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A small number of COVID-19 patients are relapsing after taking Pfizer's antiviral pill, raising questions about the drug

Wed, 2022-05-11 09:38 — mike kraft

Rare cases of COVID returning pose questions for Pfizer pill A small number of COVID-19 patients are relapsing after taking Pfizer's antiviral pill, raising questions about the drug at the center of the U.S. response effort ABC News ABC News

WASHINGTON -- As more doctors prescribe Pfizer's powerful COVID-19 pill, new questions are emerging about its performance, including why a small number of patients appear to relapse after taking the drug.

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WHO calls on Pfizer to make its COVID pill more available to poor countries

Wed, 2022-05-11 09:31 — mike kraft

WHO calls on Pfizer to make its COVID pill more available GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization called on Pfizer to make its COVID-19 treatment more widely available in poorer countries, saying Tuesday that the pharmaceutical company's deal allowing generic producers to make the drug was insufficient. AP NEWS

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Growing share of Covid-19 deaths are among vaccinated people, but booster shots substantially lower the risk

Wed, 2022-05-11 09:16 — mike kraft

Growing share of Covid-19 deaths are among vaccinated people, but booster shots substantially lower the risk Since Covid-19 vaccines became widely available, there has been a wide gap in deaths between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. But recent Covid deaths are much more evenly split as highly transmissible variants take hold, vaccine protection wanes and booster uptake stagnates. Deidre McPhillips, CNN CNN

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U.S. schools: In states where Covid cases are again on the rise, schools weigh safety measures, closures

Wed, 2022-05-11 09:06 — mike kraft

In states where Covid cases are again on the rise, schools weigh safety measures, closures "We’ll continue to see additional increases unless there’s a very big difference in the amount of protection that individual people are taking," one local official said. NBC News

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Masks: The bar in the U.S. for reimposing mask mandates is getting higher and higher

Wed, 2022-05-11 08:59 — mike kraft

The bar for reimposing mask mandates is getting higher and higher New York City raised its coronavirus alert level last week in response to rising cases, triggering a recommendation - but not a requirement - that people wear masks in public indoor settings. In Philadelphia, officials reimposed a mask mandate last month after cases rose, only to scrap the rule four days after it took effect. The decisions by the Democratic-run cities illustrate how mask mandates are falling out of favor with American public health authorities in the third year of the pandemic a YahooNews

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Analaysis: The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths

Tue, 2022-05-10 19:36 — mike kraft

The 'five pandemics' driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths STAT analyzes the data to show how five key factors worked to drive U.S. Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic, yielding "five pandemics." J. Emory Parker STAT

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One way to start understanding how a country as advanced as the U.S. lost so many people is to look at the ocean of public health data that was gathered as 1 million individual tragedies rippled through civic life.

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Study indicates risks of long COVID symptoms and the incidence of new onset hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease were lower among vaccinated patients with breakthrough infection

Tue, 2022-05-10 19:17 — mike kraft

Do COVID Vaccines Stave Off New Medical Conditions? Large study finds breakthrough cases linked with lower risk of diabetes, hypertension diagnoses Molly Walker medpagetoday

Risks of long COVID symptoms and the incidence of new onset hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease were lower among vaccinated patients with breakthrough infection versus those with COVID who were unvaccinated, a large analysis of medical records in the U.S. suggested.

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