Tracking Lives We’ve Lost to COVID-19 – Think Global Health Related: COVID-19 has caused 6.9 million deaths globally, more than double what official reports show
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Effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines on covid-19 related symptoms, hospital admissions, and mortality in older adults in England: test negative case-control study – The BMJ Editorial: Effectiveness of England’s initial vaccine roll out – The BMJ
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Characteristics Associated With Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Among Adults With SARS-CoV-2 Infection – JAMA Network Open Editorial: The Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults With SARS-CoV-2 Infection—Another Piece of an Expanding Puzzle Commentary: COVID-related inflammatory syndrome looks different in adults – CIDRAP
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European Respiratory Society clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis of asthma in children aged 5–16 years – European Respiratory Journal
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FDA In Brief: FDA Advises Against Use of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Test Results to Evaluate Immunity or Protection From COVID-19, Including After Vaccination – U.S. Food & Drug Administration Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more) Today, we issued a safety communication notifying the public and providers that results from SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests should […]
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Active Prescription of Low-dose Aspirin During or Prior to Hospitalization and Mortality in COVID-19 — A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Adjusted Effect Estimates – International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Risk of clinical sequelae after the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection: retrospective cohort study – The BMJ Editorial: Unpacking post-covid symptoms – The BMJ Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more) After covid infections, 14% of >266,000 people, age ≤ 65, developed at least 1 sequelae that required medical care #LongCovid Just out […]
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Prevalence of Post-COVID-19 Cough One Year After SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Multicenter Study – Lung
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International COVID-19 trial to restart with focus on immune responses – Nature
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Colchicine in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial – medRxiv Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more) RECOVERY pre-print: Colchicine 11340 patients hospitalised with COVID-19 Randomised to colchicine vs usual care No significant improvement in:– 28-day mortality– discharge alive at 28 days– progression to invasive mechanical […]
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