FILE PHOTO: A member of medical staff takes a coronavirus test sample of a man in Bergschenhoek, Netherlands January 13, 2021. REUTERS/Piroschka van de WouwAMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch health authorities said on Wednesday they were running short of COVID-19 tests, as the Netherlands registered more than 20,000 new coronavirus cases […]
FILE PHOTO: French immunologist Jean-Francois Delfraissy addresses the media in the courtyard of the French Interior Ministry in Paris, France March 13, 2020. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERSPARIS (Reuters) – The French government’s top scientific adviser Jean-Francois Delfraissy said on Wednesday he could not rule out authorities asking companies once again […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. NEW YORK (AP) — New York City health officials urged COVID-19 vaccine providers Monday to make booster shots widely available to most adults who want one amid a statewide spike in infections over the past two […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A high dose of the purified form of eicosapentaenoic acid, icosapent ethyl (Vascepa, Amarin), failed to significantly reduce hospitalizations or death in patients infected with COVID-19 in the PREPARE-IT 2 study. The study did, however, show […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A new systematic review and meta-analysis finds that unvaccinated cancer patients who contracted COVID-19 last year, were more than two times more likely — than people without cancer — to develop a case of COVID-19 so […]
With winter fast-approaching and many kids back to attending school in-person, one small companion is returning to business-as-usual: head lice. These small ectoparasites, which are transmitted through direct hair contact, have not disappeared during the COVID-19 pandemic but have instead continued to spread between people, as they have throughout human […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A leaked trove of papers from inside Facebook shows that the social media giant’s internal research uncovered a host of problems on the platform related to public health and other issues, but did virtually nothing about […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The United States is steadily chipping away at vaccine hesitancy and driving down COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations to the point that schools, governments and corporations are lifting mask restrictions yet again. Nearly 200 million Americans are […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Federal contractors can use their discretion in deciding how to handle employees who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19, according to new guidance released by the White House on Monday. Employers don’t have to follow a […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A rush of eleventh-hour inoculations sharply reduced the number of New York City emergency responders who failed to meet the city’s coronavirus vaccination requirement as it began to be enforced on Monday, officials said. The vaccination rate for all city employees, including police officers and firefighters, […]