Latest COVID vaccine, antivirals lower risk of severe COVID-19--new study

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Americans' concern about COVID reaches record low across political spectrum -- Survey

Study outlines how COVID-19 Pandemic affected mortality rates among U.S. Latinos

 

A new analysis of all-cause mortality of Hispanic and Latino adults published in Annals of Internal Medicine shows Mexicans and Central Americans were most affected by the pandemic.

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ALSO: FDA advisers recommend trivalent flu vaccines for upcoming season

 

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U.S. patients struggle to get medication after cyberattack hits a major health care company

U.S. COVID death toll may have been 16% higher than official tally--study

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Opinion: CDC's change in COVID guidance could misrepresent risks of virus, some experts warn

Mpox outbreak slowed because of behavior changes, not vaccine--study

Some cognitive decline 'objectively measurable' after COVID-19--British study

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U.S. CDC's statements on COVID guidance and vaccine effectiveness.

 

CDC'S releases on COVDID updates and Vaccine Effectiveness

...A new CDC report finds that the updated (2023-2024) COVID-19 vaccines cut the risk in half for visiting the emergency department, urgent care, or being hospitalized with COVID-19 for most people.

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Nearly 500 deaths per day in the U.S. from excessive drinking during COVID-19 pandemic -- CDC report

Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines

 

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In 2020, all the precautions that helped people avoid Covid had an unexpected benefit: An entire branch of the flu’s family tree, a B strain that geneticists call the Yamagata clade, disappeared, and it hasn’t been detected since.

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Covid-19 increases risk of developing autoimmune disease, but vaccination helps-- Japan and South Korean study

 

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Researchers also found that vaccination against Covid, with either mRNA or viral vector shot, reduced the risk of developing a new autoimmune disease. They did not spell out in the study exactly how much vaccines reduced the risk of AIRDs.

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Long Covid: low iron levels may play a role--British study

 

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the researchers found that long COVID was associated with how quickly inflammation and low iron levels regulated after acute infection. People who took a longer time to demonstrate regulation, and had more severe initial infections, were at an increased risk of long COVID.

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Flu shot effectivenness is OK -- US numbers indicate

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Officials generally are pleased if a flu vaccine is 40% to 60% effective.

The shots tend to do better when they are well matched against the circulating flu strains. Officials say that’s what’s happened during this — relatively typical — flu season.

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