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What Symptoms Persist After COVID-19 Infection?
A German study which looked at 442 individuals with COVID-19 who had mostly mild symptoms followed these patients up four months post infection had. This was published in The Lancet Regional Health by Augustine and others in July 2021. The most...
Are COVID Vaccines Safe in Adolescence?
An interesting research paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Frenck and others May 27th 2021 researched this issue. Until recently, vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have not been authorised for emergency use in persons under the age of...
Vaccine Efficacy
A report published as a preprint in medRxiv May 21st by Shapiro and others helps to evaluate this issue. The authors used data from publication, reports, and press releases and concluded that the average efficacy of the Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson,...
Do We Have Any Effective Treatments For COVID-19 In Community Based Patients?
A study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine May 27th 2021 by Tardif and others researched this issue in relation to colchicine. Evidence suggests excessive inflammation in COVID-19 patients plays a role in the development of...
Can Indoor Mass Gathering Live Music Events Take Place If the Attendees Are Screened by Lateral Flow Antigen Tests?
An interesting article published by Revollo and others in The Lancet Infectious Diseases May 27th 2021 sought to research and answer this question. The banning of mass gathering indoor events to prevent SARS-CoV-2 spread has had important effects on local...
Can One Have COVID-19 But Be Antigen and PCR Negative?
An interesting correspondence by Lekpa and others published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases May 28th 2021 suggests that this is indeed the case. They feel that the clinical case and context for the suspicion of COVID-19 needs to be brought into the...
Are the Pfizer and AstraZeneca Vaccines Effective Against Symptomatic Disease from the Indian Origin Strain known as B.1.617.2
They are effective against the B.1.1.7 mutation which remains the dominant strain across the United Kingdom and first detected in Kent This weekend Public Health England published a study which showed that cases of the B.1.617.2 strain had risen sharply in the...
Will We Have Effective Antiviral Therapy Against SARS-CoV-2 by the Autumn?
An editorial published in the British Medical Journal May 17th by Dr David Smith and Dr Gill tries to answer this question. They feel that the target is over ambitious and may risk errors. The UK Government has launched a COVID-19 antiviral...
Does Having the COVID mRNA Vaccine such as the Moderna and Pfizer Vaccines Promote Immunity in the Pregnant and Lactating Female?
An interesting study published by Collier and others in the Journal of the American Medical Association published online May 13th 2021 sought to answer this question. Pregnant women are at an increased risk of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 but have...
Cancer and COVID-19 Infection
A study by Lee and others published in the BMJ Health & Care Informatics 2021 looked into this issue and concluded an increased risk of fatality for patients with COVID-19 plus haematological malignancies and demonstrated similar findings of COVID-19 on melanoma,...
