How I Do It: Considering lung transplantation for patients with COVID-19 – CHEST Related: Early outcomes after lung transplantation for severe COVID-19: a series of the first consecutive cases from four countries Report: Lung transplantation for 3 patients with severe COVID-19
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COVID vaccines protect against Delta, but their effectiveness wanes – Nature Original study: [Preprint] Pfizer vaccine effectiveness against Delta declines faster than AstraZeneca, both offering the same protection after 4 months.
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How will Delta evolve? Here’s what the theory tells us – The Conversation
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The FDA Really Did Have to Take This Long – The Atlantic
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Covid-19 booster vaccines: What we know and who’s doing what – The BMJ
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RCT: Effect of Early Treatment with Fluvoxamine on Risk of Emergency Care and Hospitalization Among Patients with COVID-19 – Together Clinical Trials Related: Opinion | Could this be our first effective, inexpensive, widely available outpatient treatment for COVID-19? (It’s fluvoxamine). Preliminary study shows fluvoxamine may reduce clinical deterioration in outpatients with symptomatic COVID-19 Commentary […]
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Safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of homologous and heterologous prime-boost immunisation with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and BNT162b2: a prospective cohort study – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Invited Commentary: Heterologous ChAdOx1-nCoV19–BNT162b2 vaccination provides superior immunogenicity against COVID-19 Related: Lab study shows heterologous AstraZeneca/Pfizer vaccination produces strong immune response against SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant. RCT: Safety and immunogenicity of heterologous […]
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Commentary 1: JC: Non-invasive ventilation for COVID 19 patients. The Recovery RS trial – St Emlyn’s Commentary 2: An adaptive randomized controlled trial of non-invasive respiratory strategies in acute respiratory failure patients with COVID-19 – The Bottom Line Original study: [Preprint] RCT: non-invasive respiratory strategies in acute respiratory failure in patients with COVID-19 – CPAP […]
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Association of Vaccine Type and Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection With Symptoms and Antibody Measurements Following Vaccination Among Health Care Workers – JAMA Internal Medicine Commentary on Twitter New @JAMA_current paper says @moderna_Tx caused 2.3x the number of "significant" symptoms compared to @pfizer in a sample of 950 people. Moderna also produced more antibodies. Raising the […]
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Evidence mounts that people with breakthrough infections can spread Delta easily – National Geographic Original study: Shedding of Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Despite Vaccination when the Delta Variant is Prevalent – Wisconsin, July 2021 – medRxiv Commentary on Twitter The evidence that supports Delta breakthrough infections ability to spread (and why fully vaccinated people need to […]
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