Articles Tagged With: sars-cov-2
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Reduce Risk of Long COVID Nightmare: Get Vaccinated
Healthcare workers and millions of other Americans are suffering from the ghost of COVID-19, a seemingly endless or remittent continuation of a disturbing panoply of symptoms that could have been lifted from Dante’s Inferno: cognitive decline, chronic pain, shortness of breath, intense fatigue, and neurological attacks on the body’s organs. This is long COVID, about which there is little consensus on diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. However, evidence is accumulating suggesting vaccination can prevent or reduce the impact of long COVID.
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Challenges in Diagnosing MIS-C
Even though there are clear diagnostic criteria for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), the initial diagnosis is not always certain, and there can be overlapping concurrent bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections that also require prompt treatment.
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COVID Transmission During Air Travel
Despite careful air filtration in flying aircraft, there remains some risk of disease transmission during travel.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
How to Assess CLABSI in Outpatient Infusion Therapy; Does Wearing Glasses Reduce the Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection?
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Breast Milk Feeding Among Women Who Had Been Infected with SARS-CoV-2 During Their Pregnancy
Both breast milk feeding during the postpartum hospital stay and infant rooming-in during this time were common in the five states studied from March 29 to Dec. 31, 2020, among the births that occurred to women who had a laboratory-confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 during their pregnancy.
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Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 Variants to Monoclonal Antibodies
Prevalent SARS-CoV-2 variants are persistently resistant to therapeutic and prophylactic monoclonal antibodies but remain susceptible to nirmatrelvir/ritonavir, remdesivir, and molnupiravir.
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‘Vast Majority’ of Mild SARS-CoV-2 Cases Clear Long COVID by One Year
A recent Israeli study tries to deflate the haunting specter of long COVID by examining the association of mild SARS-CoV-2 infection and long-term health outcomes.
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COVID-19: Beware Remdesivir Resistance
Researchers reported two immunosuppressed renal transplant recipients with persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection in association with the new emergence of mutations in RNA-dependent RNA polymerase after remdesivir treatment.
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Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 Variants to Monoclonal Antibodies
Prevalent SARS-CoV-2 variants are increasingly resistant to therapeutic and prophylactic monoclonal antibodies but remain susceptible to Paxlovid, remdesivir, and molnupiravir.
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Special Report: Humbled CDC Seeks Reinvention, Culture Change
The CDC has taken responsibility for its haphazard response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, admitting to mistakes and miscalculations that often directly affected healthcare workers.