Last week the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) approved the use of mix-and-match COVID-19 boosters for Americans at high risk of severe illness or infection. Any of the three authorized vaccines in the United States, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna-NIAID, or Johnson & Johnson may be used as a booster, regardless of which vaccine people received […]
People who have survived COVID-19 frequently complain of cognitive dysfunction, which has been described as brain fog. The prevalence of post-COVID-19 cognitive impairment and the association with disease severity are not well characterized. The COVID pandemic has now claimed as many American lives as World War I, the Vietnam War, and the Korean War combined. […]
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 4·5 million deaths worldwide. Approaches to control COVID-19 depend on the durability of immunity conferred by recovery and by vaccination. However, predicting the durability of immunity against the virus causing COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, remains challenging amid a pandemic. During the rapid expansion of the pandemic, there have been […]
The merck pill, which could become the first oral antiviral for COVID-19 treatment, Molnupiravir, forces the SARS-CoV-2 to mutate itself to death. The pharmaceutical company announced last week that the antiviral medication they are developing can cut hospitalizations and deaths among people with COVID-19 by half. But the results haven’t been peer reviewed. Current authorized […]
As we all are well aware, a recent worldwide outbreak (pandemic) of pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ranges from asymptomatic or mild upper respiratory tract infection to severe pneumonia, ARDS or even death. Patients with COVID-19 continue increasing around the world, with more than 61.8 million cumulative cases and 1.4 […]
What is Long-COVID? There is increasing concern and emerging evidence that some people who contract Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) do not make a rapid or full recovery, the so-called “long COVID” or “long-haulers.” This post-acute COVID-19 syndrome encompasses a range of features indicative of involvement of many organs affecting people weeks and months after infection. […]
Since the emergence of the novel coronavirus infection, COVID-19, researchers have been looking for a treatment to stop the devastating pandemic. During these efforts, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have shown potential as the next generation of therapeutic methods with wide application for diseases that have successfully controlled “cytokine storm” following the virus infection. In December […]
The Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has caused a global pandemic with profound public health and socioeconomic sequelae due to the absence of protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the viral infectious cause of COVID-19. Scientists rapidly developed vaccines with the goals of protecting individuals and achieving herd immunity. The two mRNA vaccines granted FDA emergency use authorization […]
COVID-19 vaccines can cause several mostly mild side effects. However, changes to menstrual cycles or unexpected vaginal bleeding are not among the listed side effects for any COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States or the United Kingdom. Despite this, thousands of women reported period changes following vaccination to the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products […]
Approximately 14–33% of individuals with a SARS-CoV-2 infection develop severe illness, and about two-thirds of those with severe illness develop ARDS. ARDS involves injury to the lung tissue due to inflammation and the accumulation of fluid in the alveoli, the air sacs in the lungs where the exchange of gases occurs with blood vessels. The […]