No COVID-19 cases found after well-controlled indoor concert – CIDRAP Original study: Same-day SARS-CoV-2 antigen test screening in an indoor mass-gathering live music event: a randomised controlled trial – The Lancet Infectious Diseases Invited Commentary: Innovations in COVID-19 testing: the road from pandemic response to control – The Lancet Infectious Diseases Commentary on Twitter […]
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7 Reasons Why We Should Not Need Boosters for COVID-19 – by Monica Ghandi, MD
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IDSA Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19: Antigen Testing – Infectious Diseases Society of America
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Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 – The Lancet News Release: The Lancet & The Lancet Public Health: Latest global data finds nearly 8 million deaths from smoking in […]
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Covid-19: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is “likely” responsible for deaths of some elderly patients, Norwegian review finds – The BMJ Commentary on Twitter The Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine is “likely” to have been responsible for at least 10 deaths of frail elderly people in nursing homes in Norway, an expert review concluded, although it emphasised considerable uncertainty […]
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Safety, Immunogenicity, and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 Covid-19 Vaccine in Adolescents – New England Journal of Medicine Related: [Press release – not published yet] Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine 100% effective against Covid-19 in adolescents Commentary on Twitter The 12-15 year-olds mRNA vaccine randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial is published @NEJM today [@BioNTech_Group/@Pfizer]https://t.co/7GlgC9xdd0—100% efficacy (95% CI 75,100)—1.8 X […]
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Serum neutralising activity against SARS-CoV-2 variants elicited by CoronaVac – The Lancet Infectious Diseases
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Colchicine for community-treated patients with COVID-19 (COLCORONA): a phase 3, randomised, double-blinded, adaptive, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Invited Commentary: Exploiting an early immunological window of opportunity in COVID-19 – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
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Moderna says its Covid vaccine is 100% effective in teens, plans to seek FDA OK in early June – CNBC Commentary on Twitter BREAKING: Moderna study of more than 3,700 12- to 17-year olds found 100% effficacy in those who received 2-dose #covid19 #vaccine, no significant safety problems. Will apply for FDA authorization.https://t.co/l0MHiLjCcA — […]
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Statement: The tobacco endgame—eradicating a worsening epidemic: a joint opinion from the American Heart Association, World Heart Federation, American College of Cardiology, and the European Society of Cardiology News release: Global cardiovascular organizations release joint opinion on achieving the ‘tobacco endgame’ – American College of Cardiology Commentary: The Tobacco Endgame—Eradicating a Worsening Epidemic – American […]
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