COVID-19 Updates
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Twofold increased risk for death from COVID-19 in psych patients
“Doctors need to look at these patients the same way they would other high-risk people.”
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Necessary or not, COVID booster shots are probably on the horizon
Should the nearly 60% of adult Americans who have been fully vaccinated seek out a booster or not?
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Delta variant among the most infectious respiratory viruses, CDC says
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Sickle cell disease, trait may up risk for poor COVID outcomes
Even those who carry just one copy of the sickle cell gene – the carrier status for sickle cell disease – appeared to be at heightened risk.
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Statins again linked to lower COVID-19 mortality
Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 who had been taking statins had a substantially lower risk of death and severe outcomes than those who weren’t...
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‘Dealing with a different beast’: Why Delta has doctors worried
“We are either going to get vaccinated and end the pandemic, or we’re going to accept death and a lot of it.”
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy still weighs heavy for some rheumatic disease patients
ACR COVID-19 vaccine task force chair Dr. Jeffrey Curtis goes over the latest evidence about COVID-19 vaccination in patients with rheumatic and...
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HIV increases risk for severe COVID-19
“We don’t have any information from this about the T-cell counts [or] the rates of viral suppression, which I think is tremendously important,”...
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Long COVID seen in patients with severe and mild disease
A Swiss study shows how even mild COVID cases can lead to debilitating symptoms, according to Dr. Christopher Terndrup.
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Targeted outreach increases Black COVID-19 vaccination rates
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Large remdesivir study finds no COVID-19 survival benefit