By Mary-Elisabeth Combs, Peter Butler, Katie Teague, CNET, April 18, 2024 Even if you’re vaccinated against COVID-19, you could still be one of the hundreds of millions of people who continue to get infected by the virus. If you have any COVID symptoms, you …
COVID, Flu and RSV vaccines are lifesavers. Why aren’t more older adults getting them?
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 …