A type of cells produced by the body when fighting common cold viruses cross-protect people against infection with the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a study published Monday. T cells have been recognized as a measure of protection against severe COVID-19 and previous research indicated that recovery from common colds may provide some level…
T Cells From Common Colds Cross-Protect Against Infection With COVID-19: Study
FDA Shortens Interval for Moderna COVID-19 Booster Based on Safety Data From Pfizer’s Booster Doses
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to shorten the interval time for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to five months was based on scientific evidence that included the safety data from Pfizer’s booster shots given in Israel, the health regulator wrote in its authorization letter to Moderna. The health regulator announced Friday that it had amended…
Supplies Still Limited More Than a Year After Monoclonal Antibodies Authorized for Treating COVID-19
Despite being the only authorized outpatient medical therapy for preventing the worsening of COVID-19 symptoms in high-risk patients, there remains no steady supply of monoclonal antibodies from the federal government a year after its approval for use by medical regulators. Rolled out in the same month as the COVID-19 vaccines, monoclonal antibody therapies have not…
NY Hospitals Asked to Make Clear Whether ‘COVID Patients’ Are Actually Hospitalized Because of COVID
Some 700 years ago, human civilization was facing a pandemic: The Black Death (or the Plague) killed somewhere between 75 million and 200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa. But there was a secondary disaster to the plague that also had a massive death toll, and that modern society would do well to take…
Fauci Says Omicron COVID Cases Rising in ‘Vertical Spike’ but Peak Could Come Soon
By Dave Goldiner From New York Daily News Dr. Anthony Fauci said the new year is bringing bad news as the highly transmissible omicron variant powers a “vertical spike” in COVID-19 cases. But even as omicron drives the worst caseloads of the entire pandemic, Fauci believes the wave could peak quickly. “Cases are not going…
CDC Updates COVID-19 Isolation Guidance to Include a Section on Antigen Tests
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday updated its guidelines for COVID-19 isolation to include a section on rapid antigen tests, in which it provides guidance for cases where people wanted to take a test. The updated CDC guidance does not say that isolated people have to test negative before emerging from isolation, but…
At-Home COVID-19 Tests Coming This Month: White House
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the first batch of the 500 million COVID-19 tests that President Joe Biden promised late last month will arrive later in January. “We’re on track to start seeing movement on some of the awards through the RFP (request for proposals) this week,” she told reporters Tuesday. “The first delivery from…
More Studies Suggest Omicron Causes Milder Symptoms, Says Top WHO Official
A top World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday that evidence is growing that shows the Omicron variant of the CCP virus is less severe compared to previous variants due to the disease affecting the upper respiratory tract. “We are seeing more and more studies pointing out that Omicron is infecting the upper part…
Majority of Teenagers Hospitalized With COVID-19 Had Severe Obesity: CDC Study
Most teenagers hospitalized with COVID-19 across six major hospitals over the summer were severely obese, according to a recently published Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study. Researchers with the agency and children’s hospitals examined data on adolescents who went to hospitals in July or August and had COVID-19. Of the 713 patients identified…
Did Dismissals of Safe Outpatient Drugs Cause Needless COVID Deaths? Dissenting Doctors Say Yes
For the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were no officially approved outpatient treatments for combating the disease. From March 2020, when the virus first emerged in the United States, until that November, when the Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of monoclonal antibodies, health authorities advised that the infected do little…
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