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A new study finds that two forms of immunity—breakthrough infections following vaccination or natural infection followed by vaccination—provide roughly equal levels of enhanced immune protection.

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OPINION: The Two COVID Americas

Wed, 2022-01-26 13:36 — mike kraft

Two COVID Americas COVID-19’s starkly different impact on the young and old has been one of the virus’s defining characteristics. It tends to be mild for children and younger adults but is often severe for the elderly. More than three-quarters of all U.S. COVID deaths have occurred among people 65 and older. Given these patterns, it seems obvious that older Americans should be more fearful of COVID than younger Americans. Yet they’re not. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times That’s one of the YahooNews

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OPINION: A form of human sacrifice: the conservative campaign against vaccination has claimed thousands of lives for no ethically justifiable purpose.

Wed, 2022-01-26 13:23 — mike kraft

The Anti-vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America Since last summer, the conservative campaign against vaccination has claimed thousands of lives for no ethically justifiable purpose. Kurt Andersen The Atlantic

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Medicare does not yet cover at home testing kits but officials trying to change the law

Wed, 2022-01-26 13:13 — mike kraft

Medicare Patients Can't Get Their At-Home COVID Test Kits Covered -- Yet But CMS says it's working to provide that coverage Joyce Frieden medpagetoday

WASHINGTON -- Can your Medicare patients get reimbursed for buying at-home rapid COVID tests? Sorry, no -- but we're working on changing that, say Medicare officials.

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Researchers gain new insights into antibody response against viral COVID variants

Wed, 2022-01-26 13:00 — mike kraft

Researchers gain new insights into antibody response against viral COVID variants In the journal Science, researchers from Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE) and Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin present new findings on the immune response against the ... Science X staff

In the journal Science, researchers from Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE) and Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin present new findings on the immune response against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

Their study is based on investigations of antibodies elicited by infection with the Beta variant of the virus.

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