COVID-19 Updates
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Telehealth safe, effective for a challenging psychiatric disorder
The study included 64 patients with borderline personality disorder who were treated for the first time in the Rhode Island Hospital partial...
Conference Coverage
Alcohol-related liver disease severity increased during COVID-19 pandemic
Increased alcohol sales and disrupted services may have led to worse clinical outcomes.
Conference Coverage
mRNA COVID vaccine response found mostly robust in RA, SLE patients
A trial found that immunosuppressed adults with autoimmune disease had a robust antibody response to the mRNA vaccine with no excess adverse...
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Infected, vaccinated, or both: How protected am I from COVID-19?
Memory B cells generated by infections may be immunological Swiss Army Knives, but maybe we really only need a single blade.
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Pfizer seeks EUA expansion for COVID-19 booster
Pfizer is submitting a study of booster effects on 10,000 people to make its case.
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Unvaccinated people 20 times more likely to die from COVID: Texas study
“The COVID-19 vaccines are doing an excellent job of protecting people from getting sick and from dying from COVID-19.”
Conference Coverage
Practicing telepsychiatry: Include backup plans, ground rules
Ideally, telepsychiatry will function much like an inpatient office visit, but the dynamics differ – as do the things that can go wrong.
News from the FDA/CDC
Children and COVID: New cases up again after dropping for 8 weeks
Less than a week after vaccine approval, initiation in those aged 5-11 years already outpaced the older children.
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Early trials underway to test mushrooms as COVID treatment
“They are not even as psychoactive as a cup of tea.”
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As constituents clamor for ivermectin, Republican politicians embrace the cause
“If we have medications out here that are working — or seem to be working — I think it’s absolutely horrible that we’re not trying them.”