By Jim Shelton, Yale News, April 22, 2024 A new, Yale-led study suggests that a range of respiratory viral infections — including COVID-19 and influenza — may be preventable or treatable with a generic antibiotic that is delivered to the …
Study discovers hidden mechanism behind rapid COVID variants
News Medical, April 23, 2024 The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID has the unsettling ability of often generating variants of itself. Other viruses also mutate, but as SARS-CoV-2 quickly spread throughout the entire human population during the pandemic, killing millions, …
Free COVID home test kits are still available: here’s how to get them
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 …