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Children and COVID: Weekly cases top 200,000, vaccinations down
August 31, 2021
Daily hospitalization rates are higher than ever before.
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EDs saw more benzodiazepine overdoses, but fewer patients overall, in 2020
August 31, 2021
Fentanyl became increasingly involved in benzodiazepine overdose deaths through the first half of the year.
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Reassuring data on long-term outcomes among kids with MIS-C
August 31, 2021
Most children who develop multisystemic inflammatory syndrome after infection with SARS-CoV-2 recover relatively quickly and without significant sequelae.
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Long COVID symptoms can persist for more than 1 year, study shows
August 31, 2021
The largest study to date confirms that a substantial number of COVID-19 survivors have persistent problems. One researcher calls it a “modern medical challenge of the first order.”
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EMPEROR-Preserved spouts torrent of reports on empagliflozin treatment of HFpEF
August 31, 2021
The primary report from EMPEROR-Preserved on using empagliflozin to treat patients with HFpEF arrived with four other analyses published in its wake.
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Early end for trial of experimental oxygenation strategies in ARDS
August 31, 2021
Does a conservative oxygenation strategy improve mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)?
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Report urges complete residency overhaul
August 31, 2021
Overall, the report calls for increased standardization of how students are evaluated in medical school and how residency programs evaluate students.
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CDC panel unanimously backs Pfizer vax, fortifying FDA approval
August 30, 2021
The risk of myocarditis after a COVID infection was 6 to 34 times higher than the risk after receiving an mRNA vaccine.
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Children’s upper airways primed to combat SARS-CoV-2 infection
August 30, 2021
The findings may help to explain why children have a lower risk of developing severe COVID-19 illness or becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the first place.
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ICU infections and all-cause hospital mortality rate
August 30, 2021
Was prevalence of infection associated with outcomes among ICU patients in 2017?
