
April 29, 2021
“I can’t overstate how serious this issue is for the health of our nation,” NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, said.
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Being overweight ups risk of severe COVID-19 in hospital
April 29, 2021
This research “adds to the known data on the associations between obesity and severe COVID-19 disease and extends these findings” to patients who are overweight and/or have diabetes.
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Pfizer developing pill to treat COVID-19 symptoms
April 28, 2021
An oral drug could be taken at home and might keep people out of the hospital.
