COVID-19 Updates
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Ohio records more deaths than births for first time
“It’s COVID, clearly.”
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Unvaccinated pregnant women have more severe COVID
After the Delta variant became dominant, both the number and severity of cases increased, and after August 2021, more than 25% of pregnant women...
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FDA panel votes to approve Pfizer’s vaccine for children
If the FDA follows the recommendation, as it typically does, ...the shots could be available within days.
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Pandemic exacerbates primary care practices’ financial struggles
Clinicians worry their practices will no longer be able to support telemedicine if prepandemic payment regulations are restored.
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Unvaccinated people likely to catch COVID repeatedly
“Reinfection can reasonably happen in three months or less.”
Opinion
My experience as a family medicine resident in 2021
My attending knew her patients; they were not faceless unknowns in a hospital gown to her.
News
Antithrombotic therapy not warranted in COVID-19 outpatients
In stable patients with COVID-19, use of aspirin or apixaban did not reduce the rate of the composite of all-cause mortality, thromboembolism, MI...
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COVID vaccination rates vary by zodiac sign
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Better COVID-19 outcomes confirmed in TNF inhibitor users
A study of three international registries confirms that patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases who are taking a TNF inhibitor should...
News from the FDA/CDC
CDC panel backs COVID-19 boosters for nearly all adults