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Enlarge / Illustration of antibodies (red and blue) responding to an infection with Covid-19 (purple). (credit: Getty Images ) A lower share of people infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant are likely to require hospital treatment compared with cases of the Delta strain, according to healthcare data from South Africa, Denmark, and the UK. The […]
Enlarge COVID-19 patients as young as 12 can now be treated with Paxlovid, an antiviral pill developed by Pfizer , after the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization on Wednesday. “Today’s authorization introduces the first treatment for COVID-19 that is in the form of a pill that is taken orally—a major step […]
Enlarge / Rapid at-home COVID-19 test kits. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) In an address to the nation today, President Joe Biden outlined his administration’s plans to battle the omicron variant. The federal government plans to purchase 500 million rapid COVID-19 test kits for home use, set up new testing sites, and mobilize 1, 000 […]
Enlarge / Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President, during the daily press briefing at the White House on December 1, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty | Anna Moneymaker) Though booster doses of current vaccines can foil the ultra-transmissible omicron coronavirus variant, a towering wave of omicron cases may peak in the […]
Enlarge / A nurse in the ICU looks into a COVID patient’s room filled with flowers and balloons at CentraCare St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, Minn., on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. (credit: Getty | The Washington Post) The wave of COVID-19 driven by the hypertransmissible delta variant continues to rampage through the US, with […]
Enlarge / Pedestrians walk in front of a COVID-19 vaccination site in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 19, 2021. (credit: Xinhua News Agency) The first batch of preliminary laboratory data on the omicron coronavirus variant has come out, and the results are largely what health experts have anticipated: Protective antibodies from two doses of the […]
Enlarge / Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical adviser to the particular president, delivers an update on typically the Omicron COVID-19 variant during the daily press briefing at the White House on December 1, 2021 in Washington, DC. The first case of the omicron […]
Medical News Bulletin – Daily Medical News, Health News, Clinical Trials And Clinical Research, Medical Technology, Fitness And Nutrition News–In One Place In an effort to stop the spread associated with SARS-CoV-2, widespread lockdowns have often been used in many countries. These lockdowns not only reduced the spread of the virus, but have also saved […]
Enlarge / That’s a lot of mutations. (credit: Stanford ) On Friday, the World Health Organization officially named a new version of the particular SARS-CoV-2 virus a variant associated with concern, and attached the Greek letter omicron to the designation. The Omicron variant is notable for the sheer number regarding mutations in the spike protein […]
Enlarge (credit: Morsa Images | Getty Images ) Almost from the beginning of the COVID pandemic , reports have accumulated of persistent, weird, disabling symptoms in survivors, a syndrome that’s come to be known as long COVID . The complex of fatigue, confusion, heart arrhythmias, gut disorders, and other problems—which may persist months after an […]