Coronavirus / COVID

In a press conference this morning, leadership of the FDA and CDC discussed why they made the decision on this vaccine and announced an ACIP meeting will be held tomorrow to review the data from the adverse events.

The federal agencies will advise states withhold administration of the Johnson & Johnson one-shot product while investigating risk of a rare blood clot disorder.

Our editor-in-chief writes on the role caregivers play in informing the public on the perks of a more vaccinated population.

New cohort analyses show the popular UK variant is linked to a higher viral load, though patients have not experienced worse likelihood of outcomes.

Infectious diseases are emerging at an alarmingly rapid pace, faster than any other time in human history.

Despite a growing number of cases, millions gather in India for Hindu festival.

With millions of people vaccinated for COVID-19, A new study, collecting data from CDC's v-safe program, discusses reactions following mRNA-based vaccines.

A recent study looked at the racial disparities amongst people living with HIV and COVID-19 positivity rates.

A retrospective comparative effectiveness study looked at time to clinical improvement or time to death among hospitalized patients who were treated with or without remdesivir.

The company asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to amend their Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to include 12-15 year olds.

Overall, more than half a million more people died between March 2020 and the end of the year, suggesting the pandemic may have been indirectly involved in more deaths than previously realized.

Even with just a mild case of COVID-19, many of the participants reported long-term symptoms that had a negative impact on their life.

While patients who developed a severe case of COVID-19 were at the highest risk, it was not limited to them.

Face masks protect from COVID-19, but multilayered ones made of certain materials perform better than others.

While the therapy did not meet its primary endpoint, it did show a statistically significant reduction in mortality compared to stand of care alone.

The United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is making this recommendation for people in this age group after rare blot clots occurred after administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

The United States has experienced 23% more deaths than anticipated during the first year of the pandemic, according to a new analysis.

While symptom checkers have the potential to significantly help with overburdened systems, not enough people know about them.

The preclinical study showed that intranasal administration of OMV-Spike protected against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Current evidence remains uncertain to predict natural immunity conferred by SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to living practice points developed by the American College of Physicians (ACP), which urges patients to continue infection prevention practices such as hand washing, mask wearing and maintaining physical distance.

While it was a small study, its findings indicate protection against COVID-19 variants from the vaccine and from recovery from the infection.

The therapy used plasma from recoverees with high levels of antibodies and proved to significantly improve clinical outcomes.

mRNA-1273 was seen to elicit antibodies for COVID-19 180 days following full dosage in a phase 1 trial and is still recommended for use by the authors.

The study suggests that proper air ventilation and masks could reduce the risk of infections in classrooms by up to 50%, making a 6-foot social distancing requirement unnecessary.

Laboratory escape is described as an extremely unlikely source for SARS-CoV-2 in new WHO report, but questions posed to the researchers remain open.