COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics
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Phoebe Putney Health System, based in Albany, Georgia, serves more than 500,000 residents in 41 counties and has been hit hard by the pandemic. Enrique Lopez, M.D., a surgical intensivist at Phoebe Putnam Memorial Hospital who has recently helped out in Phoebe North’s COVID-19 units, gives a blunt…
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As of now, most school districts have opened or plan to reopen this month or next, so the return to in-person schooling is underway. Many kids — not to mention their parents — eagerly await the day.
In a federally funded study that enrolled more than 500 patients from U.S. hospital emergency departments, administering COVID-19 convalescent plasma to high-risk COVID-19 outpatients with early symptoms did not prevent disease progression, according to final results reported in the New England…
COVID-19 vaccine booster shots will be widely available to the American public, starting next month, according to a joint statement from Biden administration health officials.
The American Medical Association published a Current Procedural Terminology code for providers administering a potential third dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky, M.D., authorized a third, additional dose of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for people with moderately to severely compromised immune systems. This includes people who have:
Geisinger’s creative, responsive approach to messaging is keeping its patients, communities and health care teams informed about COVID-19 vaccination.
St. James Healthcare’s chief medical officer shares exactly what’s required to stop the delta variant, as COVID-19 cases increase in Butte, Mont.