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COVID-19 vaccine mandates are working, public health experts say
Overall, vaccine mandates tend to reach groups who aren’t completely against the vaccine, medical experts said.
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Whistleblowers will play key role in enforcing workplace vaccine mandate
“There is no army of OSHA inspectors that is going to be knocking on employers’ doors or even calling them.”
From the Journals
Do adolescents develop CNS autoimmunity after COVID-19?
The researchers examined three pediatric patients who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 and, over a period of 5 months in 2020, were admitted to the...
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.”
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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.”
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COVID vaccines’ protection dropped sharply over 6 months: Study
“Although vaccination remains protective against SARS-CoV-2 infection, protection waned as the Delta variant emerged in the U.S.”