Apoorva Mandavilli
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COVID vaccine benefits appear to outweigh minimal potential dangers for pregnant and breastfeeding women
[T]he American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the S.M.F.M. and other organizations have been calling on the F.D.A. to allow pregnant and lactating ...
Which provides longer-lasting immunity: Getting COVID or a vaccine?
Which produces a stronger immune response: a natural infection or a vaccine? The short answer: We don’t know. But Covid-19 ...
As COVID is transmitted via airborne particles, there’s no evidence that sanitizing surfaces lowers risk of infection
All over the world, workers are soaping, wiping and fumigating surfaces with an urgent sense of purpose: to fight the ...
Women and HIV: 6 shots a year shown to be more effective than daily pill
Women have had only one approved option for pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a course of drugs taken to prevent contracting ...
After a vaccine or infection, how long will immunity to COVID last? It could be years, hopeful new data suggest
Eight months after infection, most people who have recovered still have enough immune cells to fend off the virus and prevent ...
Long hauler phenomenon explained? In some COVID survivors, normally protective antibodies turn on their own cells
At some point, the body’s defense system in [some COVID survivors shifts] into attacking itself, rather than the virus, [a ...
How COVID causes delirium
[A]bout half of [COVID] patients report neurological symptoms, including headaches, confusion and delirium, suggesting the virus may also attack the ...
Protective ‘herd immunity’ may come a lot sooner than predicted
To achieve so-called herd immunity — the point at which the virus can no longer spread widely because there are ...
Worse than COVID19: Millions of deaths expected from other diseases as pandemic crisis sucks resources
Until this year, TB and its deadly allies, H.I.V. and malaria, were on the run. The toll from each disease ...
Can you get the coronavirus more than once within a few months? Scientists now say that’s unlikely
A New Jersey doctor claimed several patients healed from one bout only to become reinfected with the coronavirus. And another doctor said ...
Coronavirus antibody tests: Can they return us to ‘normal’?
When will life return to normal, or at least a new normal? A major answer to the question of when ...
Cytokine storms: How your own body fights against you during a coronavirus infection
When the body first encounters a virus or a bacterium, the immune system ramps up and begins to fight the ...
FDA approves rapid blood test for coronavirus antibodies. Could help determine who has ‘some’ immunity.
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new test for coronavirus antibodies, the first for use in the ...
Why are girls with autism constantly misdiagnosed?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It took 10 years, ...
