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New details of myocarditis linked to COVID vaccines
July 2, 2021
Further details from multiple cases of myocarditis linked to the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID vaccines have been described in recent papers in the medical literature.
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Post–COVID-19 lung injury: What we know so far
July 1, 2021
More than 30 million patients have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States and close to half will experience persistent dyspnea.
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Almost all U.S. COVID-19 deaths now in the unvaccinated
June 30, 2021
Of more than 18,000 people who died from COVID-19, only about 150 were fully vaccinated. That’s less than 1%.
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C. difficile guidelines offer new possibilities
June 24, 2021
Updated recommendations address issues of diagnosis, recurrence, and fecal microbial transplant.
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FDA to add myocarditis warning to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
June 24, 2021
But a CDC advisory panel, where the FDA made the announcement, still strongly backs the vaccines’ benefits, which outweigh the rare risk for heart inflammation.
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New data on COVID-19’s cognitive fallout
June 22, 2021
“Low levels of oxygen in the brain could lead to confusion, headache, and brain fog, and cause the cognitive disturbances that we see.”
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High rates of work-related trauma, PTSD in intern physicians
June 22, 2021
About 10% of participants screened positive for PTSD by the end of the internship year, compared with a 12-month PTSD prevalence of 3.6% in the general population.
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Prophylactic anticoagulation tied to lower death rate in COVID
June 18, 2021
Prophylactic use of low-dose anticoagulation to prevent venous thromboembolism was associated with reduced 60-day mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Michigan.
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AHA: Don’t delay COVID shot while CDC reviews myocarditis cases
June 17, 2021
It remains unclear if suspected myocarditis cases have any direct link to COVID vaccines, and the benefits of vaccination continue to ‘far exceed’ the risks, the AHA says.
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As new cases fall, U.S. passes 4 million children with COVID-19
June 15, 2021
CDC data suggest that vaccination has already slowed among children aged 12-15 years.
