Perspective | Concerns about SARS-CoV-2 evolution should not hold back efforts to expand vaccination
Concerns about SARS-CoV-2 evolution should not hold back efforts to expand vaccination – Nature Commentary on Twitter A concern raised about delaying the 2nd vaccine dose is the potential to promote immune escape, new mutations. A new @NatRevImmunol essay argues against that possibility (may even be the opposite) https://t.co/XlCOP5DwTf by @sarahcobey @DanLarremore @yhgrad @mlipsitch […]
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Opinion | How to lose friends and alienate people? On the problems of vaccine passports
How to lose friends and alienate people? On the problems of vaccine passports – The BMJ Opinion Related: Resistance from health experts and business owners could doom ‘vaccine passports’ even before they launch – STAT AND How Vaccine Passports Will Worsen Inequities In Global Health – Microbiology AND Vaccine certificates: does the end justify the […]
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Exceedingly rare side effects reported with AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK – 22 cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis with low levels of platelets out of 18 million vaccinated individuals
Covid-19: Seven UK blood clot deaths after AstraZeneca vaccine – BBC Original report: Coronavirus vaccine – weekly summary of Yellow Card reporting – Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Related opinion: Undermining the AstraZeneca jab is a dangerous act of political folly – The Guardian “Based on current experience, the expected benefits of both COVID-19 […]
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Early outcomes after lung transplantation for severe COVID-19: a series of the first consecutive cases from four countries
Early outcomes after lung transplantation for severe COVID-19: a series of the first consecutive cases from four countries – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Commentary: Criteria for selecting COVID-19 patients for lung lung transplantation – Medical University of Vienna Commentary on Twitter NEW Research—Lung transplantation is the only option for survival in some patients with […]
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Cohort Study: Selected patients with Covid-19 can be safely discharged on home oxygen, with low mortality and readmission rates
Mortality and Readmission Rates Among Patients With COVID-19 After Discharge From Acute Care Setting With Supplemental Oxygen – JAMA Network Open Video: Home Oxygen Instructions for Discharged Patients With COVID-19 Commentaries: Covid-19: Ambulatory Management with Home Oxygen Results in Low Mortality, Low Readmissions – Physician’s Weekly AND Mortality, readmission low with COVID-19 discharge on home […]
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Rapid point-of-care tests for diagnosing COVID-19 infection: the latest Cochrane evidence
Rapid point-of-care tests for diagnosing COVID-19 infection: the latest Cochrane evidence – Evidently Cochrane Original review and commentaries: Systematic review: Rapid, point‐of‐care antigen and molecular‐based tests for diagnosis of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection
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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and perinatal outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and perinatal outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis – The Lancet Global Health Commentaries: Covid-19 led to a global increase in stillbirths, maternal mortality, and depression, review finds – CNN AND COVID-19 pandemic and health-care disruptions: count the most vulnerable – The Lancet Global Health Commentary on […]
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Why is it so hard to investigate the rare side effects of COVID vaccines?
Why is it so hard to investigate the rare side effects of COVID vaccines? – Nature
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Another study shows a single dose of mRNA vaccine may be enough for patients with previous Covid-19
Antibody responses to the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in individuals previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 – Nature Medicine Commentary: If I’ve Had COVID-19, Do I Still Need Two Doses of Vaccine? – TIME AND The research is in: People who’ve already had COVID-19 need just one shot – Insider Related: Studies: Single dose of vaccine acts as […]
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[Press release – not published yet] Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is 91% effective for at least 6 months
Pfizer and BioNTech Confirm High Efficacy and No Serious Safety Concerns Through Up to Six Months Following Second Dose in Updated Topline Analysis of Landmark COVID-19 Vaccine Study Commentaries: Ongoing trial shows Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine remains highly effective after six months – CNN AND Coronavirus: Pfizer jab ‘stopping 91% of cases in first six months’ […]
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