Insurance Industry Execs ‘Alarmed’ by Surge in Deaths Among Young People — But Stop Short of Blaming COVID Shots


According to InsuranceNewsNet, insurers are especially concerned by data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that show “mortality rates alarmingly rising for different categories,” including younger adult mortality…[...]

Long covid—an update for primary care


BMJ 2022; 378 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-072117 (Published 22 September 2022)Cite this as: BMJ 2022;378:e072117 Trisha Greenhalgh, Manoj Sivan, Brendan Delaney, Rachael Evans, Ruairidh Milne, What you need to know Long covid (prolonged symptoms following covid-19 infection) is common…[...]

Clinical and Demographic Factors Associated With COVID-19, Severe COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Adults A Secondary Cross-Protocol Analysis of 4 Randomized Clinical Trials


Deborah A. Theodore, MD1; Angela R. Branche, MD2; Lily Zhang, PhD3; et alDaniel S. Graciaa, MD4; Madhu Choudhary, MD5; Timothy J. Hatlen, MD6; Raadhiya Osman, PhD7; Tara M. Babu, MD8; Samuel T. Robinson, PhD3; Peter B. Gilbert, PhD3,9;  Dean Follmann, PhD10;  Holly Janes, PhD3,9; James G. Kublin, MD3; Lindsey R. Baden, MD11; Paul Goepfert, MD12; Glenda E. Gray, MBBCh13,14; Beatriz Grinsztejn, MD, PhD15; Karen L. Kotloff, MD16,17; Cynthia L. Gay, MD18; Brett Leav, MD19; Jacqueline Miller, MD19; Ian Hirsch, PhD20; Jerald Sadoff, MD21; Lisa M. Dunkle, MD22; Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD17; Lawrence Corey, MD3,23; Ann R. Falsey, MD2; Hana M. El Sahly, MD24,25; Magdalena E. Sobieszczyk, MD1; Yunda Huang, PhD3,26; for the COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN) JAMA Netw…[...]

CDC confirms COVID-19 vaccine prevents death in only 1 out of 1 million


Sanchari Ghosh August 23, 2023 A common question surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines since its inception has been about its capability to prevent hospitalization and death. In all these years, there has…[...]

An overview of human proteins and genes involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection


Zohreh Jahanafrooz,a,⁎ Zhishan Chen,b Jiandong Bao,c Hongzhi Li,d Loren Lipworth,b and Xingyi Guob,e,⁎Gene. 2022 Jan 15; 808: 145963. Published online 2021 Sep 14. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2021.145963 PMCID: PMC8437745PMID: 34530086 Graphical abstract A summarized view of recent findings of host proteins interacting with…[...]