COVID-19 Updates
From the Journals
COVID-19 often more severe with congenital heart defects
“Hospitalized patients with heart defects are up to twice as likely to have critical outcomes of COVID-19 illness,” says author of a new study.
From the Journals
COVID-19 vax effectiveness quantified in immunosuppressed patients
A database study of 154,000 patients found that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines give people taking immunosuppressants significant protection against COVID-19...
Latest News
If you’ve never had COVID, should you relax or worry?
One infectious disease expert warns those who have never been infected not to assume they have “a suit of armor.”
From the Journals
First ‘before-and-after’ COVID-19 brain imaging study shows structural changes
Whether the abnormal changes are the hallmark of the spread of the pathogenic effects in the brain, or of the virus itself, remains to be...
From the Journals
Double-dose COVID-19 vaccines showed limited effectiveness against Omicron
“For now, we are going to have to realize that it is virtually impossible to prevent mild COVID without frequent boosting.”
Latest News
COVID-19 found in 29 types of animals, scientists say
The virus “could be evolving in hosts we are not aware of.”
Feature
Pan-coronavirus vaccines may be key to fighting future pandemics
From the Journals
Side effects of COVID mRNA vaccines are mild and short, large study confirms
Feature
Antivaccine physician pleads guilty to role in Capitol riot
Latest News
Long COVID patients may develop nerve damage: Study
Ten patients – or 59% – had at least one test that confirmed neuropathy.
From the Journals
Cardiac arrest survival lower in COVID-19 inpatients
“We were surprised by the magnitude of COVID’s impact on the cardiac arrest incidence,” researcher says.