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Promising leads to crack long COVID discovered
It’s likely that research will show long COVID is a condition with more than one cause, experts said.
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U.S. considers lengthening gap between first two COVID shots to 8 weeks
The move is being considered to lower the risk of heart inflammation and improve vaccine effectiveness.
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Q&A: Long COVID symptoms, management, and where we’re headed
Long COVID continues to be a moving target – continuously evolving and still...
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No COVID vax, no transplant: Unfair or good medicine?
Is removing them from the list unfair and cruel, or simply business as usual?
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Boosted Americans 97 times less likely to die of COVID-19 than unvaccinated
“The data are really stunningly obvious why a booster is really very important.”
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Antibody mix may prevent COVID symptoms in some asymptomatic people
The results suggest new potential for monoclonal antibodies currently used for postexposure prophylaxis and treatment of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2....
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Scientists on alert over rising cases caused by Omicron BA.2
BA.2 may be 1.5 times more transmissible than BA.1, based on preliminary data.
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Omicron subvariant 1.5 times more contagious than Omicron
The WHO hasn’t labeled BA.2 a “variant of concern” so far but will continue to monitor it.
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FDA grants full approval to Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
The Moderna vaccine also now has a new trade name: Spikevax.
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Long COVID is real, and many real questions remain
It remains unclear if a hyperinflammatory response is driving persistent post-COVID-19 symptoms.
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Hong Kong, U.S., Israeli data illuminate COVID vaccine myocarditis
Prevalences, nuances of presentation, and likely clinical course of myocarditis after use of some vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are in sharper view...