By Sarah Meyer and Georgina Peacock, Scientific American, April 15, 2024 For the first time, we have vaccines that can protect older adults against three leading—and sometimes fatal—respiratory viral diseases: influenza, COVID and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). This is a …
No link between COVID vaccine, cardiac arrest in young people, new CDC study finds
By Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, April 12, 2024 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new data addressing the link, or lack thereof, between the COVID-19 vaccine and sudden cardiac death in otherwise healthy young adults. The assessment, conducted between June …
Stanford Medicine study flags unexpected cells in lung as suspected source of severe COVID
Bruce Goldman, Stanford Medicine, April 10, 2024 The lung-cell type that’s most susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is not the one previously assumed to be most vulnerable. What’s more, the virus enters this susceptible cell via …
Ivermectin and COVID-19
FDA, April 5, 2024 One of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s jobs is to carefully evaluate the scientific data on a drug to be sure that it is both safe and effective for a particular use. There continues to …
How bad are flu, COVID-19 and RSV? These charts show how respiratory viruses are spreading in the US
By Nicky Forster, AP News, April 5, 2024 The 2023-24 respiratory virus season is ebbing as viral activity from flu, COVID-19 and RSV falls across most of the U.S. Here’s the situation in four charts: How active are the respiratory …