COVID-19 Updates
From the Journals
COVID-19 hospitalization 80% more likely for smokers
These results contrast with previous studies that have suggested a protective effect of smoking against COVID-19.
From the Journals
Polyethylene glycol linked to rare allergic reactions seen with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
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Top questions answered about COVID-19 boosters for your patients
“The biggest concerns are that everyone wants it and they don’t know where to get it.”
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Temporary hold of mycophenolate helps immune response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination
A comparison of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases shows that withholding mycophenolate around the time of vaccination can be...
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CDC chief overrules panel, OKs boosters for health care workers
Panelists “did not buy the need in occupational or institutional settings.”
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New COVID-19 strain has reached the U.S.
The CDC has not classified R.1 as a variant of concern yet but noted it has “several mutations of importance” and “demonstrates evidence of...
Livin' on the MDedge
Your bathroom towel rack has a dirty little secret
Plus anti-vaxxer purity and sulfurous vegetables.
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FDA OKs Pfizer COVID booster for 65 and over, those at high risk
Emerging evidence shows that booster doses of the Pfizer vaccine cause front-line immune defenders — called binding antibodies — to roughly triple...
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Will ‘Dr. Disinformation’ ever face the music?
State medical "boards are relatively slow and weak and it's a long, slow process to pull somebody's license."
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Doctor who claimed masks hurt health loses license
The report said the doctor told patients they didn’t have to wear a mask in the clinic unless they were “acutely ill,” “coughing,” or “congested...
News from the FDA/CDC
COVID-19 claims more than 675,000 U.S. lives, surpassing the 1918 flu
In some ways, the United States has failed to learn from the mistakes of the past.