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This story has been updated. Sept. 12, 2023 – A CDC advisory committee of doctors and nurses voted 13-1 to recommend all Americans age 6 and up get an updated COVID-19 vaccine designed to target newer versions of the virus. CDC Director Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, must still sign off before shots can start to …
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Some people may have only one symptom; others may have several. “The majority of people that we see who come into our clinic have multiple symptoms, and they tend to be fairly widespread,” Lago said. In other words, if you have two vastly different symptoms on this list — like diarrhea and chest discomfort — …
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SOURCES: Aaron E. Glatt, MD, chair, Department of Medicine, chief of infectious diseases, and hospital epidemiologist, Mount Sinai South Nassau, Oceanside, NY; spokesperson, Infectious Diseases Society of America. Luis Ostrosky, MD, chief of infectious diseases and epidemiology, UTHealth Houston and Memorial Hermann; spokesperson, Infectious Diseases Society of America. Andrew L. Geers, PhD, professor of psychology, …
Aug. 31, 2023 –The CDC and the World Health Organization have dubbed the BA 2.86 variant of COVID-19 as a variant to watch. So far, only 26 cases of “Pirola,” as the new variant is being called, have been identified: 10 in Denmark, four each in Sweden and the United States, three in South Africa, two …
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Aug. 10, 2023 – More than 3 years into the COVID-19 era, most Americans have settled back into their pre-pandemic lifestyles. But a new dominant variant and rising hospitalization numbers may give way to another summer surge. Since April, a new COVID variant has cropped up. According to recent CDC data, EG.5 – from the …
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July 31, 2023 — Enrollment is opening for four clinical trials to evaluate new treatments for long COVID, the National Institutes of Health announced at a media briefing today. Additional clinical trials to test at least seven more treatments are expected to launch in the coming months. The trials are part of the NIH’s research …
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Billionaire Elon Musk appears to have removed a Community Note from his own tweet on Tuesday that promoted anti-vax beliefs. In response to the news that NBA superstar LeBron James’ 18-year-old son suffered a cardiac arrest, Musk suggested that the COVID-19 shot could be responsible. James’ son, Bronny, was at basketball practice at USC and …
Getty Image Last week, during a fart-ridden press dinner, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said some things. Most alarmingly, the wacky Democratic presidential candidate spouted a conspiracy theory bizarre even for him: that COVID was “ethnically targeted” to spare Jewish and Chinese people. The whopper was caught on camera, but that’s not stopping Kennedy from making …
Getty Image Last week, wackadoodle conspiracy theorist-turned-Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy took part in a chaotic press dinner. Initial reports about what happened were understandably distracted by the “loud, prolonged” farting of one of its guests, who had gotten into a raucous argument about climate change. The flatulence was so pronounced that it obscured …
June 15, 2023 – A panel of advisers to the FDA unanimously agreed today that the next COVID-19 vaccines should target the XBB variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus now in circulation in the United States, but questioned whether the population as a whole needs booster shots and how often they should be given. The Vaccines …
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June 6, 2023 — As doctors and researchers learn more about long COVID, an interesting fact has emerged: Women experiencing menopause and perimenopause appear to be more likely to experience serious complications from the virus. British researchers have newly noted that women at midlife who have long COVID seem to get specific, and severe, symptoms, …
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June 2, 2023 — Anxiety, depression, and COVID-19 can be a bad combination for your brain — and your long-term health. Having anxiety and depression before a COVID infection increases the risk of developing long COVID, researchers have found. Those with long COVID who develop anxiety and depression after an infection may have brain shrinkage in areas …
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